What concerns me is the implicit association people will make between him and FOSS, and anything they believe about one will carry to the other.

I have to assume there are already people who hear “Linux” and think “ugh, I wouldn’t touch that with a 10ft pole because I don’t want anything to do with Pewdiepie”. Similarly, if he says something dumb next week, and half his audience abandons him, they’ll likely have a negative outlook on FOSS going forward.

Either way, I don’t believe FOSS’ staying power comes from meteoric rises following a fad, it comes from a natural immunity to enshittification over time. On the scale of a few of decades, FOSS seems like it’s struggling against proprietary solutions. But just like the general concept of political democracy, I think on the scale of centuries it will become the clear, time-tested, least-bad option. But I digress.

For an actual answer, it looks like WD has something called wdckit that is available on request.

I see a corresponding AUR entry that looks like it’s grabbing some zip from a personal Russian CDN. Super sketchy looking tbh.

But it’s possible this tool has whatever functionality the windows WD Utility uses to toggle the light in the drive’s firmware.

IMO, it’s not worth it. I’d just go the electrical tape route and maybe ask WD Customer Support if there’s a way, and if not, ask that they support Linux better in the future.

I think it makes total sense from their POV if I’m not posting my shit publicly and they want to be able to view it in the future. I will gladly make a copy of their photos of the trip for my own record, but I will store it in a way that only I have access.

I’ve run into this issue with obsidian, but for whatever reason I haven’t had any issues with keepassdx.

When opening an existing keepass vault, on the left there’s an “Open From” pullout menu. You should be able to select your nextcloud from there. Then find your keepass file and it’ll just work.

I don’t know why, but obsidian doesn’t have the same file picker. There’s no “open from” menu. So you just have to drill into the filesystem, find the folder nextcloud is using, and choose your notes vault you’ve sync’ed in there. And for whatever reason, that seems to be the method that breaks Two-Way Sync.

I use Nextcloud + KeepassDX on android and KeepassXC on PC. Have never had an issue. Changes on desktop/phone are propagated virtually immediately across devices.

I want to share my photos of our trip with you, but I don’t want you to upload them to Google, or apple, or amazon, or meta, or any social media.

If it’s a pic of you, fine, do whatever you want. But please don’t take my whole album and store it in your google photos.

Edit: to maybe disambiguate, I go on a trip with someone else, we both take photos/videos using our own devices, and then afterwards we are exchanging what we took. Not like, me sharing photos with someone who didn’t even go on the trip.

Everything is always optional for power users on linux. What I’m saying is they shouldn’t have made a GUI checkbox that’s also easy enough for non power users to check.

The difference is they test the core packages they release. That’s their selling point. Just downloading old pkgbuilds without vetting anything is called an attack vector.

The AUR just hosts pkgbuild files, no source or built packages. The pkgbuild can point to arbitrary external sources that could update separately. Manjaro could have their own AUR that hosts old pkgbuilds, but that wouldn’t be foolproof since the external sources could change. Also, if a pkgbuild was updated for security reasons, now Manjaro is putting users at risk by continuing to serve the old version, and now that’s another problem for them to solve.

I used Manjaro up until a couple of years ago. I don’t recommend it now. I switched to endeavor os. I hear cachy os is another popular arch based one these days.

IMO they should have made this the official policy instead of adding optional support for the AUR in pamac.

At the end of the day, the AUR is just a pastebin full of pkgbuild files for people who know what they’re doing. And as a distro aimed more at the average Linux user, rawdogging the AUR probably just shouldn’t be part of the equation.

My friends and I call each other degenerate when we do things that are degenerate. Like playing wow until 6am. Or buying a taco bell burrito with the intention of reheating it the next day. Or binging some garbage reality show. It’s all in good fun.

I wouldn’t take it personally, it’s just a term that jokingly means “a person who has their shit together wouldn’t be doing that”, but we all have those things and they’re fun to take note of and laugh about.

The Sumerian/Greek/Roman/Egyptian pantheons really feel like the MCU of their time. Public domain collection of super humans that anyone could adapt their own fanfic to.

Good luck!

Alright, windows users, do you run the same version of windows on all your devices? Yes? Oh how surprising.

I would not say “often” better academically. It’s up to the resources the parents have. Poor families doing homeschooling end up poorly educated, wealthy educated families are more able to educate. Humans already did this up until the advent of modern public education systems.

In a public school, the idea is that both the rich family and the poor family are offered the same education, and this is better for society as a whole. I will agree that public education isn’t perfect and could be improved in almost every way, but opting for private education is leaving your child’s future up to random chance as dictated by your social status.

At some point you will try to socialize your homeschooled kid. If you live in a rough community where drugs, gangs, and teen pregnancies are relatively common, you won’t be able to avoid the same influences you’re trying to avoid in public schools. Except now it will be all they know.

IMO exposure to a larger population of people in a public school gives kids more reference for all the kinds of people in society, and control over who they want to interact with. Then it’s the parent’s job to make them feel empowered (not pressured) to make the best choice they have available.

If there is an HR dept, I would raise this with them. If you are no longer on the clock at 5pm, there’s nothing stopping you from hopping out of the vehicle wherever it is and going home. Keep a record of everything, what was asked of you and when, what action you took and when, and maybe even have a witness sign off. If they try to fire you with cause, you can sue for wrongful termination. Just remember that HR is there to prevent the company from being sued, they are not your friend.

At the end of the day, the real solution is obvious: this is what unions are for. Collective bargaining is how you even the odds with greed.

A bunch of people who couldn’t tell their left shift from their right shoelace think you don’t know what you’re talking about lol.

I agree, to a person who knows the machine, an AI is like a compiler: you know the output you’re going for, the tool helps you get there faster. Expecting you to do something the slow way because someone else doesn’t know how to code is nonsense. There is a massive difference between using it as a tool, and blindly taking generated code.

If the internet existed in the 70s, I bet people would have asked for a disclaimer on compiled assembly.

I’ve not heard of those, but to me this is a competitor to the much more ubiquitous Obsidian. Which works great, and has a whole community of support, but is not open source.

Personally, I don’t need my notes app not be responsible for syncing across devices either. I already have that for other file types (photos, media, etc).

I’m not against these features being added, but this app is young, afaik it’s one person writing it, so I’d rather see their time be spent making the note taking experience as good as it can be.

I also generally wouldn’t trust one person to properly audit the security of the networking and encryption features. If I wanted those features, I’d still give the community time to peruse the codebase.

I think it makes sense to handle this at a lower level. After using other notes apps, the thing I want is for it to not have some arbitrary opaque file hierarchy that locks me into it. I want a plain dir of .md files, some resources they link to, and that’s it. If I want disk encryption, there are solutions for that. I can use something like LUKs to encrypt my whole drive, or even just the notes directory.

For android, afaik everything uses disk encryption by default.

The unix philosophy is do one thing really well. We don’t need a note taking app that also handles encryption.