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You just inspired me to do just that. https://neontomo.com/blog/?id=a-linux-evening-where-nothing-...
Lol beat me to it :-) Glad someone was inspired!
Hey, I'd love to read yours. Please write it!
A Linux Evening
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Re: A Linux Evening
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> " "Whats the point in ${enormous amount of work others did for me for free} ..." " That is the least charitable interpretation of it, and I think not at all what it actually says.A much better reading of it is, paraphrased: "The PCI-e patch is nice, but it would be a dealbreaker waiting on driver support." "The drivers are open source and checked into the same tree, so there's no dealbreaker there in waiting for ve…
> dealbreaker Very poor choice of words. If the deal is bad, request a refund! I understand what you are trying to say, but i think that's just entitlement. Just accept that, as a non-contributing OSS user, you have zero leverage over which features other people pour their energy into. If you do, that's a charitable exception and happens at the generosity of the one doing the work for you. Edit: Let me quote the lice…
Can you get off your high horse about finding someone to punish for some imaginary sin which hasn't even been committed in this thread, and respond to some of the things I said and the points I made?
The "deal" in question was imaginary person A offering patches to the kernel to fix the articles's PCIe allocation, and the Kernel maintainers hypothetically refusing the patches on the grounds that it would break compatibility with drivers and so it cannot happen. Then the comment that the drivers could be updated to match, so the patch could hypothetically happen. There is NO entitlement anywhere in this imaginary scenario, there is no demand for anyone to write such patch, no expectation that someone get right on updating the drivers, no insinuation that someone owes a review of such a patch, nothing that you are so het up about has happened or been implied to happen, been demanded, expected, requested, suggested or implied.
> "Just accept that, as a non-contributing OSS user, you have zero leverage over which features other people pour their energy into."
Where did you come up with the idea that I am a non-contributing OSS user? Because it drives your superiority fantasy, I suspect, where "putdowns of the inferior" are the order of the day.
Re: A Linux Evening
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Why not? You don’t think it changes the topic from being about the content of the comment (open source drivers) to being about the person who wrote the comment (what they should and shouldn’t be permitted to say based on how much they paid or didn’t pay)?
If the problem lies in the entitlement of a person, an appropriate response is going to be an ad hominem, and rightfully so.
You have not shown any signs of this spectre of entitlement haunting your every comment. If you had, an appropriate response would be educational, helpful, or perhaps a link to Rich Hickey's Gist[1].
By your comments, it would be appropriate to ad-hom you now for your apparent entitlement to controling other people's speech about OSS, right?
[1] https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba95...
Re: A Linux Evening
#314Earlier quoted context omitted.
If the problem lies in the entitlement of a person, an appropriate response is going to be an ad hominem, and rightfully so.
You have not shown any signs of this spectre of entitlement haunting your every comment. If you had, an appropriate response would be educational, helpful, or perhaps a link to Rich Hickey's Gist[1]. By your comments, it would be appropriate to ad-hom you now for your apparent entitlement to controling other people's speech about OSS, right? [1] https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba95...
Its simpler: your attitude is bad, i told you off, you have no intentions to change your attitude, neither do i.
And if thats "controling other people's speech" to you, then yes, your attitude is the problem. Realistically, i'm just some random dude on this forum, telling you off is the worst thing i can do to you.
Enjoy your refund.
Re: A Linux Evening
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Lol beat me to it :-) Glad someone was inspired!
Hey, I'd love to read yours. Please write it!
This has generated a rabbit hole of epic proportions. My personal list of “I’ll get around to that someday…” Here I am installing nginx on my server in my basement…brb. I have to go finish that Symfony build of my personal site. I’ll be a minute or two.
Re: A Linux Evening
#316> > Out of curiosity, how did you come up with this solution? > The author, dkozel, never came back to answer. I imagine they typed the solution on a 40% keyboard featuring unmarked keys and then rolled into the sunset on a Segway for which they had compiled the kernel themselves. Completely oblivious of their awesomeness and of how many people would later find solace in their prose. Here's how I would have started t…
https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/torvalds/linux is a more featured search engine with limited go-to-definition functionality, and removes the need to clone locally and search in many cases. Can be used with any GitHub repo. Just make sure to first enable "case sensitivity" and "structural search" using the buttons in the right of the search textbox so that the search is exact (which is a task that GitHub's own sear…
Ah yes, I tend to forget. What happens is that as soon as I'm looking for "assignments to..." I just reach for cscope (well, where the language is supported by cscope).
Re: A Linux Evening
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I too am 100% burnt from a quarter of a century of random "Linux evenings". I've concluded that GNU Linux will always be a great CLI server OS, however those past 25 years has soured me into calling the Linux Desktop a toy. I'm 100% done investing my time solving issues just like this one. The biggest lesson I've learned is to simply not trust it to be a daily driver.
But what do you replace it with? Windows also has "Windows Evenings" that I can't pull on my 30 years of experience to fix, and MacOS forces you to do things their way. And I'm a grumpy old man who likes things my way.
I too like things my way, and got sick of having to fiddle to keep things working... I settled on openbsd. I've got two thinkpad laptops (which are well supported), and a vps. I've tried to avoid apps and customizations that are more likely to break/change over time.
Browsers maybe have been the toughest to sort out. I use links for my usual reading, tor-browser for random surfing, seamonkey for sites I log into, and chrome for the couple sites I need to use that don't work in seamonkey. All minimally configured, and all proxied through my vps and use a hosts file blocklist, except for tor. I had an awesome tweaked version of firefox, but upgrades were more hassle than I wanted to deal with. I use the fvwm window manager included with the base openbsd installation, which can be customized using a single text file. I have productivity software like audacity, claws-mail, gnumeric, krita, and linphone. I've also fiddled with things like shotcut, matrix (over pidgen!), some astrophtography software, and godot. I'm not worried about the latest and greatest games - been there, done that.
It's worked out well. The system gets out of my way and lets me focus on what I'm doing. I've shell scripted my os and app/user/website configurations (except claws-mail, those configs are backed up), so I know everything I setup is reproducible, and all my tweaks are documented. I still get to fiddle, I just prioritize stability over time, as opposed to worry about the bleeding edge.
Prior to this I've used chrome os, debian, freebsd, redhat, and slack over the years. Gave up on windows a long time ago. Chromebooks are low-maintenance, if you don't mind google in your business. Never owned a mac, but don't think a profit-driven os would work for me anymore. My phone is a refurbed pixel 3a running graphene os. ftw! ;-)
Re: A Linux Evening
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Freedom 0 of free software, use the software for any purpose, includes commercial usage. There's nothing anti-business about it.
I agree. Using software modifications as a competitive advantage in business does not violate free software licenses. It does, however, violate non-free licenses like GPL
It's just the equivalent of a consumer protection law: you have to sell people the software, not a build artifact.
Re: A Linux Evening
#319I've been trying for a week now to get Windows to properly suspend and stay suspended on a Thinkpad X1. Even after changing the BIOS to "Linux" mode (S3 Sleep), fiddling with drivers and the registry, and issuing powercfg commands it's still flaky. The function keys to change audio settings also work poorly sometimes. These are the kinds of issues we used to have when trying to bring up Linux on a laptop. But now it'…
Check the latest video from Linus Tech tips on Youtube, they did a deep-dive into the non working modern sleep on Windows.
The conclusion was, as you've already tried, change sleep setting in bios to "Linux-mode", or just get a mac.
Re: A Linux Evening
#320Earlier quoted context omitted.
You have not shown any signs of this spectre of entitlement haunting your every comment. If you had, an appropriate response would be educational, helpful, or perhaps a link to Rich Hickey's Gist[1]. By your comments, it would be appropriate to ad-hom you now for your apparent entitlement to controling other people's speech about OSS, right? [1] https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba95...
Its simpler: your attitude is bad, i told you off, you have no intentions to change your attitude, neither do i. And if thats "controling other people's speech" to you, then yes, your attitude is the problem. Realistically, i'm just some random dude on this forum, telling you off is the worst thing i can do to you. Enjoy your refund.
> "you have no intentions to change your attitude, neither do i."
Multiple times now I have pointed out that I have not shown the behaviours you are accusing me of. The difference of who has intentions to change is that you are wrong.
> “i'm just some random dude on this forum, telling you of”
You are doing so like a teacher with the wrong understanding, and despite being corrected you are intent on making sure someone gets told off whether it’s appropriate or not.
> Enjoy your refund.
You are free to link to the place in this thread where I personally said I was unsatisfied with some piece of software, or unsatisfied with the work someone was doing on it, or in any way mentioned desiring a refund or expecting more work? I think you won't be able to find such a place, so your 'clever comment' falls flat.