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SteamLink not allowing me to stream just my desktop (rather than a specific game) on Wayland is really the only thing keeping me on X11 at the moment. I use that feature almost nightly to keep watching something from my PC while I cook dinner

Windows has it's serious flaws, and I would never willingly go back to it at this point, but the installer is too hard? This sounds like a you-issue rather than a Windows one.

How Linus publicly responds to these very fairly laid out criticisms will really affect their standing in the tech review space going forward.

Linus generally sucks at taking warranted feedback & criticism, so I can see him crashing and burning super hard in whatever post or podcast comment he makes publicly about this.

This looks like a huge issue as far as moving from a "haha wacky video" tech channel to a "hard data driven testing" tech channel, but also it's not like they haven't done "serious" reviews prior to the Labs stuff in the past so I'm not about to hand wave away their issues as "growing pains" or anything like that; it's just indicative of sloppy workflow and low effort internal culture.

This is the leat surprising information anyone could have told me about working for LTT/LMG. Time and time again, tech jobs and game dev jobs in workplaces run by "old internet edgelords" always (always) results in shit like this.

You're missing the point. Do you think a president with an R next to their name would be any less of a bloodthirsty moron? So now it's not only "they're bombing Palestine" but also all the other human rights violating shit that happens under a Republican president here at home.

Yes Biden should stop absolutely supporting the genocide, but threatening to replace him with literally the same plus LGBTQ+ discrimination, immigration fear mongering, more destruction of reproductive rights, etc. is certainly not a sane reaction.

I mostly watch LTT for the entertainment value but I’ve never taken their reviews particularly seriously.

Except, people spending hundreds to a thousand dollars on PC hardware do clearly trust him and his channel for the final "should you buy this or not" stance at the end of each review. It's not a negligible amount of influence he has on the tech review space, and it's explicitly because of their click-bait / algorithm friendly thumbnails and titles that they're able to reach such wide audiences and become the top few results when someone searches for a product.

it is clear that Linus knows his stuff

Is it? I've been watching for years and he always exudes "content creator persona" and very rarely expresses and real technical knowledge. He's essentially the youtube star version of that one kid who built their PC and never shuts up about it; he has certainly educated himself on consumer tech stats and comparisons, but his background and especially his current work have very little to do with actual technical know how.

And I'm not even saying that's a "bad thing", since he has writers and staff and now the Lab who should be able to reach that level of understanding and let him be just the face on the screen. But the fact is like Steve has said, that clearly also isn't what's actually happening behind the scenes.

My crowning achievement is still seeding a 2.429TB torrent up to a 1.0 ratio, took me about 7 and a half months.

I would say, do a decently deep dive into your model's section on the XDA forums. The people over there are the go to for rooting and custom recovery flashing.

The reason I think this is super important, is because the fact that you haven't found a specific guide for the 3 Strix might possibly be that it just isn't supported yet (or may not be possible to support). I used to have similar issues with certain carrier-specific models not actually supporting the steps needed to flash TWRP over adb or even unlock the bootloader period.

Pretty sure this is exactly what the "immutable OS" is for, like what's found in Fedora Silverblue (and less notably in the SteamDeck).

It essentially lets you break whatever you want in userland, but it mounts the root filesystem in read-only, and literally re-images the entire machine each update w/ the added bonus of halting and rolling back the update if any errors are detected during the update. All of which occurs "magically" behind the scenes upon shutdown, so it requires essentially little to no user interaction to manage core updates.

Also all graphical software is limited to flatpaks, so you really take out a lot of the user confusion about installing on Linux and dealing with system-specific weirdness.

pre-numbering, it was almost like trying to decipher Sanskrit when going out to buy a router.

Maybe the Wunderground KDE plugin will be revived now that IBM isn't the one handing out API keys...

I don't think they meant the hacked and released source code, I think they meant the kernel modules that Nvidia actually opensourced in may of '22

They must fight their own battle...

To what end? Is this stance worth losing a free nation to Russia if only supporting via arms isn't enough anymore?

I'm honestly curious why you feel this way.

For me, generally, I don't really enjoy the idea of sending our military into places like the Middle East; at best we're teetering on the line of actually being the aggressors in those conflicts, and at worst actually are just clearly at fault. But I kind of think, for once, the issue at hand in Ukraine is pretty cut and dry at this point. If push came to shove and they really desperately needed support from allies, I can't think of a more righteous use of our military than to defend Ukraine.

That whole timeline is insane, and the fact that anyone even found this in the totally coincidental way they did is very lucky for the rest of us.

It literally isn't, what the hell are you smoking?

Do we really need a new post about this, with the same screenshot, every time it happens to someone for the first time?

It was a 4K porn siterip.

A little more nuanced than that, at the bottom of the article it says:

According to a 2014 Gigaom interview with Paul Kane, then chairman of the Internet Computer Bureau, the domain name registry is required to give some of its profits to the British government, for administration of the British Indian Ocean Territory.[23] After being questioned as a result of the interview, the British Government denied receiving any funds from the sale of .io domain names, and argued that consequently, the profits could not be shared with the Chagossians, the former inhabitants forcibly removed by the British government.[24] Kane, however, contradicted the government's denial.[25][26]

Ever considered trying out a tiling window manager?

My exact solution to this on Endeavour was to just stop using flatpaks lol.

Literally everything I used from flathub was also either on the AUR or trivial to install manually from the host GitHub.

I will never let myself live down the stupidity and shame of falling for their bullshit not once, but twice. I'm ~$150 poorer thanks to my impressionable college-brain thinking their "complete in a few years" line back in 2014 was even remotely possible.

Back when I was young and stupid, my ISP had a 3 strike program before they just terminated your entire contact.

Yeah, honestly without memeing, if it ever does happen it would probably be the causes of "the year of the linux desktop".

Yeah but at least you'll know exactly when the lithium ones go bad...

I initially went with Kbin and Beehaw since it was clear that kbin and lemmy were going to mostly diverge on key features from the start. At the time, Beehaw was getting a ton of traffic thanks to the join-lemmy homepage placing them at the top of the suggested instances list, so there was no real criteria that went into my choice other than that.

Eventually deleted my Beehaw account though, after the admins made it clear they were not prepared for the influx and were being rather dramatic about their defederation choices as a result. It left a bad taste in my mouth, and while I understand their stance was "safe place first, popular site second" it just didn't vibe with what I expected from an open reddit alternative.

Moved to VLemmy after that, and we all know how that went, but my rationale was that it was a growing but moderately small instance.

Afterwards I made 2 new accounts: one on infosec.pub and the other on lemdro.id.

At this point I'm mostly sticking with the Lemdro.id account, since they seem to be offering some very friendly support via their matrix space, and they have some apparently unique changes to backend to make it a very fast and easy to scale instance.

My kbin.social and infosec.pub accounts are mostly just alts gathering dust as a result.

I just wanna play as a Kenku... [sad bird noises]

No, in so far as its a valid community to link to considering this is beehaw (not federated with a few large instances) and it's 100% relevant to the thread they posted it in.

They definitely used to lock it behind a paywall; back in the early 2010's the ROM they shipped had the option greyed out unless you paid for the data tier that supported it

I really just cant stand the weird plastic-looking screens they all have on the inside.

Also yeah being anywhere from double to triple the price for something that I think looks objectively worse than a regular glass phone screen is just... not gonna happen.

Love my Pixel, love my Pixel Bud Pros, love my Pixel Watch. Would never use Chrome over Firefox, though I use google search & assistant all the time.

I have a gmail, but it's devolved into a "email i give to sites i know will spam me and sell my data and send me endless marketing crap" pit, and instead have a proton mail that I use for everything personal / important.

I have zero "brand loyalty" towards google though, I only use products of theirs insofar as they are the best in the class / category that I'm looking for. And for now, that happens to be first-party android devices / wearables, but certainly not browsers. Far from a fanboy, but I also don't subscribe to the weird hate hivemind on here.

I think what it really boils down to is that the vast majority of drivers who run red lights choose to do so out of stupidity, where as someone trusting Tesla's claims about their new "self-driving" car might not have the chance to stop the vehicle as it hurtles itself through a red light. So yes, in terms of raw numbers it will cause less accidents in some cases, but that it can happen at all when the average trusting consumer/user would expect to never do that compared to a normal car should be a huge issue.

Also, as far as liability goes, I'm horrified to think about what the future of vehicle injury lawsuits will look like in the US when the driver can blame the software and the company providing the software is run by a grifter asshole.

Still holding out for desktop streaming via SteamLink to work on Wayland. I use it almost nightly to mirror my screen to my phone so I can watch what's on my PC while cooking dinner via my phone.

Source: they made it up

Hey cut OP some slack, they just learned those words from the older kids at school.

I think without some kind of "incorporation" (or whatever the tech/FOSS equivalent of that is), most of these kinds of thing will be vulnerable to issues with the owner's payment methods failing. Even with donation options available it's almost always still being used to pay to the server owner in parallel to them paying server / domain costs out of pocket (and then reimbursing themselves with the donations)

That said, I have to assume there's some way to set up some kind of automated payment option where community donations actually fill a fund that is used to pay costs directly in case the maintainer drops off the face of the earth.

I prefer the AUR, but if I have to use one of the three it's gotta be an AppImage these days.

I used to swear by flatpak, but because I'm on nvidia it just turns into a stupidly bloated mess since it never removes older driver versions. They're certainly not "bad" though, and I use them on my SteamDeck for sure.

I love that even the URL preview shows an IP address lol.

The site just grabs the viewers current IP I imagine it's probably whatever address is used by the instance to parse the URL and generate the preview, since it's different if I view it on my instance, vs if I view it on the original post on dbzer0

Just fun to notice I guess.

Damn i forgot about boxhead... I must have spent more hours in that game than anything in my Steam library back in the day.

I mean it's quite literally not, but whether it's tasteful to link to a different community is up to personal choice I guess.

According to the dev on Mastoson, it was DarkReader messing with their color math detection on a HN link's :visited tag.