Installing Bazzite to my friend: Yay!

The Finnish translations clearly being autogenerated (slop tier): Not yay!

I gotta be honest, I'd rather have text just left in English if you can't translate it.

"Password" was translated to different word in same page of the installer. Both were completely wrong.

Then there were words that made no sense: the context was in English but it was very literally translated, so it kept the English context but with Finnish words.

Look I know this is volunteer work but please just don't run your translations through google translate or whatever, because the quality was very much that. Just keep it in English if you don't know how to translate it, a lot of Finns speak English anyway. These complex wrong translations will just confuse users, even seasoned ones like me!

#Bazzite #Linux #Translations #i18n #Finnish

#Linux
Bon ben par la force des choses, j'ai migré mon vieux Linux Mint (noyau 6.8) sous le dernier Mint (noyau 6.17) par réinstallation complète.
Pas trop galère, en fait.
Juste les logiciels à réinstaller, et j'ai dû migrer mes script Caja en scripts Nemo (juste une variable à changer et déplacer les fichiers au bon endroit 🙂).
Firefox, qBitTorrent, Thunderbird et compagnie on tout de suite retrouvé leurs petits, y compris le cache et les mots de passe. J'adore.

Great #video by @garyhtech on why #BSD will never own the cloud.

#Linux owns the #cloud and frankly I'm fine with that. #FreeBSD doesn't need to compete with Linux in this area. It may not have the massive ecosystem, but given its strengths, it functions just fine for back end #infrastructure, in general and niche use cases.

People frequently tout FreeBSD for #ZFS and #Jails but honestly I think #Ports and #Poudriere are huge selling points

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWf1z1ifjOc

I only just got started on this, but maybe someone else is further along? I am trying to find out what the last commit of the Linux kernel is that's most likely free of LLM-generated slop. I am "militant" in this, so I don't care if it was "reviewed by a human" before it went in, that doesn't make it better in my view. The quick deductions I was able to make earlier today:

- Sep 4 2025, commit 913e65a2fe1a16fa253c4a016e2306b2cf9ffef8 has the first "official" aka "documented via Assisted-by:" LLM slop

- Jul 27 2025, commit 038d61fd642278bab63ee8ef722c50d10ab01e8f is Linux 6.16 so that might still be "clean" as it were; later stable kernels in that series would need to be checked

- Nov 17 2024, commit adc218676eef25575469234709c2d87185ca223a is Linux 6.12 so that's probably the last "longterm" kernel that could be "clean"; later stable kernels in that series would need to be checked again

All in all it seems to me that some 6.12.x kernel is definitely the last one I'd want to use. Now given that I only run Linux on ancient hardware, that's probably not a big deal for me; your mileage may obviously vary.

Anyone else have a better take already? Aside from "you worry too much, just use the new kernels, they're fine" because that's not really helpful to me. 😉

#slop #linux #kernel #noslop

I"M GOING TO PUNCH THE FUCKING SCCREEN THROUGH IF YOU DONT. STOP. FLICKERING, ThinkPad T480 #lang_en #Linux #IHopeYouDie

Blind folks, what would make you want to use, or try out, Linux?

Boosts okay.

#accessibility #blind #linux #foss

New #blog #post: The Farmer's Station Wagon: A Parable

https://rldane.space/the-farmers-station-wagon-a-parable.html

1280 words

This was inspired by a recent interview between the #Fedi's own Jason Evangelho and Mike Kelly.

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn @ay

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

#rlDaneWriting #blost #linux #nixbook #upcycle #eWaste #FOSS #Freedom

It's great to see more #Linux content aimed at new users. But....y'know what's even cooler? More #FreeBSD content aimed at new users!

Just stumbled across this video while looking for other things. I think it does a good job at introducing it as a desktop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EFG3BO6oVY

#tech #desktop #operatingsystem #unix #newbie #computer #pc #awesome

How do we stop #Linux from accepting #LLM code, like, yesterday?

@stefano

I enjoyed and appreciated reading this post.

"I realized almost immediately that GNU/Linux and FreeBSD were so similar they were completely different."

This right here.

My initial impression with #FreeBSD in 2006 was quite similar. Of course, #Linux back then was a much different beast than what it has evolved (mutated?) into today.

Had I not pursued Linux system administration as a career, I *probably* would have stuck with FreeBSD.

We can make all the technical comparisons between the two OSes all day long but what drove my interest and enthusiasm are (1) the documentation and (2) the community.

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟯/𝟭𝟲 (Valuable News - 2026/03/16) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/03/16/valuable-news-2026-03-16/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟯/𝟭𝟲 (Valuable News - 2026/03/16) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/03/16/valuable-news-2026-03-16/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

Episode 8 of Dark Blue Weekly released

https://darkblueproject.com/sites/news/dbw-e8.php

#darkblueproject #darkblueweekly #opensource #freesoftware #linux #endeavouros #cachyos #debian #gimp #libadwaita #gnome

#NetBSD #Linux #windows7 #macos

The #future of #Microsoft #Windows is downright terrifying. If their previous OS releases haven't motivated you to switch to #Linux or some kind of #BSD, then after watching this video I think you will be.

#opensource #RunBSD #OwnYourData #selfhost #NoAI #tech #privacy #spy #surveillance #masssurveillance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7a89ZYcTo8

Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive

https://windowsreport.com/microsoft-confirms-windows-11-bug-that-locks-users-out-of-the-c-drive/

All my love to people stuck on this shitfest that Windows is.

#vibecoding #microslop #Microsoft #technology #Linux #endOf10

40 days in the Japanese desert: the third Oni

https://triapul.cz/japanese_jesus

#japanese_jesus #triapul #linux #thinkpad

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after 40 days japanese jesus came across a vintage comput jj: "4:3?!" he felt the rickety fan and knew it was good jj: "dad! you shouldn't have!" oni: "jj!" the third oni oni: "give up your father's core2duo and take my m5 macbook! it will make you the fastest prophet!" jj: "nah" oni: "what? that's insane! what's so special about that brick?!" jj: "you would not understand."

Run the following to see your PATH settings in easy to read format on screen:
```
tr ":" "\n" <<<"$PATH"
tr ":" "\n" <<<"$PATH" | lolcat
```
This is a little more portable
```
echo "$PATH" | tr ":" "\n"
echo "$PATH" | tr ":" "\n" | lolcat
```

#unix #linux

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a screenshot showing output of the `tr ":" "\n" <<<"$PATH" | lolcat` command to see your system's PATH environment variable in a readable and colorful format using lolcat command. This command will print your system's search paths using the `$PATH`, lists them one per line, and makes them look pretty just for fun. You can skip the `lolcat` bit if you don't want colors.

RE: https://mamot.fr/@Khrys/116221336008626645

In my most recent Linux attempt I was in the process of picking up Fedora & then I saw them waffle on AI & immediately switched my efforts to Zorin...

- so yeah, I'm ready.

#linux #ai

S.P.Zeidler boosted

Khrys » 🌐 2026-03-13
@Khrys@mamot.fr

RT if you want a CLEAR statement about AI from all GNU/Linux distributions and are ready to quit any distribution that is ok with integrating AI slopware.

You just provisioned a fresh Linux server. Within minutes, the SSH brute-force bots will arrive.

There are too many ways to build a firewall in Linux. I wrote a practical guide to the four major tools: iptables, nftables, firewalld, and ufw, including their mental models and deployable configs.

Also includes a deep dive into the "Docker Trap" (why Docker silently bypasses your default-deny rules) and how to fix it.

(And yes, I still spend the intro and conclusion reminding everyone that FreeBSD's PF is the undisputed king of packet filtering. Let's argue in the replies.)

Read it here: https://blog.hofstede.it/linux-firewalls-how-to-actually-secure-a-cloud-server-iptables-nftables-firewalld-ufw/

#Linux #Sysadmin #DevOps #Security #Netfilter #Docker #Networking

Saturday mobile Linux-ing in the sun.

#Linux #termux #BBSG

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Photo of a vertical Pixel set atop a Stowaway Bluetooth keyboard, on a wooden picnic table. The screen is showing a tmux session in termux, running the BSSG build process.