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MyNamesNotRobert

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I think Endeavour OS is like that too. I have 2 "unfixable" bugs on my arch installation that can never be removed. I have to manually do 2 annoying workaround tasks every time I turn on my computer before I can use it and this will likely never go away. I've been told both these issues can't be fixed without a complete os reinstall and even then it might not go away. I booted into an Endeavour OS live usb and what do you know, both those bugs were fixed out of the box. Endeavour is based on Arch. The kernel it was running was a kernel number release after my installation developed both of these "forever" bugs.

Arch is great and all but holy fuck I'm sick and tired of this fucking bullshit all the time. One of these times I'm going to type sudo pacman -Syu and it will develop yet a third unfixable forever bug. This is the same shit that drove me away from Windows: uncontrollable degradation over time that can't be fixed without os reinstall. Even Gentoo isn't this unforgiving.

MyNamesNotRobert ,

I fucking hate seo abusers. I have to use a locally hosted ai for a lot of my "googling" because modern day search results are fucking worthless now.

MyNamesNotRobert ,

llamacpp. Remember to modify the launch script to use multiple cores. Go to hugging face io and look for GGUF compatible models.

Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads (www.lowpass.cc)

Roku is exploring ways to show consumers ads on its TVs even when they are not using its streaming platform: The company has been looking into injecting ads into the video feeds of third-party devices connected to its TVs, according to a recent patent filing.  ...

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I swear to fuck, in 2030 we're going to be spinning our own homebrew crts. 640x480 is better than ads.

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It won't be long now before all Microsoft products need a monthly fee. Now people will actually have to switch to Linux due to cost instead of switching to Linux just because they want to.

MyNamesNotRobert ,

To the average person, putting that much thought and effort into it is for elite hackers only. I know a guy that does cybersecurity and still has smart everything in his house.

MyNamesNotRobert , (edited )

Is there a list of banks that do this? Some don't ban root users. Or at least some don't do as good a job as others at detecting it. Magisk has at least some kind of root hiding stuff in it.

MyNamesNotRobert ,

What actually are the advantages of system rc over systemd?

MyNamesNotRobert ,

Linux is too much bloat. BSD is also too much bloat. Switch to Temple OS. Actually, Temple OS is too much bloat. Uuh. Did you know that it's possible to use gcc to compile a c or c++ program in such a way that it's bootable? You can make your own shitty command line os in like 100kb that way and still have access to most of the easy QOL libraries and namespaces. That's still too much fucking bloat for me though. The way I do my "computing" is I just draw on my monitor with a dry erase marker instead of plugging it into a pc.

MyNamesNotRobert ,

Big tech wins yet again. Soon you'll need at least a Pentium 1 to run the Linux kernel.

MyNamesNotRobert , (edited )

In reality, only some Pentium 1 compatible motherboards can support enough ram for you to actually run Linux on a Pentium 1. Even if you don't run into ram problems, you'll run into bios related problems. I would suggest anyone trying this in 2024 to not even attempt it unless you can get a socket 7, and preferably a later socket 7 motherboard at that. The closest thing I can come up with to a reason not to drop support for 486 (the cpu before the Pentium 1) is that a 486 is a lot more possible to put on a custom pcb than a Pentium 1. Some of the more basic arm cpus aren't even as powerful as an upper tier 486 (but better arm cpus aren't that hard for hobbyists to get). Anyone die-hard enough to want to try to run Linux on a fully custom made computer like that would have better results using an arm or risc-V chip instead.

I am curious why they're dropping support for 486 but not Pentium 1, pentium 2 and anything not capable of SSE1 or later. mmx isn't even that good but I guess gcc does technically support it.

I wonder if they're going to drop 486 support in gcc as well. It can still compile for 386. You have to seriously strip down the kernel to run Linux on anything that old. Maybe 486 users (all 2 of them) should switch to Temple OS.

MyNamesNotRobert ,

Still cheaper than prescription medication

MyNamesNotRobert ,

I evangelize Linux irl by simply keeping my computer always tuned up, up to date and working well. It's inevitable that someone's windows or mac shitbook will do something shitty and people will pay attention to me just for not having the same problems as them. For example the other day by brother wanted to watch spongebob, his macbook wouldn't let him connect to the TV so I plugged it right in to Arch Linux and it worked like a charm. Sometimes the superiority of Linux simply speaks for itself.

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    MyNamesNotRobert ,

    My brother tried to use his macbook to put spongebob on the TV and it wouldn't let him due to drm reasons. Don't let this shit become the new normal. It's GNU Linux or nothing for me.

    MyNamesNotRobert ,

    In my experience they're the same from a reliability standpoint. Stuff on Arch will break for no reason after an update. Stuff on Debian will break for no reason after an update. It's just as difficult to solve reliability problems on both.

    Because Debian isn't a rolling release you will often run into issues where a bug got fixed in a future version of whatever program it is but not the one that's available in the repository. Try using yt-dlp on any stable Debian installation and it won't work for example.

    Arch isn't without its issues. Half of the good stuff is on the AUR, and fuck the AUR. Stuff only installs without issues half the time. Good luck installing stuff that needs like 13+ other AUR packages as dependencies because non of that shit can be installed automatically. On other distros,all that stuff can be installed automatically and easily with a single command.

    I use Arch btw.

    MyNamesNotRobert ,

    Is there a FOSS way to do this yet?

    MyNamesNotRobert ,

    Fuck yes. When normal modern video cards start costing too much for the common person to afford, at least we'll still be able to play quake.

    MyNamesNotRobert , (edited )

    If they never release the source, including all the fpga verilog files then this is pointless to the open source community.

    Edit: actually I just realized my comment is kind of pointless. Even if he released the fpga source code, a thing a lot of projects like these never do, it still wouldn't be possible to reproduce one of these using only free and open source software. This is because the only fpgas that let you program them using open source software and not a locked-down windows-only bloatfuck program that needs an internet connection and licensing are the lattice ice40 fpgas. Tl;dr this can't be fully "open source".

    I wonder if it would be possible to make an ice 40 based video card that could still do opengl.

    MyNamesNotRobert ,

    Open source fpgas cost up to $10 per chip, $17 if you want the big chungus 256 pin one with lots of extra memory and logic blocks. You can get pcb printing services for like $7 per board but I think I paid less than that last time I built something.

    I'm pretty sure custom made ASICs cost orders of magnitude more than that.

    MyNamesNotRobert , (edited )

    Idk, more and more people are switching to mac and ditching windows. If their m1 thing continues being successful they're going to have a more severe monopoly than Microsoft ever did. It's one thing to patch Microsoft's half ass attempts to embrace extend destroy Linux but that isn't going to work out as well anymore once all the mainstream stuff is quarantined to an entire different cpu architecture and computers that no longer use off the shelf parts.

    Luckily the only software they really have right now that Linux doesn't is that s tier video editor and then no one wants to use their stupid Metal graphic acceleration so games are going to have a hard time taking off as well. Too bad most people think "command lines are too hard".

    The common person is going to lose access to computers as we know them today if Apple wins. If it gets to the point where the only modem mainstream systems left are M1 macs, everything computer related is going to get 10x as expensive. $1000 for a potato ass MacBook Air is already obnoxious but when that's the only choice, that potato ass MacBook Air is going to cost $10k.

    Revealed: a California city is training AI to spot homeless encampments (www.theguardian.com)

    Last July, San Jose issued an open invitation to technology companies to mount cameras on a municipal vehicle that began periodically driving through the city’s district 10 in December, collecting footage of the streets and public spaces. The images are fed into computer vision software and used to train the companies’...

    MyNamesNotRobert , (edited )

    Being homeless is like the software piracy equivalent of housing. You're not paying but rich people are "losing money" since homeless people aren't paying them $4000+/month therefore it's a crime.

    MyNamesNotRobert ,

    I couldn't figure out how to make the wifi on my Debian machine reliable so I replaced the default wifi manager front-end and backend with iwctl, the same thing Arch uses by default. It seems to be working but now I have an unholy abomination of Debian spliced with Arch DNA.

    Google will start showing AI-powered search results to users who didn't opt in (www.engadget.com)

    If you're in the US, you might see a new shaded section at the top of your Google Search results with a summary answering your inquiry, along with links for more information. That section, generated by Google's generative AI technology, used to appear only if you've opted into the Search Generative Experience(SGE) in the Search...

    MyNamesNotRobert , (edited )

    Normal search results are already littered with useless ai generated seo optimized crap. It's got to the point where sometimes it's quicker to learn the knowledge you seek the old fashion way: by reading books.

    Enshitification must lose.

    MyNamesNotRobert ,

    Oh, they trained their ais off of that all right.. And then filtered out all the stuff they didn't like such as useful information.

    MyNamesNotRobert ,

    If a game doesn't work on proton it's not worth playing for me.

    MyNamesNotRobert ,

    John Barnett didn't kill himself and they're doing a damn good job of sweeping it under the rug. It barely got mentioned in by any mainstream news outlets. Even Epstien got more media coverage than this.

    MyNamesNotRobert , (edited )

    Gaming though. The gaming situation on non-x86 cpus is passable at best. AFAIK you can't put a 4070ti in any non x86 system right now and have it work. Are there even any commercially available non-x86 systems that have pcie 16x slots?

    The death of x86 is inevitable I just hope we can still play computer games on cheaper homebuilt systems afterwards because having to replace your entire system just to upgrade the integrated non upgradable gpu is no longer better or cheaper than consoles. I absolutely fucking doubt even indie developers, let alone others are going to downgrade graphics to let their games run on cheaper systems when this happens and everything becomes 10x more expensive.

    MyNamesNotRobert , (edited )

    If x86 is going to die, Apple has to be defeated at all costs or else computers are going to become 10x expensive once they establish a monopoly. I hope someone starts making real progress in ARM system stuff. If they do away with expansion ports and make it so the gpu, ram, and cpu are all on one chip even on the competing non-x86 non-M1 systems then everything's fucked though.

    MyNamesNotRobert ,

    Wait until Nintendo's lawyers hear about this. Pretty sure brain chip compatible Nintendo controllers count as illegal homebrew.

    MyNamesNotRobert ,

    Also how LFS users look down at Gentoo users after spending 6 years learning how to do everything themselves

    US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones (www.theverge.com)

    The US Department of Justice and 16 state and district attorneys general accused Apple of operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market in a new antitrust lawsuit. The DOJ and states are accusing Apple of driving up prices for consumers and developers at the expense of making users more reliant on its iPhones.

    MyNamesNotRobert ,

    As soon as smartphones started becoming commonplace in like 2009 or so, I dropped Verizon because I wasn't going to pay $500 for a smartphone that couldn't have custom roms. Verizon can go fuck themselves.

    MyNamesNotRobert ,

    The best part is when I check to see what exact version of the package I really have and despite it being old, it's the version a month after the one where the bug was fixed but I'm still getting the bug so I guess I'll go fuck myself then.

    MyNamesNotRobert ,

    Until commercial games and professional software start coming with arm versions this isn't going to work out. And even if they did, I'm not entirely sure if it's possible to use the same gpus on arm at all so even if they really push it, people that do pc gaming are going to reject it.

    MyNamesNotRobert ,

    Make am operating system in brainfuck next

    What's the real world connection speed from your residential IP to your Server?

    I'm using contabo and the VPS I got is advertised as 1 Gigabit. When I do a speedtest or use iperf3 to connect to public servers I get pretty close to 1 Gigabit. But from my residential IP the speed drops down to 100-250 Mbit/s. My home internet connection can handle 500 Mbit just fine....

    MyNamesNotRobert ,

    To my server? 4mbytes/sec on a good day. I haven't reinstalled my os in years so things are getting really fucky. It's actually a security measure. My shit is so slow that I'd like to think potential cyber attacks would take too long for it to be worth anyone's time.

    MyNamesNotRobert ,

    If you actually have a choice stay away from Nvidia although it's been a hot minute since I last saw a laptop with an amd gpu.

    MyNamesNotRobert ,

    Fuck Taylor. They are the Apple of ice cream machines and everywhere that uses their machines is always out of ice cream because the machine is always broken and when they finally send a tech out and charge you $2000 just to show up, he's a total weirdo that harasses all the female employees.

    Source: worked at a place with a Taylor ice cream machine one time.

    MyNamesNotRobert ,

    Especially be sure to avoid anything with ACR (automatic content recognition). If it detects you're watching content from an unapproved source, it will bug you to watch it on that approved source such as a streaming service. It's just a software update, or a congress bill away from reporting anyone who watches pirated content on their TV. So just beware.

    MyNamesNotRobert ,

    If you can find the transmitter, that is. I think that's the problem

    MyNamesNotRobert ,

    It also needs to be said how god awful the ui is. It's not necessarily the worst layout in the world but it's also clunky and slow as balls. It's almost as if it's designed to slow the user down so people are focused on how slow it is instead of its other problems or soemthing. The ui buttons in a fucking 3d game on the same pc respond quicker than windows 11 ui does.

    KDE on the other hand is so goddamn fast that stuff loads faster than I can click. I literally don't have time to use Windows.

    MyNamesNotRobert ,

    The windows ui is very ugly. Uglier than the windows 9x one even. Their ui design peaked with Vista and 7.

    MyNamesNotRobert ,

    I use archinstall. I draw the line at having to use the command line to set up all your stupid partitions. That's too complicated.

    MyNamesNotRobert ,

    Every year since 1993 is the year is the Linux desktop 😎

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