I don’t think pinging is necessary, it could just be temporarily turning off airplane mode when you go to make an emergency call.

But I was moreso pointing out that OP’s paranoia over not having a carrier is IMO a bit moot when the baseband is always on, as any tower that’s listening could still see them and track them at least by IMEI. There are some portable hotspots that have an IMEI randomization feature, although I would be worried that you could get banned from the network using that if you actually had service.

Airplane mode doesn’t necessarily turn off the baseband radio, it can still work even if the application OS isn’t talking to it, so you can still be tracked. Also some phones actually have a mux on the camera/mic/GPS so that the baseband can talk to it even if the application OS is shutdown.

So 1 month becomes… 2 years?

I know it’s not BSD but, gentoo already does similar with elogind to support all init systems with gnome, so maybe they could use something like that too.

gentoo uses elogind to emulate the systemd interfaces required by gnome

You can alter your PAM configuration to require both: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/572841

On my system, by default it lets you use either one to authenticate any time a password is needed, but this can be changed to require successful authentication using BOTH methods if desired.

I wasn’t sure if you were wanting to require both, or just allow either one to be used, but both scenarios are trivial to configure.

Most of the games I play don’t work on wine (Teknoparrot), and multiple machines I have are either missing or have broken essential drivers for built-in peripherals like wifi/BT, fingerprint readers etc. So… I had to go back.

One of my laptops has a 10+ year old unfixed kernel bug for the bluetooth not working… and the wifi only uploads at 1mbps under Linux, but works fine on Windows.

I’m sure people that don’t happen to have random hardware/software incompatibilities are enjoying linux, but there’s also still lots of people that can’t switch.

AI slop strikes again

I could not even view it on firefox as I got endless captcha loops.

You don’t need open-watcom to compile 9x applications from other OSes… both gcc and clang, as well as wine, have multiple options for cross-compilation, no VM or docker needed.

I routinely use all 3 methods for compiling my own 95/98 applications from Linux.

For gcc I use the mingw toolchain, which is available as the mingw-w64 package on Debian-based systems, or https://mxe.cc/.

For clang I use clang-cl with the VC6 SDK. clang-cl pretends to be the Microsoft cl.exe compiler and actually works quite well if you know the right options to give it.

And finally, using wine you can either run the original MSVC toolchain compilers, or versions of gcc that were compiled to run on Windows directly; there are both old and new gcc versions that can produce Win9x binaries if you know where to look.

Some resources that have helped me over the years as well:

https://glizda.wordpress.com/2021/05/19/compiling-programs-for-windows-95-and-pentium-in-2021/

https://web.archive.org/web/20230905023821/http://www.nosubstance.me/post/coding-windows-cpp-on-linux-2/

https://github.com/fsb4000/gcc-for-Windows98

Yea this is some BS… gnome doesn’t need any help to burn their own reputation to the ground, this is just a hitpiece by yet another one of their out of touch high and mighty contributors.

lol, lmao even

What I’ve seen lead to success:

• Arrogance
• Overconfidence
• Schmoozing with the right people
• Doing flashy work, whatever that means in a given situation

What I have seen lead to failure or, at best, being undervalued and ignored:

• Caring about teammates and your future self
• Caring about the end user and the business itself, when it conflicts with something sales, marketing, or a PM want
• Creating resilient, well-engineered systems

It’s the same problem as anywhere else. Well-crafted systems are invisible and taken for granted. Saving the day by putting out a fire is applauded, even when you’re the one who laid out the kindling and matches. Managers at all levels care about their own ego more than the company, product, or team.

Maybe I just spent too much time with ex-Microsoft hacks.

Sorry but I have no idea what you’re talking about… and I wasn’t referring to any specific company

I just want them to stop acting like egotistical know-it-all jerks all the time. They love to speak in black-and-white absolutes and IMO it just shows how much they really don’t know.

I think Dunning-Kruger also applies to smart people… you don’t stop when you are estimating your ability correctly. As you learn more, you gain more awareness of your ignorance and continue being conservative with your self estimates.

https://www.theblackproject.net/opinion-resources/like-it-or-not-everything-is-political

it’s giving me GIMPshop flashbacks

It is best to assume that any private US company is compromised in this way

I would say that’s ridiculous for most people, but I guess it entirely depends on your threat model… if you’re legitimately worried about state-level boogeymen, you’ve probably got bigger problems and already know all of this.

So then it’s not really a blanket “no-AI” rule if it can’t be enforceable if it’s good enough? I suppose the rule should have been “no obviously bad AI” or some other equally subjective thing?

I have tried learning Qt but the documentation was awful

I found the Qt documentation to be quite excellent, with tons of examples and a huge community.

But for C I typically use nuklear. There’s also microui.