Posts by Cloudane

AmigaOS updated in 2025 for some reason

Nothing attracts money grabbing quite like the Amiga. It's amazing that it's still milkable after all these years

M4 MacBook Air keeps ports modular, locks tight – still a headache to repair

I generally find that laptops don't need repairing much at least if you look after them and especially if fanless.

That said I'm disappointed it has a soldered SSD. I'd hoped this would be the portable equivalent of the value for money that is the M4 Mini, but that's only good value if you fit the aftermarket SSDs. Pay the Apple tax to get past the very futurevulnerable 256GB and it quickly turns into a rip off.

Soon the most popular 'real' desktop will be the Linux desktop

Re: The 'Everything is in the Cloud' mantra

I think there will always be something for business users (and so something for privacy conscious home users to "acquire" if we're not given an option) for the simple reason there are some companies like ours who CANNOT work in the cloud. We're handling official sensitive information and at least at the moment, the entity we get most of our money from as very much NO BUENO when it comes to us letting any of that data anywhere near a cloud. And as a lot of professional software is Windows only, there's no getting around it.

Why do people even WANT a laggy ass desktop (as anyone who's tried to do much over remote desktop can attest) that slows down further when someone else on the network is hogging the bandwidth and fails altogether whenever your internet goes down? It's bizarre.

I hope this doesn't price us out of ordinary desktops. Supply and demand etc.

Just Docker room talk: Container upstart's enterprise wing sold to Mirantis, CEO out, Swarm support faces ax

Re: Argh! What now?

Thanks. I was a literal day 1 (well, day 0.5) newbie so this article was just really badly timed for me to come across - now gone through a couple of hours of tutorials and wishing I'd got into Docker years ago as it'll make at least my personal VPS much easier to manage and keep secure...

With it being marketed towards the enterprise there's a massive wall of 'Enterprise IT Jargon (TM)' and 'Enterprise IT Block Diagrams of Doom (TM)' that act as a bit of a barrier to entry (which is why I never got around to even trying to learn how it works) and lost in all that was the confusion with the terminology. I found that this link helped to clear things up: https://www.sumologic.com/blog/kubernetes-vs-docker/

If I understand correctly it sounds like this is something I won't need to worry about unless I come across a much more upscaled scenario that warrants an orchestrator (at which point now you'd go for the awkwardly named Kubernetes rather than Docker Swarm) but that at my level of 'one server' we're just working with Docker Engine and the Docker Hub which are here to stay and nothing to worry about.

Argh! What now?

I just literally started learning Docker yesterday and wake up to this. So uh, is that a good thing or a bad thing? Most things on here are bad, right?

Mostly interested for what I guess will be the "community" version (I'll use it at work, but they're not big or rich enough to call themselves an 'enterprise', so CentOS rather than SLES etc) but should I abandon it before they start screwing it over in some way?

Out of Steam? Wine draining away? Ubuntu's 64-bit-only x86 decision is causing migraines

Re: Mint

Based off != clone of

I'm not aiming this at you in particular, but the overall media with their sensationalism: Why would upstream dictate downstream? Debian never used to provide various proprietary or patented codecs etc because of their philosophy but that never stopped Ubuntu adding them, no one said "oh no, Debian says they won't bundle MP3 so now Ubuntu can't ever have MP3 support" (before the patents expired, but an example off the top of my head) so why should Ubuntu's decision to leave out 32-bit libraries (now somewhat reversed, but arguably not completely) stop Mint from adding them just like they add Cinnamon and numerous other things? That's the beauty of open source, it's not like Mark Shuttleworth is holding a gun to anyone's head and stopping them. Pop!OS devs have already said they'll put 32-bit back in if it disappears from Ubuntu.

Why do we act like Linux distros are closed source these days? Surely there are plenty of solutions for this - put them back yourself via custom packages or even compiled from source, shove 'em back on with a PPA as and when someone makes one, create yet another Ubuntu fork, use one of the myriad of existing forks... jump on the Pop!OS bandwagon for example as they've announced they'll put 32-bit back in downstream if it disappears from upstream.

Linux is open source software! Let's not panic about what one has-been distro decides to do with their offical repos.

LastPass scrambles to fix another major flaw – once again spotted by Google's bugfinders

Alright, probably time to switch. Looking at Enpass as a likely one, which lets you use your own storage and uses an open source encryption engine. Question though - are these only *appearing* to be less insecure because all the attention from researchers and the media is on Lastpass at the moment? Would they find just as many flaws if they looked at the competitors just as closely (do they?)