I’m on Deezer with a family plan that my family is happy about ; I use Murglar 2 to download the music I am paying for.

A bit late tho. This should have been his first reaction, as underlined in the article, rather than coming after losing Marcan and Herbst.

As a Asahi user I am a bit partial to this: the kernel has tons of corporate-backed devs on a stable payroll - Asahi is 100% volunteers, and this shit reminds us of the frailty of it all.

And of the human being behind:

https://marcan.st/2025/02/resigning-as-asahi-linux-project-lead/

…After coming in mid-fight with “you are the problem”, acting just like another bickering drama-queen & solving nothing, worsening the situation & prompting actual damage.

“You can ignore the SHA... files if you do not know what they are needed for. They are not important for you.”

…That’s where I stopped reading this.

Seems I gotta try KOReader then, thanks!

Mine is a 2E, the only less-sluggish thing I found I could do was to limit the number of books on it, which seems ridiculous because I have zero PDFs, only epubs & barely using 2.3GB out of 16, and what does it have to do with page turns anyway ?

Ah, it’ll remind me of the times I “hacked” my kindle just to display the cover of The Hitchhiker Guide To The Galaxy :)

It’s my only ereader after owning a paperwhite for years. Yeah, it’s inferior. It sometimes doesn’t register a several good, honest tap or swipes to turn pages ; it’s having hard time making a difference between a swipe to change illumination and one to highlight text ; and sometimes you see some shadow text from other pages on your current page

But kobo do sell some books without DRM, you can sideload without even using calibre, and, most importantly, it’s not an amazon product

Any windows power user or dev on a mac can follow a wiki, read a bit and learn.

Good for beginners? I didn’t describe a beginner right here. Anybody with experience in computing will find arch straightforward and satisfying. Heck, a CS student would probably go through a first install process faster than I do after 5 years.

What are the concept involved? Partitioning, networking, booting… These are all familiar fields to tons of very normal computer users.

Arch can be a good first distro to anyone who knows what a computer is doing (or is willing to learn)

Just by itself ; I checked KOReader on my phone & wasn’t convinced enough to install it on my reader which, beside being that, just works with Calibre from several linux machines (and I don’t mind reading PDFs on my phone, it’s always user manuals and I need fluid zoom + screenshots for diagrams and stuff like that).

I have kept à disconnected kindle for a few years after I completely stopped using amazon for anything - today I wouldn’t even be seen with one as carrying one is a bit like advertising for the company

These are the best ereaders period, my kobo Clara 2e is sluggish, night mode is shit, USB connection to Calibre is “when I want, if I want”… But I’m not a billboard for that business. Too bad, really good devices, and hurray for all the people who will enjoy them away from amazon

Debian is good at being basic, generic, stable AND has an automatic security-update-in-the-background feature

The whole amount of instruction to give to Dear SO is just to reboot the machine if it ever seems to misbehave

Full message from Karol Herbst on LKML:

I was pondering with myself for a while if I should just make it official that I’m not really involved in the kernel community anymore, neither as a reviewer, nor as a maintainer.

Most of the time I simply excused myself with “if something urgent comes up, I can chime in and help out”. Lyude and Danilo are doing a wonderful job and I’ve put all my trust into them.

However, there is one thing I can’t stand and it’s hurting me the most. I’m convinced, no, my core believe is, that inclusivity and respect, working with others as equals, no power plays involved, is how we should work together within the Free and Open Source community.

I can understand maintainers needing to learn, being concerned on technical points. Everybody deserves the time to understand and learn. It is my true belief that most people are capable of change eventually. I truly believe this community can change from within, however this doesn’t mean it’s going to be a smooth process.

The moment I made up my mind about this was reading the following words written by a maintainer within the kernel community:

"we are the thin blue line"

This isn’t okay. This isn’t creating an inclusive environment. This isn’t okay with the current political situation especially in the US. A maintainer speaking those words can’t be kept. No matter how important or critical or relevant they are. They need to be removed until they learn. Learn what those words mean for a lot of marginalized people. Learn about what horrors it evokes in their minds.

I can’t in good faith remain to be part of a project and its community where those words are tolerated. Those words are not technical, they are a political statement. Even if unintentionally, such words carry power, they carry meanings one needs to be aware of. They do cause an immense amount of harm.

I wish the best of luck for everybody to continue to try to work from within. You got my full support and I won’t hold it against anybody trying to improve the community, it’s a thankless job, it’s a lot of work. People will continue to burn out.

I got burned out enough by myself caring about the bits I maintained, but eventually I had to realize my limits. The obligation I felt was eating me from inside. It stopped being fun at some point and I reached a point where I simply couldn’t continue the work I was so motivated doing as I’ve did in the early days.

Please respect my wishes and put this statement as is into the tree. Leaving anything out destroys its entire meaning.

Respectfully

Karol

Signed-off-by: Karol Herbst

We’re a bit further than that I’d say : https://asahilinux.org/fedora/#device-support yes battery life not as good, sleep eats through battery a bit much and stuff, but as hardware (and everyday life) goes, it’s running pretty well: if you get all outputs, WiFi, BT, keyboard backlighting, sleep and resume, excellent sound output (thanks adahi-audio and its crazy good DSP’s), correct screen def with scaling, what exactly are you missing?

Even my cheapo rj45-to-usbc adapter works.

Some months ago I was missing a particular piece of CAD software, but that just popped up a few weeks ago (QCad).

As hardware goes, beside not being able to rely much on sleep, everything else works (for me).

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Asahi doesn’t wipe macos by default (you can do it but it is an extra step) ; the Asahi install splits your system in two, and you can choose how much space to allocate to each.

As an everyday distro, it’s pretty much stock fedora with possibly a few missing niche software - think Bitwig if you’re into that, you will have Ardour / Pipewire etc but not (yet) Bitwig, which is proprietary and would need them to compile for aarm64. But the amount of stuff available is astounding, and getting better by the day.

Then it depends on your use case. For “general computing” it absolutely works, for more specialised stuff you should check beforehand. I use it as a DAW mostly, with the occasional Kdenlive bout of editing now and then. Oh, and Steam ! We have gaming now it works great. The install process is so smooth, trying it out is a 30 minute affair, tops.

I’d ask the question of why a mac tho : I can’t do without because of one macos soft I need IRL (QLab), and the very existence of Asahi allowed me to overcome my repulsion for apple products and buy the thing, heavily discounted. I’m 90% on the Asahi side, only rebooting on macos for live performances.

They are competitively priced for what they are, but I don’t trust them to be particularly solid nowadays. I hate the keyboard and the coldness/finish of the case, and find mine weighty. Also real-life use make them feel like a snappy i7, not some crazy fast supercomputer.

So if you don’t need a mac, it is not a straightforward proposition unless the price is right in regard to other available stuff. I complement mine with a Thinkpad BTW. I buy them secondhand super cheap, they last 3 or 4 years then I buy another.

Best value ATM is a good specced Air model I believe (Weight, silence, battery life / but quite no outputs, especially no external screen through USB). People in the know says to avoid 8gb ram models, go for 16.

Before I bought that mbp m2pro with 16g of ram (discounted because of M3 being all the rage at the time), I did my homework and compared: nothing framework / thinkpad comes close in price with that processing power, battery life and screen

I don’t especially like them, I certainly despise the company, it’s branding and ethos, but these are competitively priced actually

Not as good as on macos currently. Killing feature is “sleep” eats about 4~6% per hour

Marcan calls Torvalds for arbitration ; Torvalds delivers heated-up scolding instead ; Linux looses talent.

Torvalds sure is shit at managing humans

Lubuntu ?

We just installed one as a media player for a show and this popped up when sitting unused

Welcome to the club 🤗

It’s too good not to be posted here :

The fact is that the world is divided between users of the Macintosh computer and users of MS-DOS compatible computers. I am firmly of the opinion that the Macintosh is Catholic and that DOS is Protestant. Indeed, the Macintosh is counterreformist and has been influenced by the “ratio studiorum” of the Jesuits. It is cheerful, friendly, conciliatory, it tells the faithful how they must proceed step by step to reach – if not the Kingdom of Heaven – the moment in which their document is printed. It is catechistic: the essence of revelation is dealt with via simple formulae and sumptuous icons. Everyone has a right to salvation.

DOS is Protestant, or even Calvinistic. It allows free interpretation of scripture, demands difficult personal decisions, imposes a subtle hermeneutics upon the user, and takes for granted the idea that not all can reach salvation. To make the system work you need to interpret the program yourself: a long way from the baroque community of revelers, the user is closed within the loneliness of his own inner torment.

You may object that, with the passage to Windows, the DOS universe has come to resemble more closely the counterreformist tolerance of the Macintosh. It’s true: Windows represents an Anglican-style schism, big ceremonies in the cathedral, but there is always the possibility of a return to DOS to change things in accordance with bizarre decisions…

And machine code, which lies beneath both systems (or environments, if you prefer)? Ah, that is to do with the Old Testament, and is Talmudic and cabalistic.

Be sure to click the link to a fuller version provided beneath this one. Eco is just excellent.