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This is the classic rhetoric of the oppressors.

1. Be bigoted, or prejudicial, or racist, or rage-baiting, or destructive, or anything else bad and regressive
2. Get called out or shunned for it by the population at large
3. Throw hands up in the air and say "what the hell! I am OPPRESSED! All you LIBS are feeding into the eSTabLIShMeNT! WE are the freedom fighters"

It's an embarrassment and its no wonder the CPC keeps running bigger and bigger fools. Their only strategy at this point is to inspire enough hatred to get enough people to vote for them.

I guess if it worked in Alberta 🤷‍♂️

From a user perspective, Distrobox is a tool that lets you "spin up any distro inside your terminal".

You can basically create a mini Linux environment of any distro that you can access through the terminal. You can set it to share your home folder, our create a new home folder just for that mini environment.

Behind the scenes Distrobox is creating and managing containers through Podman or Docker. You could technically achieve the same thing by manually setting up Podman containers, Distrobox just makes it very easy to create and maintain those containers with the correct permissions. It also has useful tools where you could install an app in a Distrobox container, but then add that app to your host OS app list.

This makes it especially useful for immutable OSs. Instead of adding packages to your base OS, which should be kept as minimal as possible, you can just install them in a Distrobox, so your host's root filesystem is unaffected.

Silverblue + ZFS would be a match made in heaven, unfortunately Fedora makes it really hard to do ZFS reliably, too many kernel updates that break ZFS. This would be an even bigger nightmare on Silverblue given the distribution model.

If only ZFS was part of the Linux kernel 😑. maybe one day

From my limited understanding and Wikipedia-ing I can tell a tale:

Back in the olden times (before the 1980s), some lawyers were soooo special, good, and smart, that the big boss (government) would give them ⭐ Gold Stars ⭐ (King's Counsel designation) so that they could tell everyone far and wide that they were special, good, and smart. So good that the 👑 King or Queen 👑 would trust them.

Mr. Dougie in 2023 thought "Oh, that's fun! Let me do that again and give out gold stars to some great lawyers!". To figure out who the best, smartest lawyers were, it would be good to talk to some other smart lawyers, maybe some big boss judges, or the lowly / peasant community.

But instead of doing that, Mr. Dougie and his buddies released a list of lawyers who were going to get gold stars on a website. Some of the lawyers in the list were good friends with Mr. Dougie or people Mr. Dougie knew.

Reporters who care about what the big boss (government) does were confused and asked Mr. Dougie, "Hey, we noticed that you gave out some gold stars - and some of those people are your friends! Do they really deserve these gold stars? How did you figure out who was going to get these super special stars? 🤔 Also, why are you giving out gold stars to laywers anyway? No one else gets gold stars 😡".

Mr. Dougie replied, "Ooooops 🤪. Next time we give out gold stars I'll definitely explain to everyone how we give out these stars. But trust me this list is 100% amazing and these people are the smartest, best lawyers in all of Ontarioland. That's a Dougie Guarantee ™️ "

...

And that is the end of another chapter in "Mr. Dougie and the Quest to Trample our Democracy"

Sorry if that was patronizing LMAO was just bored and have too much time on my hands. If anyone knows more about this and any broader implications I would love to know tbh.

Disagree, no matter the level of detail, having "yes" automatically selected is an assumption. What purpose would it have other than hoping people will just select the defaults and ignore it?

Having it as a default guarantees it doesn’t scare non-power users away from it. It’s not about just having people clicking next and accepting it without consent.

Scare away from what? Data collection? I mean even in that wording you are saying there is something to be scared of. It should be up the user. If you are saying "non-power users won't fully understand what is being collected and might get scared away if it isn't the default option" then that is even worse TBH. Preying on people not fully understanding what's going on.

Having the default box being "on" is only for the purpose of hoping people click through without realizing.

There is literally no other argument here. "Consent" is: "Hey do you want this, yes or no?". Not "We are assuming yes unless you explicitly tell us otherwise".

Reading through the post it looks like the project leads (Fedora council members) are arguing in favour of "opt-out" and the larger community is arguing in favour or either opt-in or a middle ground where the user has to select an option with no default.

Honestly it seems like the Fedora team is arguing that there are only two options: opt-out, or nothing at all. This isn't true and people are commenting with more reasonable alternatives.

I know its not in development yet, but if the Fedora council members are saying "opt-out or nothing", not a good look TBH given this initial community response.

Yeah "corporate owned" is intentionally vague and just stirs up confusion IMO.

Canadian media and the general public need to start calling a spade a spade and use words like "monopoly" and "oligopoly" instead.

Toronto Star is a "corporation" that is being bought by PostMedia (another "corporation"), centralizing more of our media landscape and bringing us closer to a "monopoly".

Par for the course in Canada unfortunately.

I daily drive Fedora Silverblue on my laptop and distrobox has been great.

I have layered only two packages: USB Guard and Distrobox. I run syncthing in a rootless podman container, and the rest goes through Distrobox.

I was even able to setup ProtonVPN in distrobox and it functions as if it was directly installed on the host (just need to map your home folder and some permissions).

I hope that immutable becomes either the standard or at least all major distros start offering it as an alternative. Makes everything foolproof and makes me much more willing to try new packages and tools because I can always just roll back.

The only thing that would really make it perfect is if files in /etc/ where also handled in a similar manner. IE: Can make changes to configuration files, and easily roll back to defaults at any time.

I don’t think it will have any impact tbh

Historically the flow of code has pretty much been:

1. Fedora
2. CentOS stream (as of a couple years ago)
3. RHEL
4. ~~CentOS~~ Rocky Linux / Alma Linux

I think there’s been discussion on what will happen with Rocky/Alma, but nothing should change with Fedora.

I also recommend Fedora if OP wants a similar “just works” experience as Ubuntu.

Been using it for a while now on my desktops/laptops with no issues.

I can’t imagine being someone whose goal in life is to profit off of the housing market to such a large extent.

To be able to see the level of homelessness we have in our biggest cities, and still continue to scrape up everything you could. It should be a recognized mental condition.

Honestly, some people have so much money and so few interests.

Can we just start with a sensible policy of “if you own two properties anything beyond that will be taxed like crazy. And for-profit corporate landlords are banned or highly regulated”

Maybe these people could pivot their investment to productive ventures.