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  • Ooops@feddit.orgtoLinux@programming.devThis is why it's not mainstream
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    It has lots of small issues that add up to a frustrating experience for mainstream users.

    And 90%(1) those are out of Linux’ actual resposibility because they are caused by third parties screwing up… sometimes even intentional (from companies producing lackluster drivers only having a fix cobbled together for Windows specifically -looking at Realtek networking for example- to ones actually going out of their way to block Linux (MS FUD included…).

    (1) The other 10% exist on Windows or Mac also, but people just accept them because they are used to not having a chance to change it. Seriously the amount of obscure regedits or third party tools usually surpass the number of linux issues fixed by editing an easy to read txt file.




  • Ooops@feddit.orgtoNonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.worksThings you should never ask
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    Why are you changing the topic? Yes, Israel using the situation to expand into palestinian territory is also despicable. But that doesn’t magically make military, militia or terrorist attacks against Israel an act of defense.

    If you want to condemn Israel’s actions then the bare minimal requirement is not being even worse. At which countries openly supporting terrorists and calling for the destruction of a neighbouring country fail by definition.




  • This would -at least as far as I understand it- limit your swap’s functionality for hibernation etc. Because there your swap needs to be available early. You can still do it in theory, but the key file then would need to be included in you initrams, which kind of defeats the purpose.

    There is however a much more easier option: either use LVM on luks (so the volume is decrypted with the password and then contains both, root and swap) or just use the same password for root and swap while switching over to the systemd hooks (as those encryption hooks try unlokcing everything with the first provided password by default, and only ask for additional password if this fails).

    EDIT: Seeing that you crossposted this from an archlinux-specific community: You can find the guide here. It’s for using a fully enrcypted system with grub as bootloader, but the details (in 8.3 and 8.4) are true for all boot methods. Replace the busybox hooks with their systemd equivalents (in minitcpio.conf for archlinux but again this isn’t limited to that init system), then add “rd.luks.name=<your swap’s uuid=swap” to your kernel parameters and also replace the “cryptdevice=UUID=<your root’s uuid>:root” that should already be there for an encrypted system (that’s the syntax for the busybox hook) with “rd.luks.name=<your root’s uuid>=root”. On startup you will be asked for your password as usual, but then both root and swap will be decrypted with it (PS: the sd-encrypt hook only tries this once… so if you screw up and misstype your password on the first try, you will then have to type it again two times, once for root, once for swap…)


  • So to put this into perspective:

    Germany has (again) spend more than 8 billion (the planned budget for 2024) purely on military equipment for Ukraine just in the first half of the year. More than most countries combined (for reference the UK loudly announced the “largest-ever military aid package” ever earlier this year… 0,5 billion in total).

    And they simply can’t keep this up anymore while at the same time having to cut all budgets at home to stay within constitutional debt limits (PS: No, changing the constitutional debt limit isn’t an option. That would require votes from the opposition and they went apeshit obstructionist/populist the moment they were ousted).

    And although I have a particularly strong opinion on what will actually happen, let’s hope EU countries can finally get their shit together to create a sustainable base for Ukraine support instead of constantly relying on single countries’ short term planning.



  • Our tax money was used to finance Russias war of agression

    Because that’s not true. That’s the propaganda narrative that is repeated again and again.

    1. Nordstream 2 was planned and paid by Gazprom (owned by Russia), Uniper (then part of Fortum - owned by Finland), Shell (UK), OMV (Austria), Engie (partly owned by France), Wintershall (Germany).

    German tax payers did pay exactly zero (I don’t know enough about finances in Finland or France to know if they (indirectly) paid taxes for it. Those two -and Gazprom -where the only countries involved with the rest being private companies). German tax payers also didn’t care for European companies wanting to inrease their imports from Russia as Germany’s own gas consumption was stagnating for years.

    The only actual interest for the project in Germany was pushed by the local government in the state were the pipeline ended… because of additional jobs in construction and operation created.

    1. Germany financing Russia is also a lie people keep repeating. Actual trade balances are publically available. Germany pulled ~50 billion $ out of Russia over the years, while in the same time the US, UK, Poland and even Ukraine (although they are the ones not to blame here, as their options were limited) actually financed Russia via a massive trade deficit.

    PS: Do you want to know who was Ukraine’s biggest financial supporter since 2014? Also a detail that probably won’t match your chosen reality.

    and without 3 small nudges nothing tangible was going to change

    What should they have changed?

    Not opening NS2 in the first place? That is exactly what happenend. Before Russia started their invasion.

    Or should they have reduced the deliveries through NS1 from nothing to even less… oh, wait…

    Oh, I know. Should they have called Russia’s bluff about technical problems and then start legal procedings so German companies would not go bankrupt from payments for gas that they wouldn’t receive to finally close the Nordstream chapter? Again, that’s exactly what happenend.

    And more than a month later an unused (NS1) and unoperational (NS2) pipeline exploded.

    Please point out the change those “small nudges” (interesting choice of words for an act of war against a countries infrastructure btw…) brought.

    Why wouldn’t the average Germans response be something like

    Why do Germans react the way they do? Because we are sick of the lies and how screwing up then pointing fingers at Germany is Europe’s tried and true strategy number 1.

    Germany’s dependence on Russian gas was slightly below EU average (no wonder when they were Europe’s 2nd biuggest gas exporter with no production because everyone imported Russian gas via pipelines ending in Germany)… Yet lying and phantasizing about Germany being dependent was easier than to acknowledge their mistake. And to add insult to injury some countries even screamed loudly at Germany for still importing Russian gas while getting exactly that gas for themselves, usually without it ever reaching Germany but only theoretically being bought from Germany on paper (looking at Poland in particular).

    As already mentioned above Germany was one of the few European countries with a trade surplus not financing Russia. Yet telling the fairy tale of how they alone paid for Putins war is easier the telling a truth your voters wouldn’t like. Blaming someone else is much better when you want to keep your governing job.

    Oh and let’s not forget oil. Let’s talk about the fact that every single country along that pipeline massivel increased their imports from Russia all through 2022 and the first half of 2023… everyone but Germany that is, while everyone screamed about Germany financing Russia via oil imports.

    It’s also not limited to Russia in any way: Half of Europe has sold the majority (or all) of their harbors to China. But when Germany reacted by selling a minority share of one single terminal to compete with the massive disadvantage of chinese ships stopping anywhere else then shipping to Germany via land routes there was a massive international outcry why the evil Germans would try to sell out to China. Do you want to guess who worked on correcting that problem at home? Spoiler: Nobody, because the usual “but Germany”-diversion worked.

    If you want more diverse reactions from Germans: Get a new scapegoat for once. Until that happens you will only see two reactions: ignoring the daily “Germany bad”-narrative or telling you very clearly what kind of bullshit this is. And judging by the amount of downvotes, insults and accusations of being a Russian troll I get here, the latter group is so small nowadays that people aren’t used anymore to get their propaganda narratives challenged.

    Either that or people are really not able to argue anymore, operating mostly on feelings of righteous zeal and attacking everything challenging their dogma. But I’m (for now) still too much of an optimist to believe that version…





  • Genau… immer schön beleidigen, wenn man keine Argumente hat.

    Aber hier, ich helf dir sogar:

    Deutschland hat die Freigabe von NS2 verhindert (und das übrigens auch vor Russlands Invasion). Aber da niemand die Realität mag wurden wir mit Märchen überhäuft wie Deutschland in Wirklichkeit durch Sanktionen dazu gezwungen wurde (gegen die sie sich in ihrer Russlandliebe natürlich bis zum Schluss gewehrt haben 🤣).

    Russland hat NS1 abgedreht, Monate vor der Sabotage. Und bewirkt hat dieser Versuch der Erpressung exakt überhaupt nichts. Nicht einmal die Preise gingen weiter rauf, weil der vorherige Preisanstieg eh schon mehr auf Unsicherheit am Markt als auf wirklichem Mangel basierte. Doch wieder war die Realität nicht gewollt, also gab’s die nächste Welle von “Jeden Moment werfen sich die Gassüchtigen Deutschen Putin an den Hals”-Lügen… unter anderem mit einem halben Dutzend Berichten über die geplante Einstellung aller Hilfen für die Ukraine und Blockade von EU Sanktionen durch Deutschland nur in den ersten 3 Tagen. 100% frei erfunden, aber wen stört das schon. Die meisten wohl nicht, da Fakten einfach zu leugnen viel einfacher ist, als seine fehlerhafte Meinung zu korrigieren.

    2 Monate später hatte sich immer noch nichts geändert. Die Gaspreise waren angesichts der guten Speicherprognosen trotz 0 Gas aus Russland sogar im freien Fall.

    Es gibt jetzt also genau zwei Möglichkeiten: Man lebt entweder in der Realität oder man hat dank Propaganda-induziertem Wahn den Kontakt zur Wirklichkeit verloren und halluziniert, dass Deutschland gewaltsam davon abgehalten werden muss, (vollkommen imaginäres - denn das Thema war in Wahrheit ja nun schon seit 2 Monaten abgehakt…) Gas von Russland zu kaufen.

    In dem Fall, dass man in der Tat dem Wahnsinn verfallen ist und sich vor der Wirklichkeit verabschiedet hat, ergibt es natürlich Sinn einen kriegerischen Akt gegen einen Verbündeten zu begehen. Und auch diese Idioten noch zu bejubeln. Deshalb wird aber weder die bekloppte Tat an sich, noch deine genauso bekloppte Unterstützung sinnvoll.

    Wer sich die Fakten anschaut, begreift, dass da unbenutzte Pipelines aus Jux und Dollerei zerstört wurden. Und dass es exakt keinen guten Grund gab (zumal das Risiko, wenn es auffliegt, ebenfalls existiert…), es sei denn, man ist dem eigenen Propagandablödsinn zum Opfer gefallen. Und wer das bejubelt ist schlicht genauso geistig verwirrt.

    So und jetzt du. Und versuch’s mal zur Abwechslung mit Argumenten statt “Halt die Klappe” und “Bist du besoffen”.




  • […] According to the research, the investigators were apparently able to gather sufficient evidence in recent months to obtain an arrest warrant for the Ukrainian Z. from an investigating judge at the Federal Court of Justice at the beginning of June. In June, German prosecutors are said to have approached the Polish authorities with a European arrest warrant in the hope that the suspect could be arrested. […]

    There has reportedly been no response from the Polish side to the German request for legal assistance. It is not known why the Polish authorities have not arrested Volodymyr Z. According to the common rules of the European Arrest Warrant, which Germany and Poland consider binding, an arrest would have been expected within 60 days without further examination by Poland. The deadline has now expired. […]

    A spokeswoman for the Polish Public Prosecutor General’s Office has now confirmed to the news agency dpa that a European arrest warrant issued by the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office for the arrest of a suspect has been received. […]

    German investigators had repeatedly asked their Polish colleagues to hand over CCTV footage from the port of Kołobrzeg. Most recently, the Polish side is said to have stated that no videos were available and that the recordings had been deleted early on, as required by law. […]

    (https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/ndr-wdr/nordstream-172.html)

    So even if they are actually not to be blamed for not preventing the border crossing, they did nothing for 2 1/2 months… to then report back that the suspect isn’t in their country anymore.

    Just like they refused to hand over video footage all this time to then make a statement recently (so half a year later…) that it was deleted in the mean time.