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The original was posted on /r/northkoreapics by /u/King-Sassafrass on 2025-09-15 15:02:48+00:00.

I have 3 machines I've switched to Linux: an old laptop with Mint, and my primary laptop and PC runing Ubuntu Studio. I use Protonvpn on all 3.

Today I had my app manager on Mint and Discover on Ubuntu showing new updates. I installed Mint's first, via the manager and Proton was an update. It mentioned it would uninstall a few proton things so I figured it had to uninstall them in order to install the new update. Protonvpn stopped working after, it looked uninstalled but my killswitch was still active (so no internet at all and no access to open the vpn app). I had to find out how to kill the network processes via ncmli (good new info to learn!) and do a roundabout uninstall through a process I found in an old Proton post as just uninstalling it with normal commands didn't work, restart the laptop then reinstall Protonvpn.

So on my laptop and PC, I updated via terminal instead, using sudo apt update/upgrade. All smooth and no issues.

Was my Mint problem a one-off glitch or is there a real difference when updating via update manager vs the terminal?

Edit: Thanks guys, seems the general consensus is yes, but some of ya's say no haha. I knew going into the question that having Mint screw up with manager and Ubuntu Studio work with terminal opens a lot of os possibilities beyond simply manager vs terminal.

Next Proton update, I'm going to try the terminal on Mint instead of manager, and the manager on my Ubuntu Studio laptop instead of terminal and see if anything screws up.

Qamishli (Syria) (AFP) – Thousands of people in Kurdish-controlled northeastern Syria rallied Wednesday in support of their autonomous administration and called for decentralisation as negotiations with Damascus over the region's future stall.

Damascus and Syria's Kurds have been in talks to integrate Kurdish civil and military institutions into the central government under a March deal, but differences between the two sides have held up implementation.

The Kurds have called for decentralisation, which Damascus has rejected.

Thousands of people were seen on the streets in the city of Qamishli, some raising the flags of the administration or the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, the administration's de facto army.

Some held a banner reading: "The SDF is the will of the people."

In a speech, senior Syrian Kurdish official Aldar Khalil said: "When we talk about decentralisation, we want it for all Syria, not just our own region."

"If the Kurdish issue is not resolved, Syria will not be a democratic state and the crises will not end," he said.

Several rounds of talks have been held between Damascus and the Kurds since the March deal but tensions have stymied progress.

Kurdish officials have criticised a temporary constitutional declaration adopted by the new Islamist authorities who toppled longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, saying it failed to reflect Syria's diversity.

Sectarian clashes in south Syria's Druze-majority Sweida province in July and massacres of the Alawite community on Syria's coast in March have heightened Kurdish concerns.

Last month, Syria's Kurds criticised the forthcoming selection of members of a new transitional parliament as undemocratic, after authorities postponed the process for Kurdish-controlled areas in the north and northeast.

The selection process is due to take place this month.

Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa said last week that "negotiations with the SDF were going well, but it seems there has been some type of hindrance or slowdown in the deal's implementation".

He said he had done everything "in the interest of northeast (Syria) and everything that would facilitate... not reaching a battle or war."

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Letter.

A new Harvard survey found that 41% of Amazon employees get their schedule less than two weeks ahead of when they are scheduled to work, a practice known as “just-in-time” scheduling. For many employees — especially for those with responsibilities outside of their Amazon job, like caregiving, education, or additional jobs — just-in-time arrangements are unworkable.

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Just-in-time scheduling could have other consequences beyond leaving workers with little control over their own schedules and lives. The practice could mean that workers aren’t given enough hours, forcing them to become part-time workers with virtually no notice or ability to budget accordingly. Workers in the warehousing and transportation sectors are particularly likely to report high rates of anxiety, stress, and lack of control over their jobs as compared to other sectors — on top of elevated risk of injury and illness. And Amazon’s use of just-in-time scheduling could be indicative of other unfair scheduling practices, like “on-call” requirements — which force workers to remain available for shifts that may or may not come to be — or refusal to reschedule workers.

Latin America is the most dangerous region for environmental advocates, with many of the cases remaining unsolved, according to a new report. Indigenous people, farmers and activists are all among the casualties.

Is a depiction, description, or simulation, whether real, animated, digitally generated, written, or auditory, that includes a disconnection between biology and gender by an individual of 1 biological sex imitating, depicting, or representing himself or herself to be of the other biological sex by means of a combination of attire, cosmetology, or prosthetics, or as having a reproductive nature contrary to the individual's biological sex.

Yes its proposed, yes it won't pass, yes it would be struck down.

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In the past two years a number of “open source” companies have quietly shifted from permissive licences to “non-compete” or pay-walled models. MariaDB introduced the Business Source Licence (BSL) in 2016; MongoDB, Confluent and Redis Labs followed; and HashiCorp switched Terraform to a non-compete licence. The justification is almost always the same: as these companies grow, the financial upside of being fully open diminishes, so they try to cut off “freeloaders” and capture more value. But the backlash is real: users and competitors fork projects and publish manifestos warning that licence switches create legal risk.

Red Hat’s decision to remove public access to RHEL source code has hit a similar nerve. SUSE’s Dr. Thomas Di Giacomo notes that RHEL exists only because of upstream projects like the Linux kernel, and Red Hat’s move has caused “significant concern within the open source community.” He argues that the freedom to access, modify and distribute software should remain open to all.

At the same time, many maintainers who make the code that powers our systems aren’t being paid. A 2024 Tidelift report found that 60 % of maintainers remain unpaid. The same report called this a “tragedy of the commons”: companies use free software without contributing code or funding. Burnout is inevitable; one developer with nearly three-quarters of a million downloads says he receives “no money at all.” Advocacy groups now propose that companies pay maintainers directly, for example; the OSS Pledge suggests $2 000 per developer per year.

So where’s the ethical line? At what point does gating features or switching licences move from sustainable funding to a betrayal of open-source values? Should we accept freemium models as a way to pay maintainers, or do they undermine the freedom that made Linux and FOSS so powerful? Curious how others here see it.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/1273215

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