MotoAsh

lol this is Lemmy. The safer bet would be to call me a leftist…

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Oh it’s definitely not just the budget phones.

I’m not terribly familiar with phone options, though ya’d figure ads in the menus would be immediately disqualifying. It’s not like they’re all doing it (yet), so you’re not stuck for accepting it. Especially not from a new company.

I genuinely do not remember how it acts with one or few devices, but I wouldn’t be shocked to hear the magic extends past replacing raid arrangements or other multi-HDD setups.

Seriously what audio device needs drivers that haven’t existed for decades by now?

Recently tried MX and definitely +1.

The disclaimer is I haven’t tried too many of the shiny new distros to compare to, but compared to RHEL and Manjaro (ugh), Ubuntu, Mint, and a few other ‘traditional’ choices, MX has been crazy easy to setup and use.

The one thing that hasn’t “just worked” is a USB4 dock that kinda’ works like extra PCIe lanes (it’s just how that style of dock works), which of course the OS is going to freak out if a few PCIe devices suddenly disappear when unplugged. It’s not exactly a hot-swappable protocol!

I’d like to know how to get it working flawlessly, but everything else has been great.

ZFS is magic if you have enough storage devices.

I was having all sorts of IO issues because a few shitty HDD cables, and the worst of the observed behavior was some hiccups and freezes sometimes. Hundreds of IO errors, and it was barely sometimes maybe having a pause…

After switching a bunch of cables around and re-scrubbing a few times, I’ve now had zero IO errors for months, and zero OS issues.

I’d hate to think how nasty things would’ve gotten and would still be if those hundreds and hundreds of IO errors were stacking up this whole time.

Concord… rofl

Though as you say, it’s not a genre problem but a capitalist piece of shit problem.

Games USED to be able to be hosted locally. You USED to be able to spin up a server and play with your friends without paying the capitalist tax. Not so more.

The entire industry world is rotting in wait for these fucking morons to realize profit above all else is cancer.

I mean, if he’s still living a life his employees can only dream of, he’s still actually being a pile of shit. It’s all pandering until they need to move out of their mansions.

Now why would they go and do something perfectly sensible like that?! They don’t get filthy rich by doing logical things.

The audacity to try in the first place is bad enough. How are you people so fucking complacent with companies that you already paid further selling your time and wasting power on your devices so they can pocket even more money??

You’re a frog in already boiling water, and you don’t even notice your skin sloughing off…

Keep proudly throwing around that ignorance while people are explaining how you are wrong to your face…

It’s not flattering.

The user never sees dependencies … until they do.

Go ahead and try to use different Python products that require different versions yet don’t use a venv.

Similarly, there is a reason average users hated Java even while it was heavily adopted for back ends.

They care if the thing you just described, potential interference with normal operation, happens!

Yes, exactly. Like exactly what happens when external dependencies conflict.

Again, you are yet again projecting your personal ignorance and preference on everyone. I’m “insulting” you because you are using an assinine avenue of thought.

lol your ability to shit out words and demonstrate how deep your assumptions are is … hilarious.

The overhead on storage is hardly of consequence, especially for corporations. Otherwise even windows apps wouldn’t bundle so many dll’s next to the exe’s.

It’s not always about security. In larger deployed environments, even dependencies among the corporation’s own apps that they develop, let alone all apps they might need to use, might have different versions of dependencies to use. They might work with entirely different languages and frameworks.

Instead of loading up raw servers or VM’s with twenty external dependencies of potentially varying versions, which would quickly become a nightmare to administer, they just ship containers. Each app can do what ever the hell the team wants with what ever the hell versions of dependencies they want. It quickly becomes very important for ease of IT administration to just have little black boxes that have their defined ins and outs.

It’s usually much less important for an individual’s personally used computer, but it should still be easily understandable that some people do not like having to install several dependencies for one app (even when the package manager handles it 99% of the time these days). Especially if those dependencies create a lot of files here and there, or potentially interfere with other things installed. Maybe it’s as simple as an app they like requires Java 11, and they don’t want to install it across the entire OS.

Again, you’d have to be an absolute idiot to fail to realize that these problems and wants do exist for others.

Yep, just full-throatedly out here yelling how you don’t understand the problems being addresed…

OFC somene who favors macos doesn’t understand dependency hell or general IT frustrations…

There’s a reason containers and immutable/atomic linux flavors have become popular… In fact, several. Good ones.

Anecdotes to not disprove norms.

I had this happen with a few drives. The cause was bad cables to the HDDs causing random errors. Had to try a bunch of different cables until the errors stopped happening.

If the problem is showing up out of the blue with no HW changes or anything, definitely back up any data you want to protect from the computer before you get too far down the road, because the HDD might be legitimately failing.

The idea is excellent, especially factoring in the few current suggestions to retain maximum privacy.

However, I think you’re going to hit some really big hiccups when hitting the real world. Many FOSS projects may not have completely obvious donation schemes, let alone ubiquitous and automatable schemes, for starters. Even providing clean links to patreons/coffee may end up quite an obnoxious task even using machine learning to yoink links from readmes et. al… Not to say it’s impossible, I’m saying that getting an accurate pie graph is just the beginning.

In addition, the dependencies suggestion is a pretty important and massive chestnut. It will certainly turn out that many core dependencies are used a huge portion of the time. Some disproportionately so. It will also certainly be very difficult to find and include any dependencies that are compiled in to things, and may not have obvious signatures without analyzing the source.

Of course, if things are truly FOSS, these concerns should be solvable in some way or another. Just don’t be surprised if you end up having to analyze source to get a remotely complete list!