Cops. Without a doubt. Its the career path for highschool bullies who want authority and respect, but are too stupid to become doctors or lawyers, so they pick up a badge and a gun as a shortcut to “respect by implied threat”

True. But I was coming at if from the perspective of an every day user coming from Windows. email, word processing, internet, etc… Even gaming and photo editing.

The more professional the needed software gets, of course the more obscure it gets.

You are correct. But you are missing the most important button. Right in the middle of that table there is a big red button that says “autopilot - Manage all these things for me and I can play with a few of those other buttons, or all, or even none, and the rest doesn’t have to be touched by the user unless they want to”

I honestly can’t remember the last time I’ve come across a package that I needed that so obscure that it wasn’t found somewhere as at the very least an appimage, if not a flatpak. I haven’t had to build from source in I don’t even know how many years now.

Is this satire?

Seriously, if I was new to Linux, coming from Windows, asking for a cheat sheet or Linux for dummies manual, everything you wrote would sound like absolute gibberish to me.

If this was someone’s response to me when asking for advice I’d immediately reinstall windows where at least (from the perspective of a typical end user) they speak words that make sense.

I don’t really keep up, but is that Dr. Disrespect guy still considered a pedo pariah?

Phonetically it’s pronounced “K-D-E-is-superior”

But hey, language is protean. It evolves and flows like a river, daddy-o.

I see no legitimate reason to let ANY AI have full access to my computer. It’s just unnecessary.

If I need to ask an AI to proofread something, or I need help sorting through a programming error. I’ll go to its website and ask it.

There is no reason (for me) to let it sit there chilling on my computer 24-7 doing good knows what.

The final “Gate” so to speak, will end up being your motherboard.

At a certain point, your motherboard just won’t support a newer part and you’ll have upgraded all the existing parts as far as they can go.

My current rig that I’m still perfectly content with is just under ten years old. I’ve upgraded the Ram to as much as the motherboard will allow. I’ve upgraded the Video Card two or three times in that span, where it’s now running a 3060. While I still see a huge improvement with that, there’s no doubt that the video card is being throttled somewhat by the motherboard throughput limitations, but for I don’t mind. I’ve added extra cooling fans, replaced the drives with SSD and use the old metal spinners for extra storage.

It still runs plenty fast enough to do Blender (nothing complex, just airplane modelling and animation for xplane), video editing with DaVinci Resolve (as long as I use proxy clips and take it a little easy on the motion graphics), and most newer games (though of course not at ultra settings).

The last bottleneck that I’ll simply never be able to pass is the fact that the CPU socket will never support an octocore processor or higher. I can upgrade as much as I want, but it will never not be a quad-core.

For now that’s fine. But that’s the hard limit that I’ve given myself. Your mileage may vary.

The world is kind of a shitty place right now. And to be honest, I’d be surprised if it wasn’t, at least to some degree, affecting everyone’s calm.

A sadly underappreciated show:

Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles

The fall of which Rome?

I still contend that this isn’t equivalent to the fall of the Empire. It’s equivalent to the fall of the republic and the rise of the empire.

The US isn’t dealing with Astragoths and Huns pillaging their cites. They’re dealing with an exceptionally stupid version of Caesar trying to usurp power and proclaim an empire.

Buckle up, America. If you don’t take care of this now, your in for about 437 more years of this shit.

Bitwarden. Second place isn’t even close.

I’ve loved my Motorola’s. They’re seemingly the last manufacturer that realises that for a bunch of people (myself included) a good priced mid-range device is more than sufficient.

Seriously, what is the line between the loss of focus due to depression, and the inability to focus due to ADHD.

Because I got diagnosed with depression late in life (far too late, quite frankly…long after it had already messed up my life/future/etc…)

But yet, my symptoms are constantly showing up in ADHD memes.

I’m very very confused.

I feel embarassed to say this as someone who is fairly techy, but I’m a little confused by the whole brouhaha.

Is Google making changes to Android, or to AOSP?

If Google is making changes to the Android fork they put on their own phones, then fuck 'em. Use Graphene. Use e/OS/, use Lineage…use something that forks their own branch of AOSP and Google can pound sand because those forks are in no way obligated to make the same changes as Google. AOSP is open source for that very reason.

If Google is making those changes to AOSP itself, which means that anyone who uses AOSP as a base have those changes by default, then isn’t Google obligated to keep those changes as Open Source, in which case anyone else who uses AOSP can just remove them from their own fork?

Someone explain like I’m a particularly dim five-year-old, please.

they are usually always the enemy

Why did someone create a “shit on everybody’s fun” lemmybot?

Linux by design gives the user enough rope to hang themselves with.

And that’s certainly not a problem when dealing with tech enthusiasts who know what, when and where to touch to avoid messing things up. But when you’re dealing with getting a phone into the hands of ordinary people, that isn’t going to fly because all of those people will at some point start mucking around inside and then expect tech support when they mess up.

For mainstream adoption, the linux kernel must and the desktop environment must be at least somewhat locked down.

Just because it’s a libre phone, doesn’t mean it’s necessarily a linux phone. Or at least any more so than Android is a linux phone because it uses a heavily modified (almost unrecognizable) linux kernel.

There’s nothing in the article that says they’re just going to use a mainline linux kernel and throw a touch optimized version of some existing desktop on it (ubuntu touch, etc…)

Heck, they could be meaning that they’re planning on making their own heavily modified kernel for their very own OS so as to skip all of the trouble that trying to make mainline linux into a handheld device has been so far. (similar to I believe how SailfishOS is doing it)