I know lemmy has a gigantic hate boner for LLMs, but if you plugged this scenario into a good one (probably not the bog standard “free” chatgpt in bing) you’ll probably get a very entertaining conversation.

For me, no…

I’ve gone from debian 9 to debian 11 and now debian sid without reinstalling OS on my desktop

Same with my servers. Debian 8 -> 11 all upgrades in-place. Will have to upgrade to 12 soon…

The only time i messed up an upgrade is when accidentally used the codename “bookworm” in the sources file and skipped a major version. The system tried to fully upgrade 2 versions ahead and promptly borked itself… But it was an LXC container so i just rolled back my mistake. Lesson learned…

But yeah. Full re-installs have NEVER been a thing for me since going debian. It will even happily clone to a new SSD when you need to upgrade your hardware. (As long as your new hardware has in-kernel drivers, or at least some basic functionality to boot and fix the problem, if any)

Once people become familar with the basics of linux, they realize that almost anything that these niche distros offer can be accomplished in debian

You’ll always end up on debian. You just dont know it yet

Sane move by maintainer, but he should not go around calling other people’s code crap unless there is proof that the code was actually crap with gaping security hole

To be fair, it looks like the debian maintainer started the unfriendly discourse by calling the work of other FOSS devs “crap”

Everyone needs to chill out, otherwise we have another potential XZ social engineering attack

It would be catastrophic for something like keepass to have a malicious maintainer take over

Debian sid user here, and long time keepassxc user

Debian maintainer didnt communicate this well, but i agree that i dont want my password manager having any access to networking or interacting with anything other than the clipboard.

I’m not a developer or a security expert. This is just my gut feeling talking

Why not just fix sudo then?

Did you know the early early internet researchers were part of a clandestine government organization known as ARPANET??? The entire TCP/IP stack is just a state-sponsored backdoor into your life!!!

WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!

I’m using sid and i’m loving thia change. It’s an obvious visual cue to check if i’m about to remove something important like my whole desktop environment lol

So the ending to the story which i didnt feel like typing out earlier was that i loaded debian on to the macbook and it runs 2x faster now with regular security updates…

The vast majority of people will never edit a video. The vast majority would be perfectly happy doing 90% of their work in a browser on older hardware instead of chucking it in the bin

Its hilarious that apple is creating a bunch of ewaste for no good reaaon?

My mom’s macbook is 14 years old and perfectly functional. So why doesnt it work (well) anymore?

Apple doesnt provide updated root certificates anymore, so all https sitesare borked.

I love KDE. Been using it for 10 years

One question i’ve always had though… Does anyone actually use the default KDE software like konqueror, kmail, kontacts, etc? Why not just focus on the desktop environment?

Would be so cool if my kids and nieces/nephews used IRC!!

Still need a phone number to register. Then after that, you can give out your username to others without revealing your phone number

Hmmmm… I already have a nextcloud instance running… This is probably the most frictionless option for me…

I’ll look into NC talk on iphone for her. Thanks!

why are you trying to privately communicate with a minor?

Uhm… Because my niece asked me yesterday if she could message me on her phone.

When i say “private” i mean not hosted/harvested by facebook or google or whatever.

My brother has full acess to the device and can read our messages. Also, he is well aware that she is messaging her aunts and uncles

I don’t want to assume the worst

Proceeds to assume the absolute worst

1. Install debian
2. Try some different DEs
3. Profit

There’s an evangelion joke here that i’m not clever enough to make

I didnt break anything, but there was this one time i was setting up a new lxc container i had just spun up. I installed nginx, and a bunch of other packages, started writing new config files… Then i noticed my prompt was user@desktop$ instead of user@server$

Whoops… I was in the wrong terminal window, typing commands into my desktop instead of the container i was setting up.