That’s amazing that they would consider auto-generated responses to be appropriate in something which is supposed to be reference documentation. We are a good way from that type of querying and explanation being reliable.

I use a cheap USB recharageable rear light from Amazon which have worked great and are nice and bright. For the front light those don’t work so well if you need to illuminate the road ahead (rather than just be seen by others). I use a LifeLine pavo 720 lumen light which has been great. I don’t think they sell that particular model any more but something like this is very close.

Yes, have been seeing this too. Only spotted it when I tried to upvote.

2 weeks? Something has gone horribly wrong. They either don’t have backups or they’re corrupt and they’re trying data recovery. After this long it seems pretty unlikely they’re ever coming back.

Yeah, conceptually I like it. A while back I used to run my systems on Fedora which was great in that I always had the latest of everything, but doing updates every 6 months got tedious. Stream seems like a good compromise on the way to that.

The lack of stability is actually quite attractive to me. In a scientific environment we’re normally running fairly new, often unstable code, and we often hit problems because of using older versions of libraries / packages / compilers, so somthing which stays a bit more current would be good and we can deal with breakage if it happens. The trouble is the management systems around HPC assume you’re working on enterprise systems, which isn’t really true in our case.

I’ve looked at things like OpenHPC but they’re still on RHEL8 (RHEL9 is in testing but not released yet), and even lower level tools like warewulf is still only supporting RHEL8 at the moment which is getting too old for me to want to build a new system from it.

I’ve looked at more generic tools like Ansible and Chef / Puppet but before I go down that rabbit hole I’d like a sanity check that there isn’t something more suited that I’m missing.

I’d forgotten about Dark Matter! I binge watched the whole of that and was then disapointed that there weren’t more series. Not the biggest production but I got drawn in by the characters.

This would be mine too - it’s the one series that I’ve actually been back and re-watched multiple times, and I’ve gone back to the books too.

In contrast to others comments I’m not sure I want any more seasons of it. I loved the current set but it feels like it ran its course and I’m not sure I need anything more.

Does this mean that X11 builds will work better than they currently do? Firefox has been unusable over remote X11 for quite a while now due to the way it renders its main display. The amount of traffic it generates when sending remote X events is so large that the interface is practically unusable. If they’re now partitioning Wayland support from X11 and are making the X support compatible with remote X then I’m all for this!

It looks like the downstream rebuilders are already working on this and are able to extract (with a bit more work) the information they need from the stream repo. How much Redhat tries to block these approaches remains to be seen, but if they can work around this so quickly then it seems a pretty petty stunt to pull.

https://almalinux.org/blog/impact-of-rhel-changes/

https://rockylinux.org/news/brave-new-world-path-forward/

I’m not clear what this means for distros like Alma or Rocky which used to rebuild the SRPMs that RedHat made available. Are they now dead in the water, or is there a more indirect way for them to get to the code. It looks like the CentOS Stream repository will have all of the code released by RHEL but it’s going to take a lot of work to find and extract those packages from the ongoing development, so that’s likely going to difficult if not unfeasible.

This is going to be a huge pain to anyone using these distros - it’s fine to say we should all move to Debian based distributions, but that sort of migration takes time and planning. If this is implemented immediately then you’re going to see a ton of unpatched systems around as existing distros lose support.

Getting ready to do something exciting, but being held up by something trivial.

For example, I’m about to go on holiday, but I can’t find my car keys. [Spoiler - I never find them and I wake up without having been on holiday ]