walkercricket

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[–] walkercricket 33 points 9 months ago (21 children)

It is an Nvidia problem. And we need to insist on Nvidia being the problem until they give in. Their lack of wanting to take responsibility for distributing graphics cards on the market by not developing working drivers and not even letting the community fix it by open sourcing their driver is not something we should tolerate anymore. They pissed people enough at this point over the years, with their lack of participation in an driver problem-free environment on Linux, so they should and they will take the blame.

[–] walkercricket 3 points 9 months ago

Xorg and Wayland are two protocols every Desktop Environment use and is, from my limited knowledge on it, the thing that tells the DE how to behave and display windows on your screen. Since 1984, the Linux world uses Xorg (now at the 11 edition: X11) but now, there is a massive transition towards a protocol more secure and focused around privacy called Wayland because first, it's objectively better, and because X11 will soon be deprecated/abandoned. But due to its way of handling things (like for example, windows can't see each other: they think they're alone on the PC, preventing some programs from spying on each others but also preventing them to communicate with each other, like to share screen or screenshot. We have portals to solve that now though, so no worries), Wayland struggle to convince everybody and therefore is heavily criticized, mostly because it's sort of being forced due to the Xorg team letting the project die to develop Wayland, the successor, waiting for every distros and their DE to adopt it.

But despite not directly mentioning those protocols, you're right by saying "you can just jump ships and unsubscribe from what you dislike" because honestly, nobody's preventing people from continuing to use Xorg and groups from continuing the development of DE based on Xorg or simply continuing the Xorg project, but if they want to progress and evolve with the rest of the world, they will have to switch to Wayland eventually.

[–] walkercricket 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you use Windows by any chance? And cherry on top, an AMD GPU? That wouldn't surprise me because that's the worst combo possible. Unfortunately, I can do nothing more than empathize with your issue, it's indeed a pretty big deal considering it shouldn't be an issue in the first place, whether you game on your PC or not. I use personally Linux and I've never had any problem for drivers, whether it's Nvidia or AMD, since I use it, which could explain our difference of experience.

[–] walkercricket 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When I was talking about "battery charging", I meant using an app to limit the charging at a certain level: look for "acca" or simple "acc" which is the module/daemon to manage that. You have to be root to do that and there is no way around. For the rest, sure, but that's for GrapheneOS, I was talking in general, most ROM not having what GrapheneOS has and considering GrapheneOS is exclusively present on Pixel phones unfortunately...

[–] walkercricket 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Chromium doesn't need Chrome to exist either: it's a separate project and if Google doesn't want to support it anymore, someone can easily fork it to continue having Chromium-based browsers. That's the property of open source: anybody can inspect and fork it.

[–] walkercricket 1 points 1 year ago

Yes but generally, it's to find solution, not just to have someone listen and do nothing else. It's just a bonus I would say if the person listens as well.

[–] walkercricket -4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Do men do that? I have the feeling it's exclusively women who do this, but the reasoning behind it could be as valid for women as for men. We're all human after all.

[–] walkercricket 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sure, you're obviously more likely to have problems like driver issue on a PC than on a console, but in my experience, those kind of issues (or any kind of issue for that matter) are so extremely rare, it's totally negligible in front of what bring a PC to you and it certainly won't make me want to switch to consoles for a waste of 20 minutes of my time over a year because of some program or piece of code that didn't run as expected.

[–] walkercricket 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depuis que j'ai appris à utiliser des dispositions personnalisées de clavier, j'ai l'impression que c'est le truc niche qui ne devrait absolument pas être niche, mais qui n'intéresse tout de même personne : depuis que j'ai appris bépo (ou ma version modifié béopô) et colemak-dh pour l'anglais, c'est tellement pratique et plus confortable (en plus d'être significativement plus rapide à taper), je comprend pas que les gens ne soient pas tous enclin à changer et qu'on ai pas ça à l'école alors qu'on est de plus en plus à utiliser des claviers au quotidien, y compris les gens qui travaillent dans le secteur ou qui ont tendance à vraiment beaucoup utiliser leur claviers. Honnêtement, ça me tue.

[–] walkercricket 66 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

Honestly, I think it's great: if it annoys people enough, they will move out from Chrome and install Firefox (or one of its forks) with good extensions for blocking ads on YouTube. It seems to be the only solution to break the monopoly of Google on browsers. So go Google, I believe in you!

[–] walkercricket 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Edge and Chrome are both closed source and owned by companies, so your comparison is just not valid. Using AOSP is certainly not supporting Google's monopoly: AOSP is totally open source, was bought by Google a long time ago and they don't own it due to its license (aside from the name maybe). Meaning you can still flash Android on a system without paying or using Google's services or products.

It's like saying you contribute to Google's monopoly because you use Linux and Google (also) used it in its Chromebooks.

[–] walkercricket 4 points 1 year ago

F-Droid isn't the only one: I also like Neo Store, which has more than just the F-Droid repository and I think has a better interface. However, I think not all repo are 100% safe because F-Droid verify all the apps they have while Neo-Store doesn't because it simply list known repos, which you can activate however you like in the settings.

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