Thinkpads are supposed to be good (never tried), but i have a normal lenovo ideapad, and there’s no firmware update on LVFS…

I had to update the bios using a windows boot disk, and one time it screwed up grub and debian couldnt boot until i fixed it with a liveCD

Been using linux full time for 10 years. I do almost all of my system admin stuff in the terminal (my desktop, laptop, home server with a few containers). But i cant for the life of me figure out vim (like i know how, but it just doesnt click for me or feel natural)… i tried a bunch of times and will keep trying… but until then, its (shamefully) nano for me

Even a video camera with the lens cap on generates more than enough entropy

interesting. Never heard this before. How is the entropy created? Wont all the values for the pixels be near zero (extemely simplified)?

Well i’m from utica and i’ve never heard anyone use “it” for a corporation

Billionaires are not the 1%… they’re the 0.1% of the 1%…

I hate that occupy wall street picked such a stupid number to pick fights with. 1% is like a high earning doctor. Well off, but not like wealthy enough to buy votes and sway elections…

FUCK THERE IS A WHOLE LOT OF STUPID USING LINUX

we wanted the year of the linux desktop… well the first raft of windows refugees seem to be a bunch of these overzealous privacy types who think they’re now a bunch of 1337 h4x0rs because they figured out how to get an nvidia driver working on mint… they have more paranoia than actual tech knowledge, and their only contribution to the community is sowing dissent, and shouting about something as trivial as an optional data field.

The debian subreddit is downvoting an actual DEBIAN DEVELOPER when they tried to explain the situation

If i put on my tin foil hat, i’d say these people are being deliberately influenced to sow chaos in foss communities

Honestly, i think their (openAI) rationale is that they paid these developers 500k$/yr or whatever… so in their minds, they set these devs up for lifetime success… therefore they have no obligation to keep them employed for long term

I think the devs who are smart, understood the unspoken terms of their agreement

Lol. The system is set up so that (few) workers will have the leverage to charge double…

Whoops… medical issue… please, sam altman, hire me back at the same salary as before! Or half, i dont care!

If people want chip sovereignty they need to byild fabsm anyone can design chips. The bottle neck is and always has been getting them manufactured and thats almost entirely in taiwan and china

One thing i noticed windows does better is managing multiple screens.

90% of the time when i undock/dock my laptop, the windows go back to the screens they were previously on

https://github.com/endurain-project/endurain

Pair with a foss gpx tracks app

Aspirational brands

Thats probably where the LLMs picked up the idea. All the online jokes about nuking everyone

What is the solution? Am i stupid?

Debian

But i installed pw a long time ago, so back then, they worked side by side… i guess none of the major upgrades auto removed it, so i just left it. I just assumed that if it has become a full replacement, the debian package manager would just drop it at some point

When will PW become a total replacement for pulse?

it bothers my OCD that i still have both installed and PW seems to be dependent on pulse

Edit: i’m on debian, and even though pw has replaced pulse, there are still a bunch of pulseaudio packages and programs floating around on my system

Can confirm ctrl-shift-c opens dev console

I keep mixing up the shortcuts because ctrl-shift-c is copy in the KDE terminal

The reason i adblock the shit out of everything is not because i think i’m smarter than everyone, it’s because i KNOW i’m susceptible to these things.

What you’re describing is not immunity, but an avoidance strategy. Almost nobody is truly immune to ads, thats why we avoid exposure

Nobody is immune to HIV, so we avoid exposure

Being influenced by ads is not some moral failing.

I really doubt people who think they have some special willpower to resist advertising. Advertising isnt simply “go buy this particular thing”. Brand recognition alone is very powerful.

The person you replied to thinks their shopping list is somehow immune to advertising, i highly doubt it. The lack of self awareness makes me think they are MORE susceptible to ads than the average person.

The bitter sarcasm of a veteran who saw this coming by virtue of having caused it?

a bit of this. Although in my defense, I wasnt working in advertising at the time (my company didnt even have an advertising division)

also, i dont work for one of the big tech companies that have their claws in your digital life. But i can see how it contributes at some level, however minor.