Android now forces apps to include proprietary code for push notifications
https://old.reddit.com/r/freesoftware/comments/by4ipr/android_now_forces_apps_to_include_proprietary/

https://redd.it/byyhng
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Screenshots from developers & Unix people (2002)
https://anders.unix.se/2015/10/28/screenshots-from-developers--unix-people-2002/

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Podman Version 1.4.0 Released!
https://github.com/containers/libpod/releases/tag/v1.4.0

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When will "Tech/Linux youtubers" stop spout uneducated opinions?

This video really grinds my gears. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OMTucIt-uo&feature=youtu.be](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OMTucIt-uo&feature=youtu.be)

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I wrote up a reply rebuking most of his points with links and sources. In doing this I am attempting to rebuke a video that I see as incorrect, poorly researched, and damaging to clear linux and the linux community as a whole.

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My goal is not to be negative or rude, but to correct some of the mistakes in the video with a well organized comment. If you have a minute could you read over it and give me any feedback? Do you agree with my points? Do you agree with the points he is making in the video? Why/why not?

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>A lot of what you said in the video is wrong. I have sources for most of my points the bottom. Clear Linux will be called CL from now on.

1. Telemetry is DISABLED by default\[1\] (the package is not even downloaded on to the os) it is OPT IN, not opt out.1.1) Both sides of the telemetry, client and host, are open source. You can set up the telemetry host on your own serverand get all of the telemetry that would be sent to intel (if you OPT IN) to your own server NOT theirs for debugging1.2) "You can disable telemetry, but it is still running." False. If you disable it it does NOT RUN. You can evenuninstall the package.\[2\] "sudo swupd bundle-remove telemetrics"

>2) Yes autoupdate is on by default ALL you have to do is type "sudo swupd autoupdate --disable" ONCE to disable it forever...The point of clear linux is to be secure. The biggest security issue is people not updating their software. BecauseCL controls all of their updates they test the entire OS and all of the dependencies before each release to make surethere are no regressions. Yes sometimes things break. Ever tried apt-get installing a new lib on a Ubuntu box?Does that work 100% of the time?
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>4) "It is UEFI only." False "Clear Linux\* OS can run on any Intel® 64bit processors which support UEFI\* and SSE\* v4.1streaming SIMD\* instructions."\[3\] It says nothing about you have to have UEFI... In fact most cloud VM's do nothave UEFI interfaces when installing an OS. To install clear on a desktop without a UEFI just download the serverversion, install it, then do "sudo swupd bundle-add desktop". Desktop UI no UEFI.\[4\]
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>5) "It needs newer intel hardware" "The following processor families have been verified to run Clear Linux OS:""2nd Generation, or later, Intel® Core™ processor family." Those were released in 2011... Not sure if you want olderhardware than that. If you do CL only says those are the oldest processors they have verified.\[3\] Bellow thatthere is a list of the minimum instruction sets that are supported and a link to see if your processor has thoseinstruction sets.
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>6) swupd is a new package manager because no other package manager can do what it does. swupd should be compared tosnap/flatpak/appimage/nix/docker not apt/yum. When a package (bundle) is installed on CL it is isolated and all ofits dependencies, code, and config is completely separated from any other package on the system. So if on packageneeds ssl 2 and another 2.1 it works.
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>6.1) You can use flatpak or appimage if you want to... Flatpak is builtin. Use it if you don't like swupd or in additionto swupd.
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>7) "I can't believe they couldn't just use an existing package manager and just change the repos to intel" They neverchanged the repos to intel... They are still pulling from standard rpm repos.
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>7.1) You continue to say people should "delta updates... Take that and put it in other distributions". The reason theybuild swupd is because no other package manager COULD do that. You would have to fundamentally change how most if notall other package managers work for them to do delta updates.
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>8) "Intel optimization" While yes CL is fastest on Intel hardware it is still REALLY fast on AMD CPU's\[5\] And there isno downside to running it on AMD. Not how it is not "Intel clear linux".

It is "Clear linux. Optimized for intel"
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>8.1) "You can take and look at how they are doing those optimizations and transplant them". Why? Intel already upstreamssome of their optimizations to the linux kernel!! Other distros just have to update to the latest kernels! For thelast 3 years intel has been one of the top contributes to the linux kernel because of this. Please don't say theydon't share what they are doing and that they are only working on CL and not helping everyone.
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>Thank you for sharing linux on youtube! If you disagree with any of my points made above I would love to discuss it.

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>\[1\] [https://community.clearlinux.org/t/is-there-telemetry-in-this/724](https://community.clearlinux.org/t/is-there-telemetry-in-this/724)\[2\] [https://clearlinux.org/documentation/clear-linux/guides/maintenance/telemetry-enable](https://clearlinux.org/documentation/clear-linux/guides/maintenance/telemetry-enable)\[3\] [https://clearlinux.org/documentation/clear-linux/reference/system-requirements#system-requirements](https://clearlinux.org/documentation/clear-linux/reference/system-requirements#system-requirements)\[4\] [https://github.com/clearlinux/distribution/issues/274](https://github.com/clearlinux/distribution/issues/274)\[5\] [https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news\_item&px=Clear-Linux-On-AMD-Ryzen](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Clear-Linux-On-AMD-Ryzen)

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duration: Shows how long a process is already running
https://github.com/mstruebing/duration

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Chrome 75 vs. Firefox 67 / 68 Beta Linux Performance Benchmarks
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=chrome-75-linux&num=2

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Teaser Plasma 5.16 (II) - Plasma does Groundhog Day [video]
https://video.ploud.fr/videos/watch/43dc9f0c-c827-49c7-8f1b-6462e820f0fa

https://redd.it/bz42gh
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IDE for mx Linux

Title says most of it I just installed mx and I can't find a decent dark theme simple to install IDE any recommendations?

https://redd.it/bz4lzt
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Any decent online ALSA information ?

I'm trying to get whole ALSA concept to tzhe poihnt I would be comfortable configuring it and working with it, but www.alsa-project.org , at least from the documentation part, looks insane to me.

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So many haphazardly tossed bits of old, inconsistent, plainly wrong ( outdated?) examples mixed with non-working and/or empty links makes my head hurt.

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I can't even use given example for speaker-test useage verbatim, even though I have the PCM device with the same name as given in example etc.

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This is not some obscure, peripheral project. ALSA is central to the linux sound system. There is no good way around it. It should be documented accordingly.

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Is there any decent, and current (non-stale) online resource on ALSA?

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How to install Japanese Input in Linux (tutorial)

**Introduction:**
Hello, my name is Eitan. I am new to linux but i am learning rapidly.
I want to contribute to the community by writing a tutorials for things that might sound easy and unnecessary but for some it might help a lot. if you see that i wrote something wrong please be sure that your write in the comments so i will fix myself.

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(This tutorial was tested on debian based oses)

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**Step 1: Installing Japanese language** (Kubuntu users can skip step 1)
Go to system settings and than go to Region & Language.
Click on manage languages and than click on install/remove language and add Japanese and click apply to install.

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**Step 2: Installing Fcitx Mozc**

There are 2 ways to install Fcitx mozc.

I recommend through terminal just by writing.

sudo apt-get install fcitx fcitx-mozc kde-config-fcitx

Kubuntu users need to write only:

sudo apt-get install fcitx-mozc

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The second way is by going and installing Fcitx through the store

and than installing fcitx mozc through this [website](https://pkgs.org/download/fcitx-mozc) (choose for your os)

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**Step 3: Making fcitx your input method**

through terminal you just type

im-config -n fcitx

through GUI: go to system settings-> Region & language -> manage languages -> keboard method input system -> change to fcitx.

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**Step 4: Relogin**

you can relogin or restart your pc whatever you decide.

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**Step 5: Adding japanese to fcitx**

you will see and keyboard like icon on the panel (depending on what distro do you use)

right click on it and than configure.

click on the "**+"** sign and uncheck "Only show current language"

than search for mozc and add it.

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**Step 6: Enjoy + tips**

now you can enjoy using japanese by holding CTRL + SPACE.

If it doesn't work make sure you are on English input and than CTRL + SPACE.

If you want to change the shortcut for Japanese input just go to configuration in the keyboard icon and than go to Global Config and change "Trigger Input Method" to what ever you like.

If you want to add another language i suggest to you to add it through system settings and not from fcitx.

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Linux Commands Raspberry Pi Users Need to Know
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/raspberry-pi-command-line-commands,6159.html

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Please stop labeling posts as "Fluff." It's insulting and it's not fluff if people find it interesting and it's linux related. It's judgemental, discouraging, and is itself fluff.



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LKML: Kent Overstreet: bcachefs status update (it's done cooking; let's get this sucker merged)
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/6/10/762

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My encounters with linux page cache
https://blogs.eskratch.com/2019/06/walking-down-memory-lane.html

https://redd.it/bzb8jo
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Plasma 5.16 is out! Check out all the new features and marvel at the improvements that now make working with Plasma smoother and more fun
https://dot.kde.org/2019/06/11/plasma-516-kde-now-available

https://redd.it/bzbp9c
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KDE Plasma 5.16 released! Now Smoother and More Fun
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/bzbpdr/kde_plasma_516_now_smoother_and_more_fun/

https://redd.it/bzbpyq
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What is a Linux user?
https://opensource.com/article/19/6/what-linux-user

https://redd.it/bzbef1
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Endless OS 3.6 released: Debian Buster base, GNOME 3.32, Linux Kernel 5.0 and support for Docker containers
https://community.endlessos.com/t/release-endless-os-3-6-0/9638

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Just enabled this COPR repo and I just can't believe what I see right now! GNOME shell blazingly fast even on VM
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/pp3345/gnome-with-patches/

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Tmux is Awesome!

I used to zypper dup my Tumbleweed Desktop Upstairs at night before going to bed and from the comfort of my bedroom downstairs (by ssh in Termux on my android Mobile), i check if zypper is still running via ps -al , once dup is complete i will update Nvidia Drivers (The Hard Way) and shutdown the system. Due to to bad Internet connection zypper some times stucks at retries.

Though I have heard about tmux for long time i thought it is for tiling the terminal, only Today I learnt that Tmux allows session to be detached and allows to be re-attached from any client and that is awesome.

Now i can see the progress of zypper form my mobile, even if its started from Desktop, Wow!

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