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After seeing the astroturfing in this thread, I'm switching to Vivaldi or Chromium, not Tor Browser.

So put a big red scary "PRESS THIS BUTTON AND YOU'LL GET HACKED IN TEN MINUTES UNLESS YOUR COMPUTER DOES NOT CRASH BEFORE THAT" that turns telemetry off and let me press it.

What later days? Software mixing worked fine in ALSA in 2004-2005, and OSS emulation had been working reliably way before that. The first PulseAudio release was in 2004, and it was…

This has worked reliably in ALSA before it has worked reliably in PulseAudio (and, in fact, way before PulseAudio received any meaningful adoption, when Fedora enrolled everyone in…

No, but they will affect most of the equipment connected to those generators.

That's the thing -- it's (no longer) easy at all. When accessing every other function requires guessing which hamburger menu it's hidden behind, it looks clean and easy to use, but…

In the meantime, a bunch of us developers are desperately trying to figure out what the fsck broke this time, drinking our sorrows about this new life where we can't debug anything…

Of course you are free to do whatever you want, it's the entitlement that pisses me off. Somehow, employees charging "too much" is not ok and totally not the companies' fault, wher…

So... the business doesn't even generate enough revenue to afford hiring the kind of people who can keep it running well , or at least not as well as its owners would want it to be…

> But maybe the job isn't economically worth it at the higher salary? As in, their business doesn't even generate enough revenue to afford hiring the kind of people who can keep it…

> But, I'm kinda baffled why anyone would volunteer to provide free labor to one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world. YES! MacOS users don't need to document …

Honestly -- I have no idea, I only had to do it a few times, on Yocto and buildroot images, and in pretty restricted cases. It was pretty easy (basically udev has this file which m…

I don't know what they use, but there's always eudev, Gentoo's fork which works just fine, and offers pretty much everything that udev offers (except for the systemd dependency).

Yes. This is all handled via udev, udisks & co., XFCE, Gnome and KDE have nothing to do with it (other than having it work more or less out of the box).

*nix, iSeries, cockroaches, and finally, that VAX that someone still has running somewhere.

But it's not "just" limited tools and a need to train developers. A language having a small community results in a lack of library and collaboration; you end up dealing with tool v…

Do you think (as in bet-your-company's-profits-on-it believe) that Ada will still be a first-class language in GCC ten years from now (the standard product lifecycle for RHEL), and…

I love Ada, and I've written Ada code, but there are so few people who know it that building a community around an init system built in Ada is very difficult. The barrier of entry …

> Someone would ask this sooner or later, so.. why is this written in C, really? When systemd was started, Rust barely had a working compiler and go had been announced for about on…

I ended up trying apulse myself last evening and it seems to work fine, so crisis averted for now. I don't particularly enjoy having stuff much with LD_PRELOAD and friends but I su…

Maybe this will help: https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse . I just got bit by the new Firefox dependency. Installing PulseAudio left me without sound in VLC (even though I'm using th…

Good point -- that's one of the reasons why I think it's "just" a red flag. The one place that I mentioned what exactly like that -- small company, couldn't afford too much wage, h…

Full disclosure: white dude, not a minority of any kind in my country. Five years ago, I would have said that the percentage of women in an office isn't necessarily a good indicato…

Because it's highly lucrative.