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woelkchen , 2 months ago

Fucking with display drivers to get your shit to boot is several magnitudes harder than ignoring an ad.

Found the Nvidia user.

woelkchen , 2 months ago

Here’s a Reddit post with some people talking about how to disable it, how frustrating it is

Virgin Windows users on Reddit: *Crying in a corner instead of looking in settings on their own and make 3(!) mouse clicks*

Chad Linux users on Lemmy: *Editing .conf files in vim*

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9a5a37bb-829b-4860-a18a-4017e4385e21.png

woelkchen , 2 months ago

Notepad++ was gaining some traction so Microsoft figured they nip that in the bud with a half-hearted attempt?

Microsoft's competitor to Notepad++ is VS Code.

woelkchen , 2 months ago

Notepad++ is a text editor while VS Code is an IDE. They are intended for different use cases.

No, both are source code editors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-code_editor#Notable_examples

Visual Studio is the full IDE, VS Code isn't. Visual Studio and VS Code are completely different products, even though both carry Visual Studio branding.

woelkchen , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Oh look at me I bought the best worst product...

... for use with Linux

FTFY

https://i.imgur.com/hdJi6r9.jpeg

NVidia being the worst choice for Linux is hardly news.

Year of the Linux desktop 2024

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/9/23954205/valve-steam-deck-multiple-millions 🤷

woelkchen , 2 months ago

Valve invests billions of dollars and loses money on 4M decks and everyone is screaming success 🤷‍♂️

You're the one who bought the wrong tool (NVidia GPU) for the job. Blame nobody but yourself. Intel and AMD is fine since at least 15 years.

woelkchen , 2 months ago

And no, you don’t need to figure out shit on Windows. You download the driver, double click and it’s done.

Manually downloading drivers? How savage.🧐 *AMD and Intel master race has things working out of the box since many years*

woelkchen , 2 months ago

Just the free version suggesting the paid one. Not ad space sold to third parties.

You've read it here, folks. Microsoft just needs to promote Xbox deals and such, then it's not an ad space sold to third parties. (Either that or you're holding Canonical to a different standard than Microsoft.)

woelkchen , 2 months ago

I don't think they will because the competition is too incompetent. I give you two examples:

I'm a subscriber of Nebula, a paid streaming service where educational YouTubers get a better cut and users don't get ads. Those creators almost always fail to promote their Nebula uploads. "Hey guys, new video." And they link to YouTube only. Also they leave their Patreon shout-outs in which is not what I'm paying money for. YouTube with Sponsor Block just is the better experience at this point and I just keep paying for Nebula because I hope it'll get better and I like its idea.

Second example: I try to watch live streaming on the websites of the broadcaster or so. And more often than not it's a shit show: I can't properly pause the streams because they don't support time shifting and bitrate adjustments are also not as smooth as YouTube.

It's 2024 and internet video is over two decades old at this point and yet almost nobody else manages to get their shit together. Companies like Netflix have good tech but their business is completely different, so those compete with YouTube at best tangentially.

woelkchen , 2 months ago

Doesn't have to be great. It's free ad space and if it makes more money than its development cost, it's already a win.

Also it's probably going to drive users to YT Premium.

woelkchen , 2 months ago

The competition for youtube is peertube, not another centralized platform.

I gave two examples. I was not making a statement in favor of centralized platforms.

Also PeerTube tech is leagues behind YouTube tech.

It just needs content.

So replace "Nebula" in my first example with "PeerTube". Works just the same when video creators post to both and just keep promoting the YouTube one.

woelkchen , 2 months ago

with lots of the kinks

😏

woelkchen , 2 months ago

No, but it’s what other people have paid for.

Which Sponsor Block skips. My point is that the viewing experience is currently better on YouTube despite the enshittification because the competition is worse. The least would be to support chapter marks but this is one area this specific competitor also lacks and no Sponsor Block alternative for Nebula exists. For much shit on YouTube there are workaround like Sponsor Block. For shit on other platforms these don't exist.

woelkchen , 2 months ago

As bad as Meta and Google are in this respect, they are not under direct government control. It's just different with the TikTok parent.

woelkchen , 2 months ago

Your comment is hilarious because Ubuntu placed ads for Amazon in the equivalent of start menu way before Microsoft even had that idea. Ubuntu now displays ads for Ubuntu Pro (or Premium, whatever the name is) in the terminal. Ubuntu is the Windows wannabe of the Linux world.

woelkchen , 2 months ago

Microsoft: "Ours is not an ads either, it's a recommendation for a store app. We're not advertising products you cannot install on your PC."

woelkchen , 2 months ago

That's honestly cool. Doesn't negate the fact that Ubuntu has a history with ads in various places. Just because you choose not to look at places where they are, doesn't mean they aren't there. I could use Windows without ever opening the start menu. Doesn't mean the ads don't exist.

woelkchen , 2 months ago

How about a repairable phone with a headphone jack?

The Framework 16 notebook doesn't even have a headphone jack, only a USB-C to jack adapter.

woelkchen , 2 months ago

It counts because the adapter slot cannot be used for something else. It is different with the smaller 13 inch model.

woelkchen , 2 months ago

let’s say they omitted a slot and just put a fixed-into-the-case headphone jack there.

Or let's not because that isn't what happened in the 13 inch model.

Point is: Placing hope into a Framework phone with a headphone jack is IMO misplaced based on Framework's most recent track record. Not even Apple got rid of headphone jacks in MacBook Air.

woelkchen , 2 months ago

As someone with the 13, I would prefer the 6 slots on the 16 to the 4+headphone jack on the 13.

If you think that getting rid of the headphone jack would result in more slots, you're out of touch with reality. There would be an additional slot on the other side of the chassis where there is no headphone jack, so 5 overall. But there aren't. The headphone jack has absolutely nothing to do with the number of slots. Audio output is a tiny component.

woelkchen , 2 months ago

A dongle is a workaround. The headphone jack just works.

Framework also uses a USB-C adapter. It costs 20 Euro: https://frame.work/products/audio-expansion-card

woelkchen , 2 months ago

There’s also few but existing examples of people that resist the selling urge

The story is literally about a funding round for Framework. Those investors don't just give away the money. They buy a stake in the company.

woelkchen , 2 months ago

But Framework also includes an audio jack built-in.

Nope, the new 16 inch does not. The older 13 does.

woelkchen , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

lithium-based ewaste

That's propaganda. Lithium ion batteries can be well recycled. First second life as static energy storage, then broken down into materials and which are then reused. Around 98% of the materials can be recycled.

with build-int obsolescence

Batteries can be replaced. Nio makes it super easy, other manufacturers require one day at a repair garage. Overall way fewer parts suffer from degradion from use in EVs than ICE cars.

woelkchen , 2 months ago

Probably the opposite of what "GNU's Not Unix" does.

woelkchen , 2 months ago

paid newsletters

Baffled those exist.

woelkchen , 2 months ago

And yet China is banning basically the whole Western internet, foreign companies must enter joint ventures with Chinese companies under government control. Reciprocity is fair. Why should Byte Dance be allowed to take in billions to fund Chinese gulags?

woelkchen , 2 months ago

Ahh, so you’re in favor of the West implementing their own Great Firewall?

Against China: Yes.

woelkchen , 2 months ago

Why do you want our social media to mirror China? That’s the real question.

I want Chinese companies face exactly the same hurdles in the west as western companies face in China. Applies to all economic branches, not just social media.

Oh yeah, fund our allies genocides! Yay! 🥳

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

woelkchen , 2 months ago

I’m honestly even thinking to buy a €200 android device to get used to the system.

Don't. Unless it's a slightly older Pixel A-series 2nd hand phone. Manufacturers of cheap Android phones skimp on everything and add bullshit crapware. Shit like that is the cause of many "Android sucks" comments.

woelkchen , 2 months ago

On an Air, 8gb is the bare minimum that is realistically viable, for people who don’t do anything than browse the web

Thanks to the modern web, web browsing of one of the most RAM intensive tasks. Add a few Electron based apps and you're in hell.

woelkchen , 2 months ago

Samsungs come with excellent Windows support right out of the box, so if Windows is you jam it's a good choice. Not familiar with the A14, though. Would advise against cheap Chinese brands.

woelkchen , 2 months ago

What does that even mean in the context of a smartphone?

Windows Phone Link has: Shared clipboard, notification sync, media player widget, you can even share the Android screen to Windows and run apps from there. It's quite nice. The Samsung file manager and photo gallery also support OneDrive, Samsung Mail has Exchange support.

Phone Link overlaps quite a bit with KDE Connect which also works between two Android devices and comes out of the box with Steam Deck which is why I prefer KDE Connect to Phone Link but that's just me.

woelkchen , 2 months ago

For browsing the web 4 GB is enough, unless you do some multitasking.

Multitasking = more than one tab and the background tabs not immediately put to sleep.

woelkchen , 2 months ago

Rolling release master race checking for updates several times per day.

woelkchen , 2 months ago

My roommate will have 400+ updates waiting because “something breaks every time I update.”

Sounds like your roomie uses Ubuntu with a bunch of random PPAs.

woelkchen , 2 months ago

Just wait till you have 1200+ packages to upgrade. Luckily OpenSuSe Tumbleweed handles it like a champ

New major version of GCC? Let's recompile everything! Takes a bit to download but yes, openQA at openSUSE does its job.

woelkchen , 2 months ago

"tldr pages. Simplified and community-driven man pages. The tldr pages are a community effort to simplify the beloved man pages with practical examples."

https://tldr.sh/

woelkchen , 2 months ago

https://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/730195/86321408.jpeg

woelkchen , 2 months ago

To be fair, at the price point of Macs, 16GB is easily achievable.

woelkchen , 2 months ago

People use phone apps for photo and video editing these days. The common TikTok kid out there doesn't use Adobe Premiere on a desktop workstation.

Phone apps often are desktop applications with a specialized GUI these days.

woelkchen , 2 months ago

i mean yeah, but even then those aren’t significant filters, and what makes you think that tiktok isn’t running a render farm somewhere in china to collect shit tons of data?

Pretty sure my Adobe Premiere comparison made it clear I wasn't talking about the TikTok app itself but 3rd party apps to later upload to online services like TikTok.

Just because you are completely inapt to think of use cases, doesn't mean they don't exist.

woelkchen , 2 months ago

it’s not like most people are chronically browsing the web on their phones.

Yes, they do.

woelkchen , 2 months ago

It's just an Edge web view. You can get the same results by just navigating to its web site. Doesn't need to slow down boot time every time for that.

woelkchen , 2 months ago

They're not good at it then if you at the debacle around Xbox.

woelkchen , 2 months ago

Sorry, I won't test this myself because I'll never combine Nvidia with Linux for years to come but all the time it was promised that X11 fallback for Nvidia would no longer be needed and everytime it was followed up by countless bug reports that basic features aren't working.

woelkchen , 2 months ago

Those randos were Nvidia developers and DE developers making such statements towards distribution maintainers after they asked if removing the automatic X11 fallback for Nvidia GPUs is fine.

It's always "one last feature / Nvidia workaround until it's fine". The same thing since years. Surely this time everything is different.