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  • For me the year of the Linux desktop was 2014 - it's when I changed my desktop to Linux after using it on my laptop for a year. All the hardware on that machine has been replaced, but it's still running the same install from back then.

  • All public companies are, it's just what Boeing makes things that fall out of the sky if they mess up, so it's more obvious.

  • Just have NAS A send a rocket with the data to NAS B.

  • I really like gnome the software, but I've started considering moving away from it after a decade simply because of how toxic and difficult gnome the project can be.

  • There are two ways you can do this on Android currently, but they're not as quick. You can try to unlock with the wrong finger 5 times and it will stop allowing fingerprint unlocks. Or, you can hold down the power button for 10 seconds and the phone will reboot and also disable fingerprint unlocking.

  • I remember the clusterfuck that existed before systemd, so I love systemd.

  • By having the stupid idea of existing next to Russia (or a similar country).

  • If this was done by multiple people, I'm sure the person that designed this delivery mechanism is really annoyed with the person that made the sloppy payload, since that made it all get detected right away.

  • TIL there are Linux people that don't use OpenWRT. I always assumed everyone in the Linux community used it. It's great.

    Works great with mt7621 based routers if anyone ends up looking for something compatible.

  • Linux and a windows virtual machine with a dedicated nvme hard drive and GPU using PCI pass-through. Windows is boxed in but easily accessed when you need it, and the performance is 95% of native, or more. And because of the dedicated hard drive, you can still dual-boot it like normal if you want.

    Also, I recommend installing windows 10 enterprise in the VM, minimal bloat.

  • I use gnome for the most part. I have been checking out kde recently to see how the newer versions stack up (gave up on it during the 4.0 days). As you mention kde supports dpms changes on wayland because they have their own protocol extension for that.

    That's actually my biggest gripe with wayland - the huge amount of fragmentation it has caused. I'm pretty confident that almost all the missing features I talked about are possible on one or two of the compositors, but not all of them. And definitely not on the one I use. I'm sure once some pragmatism takes hold that all the issues will be ironed out, but my plan for now is to stick to X11 until that happens.

  • For me it's a million little details that just don't work. Stuff like positioning windows, removing decorations from a window, remapping buttons on a trackball, setting a graphics output to tvrgb, disabling a display via ssh and enabling it again, etc.

  • It's not just about hardware compatibility. It has to be compatible with existing workflows, and it's currently very limiting.

  • I don't work for Apple, but I am an electronics engineer. Just don't be surprised when your simpler devices start failing.

  • To be fair though, they just need to make everything USB-C anyhow.

    Careful what you wish for. Putting advanced electronics into very simple devices will just make them fail a lot faster.Some old device just needed 12V over a barrel jack to run some motor or light and charge the battery and it lasted a decade - only failed because the battery got old. New one now needs a state of the art power delivery chip to negotiate the right voltage and current, and all over a very fine pitch connector that will fail if you look at it wrong. Not looking good on the durability front at all.

  • set -euo pipefail at the top of every script makes stuff a lot safer. Explanation here.

  • It's an American obsession.

  • It's like calling all fuel diesel.

  • You tend to lose count after the first few hundred.