onlinepersona

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onlinepersona,

We’re getting there, but it’s tough with nvidia not caring. :/

That’s the biggest issue and unfortunately there’s not much that can be done about that except maybe Linux users swearing off of NVIDIA.

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onlinepersona,

Fuck NVIDIA

onlinepersona,

No idea what else they make, but my experience with theirs graphics cards is enough to dissuade a purchase of any of their other products.

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onlinepersona,

Whatever suits your fancy.

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onlinepersona, (edited )

So there are two points:

  1. don’t shit on people who donate their free time to make a product you can use for free with no warranty whatsoever, unless they treat you like shit
  2. many FOSS communities are toxic: I wholeheartedly agree. Fuck those that are. Ain’t nobody got time for that.

Still point 2 does not invalidate point 1.

I’ve had to deal with toxic ubuntu, debian, arch, nixos, rust, java, python, … communities. The ones that piss me off the most are linux communities that treat newcomers like gutter-filth, refuse to endorse GUIs, good documentation, and just a generally better newcomer experience, then wonder why there’s no “year of the linux desktop”. I hate those gatekeepers with a passion. “If you use Linux, you must learn to use the command line”, no how about you fuck off to whatever CLI cave you came from and learn to be a productive member of the community?

As I said, I get it. But again, writing an angry bug report, demanding a new feature be implemented, writing a tirade about “how bad opensource software is” or whatever? Nah. Not OK

Remember that joke? Ask for help and you get no response; Say linux sucks because you can’t do X and you get dozens of apologetic posts explaining step by step how to do stuff.

Turns out there’s some truth behind that joke.

Sad but true.

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onlinepersona,

Pointing out flaws is fine. Shitting on devs, is not, just like devs shitting on users isn’t.

Don’t be surprised if you attack somebody and they defend themselves.

Saying “X doesn’t work” is completely fine. Writing a rant about how opensource devs don’t think about people, yadayada. Buddy, these are people giving up their free time to write stuff. Nobody’s forcing you to use it. There are no guarantees provided, no warranties either. It’s provided as is.

The way you are is as if someone built a free house in the woods, you showed up and complained about how the door is creaky, the toilet leaky, a draft coming through the windows, and you wrote a review online disparaging the free work. Does that sound like good behavior to you?

Users can’t even add a feature request because they’re met with a storm of insults and snobbery.

How did you write the feature request? “I demand this be implemented because you’re providing a product and I’m a customer” or “It would be great if X were added for reason Y”? If it’s the latter and you were met with unkindness, of course that’s shit, no doubt.

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onlinepersona,

I bet we’ll reach a point again where normal services are just so shit that piracy is normal again. Then they’ll try and take down even more things. Hopefully then we’ll decide to move operations to I2P.

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onlinepersona,

I’ve love to watch a realistic hacker movie, because the shit that hackers get into is genuinely bonkers. For example, some white hats got all the way into Apple’s inventory system and IIRC they could’ve disrupted all of Apple’s logistics. Imagine if a black hat got into that. Or the Ukrainian hackers that got into the taxation system of the Russians and were there for a few months. Or the USAians who got into the biggest Belgian telecom and were kicked out years later by a Dutch security company.

Movies or even better TV series showing the time it takes to get into such systems would be amazing. Day 1 phishing, day 40 established beachhead, day 120 gained access to internal system X, day 121 triggered internal alarm and was nearly discovered but was able to cover up traces, etc.

Nobody watches 90 minutes of football matches. Everyone watches the highlights and that’s what movies could be too.

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onlinepersona,

Yes! I’ve listened to those. Having some of those episodes in an anthology TV series could be wonderful. Some even deserve a series of their own.

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onlinepersona,

Then the devs could be anonymous and the their repos couldn’t be taken down.

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onlinepersona,

Because they you can ignore takedown requests and just focus on working on the project, not fearing lawsuits.

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onlinepersona,

Donations don’t exist.

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onlinepersona,

I’m confused. Slint says it’s working with System76?

A great start to the week - @pop_os_official will collaborate with us to offer Slint as an alternative toolkit for application development on Cosmic Desktop.

onlinepersona,

Better in some ways, but it has the worst documentation of any distro I’ve seen so far. nixlang.wiki is trying to improve that

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onlinepersona,

Then, you should be dandy. An alternative might be OVH? They don’t have a sale right now though.

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onlinepersona,

Just don’t do anything with P2P on it. They really dislike that.

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onlinepersona,

(Simple Mobile Tools suite was acquired by an Israeli adware company)

As per usual 🙄

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