This human reaction to a lot of stuff. It's interesting how it looks like a PID loop. https://theautomization.com/pid-control-basics-in-detail-part-2/

It does feel like we are talking past each other. Probably coming from very different places. All the best anyway.

Come on.

'Welcome to the Exile Guild ~The incompetent S-rank party will banish more and more talented adventurers, so collect the weakest and create the strongest guild~ 1 (Dragon Comics Age) - Yusuke Araki'

Is not a reasonable name.

I get:

ようこそ『追放者ギルド』へ ～無能なＳランクパーティがどんどん有能な冒険者を追放するので、最弱を集めて最強ギルドを創ります～ 1 (ドラゴンコミックスエイジ) - 荒木 佑輔

As 87 Unicode characters and 241 bytes in UTF8.

So this unreasonable name does fit.

I don't see this limit changing any time soon because in hitting it, you're naming files unmanageablely. Pretty sure that is what the main devs will say and concentrate on more important stuff. If you present them with nice code for it, maybe they will take it. If not, it will mean carrying those patches on own folk. Though maybe you could get them to take bits of it making the carrying easier.

No, that’s not needed I think.

People doing it for themselves is very common. I've fixed bugs in all kinds of things, including the Linux kernel. People doing it for money is a world I don't know, but I know of. Example : https://console.algora.io/

You can also just hire a contractor, or team, to do open source. I've done that, at the developer end (Qt4 Windows port work).

Wine is, old. It's from 1993. The code is great though. Over 12 years ago, when stuck on Windows for work, I used to use it as a reference when the MSDN didn't cover stuff. But I wouldn't recommend it though as a way of living on a UNIX. If you are depent on Windows apps, you aren't ready to leave. Wine does not make a UNIX into Windows. Changing underlying implementation bring out bugs in software above. With closed shit, you can't fix them. Wine does however, give you a route to running a piece of Windows software, if you have the time to give that software the set of Windows bug it expects, "Bug for bug". Valve have basics lovingly wrapped Windows games with what each game needs.

You want unlimited filename length?? Yer... that's a bad idea. Everything has a limit set for good reason.

Yes with open source you can do it yourself, but you can also pay someone to do it. Skills+time, or money to pay someone with the skills, that's what is needed. There is nothing stopping what you want happening. Yet it doesn't. Not even talk of if it by looks of it

This a mountain out of mole hill.

I have no idea what you are on about with Windows games exes. I assume you know of Stream's Proton and just Wine.

It's a backup. On the main machine there are two disks (fast & big and slow & smaller) not in raid, with a btrfs copy.

It would be quite an event to lose all three copies.

Remote storage (Pi at parents house with a big disk) and cron'ed btrfs send over ssh.

As a Brit, we just had riots due to a rightwing posh dickhead "just asking questions". Look for "Farage riots". (Something Elon made worse)

Some questions aren't questions but dog whistles and conspiracy theories.

Of course owning stock in one Elon company compromises you judging another Elon company. You don't even have to look hard to see how he leverages one for another. Or could if he hadn't already. Not seeing it is done willfully.

I doubt the Linux kernel bricks itself when filename are too long, regardless of encoding. It doesn't do characters, but just bytes. If there is too maybe bytes, they just get trimmed. User level above I can certainly believe. On all platforms. Difference is you can fix it in the open world and throw a patch. It's an embarrassing crash, and will be a simple fix, so it will get in. Closed products, well maybe you can log it, maybe they will fix it, but your in serfdom unless you have real money and other options.

The other thing that makes me think this can't be as a big an issue as you say is, the example you gave, still looks bloody long. Seams like doing it wrong if the filename is a sentence. It filename, not filesentence.

This tiny, and seemingly silly, thing, doesn't make Windows and NTFS not laughablely in 2024.

Has it got electrolytes?

Open source clearly works because of the scale and breath of it's use. That's the modern world and its use is only increasing. This a good thing for multiple reasons.

Unicode filename length clearly isn't as big an issue as you feel or it would be fixed. There is some BIG money that could be spent to fix this for countries and companies who need unicode.

How you encrypt depends on your aim. If you aim is limit your character available for filenames, there are ways. If it's read only, you do a GPG tar ball. LUKS if you want a live system. You can just create a file, LUKS format it.

Resetup

sudo fallocate -l 1G test.img
sudo cryptsetup luksFormat --type luks2 test.img
sudo cryptsetup luksOpen test.img myplace
sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/myplace
sudo mkdir /mnt/myplace
sudo mount /dev/mapper/myplace /mnt/myplace

close

sudo umount /mnt/myplace
sudo cryptsetup luksClose myplace

reopen

sudo cryptsetup luksOpen test.img myplace
sudo mount /dev/mapper/myplace /mnt/myplace

Basically the same as systemd-homed does for you: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd-homed

But there are many ways. A good few filesystems offer folder/file encryption natively. Though I'd argue that's less secure.

See things is, I'm a Brit. Water and rail are going to be brought back under groverment control because running them privately has failed. Buses are another one where when the local government has taken back over, services have improved. Partly because they are run providing a service, not a profit.

Certain bit of society's infrastructure is better run at a loss for the better running of the wider economy. If every bit is run at a profit, the whole can be less profitable. Most countries don't have all private road system. France has lot of private motorways, which are strangely empty, because the local avoid them because of cost. Like the M6 Toll in the UK.

I have lived quite happily, on pretty much only open source for over 12 years now. Professionally and at home (longer at home). Debian I put with Wikipedia as an example of what humans can be.

There is no gate keepers in who can do what where. Only on who will accept the patches. Projects fork for all kinds of reasons, though even Google failed to fork the Linux kernel. If there is some good patch to extend the filename limit, it will get in. Enough pressure and maybe the core team of that subsystem will do it.

Open source already won I'm affriad. Most of the internet, IoT to super computers, runs open source. Has been that way for a while. If you use Windows, fine, but it is just a consumer end node OS for muggels. 😉

If you setup a new install, and say you want encryption, LUKS is what you get.