*yesterday

I have a wireless keyboard. It comes with its own dongle, so you can expect it to work with some generic keyboard driver. I plugged into my USB-hub, works just fine on Linux. No lag, no nothing.

On Windows? Well, it works, but the audio device I have plugged in just straight up refuses to function while the dongle is hooked up as well. It seems to gobble up pretty much the entire bandwidth. Amazing.

When I’m bored, I change how my Plasma looks. Happens once in a while. I would not complain if it ever turns into a “choose global theme | apply global theme” workflow tho.

I mean, it is basically there, except you need to download and apply Kvantum themes.

It’s because we are depressed nihilists who have given up on pretty much everything, running on gallows homour to a point where we are meming youth slang. Don’t worry, we’re fine haha… Ha…

Literally never had EndeavourOS break in any way.

Last time might have been the GRUB issue that affected all of Arch. If you use GRUB that is, since it’s not the default on EndeavourOS. Next time might be old package repos being shut off, but only if your install is older, plus there’s already the second announcement with simple instructions regarding that on Arch News. Also, it will just block updates.

I’ve put two people without any prior knowledge on EndeavourOS, didn’t hear any complains either. I myself had no prior knowledge in Linux and hopped from Kubuntu to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed to Garuda Linux in short succession. I only switched to EndeavourOS after Garuda repeatedly broke. Been on it for 2 years without an issue I think.

I know this is not a representative study and as a computer scientist, I do grasp things quickly, but I strongly oppose the notion that EndeavourOS is not beginner friendly.

Cool

I feel like these memes have to (mainly) stem from badly documented or broken libraries. The only times where I don’t understand what I’m doing are when I try to figure out what someone else is doing

In much of Europe speaking out can get you arrested. Many of us don’t believe in universally free speech, starting at insults and hate speech.

I just reconnect and hope for an unflagged IP lol

Monitor monitors the web for leaked credentials you have in Firefox’s password manager. That’s what it’s for. I think it’s quite clear why it would access your sync data

Zen and “mainline” (default/vanilla) are generally fine for “desktop use” and gaming. Zen is basically the mainline kernel with some tweaks. They are mostly concerned with latency, reducing the maximum time a process can spend blocking the processor - among other things.

This can lead to less input lag or a “smoother” desktop experience, but overall performance is as good as mainline at most. Slightly worse in some scenarios.

Hardned is a tradeoff afaik. You will stay behind mainline a bit, but get extra hardening. This can also impact performance, but rarely does in a meaningful way. If you don’t have any specific reason to use it, e.g. you carry it around on a laptop with sensitive data, I would look at other ways to harden my system first (firewall, encryption, access control, anti-virus, sandboxing, VPN…).

Pretty much the same goes for LTS, but with the focus more on stability than security.

RT is only for special applications.

Learn to code and you get significantly more mad when stuff is badly implemented and much less mad about weird edge cases

In the US maybe, in the EU? Only if you want to get sued and then forced to re-hire them.

You know there is Matrix, right?

Ingl, I think the only way to stay sane these times is to ignore what they say and look at what they do. As long as his products are up to my standards and values, I’ll just ignore whatever he says to appease whomever

Probably doesn’t want to get banned in the US… Or so my copium tells me.

Silver lining is that Proton is owned by a non-profit.

You can make an argument for confidentiality making it harder to find exploits in your code. If nobody cares enough to report them to you, or if you don’t have the resources to fix them, open-sourcing your code just exposes them.

This is pretty much only an argument if you use stuff that would be irresponsible to use in the first place tho

Lmao yeah, please don’t use Python for ML, using the most famous language for ML for ML is kinda cringe

In bigger projects, you tend to miss type safety really bad, really fast. Rust has it built in, Python can have it bolted on. That’s simply one of the many aspects to consider when choosing your programming language.

But don’t worry about it too much. If one thing’s for sure, it’s that you will regret that choice in any case.