There could be months or years between updates to the driver.
Yes, but someone still has to implement that "a thing or two" in it every few years.
Some manufacturers have great first-party Linux support. Intel is a good example - they contribute a lot of code to the kernel, and their drivers are maintained by employees.
Agreed. But, to be honest, most aren't. Just take a look at Realtek. There's bound to be at least one chip made by them on your board (in most cases, two, LAN and audio, two very crucial pieces of hardware).
Are you doing a bit? Why is a salt filled washing machine tub needed for grounding?
More active surface in touch with the soil, better conductivity. The salt increases conductivity. Once it starts transferring some of it to the sourrounding soil, the conductivity will be even better.
You can literally buy a grounding rod on Amazon for like $20 with a cord to connect to whatever you need. Just buy one of those and run the cable out the window. It has a handle, it pulls out of the ground when youβre done, and you can clean it off and put it away. No permanent installation required.
I was talking about a permanent solution, not a temporary one.
Lol π€£... yeah, he likes it π€£...he starts falling slow motion to the ground to evade the attack and pick up something bigger from the neverending imaginary aresenal π€£.
Android warns you every step of the way if you do stuff the manufacturer and Google don't advise (basically, anything that doesn't come from the PlayStore or messing with services and permissions). If you're an average Joe, certainly you're not gonna do those things. Manually installing apps not in the PlayStore requires you to first find those apps, which is not something your average Joe will do. Messing with permissons or services, again, regular users wouldn't even know where to find those settings or what they mean, let alone know what bypassing those will do... and you get warned all the way through the process. Even if you accidentaly tap on something, if it's an advanced setting, it will awarn you, and you have a countdown before you can tap Yes or tick the "I agree" box or whatever. Certainly a regular user will understand that this is not something to be messed with, so it will not choose to bypass those settings.
I know what you mean... I've made shitty choices most of my life... but, things are what they are, have a family now as well and you can't just give up on that.
But, still... as you I sometimes wonder what things would have been like if I didn't make my current life choices.
Yeah, I know, that's why the kernel with the drivers is not more than 150MB. Otherwise, you'd have the Windows situation where driverpacks compressed with 7z (LZMA2, solid archive, 273 word dictionary size and 2GB decompression memory, which requires about 128GB of RAM to compress) take about 30GB.
You have to pack the driver from each manufacturer because of signatures, even though they might even be the same with other drivers in the pack... but, REV differs and oh well, the driver installer doesn't recognize that driver as a valid one for that device.
This is what was told to me by an old-timer electrician.
You dig a hole, 2m x 2m x 1.5m (or as deep as you can dig with a shovel). You take the load cylinder from an old washing machine. Weld a rod to that thing (on the side of the cylinder, not the middle). Make the welds good cuz that thing will go under ground and the elements will eat through it in a matter of years if it's not welded correctly. Put the cylinder with the rod in the ground. Make a mixture of about 3 to 5kg of salt with soil (depending on the size of the cylinder and the type of soil) and fill the cylinder up with that. Put the rest of the dirt in the hole. Voila, a grounding solution that will last at least 50 years (or at least that's what he told me).
It's mind boggling just thinking that things like this depend on the effort of one or two guys... while on the other hand, it's not so uncommon that a team of engineers and developers fails to deliver a working (mostly) bugfree product.
I think management is who is responsible for the shitty decisions, as always... and, in general, just holding the team back.
To be honest, yes. In general, not just tech or Linux related stuff. You look at humanity and what it has come down to, and then you notice these people... and hope fills your heart again.
Some really good advice here and people really tried, wow, just really surprised that not all people on Lemmy are tech geeks... cuz, I have to say that I do have a hard time interpreting situations and emotions and knowing that I can write about my problems and have a bunch of people really get into the issue and give really good advice, that really really means a lot π.
This was kind of an eye opener for me as well. I've had a hard time of letting go of some of my exes, and I always wondered why. What you said coupled with the fact that I sometimes have a habbit of idealizing a relationship and fanatsizing about what it would look like 3, 5, 10 years from now, is at the root of the problem, but I never framed it like that.
Thank you for the words of wisdom π. I am past those relationships, but I never figured out why it took me so long to get over them.
Have no idea, found it in the wild.