fuckwit_mcbumcrumble @ fuckwit_mcbumcrumble @lemmy.world

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I thought they'd already shut down. Renaming isn't an option, but you can at least direct your users to the new instance.

I figured they would have almost instantly gone read only and prepared the self destruction. But I guess they just closed off registration and set the self destruct pretty far out.

What makes you think that can't happen to something just because it's open source? And from all companies it's from Canonical.

It's "Selfhosted" not "SelfHostedOpenSourceFreeAsInFreedom/GNU". Not everyone has drank the entire open source punch bowl.

why are you stuck with their questionable open-source and ass of a kernel

Because you don't care about it being open source? Just working (and continuing to work) is a pretty big motivating factor to stay with what you have.

I thought it already happened when I first saw that post. I'm surprised they didn't try to figure something else out and kill it sooner.

A lot of Lemmy and Mastadon instances have really obnoxious names. I hope they learn from this as use a conventional domain/TLD, and not some random ass countries who could get taken away at any minute.

If someone with no experience installs Linux on their machine, and has to spend 20 hours fixing all of the problems they're not going to stick with Linux. It doesn't matter which distro it is, they're just going to say Linux sucks and never use it again.

There's a pretty big difference between trying to run software for X OS on Y OS, and trying to just make your computer do basic tasks. The average person doesn't know that Nvidia are a bunch of assholes, nor do they care.

It doesn't matter whose at fault at the end of the day. If it doesn't just work™️ the average joe will never use it.

The open source vs closed source drivers is a whole separate issue too, and only makes things worse for the noobs.

Nvidia is by far the most popular dedicated GPU manufacturer out there. If distros can’t figure out how to make it “just work” then Linux will never take off outside of the nerd market.

Lemmy overall seems to really struggle with sarcasm. So if you see something that’s so ridiculous don’t freak out, and try interpreting it as such.

FOSS devs/enthusiasts

hang out IRL

Any PC you build yourself?

Older higher end video cards. Back in the day when a single 8 pin pcie cable wasn’t a given on your PSU so manufacturers just shipped that adapter.

Now we have the abomination that’s the 4x 8 pin to 12vhpwr and takes up 10 feet of space.

It being the “ultimate” sign maybe. But this shits just normal everyday annoyances that everyone hates.

while

2 Factor Authentication?

Even if you haven't bought them used they're kinda stupid and need a reset.

Bluetooth headsets have existed for eons at this point. People walking around with airpods isn't really that much of a step.

iPhone 3gs. 3rd gen tough, not second.

I'd pay more money for a non raid enclosure.

For hard drives I'd never trust them used with data I care about. Especially big drives like that that would take AGES to rebuild.

For enterprise grade SSDs I'd kinda yolo it for a system I care a bit less for, or as a cache drive. But not HDDs.