I asked my roommate who that guy is. Showed me a 4 minute clip of rambling. Now I have brain cancer.

Just tried it, working is indeed nicer after some nice fresh tuna and Sushi.

That’s simply not true, if the required dependencies are already downloaded they get used by every Flatpak app. If you have three apps requiring the Gnome 46 libs those only exist once.

I don’t know where this myth about Flatpaks always being gigabytes in size originates from or why it’s so persistent, but it’s wrong.

AppImages can get quite large because each app is self-contained, but the “losing integration” part is nonsense these days for any of these formars. That’s why we have portals, and if those aren’t enough you can still give the app full permissions.

The safest format I can think off would probably be mp4, with h264 for video streams and mp3 for audio streams. Unless you go for ancient technology basically anything should be able to open those files.

That’s exactly the kind of belittling behaviour I’m criticizing. I’m a sysadmin. I’d just like to see everyone be free from extortion and am fed up with the alienating culture within the Linux- and, partially, hacking community. There’s of course nothing against learning, but a lot against expecting people who just want to be on a boat trip to somewhere to slowly become sailors and blaming them when they’re afraid of messing with core elements of the boat with specialized tools. They’ll rather go to the overly friendly but creepy guy on the other boating service (Windows), as with them they at least know they’ll arrive their actual destination. They very well might even be fully preoccupied with being someone you as a sailor depend on and have neither time nor interest to divest from that.

Then of course there is the accessibility aspect for disabled people (which also includes GUI and not just screenreaders, different people have different needs), but that’s not a can of worms we should open or I may explode in your face.

Your meme isn’t the issue. Your expectations and the way you belittle people is.

It’s both funny and sad you seriously think this is a good argument.

A modern, accessible OS comes with graphical rollback features or even self-repair routines (but usually the first one for Linux in the form of bootable snapshots, or at least the last working kernel at minimum).

If your distro doesn’t have the last working kernel available to boot they fail even the most basic thing of disaster recovery.

I’m more than glad there are, by now, more and more distros (and DE’s) who finally good both the understanding as well as contributors and money to build an OS for everyone, not just sysadmins. Which includes a full GUI toolchain as integral part for basic accessibility. To expect everyone to become essentially a sysadmin when running Linux is the most common kind of harmful ignorance in the Linux community, and it’s good this notion is slowly changing. If you like it or not, understanding abstract CLI commands that often work with OS design concepts (especially in emergency situations like yours) are junior sysadmin level stuff and hardly accessible to a majority of people outside if this bubble we’re currently talking in. And people get immediately scolded for entering commands they don’t understand, so any common user is effectively being left alone in your scenario. Alienating interested people like this is one major reason why we were stuck in a niche for almost 3 decades.

So please, talk to people outside of the Linux bubble (who may focus on other professions and abilities that take all their time, which you may even take for granted as available services) and try to empathize with their needs and point of view.

Shoutout to the lads at Bazzite, Mint, KDE, Flatpak and other projects for doing awesome work.

Them: uninstalling Linux

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Perhaps Spacebar is a thing (the client of choice would be Fermi I think). Didn’t try it myself yet though, I do not know about how well its security protocol works. I’d assume it uses just a standard TURNS server for audio and video though.

Then of course there’s Matrix with Jitsi plugin, which will give you persistent headaches and a new appreciation of touching grass. It’s a mess, but hypothetically offers E2EE (if it works).

it’s been flawless for me

What kind of deal-with-the-devil black magic fuckery have you done to be able to write that? I’m happy if Matrix actually sends damn pictures and gave up completely on verifying my sessions.

NVK isn’t yet fully recommendable (otherwise gaming-oriented distros would save themselves all the hassle as well). It mostly works, but the performance often is horrendous. For gaming purposes as well as CUDA you still have to rely on the proprietary driver to get the most performance everywhere, and that thing is as awful to install as ever. It also got some issues on desktop for which distros like Bazzite implement workarounds and sane configurations that are known.

Nvidia is just awful on Linux…

Hard no, with an Nvidia GPU you absolutely should go for a distro like Bazzite to avoid the driver headache.

This is a BIOS issue anyway, not a distro issue.

Try flashing an older BIOS version, something from late 2024. I find reports about some AMD “CPPC” feature that causes breakage in certain hardware scenarios. Different distros probably wouldn’t solve this.

I had a SUNLU filament dryer (never buy them, they’re cheap garbage). The power supply broke and I requested a new one. They replied once in broken english, but when I specified the issue in more detail and requested replacement they ghosted me as well.

I replaced the power supply myself. Shortly after the control board for the heater broke too. The whole thing is so bad it could be on temu.

I had issues with both SUNLU and Jayo. Jayo spools came tangled, smelly like hell (it was just PLA) and with “white” being a really dirty one (more light very bright grey), and SUNLU devices are total shit with their customer support not working at all. I’d never recommend those products.

Creality and Anycubic are fine. If you’re looking for a general low-cost manufacturer try “TINMORRY” if they’re available in your region, I’ve good experiences with those.

For really high quality take a look at extrudr.

Do yourself a favour though, don’t buy bulks of filament from those cheap AliExpress brands (like Tecbears, Geeetech and such). They’re cheap and really bad.

This is framing. They back away from forcing companies offensively, now they tell them they got to implement technology to protect against it.

It’s less clear what the hell now happens, but threatens companies if they don’t implement something. The result will now be the same but the marketing is easier, and that’s clearly the goal.

I really hope PrusaSlicer implements this soon as well.

A device commonly designed to make us addicted to extortive systems filled with highly manipulative algorithms is bad for people, and especially so for young people? Gasp I’m shocked!

…but seriously, who is even surprised by this? The only thing I’d want for these rules is to have an exception for dumb phones and mp3 players. This wouldn’t violate the idea behind the Smartphone ban.

…while being forced to do so to achieve a basic thing, and after finding it as the solution on the web (because it usually is). Remember, Pop!_OS screwed up so badly that the installation of a common user program caused the removal of core system packages. While it’s correct to expect people to read warnings, expecting beginners and common users to either learn about the (very complex) inner workings of an operating system just to install something or to let go of their entire gaming library is unreasonable. And although Linus of course should have an interest in learning these things given his work and should’ve taken more care, the video was specifically to showcase how their experience as new users look like. And Pop!_OS was generally regarded as user-friendly, not as solely aimed at professionals (important detail).

If the only solution to a problem with a very common task on a user-friendly OS is hidden behind an advanced-level skill wall (yes, knowing all the important packages if your OS means you’re an advanced user) that may kill you if you do a single wrong action then your system offers shitty solutions.

Fortunately both user-friendly distros and aspects of them like Flatpak have gone way further since then, so this shouldn’t happen as easily anymore. The warnings in apt are way more noticeable now too I think. The Linux community learned from all the bad press… most of it at least.