This argument is conflating the bad boss with the misattribution of the tool. You could do that for any tool throughout history. But I still fail to see how you go from “bad boss is bad because they make us misattribute tool” to “good boss is bad because he’s not wallowing with me about how bad boss is bad”.

As anyone who has known about him for more than a couple of years knows, Linus has a pretty solid track record of calling out stupidity. It’s just virtually always stupidity that affects the kernel. If he had to stop and tell bosses at other companies how to operate, Linux never would have made it out of the 90s.

You’re counting hw already in circulation as being added to circulation just because it changes hands. “Old hardware” is finite by definition. If it is new to circulation, we call that new hardware.

You and a lot of other people too. As people get priced out of new stuff, they too will start “mining those seams”.

Except that’s where the mining analogy breaks down. When we’re mining, we’re putting new resources into circulation, increasing supply, driving prices down. But when it comes to old hw, it’s already all in circulation, so as demand for it goes up, supply will go down, and prices will go up.

All hardware has already gotten more expensive, and the headline is that it will continue that trend. My point is that old hw won’t be an exception, it will also continue going up in price. So if you plan to grab old hw next year, you should probably just go ahead and get it now while it’s cheaper.

If the new stuff gets more expensive, the old stuff will too

1,313 were in the Linux patch.

It’s best to think of the AUR as an arch-specific build instruction wiki, not a package manager repo. It’s just that the build instructions are formally specific, so it’s possible for the former to be used like the latter. But that’s how you get yourself in trouble.

Keepass has always been great. If you aren’t regularly sharing account logins with other people, you just have a file you can sync using whatever method you want. For clients, I recommend KeepassDX on android, and KeePassXC on PC.

I also had to look it up

The first time a child is caught using Linux to circumvent this law, they’ll update the law.

I think they were assuming that people would use linux to dodge these restrictions. Ex. a teen who can’t use a site on windows/ios might boot linux in an attempt to make it work. But as others have pointed out, it’s more likely that sites will just blanket-flag a linux useragent as being used by a child to be safe. And then a linux user changing their useragent to get around this will then be hw attestation challenged like any other OS. So yeah, it’s just going to make it more inconvenient to use an open system.

I don’t know how much IT experience you have, but at the end of the day when an organization pays for license, they’re paying for a fall-guy. They want to have someone to go to when there’s a problem with the software, because that’s cheaper than everyone needing to hire an expert at whatever issues pop up to be certain it’s solved.

They don’t want to have a bunch of PCs running whatever distro and domain software the last IT guy felt like going with. And when the next heartbleed/shell shock/spectre happens, they don’t want to have to figure out how to get the fix for the flavors of software they went with. They want to be able to say “hey company, this is what we pay you for” and the company to say “all good, we got you”.

Of course, it is possible to have both open software, and corporate support. This is why redhat exists. Just understand that your IT dept may have a preference based purely on how easy/hard it makes their job. When my PC has some bug or hw incompatibility, I’m willing to take the time to solve it. But someone who doesn’t have that time is going to prefer to just tell the company that made it to solve it.

I’m also on-board with no computers in schools, as someone else brought up. Phones should not be allowed in classrooms. Before we had LLMs running on calculators, my idea was to have a series of optional classes where you build your own calculator starting from logic gates, and that’s the only computer you’re allowed to use.

Optical or roller ball?

Probably the easiest place to start is appropriately reporting a bug that you’re impacted by.

Take note of the version of the affected program you are using (likely depends on your distro). It could be that the bug has been fixed in a more recent release, and you don’t want to create noise for an issue that has already been resolved and hasn’t made it to you, or is specific to the build for your distro.

Once you’ve figured out where the issue must lie, make a report with detailed steps on how to reproduce the issue. Don’t ghost the thread, if a dev asks followup questions, try to help give feedback.

If you’re lucky, and they post a commit to fix the issue, take a look at it and try to understand what it is doing. Over time, you’ll start to get a feel for how open development works.

It’s also basically destroying Xbox. I’m surprised they’re still offering it.

But sometimes a product comes with free month of gamepass or something, and I don’t fault anyone for using that to game. And if I were going to do that, I’d rather do it on Linux.

Yeah I’ve mostly avoided GN ever since that incident. There was a time when they just objectively reviewed hardware and reported their findings. The LTT debacle was an uncalled-for hit piece in an attempt to drum up drama for views.

It was eye opening to hear Alex’s take in that whole situation. How they did so much damage over qualms they could have addressed to LTT directly. LTT, like any company, has a lot of issues, but that was just so uncalled for.

I would agree with you 6mo ago, but ever since their last Linux challenge, it feels like LTT is full linux-pilled now. Before, they seemed to exclusively compare capabilities vs mainstream OSes, and only focus on where Linux fell short, because realistically, that’s all mainstream gamers care about. But after the last Linux challenge, they all chose to stay with Linux on their personal machines, because they all felt like it was worth any compromises to not have to deal with windows.

As Linus put it, if something doesn’t work in windows it’s because of bugs or lack of money. If something doesn’t work in Linux, it’s because no one in the community has been annoyed enough by it to fix it.

As Luke put it, every time he’s had to fix an issue on Linux, he’s actually enjoyed it because it felt like he was learning about his machine.

Linus recently did a call with Ludwig about the feasibility of non-tech YouTubers using Linux. Ludwig said “I just think it’s better to have more options, so everyone can use the option they want”, which is historically the line Linus goes with, except that he countered with “consider that windows actively uses their status to limit people’s options, does that change your mind?”

Overall, I think the channel still has to be realistic about the general public’s adoption of Linux. They review the latest tech, and if the latest tech is built exclusively for windows, then they have to review it there. But they do seem to be much more critical of window’s enshittification, and openly advocate for people to try Linux in spite of a rocky transition. It’s been refreshing to finally see the self-professed tech nerds actually cross that threshold into owning their hardware. And whether you like it or not, LTT and Pewdiepie are driving orders of magnitude more people to Linux than we are.

Edit: oh and Linus openly declared that It’s the year of the Linux Desktop, telling viewers it is ready for mainstream adoption.

No. No one is telling anyone to “trust Microsoft”, no one is saying “the numbers Microsoft reports are true”. That is a quote the guy above invented from thin air.

Edit: but for the record, it would be lawsuit territory for MSFT to actually publish false numbers. The shareholders would absolutely ream them. They’re allowed to not post numbers, but they’re not allowed to post false numbers.

Just note how the guy starts with “only Microsoft numbers can be trusted” is biased bullshit.

I would argue misquoting someone to fit your argument is more a egregious example of “biased bullshit”.

Only Microsoft or OEM partners can tell you with the highest accuracy how many people use Windows now versus five years ago.

This is literally true. They’re not saying they WILL tell you the accurate numbers, they’re saying only they have those numbers to tell.

Right, I’m saying Dell doesn’t make displays. Generally LG makes the displays that Dell uses, but apparently they also use Samsung and AU Optronics. But even then, I believe there’s some Chinese middle-man OEM actually making the displays, and in certain countries (including the US) Dell buys those and slaps their Dell and Alienware branding on them.

It makes sense to recommend an LG/Samsung/AUO monitor, it doesn’t make sense to generally recommend all Dell or Alienware monitors. Maybe a specific product worked well for you, but you can’t make broad statements about all their monitors because the only thing they are sure to have in common is the name brand selling them.

it puts me off ever buying or recommending an Alienware monitor

Why would anyone recommend an Alienware monitor? They don’t make displays. You’re just recommending which branding the display has.