tuxed

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[–] tuxed 2 points 3 weeks ago

Or had to use the 365 version, which somehow is a thousand times worse. Like seriously, what kind of fucking drugs were they on when writing that piece of crap? Google Drive, Libreoffice, regular Word are all fucking perfect compared to that hellspawn. /rant

[–] tuxed 1 points 2 months ago

Hm, not sure that would be legal even? Considering it likely contained information on different employees etc. But yeah, if possible it would have been nice to see.

[–] tuxed 8 points 2 months ago

A friend had a cat move in voluntarily, so guess that would be one way. It's still an outdoor cat and can come and go as it pleases, it just seems to prefer staying there. It just gets food, scratches, and a place to stay, but is technically pretty much a wild animal. It behaves as if its lived with them for its whole life and tends to sleep next to my friend in her bed at night.

[–] tuxed 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah you're correct on the accusations, I should have clarified.

But with that approach it doesn't sound like there is anything an organization could do against false accusations that would absolve them of wrongdoing. I'm all for bashing corrupt/horrible companies, but it feels like there should be at least some presumption of innocence unless there is any kind of proof. Painting all accused with the same brush just leads to devaluing the brush IMO. But like you said, people may (and will) believe what they want, and people are under no obligation to watch or support any creator unless they want to. In my case I just haven't seen any proof of wrongdoing (in this case, gamersnexus controversy was worse IMO).

What do you think a company should do in that situation, assuming it is being falsely accused? What would a "perfect" response be? I cant think of a much better one than what LTT did, given their circumstances, but would love to hear what a better response would look like.

[–] tuxed 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They hired an external firm to investigate themselves and they found nothing, while the accuser had zero proof. There is plenty of things to accuse them for, the gamers nexus thing for one, but I'm a bit annoyed about false accusations sticking so hard when there is little reason to believe it. If anything it makes people less likely to believe actual victims.

[–] tuxed 25 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Feels like I remember that one getting pretty good proof Linus didn't do anything, but could be wrong

[–] tuxed 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not sure how great it holds up today since it was a while ago I watched it last, but The Thing is for me still one of the best ones.

[–] tuxed 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm split on this. Obviously bad, but not sure I can blame the developers for this fully as (if I understand it correctly, which I might not) they are sort of bound by CCP law? I imagine "stirring up controversy"/"making China look bad" might have some rather dire consequences for the developers.

[–] tuxed 2 points 5 months ago

Wont go inte networking, but assuming networking works between them you can manually specify an IP in the mobile app:

Add a device -> three dots in top right -> add devices by IP.

Bonus: This also works over tailscale and similar apps, making it so you can have an always on connection despite not being home.

[–] tuxed 3 points 6 months ago

If your data is very important you should definitely prioritize implementing your backup for at least the most important stuff. You could probably move it over, but in case something happens your data will most likely be gone, or best case very hard to recover.

Fedora is a great distro, but they are decidedly bleeding edge on purpose and IMO not the best choice for a server hosting critical data.

A better option would be running a hypervisor like proxmox (you can even convert your existing Debian install, but I havent tried this personally) and passing your GPU to a virtual machine that runs fedora.

This gives you both a very stable environment for your data and and a bleeding edge environment where your hardware decoding likely works great. I do this exact thing personally and it works great.

[–] tuxed 3 points 6 months ago

If you try it (which I very much recommend!), don't be afraid to ask for help and further try not to be discouraged if the wrong type of person (eg "read the manual noob" type people) respond. The Linux community is full of both the most helpful and most elitist type of people, and an unfortunate amount of new users get scared away by the second group.

[–] tuxed 2 points 8 months ago

Glad to hear it seems to be working! Hoping you find the issue in the backups, would be interesting to know what went wrong haha

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I love you guys (self.linux)
submitted 9 months ago by tuxed to c/linux
 

I started using Linux when I was 12.

Getting my first computer I was excited to play games and just tinkering with it to see what I could make it do. Sadly, it came with an installation of Windows Vista, something I'm thankful for today since I learned a lot about troubleshooting but at the time was a major pain in doing what I wanted to do.

My school had a 10 week after-school program where you got to learn different programming languages, ranging from perl to JavaScript. Part of that program involved installing and using Linux.

I was immediately hooked. Trading the problems of Vista and everything that entailed with the problems of my Ubuntu installation were to me a godsend. Actual error messages?? People online with similar problems suggesting solutions that made sense?? What is this, and why isn't everyone using it??

Today it is foundation of my career, the reason of any academic success I've had, and a hobby that has brought me immense joy (and struggles with primarily Bluetooth, audio and getting games to work).

I'm so happy I found this amazing software, built in small and large contributions over many years by many of our times brightest minds and just regular people contributing solutions to their personal pet-peeves, fixations and use-cases. It is truly something that (for me) brings some much needed positivity and optimism of our future as a species and what we can accomplish.

Seeing how far we've come as a viable platform makes me very happy. Proton, KDE/Plasma, pipewire, Wayland and many more amazing projects we all use daily still give me an appreciation of what computers should be and what they are capable of.

So thank you. Whether you've contributed code or other things, interacted with the community, or just used this amazing software I hope you feel something similar to what I feel.

I love you all.

(And yes, I am very drunk right now.)

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