Arm processor, an nVidia graphics card, and Ubuntu? Err, doesn’t sound great.

Imagine turning Windows into an even shittier version of itself, and you’ve got S mode.

Can’t install shit unless it’s from the MS Store. Can’t use a browser unless it’s Edge. Not sure what other stupid shit it enforces. It’s supposed to harden the system, but I find that hard to believe.

Yeah, no idea. Turns out I already had dkms installed. Ah well, it’s not a huge deal because I can still ssh or live-usb boot if I really cook something

I agree. I’m a long-time Linux user and I’ve never seen this before. TTY works fine on bootup, but I’m guessing as soon as the Nvidia drivers kick in, that’s when it shits the bed. I’ll make some btrfs snapshots and try the dickums (lol) driver later today. Here’s hoping!

Arch, gtx980, nouveau.

Maybe I should check out dkms

Not necessarily a pain to install, however I’ve had a lot of stupid issues - like not being able to open a TTY session., I can’t run Sway, and Hyprland absolutely refuses to work with my 3 monitor setup.

Linux is a great platform for developing things like bots in.

Reddit is 90% bots.

Makes sense to me. 🤣

Samsung dropped SD Card support a while back, and it’s fucking stupid. The EU should find a way to go after them.

I jumped from Ubuntu over to Arch because I was getting fed up with all the things I wanted to do being unavailable in Ubuntu, but all in the Arch repo or AUR.

I’ve been using Debian-based distros for like 25 years, so it was definitely a bit of a change, but it didn’t take long to adjust. I’m glad I made the change.

Ah ok, now that makes a bit more sense. Yeah, I guess for the sake of app portability, appimages and the like do make a lot of sense.

I still don’t see the big deal, takes seconds to drag them into the bin and move on. There are far bigger problems that they should be going after - irreplaceable batteries, locked bootloader, lack of root access on a device you own would be three of the biggest ones.

I would certainly argue that there is a problem with non-critical apps being labeled as “system apps” and being undeleteable. This was only made worse by dropping SD support.

That said, I am still mostly able to use my pocket computer as a pocket computer, which is far more than I can say about the state of iOS, and just whining about Chrome and Google being packed in is such a non-issue when they are replaceable.

I would much rather see a fight that pushes to force unlocked bootloaders, the ability to delete any apps, a way to get end users root access, etc. There’s no reason why a phone shouldn’t be seen the same as a computer.

Why? Krita exists and it’s FOSS. I would sooner throw them a donation than pay a subscription or fee for something else.

Yeah man. I don’t get it these days. Back when all we had was GIMP, I fully understood it. But switching to Krita has been pretty easy. The Photoshop binds are still a bit off, but nothing that you can’t go in and fix up the rest of the way

Yeah, but why would I want to do that? I don’t understand what problem this is solving…

The benefit is that I can save a fraction of a second by not having to symlink a config file… At the cost of having to use a bloated app system?

It’s not forced, though? I have never had an issue opening Google Play and installing Firefox (and then uBlock Origin). If users are too stupid/lazy to change defaults that’s on them. Hell, it couod be worse - it could be like Microsoft where they shove Edge and “news & interests” which are chock full of editorialized ragebait headlines, each one that includes it’s own special comments injection that all just help trick stupid people into voting right-wing.

I don’t see the use-case for this that couldn’t be handled by syncthing, rclone, github, or whatever offline storage you’re using for backups. I think I’m missing something…

This person gets it!