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[META] 7k subscribers - Call for Mods

I am ready and more than eager to accept this position of power, if only to go mad with the power acquired.

I am willing to put in the absolute minimum, if not nonexistent amount of effort into this job, while at the same time taking the maximum amount of credit for how well the whole thing is running.

This is my bid for one of the mod positions.

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Linux for the Airheaded Layman?

I have tried to learn Linux for ages, and have experimented with installing Arch and Ubuntu.

There's your problem. Try Linux Mint.

Is it an unrealistic goal to want to eventually run a computer with coreboot and a more cybersecurity heavy emphasis? I’m still a noob at this and any advice would be appreciated!

Don't try to bite off more than you can chew. Start small and easy, with a beginner Linux distro, and once you've become really comfortable with that, you can try to move onto something less user friendly.

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Thoughts on RHEL going closed source ?

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CentOS is basically RHEL without Red Hat commercial stuff, so sources will still be freely available, just not directly from Red Had, am I understanding it correctly?

No, CentOS is no longer a RHEL clone, but a beta version of stuff that goes into RHEL.

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Why does this keep happening?

Bah. This is weak. Try the real world stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

Unit 731 was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes committed by the Japanese armed forces. It routinely conducted tests on people who were dehumanized and internally referred to as "logs". Experiments included disease injections, controlled dehydration, biological weapons testing, hypobaric pressure chamber testing, vivisection, organ procurement, amputation, and standard weapons testing. Victims included not only kidnapped men, women (including pregnant women) and children but also babies born from the systemic rape perpetrated by the staff inside the compound.

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Rocky wants to continue getting RHEL sources via public cloud instances and/or via UBI container images

Another method that we will leverage is pay-per-use public cloud instances. With this, anyone can spin up RHEL images in the cloud and thus obtain the source code for all packages and errata.

Nice. Red Hat gets paid (lets remember that they do contribute significantly to the FOSS, they should be getting paid for their work), and RHEL clones do have a way forward. Sounds like a win-win.

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How can I access my actual saved comments instead of permalinks? (Reddit Data Request)

They should have given you the actual data, not the permalinks to the data. If you're in a jurisdiction that requires by law that they need to make your data available, then they're in violation of that. Consider taking legal action.

As for saving the data, that's mostly trivial for anyone who knows how to write simple scrapping code. But again, this shouldn't be needed, as the data itself should have been provided, not links.

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would you recommend debian testing for a daily driver?

Just keep in mind that you will not be receiving speedy security updates, and in some cases you will need to wait for quite a while before packages you have will be updated (weeks, maybe longer).

If you want a proper rolling release distro that is not Arch/Gentoo/Void/Nix/GuixSD, you could go for openSUSE, which provides a rolling release distro with a system rollback feature by default. Nice, easy to use GUIs for whatever you need. Although openSUSE also is sometimes a bit slow with the security updates for some packages, it's nowhere near as slow as Debian testing.