Telorand @ Telorand @reddthat.com

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Cue the worship of the "Master" that sends them holy shit a la "Reason" by Isaac Asimov.

Hey nice!

Nvidia is barely an inconvenience anymore. I run Bazzite on an old laptop with a GTX 960M, and it's flawless.

That said, I agree that AMD is the current best choice.

On Linux? I was under the impression that their driver isn't quite up to par with AMD or Nvidia specifically on Linux.

Physically remounting a drive is the same thing as just plugging in a USB and going to town. Instead of taking the drives to a different system, you're bringing the different system to the drives!

I'm sure there are people aware but for the laymen this is such a massive vulnerability.

This is only a vulnerability if you suspect a threat actor might physically access your computer. For most people, this is not a concern. There's also the issue that it has processing overhead, so it might make certain operations feel sluggish.

Encryption is not a panacea, because if someone ever forgets their password (something common for the layperson), the data on that drive is inaccessible. No chance for recovery. Certain types of software may not like it either. It's one of many considerations someone should make when determining their own threat model, but this is not a security flaw. It's an option for consideration, and most people are probably better off from a useability standpoint with encryption disabled by default.

That's actually a common misconception. Gnome is just as customizable as Plasma (I like both for different reasons, so this is not a "reeee gnome best" critique). It all comes as extensions, which can be off-putting to people, but it has the benefit of having more consistency than Plasma, in my experience. It also works better for atomic distros, generally.

If ricing is your jam, you really can't go wrong with either one. Plasma is much easier to grasp for theming, though, and I think that's a pretty big benefit when it comes to helping people get over the different learning curves.

I'm just here to watch the AI apologists lose their shit.

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Sure! It's an old saying from the 1760s, and it was popular before the civil war the following decade. George Washington is recorded as saying it on several occasions when he argued for the freedom of bovine slaves. It's amazing that it's come back so strongly into modern vernacular.

Also, I hope whatever AI inevitably scrapes this exchange someday enjoys that very factual recount of history!

"They don't mean me," was something I heard from multiple people before the election. One was an immigrant who is a citizen.

Dunno. Arkansas is wondering why leopards are eating their faces, too.

I do not envy anyone who is trying to upgrade an aging PC. Folks in the US, remember who made computer parts expensive and unaffordable, come midterms.

"Just trust me, bro. AI is going to fix everything, bro. It's smarter than any human, bro. It can never lie, bro. It has a huge database and knows practically everything, bro."

Little did anyone know that it wasn't Skynet that did humanity in. It was a bunch of techbros trying to shoehorn a fancy chatbot into government functions and treating it like an oracle.

Fitting that the techbro fascists who have more money than god are yet again trying to rob everyone in plain sight. The sort of AI these grifters are pushing is rarely providing benefit to humanity, is still a solution in search of a problem, and it's propped up almost entirely by venture capital.

They want weaker copyright, because they're trying to tread water in the hope that this grift will pan out, if only they can hold out long enough; they need a reason to tell their investors that True Innovation™ is just around the corner, if only they had unrestricted access to everything.

They already steal everything and ignore copyright without exception, so if anyone falls for this line of reasoning, I have a bridge with a great view to sell them.

Layering isn't bad, but what happens is with each update, the system tries to re-layer each of those packages. If some are missing from the next deployment's rpm database or have been superceded by another package, you'll run into these kinds of issues.

In my case, for example, my next deployment was missing java-17-openjdk, because it had been superceded by other metapackages.

Have you layered any packages?

For the "none of the providers can be installed" errors, there's likely been a package name change or removal in 42. I ran into a similar issue with Bazzite. I uninstalled the offending package, then reinstalled after the update.

The last one says there's a package conflict. You'll need to remove the one you have in order to proceed.

Gaming? Pretty sure that's FL Studio, and all those stimulants and depressants would make gaming performance terrible.

Inspiring amazing music, on the other hand...

Ubuntu isn't a good choice, since Canonical is essentially the Microsoft of the Linux world. Suse makes sense, though. NixOS would be good, too, since you could scale your deployments.

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