The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[Dread First]

When I guix searched yt-dlp one of the packages was for Emacs and that got me curious as to how literal your statement is

There are emacs packages to check the weather and play Tetris. It's very literal.

 

[SchizoDaemon]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=KRnno9VIZx0For whatever reason Louis is constantly subjected to the horrors of licensed paid proprietary software and his conclusion is never "maybe we should look for ethical free software alternatives"

Rossman only sees it as being a regulation problem. It's why I find it difficult to support him and his efforts.

 

[Dread First]

Rossman only sees it as being a regulation problem. It's why I find it difficult to support him and his efforts.

In absolute fairness to Rossmann: he does utilise free software extensively; he wrote the FUTO self-hosted sovereign cloud guide, and it's almost entirely free software. Louis also spent tons of time specifically acquainting himself with regulation because he took it upon himself to stand up for Right to Repair. @Hey Johnny Bravo can personally attest to Rossmann being the reason why Massachusetts has any Right to Repair laws on the books at all. The issue is that after working with hammers for so long, every problem starts to look like a nail.

 

[Premium Dog Food]

i forgot if i ever wrote about this on here but i have a particularly strange issue on artix linux where the mouse feels...off. i'll move it around but it feels like its lagging behind...

initially i believed it was the built in smoothing that most distros have ('acceleration') but turning it off did...nothing. ('off' being 'flat') - thus i've been using regular arch linux for a while now... is there a known fix for this? searching it up provided nothing.

for details:
gpu is an rx 9060xt 8gb,
cpu is an amd ryzen 5 7500f,
16gb ddr5 ram,
iso was xfce openrc stable.

add Option "SWCursor" "true" in /etc/X11/20-amdgpu.conf
restart
You're welcome.

For more info: this started happening to me in mid 2025 I think and pissed me off to no end.
You will notice you will have some SYN_DROPPED events in your X11 log whenever this happens. Dunno why it just appeared as an issue at some point and downgrading didn't even fix it. Beyond me.

 

[SchizoDaemon]

In absolute fairness to Rossmann: he does utilise free software extensively; he wrote the FUTO self-hosted sovereign cloud guide, and it's almost entirely free software.

I wasn't aware of that.

Louis also spent tons of time specifically acquainting himself with regulation because he took it upon himself to stand up for Right to Repair. @Hey Johnny Bravo can personally attest to Rossmann being the reason why Massachusetts has any Right to Repair laws on the books at all.

I understand that is the case. However, it always leaves out the other side of the equation, which is the consumer/user of these products and services. Quite often consumers will be hostile when asked why they didn't do their due diligence.

e.g. When I heard about John Deere tractors being difficult to repair, I knew they weren't the only tractor manufacturer. Why didn't farmers buy from another company that doesn't pull this BS? Nobody forced them to buy a particular model of tractor. These things are expensive. Why didn't they investigate this before purchase?

The issue is that after working with hammers for so long, every problem starts to look like a nail.

That is precisely what I was getting at.

 

[Dread First]

I understand that is the case. However, it always leaves out the other side of the equation, which is the consumer/user of these products and services. Quite often consumers will be hostile when asked why they didn't do their due diligence.

e.g. When I heard about John Deere tractors being difficult to repair, I knew they weren't the only tractor manufacturer. Why didn't farmers buy from another company that doesn't pull this BS? Nobody forced them to buy a particular model of tractor. These things are expensive. Why didn't they investigate this before purchase?

Chicken-egg problem. John Deere wasn't the only manufacturer of tractors like 20-30 years back, but industry consolidation is a bitch, and federal antitrust statutes haven't been touched since Standard Oil's dissolution.

 

[Hakase Shinonome]

It's not hard if you know the right path, the issue is the current documentation is just bad. I imagine Bluray rippers want to keep this hush-hush to justify selling 4K rips or hosting streaming sites that are raped by ads

I haven't had any issues with the documentation when I'm watching 4K Blurays, but I've never ripped 4K so I wouldn't know. I used Windows to flash the 4K firmware onto my blu-ray drive. I've talked about it in the Piracy thread. It's nice knowing there's a Linux flasher as well, though.

Post in thread 'Piracy General'

Nov 29, 2025

More OP Rewriting;​

I was editing my last post for around 4 hours straight, making sure all the things I link actually work. While writing this, I was actively following the steps myself to see if any errors occured. (Sans the BD drive flashing, because I only have one BD drive).

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Ripping/Burning​

Directly from the source, for personal archiving only, of course!

CDs​

Probably the most ripped media format in existence, and most OS' already come with software pre-installed to rip CDs to digital file formats....

• Hakase Shinonome

Reactions: x 8 x 4 x 2 x 5

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

@Hey Johnny Bravo can personally attest to Rossmann being the reason why Massachusetts has any Right to Repair laws on the books at all.

This is correct. Louis actually did a video about this, but the only messaging that the opposition to Right to Repair in Massachusetts could muster was a creepy ad implying that women will get raped in empty parking garages if Right to Repair passes. They played it over and over.

 

[AnOminous]

When I guix searched yt-dlp one of the packages was for Emacs and that got me curious as to how literal your statement is

emacs is Turing complete so can theoretically do anything a computer can do.

This is correct. Louis actually did a video about this, but the only messaging that the opposition to Right to Repair in Massachusetts could muster was a creepy ad implying that women will get raped in empty parking garages if Right to Repair passes. They played it over and over.

What kind of insane troll logic is that?

 

[SchizoDaemon]

Chicken-egg problem. John Deere wasn't the only manufacturer of tractors like 20-30 years back, but industry consolidation is a bitch, and federal antitrust statutes haven't been touched since Standard Oil's dissolution.

Maybe the tractors were a bad example, but take something more relevant to this discussion, like laptops or desktop computers.

There are machines offered with Linux or no OS options. There were options available all the way back in the mid-2000s that I was aware of and probably earlier, but I had people say to me, "Well, they are too expensive to buy," or "I can't get it in my country." (often untrue). When you are buying a niche product, the availability and price are obviously not going to be as good as mass-market options.

What they really mean is "I am not willing to put in the effort or spend the extra money to support the things I want to see." Which means it didn't matter that much to them in the first place.

What kind of insane troll logic is that?

FUD. Always FUD.

 

[Gemerson]

i forgot if i ever wrote about this on here but i have a particularly strange issue on artix linux where the mouse feels...off. i'll move it around but it feels like its lagging behind...

initially i believed it was the built in smoothing that most distros have ('acceleration') but turning it off did...nothing. ('off' being 'flat') - thus i've been using regular arch linux for a while now... is there a known fix for this? searching it up provided nothing.

for details:
gpu is an rx 9060xt 8gb,
cpu is an amd ryzen 5 7500f,
16gb ddr5 ram,
iso was xfce openrc stable.

Thought you were @dcss for a second.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

What kind of insane troll logic is that?

No clue, dude. Here's the ad:

 

[Anti Snigger]

emacs is Turing complete so can theoretically do anything a computer can do.

elisp and emacs are such a comfy DE, I have so many stupid extensions that help me because it takes like 30 seconds to iterate on something