Say you are working for a family member (helping your dad with his company or sth.). A colleague once had to go help his parents with their small company and no one questioned it a bit. No “better pay?” or “man you are moving far away!” just “oh, well good luck”.
There are a lot of big ones like Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Fedora or Arch. Arch is for users with a little more experience. But funnily enough Arch has like child-distributions, that build upon its core. Ubuntu is also a ‘child’ of Debian an Mint builds onto Ubuntu.
It’s kind of like three or four big families, that had lots of children. 😂
(and then there are NixOS, OpenSuse and lots of others, which I forgot)
It has to do with Linux.
Linux itself is not a fully fledged operating system as most people would expect it. Since Linux has to work on servers and microchips as well as on desktop PCs, lots of stuff is not shipped with it.
For example Linux is missing a way to display windows and has no real package manager.
A distro (or distribution) is a predefined set of of software, that makes it easier for a user to use Linux.
This is mostly a window manager or desktop environment like KDE or GNOME, a package manager like apt or pacman and useful software like an office suite, a browser and other stuff.
Distros also exist for servers, the ln they don’t include a way to display images, but still have a package manager and other useful stuff preinstalled.
That’s of course not all, but maybe gives you a little overview.
Okay,so you are talking professional equipment with software patches to be applied by professionals.
The article (and also the comments as I understood them) was about end users updating software themselves. Those are two very different things.
Yes, we also only update needed patches on systems we handle, but as an end user I do not check all updates that I apply on my private PC.
Why would I?
Oh yes, why would I apply a security patch for Bluetooth which I don’t even use, on my life-supporting device which someone else could connect to via Bluetooth without me knowing or noticing?
What you are saying is far from reality. Most patches only state vague stuff like “security” or “Bluetooth”.
How would you know, what those mean? Bluetooth could be “Hey, you can now monitor even more with your app” or “fixed some big holes in the chips security which made it hack able via Bluetooth”.
So if I am seeing this right, you would normally just stick those little bumps directly onto the pcb?
With the battery you will not only have to protect the upper side from the solder points but also the under side from… Well the desk and stuff.
You could 3d print a small case for the battery or just cut a small sheet of hard plastic that you have laying around (packaging material) into size und use that for both sides.
I second this.
I’m currently using multiple apps for multiple accounts, since this multi account stuff is not really optimal in any app I’ve tested so far. Account-specific NSFW would certainly help.
Okay, so I upgraded our server and tested Element X and it is really basic at the moment and also has rich text mode as input mode. This was already buggy in element, but had to be toggled on. Now it’s always there and has errors…
Try doing a line break after an emoji and then write something, to see what I am talking about.
Is there a way to get Element X via fdroid?
I am currently using SchildiChat after I used Fluffychat and Element for a while.
All work fine, but Schildi looked best, when I last compared them.
Schildi and Element also have great, similiar looking desktop clients.
DF works on Linux since the beginning.
The Lazy Newb Pack was always available for Linux and through Proton the Steam Pro Version also worked from day one and I never had issues.
It even works with DFhack.
This whole post is so funny, because by reading the comments I think OP tried installing GL Tron of all games and it didn’t work for some reason, spotted that it was last updated 12 years ago and thinks that’s why it doesn’t work on modern phones and now everybody here (me included) is having a great time playing GL Tron on their even more modern phones. 😂
Also this is the exact reason, F-Droid shouldn’t remove apps. Because the algorithm cannot know if the app is just completed and works even 12 years later or whether it’s abandoned and stopped working 2 months later.
Edit:
Just for the record, I have looked through droidify because of their “all apps by last updated”-list and scrolled all the way down.
The “most abandoned app” is Trolly. A shopping list app with too many permissions.
The “most abandoned game” is DroidAtomix which seems unplayable on my phone. The next “better” game is Replica Island which does still work, but is not that much fun to play tbh.