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Yeah, I think the fact that the next LTS will be 26.04 is the driver here, I just get the impression that things might get a little rocky and that they might’ve been better off had the next LTS been further into the future.

But it’ll be a real smoke test release, at least. Hopefully they have enough resources to fix the issues that are uncovered, and don’t wind up reverting for the LTS, or with a crummy LTS.

I’m generally an en_*.UTF-8 user (even tried en_DK.UTF-8 for a bit for a reason we’ll come back to), so I don’t have a complete picture of it and would have to go look at the documentation or source for that, but I’d expect

• documentation
• date formats: en_DK.UTF-8 should give you ISO8601-formatted dates, if I can’t have that I at least want DD/MM/YYYY; the US-american nonsense is just plain unacceptable
• sorting: e.g. Norwegian will have …zæøå and expect aa to be sorted as å, the Swedes have …zåöä, the Germans …zäöü, the Turks will want ı and İ sorted and upper/lowercased correctly, and there are some options around how you deal with “foreign” letters and diacritics.
• Probably more stuff relating to LC_* that I can’t think of off the top of my head

but in any case, an ls -l output should be different depending on your locale, and in ways you likely don’t even think about as long as it looks normal.

Yeah, I think those are just lacking in the internationalisation?

People like me, who at most have some reading glasses needs and have their computer set to generally English utf-8 will be likely be fine.

Between that and the uutils-coreutils, Ubuntu 25.10 sounds like it’ll be an interesting experience for users, especially those with accessibility and internationalisation needs.

Having had a look at the archived version linked below, it seems pretty clear that it’s entirely hogwash:

• The referenced init system replacement is called “rye-init”
• The wiki does not have anything on “rye-init” or even just rye
• The only hit on a package search for rye is rye, the precursor to uv
• I find no general search hits for rye-init, except references to the rye mentioned above (as in rye init), and some hits for this article and forum posts with people confused about it.

No, but a bad MS/Windows decision is often a catalyst. I came over to Linux from Windows ME. :)

It’s generally conspicuous consumption, where the main point is to flaunt wealth.

Functional aspects like how well an engine runs or a clock displays time are part of that, as poorly functioning but expensive-looking stuff is generally derided, but you also can get great-working stuff that doesn’t look flashy.

I’ve heard of the year of Linux on the desktop, but I’ve never really heard of the year of BSD on the desktop. Apart from OSX, maybe.

I guess this is the kind of stuff POSIX could’ve helped with, but it seems to be busy mandating buggy behaviour.

I think most of us would consider that an eclipse bug, but yeah, until it’s fixed it’d make sense to work around it.

Kinda similarly, I have a mostly identical setup on several machines, and on one of them Firefox has a memory leak, which even showed up just recently. It also seems to manifest if I have certain pages open, the most noticeable of which is Reddit.

It’s the kind of stuff I could dig into, buuut it’s just a PITA.

Oliven, Norwegian. For some reason it’s an uncountable noun.

No, we shouldn’t, and yes, you’re overthinking, but I am finding myself inching closer to the GNU argument for the desktop/server OS, as I now not only use phone/Linux, but also a bunch of Kubernetes/Linux, with distroless images. It’s all using the Linux kernel, and possibly glibc, but it’s not Linux as we know it. The desktop/server OS meanwhile might not have GNU coreutils in some years.

But realistically we’ve been using Linux as the name for the family of desktop and server OS-es for decades now, and if you need to refer to the Linux kernel you call it “the Linux kernel” or just “the kernel”.

Earlier GNU wanted HURD as an alternative to the Linux kernel—same GNU OS, different kernel. What instead is happening is that we’re keeping the Linux kernel but replacing the GNU part of the OS.

Generally you just need to give as much information as the recipient needs to understand your message. Excess signals that don’t add information are what information theory calls noise.

Yeah, I think my sway config is around five years old now. The Wayland experience hasn’t been entirely without warts, but as someone who kind of just uses the desktop to drive a browser and a bunch of terminals, there’s not a whole lot of problems to run into either.

Yeah, the left generally considers it a “fighting day” similar to March 8th. The right does gardening (to make it visible that they’re not marching). Others do whatever they feel like; not uncommon to spend the day hung over.

Yeah, one problem here is that global container circulation needs to, well, circulate. People don’t ship empty containers, that’s stupid expensive. So container hire is going to get way more expensive as global shipping needs to rebalance. Happened under covid, too.

If ssh has a security issue and you permit root logins then hostiles likely have an easier time getting access to root on the machine than if they only get access to your user account—then they need multiple exploits.

Generally you also want to be root as little as possible. Hence sudo, run0, etc.

Kokoro.

Also have vague plans to reread Der Zauberberg

Likely also will reread V. and the Count of Monte Christo at some point.

Really, the only difference is how much blood you want to see. Result’s pretty much the same.

Considering modern US history you could put them in high school, I guess?

Depends on your country. In countries with proportional representation you can vote for the party you like. If you’re voting tactically you’re down to the coalition you like.

E.g. here in Norway we get minority coalitions all the time. It’s fine. They have to (gasp) cooperate with others to get anywhere.

Yeah, let’s have a go with the ACI (anti-coercion instrument) and see if we can’t make their patents free game. Playing to Trump’s tune is unlikely to work out well

I used Ratpoison for well over a decade, and only replaced it with sway once I had a new machine and figured it was time to try Wayland. Apparently that’s some 4-5 years ago already.