@pcalvert

He doesn't really make it clear that he is talking about the kernel and also, windows security features of being locked down are largely meaningless due to being proprietary and it having backdoors.

Linux can be hardened if you know how, however. firejail is one way. I don't understand the criticisms about firejail either. Besides, windows executables are marked as executable once downloaded. The same is not true for linux. Which is why windows gets malware easily... so yeah...

@GlennW fun fact, btw, minus the fun.

But seriously, that github is mocked on reddit and I have trolled them as well in the past.

I did so making a fake issue on github.

LOL!

I wonder how many other social media websites make fun of them.

They must think people are stupid to why corporations even are funding "open source"

Preferably libre software because its open source minus the possibility of proprietary with a huge focus on freedom.

If you want to use win3.0 or as new as winME or anything in between, dosbox-x is perfect for that.

I have used it before, you install win95 for example into dosbox-x hdd.img.

I followed the dosbox-x guide.

As an obvious statement though, I keep that image from having network connections.

Because it would be downright insane not to...

You can also build dosbox-x to not be connected to the internet. And, the image itself, can be installed without the network features.

Done that with win95.

Only really do that to play arcane games that have no new variants or have bad ones.  Westwood monopoly is a good example as is the cheesy yet silly SORRY! game.  both are good, but the latter is more fun than the board game itself due to extra cards being added.

If you use dosbox-x and want to keep your system secure, though.

A: only mount ISOs you know are not malware because I don't know if its possible for them to escape into linuxland
B: as previously stated keep disconnected from the internet
C: preferably Both and more

On a final note, be careful with putting files in via nbd if you try to.  Been there myself.

Anyways though, getting off topic yet again.

Privoxy is a good use, but tblock is also a good use.

tblock changes your /etc/hosts

and adds stuff that will be blocked, such as ads, trackers, etc...

If you curious whether I use tblock or privoxy, the answer is simple.

I use both.

I actually looked this up at one point, before I saw you replied here and the solution was git reset revision --hard

That seems to be what I wanted most of all.

I will add myself to the list of "I started with DOS"

Although for me, I was a 5 year old kid playing games on it

I love how unreal the graphics looked then.

Compare that to now where everything looks like it is straight from reality...

That's not why I ever played them games. It was to escape reality. But that's neither here nor there.

I currently use devuan on one of my devices due to my other OS Hyperbola, not supporting ARM64.

(Rockpro64)

Google also doesn't respect its user either. So github and gitlab are both effectively bad. Out of the two, I am shocked to say this, but "microsoft" is actually the less problematic one. Well, at least on a user agent sniffing level for sure.

Bonkers man...

I think changing from openmate might be wise... mate is a trademark isnt it?

Maybe the repo got taken down because of that? idk

@Vortex any benchmarks with speed of Reading and writing files and/or copying as well?

Like what speed, etc?

I am sure its faster to use ARM with micro sd than x86 due to the technology being newer.

GMOs should be avoided in products that directly effect the body, such as lotions, food, shampoo, water, deodorant.

As  for technology, can't avoid it lol.

Pardon me for asking, but are you the same athenian, who develops epyrus?

I became curious when I saw your username for that reason.

Btw, I don't see a benefit to wayland either.  These problems that they are trying to fix, could have been solved if they hadn't kept adding bloated linux frameworks and instead designed efficient lean, applications made with intelligence in mind IN the FIRST PLACE!

Emphasis I felt was needed, bloat makes problems inevitably a hundred times worse. Screw you redhat! Screw you corporations!

Seriously though, this is like web 2.0 and web 3.0, nobody needs javascript or java built into the web. Nor does anyone need novices building the web.

If you want something like the web, linux frameworks such as wayland done right, have an expert do it.

There is zero reason we should have all these security crucial stuff built by greedy simpletons who code as well as I can. The difference being, I admit I cannot develop code well and they have a tiny amount of skill but don't admit how terrible they are.

Btw, in case anyone responds, that a reason is for profit, that they feel like its a good reason. No...

greed justifies nothing. Money is an illusionary reason why something needs to be done. Its a false reason with no purpose.

This being said, I don't like the future of linux right now.  I almost wonder if stuff like my usb mouse, doesn't work because it requires some framework that I detest to make it work.

Dropping X11 for wayland is just another drop in the bucket called idiocracy

I should probably mention, I gave up. But if your curious as to if I ran root, no.

Also, no idea of wayland was causing the problem or not... but its weird, Hyperbola 0.4.4, a lot less packages and by default the usb mouse worked, but in Devuan 12 which has many newer packages, not so much.

Its bonkers...

Maybe I needed xfce or mate though?

Idk... so weird.

But since I stopped gaming again, it matters not.

@quickfur tokens?

1 million lines of code is very damn excessive. Actually, I was wrong, openrc has less than 20K lines of code currently. 1/5 of the limit I had said.

less than 100k?

Nah, its less than 20K

Hmm... thats weird, it looks like systemd must have been getting stuff torn out, because i see it has 790K

https://openhub.net/p?page=6&query=init

But yeah, 790K is still massively unreasonable.