PseudoSpock

PseudoSpock, 8 months ago

It’s more incestuous than that… It’s a Motherboard with a Daughterboard. 😲

PseudoSpock, 8 months ago

Wearing a “hat”!

PseudoSpock, 8 months ago

RDP is not a replacement for individual remote apps, btw, just saying. RDP is a full remote desktop, like VNC.

PseudoSpock, 8 months ago

I will never install a Linux desktop without a snapshotting root filesystem ever again. Nvidia driver updates, /boot getting too full during kernel or driver updates, a bad update of pipewire half a year ago, and more I can’t remember. Was always able to boot to previous snapshot of the OS, and address whatever it was. Some ZFS here, some BTRFS there… and my small fleet of Linux desktops are as easy to recover as any immutable OS. Better even, because snapshots allow me to pull individual items or things between states easily, too.

PseudoSpock, 8 months ago

Pics or it didn’t happen.

PseudoSpock, 9 months ago

Cool, but why is it part of the init system?

PseudoSpock, 9 months ago

Dude!

PseudoSpock, 9 months ago

Yes. Linux is good enough for everyone, whether they like it or not. :)

PseudoSpock, 9 months ago

XPS no longer does S3 sleep, only hybrid sleep. :(

PseudoSpock, 9 months ago

Sokath, his eyes open.

PseudoSpock, 9 months ago

I prefer to keep windows as a VM only on wintel hardware, with Linux on the bare metal. The less Microsoft can see the better.

PseudoSpock, 9 months ago

Microsoft has pushed OEM’s to stop supporting S3 in bios, instead wanting hybrid sleep. Microsoft wants this because hybrid sleep allows waking for sending telemetry to Microsoft all the dang time, like cell phones do. I curse the day they did this.

PseudoSpock, 9 months ago

Downvoting for the thumbnail image.

PseudoSpock, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

I don’t much care about the freedom of linux

But you should care, Linux is for those that care.

PseudoSpock, 9 months ago

Ok, see here now… :P

PseudoSpock, 9 months ago

The desire to learn something beyond DOS, beyond just BBS’, beyond RIME and FIDOnet email, wanting a UNIX like operating system that was like what I had at university, to be able to natively run talk, ytalk, IRC, ICB, Gopher, FTP, and NNTP.

PseudoSpock, 10 months ago

NVidia user here, it most certainly is not working well. My external monitor for my laptop is getting black boxes shadowing the kde menu and most of my windows on that screen, and often block boxes trailing the mouse.

PseudoSpock, 10 months ago

No. Wayland does not. That’s why Waypipe was made to address that shortcoming.

PseudoSpock, 10 months ago

And we don’t run around calling Xrandr Xorg, do we? No. So we seem to agree.

PseudoSpock, 10 months ago

Waypipe is not Wayland. Wayland does not natively support this workflow, which is why Waypipe was created. Please don’t confuse the two as being one thing.

PseudoSpock, 10 months ago

I most certainly am. :)

PseudoSpock, 10 months ago

Downvoted for clickbait title. Do better.

PseudoSpock, 10 months ago

A few reasons:

• There is a strong desire to see if there is secret sauce in the driver that makes their cards so darn performant. Could it be applied to other video drivers?
• To audit for vulnerabilities and fix them.
• To allow the driver to use some kernel internals that the kernel developers keep trying to wall proprietary drivers off from.
• Ideology
• Community might be able to hack it to work better with Wayland, since the Wayland team has no interest in extending any kind of support to proprietary driver driving GPU’s… despite x11 working just fine forever. … see Ideology.

PseudoSpock, 10 months ago

You can’t be sold on Linux. Anyone ‘sold on’ or ‘lead to’ Linux isn’t going to stick with it. The desire to learn to use and be productive with Linux is purely an internal one. Selling you on it would be like trying to push you into a religion. For this, you need to sell yourself on Linux. Install it, run it, make it your daily system for a few weeks or months… then you can decide if it is for you. The questions you’ll need to find answers to are, but not limited to:

• Will it run the software I need? You mention PDF’s… Viewing non-encrypted PDF’s is no problem. For encrypted PDF forms that I’ve seen from some government sites, I needed Windows or Mac to fill them out reliably. I was able to do some within Wine, but that wasn’t stable enough to depend on.
• Be aware there are desktop choices. Linux comes in many flavours, some can present and work similar to a Windows desktop workflow, some more similar to Mac (but not quite), and some are just either heritage UNIX styles or just Linux unique. Finding what you prefer can take some trial and effort.
• I suggest Linux distributions that offer disk encryption (and be sure to use it). If you were my lawyer, I wouldn’t want the documents we share to be left around un-encrypted anywhere.

Check out some Linux periodicals, as well. They can help wet your whistle with reviews on various Linux distributions and often some introductory articles on software and How-To’s. If that kind of thing interests you, you’ve already half sold yourself on Linux.

PseudoSpock, 10 months ago

Let us see, shall we?

<span style="color:#323232;">ssh root@cyberwolfie.com
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">❯ cowsay Uh-oh
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> _______ 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">&lt; Uh-oh >
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> ------- 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">           ^__^
</span><span style="color:#323232;">           (oo)_______
</span><span style="color:#323232;">            (__)       )/
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                ||----w |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                ||     ||
</span>

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