from NPR National Public Radio [USA]January 28, 2026 2:44 AM ET By The Associated Press
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Tuesday her government has at least temporarily stopped oil shipments to Cuba, but struck an ambiguous tone, saying the pause was part of general fluctuations in oil supplies and that it was a "sovereign decision" not made under pressure from the United States.
Sheinbaum was responding to inquiries on whether the state oil company Pemex had cut off oil shipments to Cuba in the wake of mounting pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump that Mexico distance itself from the Cuban government, though U.S. officials have not publicly requested that Mexico stop the oil.
from NPR National Public Radio [USA] January 28, 2026 2:44 AM ET By The Associated Press
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Tuesday her government has at least temporarily stopped oil shipments to Cuba, but struck an ambiguous tone, saying the pause was part of general fluctuations in oil supplies and that it was a "sovereign decision" not made under pressure from the United States.
Sheinbaum was responding to inquiries on whether the state oil company Pemex had cut off oil shipments to Cuba in the wake of mounting pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump that Mexico distance itself from the Cuban government, though U.S. officials have not publicly requested that Mexico stop the oil.
from NPR National Public Radio [USA] January 28, 2026 2:44 AM ET By The Associated Press
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Tuesday her government has at least temporarily stopped oil shipments to Cuba, but struck an ambiguous tone, saying the pause was part of general fluctuations in oil supplies and that it was a "sovereign decision" not made under pressure from the United States.
Sheinbaum was responding to inquiries on whether the state oil company Pemex had cut off oil shipments to Cuba in the wake of mounting pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump that Mexico distance itself from the Cuban government, though U.S. officials have not publicly requested that Mexico stop the oil.
Mexican president says her country has paused oil shipments to Cuba
[very bad news]
from NPR National Public Radio [USA]January 28, 2026 2:44 AM ET By The Associated Press
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Tuesday her government has at least temporarily stopped oil shipments to Cuba, but struck an ambiguous tone, saying the pause was part of general fluctuations in oil supplies and that it was a "sovereign decision" not made under pressure from the United States.
Sheinbaum was responding to inquiries on whether the state oil company Pemex had cut off oil shipments to Cuba in the wake of mounting pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump that Mexico distance itself from the Cuban government, though U.S. officials have not publicly requested that Mexico stop the oil.
De flesta förvarar eller säkerhetskopierar säkerligen sina bilder på iCloud, Google Photos eller Microsoft Onedrive. En del kanske använder Flickr eller nån annan sajt. Samtliga de nämnda sajterna ägs av US-amerikanska företag och alla förutom Flickr ägs av ett av de 5 stora IT-företagen. blog.zaramis.se/2026/01/28/byt…
Just days after Oracle and a group of investors took over TikTok’s US operations, many users have announced they are switching to UpScrolled, an alternative social platform that promises not to shadowban or censor content.
Using single vim.pack.add() call to load all necessary plugins at once and later configure in a series of require() calls
How about not using require for configuration at all? Although I wouldn’t expect it from this particular author - he shoves require().setup even into plugins that literally have nothing to configure and should just work.
The whole thing is a remnant of an old misinformed plugin template repository made by someone with no knowledge of vim startup sequence.
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The government is aiming to crack down on illegal activities to reach its goal of increasing overseas sales of the Japanese content industry to ¥20 trillion by 2033.
It's the Metallica problem all over again. Piracy spread their content and made it popular; now they want to squeeze every last dollar out.
Most of the money 'lost' to piracy is money that never existed. With fragmented streaming services one picks what they are paying for and needs to find a way to watch the rest.
Most of the money 'lost' to piracy is money that never existed. With fragmented streaming services one picks what they are paying for and needs to find a way to watch the rest.
This was the very first thing that came to my mind. How much of this "lost" revenue from piracy is actually revenue they lost because the content isn't available legally where it is being consumed?
Yes, counterfeit goods. Because not only is it entirely plausible that the manufacturing and material cost a small leather bag approaches the sticker price (eg Louis Vuitton) but also, the person who paid $200 for the knockoff is confused and easily would have paid 10-20x more for the same item, made in the “right” factory.
It's not "damage" At best it's "potentially missed revenue"
But by calling it dammage, it sounds inherently like a crime that needs to be prevented. As if someone broke an accountants favorite pen or calculator. They'll have to spend additional money to replace the damaged item, actually costing them something. That helps them get law makers and enforcement on their side.
But potentially missed revenue sounds very different. That sounds like they have some marketing research to do, in trying to sell their product. Which is difficult to get sympathy for.
No wonder they chose the word "damage". And the news media goes with it, because they have a similar interest. Their also trying to make money selling raw intellectual property.
I’ve been working toward this for years, and it finally happened.
Canada now has a parliamentary petition to require secure coding in federal software. If you care about cybersecurity, public safety, and better government tech, please sign: 👉 twp.ai/4ivPjh 1/2
I generally want fewer contractors building government software, and more in house talent.
We definitely over pay on this.
100%. The incentives and interests of private firms and their employees are different than those of gov't agencies and their often unionized workforces.
I work as a contractor alongside regional gov contractors.
These people were outsourced with their jobs to an external company - think IBM - who maintains the unionized employees and does the circus around TPS reports and timesheets. They either went with their jobs or they were laid-off, and the gov got to move some numbers over to OpEx from Payroll. Woooo for the optics win?
Fast forward. Now 18 years later, same staff except for retirement and a mild exodus after some toxic micromanager explored the Dead Sea Effect (who left when his policies were frustratingly over-ridden by the CoVid WFH change). The employer who outsourced them pays 5% less, has a worse contract for after-hours and workload, and is actively looking to downsize for the same optics again (our pro-people government is cosplaying fuckwit conservatives here) with more work given to the leftovers.
Yes, the original employer does pay a premium on top of the wage for the contract staff, but that's lost to the management and especially redundancies with the segregation. Staff gets that nickel more,
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I work as a contractor alongside regional gov contractors.
These people were outsourced with their jobs to an external company - think IBM - who maintains the unionized employees and does the circus around TPS reports and timesheets. They either went with their jobs or they were laid-off, and the gov got to move some numbers over to OpEx from Payroll. Woooo for the optics win?
Fast forward. Now 18 years later, same staff except for retirement and a mild exodus after some toxic micromanager explored the Dead Sea Effect (who left when his policies were frustratingly over-ridden by the CoVid WFH change). The employer who outsourced them pays 5% less, has a worse contract for after-hours and workload, and is actively looking to downsize for the same optics again (our pro-people government is cosplaying fuckwit conservatives here) with more work given to the leftovers.
Yes, the original employer does pay a premium on top of the wage for the contract staff, but that's lost to the management and especially redundancies with the segregation. Staff gets that nickel more, due to the worse contract the I sourced got. But, like the CBC, staffing and knowledge isn't lost when the regime changes.
That's my point. Yes, there's a lot of pork lost in the gov<->corp interface because corps are shit. But it's not all cut-and-dried, since in this case the corp (changed hands 3 times, same staff. Same middle-mgmt as outsourced with them) provides more stability than the unionized original employer, and a contract with better work-life balance and WFH.
Don't kill them all. This one wins on cost-benefit, IMHO.
The other petition i would gladly sign is to stop using MS Azure cloud for all of Canada’s confidential / protected information. Microsoft has already admitted to the EU that they would hand over any country’s data if ordered to do so by the USA - even when that data is stored outside if the US. Microsoft is not that different from Huawei, it turns out
This petition should absolutely already cover non-sovereign clowd corps and their claims of sovereignty while still being absolutely vulnerable to secret CLOUD ACT challenges from American agencies who these days look really unethical.
This petition definitely should be leveraged to get us off these shysters and their surveillance of our private data and comms.
"Secure coding." I worry this is just a case of someone pushing for Rust or Rust-equivalents. Which is, like, good in spirit, but really misrepresents the investments it takes to actually achieve "security."
More efficient if the file is less popular or super niche with few seeders with tiny upload speeds or no seeds (due to age of the torrent or the before mentioned). Torrents for sure are more resilient as far as being harder to just shutdown a site. It is still nice to constantly have all options possible to make getting files easy. Though I will say that torrents are more efficient the larger the file. 4k media being a very good example.
I think it's in part because of NAT. Less and less people have a real IP address, so they can't share the torrents to others, and most VPNs don't provide an upload port either.
The tracker websites are also increasingly hostile with malicious ads, so those with ineffective ad blockers can't use them.
Torrent clients can cope behind NAT but can only upload/download from other peers that have a port open so they are more limited in the pool of peers they can make use of.
Good public trackers were shut down. Getting into decent private ones is a huge pain, if you even manage to get an invitation/interview. Some trackers aren't compatible with *Arrs (due to Cloudflare). Seeders and speeds can be awful, and keeping a healthy ration isn't easy for some. If one is willing to pay, Usenet is a great alternative. I run both to cover most ground, but mostly rely on the latter now.
They are much much more likely to use phones/tablets/maybe even Chromebooks. Torrenting is much easier with a PC. Torrent apps for the others do exist, but do require understanding how to use them (and not use them if on cell data without actual unlimited plans). They are used to just streaming things and not really care about keeping the actual files. So even being patient enough to wait for a file to download is at least a good thing I guess.
If you live in a country that makes telecoms monitor traffic then those have a benefit of not requiring a VPN (because you’re not uploading anything and they usually go for those seeding).
I feel like a torrent is safer because uploading a file to a cloud storage can be done by anyone, meanwhile creating a torrent and a botnet to simulate an active torrent takes much more time and effort
People have been sharing things in storage drives for decades. Fmhy has a list of some big ones, usually for books.
Traditionally i believe these were not advertised and more underground, a way to easily share with friends.
You didn’t really want them easily found and traceable to you though but that is what changed.
Piracy has become so normalised that people take it for granted that there are no legal risks involved. Normalising piracy is the first step for the ideals of software freedom to flourish.
After all what is a digital file if not a bunch of writing that instructs the computer to draw pixels on your screen. You wouldn’t copyright the words to ask a human to make a drawing about a copyrighted something, so why do it for a computer?
It depends on your local laws I think. I'm pretty sure downloading free copyrighted product from an unauthorized source is still illegal in France for exemple.
How would I know, if I am looking for the Pirates of the Carribean franchise, or Peter Pan? There are pirates in those movies, I thought The Pirate Bay to be a Disney marketing stunt 😂
Reminds me of the undergrad experience of someone who is not me, lol. They had "the dropbox", spoken about only in hushed tones and never openly acknowledged, which may have contained a pdf copy of every single text required by the curriculum of that person's major.
This has been a thing for years although it used to be sketchy blogs (and probably still is tbf in addition to this). Back in the days of rapid share, mega before Kim dotcom got busted, etc. some people just can’t figure out torrents or they live in a situation where torrents can’t be used (isp shaping, internet controlled by a 3rd party that blocks torrenting, etc) and usually http downloads are fine in those situations.
If you ever have to rely on this get jdownloader at least
Mega used to be called MegaUpload and it was just plain ol’ cloud storage. US media companies coordinated with the NZ government and apprehended Kim Dotcom in NZ and shut down MegaUpload. Dotcom had money and lots of lawyers, so he’s staved off being entirely destroyed and formed Mega, which is E2EE and so he cannot accept any liability because they cannot know what is being stored.
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Some things I've tried getting before (typically 2160p television episodes) were only readily available as DDL files (missing from easily accessible private trackers like TorrentLeech), for which Real-Debrid is useful.
All you all know there are entire sites dedicated to cloud storage sharing right? We also have OD's and OGD's. Link shared GD's. None of this is new, it's been this way since you could drag anything down off a BBS or mainframe. We have been sharing in every manner you can think of since it's been possible, digital just made it dummy easy.
What, you’ve never downloaded a game divided into 5 1.2MB chunks via a 1200 baud dialup modem using XModem on a WWIV BBS and had your mom pickup the phone on the last file?
Since xitter is only for whiny right wing little bitches and moderation is mostly gone and only applies to political content ego-baby doesn't like, so I guess this flies under the radar, maybe?
Private trackers are much better. I appreciate p2p as every user helps strengthen the tracker. And usually you pay with that support instead of with money.
Sardiner kan vara sill, skarpsill, ansjovis, sardineller och ytterligare en mängd fiskarter. Hela 22 olika fiskarter får säljas som sardiner så länge som det latinska namnet också anges tydligt på förpackningen. Det finns dessutom flera fiskarter som kallas sardin. Fiskarterna som kallas sardin är inte dessutom inte lika med livsmedelsprodukten sardin. fiske.zaramis.se/2026/01/28/sa…
Perhaps it’s good guy Sony trying to pull players in the right direction with their gaming hardware,
Funny.
or maybe it’s a method designed to coax players away from a withdrawing platform that they’ve started sunsetting.
'The PS5 sales have not met our expectations.'
But yeah, one can feel the limitations of the PS4. Whoever wants to buy a PS5 will have bought one by now, more so considering it's really not an affordable buy in any way. At this time, it might be the fomo addiction which would push someone into buying a new console that pretty much tethers you to its subscription models.
They should be offering an upgrade deal, especially as everyone's raised prices on consoles lately.
I always wanted a PS4. Never got one. I think the PS3 is better than the Xbox One. Yes, I'm aware the PS3 was the rival of the Xbox 360, and the PS4 was the rival of the Xbox One. I said what I said. I had the PS1, PS2, and PS3, and the Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X. The Series X is a fine machine, but it's what the Xbox One should have been. I felt that both XB1 and PS4 were nerfed by a bottleneck in the drive, but the PS4 made it easier to swap out for a SATA SSD, mitigating that factor — or so I'm told. The Xbox One had a rough start (requiring the Kinect sensor most people didn't want) and it didn't get much better. Still, it was not a bad game system, it just needed an SSD, a problem the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S directly addressed.
Actually swapping out the HDD for an SSD on the PS4 will do next to nothing performance wise, because in Sony's "infinite wisdom", the drive is connected using an internal SATA to USB 2 adapter. The only benefit you'll get is instant seek times, but not better data transfer speeds.
Yeah, it cropped up after people managed to install Linux distros on the hardware, but essentially there's not much reason to so so if you plan on playing games and software that were designed for the base OS (Orbus) unless for noise or seek time latency (super niche).
Honestly unless the PS4 is in a "pirate everything and throw it under the TV as an entertainment center" situation, you have much better options for budget gaming.
Do you have a source for that? The only info I can find is an article here pcper.com/2017/05/ps4-pro-ssd-… which says that the original PS4 uses SATA II and the PS4 Pro uses SATA IIi.
PS4 Pro SSD Upgrade: Does SATA III Make a Difference? When Sony launched the PS4 Pro late last year, it introduced an unusual mid-cycle performance update to
Look, I don't make the rules, I just follow them. This rule has been around for a decade. News articles which put "quietly" in the headline don't get clicked, get downvoted, and get hidden from my feed.
I don't think it's especially egregious for a company to advertise it's new hardware on it's platform. I do think that the form of system messages is unfortunate though.
I had a period of unemployment last year during which I had to sell my PS5 to pay my power bill. I'm working again, but it'll be years before I can afford another video game console. I hope my launch-era PS4 keeps hanging in there, I'm worried for its hard drive.
Hard drive in PS4 is user-replaceable so at least there’s that. Putting even the cheapest SATA SSD decreases load times considerably too which should help in stretching its lifespan a bit.
Ännu en gång visar LO:s årliga rapport Makteliten att direktörernas löner fortsätter att dra ifrån alla andra. Och ännu en gång spelar de fackliga ledningarna lika förvånade som vanligt. blog.zaramis.se/2026/01/28/kly…
Over the past few months, the Bing search engine has completely blocked the domain neocities.org, including the front site and all user subdomains (example.n...
The US has the highest prison population in the world, both per capita and by total numbers, along with a draconian legal system that locks people up for decades for minor crimes. They also literally do have immigrant prison camps currently holding ~30k people, many of whom have committed no crimes except for "not having papers".
The Ministry of State Security. They regularly go after dissidents, journalists and minorities, including dissidents abroad and ethnic minorities seen as a threat.
Just because one has high speed rail and healthcare doesn't mean it's not an authoritarian state.
Having an internal security agency isn't the same as a "gestapo." The PRC isn't killing its civilians en masse like the US Empire does. The PRC does go after dissidents, but it's important to recognize that a dissident against the US is fighting against capitalism and imperialism, while dissidents in China are fighting against socialism. Ignoring the class character of the two countries and equating them based on form, rather than essence, is a critical error. And no, ethnic minorities are not seen as a threat in China.
Both the PRC and the US Empire are "authoritarian," as all states are. States are formalized authority wielded by a given ruling class, after all. The form is therefore similar, but the essence is qualitatively different, for in the US Empire the imperialist capitalists control the state and private ownership is principle, while in the PRC the working classes control the state and public ownership is principle.
By principle, I mean governing the large firms and key industries, not whichever is larger by GDP or employm
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Having an internal security agency isn't the same as a "gestapo." The PRC isn't killing its civilians en masse like the US Empire does. The PRC does go after dissidents, but it's important to recognize that a dissident against the US is fighting against capitalism and imperialism, while dissidents in China are fighting against socialism. Ignoring the class character of the two countries and equating them based on form, rather than essence, is a critical error. And no, ethnic minorities are not seen as a threat in China.
Both the PRC and the US Empire are "authoritarian," as all states are. States are formalized authority wielded by a given ruling class, after all. The form is therefore similar, but the essence is qualitatively different, for in the US Empire the imperialist capitalists control the state and private ownership is principle, while in the PRC the working classes control the state and public ownership is principle.
By principle, I mean governing the large firms and key industries, not whichever is larger by GDP or employment, as whoever controls the large firms and key industries, finance sector, etc. controls the entire economy, as the rest relies on it.
We can see a dramatic difference in how people view democracy in the US Empire, compared to the PRC, due to this:
This is why we must not merely analyze form, but essence. Otherwise we miss the essential differences driving dramatically different results. We must not see merely what is similar, but what is different, and why.
I do think "smooth-brained" is a bit ableist. Westerners believe bourgeois narratives due to complicity, rationally, not out of lacking mental faculties. Masses, Elites, and Rebels: The Theory of "Brainwashing" is a good article explaining that process. The masses aren't stupid, gullible, intelligent, or righteous, but rational, including acting in what they percieve to be their self-interest.
I'm loath to admit it, but I do think that if we don't hold ourselves to extremely high standards, reactionaries will exploit any crack in rhetoric to obfuscate the logic of our beliefs and arguments. We should take no easy victories.
I’ve become very skeptical of the concept of “brainwashing.” Over the past few months this skepticism has boiled over into open and explicit disagreement with even well-meaning pushers within the Marxist-Leninist corner.
Let's go with credulous then. I agree that ultimately it comes down to these narratives working because it's what these people want to believe already. It's just confirmation bias. All that said, I do think ridicule has a place as well. Engaging with obvious trolling ends up validating them, as if the point they're making has enough merit to be engaged with.
That works much better, I agree. I'm not in favor of tone-policing, just reigning in what can be ableist and making sure we don't leave narratives logically uncontested. Ridicule has its place, ableism does not, and I think credulous is a much more useful term rhetorically as it doesn't repeat Yogopnik's recent critical error.
If we leave weak arguments uncontested, then we lose out on a learning opportunity for onlookers, even if the one raising the argument has no intention of changing their mind.
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That works much better, I agree. I'm not in favor of tone-policing, just reigning in what can be ableist and making sure we don't leave narratives logically uncontested. Ridicule has its place, ableism does not, and I think credulous is a much more useful term rhetorically as it doesn't repeat Yogopnik's recent critical error.
If we leave weak arguments uncontested, then we lose out on a learning opportunity for onlookers, even if the one raising the argument has no intention of changing their mind.
Some people don't believe me when I try to warn them about the content creator grift. I don't care, I'm coming for all of them if they start spouting shit like this to their audience. They have a responsibility towards their viewers.
Second time I see him tweet shit like this.
At this point he should just stop pretending he's any sort of leftist. His mental health will thank him.
archive link so he can't scrub it off the internet: archive.ph/XWZD6 (still loading as of posting but should be ready eventually)
As long as China remains the evil boogieman, the Western ruling class will NEVER be threatened by the people they rule. The West does anything? China is worse so you can't complain. People will be walked into volcanos chanting "at least it's not China!"
I think i understand adding a link to /etc/apt/sources.list so apt knows to check there for packages. What i don't understand is how to find those links.
For example: i know i want xed, a plain text editor. Wikipedia tells me that's maintained by Linux Mint, but the Mint website doesn't, as far as i can tell, have a link to a repository for installing Mint-specific packages in another distro (assuming that's possible). It doesn't mention what i might want to put in sources.list.
The same is true of Cinnamon, Mate, Xfce, KDE, and Gnome. If i install Debian and it doesn't come with one of these listed in the aforementioned file (and it doesn't), i have no idea how to get packages from that repository unless i can also find a downloadable .deb file and it has no dependencies from unknown repositories, or i download the entire desktop environment i want just a few packages from.
I think i understand adding a link to /etc/apt/sources.list so apt knows to check there for packages. What i don't understand is how to find those links.
For example: i know i want xed, a plain text editor. Wikipedia tells me that's maintained by Linux Mint, but the Mint website doesn't, as far as i can tell, have a link to a repository for installing Mint-specific packages in another distro (assuming that's possible). It doesn't mention what i might want to put in sources.list.
The same is true of Cinnamon, Mate, Xfce, KDE, and Gnome. If i install Debian and it doesn't come with one of these listed in the aforementioned file (and it doesn't), i have no idea how to get packages from that repository unless i can also find a downloadable .deb file and it has no dependencies from unknown repositories, or i download the entire desktop environment i want just a few packages from.
For context: i plan to install Debian without a DE and just get what packages i want from across several DEs. This will be hard to do if there are no software sources for apt.
Is this hard to find because it's something that people who don't know what they're doing shouldn't mess with? Am i just looking in the wrong places, or for the wrong thing?
One thing i've successfully installed with apt (as opposed to a .deb package) is LibreWolf, which i used extrepo for in accordance with the instructions on their website. Should i be using that instead for packages meant for specific desktop environments?
I'm on mint, these are my package mirrors (based in the Netherlands):
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
deb https://mirrors.evoluso.com/linuxmint-packages/linuxmint-packages zara main upstream import backport
deb http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/ubuntu noble main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/ubuntu noble-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/ubuntu noble-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ noble-security main restricted universe multiverse
Typically the project will offer its own deb repos and packages along with setup instructions such as steam or docker
In theory you can add LMDE or other debian based distros repos to your sources but it will most likely lead to things breaking. If you cant find instructions specific to debian then you are better off either compiling from source or using snap, appimage or whatever pre-compiled option is offered officially.
Is this hard to find because it’s something that people who don’t know what they’re doing shouldn’t mess with? Am i just looking in the wrong places, or for the wrong thing?
Yes! Third party repositories are a good choice when they add specific software not present in the distros repo like mullvad, icewolf or (and this is approaching an edge case but I’m a big fan of it at the moment) nvidia.
Third party repositories are a really bad choice when they cause conflicts with the distros repositories like adding Ubuntu’s main branch to any Debian in order to get a specific package.
For xed, the editor you’re asking about, the git page describes Debian appropriate build instructions.
You could always just use pluma, the editor xed forked from, which is in the Debian repositories.
E: also stop planning and jump in. You’re not gonna figure anything out from analyzing and planning, just try what you want and solve the problems you come across.
Things were mostly broken (i couldn't get fluxbox to start) until i used tasksel to install Cinnamon so i could use a browser to look some stuff up (i only have one computer). I removed Cinnamon but whatever it left behind fixed my system enough that i'm now typing this in LibreWolf with not too many weird graphical issues. Some stuff doesn't work at all yet, like my laptop's function keys for things like brightness and volume.
So all in all, better than i thought this might go.
Debian strongly recommends against adding repos from other distributions or other versions of Debian: wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebia… Doing that can easily break your system. They also recommend against adding repos for specific software packages (e.g. for LibreWolf), but this is generally less problematic.
Personally, on Debian, I try to get packages in this order: 1. From the official Debian packages 2. From Flatpak 3. Pre-built binaries (I put them in my home, not in /usr/bin) 4. Build from source (I also put those in my home)
Since you're installing Debian, presumably you've done the required reading according to their wiki, and seen the DontBreakDebian page.
If not, here's the portion I'm thinking of (emphasis mine)
Don't make a FrankenDebian
Debian Stable should not be combined with other releases carelessly. If you're trying to install software that isn't available in the current Debian Stable release, it's not a good idea to add repositories for other Debian releases.
First of all, apt-get upgrade default behavior is to upgrade any installed package to the highest available version. If, for example, you configure the forky archive on a trixie system, APT will try to upgrade almost all packages to forky.
This can be mitigated by configuring apt pinning to give priority to packages from trixie.
However, even installing few packages from a "future" release can be risky. The problems might not happen right away, but the next time you install updates.
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Since you're installing Debian, presumably you've done the required reading according to their wiki, and seen the DontBreakDebian page.
If not, here's the portion I'm thinking of (emphasis mine)
Don't make a FrankenDebian
Debian Stable should not be combined with other releases carelessly. If you're trying to install software that isn't available in the current Debian Stable release, it's not a good idea to add repositories for other Debian releases.
First of all, apt-get upgrade default behavior is to upgrade any installed package to the highest available version. If, for example, you configure the forky archive on a trixie system, APT will try to upgrade almost all packages to forky.
This can be mitigated by configuring apt pinning to give priority to packages from trixie.
However, even installing few packages from a "future" release can be risky. The problems might not happen right away, but the next time you install updates.
The reason things can break is because the software packaged for one Debian release is built to be compatible with the rest of the software for that release. For example, installing packages from forky on a trixie system could also install newer versions of core libraries including libc6. This results in a system that is not testing or stable but a broken mix of the two.
Repositories that can create a FrankenDebian if used with Debian Stable:
Debian testing release (currently forky)
Debian unstable release (also known as sid)
Ubuntu, Mint or other derivative repositories are not compatible with Debian!
**Ubuntu PPAs and other repositories created to distribute single applications **
Some third-party repositories might appear safe to use as they contain only packages that have no equivalent in Debian. However, there are no guarantees that any repository will not add more packages in future, leading to breakage.
Finally, packages in official Debian releases have gone through extensive testing, often for months, and only fit packages are allowed in a release. On the other hand, packages from external sources might alter files belonging to other packages, configure the system in unexpected ways, introduce vulnerabilities, cause licensing issues.
Once packages from unofficial sources are introduced in a system it can become difficult to pinpoint the cause of breakage especially if it happens after months.
I would personally add that this isn't a case of "if", but rather "when". Even if it works at the beginning, all it takes is Mint deciding they want to use a newer library when they update the package you're using, and suddenly your system won't boot and there's no clear, easy solution other than "restore from backup."
Even if you know what you're doing, I would limit tinkering to binaries managed in the $HOME/.local/bin (and any applications that work as package management for that, like cargo, pip or homebrew) or packages that you completely control yourself (such as through git pulls and compiling yourself).
"Stick to the official repo" is generally the advice I would give for any distro, with the exception of DIY OSes that are intended to be patchwork, like gentoo or Arch.
THAT BEING SAID: I'm not saying "don't install without a DE and piece your desired DE together from their parts." Debian has a lot of DEs, window managers, and their individual parts all in the official repos; a lot of the difference you see between the versions Debian offers and the versions Mint or Ubuntu offer are basically just theming that you can do yourself without altering the system packages.
If you absolutely must install a 3rd party repo, just understand you are sacrificing Debian's selling point of stability, and waiving your rights to hold the Debian Maintainers responsible; and when your system breaks (which might not be for many years), it will be entirely your own fault.
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