Aasikki

Aasikki , 3 months ago to Technology in Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads

And those have taken over all the damn tv remotes. I designed and 3D printed a replacement faceplate for my Samsung tv's remote that hides them, out of retaliation (they were in a spot where I accidentally hit the netflix button when trying to pause what I was watching, which was annoying af).

Aasikki , 3 months ago to Memes in It's the same fake argument every time they try to take away your rights

I have been screwed a time or two, but honestly, most of the time I've had a pretty good experience dealing with Chinese sellers. Of course that's partly because I choose who I buy from carefully, as yeah there are a lot of scanners out there. I've also been scammed by local people and I think it's important to not immediately judge people based on where they are from.

I'm pretty sure the reason there are so many scammers in china, is because of the amount of poor and desperate people there, and the fact that the situation has been like that for so long, is the reason it seems to have now been ingrained in their culture. There's a huge amount of scammers in other poor countries like india as well.

Edit: typos

Aasikki , 3 months ago to Technology in Samsung does an Apple with its first Snapdragon X Elite laptop, suggesting the new Arm-based Windows machines aren't going to be a cheap alternative to x86

I thought MacOS barely does any legacy support because apple isn't afraid to cut support for old stuff unlike Microsoft.

Aasikki , 3 months ago to Technology in Samsung does an Apple with its first Snapdragon X Elite laptop, suggesting the new Arm-based Windows machines aren't going to be a cheap alternative to x86

Not to speak of the battery life that hasn't improved at all.

Aasikki , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in Any docker solution to control smart light bulb?

I started on home assistant with just a couple Smart bulbs and oh boy has it gotten out of hand since then lol. Home bridge sounds good if that's all that's needed though.

Aasikki , 4 months ago to linuxmemes in So this is why he doesn't do Linux... any more

I meant as a regular computer user who's new to Linux. Like most of them would be.

Aasikki , 4 months ago to linuxmemes in So this is why he doesn't do Linux... any more

The whole point imo was supposed to be to test linux from a point of view of a regular user, and that while surely a bit extreme, isn't too far from what might happen when a newbie stumbles on an issue (which may or may not happen depending on luck).

Then again he did test it on uhh, quite interesting hardware that's almost guaranteed to have issues. Maybe it would have been more fair for him to switch to a more conventional desktop for the duration of the experiment.

I didn't really see that affecting the market share of Linux much either way. Luke who has a normal desktop also had his fair share of more minor issues and so did I when I ran fedora for a bit over half a year on my desktop last year ago, as a similar experiment. What has and will affect the market share, positively too, is the steam deck, which Linus is also a big fan of.

I still use linux a lot in my daily life even if not on my desktop, my home server runs on TrueNAS scale and I have a couple projects running on raspberry pi's (more probably coming). But for desktop use, I'll let it cook for a couple more years before giving it another try. Running Linux on my desktop is absolutely my dream and end goal, but unfortunately it still has too many issues specifically for my (actually very broad) use case of video editing, Photo editing, 3D modeling, graphics design, gaming and more. If it was only one of those uses, I'd be able to fairly easily come by with solutions, but when it's all of them combined, it adds up and becomes a real chore, unfortunately.

Aasikki , 4 months ago to linuxmemes in So this is why he doesn't do Linux... any more

He definitely has life-changing amounts of mine for sure. But it's definitely good if he puts effort into teaching his children not to take it for granted and be nice to other people. From the videos his kids appear in, they seem very well mannered.

Aasikki , 4 months ago to linuxmemes in So this is why he doesn't do Linux... any more

That might be the worst video of them all to be mad at. Absolutely no harm done and everyone was clearly having lots of fun, the store owner included. There are videos with actual issues but this ain't it chief.

Aasikki , 4 months ago to linuxmemes in So this is why he doesn't do Linux... any more

It's not that deep bro.

Aasikki , 4 months ago to linuxmemes in So this is why he doesn't do Linux... any more

And the workers make just as much fun of Linus, if not even more. It's not a one way street, and it's clear that Linus only does it when he knows the other person will also find it funny. It's nothing more but humorical banter between people that know each other quite well.

Aasikki , 4 months ago to linuxmemes in So this is why he doesn't do Linux... any more

Also lots of those "upgrades" are things that wouldn't have happened at all, if it weren't for a video. And seeing how much fun the workers have in those videos, I find it quite unlikely that they feel insulted doing them.

Also, did we forget that the ultimate tech upgrade is a thing? The series where the workers get quite beefy upgrades to their very own homes, and it's not even limited to pc's. Linus even personally painted at least a couple of the workers walls lol, so I'm pretty sure "the workers being held as peasants" is quite far from the truth.

Aasikki , 4 months ago to linuxmemes in So this is why he doesn't do Linux... any more

As someone who has sometimes watched wan show etc, it's actually quite obvious that he actually knows quite a lot. The problem is that their channel covers so many topics that it's almost impossible for one single person to have in-depth knowledge about all of them. Hence they have a writing team and Linus is more often than not, just a host.

None of that is an excuse for the issues in their videos for sure, but as long as they realize the problem and work to fix it, it's all good imo and their recent releases schedule is a good indicator that they have taken it quite seriously, as they no longer force themselves to upload daily.

I also quite like a few of their writers, they also host and those are often the most fun videos to watch these days.

Aasikki , 4 months ago to 196 in Canadian rule

More cleanup

Aasikki , 5 months ago to Technology in FDA says 561 deaths tied to recalled Philips sleep apnea machines

The US is also a third world country just like china.