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  • non_burglar@lemmy.worldtoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•To all European Union/Europe Open Source/Linux Enthusiasts
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    10 days ago

    Europe can’t, nor will partner with Graphene OS because 1) Graphene OS likely won’t exist in 5 years with android becoming more and more closed, and 2) Graphene OS is still forced to use:

    • Google phones
    • proprietary android drivers
    • proprietary Google services via shared accounts for some services
    • manufacturer baseband modems, which are closed and very few people know how much data they send and where

    I applaud your initiative and enthusiasm, but there are significantly more hurdles than simply convincing the EU to partner with a few companies.

    If you are serious about this, start looking at projects Steam is supporting (like Proton) and figure put how we can get more developer time into existing Linux phone solutions.

  • non_burglar@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•My new public samba share asks for authentication [RESOLVED]
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    19 days ago

    You are being prompted because the nobody/nogroup user/group has no password, no shell, and no permissions.

    That tutorial is wrong. Couple of problems immediately:

    • “valid users” specifies “all the users in this group are allowed access”. It is incompatible with “force user/group” directive
    • you should be using the “guest user=” directive, which sets the identity of any public access. Your permissions should match this user.
    • nobody/nogroup are special user and group that (usually) have no access to any file. They exist for processes to run with minimal provileges, or for a fallback default if UID/gid map are invalid. Using this user/group combo for this samba share implies that you will either alter them so that they now DO have privileges to access files, or that you intend samba to never access any files. Create a guest user, set permissions and umask in the directory.
  • non_burglar@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Canonical releases Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka | Canonical
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    23 days ago

    Thanks for the context. I did read the articles on this, but you’ve summed up the positives well.

    Unfortunately, these articles also point out that putting uutils into the wild of 25.10 will doubtless reveal some hitherto unknown breakages and rough patches.

    Which I agree with. No one is forcing anyone to use 25.10, but there is no better way to smoke test sw than pushing it to prod.

    I’m a Debian user, so I have the luxury of waiting to see the outcome of these efforts for now.

  • non_burglar@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Is it so hard to get Nvidia GPUs working with Linux?
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    26 days ago

    If you just want to do pedestrian activities like gaming and desktop stuff, you’re fine with the average nvidia driver install tutorial, and it’s pretty trivial.

    If you want more niche or advanced features like HDR tuning in Wayland or using cuda applications, you may want to consider that amd drivers are actually open and allow you to get into those kinds of tunables.

    That said, there are still features and performance kept away from the user with nvidia, despite their never-ending promises of making drivers open, and nvidia has been rewarded for being not open on Linux, which a lot of us don’t like. I personally am one of those and my stance with nvidia is partly one of principle.