If you’re on a Mac, you can likely use an app called “Balena Etcher” to create a bootable Linux USB… if it’s an Intel mac, you can just boot that right up by holding option at boot-time. If you’re on an Apple Silicon Mac, you are not going to be able to boot most Linux distros there. If you’re on PC, you can usually stick the flash drive in and mash F12 at boot-time to get into a menu, select the USB stick, and then it’ll boot you into a “live environment” to test with. That way you can just poke around and see if you like it. Almost all distributions come with a live environment by default.

There are a lot of differences and a lot of similarities between the operating systems here. It will take you time to get used to no matter what you do. Start by swapping your apps on your existing Mac, trade out any apps that you know won’t work on Linux with apps that do. That way, you spend some time in your existing environment with the new apps you’re going to need going forward.

Next, make sure to test out your peripherals in a live environment. Does everything you use with your computer work correctly? If not, find out why. See if you can mitigate it, or if you’ll need to replace stuff.

Finally, be willing to experiment. I know others in this thread will recommend various desktop environments and distributions to you. Try many of them. GNOME is good and simple out of the box, feels kinda mac-like, but if you want to completely replicate the functionality of macOS, KDE Plasma has more options for that like global menus and the file management app (Dolphin) is incredibly extensible and customizable.

Try to have fun with it, and don’t give up. It takes time to learn a new way of working, and you will likely have frustrations along the way, but ultimately the goal is to learn and figure out what works best for your needs.

This is a specimen of the fabled “blue maga” disease. Watch out! It’s contagious if you’re particularly dull.

This is just TOS enforcement, they updated their TOS in October. From the article:

Github updated its acceptable use policies in October 2025 to forbid “sexually themed or suggestive content that serves little or no purpose other than to solicit an erotic or shocking response, particularly where that content is amplified by its placement in profiles or other social contexts.” This include pornographic content and “graphic depictions of sexual acts including photographs, video, animation, drawings, computer-generated images, or text-based content,” according to the terms.

I just buy whatever games come out that strike my fancy. It’s an industry problem that can only be solved by unionization.

How does this sort of thing usually get handled in Canada anyway?

This has become standard practice in this industry now. The play is to work for indie companies or bust.

You can take my automatic climate control from my cold dead hands. Fuck this!

I mean, I am an engineer who does customer-facing work… it’s not been my experience that sales and marketing people are this bad. I suppose maybe I just work for an exceptionally chill company, but wow, that really sucks.

I’m sure you’re just venting, but be sure to monitor your attitude going into work because this kind of resentment, if held at all times, will drive you insane.

Wow, tell me how you really feel about sales people. Jeez.

Developers very seldom communicate in a way that pleases their company leadership. There’s a reason support, sales and marketing people have jobs. If companies didn’t need them, they would cut them to save cost.

However, the developer should be able to put down their changes and whomever is in charge of communications should be using the change log as a chance to communicate to end users the changes in a friendly way. Not this nonsense. LLM could do it but it, but it’s best to have it written by a person.

Or that the person writing the changelog is in marketing and knows that end users will be seeing this as communication directly from the company. Marketing people tend to foam at the mouth when they see a chance to “connect with their users”.

Yes, that’s the result of this. A better government would pay its citizens a few hundred bucks a day for jury duty.

Most middle class jobs tend to give paid leave for jury duty. If you can’t get that or can’t afford the lost income, you can usually get out of having to appear because of that.

That’s also a viable solution, but for me I just use Btrfs snapshots on my NAS. My files are stored on a different device and the Jellyfin container only sees them as a mounted dir, not even aware that it’s an SMB mount.

I think the point here is that Jellyfin doesn’t have a centralized login or website like Plex does. An attacker would have to know about your server and log into it directly to get access. If you run it in a container, there isn’t a lot they can do other than trashing your media library, which you should have protected with filesystem snapshots anyway.

Downvote, move on

Been using Arch + KDE Plasma since 2021 with very few issues. Now I have a job as a support engineer for a Linux software company.

I been doin it for years already!! It’s easy to just set up a 4-bay NAS with docker containers running apps that replace your existing cloud services

The removable batteries coming back would also impact the iPhone, which actually respects user privacy because Apple is not a marketing company. Apple is a products and services company, they sell tech devices and make a lot of money on services like Apple Music and TV+ and such. It’s expensive for a reason; you can even take the encryption keys out of Apple’s hands for iCloud so you genuinely are fully protected