HN, literally "Hacker News" where people will spend (not an exaggeration) a decade complaining about Windows and macOS issues, with all sorts of workarounds, homebrew, homebrew workarounds and more, and yet still offer up their Ubuntu 18.04 experiences as if they're indicative of where Desktop Linux is today.
I have auto ZFS snapshots, the choice of 5+ competent desktop environments, every piece of software I need and use (including Halo, emulators, etc), an immutable OS, rollbacks to nearly any point in time, have never, ever, ever had anything "break", and have never remotely seen an advertisement or nagware, ever. Not to mention that my NixOS skills directly translate to running servers the way they're meant to be run. With my recently setup zrepl, I also have an exact replica of all of my data on a portable SSD. I can travel with a single laptop and know that I can literally get it back to its identical state in about 15 minutes, should it ever be broken or stolen. Entire classes of anxieties eliminated in a way that other OSes can't even dream of, on top of complete control, and again no nagware.
It's about tradeoffs and I'd much rather put up some up front investment and then never think about it again. Go re-install Windows and watch how long it takes to disable all the telemetry, un-privacy features, default browsers, application and desktop configuration, etc. And then realize for maybe 3x that cost, you could learn something new and move past all of this nonsense. Or just keep dealing with Windows Updates and Bing shoved everywhere it doesn't belong.
I don't normally write this type of comment, but you are an absolute powerhouse and I'm so glad to see you pushing WebRTC, WebRTC+OBS, and playing the social game a bit to drum up support.
WebRTC has so much potential, I have big ideas for using it in a number of projects, if I can ever just clone myself a couple of times. Thanks for your work and enthusiasm!
I constantly dream of a much more simple, but also powerful OBS replacement, with separated components for sending inputs to a "compositing" server, that can then rebroadcast via WebRTC. Maybe with customizable templates that could be more powerful than OBS's scenes. With the ability to let viewers customize/change their views further... It's a bit much to type out all here, but the WebRTC-powered future is very exciting.
I read this thing three times, searched for every variant of "months" and "8" and "eight" I could think of and can't find a single thing that remotely indicates 100+ people dying from an unapproved vaccine.
Can you help me understand what exactly you're referring to? Is the EUA? Is it the concept of clinical trials? Maybe I'm looking at the wrong link somehow?
(I should probably delete this comment, given that the article, referenced materials and studies make it pretty clear that the increases in mortality are not from vaccines, or properly-used prescribed medications and I'm bored of non-topical COVID ... ideologies... derailing HN conversations)
I cannot imagine even remotely engaging in a culture where either of those are possibilities, let alone speculating about which is likely. But then again, I'm not a fan of incestual SV culture.
ASUS laptops, as of 6.1, I think, have kernel support and a userspace CLI and GUI to trivially configure this stuff (`asusctl`). In Windows, you can use GHelper and avoid the hundreds of megabytes of gaudy crap that is Armory Crate to configure this as well.
`asusctl` (the CLI), and `rog-control-center` (the GUI) lets you configure fan curves, "ultimate mode" (mux switch), LED lights, effects, panel overdrive, battery charge limit and more
And then `supergfxctl`, when "ultimate mode" is disabled, allows you to configure "Hybrid" or "Integrated"(-only) graphics modes.
For completeness/disclosure, flipping the mux switch aka Ultimate mode on/off) requires reboot, though it seems this may become unnecessary with new/future hybrid graphics tech in laptops.
ASUS should shower the developer in money, this G14 2022, all AMD is the most satisfying, best, complete out of box Linux experience I've ever had. And I've owned a lot of Lenovos, Dells, etc.
Add Unihertz to the list. I'd love to buy a Jelly2 but not with their stock software. I don't understand the dynamics at play and it's hard to not get a bit conspiratorial..
You don't need kernel sources to change Android software though.
But I hate Unihertz for other reason. You can pretty much buy their hardware exclusively on their website which is a horrible e-merchant: Their delivery failed (maybe they never sent it, maybe they sent it with the cheapest post service possible, i don't know), and well pretty much they stole money from me. That was a "kickstarter" [1], so I couldn't ask my credit card for a refund.
And that's after I was already a sold customer since I already ordered one before, AND I gave them visibility by having custom ROM support for their devices.
[1] the quotes are here because the device was Google-certified months before, so clearly the product didn't need a "kickstart", they hide behind it to steal from users
I have auto ZFS snapshots, the choice of 5+ competent desktop environments, every piece of software I need and use (including Halo, emulators, etc), an immutable OS, rollbacks to nearly any point in time, have never, ever, ever had anything "break", and have never remotely seen an advertisement or nagware, ever. Not to mention that my NixOS skills directly translate to running servers the way they're meant to be run. With my recently setup zrepl, I also have an exact replica of all of my data on a portable SSD. I can travel with a single laptop and know that I can literally get it back to its identical state in about 15 minutes, should it ever be broken or stolen. Entire classes of anxieties eliminated in a way that other OSes can't even dream of, on top of complete control, and again no nagware.
It's about tradeoffs and I'd much rather put up some up front investment and then never think about it again. Go re-install Windows and watch how long it takes to disable all the telemetry, un-privacy features, default browsers, application and desktop configuration, etc. And then realize for maybe 3x that cost, you could learn something new and move past all of this nonsense. Or just keep dealing with Windows Updates and Bing shoved everywhere it doesn't belong.