Linus didn’t only call out people posting flame replies, but also folks interested in a serious discussion on that topic, who also contributed to the kernel before (see PeterCxy’s blog: https://typeblog.net/55833/getting-called-paid-actor-by-linus-torvalds).

Here’s what he actually said:

I’m also not going to start discussing legal issues with random internet people who I seriously suspect are paid actors and/or have been riled up by them.

That’s ambiguous at best.

I find it more likely that it’s targetted at the greater crowd replying to that thread rather than this person specifically due to it’s general tone. If Linus things you are full of shit, you can be that he will call you out specifically rather than wording it like this.

AFAIK we still don’t know the exact reasons for the removal, which is just intransparent.

We do: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Compliance-Requirements.

where he called several kernel developers paid actors

He didn’t. He (rightly) called out people who have never contributed to the kernel and posted flame replies to the initial announcement on the mailing list.

This isn’t some wild conspiracy theory either, this is a thing Russia actually does: cause disarray and split “western” communities; divide and conquer. It’s an their explicit goal of the Kremlin to do this; there’s credible accounts of that.

If you want a community that’s resistant to such influences, you ought to call this sort of thing out whenever you see it.

AND have backups.

Great way to show off you haven’t actually read any of the article past its title.

• µG is not running as root
• It does not “already have google code in it”. That’s an optional, tightly scoped feature with one specific blob that is required to implement the SafetyNet feature in any implementation
• I see no reason why you couldn’t run µG inside a sandbox too; the differentiating factor for security is the sandbox, not the GMS implementation. Also has nothing to do with privacy as, contrary to the original GMS, µG doesn’t spy on you to begin with.

I don’t see how being home-assistant excludes it from working on your phone. The only difference is that your phone acts as the “satellite” rather than a stationary device.

How do you compose Guix projects?

There’s the WIP NixOS-based SnowflakeOS that aims to make NixOS approachable for mere mortals but that’s still declarative configuration and of course still NixOS under the hood.

There’s a bunch of immutable distros out there that use OStree or some other imperatively managed snapshotting mechanism such as Fedora Silverblue or VanillaOS.

Not what you’re asking for but a potential solution: Your TV itself might support Miracast.

I haven’t used channels in years, but doesn’t that just refer to the running system, not using Nix to build projects?

I have no idea what you’re trying to say here.

While that is true, it’s also r13y on another level: Reproducible evaluation. That mostly stems from pure eval and locking.

In the “before times”, you’d get your Nix expressions from some mutable location in the Nix path, so running i.e. a nixos-rebuild on your configuration could produce two different eval results when ran at two different times, depending on whether anything about your channel configuration changed in the mean time. This cannot happen with flakes as all inputs are explicitly given and locked.

You could achieve the same using niv etc. before but that had its own issues.

This is a lot to take in; it’s basically an overview of all the interesting features of Nix. When starting out, you don’t need this kind of in-depth knowledge. I personally gathered most of what was covered here in over 6-12months of using it and I did just fine.

It might still not be for you but don’t take this as the reference point.

If you need to set up a special dedicated subvolume, might aswell set up a partition instead; it’s just simpler.

With a swapfile you also can’t do multi-device setups which is a limitation I personally couldn’t live with.

I’d highly recommend setting up a swap partition instead.

Why go through all of that complexity when you could just sudo apt install docker?

Now that’s meta.

That’s not at all grep-like. Grep is a line filter, not a character sequence highlighter.

That mitigates a rather minimal leak while ignoring the gaping black data hole.

Yes, a slight speed decrease is expected even with good proxy services at common residential speeds. Given that yours is far above the average, a greater decrease can be expected. It shouldn’t be this much though.

If this is installed on a common “router” SOHO gateway appliance, it’s likely that its hardware is simply not able to keep up with the tunnelling workload (encryption, package handling). For troubleshooting, try the same proxy server on a more powerful machine while disabling the proxy on the gateway. If it’s faster, that’s likely your issue.

Also try a different proxy server. That particular one might simply not have enough capacity to serve you more than that.

If you don’t have the requisite bare metal to run Guix by itself

That’s a bit disingenuous wording as modern hardware that can run without proprietary firmware is an absolute rarity at this point.

The vast majority of people on earth do not have access to such hardware.

The linux-libre kernel is only an issue for Guix System (the analogue to NixOS for Nix)

Point taken. I was talking about the OS aspect of both though, given that @Ramin_HAL9001@lemmy.ml compared it to Debian and Fedora.

The project should have really kept the GuixSD name. Much clearer separation and also sounds a lot better.

package managers who attempt to sweep nonfree software under the rug and try to make the issue invisible.

Which ones?

In Nix, you get a giant red error when you try to eval unfree software and need to explicitly opt-in.