The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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I just installed opentabletdriver, I hope it blows less donkey balls than the stock wacom driver

 

[babaisyou]

Also it seems like Xlibre has reached a point where they will remove the remaining Xfree86 code needed for 2d rendering without a GPU, and chose to spin it off as it's own project.
https://github.com/supersonic-xserver/ssX

This is not true, this fork only exists because the author was banned from X11Libre.

 

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This is not true, this fork only exists because the author got banned from X11Libre.

I will also note that as far as I can tell from the project description, 'ssX' is not claiming to be forked from XLibre, but from the last XFree86 release, which I guess was supposedly maintained by NetBSD for some time, after it got forked by X.Org and further developed, and eventually subsumed and sabotaged by the freedesktop.org scum. If so, then a bit of a different codebase from XLibre. Of course, a slightly updated 2 decades old X11 is still more useful than Wayland will be two decades from now.

Let a thousand X flowers bloom. No matter how deranged the maintainer, no matter how quickly he burns out and abandons the project, they are all more useful than Wayland will ever be.

 

[prollyanotherlurker]

Really depends on the definition of "this signal". "Gimped access to the internet", sure, but which sites? X? Facebook? Fuck 'em both. KF? If you have to show your ID to access a website, anon sites like this are DEAD. My personal sites? Meh, time to leave the internet. The internet is the circus in the elite's "bread and circus" control plan, and if you fuck up the circus so bad no one bothers going any more, that will destroy its usefulness.

I get what you're saying, but let's not be too doomer about it until we see the implementation. Chances are it'll be some dumb boomer bullshit and we just use a proxy server that transparently adds an HTTP header or some shit. This is the same category of institution that thinks it was a good idea to force disclosure of cookie use, FFS.

It's one thing to try make a law. It's another thing entirely to try to get everyone onboard with some neo-surveillance tech.

We will have to see where this goes. But it looks like it is going in one direction.

I was thinking yesterday after going back over some of the laws that have been passed, or proposed in the last couple years. As well as the policies that are popping up all at once. It made me realize it's probably worth compiling all of this stuff into an effort post. I can get why people don't see things like I do. Which is that things are completely fucked if people outside of the ones like me don't catch on while there is still time. If you look at everything that's happening all at the same time, it starts to become undeniable that this looks really bad.

The problem is we get blasted with so much shit now, it's easy to forget and move onto the next thing. Which isn't necessarily new. That was already kind of how it was for people following the news during the tv 24 hour news network days.

I do think it's probably important enough to put in the effort to try and make a timeline, and summary of all of this stuff. Then hopefully if someone thinks it will be worth it they could do a better version of whatever I put together.

One theory I've had for a bit partially because of the timing, is that all of this is related to the easing up on censorship that happened a couple years back. Roughly around the time Elon got twitter. I do think their was a realization that attempting to suppress ideas on the internet the way they were doing it doesn't work, and leads to the exact opposite of what the intended outcome is. So my theory is they moved away from direct censorship the way they used to, and have started to move towards what will eventually be something worse. I guess when I put this timeline together I will see how well these things actually line up. Not that it would necessarily prove anything. And I generally don't bring up this part of what I think about it because it really isn't provable.

Spoiler: some justification for why I do think that is where things are headed

but it is what I think the goal is. Especially if you look at the actions of the UK with their "online safety act", it essentially made it impossible to post on social media without the UK government knowing who you are. There have already been cities in the US where we are starting to see people get similar house visits that we saw UK citizens getting for "online rhetoric". We have a fucking antisemitism czar.

Now, I don't think this HAS to be the reason this is happening. But what I do know, is this isn't some random set of laws, and policies that are getting passed. It's not just one or two this last year. This is definitely a coordinated effort that at this point has been going on for 2 years if not slightly longer. That did start to pick up around the time I mentioned.

 

[Paper Plate]

I'm a Mint tard and my NTFS drives were fine other than 1 issue with Steam where it won't launch games installed via windows. If I uninstall and reinstall said games they work. Mint is quite literally retard proof and I love it for that reason alone

There's actually an easy fix for that. Create a symlink in your steamapps folder on the ntfs drive linking to the compatdata folder on the linux OS drive (likely ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata)

the terminal command to do so should look something like
ln -s ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata /media/paperplate/NTFSdrive/SteamLibrary/steamapps/

 

[ProudSkibidiTolietAryan]

Basically the register T1 is NON cleared for some reason. I have to figure out WHY now. Im assuming its because my implementation is to perfect and there is something that is acutally SUPPOSE to fail normally.. But that is just guesswork, and you can make a MILLION valid reasons and theorys for why something does not work in this stage.

Figured it out.

Its cleverly testing if the NAND controller is legit or a counterfeit.

On real Hardware when given a value that EXCEEDS the flash size its suppose to WRAP AROUND and then go back to 0(I figured that out by just trying it. As it turns out it lands PERFECTLY at the start of a page)> On alternate NAND chips it just results in a bunch of 00s). This check occurs as the VERY LAST checksum test it does

This likely prevents SMUGGLING from ports where you take a expensive high end electronic, take out all the expensive parts and SELL it, and then replace it with cheap parts before putting it back on sail to US retailer stores. I definitely know its a hardware check to detect if its running on the ACTUAL hardware. However the fact that the NAND is not encrypted tells me that they do not care about reverse engineerers they care about people hurting there BRAND by getting a TV with offshore parts in it.

its done....

its gotten further...

 

[Dead Lion]

Now, I don't think this HAS to be the reason this is happening. But what I do know, is this isn't some random set of laws, and policies that are getting passed. It's not just one or two this last year. This is definitely a coordinated effort that at this point has been going on for 2 years if not slightly longer. That did start to pick up around the time I mentioned.

It's the oldest trick in the book. Big Tech is at the peak of their power. If things were to continue on their current course they would fail in ten years.

So they are pulling the ladder behind them. Software is not an easy space to monopolize since the startup cost for a software company is pretty much zero. So they are passing all kinds of random bullshit that's expensive enough that starting a new company in the space becomes impossible. Then they can do whatever the fuck they want because they will become impossible to avoid and the government will have to keep propping them up so the economy doesn't die, joining the exclusive club with shit like auto makers,

 

[acid_ra1n]

I just installed opentabletdriver, I hope it blows less donkey balls than the stock wacom driver

lmk how it works i use a wacom tablet to test touch screen software lol

 

[Dante Alighieri]

It's the oldest trick in the book. Big Tech is at the peak of their power. If things were to continue on their current course they would fail in ten years.

So they are pulling the ladder behind them. Software is not an easy space to monopolize since the startup cost for a software company is pretty much zero. So they are passing all kinds of random bullshit that's expensive enough that starting a new company in the space becomes impossible. Then they can do whatever the fuck they want because they will become impossible to avoid and the government will have to keep propping them up so the economy doesn't die, joining the exclusive club with shit like auto makers,

Yep, they can afford the regulations the startups can't.

 

[Squishie PP]

It's the oldest trick in the book. Big Tech is at the peak of their power. If things were to continue on their current course they would fail in ten years.

So they are pulling the ladder behind them. Software is not an easy space to monopolize since the startup cost for a software company is pretty much zero. So they are passing all kinds of random bullshit that's expensive enough that starting a new company in the space becomes impossible. Then they can do whatever the fuck they want because they will become impossible to avoid and the government will have to keep propping them up so the economy doesn't die, joining the exclusive club with shit like auto makers,

It isn't just this.
Once the AI bubble pops, the cost of all the hardware use for AI suddenly goes to zero.
What happens when the plebs are able to afford HPC supercomputers?

 

[Battlefield42]

It isn't just this.
Once the AI bubble pops, the cost of all the hardware use for AI suddenly goes to zero.
What happens when the plebs are able to afford HPC supercomputers?

maybe we get a true cyberpunk tier free for all on the Internet

 

[prollyanotherlurker]

I 100% agree with Brodie. This isn't a partisan issue. And that is a distraction.

Also he mentions a couple states we haven't seen mentioned yet like utah.

 

[Kaiba Cuqk63]

If the AUR wasn't so prone to having orphaned or otherwise outdated packages, malware through supply chain distribution attacks, or just getting DDOSed all the damn time, odds are that I would've just gone with Artix Cinnamon from the outset and then pivoted over to XLibre instead of bog-standard Xorg.

just hoard the pkgbuilds and use pkgctl to keep them up to date. Maintaining your own repo is quite rewarding.

Sharing this postly because kiwifarms mentioned.

In the context of based Preston Byrne offering legal council to distros to potentially fight back against these recent laws.

More of this shit with people larping that omarchy is an actual distribution. they don’t even maintain a single package and they use an existing os. It’s just arch. Of fucking course they wouldn’t do anything about age verification. They need the upstream to do it. Whoever even asked about it is an abject fucking tard.

TLW : Linus goes with PopOS again

Nigger

Wayland is definitely the cause of all of that.

It’s gotta be cosmic, I have many little problems with steam but none of that stuff, and I’m only on Wayland. You can hate it without inventing bugs to attribute to it.

 

[mango_reseller]

My prediction is that this (age-gating shit) will simply create an Internet chasm in which there will be a normie internet that is basically scan-to-enter and a freak/schizo internet that is largely powered by autists (read: anarchists, neonazis, trannies etc), which would look probably like I2P on steroids. I don't *personally* expect any grifter and influencer (right or left wing) to ever step foot on the latter internet, simply because it will be impossible to make money on it. It will be much smaller, but also probably finally a return to form for those of us that refuse to be on social media platforms and other such gay shit.

With regards to

That essentially once sites start relying on this signal, unless you have this running on your system you are going to have gimped access to the internet.

it is literally impossible for any type of distro to forever lock this "signal" down, because it will fully rely on the user to verify their age and you will always be able to rewrite and even re-compile the kernel as you see fit. There will be concentrated efforts to remove whatever code there is from any and all OS distributions by reasonably popular forks, and because the various (FOSS) OS developers probably don't really like the idea of age verification either, I would expect that it will be something as simple as changing a variable here or there. This is a non-issue, unless it somehow gets bundled with DRM (in which case, fuck'em and fuck DRM in general) and/or hardware, which is extremely, extremely unlikely.

 

[Hakase Shinonome]

The new Linus Tech Tips Linux Challenge video dropped.

TL:DW : Linus goes with PopOS again, and it keeps breaking.

At 7:05, he even has a section pointing out, once again, why he doesn't just use his industry contacts to get the optimum experience out of the gate. He asks Google and ChatGPT, and gets PopOS recommended by both.

The comments have a bunch of support (and cope) saying that these are one of a kind unicorn bugs due to PopOS changing DE recently. As one comment rightly points out.


Along with the usual complaining about his choice of distro.

Can this nigger finally download an LTS like Ubuntu or Mint or something that works for once, FFS? No one goes “Wow, this dogshit distro sure did suck when I tried it, let’s try it again!”. Try something else, faggot. Learn from your employee from the previous series and NOT CHOOSE POPOS. - Want to know how many gaming related bugs I’ve had with Ubuntu? None. How many peripheral bugs? None. How many package errors? Too many to count.

 

[I AM UNDOUBTEDLY FIZZED8%]

I 100% agree with Brodie. This isn't a partisan issue. And that is a distraction.

Also he mentions a couple states we haven't seen mentioned yet like utah.

AHHH finally this week's 2nd video on his main channel where things coming out of his mouth aren't pro-rust/wayland/"progress" faggotry. If only he did stuff like this more often.

 

[ZMOT]

What happens when the plebs are able to afford HPC supercomputers?

I'm more suspicious what happens with all those build datacenters... might as well use them for surveillance - for safety, of course.

Can this nigger finally download an LTS like Ubuntu or Mint or something that works for once, FFS?

that doesn't generate views. LTT is retarded on purpose.
sadly too many retards don't understand this and take it at face value.

 

[Vesperus]

It just occurred to me that maybe the solution to this age check bullshit is to point the Wayland devs at the California legislature for justification and details, then watch both sides implode into a 'tard vortex.

 

[Billy Herrington "Aniki"]

I 100% agree with Brodie. This isn't a partisan issue. And that is a distraction.

Also he mentions a couple states we haven't seen mentioned yet like utah.

this is a nothing burger. piracy is basically legal, there is no way to regulate software online. it'll never happen with linux.
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[Squishie PP]

I'm more suspicious what happens with all those build datacenters... might as well use them for surveillance - for safety, of course.


that doesn't generate views. LTT is retarded on purpose.
sadly too many retards don't understand this and take it at face value.

Datacenters are constrained by profit, which boils down to electricity costs.
This rules a bunch of hardware out, so they still have to liquidate all their old crap that costs them too much to power.