ddtaylor

Another bounty that doesn't accomplish much and is crafted with weasel words to ensure they don't pay many anything.

Yawn. Marketing fluff. No thanks.

All I know is that I pick up some cables they work for some things and then I try to use them for other things and they don't work.

Isn't the whole point of the USB standard to make it so you don't have to be a super nerd to plug stuff together? People just want to transfer data from their phone or camera to a laptop without navigating spec sheets.

Best of luck avoiding all of the system level packages that just shim a snap.

Use Fedora if you dislike snap. Canonical has made their stance clear and are hostile to users for a long time now on this matter.

There are many crypto ATMs that accept cash up to a transaction limit.

Sounds like a great mistake for Google to find a way to repeat. Why innovate when you can abuse users and hide behind "complexity" as "plausible deniability"?

You'll all keep using them either way.

Are there newer numbers?

I use wormhole, warp, etc. They are available on many platforms with FOSS licenses with very limited centralization.

You can go to an ATM and purchase a coin and use a DEX to convert almost instantly.

Very intersting. A compression strategy that uses the model itself as the dictionary.

Nope, those are BTC transactions using Lightning. It was rolled out relatively recently but is live.

X as a platform is dead. It's all bots and engagement farming. Just disengage.

Ollama works very well in Linux on my AMD hardware. I have a 6800 XT which isn't even originally supported by the ROCm stack in some ways and it "just works" for a ton of very nice models, especially if I seek out quantized versions of the model.

I am so confused at why people are doing this. I mean, are they just doing it "for the lols" or are they raking in suckers from the gaming communities?

I keep a voice button bound to toggle on and off all comms, also known as a "clutch key", and usually in these scenarios I keep comms off quite a bit because there is a lot of non-game chatter and I tend to only talk during freeze time - since outbound voice still works for call outs. I'm just really bad at listening to people while I am trying to focus and it frustrates me to die because of lack of game sound awareness. So, I don't know if these are the same games where people are trying to beg for skins, etc.

There are also a lot of men with voice changers in CS2 now, for whatever reason. I have been playing a few times and then the "girl" cuts their voice changer and starts yelling at some guy hitting on her, etc. Very strange to witness when you're just trying to find out if this round is a buy round.

People are downvoting you, but I can literally pay for my meal using CashApp at a diner in the middle of nowhere using Bitcoin.

Ads would never be used for malware either, thankfully.

I have been making GTK applications so that people can manage MergerFS and LUKS encrypted hard drives without knowing how to be a sysadmin.

The use case is kind of neat. RAID is great and can mostly solve these problems, but people don't have SATA hardware that can handle the workload well, plus they aren't ready to manage an array like that, and they don't like having to use specific sized drives, etc. Another major issue with those setups is you need to be careful because an IO error that you don't recover from will be very difficult or impossible to recover from because of the layers of LUKS combined with LVM.

With MergerFS you just use regular file systems that are separate, but they get combined into a single mount point. That means each disk can just be a different LUKS encrypted drive and if you need to recover data it's isolated to that one disk and much more manageable. You can also take any disk and plug it into another machine as needed and grow or shrink the storage pool as needed.

MergerFS has options and settings to help you determine how files are spread across the drives, such as least space used or which disk has the most of that directory path already.

My app (Chimera) automates the unlocking of the disks, mounting and some data migration if you want to remove a disk from the pool. I plan to add some rclone features to help provide easier backup options to places like Backblaze, AWS, or a remote server in general.

So far so good and I was surprised at how well Opus had been handling Gtk and pkexec.

Let me know if you guys are interested I am close to pushing some RPMs and DEBs, in addition to the standard Python stuff.

Use DeArrow, it allows you to avoid most of that clickbait farming.

Yes, the phone market is bad. But, you know you don't have to do everything in a phone, right?

Want to take pictures? Use a camera. If it somehow auto updates your photos are still on an SD card.

I get convenience has led everyone to expect their phone to do everything for them, but it's not working. When you're in a pinch you will go to a 7-Eleven and grab food, but everyone would agree that buying everything there instead of real groceries is a terrible strategy. Just because something is convenient doesn't mean it's good.

I would also argue the counterpoint : why are the local markets adopting things that are barely functional to them?

As a comparison, if all Vietnamese people had three feet and three arms, would they all be walking around with two left and a single right Nike shoe while wearing a Champion shirt with an extra arm thrust through the sleeve?

At what point do customers and users realize they are responsible for giving consent?

We're so far down this path the language around the problem is distorted. Ownership has been perverted and the only thing you control is the bill.

I feel bad for the guy and all the Apple users constantly sharing stories of being mistreated and abused. Stop giving these companies your money and consent.

I'm basically numb to it at this point though. Every few days we read on this site small permutations of the same story. Sometimes people here get a little extra backchannel support, but that's a token prize for the jester who made a king chuckle.

Then a few more days go by and everyone upvotes a new iWidget to oblivion because it has 0.1 new gigablahs or takes up a milliblah less of some bullshit nobody was asking for.

All while we collectively virtue signal that people are spending too much time and relying on technology too much.

Well, it's almost Monday let's see what new bullshit convinces everyone to keep getting fucked and pay for the privilege.

I basically have turned into this guy: https://youtu.be/8AyVh1_vWYQ

The negative view of this and framing that it will be abandoned is interesting. France has already transitioned over 100,000 of their machines from Windows to Linux for their police force. They run a modified version of Ubuntu. Yes, it took them near a decade to do it.

There are roughly 80,000 more systems currently in transition at varying levels of complete.

Yes, this new directive is to move towards a goal of 2.5M systems. Yes, that's a lot more than their current number. They are making progress and now have a clear directive that guides them.

The amount of money and time wasted because people want to run Windows is staggering. There are organizations and governments running tens of thousands of machines, having highly sensitive data stolen, and much worse and paying for that "privilege."

That's bad enough, but then you get to play the "tick tock" release game of a normal quality release, followed by whatever bizarre experiment comes after. Vista, Metro, and now 11. Features come and go, layers of complexity are added, abandoned, etc. You and your organization are a helpless passenger in a drunk drivers car.

But hey, they'll throw you a few credits sometimes or introduce you to a new predatory side hustle of theirs with a rebranded flavor of vendor lock-in. Maybe they'll help you take something you own and lease it back to you via a subscription.

Yes, I'm the Linux person. Yes, I've been saying these same things for decades. Yes, our system has flaws and could be better. But, what I have been learning that is new over the last few years is that when centralized and crappy systems are a combination of cheap and simple, people don't care about alternatives. Then once people are dug into a hole that only gets deeper it begins to be a much easier sell to just be at ground level looking down asking "You okay there buddy?"

Virtually every problem I read about or hear people complaining about has a direct and simple solution that we in the FOSS community are already doing. Use free and open source software from the repository. Use sandboxing techniques like Flatpak. If you have the need, use something like Qubes. For most cases qemu is so good you can run a separate VM per task! KVM is very good. There are so many solutions and the landscape is wide open.

One more reason to use Linux packages and tools in the repository.

As a KDE developer I can say that there are times that we have done things differently or taken the long road because we wanted to support Plasma Mobile.

It would have just been better to continue doing the desktop specific things and let the Plasma Mobile enthusiasts make those changes.

I still maintain some Launchpad packages and recipes. It's an insanely archaic system and borderline non-functional. I wouldn't wish it upon most.

That is half the problem. They often introduce neat ideas, but then fail or refuse to integrate them with he rest of the FOSS ecosystem. Then anyone who subscribes to their experiment is left cleaning up the mess and trying to migrate the features or ideas they like to the remaining projects that should have been extended in the first place.

I'm fine with a company getting things wrong from time to time. What I don't like is the attitude where they walk into the room and start moving the furniture around while smugly dismissing or ignoring talented and established people. Then after a bit of milling around they just give up and leave the room and everyone has to clean up the mess.

Things improved a lot with Gnome over the years, but as a fellow Gnome 2 user the initial release of 3 and the following years were a real kick in the teeth.

Things have improved, but the overall Gnome Foundation attitude hasn't improved. They are still very stubborn and remove basic features. This seemed to start when they did their infamous "focus groups" where they claim users can't understand basic things.

I get the desire to provide a cohesive experience, but I think you can do that while also giving people control.

KDE is shaping up to be much better and it's likely because Valve is providing commercial support and exposing it to a larger audience.

Cosmic is the new kid backed by system76 and its pretty nice too and may rescue Gnome in some ways in due time.