old and dying LCD steam deck
Umm, the steam deck hasn’t existed long enough for that to be a thing, it only came out 4 years ago. I have mine from September release year and use it every day, fresh as the day I got it. I’d be pretty hacked off if it seemed ‘old and dying’ already! And it’s my only decent computer, I need it to be going for several more years 😅
I’d go one step further. This kind of ‘tool’ is not fixing a problem that doesn’t exist. It is actively causing a problem that didn’t exist, and doesn’t need to (along with the charlatans peddling the AI application-slop ‘services’). I’ve heard from hiring managers of people trying things like this, and it:
Ultimately, it makes an already brutal interview landscape 1000x worse, for no benefit to anyone.
And even if you did somehow manage to, once you’re actually doing the job, you’d get found out pretty quickly… I’ve heard of people trying this nonsense, and there is no scenario where it works put for anyone, it wastes everyone’s time, and just puts up more barriers to stop genuine hard working people accessing the jobs that actually fit them. Yes, the interview landscape can be brutal at the moment, but ‘tools’ like this are the problem, not the solution.
Popup ads? Where are they? That’s not something I’ve heard of, but then I always use an adblocker…
I used it for years on a raspberry pi, and it was great, very easy to manage storages and different ways of sharing over a network.
If you are after a Debian based system, with an interface for file server/backups/network storage, with a (web) interface, you are pretty much describing https://www.openmediavault.org/ . Decent plugin ecosystem to set up Wireguard, as well as a web interface to set up docker based containers for anything.
MS doesn’t blame the user when they get confused by a GUI or become intimidated by a command line interface.
Umm, yes they do. Look at copilot (as one recent example). The full range of opinion I’ve ever encountered goes from apathy to hatred. (Never heard of anyone having anything positive to say about it, the ‘nicest’ thing being to the effect of ‘I just ignore it, so I don’t care’). And yet, Microsoft’s attitude is that ‘the user is wrong, deal with it’, and this has always been the case in both Windows and Mac OS, while the various OSS DEs attempt to fix real user frustrations.
Many of the points they make are true for GNOME specifically, but thankfully, there are plenty of other options, and Linux != GNOME.
Of course it does. This particular change may seem innocuous in itself, but the idea of compliance with ridiculous laws like this one, in one jurisdiction, being implemented in a project used globally will result in compromising everyone’s privacy/security, regardless of whether they are even subject to that law or not.
If anything, it’s more troubling for those outside the relevant jurisdiction, since we get 0 say on the laws, and have no actual reason to comply.
They don’t really have to support the controller, though. Steam input lets you map controller inputs to kb/m inputs, so no degree of controller support is required. If there are any programmes that don’t work (which is possible, there are weird quirks in any system), I’ve certainly never encountered them.
What kind of dystopia are you living in that listening to music or podcasts would ‘raise the alarm’? Yes, don’t do anything inappropriate (definitely no piracy, obviously), or detrimental to productivity, but listening to music? Would definitely quit if an employer had a problem with that.
Is this a thing that’s considered ‘normal’ in the US? (I’m assuming US mainly because other countries are not generally so hostile towards employees)
Precisely. SSD puts the decorations in the hands of your window manager, which allows you to customise what information and controls are available in the title bar (or if you even want to display one at all), so you can use the space much more efficiently. With CSD, you’re down to the whims and opinions of the application, and their space-wasting choices (and whether they even choose to respect your theming).
That kind of case makes sense, actually.
Wow, that’s wild. I guess that’s what you get from being such a young/niche project, they haven’t had the time/dewmand to come up against the problems that all the other distros had to solve years ago.
I DLed Cachy with the torrent. Another thing I wish more distros would offer, haha!
I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a distro that doesn’t offer a torrent download option, since it saves the project expensive hosting costs.
Since when did CSD become accepted, let alone encouraged? Titlebars should only ever be drawn by the system. This trend of individual applications drawing their own titlebars is a disaster that results in fragmentation and inconsistent behaviour. The absolute disaster that is the titlebars is one of the main reasons I cannot bring myself to use GNOME, recently.
I have a sunlu printer (S9+), it was a very good price, it works well enough, and I consider it was worth it for me, BUT I 100% agree about support. It came with a flex plate with a kink in it, so I couldn’t use the full build area. Reached out to support about it. Just never replied, at all. As far as I can tell the support does not actually exist. Since it was only the removable magnetic plate, I could replace it myself cheaply enough, but if I’d had a bigger issue, it could’ve been a nightmare…
Surely, if you forget it’s even running, you aren’t using it, and it doesn’t matter if it stops running? (With a couple of obvious exceptions like automated backups, etc)
Where are you running du -sh *? (I.e. what directory, are you definitely scanning the whole file system?) I’m sure it’s obvious, but can never hurt to check!
What does du -sh / show? (Generally, the * glob pattern in the shell will not match hidden dot-files, so is it possible they are being excluded?)
If you’re using the AIO image, backup/restore can handled for you, so no need to worry about the manual steps involved. Or if you’re using a VM, a backup can take the form of full system snapshots, so also no need to understand how data are stored. Granted it’s always helpful to know what your running, but not necessarily requisite, even for backups.
Absolutely. I actually have an upgrade already planned, but it’s just that it’s not because I can’t run VMs, it’s more that I want to run more hungry services than will fit on those resources, whatever virtualisation layers were being used. The fact that it’s an easy fix to more a VM/lxc to a new host is absolutely it, though.
Not denying it could be faulty, obviously. Just wouldn’t be accepting it as just ‘age’