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I just want to share my notes for installing a Brother HL-L5210DW(T) printer via USB under Fedora Atomic 40 (Kinoite), in case it helps anyone else. This may work for other similar models too. I've included some background info at bottom if you're interested.
The following method doesn't require any proprietary drivers, and utilizes IPP-over-USB and IPP Everywhere, both of which are preinstalled on Fedora 40 Atomic distributions (and likely their traditional variants as well).
Connect the printer via USB and ensure it is powered on
Open the CUPS admin web interface at http://localhost:631/
Select Administration and enter your credentials
Select Add Printer
Select Internet Printing Protocol (ipp), then Continue
Enter ipp://localhost:60000/ipp/print in the path field, then Continue
Enter a name for the printer (ex: HL-L5210DW), then Continue
Select Brother as the Make, then Continue
Select IPP Everywhere as the Model, then Ad
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I just want to share my notes for installing a Brother HL-L5210DW(T) printer via USB under Fedora Atomic 40 (Kinoite), in case it helps anyone else. This may work for other similar models too. I've included some background info at bottom if you're interested.
The following method doesn't require any proprietary drivers, and utilizes IPP-over-USB and IPP Everywhere, both of which are preinstalled on Fedora 40 Atomic distributions (and likely their traditional variants as well).
Connect the printer via USB and ensure it is powered on
Open the CUPS admin web interface at http://localhost:631/
Select Administration and enter your credentials
Select Add Printer
Select Internet Printing Protocol (ipp), then Continue
Enter ipp://localhost:60000/ipp/print in the path field, then Continue
Enter a name for the printer (ex: HL-L5210DW), then Continue
Select Brother as the Make, then Continue
Select IPP Everywhere as the Model, then Add Printer
Set the default printer options as desired (set Duplex to DuplexNoTumble for standard 2-sided printing)
Select Set Default Options
From the Maintenance drop-menu, select Set as Server Default
More info
I haven't needed to configure a USB printer at home in well over 15 years, so I was more than a little rusty, and things were further complicated by my use of Fedora Atomic. I'll eventually connect this device via Ethernet so it can be used by everyone on the LAN, but until I sort out exactly where I want to put it I'm stuck with USB.
Brother's driver install tool expects dnf, apt, or yum, and so it's incompatible with ostree-based systems like Kinoite or Silverblue. You can of course download the driver manually and install the necessary packages:
However, I still ran into some problems (likely related to SELinux), and I wasn't keen on overlaying additional packages, particularly proprietary software written for i386 arch.
I then opted to try the generic brlaser driver, but it failed to work correctly when long-edge (NoTumble) duplex printing was enabled. The backside of pages were corrupted and illegible.
After spending far too much of my Saturday reading support forums, I eventually discovered that IPP-over-USB was a thing, and the rest went smoothly. Hopefully this post helps anyone else with an HL-L5210DWT or other L5000 series Brother printer.
Bonus Tip: Disable deep sleep
If you have a Brother printer that goes into deep sleep and doesn't wake up for print jobs, you can disable the Deep Sleep feature via the printer's built-in menu:
Press the OK button to bring up the printer's menu
Navigate to General Setup > Ecology > Sleep Time
Press OK to enter into the Sleep Time settings
Press the Minus and Cancel buttons simultaneously to display the hidden Deep Sleep menu
Press OK to enter into the Deep Sleep settings
Navigate up/down to change the setting to Off
Press OK
Turn off the printer, unplug it and plug it back in, then verify the setting is retained
Brother's driver install tool expects dnf, apt, or yum, and so it's incompatible with ostree-based systems like Kinoite or Silverblue. You can of course download the driver manually and install the necessary packages:
Not being able to provide support for every distro is the other edge of open source
It's more the other edge of immutable distros, in this particular case. The entire point is that the system files can't be modified, but that means working within those restrictions via layering can be tricky in certain cases.
Printers are always horrible to administer. Brother are typically the best on Linux. I wrote a massive instructional blog a few weeks ago because it took so much work to get my HL-3150CDN working over USB. I had to repackage a Frankenstein's monster of a driver because my printer never got 64-bit CUPS filters.
Great writeup! I have a Brother laser printer, too, and it never occurred to me that I'd need to worry about compatibility when I fully migrate (and at least three immutable distros have been in my top five candidates).
This method seems to not work reliably with Brother-HL-L2370DN-series printers right now. At least after a quick search I've found a bug report about an infinite loop problem in certain circumstances and sadly with my HL-L2372DN I was unable to print at all (infinite loop with occasional ! USB[0]: zero-size read error; CUPS 2.4.10 and ipp-usb 0.9.27).
For Brother HL-L2372DN it is possible to use Gutenprint with the supplied Generic PCL 6 Printer wide margin printer driver but two sided printing is quirky sometimes if you print odd number of pages.
Hi there, I am facing an issue where printing is not possible anymore until I restart the printer. When I try to print something and disconnect the USB-connection during this process (when I see th...
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Da ich ja meinen Account mit fast 3000 Followys im Fedi vor Wochen gelöscht habe, gehe ich nun so vor um mehr Leute zu finden, die mit mir reden 😅
„Da ich kein Meta, X, TT, etc. habe, versuche ich mir Freundschaften außerhalb der SM-Plattformen zu suchen … allerdings nach den gleichen Prinzipien: Ich gehe jeden Tag auf die Straße und erkläre den Passanten, was ich gegessen habe, wie ich mich fühle, was ich am gestrigen Abend gemacht habe, was ich heute und zurzeit mache, was ich morgen mache, gebe ihnen Fotos von meinen Freundinnen und von meinen Katzen; gebe ihnen auch Bilder, auf denen ich mein Fahrrad repariere oder auf dem ich noch Kleinkind bin. Ich höre aufmerksam den Gesprächen anderer zu und sage laut: „Es gefällt mir!“ Und siehe da, es funktioniert! Zur Zeit habe ich fünf Personen, die mir folgen: Zwei Polizistinnen, einen Psychiater, einen Psychologen und eine Pflegerin. Läuft! 👍“ #Netzfund #Pinterest
TUXEDO on ARM is coming: As you may have gathered from the relevant press over the last few days, we at TUXEDO Computers are working on an ARM notebook with a Snapdragon X Elite SoC from Qualcomm.
What is it that you don't like about Clevo chassis? I bought one a few years ago and I love it. It's elegant and sturdy in my opinion. It's also easily serviceable, so what's to complain about it?
Mostly that they are generally made of cheap/very thin materials. They also kind of like cheap Chromebooks (especially clevos, tongfang are better in this area). And it's also the fact that these laptops aren't really unique at all, they are mostly a logo swap with preselected components guaranteed to work with Linux. I've been using this Lenovo laptop that has a fantastic screen and an amazing CNC aluminum body, it works flawlessly and Linux support was never a consideration for them making this PC
If I am buying a laptop i want it to be unique, because if it's not then I'll just buy it straight from China on clevos website for half the price. What I don't like is this is basically drop shipping but less consumer hostile
Tuxedo also offers products with an aluminum body, and while they do import the hardware from China, you get the local service and warranty guarantees any company in the EU must provide, so that's fine by me.
Also, honest question: what do you think a unique laptop is, in particular when buying from a mass consumer brand like Lenovo? I really can't figure out what that's supposed to mean.
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Imagine your friend that does not know anything about linux, don't you think this would make them not install the firefox flatpak and potentially think that linux is unsafe?
I ask this because I believe we must be careful and make small changes to welcome new users in the future, we have to make them as much comfortable as possible when experimenting with a new O.S
I believe this warning could have a less alarming design, saying something like "This app can use elevated permissions. What does this mean?" with the "What does this mean?" text as a clickable URL that shows the user that this may cause security risks. I mean, is kind of a contradiction to have "verified" on the app and a red warning saying "Potentially unsafe", the user will think "well, should I trust this or not??"
Yes but surely you're aware that even the most new-user-friendly distros and their tools aren't necessarily aimed at new users.
That warning is a perfect example of how Linux developers choose which hill to die on. They post a warning for an app that everyone knows can deliver bad times to two camps of users; those that know and don't care and those that don't understand the warning. If we could quantify the helpfulness of that warning, odds are that it saved 0 users from malicious action from that avenue of attack.
Never expect Linux as a whole to be "helpful" to the new crowd.
Which is why I said "linux as a whole". Many distros will try to undo the nerdery and neckbeardism that is built into the parent distros but as a whole, linux is going to always be less welcoming to a new user than someone that's used to useless warnings and repeated password entries for elevated privileges. Being safer and being new-user-friendly rarely go hand in hand.
I like flatpaks and flathub, but this is just something they do badly. I think as well they also have "probably safe" which is just as unhelpful... And what does "access certain files and folders" even mean!?
I think they should just follow the example of every other app store; list the permissions in an easily understandable list and let the user decide whether or not they are comfortable with it.
When I look at Firefox in Discover, it only shows the list of permissions the flatpak will be given out of the box, with no warning of it being "potentially unsafe." This certainly does seem like the better way to handle it.
Also, the warning on the Flathub website is clickable - it expands into the full permissions list. Why it defaults to "no information except maybe dangerous" is beyond me.
beyond root processes, none that I am aware of. Hence I configured all my internet applications and steam to run in a jail :) firejail & bubblewrap come as native packages, unlike the flatpak contents
those warnings on mint and flathub are so ridiculous, there's no difference between those and official ones, somebody could just as easily put something nefarious in any flatpak
In my opinion, those warnings are not used to help users but to shame developpers for not trully sandboxing and verifying their apps. Developpers know that having this warning will decrease the number of users downloading it. The goal in the long run is to improve app sandboxing and security.
By not letting the user import/export addon settings, bookmarks?
Btw, i hate the opinion that the dev must babysit his users. It makes software worse, not better, look at Firefox's profille folder for an example. If you have to, make an intro to train them.
It's an app store made for distributing Flatpak applications (desktop apps that work on every distro where Flatpak is installed, most distros install flatpak by default now). Flatpaks also allow isolation between apps and a fine permission system like you get on a smartphone (check out Flatseal for that)
I never looked into flatseal and I don’t have any issues with Steam. But I wonder if flatseal can allow a Flatpak Java application to run systemctl poweroff.
I want to showcase the project I have been working on for the last weeks. GitHub and Gitea/Forgejo allow you to upload files and directories created during a continuous integration run (Artifacts). These can be downloaded as zip files. However there is no simple way to view individual files of an artifact.
That's why I developed a small web application that allows you to view the artifacts of any CI run in your web browser. This allows you to quickly look at test reports or preview your web projects.
I am hosting a public instance with support for GitHub and Codeberg under av.thetadev.de/.
Features
📦 Quickly view CI artifacts in your browser without messing with zip files
📂 File listing for directories without index page
🏠 Every artifact has a unique subdomain to support pages with absolute paths
🌎 Full SPA support with 200.html and 404.html fallback pages
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I want to showcase the project I have been working on for the last weeks. GitHub and Gitea/Forgejo allow you to upload files and directories created during a continuous integration run (Artifacts). These can be downloaded as zip files. However there is no simple way to view individual files of an artifact.
That's why I developed a small web application that allows you to view the artifacts of any CI run in your web browser. This allows you to quickly look at test reports or preview your web projects.
I am hosting a public instance with support for GitHub and Codeberg under av.thetadev.de/.
Features
📦 Quickly view CI artifacts in your browser without messing with zip files
📂 File listing for directories without index page
🏠 Every artifact has a unique subdomain to support pages with absolute paths
🌎 Full SPA support with 200.html and 404.html fallback pages
👁️ Viewer for Markdown, syntax-highlighted code and JUnit test reports
🐵 Greasemonkey userscript to automatically add a "View artifact" button to GitHub/Gitea/Forgejo
🦀 Fast and efficient, only extracts files from zip archive if the client does not support gzip
🔗 Automatically creates pull request comments with links to all build artifacts
This is really cool and something I've been missing since we kind of got forced off our original CI platform (they changed their free tier and it would have been financially prohibitive) and moved to GH runners.
Is there a limit to the size? I notice that your example instance (and the default value) of file size is set to 100MB, is there a maximum size if you were to self host it or is it technically unlimited? Our CI artifacts tend to be around 700-800MB.
Technically unlimited, but you obviously need to have enough storage to cache the zip files (and RAM to cache the file index). My server is very small, so I needed to set the limit low.
Totally understand the limits on your server, I know why you would have it set that way hence why I was wondering about the limits if self hosting. Definitely going to have a play with this.
Flathub is not the entirety of Free World, just a little small slice of the pie. You can say Flathub is quite centralized. But our Free World have so much more. Every country will have a certain focus of what is freely available. It's an optional server and package format. You are free to install it or use another free package. Nothing crazy here.
I think they count every download of every package, every version, every time. It's not the number of unique users or even packages.
If you install 3 apps you might need to download 3 versions of graphics driver, 3 versions of desktop environment libraries and so on, It won't count as one user installing 3 apps, it will show up as 10 -20 downloads. And that's just the initial install, every time you update them it counts another 10-20.
One can distribute flatpaks along with their dependencies on USB drives (or network shares, etc.) which is especially helpful in situations where Internet access is limited or non-existent.
Cache/mirroring would be great for those who need it.
Edit:
Thinking about it, I wonder if there's enough "core features" with 'create-usb' that its just matter of scripting something together to intercept requests, auto-create-usb what's being requested and then serve the package locally? If a whole mirror is required, it may be possible to iterate over all flathub packages and 'create-usb' the entire repo to have a local cache/mirror? Just thinking "out loud".
One can distribute flatpaks along with their dependencies on USB drives (or network shares, etc.) which is especially helpful in situations where Internet access is limited or non-existent. For off...
Sorry to ask, I'm not really familiar with Linux desktop nowadays: I've seen Flatpak and Flathub talked about a lot lately and it seems to be kinda a controversial topic. Anyone wanna fill me in what's all the noice about? It's some kind of cross-distro "app store" thingy?
Flatpak is a universal application packaging standard for Linux. It allows devs to create a single application that gets bundled with all necessary dependencies including versioning.
These apps run in their own semi-isolated "container" which makes immutable distros possible. (Distros like Fedora Silverblue that are effectively impossible to break by installing or removing critical system files.)
This means that a Linux app doesn't have to have a .deb version, an .rpm version, or be pre-compiled for any other distros. A user can simply go to Flathub, (the main repository for Flatpak apps), download the flatpak, and install it on their distro of choice.
It's quickly becoming the most popular way for users to install apps on Linux because it's so easy and quick. But there are a few downsides like size on disk, first party verification, per-distro optimizations, and the centralization of application sources. That's why some users aren't fully endorsing or embracing how popular they are becoming.
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It's more like android apps from early versions of Android before the permissions became user-managable.
It won't prompt you to give the application access to certain permissions, all the permissions are predefined in the manifest by whoever published the application to flathub. When you run the application you just hope it won't cause too much havoc (you can of course verify the permissions before running it, but I guarantee most people won't)
Flatpak supports sandboxing but due to how most desktop applications want access to your home folder, network etc many apps simply disable it.
Regardless of the level of sandboxing applied to the app, Flatpak is a great way for a developer to package once run anywhere. Prior to Flatpak, if you wanted to support multiple distros, you had to build a package for each distro or hope somebody working on that distro would do it for you.
Inb4 AppImage was here first. And if you mention Snap then GTFO
Appimage is probably the most similar to a naked .exe in Windows. They are useful for small apps or simple indie games, but I prefer Flatpaks for my everyday big applications.
Agreed, Snaps are like Flatpaks but worse because locked down back end and Canonical's sketchy nature. Imagine a really delicious pastry that anybody can make and sell, then imagine the same pastry but only one bakery in the world can make and sell it. Which would you prefer? Lol
Keep in mind there are certain permissions that can lead to a sandbox escape. These permissions are banned on Flathub but can still be used by flatpaks files and custom repos.
a single application that gets bundled with all necessary dependencies including versioning
Does that mean that if I were to install Application A and Application B that both have dependency to package C version 1.2.3 I then would have package C (and all of its possible sub dependencies) twice on my disk? I don't know how much external dependencies applications on Linux usually have but doesn't that have the potential to waste huge amounts of disk space?
Essentially yes, if you start using lots if older applications or mixing applications that use many different dependency versions, you will start to use lots of extra disk space because the different apps have to use their own separate dependency trees and so forth.
This doesn't mean it will be like 2x-3x the size as traditional packages, but from what I've seen, it could definitely be 10-20% larger on disk. Not a huge deal for most people, but if you have limited disk space for one reason or another, it could be a problem.
It CAN get pretty wild sometimes, though. For example, Flameshot (screenshotting utility) is only ~560KB as a system package, while its flatpak version is ~1.4GB (almost 2.5k times as big)
on a desktop it might not be significant but I tried using flatpak apps on a device with very limited root emmc storage (16 GB) and ran out of space really fast. Its really common to see a couple multi-hundred-megabyte library downloads for each new app IME.
I like them for some stuff but there are glaring issues that I don't like. I've posted about it before, poor integration of apps/not getting the right permissions is a big problem, the people packaging them don't often do as good of a job as someone like a distro maintainer.
But admittedly my experience using it probably isn't representative (pop os through their shop and arch on a mobile device). Neither were amazing, but not having to compile shit myself or install with an untrusted shell script was nice for some apps. Without some significant improvements it's not a good replacement for a distro's package repos but it might be a good way to broaden the available applications without having to maintain 10x more packages.
Not necessarily. GNOME and KDE dependencies and "base system" for flatpaks to run in are flatpaks themselves so apps that depend on them will not use duplicated dependencies. Storage usage may not be as efficient as using a traditional package manager but you don't install a new OS per app either.
Most dependencies are bundled in the "runtime" images, and it uses file deduplication to reduce the size of the dependencies, but it's still a little more than a normal package manager.
Each package can choose one from a handful of runtimes to use, each of which include common dependencies (like gnome or qt libraries), and if multiple flatpaks use the same runtime, that runtime is only downloaded once.
It is less space efficient than your typical package manager, but brings other benefits like sandboxing.
What about those apps using out of date libraries? Wouldn't that become a security issue - since containers usually aren't that secure, right? And all app developers would have to update their container libraries separately, instead of just updating the system libraries?
As containers are isolated - it's mostly a security issue for the container itself. It may become an issue, though, if the container is allowed to freely interact with filesystem, for example.
Apps like Flatseal allow you to easily control such variables using a GUI instead of tinkering in the terminal.
I don't hate flatpaks, but flatpaks require more disk space than the same apps from traditional repositories, and they only support a handful of the most common default themes. Since I only ever use older and slower computers, my disk space is limited, and I like to rice my desktop, I personally avoid them. But your use-case may differ.
Most of the issue is that they're unreliable. Sometimes the app will work. Sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes you have to fiddle blindly with flatseal settings, which ones? Who knows? Guessing is part of the fun.
In over 3 years of daily flatpak use (of multiple apps) I've never had a single reliability issue with flatpak, the only ones being caused by me because I was trying out settings in flatseal that the app didn't like. On the flip side I've found native packages to be broken more often than not, with .Deb files sometimes just not working and throwing an error or something. Package managers are better for sure but I've had dependency issues that I have never experienced with flatpak.
To everyone saying you can’t mirror a flatpak repo… you’re absolutely right. There should be a far easier way to set up your own mirror without needing to build everything from scratch. That being said, if you wanted to try to make your own repo with every one of flathub’s apps, here you go:
Edit: Some did get a flathub mirror working. The issue is that a. Fastly works good enough and b. There is no concept of “packages” on the server side. It’s just one big addressed content store because of ostree, and syncing is apparently difficult? Idk, not being able to sync the state of content is like the entire point of ostree…
Flathub is a build and distribution service for Flatpak applications. Its goal is to act as a central hub for making desktop applications available to users. - Flathub
It’s not about funding. Many prefer mirrors because the main instance isn’t globally available (the GitHub issue I linked, for example, is all about people trying and failing to access flathub in China) or because they can’t for compliance reasons (many businesses already mirror stuff like epel, too, which is what throws off Rocky’s stat counters). Neither of those issues can be assessed by throwing more money at a CDN.
Well that isn't the fault of Flathub. If a country or organization blocks it that's a local issue. This is especially true in China where they need to control the movement of information. Blaming flathub and Flatpak for censorship is frankly unfair.
I’m not sure if anyone said it was the fault of flathub. My point is that, regardless of fault, accessibility to the main instance is an issue for several reasons, and a good way to solve it is to build a system for mirrors.
Your bypassing restrictions that could get you in trouble. Tor is the right answer in that case. However, bypassing restrictions can have dire consequences.
There are existing mirrors for Fedora and Ubuntu packages in China, which are used because mirrors in other countries are often blocked. I’m sure there are no legality issues—the issue in the case of flatpak and china in particular is that China blocks Fastly because Fastly does not host any POPs in China. This is why Cloudflare, for example, has their own network in China that international users can pay to use. There’s no legal issues here, just logistical. Besides, as previously shown, people do (with great difficulty) managed to bring up their own flatpak mirror without any consequences for a few years now.
Besides, there shouldn’t be legality issues for businesses wanting to host their own mirrors for compliance issues.
Ubuntu also includes a wide variety of software through its network of software repositories. Once your system is installed you can simply call up a list of all the existing tools out there and choose any of them for immediate installation over the i…
Oh no, this is Flatpaks' fault because they made this twisted repository system instead of doing sane things and then it is Flathub's fault as well because they aren't opening their storage to rsync or other sane syncing methods.
Thinking about it, I wonder if there’s enough “core features” with ‘create-usb’ that its just matter of scripting something together to intercept requests, auto-create-usb what’s being requested and then serve the package locally?
The issue is that... there aren't enough “core features”. It doesn't even handle different architectures and their dependencies correctly. It wasn't made to be mirrored, nor decentralized.
Apt for instance was designed in a much better way, it becomes trivial to mirror the entire thing or parts and for the end tool it doesn't even matter if the source is a server on the internet, a local machine, a flash drive or a local folder, all work the same.
I don't use them for most things I install but proprietary apps I want sandboxed or programs that have weird issues with dependencies I grab the flatpak.
Flatpak was designed to be decentralised, Flathub is just the main repository offering flatpaks and yes, probably 99% of all Flatpak applications are downloaded via the main repo but it is technically possible to just launch your own if you are unhappy with the main repo. The Flatpak team literally has this info page for hosting a repository
I for example, am taking AAGL from their own flatpak repo because they are not offering their launcher via the main one (even tho they also tell you to link the main repo - I guess for dependency reasons - but theoretically you could open your own repo and throw all dependency related packages in there or am I getting something wrong here)
For me on Arch, Flatpaks are kinda useless. I can maybe see the appeal for other distros but Arch already has up-to-date versions of everything and anything that's missing from the main repos is in the AUR.
I also don't like how it's a separate package manager, they take up more space, and to run things from the CLI it's flatpak run com.website.Something instead of just something. It's super cumbersome compared to using normal packages.
Or maybe the two countries with a larger population than the United States have significantly lower per capita income and so fewer people own desktop/laptop computers. Most of the world probably has, at most, a smartphone.
If anything, Brazil seems like the outlier on the that map. You’d expect the U.S. to have the most computers. But Brazil and China are roughly similar in terms of income.
I use Ansible all day. For work. Oh, god, is it sad compared to everything else in the space. RedHat had the choice between two in-house products and they chose poorly.
It can do lots of configuration and [set up] and install flatpaks.
We had that 20 years ago, just with a different product. The state of the art is now two generations newer.
Well I know Ansible and it works for my needs. I briefly used Nix and it was worse. Ansible is nice because you can just install ansible and then apply a playbook.
Lol, what a pointless map. It’s impossible to tell at a glance which countries have more or less downloads, other than a couple of countries with a slightly lighter colour.
I also prefer to get my software from the distro's repos, but for software from third parties, flatpak adds a security layer, making it more secure when compared, for example, to aur.
I agree with everything you said, however there are a few details.
it is technically possible to just launch your own [repo]
The ability to create repositories ≠ from mirror existing ones.
Unlike apt repositories Flatpak ones aren't simply a directory tree with a bunch of files that can get mirrored using rysnc or other efficient means, it's a clusterfuck of HTTP-only requests that need to be backed by specific metadata and there aren't tools to manage those.
flatpak create-usb may be promising but the name says its all - the priority wasn't to create a way to mirror repositories but a quick and dirty hack for some situation.
theoretically you could open your own repo and throw all dependency related packages in there or am I getting something wrong here
Theoretically yes, in practice things are bit more nuanced. That tools only considers your current architecture, it's a pain to get dependencies in an automated way and most of the time you'll end up with broken archives. You'll also need to hack things a lot.
Universities might want to locally host a mirror in order to waste less bandwidth and provide faster downloads;
Large companies usually like to host internal mirrors for the same reasons as above and also so they can audit and pick what packages will be available for their end users;
In some countries not everyone can access the official flathub;
One might be dealing with airgapped networks and systems for sensitive work and you want to have ways for your end users to install flatpaks;
Fastly, their CDN might go down at any point (like Cloudflare sometimes does) and you'll end up with nothing;
Flathub itself may be subject to a cyberattack and their service might get crippled for a days or weeks and you'll have nothing as well;
For what's worth
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Universities might want to locally host a mirror in order to waste less bandwidth and provide faster downloads;
Large companies usually like to host internal mirrors for the same reasons as above and also so they can audit and pick what packages will be available for their end users;
The question here isn't "why would you" but rather "why would I be unable to do it". Their actively gatekeeping their repository in a futile attempt to be the single and central point of flatpak distribution - much like what Apple does with the App Store.
What's the issue? I installed mint because I know fuckall about Linux, and tbh it's a dice toss if I have used the Flatpak option not knowing what the actual difference between them are
Which does not mean that people like A.S. Tanenbaum should not be deserving recognition. With other words, your comment does not contribute to this thread.
Hi all . I currently have version 2023.06.25 installed, stable. Tell me how to install the latest version 20240612? I see a lot of changes here codeberg.org/libreboot/lbwww/c… If I understand correctly the mechanism for introducing blob objects has changed, how can I check the ROM after I run the command $ ./build roms t440plibremrc_12mb
Oh you can still do that. The path changed to elf/cbfstool/[TREE]/cbfstool (replace [TREE] with the tree concerened). Note that since the switch to the libre RAM init code, mrc.bin is not included anymore
Yeah, that's basically right. I believe flashprog is also included in libreboot, have a look in the elf/ directory. After that, it should work as expected
Yeah, that’s basically right. I believe flashprog is also included in libreboot, have a look in the elf/ directory. After that, it should work as expected
Thank you, kind person)) I installed it, but after installation my screen is too bright and this happens every time, so for now I will use the latest test version, it works well.
I have another question, please tell me how, in your opinion, I can edit grub.cgf correctly so as not to get an error with searching for disk "ahci1"
I inserted these lines:
...........
echo # Insert newline
}
menuentry 'Load GNU/Linux-Libre (LTS)' {
cryptomount -a
set root='lvm/matrix-rootvol'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux-libre-lts root=/dev/mapper/matrix-rootvol cryptdevice=/dev/sda1:lvm
initrd /boot/initramfs-linux-libre-lts.img
}
menuentry 'Load Operating System (incl. fully encrypted disks) [o]' --hotkey='o' {
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Yeah, that’s basically right. I believe flashprog is also included in libreboot, have a look in the elf/ directory. After that, it should work as expected
Thank you, kind person)) I installed it, but after installation my screen is too bright and this happens every time, so for now I will use the latest test version, it works well.
I have another question, please tell me how, in your opinion, I can edit grub.cgf correctly so as not to get an error with searching for disk "ahci1"
I inserted these lines:
...........
echo # Insert newline
}
menuentry 'Load GNU/Linux-Libre (LTS)' {
cryptomount -a
set root='lvm/matrix-rootvol'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux-libre-lts root=/dev/mapper/matrix-rootvol cryptdevice=/dev/sda1:lvm
initrd /boot/initramfs-linux-libre-lts.img
}
menuentry 'Load Operating System (incl. fully encrypted disks) [o]' --hotkey='o' {
and deleted these ones since I don't use raid:
menuentry 'Load Operating System (incl. fully encrypted disks) [o]' --hotkey='o' {
if [ "${grub_scan_disk}" != "ata" ]; then
search_grub ahci
fi
if [ "${grub_scan_disk}" != "ahci" ]; then
search_grub ata
fi
# grub device enumeration is very slow, so checks are hardcoded
# TODO: add more strings, based on what distros set up when
# the user select auto-partitioning on those installers
lvmvol="lvm/matrix-bootvol lvm/matrix-rootvol"
raidvol="md/0 md/1 md/2 md/3 md/4 md/5 md/6 md/7 md/8 md/9"
# in practise, doing multiple redundant checks is perfectly fast and
# TODO: optimize grub itself, and use */? here for everything
for vol in ${lvmvol} ${raidvol} ; do
try_user_config "${vol}"
done
unset ahcidev
unset atadev
for i in 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0; do
for part in 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1; do
if [ "${grub_scan_disk}" != "ata" ]; then
ahcidev="(ahci${i},${part}) ${ahcidev}"
fi
if [ "${grub_scan_disk}" != "ahci" ]; then
atadev="(ata${i},${part}) ${atadev}"
fi
done
done
set pager=0
echo -n "Attempting to unlock encrypted volumes"
for dev in ${ahcidev} ${atadev} ${lvmvol} ${raidvol}; do
if cryptomount "${dev}" ; then break ; fi
done
set pager=1
echo
# after cryptomount, lvm volumes might be available
for vol in ${lvmvol}; do
try_user_config "${vol}"
done
search_grub crypto
if [ "${grub_scan_disk}" != "ata" ]; then
# Last resort, if all else fails
set root=ahci0,1
for p in / /boot/; do
if [ -f "${p}vmlinuz" ]; then
linux ${p}vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 rw
if [ -f "${p}initrd.img" ]; then
initrd ${p}initrd.img
fi
fi
done
fi
if [ "${grub_scan_disk}" != "ahci" ]; then
# Last resort (for setups that use IDE instead of SATA)
set root=ata0,1
for p in / /boot/; do
if [ -f "${p}vmlinuz" ]; then
linux ${p}vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 rw
if [ -f "${p}initrd.img" ]; then
initrd ${p}initrd.img
fi
fi
done
fi
true # Prevent pager requiring to accept each line instead of whole screen
I installed the updated version 20240612 everything worked as you said. Checking nothing as in the previous instructions does not give anything, as you wrote: after switching to the libre RAM initialization code mrc.bin no longer turns on.
Now i need to edit grub.cfg because I get an error with searching for the achi1 disk
Graphics Added support for Wayland on Linux. To enable it, set SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland in your environment. (thanks to raiguard) Changes Music no longer fade…
I had many copies of the same game now on Steam when I committed 2 years ago for Linux gaming. I preferred GOG back then, but with Proton and much friendliness of Valve, I prefer Steam now.
Nine distinct classes provide a broad range of tactical abilities and personalities. Constantly updated with new game modes, maps, equipment and, most importantly, hats!
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Devil Daggers is a fast-paced shooter that places you in an abyssal arena to face endless legions of demons. Armed with versatile magic daggers and a fluid movement system, fight to survive as long as you can.
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster.
X4: FOUNDATIONS brings our most sophisticated universe SIMULATION ever. Fly every ship, EXPLORE space or manage an empire; TRADE, FIGHT, BUILD and THINK carefully, while you embark on an epic journey.
Open Roller Coaster Tycoon 2! You need to own an official version of the game in order to get the models and textures and whatnot, which are still under copyright. After that, you can play with ORCT2 and enjoy the expanded capabilities,
IMO the early game exploration rush is the best part. Anomalies and archaeological digs give that great Star Trek vibe that kind of goes away once everyone is settled into their borders.
it's a newer display server protocol designed to replace X11, focusing on improved security, simplicity, and contemporary display technologies such as multi-display variable refresh rate and HDR (eventually).
Its all about how an application goes from "I would like to display X on a screen" to how X actually gets displayed. Wayland is effectively a language (technically a protocol) that graphical applications can speak to describe how they would like to be drawn. It's then up to a different program more deeply embedded in your OS to listen to and act on those instructions (this program is called a Wayland compositor). There's a lot more to it (handling keyboard input monitor settings, etc), but that's the general idea.
Wayland is a (relatively) new way of thinking about this process, that tries to take into account the wide variety of input and output devices that exist today, and also tries to mitigate some of the security risks that were inherent to previous approaches (before Wayland, it was very easy for one application to "look at" what was being displayed in a completely different app, or even to listen to what keys were being typed even when the app isn't focussed).
Thing is, change is hard, doubly so in the consensus driven world of Linux/FOSS. So, unt
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Its all about how an application goes from "I would like to display X on a screen" to how X actually gets displayed. Wayland is effectively a language (technically a protocol) that graphical applications can speak to describe how they would like to be drawn. It's then up to a different program more deeply embedded in your OS to listen to and act on those instructions (this program is called a Wayland compositor). There's a lot more to it (handling keyboard input monitor settings, etc), but that's the general idea.
Wayland is a (relatively) new way of thinking about this process, that tries to take into account the wide variety of input and output devices that exist today, and also tries to mitigate some of the security risks that were inherent to previous approaches (before Wayland, it was very easy for one application to "look at" what was being displayed in a completely different app, or even to listen to what keys were being typed even when the app isn't focussed).
Thing is, change is hard, doubly so in the consensus driven world of Linux/FOSS. So, until the last couple of years or so, adoption of Wayland was quite slow. Now we're at the point where most things work at least as well in Wayland, but there's still odd bits of software that either haven't been ported, or that still rely on some features that don't exist in Wayland, often because of the aforementioned security risks.
I see X11 and Wayland as display protocols that tell to render things on the screen, for example to Desktop Environments like Gnome or KDE Plasma. X11 wasn't originally designed for this purpose, and its codebase is very messy and 'hacky,' which led to the development of Wayland.
it's when devs of a graphics stack just suddenly feel the need to protect your own computer from itself, so they say fuck you to any features that they deem "insecure", including accessibility features (they will claim they fixed this, but it's opt-in per app. old apps will just be completely unusable for some people with special needs.)
But they eliminated tearing on the desktop! woo!!!!
What do you do when a new update comes out and breaks all your mods? I think thats the biggest thing keeping me from jumping back into stellaris. I've been playing off and on for years. 3+ times I've decided to boot up stellaris, find my mod list super outdated. Spent 30 to 90 minutes fixing stuff. Then like a week later a new update comes out and a bunch of mods break. I stop playing cuz I need to wait for the mods to be updated. Love the game but the constant mods breaking makes playing a game a chore
The Portal Mod you've been waiting for. Delve into a new story with original characters, spanning over 8 hours of gameplay and featuring over 40 new challenging test chambers which make use of new mechanics.
I absolutely know how you feel. I'll typically go 6 to 12 months at a time without playing because of that. I then strategically find a window between patches where most of my favorite mods are all up to date. It typically takes a solid 4 hours of work to fix up my modlist, and I then play obsessively for several weeks. Despite these huge breaks, I'm at almost 3500 hours in the game, though I've been playing since release.
My second fave game is Rimworld, and I follow a similar pattern there, though modding for that game seems much more resilient in the face of certain updates. Plus, Ludeon isn't DLC-crazy like Paradox.
It is also DRM free on Steam. You can copy the rimworld folder to a PC that's never had Steam on it and play it as an example.
You can also do that to sort of save a snapshot in time of Rimworld when they are releasing a new version that will likely break mods for a long time/sometimes forever.
Factorio is so amazing on linux. Like the devas actually care about Linux. They care so much that went on to shit on Gnome for no client side decorations. Absolute legends. Wish more studios wer like them.
One of the reasons why the native Linux version is better than Proton.
Asynchronous saving
Many of you might not be aware that Factorio has support for saving your game in the background, without freezing while it does so. This feature is tucked away in the hidden settings and only works on macOS and Linux. This is one great example of taking advantage of a platform's features to benefit the game, which would not be available to us if we simply went through Proton.
Asynchronous saving works by using the fork syscall to essentially duplicate the game. The primary instance - the one you interact with - continues playing, but the newly forked child runs the saving process then exits on completion. I have used it for many years and have never had issues, but the setting remains hidden because there are a few unsolved problems with it and it requires a significant amount of RAM to work.
I would love to promote this feature away from its hidden status in 2.0. If you are playing on Linux or macOS, please enable asynchronous saving (ctrl+alt+c
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One of the reasons why the native Linux version is better than Proton.
Asynchronous saving
Many of you might not be aware that Factorio has support for saving your game in the background, without freezing while it does so. This feature is tucked away in the hidden settings and only works on macOS and Linux. This is one great example of taking advantage of a platform's features to benefit the game, which would not be available to us if we simply went through Proton.
Asynchronous saving works by using the fork syscall to essentially duplicate the game. The primary instance - the one you interact with - continues playing, but the newly forked child runs the saving process then exits on completion. I have used it for many years and have never had issues, but the setting remains hidden because there are a few unsolved problems with it and it requires a significant amount of RAM to work.
I would love to promote this feature away from its hidden status in 2.0. If you are playing on Linux or macOS, please enable asynchronous saving (ctrl+alt+click Settings -> "The rest" -> non-blocking-saving) and report any issues you find. I am particularly interested in reproducing a seemingly random freeze that occurs at the end of the process. Thank you in advance!
You need to set up CI for the new platform, expand your build system to support the new compiler(s) and architecture(s), and have at least one person on the team that cares enough about the platform to actively maintain it. factorio.com/blog/post/fff-408
And yeah, exactly. Their game seems like their life mission, and I don't blame them. The game is spectacular.
Since no one mentioned XCOM 2 I'll pick that. For some reason it only lets me play it with War of the Chosen expansion, though, and it's very difficult. But I have fun getting my squad wiped because I'm masochist like that.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
The original shooter-looter returns, packing bazillions of guns and a mayhem-fueled adventure! Blast through new worlds and enemies as one of four new Vault Hunters.
OpenTTD - amazing reviews for the free game from 14 Mar, 2004.
Dwarf Fortress - bought it, I have not played it yet, though. I know it got Linux port not so long ago.
Minecraft - I know this childhood gem, but I hate to have a Microsoft account on Linux and I know there are some launchers. Still hate to play for me single-player game with an account.
OpenTTD is a business simulation game in which players earn money by transporting passengers and cargo via road, rail, water, and air. It is an open-source remake and expansion of the 1995 Chris Sawyer video game Transport Tycoon Deluxe.
😂 Well, at the beginning I was a bit lost and a friend played with me for like half an hour and then I knew the basics. After that you look things up that you want to know more about, but it's not necessary to have the wiki open all the time. The game actually has a quite clear progression and hints on first playthrough.
the DLC are pricey, but they're also proper, old school expansions adding lots of content that actually enhances the game.
it's perfectly playable without the DLC, and there's a LOT of DLC-sized mods on the workshop!
kind of a fundamental problem with modern DLC: they generally don't get cheaper over time (remember when that was an actual thing? not just sales, but actually lower prices for older games?).
if you keep up with the releases it's super okay at about 20/25€ once a year, maybe twice, bur if you're late to the party it's a whole lot of cash all at once!
exactly why paradox introduced a subscription for Stellaris' DLCs at 10€/month... honestly kinda worth it, if you know you're just gonna play for a while and then move on...still wish stuff would just get cheaper at some point again...
The port was done by another developer, Feral. As far as I know they used a tool to port the Direct3D stuff to OpenGL. But nowadays DXVK does the job much better.
But by now the support contract has ran out. So when the Windows version improved the Linux version just stagnated.
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
Sadly with The Talos Principle 2 they moved their entire studio to the Unreal Engine 5 and retired their own engine in the process. Apparently they lost a few engineers working on the engine and also couldn't have kept up with modern engines without some serious investment (no pun intended). On one hand it's probably for the better as we got a really pretty game where they could focus more on the game instead of bringing the engine up to speed but it's also sad to see the entire industry converge around engines like Unreal.
Since people have already mentioned Factorio, Dead cells, and Stellaris (which btw all of paradox grand strategy games since CK2 have native versions). I'll mention a lesser known game that me and my wife love to play, it's similar to Overcooked (which btw Overcooked 2 has native Linux support) but a lot more calm: Out of Space
Strategy co-op online multiplayer game about living on a spaceship with your roommates. You'll need to generate resources, take care of a deadly alien infestation, upgrade your appliances and build your sustainable space home.
Overcooked returns with a brand-new helping of chaotic cooking action! Journey back to the Onion Kingdom and assemble your team of chefs in classic couch co-op or online play for up to four players.
Overcooked 1 is a Unity game released in 2016. Unity only started offering Linux build support as an experimental feature at the end of 2015, so it's very likely that the version of Unity they used to make Overcooked didn't had Linux support.
The real question is why Overcooked All you can Eat doesn't have Linux support.
Edit: I forgot to say, I don't think it's weird that Paradox supports Linux, they made their engine Linux compatible a while back, so offering support now is trivial. And I always remember the reddit post in which a dev explained that Linux users are like a dedicated QA team hahaha
Out of curiosity, did you also test the Windows port? How good is Valve in Linux porting? I tried CS:GO and CS 2 and CS:GO was problematic, while CS 2 is now better for Linux.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover.
Having some trouble getting the drop down list to show any details.
As you can see in the screenshot it's just blank. Outside of that, everything Assetto Corsa works great.
I have tried following the method at the following link however it doesn't work at all for me. I can make it through the process up to the point where you should be able to launch CM but it just fails to launch.
If I install AC fresh, using experimental or GE-Proton9-7 it will launch CM, but none of the drop down menus work, they just appear like in the screenshot.
I'm assuming that this may be related to some kind of .net issue but before I go digging around trying to manually change stuff, I figured I'd check if any one else has seen this issue.
Unfortunately I don't know what is causing the exact issue you are having, however here are a few things I found when doing this myself that are "gotchas" (not immediately obvious).
This is the reason your fonts are all Times New Roman. Go to that key using protontricks regedit and delete all the font replacements.
Anything you put in $HOME/.steam/root/steamapps/common/assettocorsa stays there, even if you uninstall the game. If you want to "start over" you have to uninstall the game and then delete the whole assettocorsa directory there, and the wine prefix in $HOME/.steam/root/steamapps/compatdata/244210
AC and content manager work without .net changes in the latest GE but you do need corefonts which you can install with protontricks. If you want to be extra sure you have the right .net you can install dotnet472 but I don't believe this is necessary anymore as it will be installed automatically or is already installe
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Unfortunately I don't know what is causing the exact issue you are having, however here are a few things I found when doing this myself that are "gotchas" (not immediately obvious).
This is the reason your fonts are all Times New Roman. Go to that key using protontricks regedit and delete all the font replacements.
Anything you put in $HOME/.steam/root/steamapps/common/assettocorsa stays there, even if you uninstall the game. If you want to "start over" you have to uninstall the game and then delete the whole assettocorsa directory there, and the wine prefix in $HOME/.steam/root/steamapps/compatdata/244210
AC and content manager work without .net changes in the latest GE but you do need corefonts which you can install with protontricks. If you want to be extra sure you have the right .net you can install dotnet472 but I don't believe this is necessary anymore as it will be installed automatically or is already installed. You may get a wine .net error the first time you launch the game but it's only the first time.
If you choose to use CSP you have to unzip the archive you get from either Patreon or acstuff.ru and manually copy the dwrite.dll file into $HOME/.steam/root/steamapps/common/assettocorsa on EVERY upgrade. The zip installer built into CM doesn't do this correctly on Linux. It will cause rain not to work if you choose to use the Patreon version if you don't do this manual step.
I think you should start over and make sure the assettocorsa directory is clean before re-installing the game. It could be missing fonts, but it's hard to say. You can back it up somewhere if you have data in there you need.
It didn't help but it definitely got me moving in the right direction. I remembered that I recently (yesterday) enabled the testing and kde-unstable repos in my system so I could install Plasma 6.1 to check it out. Prior to this change I had CM working properly but was having issues getting CSP to work. Well, I figured out a workaround to getting CSP to work (after this change) by just copying over my install directory from windows on top of the install in Linux. However since I had already updated to Plasma 6.1 it came with the new issue of the drop down menus.
I was using Wayland. Just swapped over to X11 and it's working as intended. So something with Plasma 6.1 on Wayland is causing the issue.
So mostly a bunch of messing around with my system is probably what is causing the issue and for whatever reason disabling the testing and unstable repos isn't allowing me to revert back to the previous version of Plasma. Not really sure why but that's a totally different issue.
I really appreciate the time you took to give me such an in depth response.
Interesting, it is working for me in wayland and the drop down menus are fine but I'm using sway which is a totally different wayland implementation than what KDE is doing. I'm glad you found a workaround.
I didn't at first, but after the response from @mranderson17 I ended up doing just that. Which seems to have resolved that issue.
Prior to enabling testing/unstable repos for access to Plasma 6.1, CM was working fine on Wayland. However after the update it seems to have broken it but changing to X11 fixes the issue. So it's likely a combination of me messing with my system and something with Plasma 6.1.
darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.
We’re proud to announce the new feature release of darktable, 4.8.0!
The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-4.8.0.
That only helps people who know what Adobe Lightroom is for.
In short, Darktable is a tool to generate images out of camera raw image formats. (Edit: You can think of Raw image formats as "kind of" source code for images, which requires to be interpreted as a traditional pixel based image format to be displayed.) The workflow is much different from a traditional image editor. I didn't watch this video tutorial series here, but it looks good enough for linking:
I'm happy to announce that I have tagged the latest commit in the activitypub branch as v4.0.0-alpha. That designation means (mostly symbolically) that we have moved past the "proof-of-concept" stage of ActivityPub research and development, and into the alpha phase.
This release has been a long time in coming. Work on the ActivityPub integration back in late 2023, although work accelerated around February of this year. The initial idea was to create a proof-of-concept build of NodeBB that could communicate with other fediverse apps, and federate local content outwards for other applications to consume.
As it turns out, it is difficult to temper your expectations when using a protocol with implementations that expect richer compatibility than one can provide! It seemed like a disservice to only offer a minimal subset of expected features, and so we started a deeper integration into ActivityPub with the aims of providing full user-to-user following, notifications, and two-way communication.
In the interim,
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I'm happy to announce that I have tagged the latest commit in the activitypub branch as v4.0.0-alpha. That designation means (mostly symbolically) that we have moved past the "proof-of-concept" stage of ActivityPub research and development, and into the alpha phase.
This release has been a long time in coming. Work on the ActivityPub integration back in late 2023, although work accelerated around February of this year. The initial idea was to create a proof-of-concept build of NodeBB that could communicate with other fediverse apps, and federate local content outwards for other applications to consume.
As it turns out, it is difficult to temper your expectations when using a protocol with implementations that expect richer compatibility than one can provide! It seemed like a disservice to only offer a minimal subset of expected features, and so we started a deeper integration into ActivityPub with the aims of providing full user-to-user following, notifications, and two-way communication.
In the interim, FediForum happened, causing us to once again re-evaluate our short-to-medium term plans. Devs from NodeBB and Discourse, along with many other interested parties, formed the SWICG Forum and Threaded Discussions Task Force, which aims to promote the use and broader acceptance of threaded discussions as a modality of communication, as opposed to the expected "microblogging" format.
What this release contains
The alpha build contains a fully-capable ActivityPub server instance, including: * Two-way follow relationships between local and remote users * Two-way communication with fediverse content * A dedicated page (/world) to view remote content that is not organized into local categories * Categories followable from the fediverse (via FEP 1b12) * Integration with local flagging tools (reports sent to originating server) * Server-wide domain blocks (allow/deny list capability)
What this release does not contain
Support for emoji (images are federated out, which are sometimes stripped)
Support for non-public notes, as NodeBB does not currently have the facility to maintain or display them. Research on this problem is ongoing.
Roadmap
Now that the alpha has been tagged and released, I will be making our working roadmap public → you can take a look at it here
I will be starting a new backlog/roadmap for beta items, and existing backlogged items will be carried over.
Final Thoughts
We wouldn't have even thought to implement ActivityPub if it were not for the funding granted to us by the NLNet foundation. They allowed us the runway to pursue the necessary R&D work, and we're pleased that everything has been pointing positively so far!
This entire time, it has been particularly satisfying to continually see the integration working on this instance (the NodeBB support forum). Expanding the reach of NodeBB beyond the confines of the "local" mindset and into the "global fediverse" mindset has been daunting, but is well worth the price of admission.
I'm happy to also say that now that we've proceeded to the alpha stage, it signifies a commitment toward a beta phase, then an RC, and then towards the release of NodeBB v4. ActivityPub has legs, and we're invested in making it work!
A lot of old games have become unplayable on modern hardware and operating systems. I wrote an article about how making games open source will keep them playable far into the future.
I also discuss how making games open source could be beneficial to developers and companies.
Feedback and constructive criticism are most welcome, and in keeping with the open source spirit, I will give you credit if I make any edits based on your feedback.
I'm all for it. Glider Pro for MacOS 9 and below released its code in a sort of "as is" state a few years ago, and thankfully, some skilled devs took it up and ported it to modern systems.
It's a game I would have sorely missed, having long since left the Apple ecosystem (and that game was also PPC-only). We'll still lose even open source games, but at least people would then have the option to preserve them.
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Be the change you want to see. Make some games worth playing and release it as a FOSS and prove it can be a commercial success as well. See how it goes.
Asking people to release their work for free while providing very little incentives other than your own benefit aren't going to convince people who need to put food on the table NOW, without relying on miniscule probability of popularity or success after pouring years of your time.
Shoutout to Frictional Games (known for Penumbra, Amnesia, Soma) who publish many of their older (commercially successfully) games on their GitHub: github.com/FrictionalGames
Well, one of the alternatives is what ID Software used to do, where they would sell the game for a period of time and then open source the code Once sales dropped off.
Yee, you're mot going to be hurt by open sourcing your game 5 or 10 years later. By that time practically nobody will buy your game anymore. And of the ones who still will,.they likely aren't the ones that would even bother with looking for alternatives other than a big sale on a store page
But then, open sourcing adds to human culture, it lets others modify the game, or use it as a foundation for something new. And those things will credit you, and you will still get some extra benefit/good pr.
I have mentioned examples of games that saw commercial success while being open source. And of course, delayed open source is also an option as some other users have said here.
FOSS is basically an endless development cycle. Anyone who wants to pick up and keep developing can. This has benefits and drawbacks.
I would say the main drawback is that you might be expected to work longer on this code than you plan to. The gaming community can be pretty demanding while also not stepping up to contribute themselves.
Further, it means some games can end up in unintentional "development hell" because there really isn't an end-state for the game. The nature of the game keeps changing because the person in charge can't decide what they want to go with long-term. The Duke Nukem Forever problem.
Now, indie titles like Terraria and Stardew Valley stand as examples that show an eternal development can be a good thing, but they're truly in the minority and they're really both driven by auteurs, which is why the themes are so crisp and well placed throughout the games. It's kind of hard to have a single brilliant auteur in charge of a giant game involving lots of people and have it work out. Look at the shitshow of an afte
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FOSS is basically an endless development cycle. Anyone who wants to pick up and keep developing can. This has benefits and drawbacks.
I would say the main drawback is that you might be expected to work longer on this code than you plan to. The gaming community can be pretty demanding while also not stepping up to contribute themselves.
Further, it means some games can end up in unintentional "development hell" because there really isn't an end-state for the game. The nature of the game keeps changing because the person in charge can't decide what they want to go with long-term. The Duke Nukem Forever problem.
Now, indie titles like Terraria and Stardew Valley stand as examples that show an eternal development can be a good thing, but they're truly in the minority and they're really both driven by auteurs, which is why the themes are so crisp and well placed throughout the games. It's kind of hard to have a single brilliant auteur in charge of a giant game involving lots of people and have it work out. Look at the shitshow of an aftermath of what happened to the auteurs behind Disco Elysium. When you're part of a big team, some things always become a shadow of their original intent. Things become anodyne not on purpose, but simply because not everyone is on the same page. Designing a horse by committee results in a camel, etc.
It could work for small indie games, I don't think it would work for anything AAA-level.
You've laid out one potential development cycle: FOSS from the get-go, and open collaboration welcome.
However, that's not the only way that a FOSS game might be developed. The code could be freely licensed, but the upstream developers refuse to accept outside patches. In that case, there's one "original" and then if you don't like it, build your fork.
Alternatively, a game could be developed entirely in-house under proprietary licenses, and then only made FOSS upon commercial release. Contributor patches could improve the project, but conception of the game would be entirely the domain of its original developers.
I’d really like to see an improvement through copyright reform. Copyright periods are already ridiculously too long, but after a game runs its financial course, I think everyone should be free to do with it as they please. At a fundamental level, wasn’t this the intent of a functional copyright system? Is it not the intent to allow the creator to benefit while balancing the value against social good?
Yes exactly. These companies hold rights for far too long in the hopes they can "milk that cow" at any chance they have. The products of these (and many others) companies are electronic waste for many after a while and so normal copyright laws shouldn't hold for them, it's just too wasteful.
I think it could be viable for a company to release a game with a "5 year FOSS promise" or something similar, but you have to realize that the gaming community would never adequately financially support most development endeavors if the choice was as easy as downloading it from place A vs place B.
That's not accurate. It's far easier to purchase the game currently than it is to pirate it. You get things like automatic updates, server support, verified software, library management, etc with almost every single point of sale where as with piracy you get none of those and likely a little bit of malware as a treat. If you moved games to a completely open source model, you'd see this paradigm shift dramatically with gray markets spinning up seemingly overnight offering similar features.
Ehh if you are on a reputable tracker that has scene releases it’s generally downloading a torrent, copying a crack into the game directory or running some crack software, and play. It’s not in the least bit difficult.
Realistically most people don’t care about things like automatic updates enough to justify spending money on it.
I think it could be viable for a company to release a game with a “5 year FOSS promise” or something similar
Yes, that is one of the options I mention in the article. But there are games that are open source from day one, such as Mindustry, which have seen commercial success.
Half-Life Alyx still has some flickering light code from the original Quake. Couldn't find a good gif that would include Alyx, but here's a couple other games:
I’m not against it, but it’s not a silver bullet for game preservation. All game engines are unique. Some are heavily optimized for their target hardware. Just because you have access to original source code doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to be easy to preserve it for future hardware.
I mean, there are games that got terrible ports despite dedicated teams working on it full time with access to original source code. It won’t be much easier for the fans taking this on as a hobby project during their evenings.
Only the games with most dedicated fans will get preserved for future generations.
That’s true, but there are still many games using in-house game engines.
God of War, Spider-Man, Elden Ring, GTA, Tears of the Kingdom, Doom Eternal, Halo Infinite, Destiny, Call of Duty, Cyberpunk, The Last of Us, Diablo 4, etc.
These are popular games that game into my mind. I don’t think game preservation should be limited to Unreal games.
And also, modern gaming platforms are all very similar. Since last gen XBOX and PlayStation have very similar hardware to both each other and to normal PCs and the Switch is very similar to many Android devices. The wild times where console manufacturers designed crazy custom chips that were hard to port to and from are over and thus the engineers tend to also be more agreeable with different platforms.
Not so sure about that. When you consider time spans.
Currently we can emulate the majority of early games consoles. So theoretically with time and Moors law any hardware will be emulate able in a few decades. With enough information.
The advantage of open source software. Is it can be used with the original binaries to reverse engineer the instruction set even if the original manufacturer wishes to hide it. So with will and effort even the most complex hardware will be able to be emulated on future much faster hardware.
Moore’s law is not a given. It has been slowing down recently.
Current games are made for current day’s design of graphics cards. They are very dependent on pixel shaders for example.
Let’s be hypothetical. Imagine that future graphics cards go all in on ray tracing. Pixel shaders have become a thing of the past and no new hardware support it natively anymore.
Preservers have two options: either try their best to simulate pixel shaders effects through ray tracing, or emulate it through software.
Simulating through ray tracing won’t be accurate. Many pixel shader effects can’t be properly translated to ray tracing. Emulating through software can be hard. I don’t think many games even from 20 years ago can be fully run on modern CPUs.
The direct numerics of moors law may not be definite.
But the principal it defines is. In the future computers will have much more power then they do now.
The reason modern GPUs use things like shaders etc is to allow them to archive massive manipulation of data in more efficient ways specific for the task desired.
Honestly this is why I mention time scale as the main thing that will make this possible. How modern gpus or other specialised processers do the task is less important then what the game code is asking the gpu to achieve.
The idea that at a unknown future date. The CPU GPUs or what ever future tech we have. will never be able to run fast enough to read current cpu or gpu instruction sets. And generate the effect defined using future techniques is not viable as an argument. The only questions are how long and is anyone going to have the motivation to reverse engineer the large but finite instruction sets used by secretive hardware corps today.
Your nostalgia is a bad reason for starting anything really. Most hopefully you won't push your nostalgia on your children and force them to play outdated games.
It would be great if game developers would open source games when they sunset them, sure. But also this might make it impossible for them to make a remaster of the game and sell it.
You mention doom. But this is a 0.1% case. Thousands of games from that era vanished not because you cannot run them on modern hardware, but because they're utter garbage by modern standards.
dos.zone/ exists, and you can play a lot of iconic games in your browser. What's exactly the player count there? And those are the best games from that era.
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Your nostalgia is a bad reason for starting anything really. Most hopefully you won't push your nostalgia on your children and force them to play outdated games.
It's a dark path. Next you might start making them watch outdated films, maybe even reading outdated books. Before you know it you're teaching them pre WWII history and Newtonian mechanics.
History is important, although more recent history books have better evidence and data than old ones. Literature, generally, ages well, although it's mostly survival bias. A lot of it perishes without any loss to the society. Movies sorta age well. Again, only some. Games don't age well.
Why would we need open source instead of just removing drm?
Most people aren't going to compile old games for new hardware. That's not an easy task.
Abandonware is a thing, and there are some websites dedicated to it. GOG has done some great stuff releasing drm free games. So long as we have drm free, we can always build emulators to run what can't natively run on modern systems.
Are you kidding? Think about all the skilled contributors that currently work on emulators, do you not think that some of them would switch to working on re-compiling games? And I agree there are probably weird platforms that it wouldn't be easy for, but anything x86 is going to be much more trivial. I mean, someone was even reverse-engineering Super Mario 64, re-coding the entire game. The original source code and ability to use the code without getting sued would make things so much easier. Yeah, not every game would be done, but the big titles would be.
As far as emulating the rest, access to the source code would make it far, far simpler to figure out compatibility issues and make sure that every game is actually playable.
It’s an interesting article and I’m also starting to think more and more about game preservation.
I don’t understand why a company like Sony wouldn’t provide you a way to play ps1-3 games on your ps5. I would even be ready to pay for it.
There might be some technical problems I’m not seeing, but people can do it on older pc’s..
I guess the whole video game industry has to think about preserving its own history.
I don’t know if open sourcing games would help, but something needs to be done.
Even playing a game like Sim City 2000 on pc is proving challenging now on Windows. I would want to play it on Linux but I can’t imagine how difficult that would be as the game isn’t even listed in Proton DB. And the VM solution would probably not work as Steam wouldn’t support something like Windows XP…
RPCS3 is indeed excellent, but if you look at their compatibility list about a third of all games aren't in a playable state. The big exclusive titles people usually set up an emulator for will work for the most part, but outside of that it quickly becomes a lot sketchier.
SimCity 2000 isn't on ProtonDB because they only list Steam games. It's on Lutris though with multiple automatic install scripts for different versions, so it should be fairly easy to get running.
In general I've had way less trouble getting ancient Windows games to run on modern Linux than on modern Windows.
That's because these consoles and source code are not always compatible. To make them it would cost them time, money and the compromise to maintain them.
I would rather these companies to be forced to open source their older hardware and source code, so the community could do something with them and not have all the hardware laid to waste. Or at least support the development of emulators
I don’t understand why a company like Sony wouldn’t provide you a way to play ps1-3 games on your ps5. I would even be ready to pay for it.
They want you to buy new games. Not to play your old games.
PS5 doesn’t support CD, so popping in PS1 games (and a few early PS2 games) won’t work even if PS5 had a proper PS1 emulator. It’s only a matter of time until DVD support will be dropped for future consoles as well.
Re-releasing old games digitally is also difficult. More from a legal aspect. They need the permission of the holder of the IP. If they want to release Crash Bandicoot again, they need permission from Microsoft, who’s the current IP holder.
It’s also extra problematic if the game uses licensed music, which became common in the PS1 era. Then they need permission from all the involved artists. The Tony Hawk games are problematic in this regard for example.
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I don’t understand why a company like Sony wouldn’t provide you a way to play ps1-3 games on your ps5. I would even be ready to pay for it.
They want you to buy new games. Not to play your old games.
PS5 doesn’t support CD, so popping in PS1 games (and a few early PS2 games) won’t work even if PS5 had a proper PS1 emulator. It’s only a matter of time until DVD support will be dropped for future consoles as well.
Re-releasing old games digitally is also difficult. More from a legal aspect. They need the permission of the holder of the IP. If they want to release Crash Bandicoot again, they need permission from Microsoft, who’s the current IP holder.
It’s also extra problematic if the game uses licensed music, which became common in the PS1 era. Then they need permission from all the involved artists. The Tony Hawk games are problematic in this regard for example.
New releases of Sonic 3 doesn’t include some of the original tracks. Possibly due to the potential involvement of Michael Jackson.
Introduction Open source doesn’t just mean access to the source code. The distribution terms of open source software must comply with the following criteria: 1. Free Redistribution The licens…
Similar way is how I ended up finding out about Mindustry. Found it on F-Droid and liked it enough to buy it on Steam when I found out it's available there. Definitely a good idea if done right.
They could potentially release source only with no art assets. Then you wouldn’t be able to compile the game without either owning the game or pirating the assets elsewhere. But it would allow community members to update the game when it breaks or to add new features. Similar to the Mario 64 decompile.
While all this would be great for consumers it would probably take legislation to get publishers on board with something like this. Publishers have a financial incentive to let the games languish then force you to pay to get a “remastered” version.
I think it'd be good to release them under a timebomb license: closed source for 5 years, let the dev make money, after which they have to release their source under a permissive license.
For more FOSS games on steam, there's a decent list collected on this curator (also pointing which ones are only partially open): store.steampowered.com/curator…
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The games that are going to be the hardest to preserve may end up being many of the mobile games that are popular now.
These games are usually installed through an app store, so if the app store pulls it, that could be it for new installations of the game unless the game can be extracted off an existing device. And even if you manage to extract the game off of a device, in order to get it onto another mobile device will likely require some way to side load it.
Many of these games also depend on a server so once the server is turned off that's another way the game to die.
The mobile devices these games run on aren't built for the long term either. They are essentially disposable devices meant to last a few years and then be tossed. They aren't built to be serviced or repaired. Eventually the batteries will die, and while you can replace the battery, there's no standardization of battery packs and eventually replacement batteries won't be available either.
Even if you can get an old mobile device going, there's no guarantee that you'll actually be able to do
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The games that are going to be the hardest to preserve may end up being many of the mobile games that are popular now.
These games are usually installed through an app store, so if the app store pulls it, that could be it for new installations of the game unless the game can be extracted off an existing device. And even if you manage to extract the game off of a device, in order to get it onto another mobile device will likely require some way to side load it.
Many of these games also depend on a server so once the server is turned off that's another way the game to die.
The mobile devices these games run on aren't built for the long term either. They are essentially disposable devices meant to last a few years and then be tossed. They aren't built to be serviced or repaired. Eventually the batteries will die, and while you can replace the battery, there's no standardization of battery packs and eventually replacement batteries won't be available either.
Even if you can get an old mobile device going, there's no guarantee that you'll actually be able to do anything with it, because the device itself may depend on some remote server just to function that could someday be shut off. There's already old phones today that if you factory reset them, it effectively bricks them since they need to contact some activation server as part of the initial setup process and that server is long gone.
Of course, many people may ask - who cares? Perhaps so, but I'd bet a lot of people said the same thing about the old Atari and Nintendo and Sega and MS-DOS games that were popular years ago and are still popular today.
It's kind of interesting that pretty much all the games I played as a kid are still accessible to me today - in many cases the original game is still playable on the original, still functional, hardware. But a lot of kids today growing up today playing mobile games on a phone or a tablet, when they are my age, could very well have no way to ever experience those games again that they grew up with as kids.
I am old enough that already have lost some childhood (e.g. early iPod touch) games to time
Like all the donout games Or papi games Doodle jump ..
Some still exist, but got updates that they not at all behaving like remembered or having tons of ads making it impossible to game
As an example:
I am so happy that they released Hill Climb Racing again without ads, sadly it is on Apple Arcade, but luckily my parents have a Apple One subscription that I am allowed to use through family sharing (for the time being)
But if this subscription is ended, I have no way on playing Hill Climb Racing in a version without tons of micropayments and ads.
The good thing is, on Android you can get an APK without root or anything like that, same for installing it, and you can use an emulator (or something like waydroid) to run it on a computer. For cases where the game doesn't use any more specialized servers, and just uses the app store for authentication, DRM, etc. the situation is no different from PC games with DRM - it's bypassable, and if done right, will work for all games, not just one.
That said though, it's very true for multiplayer/always online games, and those are very common on mobile. While it's possible to reverse engineer and rewrite the servers, for most of them nobody is going to bother. And in the world of aggressively monetized games, developers have an incentive to keep it that way - they can't make money from players who are still enjoying a game they've already squeezed every penny out of.
Apps are challenging to preserve, but it's the MMORPGs and online games that are almost impossible since there is no game without active servers and people playing the game. Hardware can be emulated and code preserved, so the apps you're talking about could be preserved IF Apple, Google et al wanted to - which of course probably won't happen, but still.
Thanks to Waydroid, qwerty12356-wart and the open-source community in general, you can now play Blue Archive on Fedora Atomic. This guide will show you how to install Waydroid, install and patch libhoudini, and install Blue Archive.
Installing Waydroid
Install Waydroid
sudo rpm-ostree install waydroid
Reboot the system
systemctl reboot
Start Waydroid
sudo systemctl enable --now waydroid-container
Launch Waydroid via the application launcher, and then input the following values:
Thanks to Waydroid, qwerty12356-wart and the open-source community in general, you can now play Blue Archive on Fedora Atomic. This guide will show you how to install Waydroid, install and patch libhoudini, and install Blue Archive.
Installing Waydroid
Install Waydroid
sudo rpm-ostree install waydroid
Reboot the system
systemctl reboot
Start Waydroid
sudo systemctl enable --now waydroid-container
Launch Waydroid via the application launcher, and then input the following values:
ANDROID_RUNTIME_ROOT=/apex/com.android.runtime ANDROID_DATA=/data ANDROID_TZDATA_ROOT=/apex/com.android.tzdata ANDROID_I18N_ROOT=/apex/com.android.i18n sqlite3 /data/data/com.google.android.gsf/databases/gservices.db "select * from main where name = \"android_id\";"
Warning: Be cautious when downloading and executing scripts from the internet. Ensure you trust the source and understand the script's functionality to avoid security risks.
Give the script permission to execute
sudo chmod +x scripton.sh
Run the script as root
sudo ./scripton.sh
Warning: Running scripts with root privileges can be dangerous if the script's content is malicious or if it has not been thoroughly reviewed. Proceed with caution.
Installing Blue Archive
If you cannot install Blue Archive from the Google Play Store, you can download the APK from APKPure. Make sure to use the Browser application that comes with Waydroid to download the APK. Once the APK is downloaded, you can install it by clicking on the APK file in the Downloads folder.
Conclusion
You should now be able to launch and play Blue Archive on Fedora Atomic using Waydroid. If you encounter any issues, please let me know.
Big Vivaldi Mail update with prefetching, previews, and quick replies. Vivaldi 6.8 also includes real-time tab memory usage, improved address field, and more.
I personally don't have a use for a mail client so majority of this update is useless to me but there are few interesting features I may get used to especially on my laptop.
I couldn't care less about memory usage on my desktop with 64GB RAM but on my laptop that's a different story. The Break Mode sounds also stupid at first but I may actually have use for it, will try and see.
As far as I know Vivaldi is quite prepared to get things working as much as possible with Manifest V3 and putting a lot of work in their own adblocker as well because of it.
There is a version of UBlock Origin that works with V3 but it is limited compared to normal one, will see how it goes but for now I think they can delay with the V3 update for some time.
Vivaldi's theming feels... broken for me, so I can't really see myself switching to it. I should mention, however, that Vivaldi is my only real option if something happens to Floorp. What can I say, I like my workspaces on desktop, bottom tab bar on mobile, and good sync across devices.
Edit: Full list of reasons:
No way to have bookmarks only show on a new tab
Inconsistent tab bar view (super compact and good-looking when window is maximised, but has pointless, inconsistent and weird gaps across parts of the top and bottom of tab bar otherwise)
No way to completely disable panel and all its features
Optional: No way (that I could find) to disable/hide speed dial Fix: switch back to using Tabliss
No way (that I could find) to fully disable/remove the Vivaldi button
Vivaldi settings sync saves and syncs only so much, so things like custom keybinds within Vivaldi (like switching from Ctrl to Alt for the modifier for tab switching) won't be saved
If they go, I'm forking it and maintaining it myself (or finding extensions to replicate the workspaces behaviour). I can't see my desktop browsing experience without workspaces anymore.
Vivaldi's theming feels... broken for me, so I can't really see myself switching to it. I should mention, however, that Vivaldi is my only real option if something happens to Floorp. What can I say, I like my workspaces on desktop, bottom tab bar on mobile, and good sync across devices.
I used to love Vivaldi, but eventually it being a chromium browser forced me to switch back to Firefox and it's children. If they switched over to using Firefox as a base rather than chromium then I'd consider it.
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in reply to thayer • • •Porting old 32-bit Brother laser CUPS drivers to 64-bit Linux. – Übermotive
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in reply to thayer • • •Great writeup! I have a Brother laser printer, too, and it never occurred to me that I'd need to worry about compatibility when I fully migrate (and at least three immutable distros have been in my top five candidates).
Something else for me to keep in mind!
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Brother-HL-L2370DN-seriesprinters right now. At least after a quick search I've found a bug report about an infinite loop problem in certain circumstances and sadly with my HL-L2372DN I was unable to print at all (infinite loop with occasional! USB[0]: zero-size readerror; CUPS 2.4.10 and ipp-usb 0.9.27).For Brother HL-L2372DN it is possible to use Gutenprint with the supplied
Generic PCL 6 Printer wide marginprinter driver but two sided printing is quirky sometimes if you print odd number of pages.Anyway, thanks for your post!
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