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It is really difficult to suggest or even use a BSD myself. The hardware support is years behind Linux; Linux is often a year or behind Windows for new hardware, but much more for more niche things. Linux drivers, at least Intel and AMD graphics drivers, do tend to mature faster than their Windows counterparts in my limited experience.

Then you go into development work where the GNU version of many command line tools have more features than the BSD counterparts. Systemd offers very nice unification of a lot of previous disarrayed scripts. Wayland is the future, wish it was smoother and more unified, but people should not be using Xorg as it just does not handle things that well, such as different refresh rate monitors or screen tearing.

The only orgs that tend to use BSD tend to not want to give back. This harms the community. The GPL was very important for establishing a somewhat sustainable open source ecosystem.

Fedora is a nice busy, but power user and developer experience: only rolling for the parts you would care about with a year of security support.

Fedora is especially useful for a new hardware workstation with that year of support. Any longer than that in my experience you tend to run into issues. For example: DXVK, for Windows games with Steam/Proton, just moved to requiring Mesa 22.0 as a minimum and Fedora 35 has Mesa 22.1 something. Similar issues with Ruby development in the past.

Updates are more limited, with a few select packages kept rolling compared to a true rolling distro like Arch. When a new kernel series is release (6.0 => 6.1) Fedora holds off for a few weeks to test until 6.0 goes EOL. Gnome is kept to it's major release with only minor versions to fix bugs. Mesa is updated until a Fedora is released. Firefox is kept up to date and I use the snap for VSCode and Chromium based browsers. Most other packages are not updated to major new versions, except for Vim (and Emacs if I remember).

> Regarding Ubuntu... I'm forced to use it at work, and we use to "debianize" ubuntu servers... this is: remove snaps and snapd, remove netplan (for ifupdown), remove lot of dependencies that come with the minimal install (used only for their paid services), remove many services/packages (cloudinit, multipathd, polkit, motd-news, lxd, apport, etc)...

> In the last LTS, we we're forced to build our own installer at the end: a minimal live system + debootstrap + a couple of scripts (parted/mkfs/grub-install).

That is a lot of work. Why not use Debian itself? If you want that lts support you can use AlmaLinux in the RHEL clone camp. Not aware of any upsells in that system from my usage of it as a kiosk. The desktop is rough with some common packages missing from EL9, but the server would be excellent. Even CentOS Stream has longer free support than free Ubuntu LTS.

You are also not making a higher salary you would have made at the competitor depressing tax revenue and wages (especially until that minimum profits tax passed companies were paying 0% income taxes anyway).

The trade secret argument the poster above you alluded to is very unlikely. Usually a competitor is hiring you because you are already somewhat trained and up to speed in their field... and perhaps the competitor can slow your company's operations by hiring you away.

In the end, many companies only pay you what they have to keep their operations stable and feel more than free to pay the very top of management more than what they deserve, and keep those executive compensations while laying off people in operations quite freely when times are bad. Noncompetes only for the company, not the worker, during good times.

> To the oblivious observer it would appear cryptocurrency lives rent free in many heads in this space. If you don't care for it why pay attention to it?

Because it affects people. A lot of people needed graphics cards for not just gaming, but for 3d animation, video making, and video games during and after lockdown.

Ethereum was responsible for very large price increases and scarcity of graphics cards. The collapse of Ethereum eventually brought supply back to graphics cards-but we still have these inflated prices. Early in this recent crypto boom it was impossible to buy a mainstream card ($250-$400) while the top end cards were available because mining profitability on the mainstream ones was much higher.

This is before you consider that the high demand also attracted scalpers and the environmental issues.

That, and to support their favorite Youtube creators. LTT has said the watchtime payouts from Premium are worth more than ads.

On Linux Firefox with Intel Alder Lake Mobile graphics I get a "Your browser is not supported" error.

So I have owned an Android all my life and never daily driven an iPhone. The iPhone (edit forgot the iPhone part) screen seems more responsive and very bright and colorful. To me the freedom of an unlocked phone I can put my own apps on is very important for me for Android. Why should I get an iPhone?

edit: not sure most teens care or are unaware of Android's around 3 years support length for a phone.

Not the kernel, but the OS. Backwards compatibility and having GUI libraries LGPLed.

The Linux kernel has a rule not to break users, and for the most part, it is followed. This is not followed in userland where glibc and GNU GCC C++ library do break users with they accidentally do not follow the spec. GUI libraries like GTK and QT break binary and source compatibility every decade or so. Windows tries it's best to keep it and that makes people want to invest in it.

Now LGPL libraries, it is very difficult to write a self contained proprietary GUI binary on Linux. This is desirable because of the above, GUI libraries like to break compatibility every decade so you want to include your own so it can run in the future. Sublime has to write their own GUI frontend. Most proprietary developers use electron.

A solution to both is Iced, but it hasn't been out that long. Likely will try writing a small app in it later. Mit Licensed. Wayland and Vulkan support. https://github.com/iced-rs/iced

Is there a way to download this for offline viewing?

The company said it would look into that, also ARM and RISC-V mainboard versions.

Linus Tech Tips actually reached out to AMD on behalf of Framework and there he said there was no response on either side.

Is he actually doing the work? Is just copying code from OSS projects and does not actually understand it? Not only will this cause legal liability, but when the team is under stress will he just disappear or be able to solve an issue?

He already lied once. Why not lie more?

Do you have a contact where Red Hat people can reach you? (Not in the VM/Graphics space, but I can try to reach out to the right people.)

Just got a notice here in the US that Verizon is shutting down it's 3g network at the end of the year.

> It's a bloody shame that I can start any games from the 90s on an emulator and they run just as fine, even content heavy.

Eh, not exactly true. A lot of older Windows 90s games need some tweaks to their binaries to run. See what GOG.com did.

Even a more recent game, relatively, like Fallout 3 had issues with multi-core processors that required a tweak to get past the birth scene or you would hard crash. GOG includes this and plays out of the gate. As it should be for a game that is still sold on Steam, but the publisher/dev does not bother.

Personally I just avoid games like that and stick with indie titles for new games.

Yes and no.

Trump actually had a reporter's white house press credentials revoked and a court reversed it.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-reporter/u-s-ap...

The court does recognize the government has a right to prevent unruly behavior. But once it creates a forum with rules on who attends; it simply can not target those who disagree with it's speech.

Yes, American agencies have stonewalled in the past but the 1st and 14th amendments do place restrictions and practices the governments must follow or their acts can be blocked and that American courts do uphold. As far as I know most countries do not have these practices.

> I'm not sure this fully tracks. A type of public transit failed in California that succeeded elsewhere. If that is the reference, why can't I point to the tech industry and use it as positive evidence?

You asked for an example of another government doing better. I gave you a recent one by California's government. Japan is perhaps the best one, but many other countries do trains a lot better than California despite all the hype and money they put in it's mediocre result. It was a very open question that your follow up questions are trying to pivot to something else.

> And, most of the bad things you are bringing up are happening all throughout the US.

Please read my post again. Being below average in K-12 among the states, despite the high taxes and land values, is not happening all throughout the US.

> Just feels too convenient to say that the tech industry is in spite of the government, but the failures are because of it.

Please read what I wrote carefully above, I did not agree with that fully. My argument was more of the recent CA govt has not been addressing it's problems and the tech industry's success was due to good decisions in the past (and the weather). The recent CA govt actions has been poor. Calling the recent tech boom in spite of government policies is something I can somewhat agree with.

Bullet train: despite earthquakes and mountains, Japan runs a pretty decent network of high speed trains. Politics, well documented by the papers, show how a high speed train had repeated stops added to it, and was slowed down in California to the speed of a regular train while costing much more.

Despite adding an additional 1.0% tax to fund mental health, homelessness has only increased in California. Efforts to reduce prop 13 inflated property values are feeble at best. Senior and junior water rights, where senior land holders can extract as much water as they want over juniors, based on an arbitrary date chosen in law, have not been reformed. CalPers is very poorly funded compared to other states.

Don't get me wrong, a lot of California's success is due to government. Banning non-competes and funding a strong system of community colleges and state universities for example. But other states are 'kinda' adopting non-compete bans and the state has cut funding years ago to those institutions, which makes me question the value of my tax dollars when a house built just after WW2 costs over a million dollars, K-12 is below the national average, and the public universities here cost much more than well regarded ones in other states. The state is not dealing with it's problems.

I left a while ago and I feel better for it.

Edit: grammar and a few words.

Reduce, reuse, recycle.

But... with hardware mitigations slowing down pre-Skylake hardware and new ARM chips (M1 for now, hopefully others in the future). It really feels like anything older than Kabylake feels un-competitive and not worth the power draw for this generation. For years we only got low single digit increases each generation from Intel. Then AMD, and later Apple, disrupted this.

With the IPC of the new M1s, I honestly wonder if it would use less energy for these server parts to be (barely) recycled and manufactured into M2s from Apple or whatever Qualcomm is brewing with those Apple CPU designers they hired.

Nor does Postgres.

I read another article that phased the commission's argument that water recycling would be cheaper to rate payers and less environmentally destructive.

Good point. Microsoft probably spends a lot more than 600K on Linux kernel developers alone to implement several of their features including Hyper-V.

One of the reasons I know it is slower is due to security.

With the security mitigations OpenBSD chose to simply disable SMT. It is a less performant, but much simpler solution than the software mitigations that Linux and Windows implement.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenBSD-...

Do you know of any other reasons?

They are listed as a 3rd party org. In the same list as the EFF, Public Knowledge, and the Democrat and Republican Attorneys General Associations.

I worked in person for a local govt and remotely for a large tech company with a completely remote team.

The onboarding was terrible for the local govt. Mostly focused on legal aspects-they expected me to have office communication skills off the bat and they offered little for training with mobile techs that I was hired to do (I just did one or two projects and they assumed I already had full experience). The office politics were dreadful. Lots of meetings where things were not decided and often missing people that could answer questions. When you reach out by email, they just visit you by your desk, ask clarifying questions and explain things verbally, often referring to a site that I have to manually type in.

The large tech company had a terrific 3 month onboarding process and I was slowly eased by senior members into taking on the more repetitive work. I learned more about the company in two weeks then I did for my 6 months for that govt. If there is a question, I can reach out by email and setup an inpromptu google meet-links and commands to use are shared in the chat and easily used and tested. Decisions were made and I am building connections in the industry with people in and outside of work that do not work in my area.

> daily there are companies posted here that get a critical review, and inevitably a crowd amasses that comes in to provide counterpoints to the negative testimonials, the majority of the time a lot of good on topic and off topic conversations ensue.

Aren't those companies already established? Isn't the topic usually about something related to a new product or scandal? Usually the topic circles around that. A new YC startup job ad likely won't have that.

With that said, any YC startups want to give it a shot? Allow comments and see if the questions helps with their recruitment? Might help craft a better ad.

My first reaction to this was horror on seeing the title.

But... I rode an ambulance in the front seat transporting a family member in the back. Several cars drove in front of the ambulance in intersections, completely ignoring the siren. As we drove a several lane road that fed into the intersection was blocked by cars except for one lane, but it was too small for the ambulance to get through, only until the ambulance was stopped did the cars bother to make room. They are supposed to clear out well in advance. One even stopped in front and the ambulance drove around it. I commented on it, and the ER driver said that is how it is. This was late at night, in some traffic in southern California suburbia. I know cars make room in the sunlight. There were traffic cameras, likely police too; no one cared to enforce the law.

Not a complete blockage like that firetruck dealt with for 25 seconds on a small road, but if the software is made to respond to ER vehicles, would it perform better than humans 99% of the time?

I lost a bit of my faith in humanity seeing that one night-they could have easily made room. If it was during the day I think they would have acted better, while I believe a properly licensed and mature autonomous vehicle would have made room long before that day or night in most situations, and a human can take over in the rest like it did in that article.

> * virt-manager is removed in favor of a new Web console, even though it doesn't have all of the features of virt-manager yet

Are you sure about that it was 'removed'? I have CentOS Stream 9 installed and virt-manager shows as a CentOS package (not epel). CS9 is not RHEL 9 but I believe virt-manager's support was depreciated.

What tools? Cockpit?

Yep, the 6000 series has RDNA2 graphics.

This is so wrong.

> The federal government cannot factories, particularly overseas ones, to produce more

I am assuming you mean 'force'. Trump literally used the defense production act to keep hamburger patties flowing when workers were complaining about COVID.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/495175-trump-use...

While keeping hamburgers coming was the purpose of this EO. This act allows the president to force producers to change production to benefit the defense needs of the united states. To produce 'more' of something through retooling or other means.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Production_Act_of_1950

> - The gov't cannot set food prices

Please see a history of price controls. The article literally has a poster prohibiting charging more than govt set prices. Not saying price controls are a good idea, but do not claim something easily disproven with a google search. I learned about this in middle school.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_controls