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[sandy8925]

Ah, the racist white supremacist Qaridarium thinks Bryan Lunduke is a good guy. Why am I not surprised? And of course you think Communists are to bla...

[sandy8925]

Yeah I've noticed some headset mics don't record all the way to 20,000 Hz so people's voices might sound very different....

[sandy8925]

IIRC the kernel developers don't recommend that - they had a good reason but I forgot what it was....

[sandy8925]

It's a lot less work, and cheaper for them to just fork Qt 5 and stay on that for a few years. Plus they get a stable base to build on....

[sandy8925]

I have prepared popcorn, for the inevitable "Pipewire sucks, Pulseaudio follows UNIX philosophy, we will never stop using Pulseaudio" war.

[sandy8925]

Ooh, wireless devices that don't use the crowded 2.4 GHz frequencies? Why aren't these more common?

Many wireless products seem to use 2.4...

[sandy8925]

Instead of all of this speculation, why don't you just profile and debug, and figure out where and why the bottlenecks occur, so that you can actually...

[sandy8925]

Most of the time, what causes perceived slowdown for UI is the lack of use of multi-threading (or improper use of it). People love doing disk and network...

[sandy8925]

Hm, I haven't used LVM or anything like that, but yeah, Arch does give you the freedom to set it up in whatever way you want....

[sandy8925]

IMO it's better to install some easy-to-use distro like PopOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE etc. for such users. Arch requires manual intervention for some...

[sandy8925]

Yeah, setting up a proper encrypted system gets annoying. On the other hand, I've kind of got the hang of it, and you don't really need a separate /boot...

[sandy8925]

l33t Arch user: Oh muh god, they're pandering to noobs and making it too easy! Must make it tough to do things in Arch so I can have a sense of achie...

[sandy8925]

Yeah, but the whole point of Snap and Flatpak is to avoid dealing with multiple packaging systems. So the presence of two big ones forces some devs with...

[sandy8925]

Ugh, that line ending bullshit. Windows, MacOS and *nix each doing their own thing for simple text files. And messing up the life of anyone who works...

[sandy8925]

Yeah that's a good point. I haven't earned money for the past 3 years, and while I did contribute a bit to open source software, major work like Wayland...

[sandy8925]

True, plus if your company is a Windows only shop for some reason, you can atleast have access to *nix command line tools which is nice....

[sandy8925]

Yep, exactly this. Yet many people tell me I'm being paranoid and anti-Microsoft. I mean, it's plain and obvious what Microsoft is doing. Why else would...

[sandy8925]

Microsoft's probably paying Canonical to work with them on this, that's the carrot for Canonical.

Why does Microsoft want this? To get Linux...

[sandy8925]

Did you have the relevant kernel and userspace drivers installed? Not sure what distro you had running on it, and whether or not it had the relevant software....

[sandy8925]

Yeah, those things are just terrible. There was also this annoying bug with MacBooks, where if I left the Macbook in the office overnight, the mouse wouldn't...