Love the simplicity of your to to-do list syntax highlighter in comparison to todo.txt. That's more how my brain works, as simple as possible. Especially your take on the due date vs. date when you plan to do it.
Will definitely try it out.
I just tested the German – Standard layout on a Mac, it's the first one you indicate. Apple calls right-⌥ the Compose key, not AltGr, but works the same way, other than being transposed with the Command key from the familiar Windows style of layout.
There's also a keyboard layout just called German, maybe that one works the way you refer to? But surely it's not too much to ask that someone select the keyboard style they're accustomed to using?
3. Configure Ollama server to make sure it allows connection from grafychat.
That's not very helpful. Something along the line
Set the environment variable OLLAMA_ORIGINS to "https://www.grafychat.com" and rerun "ollama serve". Use your custom host if your using the self-host option.
"This study explores a violation of Newton's third law in motile active agents, by considering non-reciprocal mechanical interactions known as odd elasticity. By extending the description of odd elasticity to a nonlinear regime, we present a general framework for the swimming dynamics of active elastic materials in low-Reynolds-number fluids, such as wavelike patterns observed in eukaryotic cilia and flagella."
Thanks!! Great point; for now we're relying on S3+dynamo which many people prefer anyways; but state management is on the roadmap, we'll get to it soon
Those people have not experienced the :heart_eyes_cat: of GitLab's TF state store, which I find just a bazillion times superior to creating TWO separate AWS resources only for storing a bunch of JSON to make TF work: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/infrastructure/iac/terraform...
With all the ads on the page it looks more like a scam then a Linux distro to me.
On mobile half the page size is filled with ads.
Ad, some content, donation links, some content, ad, some content...
Give these guys a break.
If I'm being honest, why the hell are you surfing internet without ubo?
I guess you said mobile so its most likely chrome so guess what? Firefox mobile has ubo and heck even Firefox focus has decent ad blocker. Even on iOS you have some content blockers so you really don't have any reason to use chrome on phones.
If they are making money regardless of my using ubo, that's good for them.
Sure, blame the user… This is why we have distros with ads like the OP. It’s our fault for seeing the propaganda you shove down our throats. Give me a break.
A better analogy might be there's no such thing as a free lunch.
All those distros you mention either have commercial support (eg: Red Hat, Ubuntu) or substantial recurring donations. Someone somewhere is paying even if you specifically aren't.
Many foundational OSS projects use work and infra from universities. Many also use work and infra from companies that derive value from them. Partially I pay for it by buying things that those companies provide, partially I pay for it via taxes.
But for all people (inside or outside of the market) there is clearly a free beer (speech included) that you can use for personal or commercial use.
> Someone somewhere is paying even if you specifically aren't.
Someone is paying, but it seems like it is more towards "paying for the library" than it is "paying for a villa".
And in some cases there really isn't someone paying, there is just a person interested in the problem. That is surprisingly common in foundational OSS tech.
Cool, but as has been already mentioned in this thread someone is footing the bill. Even if the developers are fine with donating their time to develop and maintain it for free it still costs very real money to run servers.
And there are many people donating their time and servers. Most mirrors for for example arch are either universities or organizations that derive value from arch. Many contributors for OSS either use it as part of their work or find it fulfilling to work on it or do research with it.
That's not to say that all OSS is like this, or that all software should be ran like this but there clearly is "free beer" and "free speech" in certain places.
You might say that I pay for the universities with my taxes or the other organizations by increased prices on goods, but it clearly is offered as a free service for all, even people not paying taxes or buying their goods.
dont guilt trip me (and yourself) please. u sound close like the 'dont copy that floppy' brigade. the developers of mx linux themselves are proud that they dont explicitly ask for donations. its unspoken, and anonymous giving is best. everyone else interested simply benefits and when they are benefited enough, they perhaps will contribute. everything cant be laid out in black and white and in advance. there is a strong unspoken assumption that good can result out of helping yourself and others with Free software.
If you can't donate there are lots of ways to help: add a feature, host a pkg repo mirror, clean up docs, fix bugs, add/manage a package, donate older hardware for compat testing, help out with community support, github issues. Telling people it is awesome also helps but maybe a more detailed why would go a bit further to promote it.
Would be more helpful though if corp OSS users who have their entire operations underpinned by financially undersupported OSS projects stepped up to help.
I understand what you mean but it's just the world we live in. These surveillance capitalism and attention economy corporations are actively hostile to us and there's no proper legal solution in sight. Therefore we must actively take measures to defend ourselves against their exploitation. Software like uBlock Origin is digital self-defense.
That reminds me of that "Windows 12" OS someone made by basically slapping a theme onto Linux lite and trying to sell it (Michael MJD made a YouTube video about it)
Are you old enough to remember Lindows? in like 2000/2001 it was a straight Windows ripoff, even used the old Win 9x/2k theme iirc, and had WINE built in, preconfigured and would intercept windows programs automatically and run them via that. It was blatant enough MS actually took them to court, ended up settling by buying the Lindows trademark from them for 20 million and getting a pinky promise they wouldn't be so confusing to consumers by trying to pass it off as a Windows equivalent. The product was eventually renamed Linspire and continued as a noob-friendly distro with less 'Hey, we're actually Windows!'.
Lycoris didn't become Lindows, those were two separate products from two different companies. Lycoris/Redmond Linux was bought out by Mandrake/Mandriva, Lindows went on to be bought by Ximian. Same end goal though, make a blatant Windows ripoff lol.
After being a GNOME fanboy for decades, v3.0 and beyond left me disillusioned. I took to ElementaryOS and Mate, which was alright. Then I discovered KDE Plasma (thanks to Steam Deck) and absolutely fell in love with it. Well, well, well…how the turn tables[1].
I must say, if only able to use 3 adjectives in a headline, why would ethical be one, when it comes to visual software? Stable, beautiful, and elegant are three that come to mind that could have been used.
I'm having trouble seeing how an open source DE can even be unethical.
Obligatory reminder that elementaryOS, "the easiest to use Linux distro" made as a knockoff of macOS, expects users to format and reinstall every year when a new version is released.
This is the case for most Linux distributions, except for LTS and rolling release, and the latter isn't newbie friendly, which leaves the only good experience newcomers have with Linux are the LTS releases with increasingly outdated userspace apps. I hope immutable distributions take off, which will make major upgrades easier and pristine rollback easy. The Linux space really needs a newbie friendly, immutable distro. I know of Vanilla OS, OpenSUSE Aeon & Fedora Silverblue... hope we get more competition.
I’ve been using Linux and BSD for twenty years and never ran an OS I couldn’t update to the next release, with the exception of elementary. Some make it easy and some don’t but elementary OS was the only one to say “sorry, no upgrade path for you.”
Some ads - fine. Selected and appropriate ads - fine.
Let me explain via my experience of THIS website on an iPhone.
A banner ad appears at the very top, covering most of the cookie notice. I would be surprised if this doesn’t violate EU law.
Upon collapsing it and agreeing to give my soul to the Cookie Monster, another ad takes up most of the screen. This ad, ON A SOFTWARE SITE, says “download now! Start downloading. Download your copy now [green arrow]”, with a small logo at the bottom left saying “learning lab”. ON A SOFTWARE SITE.
I scroll down half a page. Another banner ad appears.
Then I see a tiny amount of information in an infographic followed by a form to donate in US $ or EU $ (not € - they’re asking for euros in $…).
Below that, another Download Now ad, this time from The Books Master. It takes up half the screen.
Then a bit more content. Some testimonials too. Then… another half screen ad. Then the page footer and another half screen ad.
From my estimation, 50% of the page is ads, two of which are deliberately misleading (on behalf of the advertiser).
I have absolutely nothing against ads, but this takes the biscuit. I would absolutely not be surprised if this was done in prep for posting to hacker news, knowing the views it’s going to get - but Id also not be surprised if it’s just designed by someone who doesn’t understand the dreadful public image that this has.
I’ve never heard of the distro. It doesn’t look like it’s designed for the likes of me anyway (clue’s in my username). But I could never direct someone to a site like this.
Not illogical at all. It gives you information about the creators and is atypical for open source folks to commercialize in user-hostile ways. It's like a moral version of code smell.
So how are they supposed to commercialize given that most Linux users are generally a bunch of cheapskates?
Donations seldom amount to enough to pay for hosting costs and supporting the developers and their families.
Nobody buys physical discs anymore.
Selling swag can have some limited success if you can come up with a really cool design, mascot, and/or logo
A few companies have had success selling hardware, but that's a pretty small market overall with quite a bit of competition already.
Subscriptions generally only work if you're providing commercial support contracts.
Valve and JetBrains are the only companies I can think of that are making any significant amount of money selling closed source software to Linux users.
I'm not surprised at all that they are using ads to monetize their distro, as it's one of the few ways they can.
> Valve and JetBrains are the only companies I can think of that are making any significant amount of money selling closed source software to Linux users.
Honestly, JetBrains have some of the better IDEs out there, that have all of the features I need, pretty good code completion and suggestions, some of the best refactoring out there, good debugging capabilities and framework integrations as well as language specific functionality (e.g. dependency management integration). Well worth the money. Even Fleet, their text editor alternative to VSC will probably be mature enough to be a serious contender in a few years, though not yet.
Another piece of software that I pay for is GitKraken, a really nice Git client with a GUI, which makes switching between different accounts a breeze (for example, different GitHub accounts, each with a separate SSH key) and makes using Git actually pleasant with all of the visual features. It feels like a more polished SourceTree or a more featureful Git Cola and makes me feel like you don't need to use the CLI all the time anymore.
On Windows, there's maybe MobaXTerm, perhaps one of the best SSH clients with things like multi-exec, support for a variety of protocols and other quality of life features that mRemoteNG and other options don't quite have. Pretty good.
> So how are they supposed to commercialize given that most Linux users are generally a bunch of cheapskates?
Other than that, most of the software I use is free and good enough (the cheapskate argument, I guess): everything from LibreOffice, to things like GIMP, OBS, Audacity and Kdenlive. I guess what I'm saying is that if you make a really good product that doesn't have alternatives that are close enough in your niche, then you can indeed do decently selling it.
As for how that would look for a distro, I'm not sure, given how many other mature ones are out there. Maybe selling support, though obviously that is hard to do.
If open source makes money thats great. But if your site contains more ads than content I don't spend my time finding out how you differ from other linux distros. Being "Free" is definitely not enough.
But I get it, that was no constructive criticism so I try to do better.
- the ad/content ratio is way to high
- too many unnecessary animations and the choice of colors make me think its bad design. And i transfer this opinion on the main product.
- its not clear at all to me why I should choose this distro over all the other free, easy to use linux distributions
- all of the above points drive me away from spending more time on the site to find out more about the project
This is highly subjective, but it seems like I'm not the only one struggling to find the information I want in a time I'm willing to spend.
My biggest pain point is translating the internal compliance/security requirements into technical measures and monitoring them in real time.
Not only infrastructure but also application security.
In addition templating solutions and make them easily integratable.
Are you hinting in the "what packages do I update to mitigate CVE #123?" direction?
Or do you hint to something like "How can I mitigate this SQL injection issue in the codebase?"
The former is what my system already does automatically, the latter is something I don't think is solvable in a failsafe manner because it would need a very good Web Application Firewall approach that also knows correlations about the running processes, their opened files and memory dumps (which probably are too performance-cost intensive to be of use in production systems).
