Why openSUSE is the perfect OS for handhelds
The Steam Deck has revolutionized the gaming handheld market. With the Linux-based immutable SteamOS, Valve has fostered an active community developing mods and alternative systems for this platform. Other manufacturers distribute Windows-based mobile consoles. However, time and time again it has been shown that they lag behind Linux in terms of software support.
But how easy is it to bring a Linux distribution, say openSUSE, to the Steam Deck?
In this talk, a prototype based on openSUSE's open technologies and infrastructure will be presented, which is already (almost) fully functional on the Steam Deck and many other devices.
Why openSUSE is the perfect OS for handhelds
The **Steam Deck** has revolutionized the gaming handheld market. With the Linux-based immutable **SteamOS**, **Valve** has fostered an *...media.ccc.de
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Xi Jinping makes economic-centric instructions to spur China’s growth
Xi Jinping makes economic-centric instructions to spur China’s growth
President Xi Jinping has issued a slew of economic-centric instructions in the past week, at a time all eyes are watching Beijing’s stimulus package aimed at shoring up China’s economy.Luna Sun (South China Morning Post)
The U.S. Navy is Firing Missiles in the Middle East Faster Than They Can be Replaced
The U.S. Navy is Firing Missiles in the Middle East Faster Than They Can be Replaced
The concern is the rate at which SM-3 missiles and other ordnances, including the SM-2 and SM-6, are now being fired. The U.S. is now depleting its stockpiles faster than the missiles can be replaced, and that has raised alarms.Peter Suciu (The National Interest)
The U.S. Navy is Firing Missiles in the Middle East Faster Than They Can be Replaced
The U.S. Navy is Firing Missiles in the Middle East Faster Than They Can be Replaced
The concern is the rate at which SM-3 missiles and other ordnances, including the SM-2 and SM-6, are now being fired. The U.S. is now depleting its stockpiles faster than the missiles can be replaced, and that has raised alarms.Peter Suciu (The National Interest)
The last leg of my "finding a provider" journey... for now
I was kicked off Medicaid at the start of this year and subsequently lost access to my ADHD and depression medication. In February, I moved to a new area and got a new job, but had to wait several months until I qualified for health insurance through it.
After that point, I had to wait for a weekday when I wasn't working and when I had the mental capacity to tolerate back-to-back disappointing phone calls... all without medication that would make the process significantly easier to tolerate. These are only the calls I've made today.
Finally, FINALLY, I have an intake appointment scheduled.
It's absolutely shameful how much a struggling person is expected to do in order to access basic mental health care.
New Mpox Variant has just been Detected in Germany for the First Time
Mpox variant now detected in Germany for the first time
An infection with the new Mpox variant clade 1b has been detected in Germany for the first time - causing major concern across EuropeSteve Topple (The Canary)
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🚨🚨🚨DEFINITELY DO NOT DO THIS HIGHLY ILLEGAL🚨🚨🚨
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Yup. They went full OG AdBlock and got WaPo and other major publications to prevent them from working.
You can mimic what they did by adding the Google Crawler user agent to your browser but I just use archive.is
Yeah, unfortunately 12ft.io didn't keep up with the paywall arms race. It's too bad because it was one of those things that a lot of people knew about, many of whom may now just give up when it doesn't work even though there are other options out there.
As one example, there's now also the 13ft ladder: github.com/wasi-master/13ft It's like 12ft but self hosted. Sounds really good but I can't vouch for it yet.
I mostly would just archive a paywallrd page with archive.is (aka archive.today, archive.ph, etc.) and that worked great and also helped take traffic away from asshole sites that paywall content. Unfortunately, archive started requiring a cloud flare captcha when archiving a page. This is a deal breaker for me since captcha totally deanonymizes you and is used for tracking purposes and even to train AI. So it defeats a good chunk of the purpose of using an archive site.
Still, there's a good chance that someone else already archived the page you want to see, so putting the url in archive.is search can be enough to bypass the paywall.
I have been using inspect element to manually remove ads and other annoying things
Thanks for reminding me that i can just use useblock origin!
Yeah the article stub doesn't link to the article. It links to a login flow with the article id. If you go directly to the article you get redirected if you don't have a session.
It's incredibly easy to make an impossible to get around paywall. Porn has done it since the Internet existed.
In this very particular situation I'm glad most companies are lazy and stupid.
I don't particularly care if a company does pay only content. I think its legitimately ok. I hate companies that don't make you pay enough for the service to cover their costs thus leading to complete enshitifaction.
It's incredibly easy to make an impossible to get around paywall.
Sure, but the easily-bypassed js method makes sure it’s still crawlable by search engines, which is a trade well worth making where I work. Doesn’t matter as much for porn sites since the title and description aren’t the content most people are there for, so you can expose them on the paywall page.
Very true. I don't disagree at all. I think once google finally becomes totally useless. It won't matter.
I mean Google is already just Yellow Pages AdWords edition with AI content
If you insert yourself as a side of a war and also imply that people doing this should be on the front lines, then apparently you are?
And I don't.
Brave browser has a filter to bypass paywalls. Works on desktop and mobile versions. Definitely works on NYT as I just read something there today. And of course has built in adblock. You can also add additional filters and adblock lists.
Bonus: print to PDF in Brave to share an article with someone else. It retains all the graphics relevant to the article and cuts all the junk and ads out too.
If you just want to be aware, you could often read the headlines for free or follow news sites like Reuters, AFP, or AP.
They are primarily wire news companies and are a great way to get reliable, truthful and often free news.
If you want to read longer articles, you should pay if you want to have articles to read in the future.
Brave browser has a filter to bypass paywalls. Works on desktop and mobile versions. Definitely works on NYT as I just read something there today. And of course has built in adblock. You can also add additional filters and adblock lists.
Bonus: print to PDF in Brave to share an article with someone else. It retains all the graphics relevant to the article and cuts all the junk and ads out too.
Many sites don't work like that and don't even load the content from the server before the paywall check.
But I have a trick that work 100% of the time. Just don't read those sites.
I get that journalism and entertainment magazines have workers and need to be paid BUT:
They were getting paid when I could pay a cheap physical newspaper if I want to read it and usually had those for free anyway. As you'll get newspapers on most public places and one single newspaper would serve a whole family. In my house we didn't really paid more than 4€ a month and got physical things that you could just keep. Now with digital distribution you own nothing and it is far more expensive. So... No. Also they get a ton of public money through institutional advertisement, so I'm already basically paying for them without getting access to their content.
So unless they are willing to change their model I'll just refuse to read them. I'm happier without their clickbaits anyway.
So unless they are willing to change their model I’ll just refuse to live.
Wait what
Saddest typo ever.
I just won't tell this to my psychologist, just in case.
Are you also aware how few have a newspaper subscription or buy them at a stand?
Yeah, sure, keep reading your "free" news. Just remember to ask yourself who do you think is paying for it and why.
Ad companies with biases and normies/boomers who pay for it without any second guess.
In case anyone wanted to know.
do not right click inspect element on the paywall window and then delete the code & re-enable scrolling (i always forget how to, but don't google it)
the downside is that sometimes half the article is neutered anyway
Wow, I feel like the most upvoted solutions here don't work, and meanwhile some obvious and widely known alternatives are being completely overlooked.
❌ Inspect Element - many modern sites don't even include the full article in the paywalled html, so this wouldn't work. Also sitting there and mousing over elements and deleting them one by one, is tedious, it's easy to accidentally delete an element that encloses the content you intended to keep, or to drive yourself crazy trying to figure out how elements are nested.
❌ Ublock Zapper - a similar to the above, won't work on stub articles, and just janky because you're manually zapping things
❌ Disabled JavaScript - Similar to the above, same problem because many articles are stubs anyway. And the HTML layers that block your view don't have to be done with JavaScript.
❌ Rapid copy and paste of the article to notepad or rapidly printing the screen - similar problem to the above, lots of places just post the stub of an article, and besides nobody should live their life this way rapidly trying to print screen or copy everything. If you're trying to do a quick copy you're going to grab all kinds of gobbledygunk from the page and probably have to manually filter it out.
❌ Reader Mode - Your browsers reader mode will be hit and miss because, again, many sites post stub articles, and it's possible the pay wall stuff will just get formatted into the reader mode along with an incomplete article.
✅ Archive.is - works!
✅ Pocket and Instapaper - amazingly, nobody has mentioned these even though they're probably the longest running (dating back to 2007-2008), possibly most widely known, and most consistent solutions that still work to this day. They keep their own local caches of articles, so it's not depending on the full content being visible on the page.
✅ Other dedicated extensions - Dedicated browser extensions seem to work, but be careful what you're signing yourself up for.
🤷♀️ Brave - It works, but, it's a Chromium supported browser, so ultimately Google controls the destiny and can drive Chromium to incorporate fundamental frameworks supporting DRM and pushing their preferred web standards.
AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 released
Introducing AlmaLinux OS Kitten
Since the beginning of the AlmaLinux project, we have constantly been thinking about what comes next. Preparation has always been a cornerstone of AlmaLinux’s release agility and speed has been our hallmark.AlmaLinux OS
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Idk if y'all knew this
I know staying up past bedtime is illegal but I did it once to check and fortnite was in fact off 😔
Truly terrible news
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hence origin of time cube you can't deny the logic.
It's not like the US manufacturers anything anymore, and Hollywood has forgotten how to make movies
It's like you don't even try to export your culture anymore, when I was a kid everyone watched Sesame Street, now all the kids in all the English speaking world are watching Bluey
I love that part of the internet.
Kinda like "guy code"
"Was said he was with you last night"
"Yep, all night. Cleaned the spark plugs in my car and drained the blinker fluid. Couldn't have done it without him "
But instead it's "parent code"
"Yeah fortnight is closed. They close it so everyone can get a good night's sleep and be ready for the morning!"
I was going to tell a personal story about telling my son McDonald's was closed when I was broke or in a hurry but it reminded me of another cute store.
My son broke his arm in a McDonald's once. Hyper extended his elbow. Got a couple pins.
Anyway a year or so later they completely remodeled that McDonald's.
We drove by the demolished building during the remodel and my son shouted "that's what you get for breaking my arm! Who's broken now!"
Adorable vengeance served adorably cold.
Sure wink and oddly enough spark plug cleaner smells a lot like perfume wink
I got you bro.
This reminds me when my mom told my dad Netflix didn't serve their area because she didn't want another bill.
He told me that and I was like "Well..." and my mom just yelled from the other room "I JUST CALLED THEY'RE TRYING FOR NEXT YEAR." so I shut up.
This is why we trust but verify. Thanks mom for teaching me that cruel lesson of unplugging the phone cord to get me to bed (dial up days). It lasted about a week before I caught on you always came up from the basement before bed.
I'm so glad you never noticed I swapped my line with the guest bedroom. Also glad that ancient block in the basement could be hand wired.
That's "parent" not "adult"
I with no kids at home have excellent sleep
Teens are the ones (after new mothers) who suffer the most, with natural sleep cycles starting around midnight or in the early morning and wake times in the late morning or early afternoon, but school schedules that force them to be active at school from 9am
My sister got told off regularly for reading after lights out
As adults my mother told me that after they found books for me I liked they pretended to never notice the light leaking through my doona, they were just happy to see I was reading
Easiest way to do this: Turn the modem off after bed time (you will also lose internet)
Most expensive but still easy way to do this: Buy a "smart router" with time-based parental controls (lets you use the internet at night).
Nerd way to do this: Pihole with a script that enables and disables certain blocklists at certain times (free and open source, because fuck "smart" products)
Yeah, but as a true nerd i wont be using my old pi 3 to do that.
The poor bastard is strugling to keep home assintant alive. Better buy a new router WRT compatible.
🪱🪱🪱worm regards🪱🪱🪱
How do y'all feel about earthworms.
I think they are silly
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The worm loves you, it always will love you, and thus it always has.
What was will be. What will be was.
The most important event you’ve never heard of, explained
The most important event you’ve never heard of, explained
COP16 Cali, Colombia: World leaders gather to address extinction and the biodiversity crisis. Here are the key issues they’ll be discussing.Benji Jones (Vox)
Fifa accused again over human rights risks in Saudi Arabia’s World Cup bid
Fifa accused again over human rights risks in Saudi Arabia’s World Cup bid
Fifa has been accused for a second time of failing to engage with concerns over human rights risks in Saudi ArabiaPaul MacInnes (The Guardian)
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‘They want revenge’: Canadian co-founder of Greenpeace, Paul Watson, awaits extradition hearing in Greenland jail
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‘They want revenge’: Canadian co-founder of Greenpeace, Paul Watson, awaits extradition hearing in Greenland jail
Watson is detained while Denmark decides whether to extradite him to Japan – a decision the 73-year-old has said could be a death sentenceLindsay Jones (The Globe and Mail)
War on Gaza: Poll reveals most Germans oppose continued Israel arms sales
War on Gaza: Poll reveals most Germans oppose continued Israel arms sales
A new survey has revealed that 60 percent of Germans oppose arms exports to Israel, with a majority of voters from the country's three ruling coalition partners supporting restrictions.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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Rates of medical assistance in dying for non-terminal illness in Ontario higher in poorer neighbourhoods, reports say
Rates of medical assistance in dying for non-terminal illness in Ontario higher in poorer neighbourhoods, reports say
Two new reports highlight the challenges of determining MAID eligibility for people with serious illnesses and disabilitiesKelly Grant (The Globe and Mail)
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in reply to MalReynolds • • •Setting up a WM and installing a ton of software you might need on Bazzite is a long and painful process. The best way seems to be to just create a custom Ublue image, and I've been trying to do that and have failed miserably on multiple occasions.
And on top of all that, there are a bunch of useless configurations, like the shell, and whatever they did with ld, breaking my Neovim in the process, which I'd prefer not to have.
While it is very good for a Steam Deck OS, it still has issues like every other distro out there.
JustEnoughDucks
in reply to theshatterstone54 • • •Yeah, but as someone who had both bazzite and Opensuse MicroOS (Kalpa), it is even more of a long and painful process on that platform lol.
Immutable OS's are literally for people who specifically don't want to tinker. Everything via flatpack except a few system-level apps layered on the base image.
(Also they are for people who don't need document digital signing as Firefox and libre office can't access the modules via flatpak)
If people want specific apps and don't want to build them or use user space apps then it definitely isn't their best option. Just a different option.
I have very much enjoyed never even having to think about updating my system for months
theshatterstone54
in reply to JustEnoughDucks • • •I don't tinker anymore. No time.
BUT
I have a very specific setup with COSMIC, Hyprland, and specific apps I use. That's just my chosen way of using my computer.
If I could get all this properly working on Bazzite, I'd have been there already.
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in reply to gnuplusmatt • • •Nah, I'm on latest hardware (4080) and did a bunch of tests recently. Mint was the best along with PopOS. A lot of distros like CachyOs or Bazzite have a lot of great enhancements but they break so often without easy rollbacks that a layman shouldnt use them. Mint has a driver manager and can install KDE if you want with no breakage. Bazzite and CachyOS couldnt even run many major titles due to driver breakage and not having an easy way for a layman to rollback. (I could do it, though a layman would hate it). Whereas PopOS and Mint both ran major titles without any configuration.
I don't know of any 'bleeding edge' distros with driver managers, I might ask about that though.
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in reply to Shizu • • •It is true. I'd praise Fedora currently. I have praised Arch when I used it. For all the issues I had with its outdated software, I praised Debian for that month I've used it. I had praise NixOS' rollbacks, while sparing the details on the learning curve and immense difficulty of setup and weird, obscure issues I had with it.
Ultimately, every distro without exception has some issues for different people. That's a fact. It's all about what you can and cannot live with, what fits and what doesn't fit your purposes.
I want the latest software after some good testing and on a static release if possible, with all the software available, a fast package manager, and NOT Arch, as I was done with it for various reasons. Got pissed at NixOS, OpenSUSE's zypper is the worst package manager bar none (because it's slower than the older dnf, and doesn't even have parallel downloads, and doesn't have many mirrors either). So Fedora it is. And I'll stay here for a while, seeing as there isn't anything better for me.
And I'll praise Fedora for what it does right, while casually a
... show moreIt is true. I'd praise Fedora currently. I have praised Arch when I used it. For all the issues I had with its outdated software, I praised Debian for that month I've used it. I had praise NixOS' rollbacks, while sparing the details on the learning curve and immense difficulty of setup and weird, obscure issues I had with it.
Ultimately, every distro without exception has some issues for different people. That's a fact. It's all about what you can and cannot live with, what fits and what doesn't fit your purposes.
I want the latest software after some good testing and on a static release if possible, with all the software available, a fast package manager, and NOT Arch, as I was done with it for various reasons. Got pissed at NixOS, OpenSUSE's zypper is the worst package manager bar none (because it's slower than the older dnf, and doesn't even have parallel downloads, and doesn't have many mirrors either). So Fedora it is. And I'll stay here for a while, seeing as there isn't anything better for me.
And I'll praise Fedora for what it does right, while casually avoiding the fact that the first thing I did after install was to install and set up dnf5, and not mentioning I had mirror issues twice in the last month (I had none in the months prior, but twice in the span of 2-3 weeks?).
Anyways, that's just me ranting about Linux distros, because as much as everyone claims they're the same (and they are when it comes to usage), they are very different when it comes to package managers, package availability, package versions, and release cycles, and those are the main differences between them all.
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in reply to Gaia [She/Her] • • •I don't want a rolling release if I can avoid it. I don't want a from-scratch distro where I'm suddenly in trouble because I forgot to install some crucial package that I wouldn't have had to install on other distros. But I also don't want a distro that's forcing all sorts of software on me because that's what it comes with (this point is about Arch-based distros: something that only ArcoLinux got right). I don't want to wait to compile COSMIC every time there's an update. I don't want to compile from source all the time because that's what the AUR is. And as powerful as the AUR is, it always feels janky, even with paru or yay.
I don't want to worry that if I haven't updated in a few weeks, I might get issues with the archlinux-keyring. You know what I'm talking about if you've used Arch long enough.
And after being an Arch Tester for a while and seeing how brittle package testing is (there are barely any testers, and that's a massive concern), I decided I don't trust the stability of Arch. So I left.
DaTingGoBrrr
in reply to Jure Repinc • • •What's wrong with just plain Arch? It works well enough for my desktop and for Valve to build SteamOS. When gaming having the latest packages are a huge advantage.
Unfortunately I can not watch the video right now
Edit: So he just made an atomic openSUSE distro for handhelds. I like that it has BTRFS snapshots, I use it on my desktop as well. Nice for people that prefer openSUSE I guess but I will stick to Arch.
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in reply to Jure Repinc • • •The only distro I've never been able to successfully install without problems with the installer, over several versions and on several computers. Last time I gave up and haven't thought about it since.
Deck runs arch, btw. It doesn't need Suse.
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