Nah. I’ve been advocating for Linux for decades. For decades I’ve been trying to convince people to switch on its own merits, but none of that has been effective.
It took Microsoft sabotaging their product for me to see the needle shift. So I’m done trying to convince people with carrots, it’s time for Microsoft to convince the masses with sticks.
What’s next Microsoft? Replace the windows os loading windows page with a 30s ad? Or have defender uninstall apps if a competitor pays enough? Maybe capture a screenshot of my screen every 3 seconds for AI analysis?
I’ll accept that maybe I’m giving Google a pass because of misplaced nostalgia, and while I personally have never used or liked Meta Facebook, I’ll concede that for a while it provided a service some people valued.
It’s still my opinion that Google and Facebook have a large percentage of engineers that personally try to make them a genuinely good service, at least moreso than compared to TikTok and Temu. But I’m willing to concede it’s not as much a practical difference as I would like.
Emphasis on by comparison, as in “molten hot metal is cooler than the surface of the sun, by comparison”.
TikTok and Temu actively have code in them that would be considered a virus in other contexts. They exploit your system to gain more access than they should, violating the point of sandboxed access.
By comparison Meta and Google merely take advantage of user ignorance and apathy by making opting out frustrating - but still technically doable.
Both practices are terrible, but that’s not the same as saying they’re equally bad.
Them too, but lukewarm by comparison.
All about that bass, 'bout that bass
But even that would cover a large percentage of the American workforce, and I imagine over a few years, it will grow to cover all users that don’t need personal accountants. Progress is progress.
Personally, I hope this transitions into a system where they email you a proposed return and you do nothing to accept it (only needing to take action if there’s an issue).
This one features the number 19.
You’re one of today’s unlucky 10,000.
I saw a video recently where a Steam Deck was repurposed as a robotics controller and monitor unit for prototypes. Having an off-the-shelf highly customizations controller for $350 is a steal for this industry, but they’re not using it for games.
(Video for reference: https://youtu.be/1KEtxTQUzxY)
For what it’s worth, it’s been suggested that Musk’s takeover of Tesla was opportunistic, and against the desire of Tarpenning and Eberhard.
From my research, Tarpenning was pressured into quitting, and Eberhard was fired by the board of directors for lying to the board. Since Elon was chairman of the board at the time, it’s plausible (and even hinted at) that Elon played dirty to push through this firing.
I cannot say for sure if they would have handled the company more ethically then Musk, but I am personally uncomfortable hanging them out to dry simply on what could have been.
That said, I agree that employee co-ops are a top tier business organization structure.
The list after I’m done with it:
Being on Tim
Making A fort
Being high
Having A Pos Attitude
Being ass ate
Using ood Language
Be a able
Do a Lit Ex
Be Pre red
Having A Strong ork hic
Checked post history. Shocking lack of noods.
Ah, yes. Get ‘em in the pants with the ol’ one, two combo.
https://alternativeto.net/feature/create-multiboot-usb/ Maybe this will help?
Disclaimer: I don’t use Fedora, but have friends who do. So I tried to include sources, below. 😅
How would I install NVIDIA drivers?
https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA
_Does Wayland work with NVIDIA?*
(I don’t know)
A lot of distros are moving to Wayland. How would I ensure I stay on an Xorg session?
GNOME now defaults to Wayland. Instructions to use xOrg instead: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/configuring-xorg-as-default-gnome-session/
I expect other desktop environments will similarly have mechanisms switch, at least during a transition period.
I enjoy modding Bethesda games. Does Mod Organizer work fully on Linux?
Your mileage may vary, but it looks likely: https://github.com/rockerbacon/modorganizer2-linux-installer
I’ve had difficulties running my steam games through proton on my laptop. Does proton work with Fedora?
I suspect it will. Steam has been pouring money into making it’s catalog Linux ready, https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/gaming/proton/
With said difficulties with proton, would installing Steam as a flatpak work or will it cause issues?
In principle it ought to, but there appears to be an issue with it currently. https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/gaming/proton/
Can you really not play any games with anti-cheat?
Anti cheat software generally works by looking for irregularities that detect if there’s any program besides Windows that’s intercepting system calls. It is unfortunately by exactly this mechanism that allows Proton to work (as Windows isn’t present).
Nah. The 24 hour window is so all the rich, connected people can apply for some grandfathered exemption clause that’s not available to the rest of us.
Yep yep. Was hoping someone would call me out on that. 😝