Last commit 2 years ago. :(

https://github.com/inclement/vivarium

Mice is animal

Mouses is computer/human interface device.

I believe it’s a chameleon.

Atomic and declarative. Which is way cooler.

If we’re asking what people mean when they use those descriptors, then you’re correct.

However, literally speaking, in this context, immutable only means read-only, and atomic only means that updates are applied all-at-once or not at all (no weird in-between state if your update crashes halfway through).

The rest of the features (rollbacks, containerization, and immutable meaning full system image updates) are typically implied, but not explicitly part of the definition.

I’ve noticed that almost everyone has missed the most “cloud-native” aspect of the Universal Blue project: The build process.

What’s really cool about this is that the images are built in a “cloud-native” way. Right now, they’re just using Github’s actions pipeline to push images. This does a couple of very cool things.

First: It means that any image that gets sent to your device was already built on a system and checked as OK. It’s still technically possible that a bad image could get pushed, but the likelihood is extremely low because they are tested as a single cohesive unit before being sent to anyone else’s device.

With traditional distros packages are built on a system and tested, but they’re not necessarily tested in a single common environment that is significantly similar between everyone’s device. This largely deals with dependency hell, and weirder configurations that cause hard-to-diagnose problems.

Second: It also simplifies the build process for the Universal Blue team because they are able to take the existing cloud native images from fedora and just apply some simple patches on top of that. While doing this in a traditional distro way as I understand it would be far more complicated. This is why Universal Blue was able to update their images to Fedora 41 like… 24 hours after release? It was crazy fast.

The creator of Universal Blue is also on the fediverse! I don’t know if this will actually ping them, but it’s worth a try.

@j0rge@lemmy.ml

@j0rge@kbin.social

https://github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottles/issues/2345#issuecomment-1733132198

To me it looks like the devs of Bottles said that they’d be patching Bottles to remove support links in non-flatpak versions.

So… isn’t what openSUSE did in the spirit of that? Obviously, them packaging it at all is against the devs’ wishes, but… I dunno, this whole thing is a mess.

Edit: I may have confused “support links” with the “donate button”. However, I am still confused, and this situation is a mess. I sympathize with the bottles devs, because it’s good software, and they are largely volunteer developers. Beyond that? *exaggerated shrug*

I’m gonna be honest, when I read this, I initially thought it was a joke answer by a community menber. The joke being about vague hand-wavy statements that people make when dodging questions.

Then I realized it’s OP, and OP is ostensibly the actual developer. I have nothing specific to say about this situation, especially from a technical perspective, but this reply… why even bother?

Absolutely Proprietary

Using fish (shell, not emulator) gets you some of that.

Okay, but openai was open source once. And then they just didn’t change their name when they changed their licenses. Which I actually think is more dishonest.

Very cool. Had I not just installed (ublue) Kinoite, I’d probably be trying this today. I’m a chronic distrohopper, and this looks very cool.

I’m sorry for being this way, really, but why couldn’t you just crop the picture?!

Fennec, it’s a type of fox in the real world, and it’s a perfectly fine fork of Firefox.

And Firefox for android is great, leaps and bounds better than the Chromes and Chromiums that many people use. Firefox for android allows you to install browser extensions!

I never have to leave home without my µBlock Origin again.

I’ve been extremely interested in anytype for some time. It does however use a proprietary license, which can stymie growth and community involvement.

Weaker copyleft. Doesn’t guarantee freedom the way GPL does.

If someone were to make a proprietary derivative using the MIT licensed code, that would be allowed. Their source code changes aren’t required to be shared and licensed under a FLOSS license.

GPL on the other hand, guarantees (legally, not always in practice) that any derivatives are to be licensed the same way, so they must remain FLOSS.

Tangentially related. Does anybody know if there’s a browser extension or database that collects the obviously LLM generated websites?

I run into lots of websites where all I think is “this can’t possibly be a human writing this, right?” All I can do is show it to my friends and family for validation.

What you said about YaST, I 100% agree with.

I distro hopped a lot.

Mained Manjaro for a while… but now that I’ve found OpenSUSE, I’m not going anywhere. The convenience and polish YaST has is unbelievable.

Tumbleweed has been on my main machine for 3 years now? I also have OpenSUSE “Kalpa” installed on my TV box, and Leap on a laptop.

I dabble in NixOS, but Tumbleweed is my true love.

Very cool!

If anyone is intrigued by terminal calculators, I suggest you check out qalculate.

Makes sense. Only consoles I have are the switch, and the best console (because it’s not a console), the Steam Deck.