I found the quote interesting. Is the source material bad? How so?

I also noticed that. Not sure what it means but I found it funny :D

It’s been so many years since I’ve heard that name. I hope they bring it back!

Oh no they’ve been “slammed”. That’ll show 'em.

Afaik the charges were just a tool fabricated to be used against him.
He exposed US war crimes and therefore they made him an enemy of the state and want to make an example out of him, to show others that when going against the US you have no rights - they can torture you, imprison you forever, etc.

Ordinary China W.

This truely is the darkest timeline

As someone who’s only owned Androids, it’s just a different walled garden. It’s a duopoly instead of a monopoly.

You can’t really own your phone whatever you do. Even if you root it all your important apps like banking ones will stop working so there really isn’t a choice.

You’re in a Linux community here man, you’re going to be outnumbered. I think people here genuinely don’t rely on Windows stuff as much as you think.

Last time I needed Windows was a few years ago when I wanted to do a firmware upgrade to my guitar processor. In the meantime I upgraded to one that itself runs Linux :)

I think lots of people exaggerate their need for certain apps. I understand if you need Photoshop for work because it may be the best tool for the job and an industry standard, but some people swear they “need” it when all they do is apply blur or red eye reduction to a picture once every 3 years. Nowadays you can probably do that in dozens of other ways.

I’ve been Linux only since late 2015 and in this time I “needed” a Windows VM ~ 2 times, but ofc personal experiences can vary greatly.

What a bunch of psychos.

Do you know how real the burn in on a new stylus is?

Can’t say I “know”. Like I haven’t taken the same cartridge, ran it for a bunch (but not too much!) to burn in, and then did a blind AB comparison with a brand new one to listen for differences.

Personally I don’t believe in any kind of audio equipment burn in. I don’t think manufacturers put out a product that would require the user to burn in the equipment for hundreds of hours before reaching its max potential. I think it makes sense that they’d want to release the product in an excellent state to impress potential buyers and reviewers.

To me it sounds like typical audiofool quackery but you can test it out and draw your own conclusions, or you can choose to believe in a little magic if that’s what makes you happy. Won’t hurt anyone but your wallet :)

Have you tried with new vinyl or old ones? If you have any new ones try them out, it makes a huge difference. If you have older ones like from a relative, they might have been “plowed” with some bad old needles, like ceramic cartridges which used to be more popular in the past and which require much more weight by design.
Also is your brush anti-static? Static electricity can often be the cause of pops.

I think in the end, even with new, clean, static-free vinyl, it’ll still have a significantly higher noise floor than a CD/mp3/YouTube/etc…

Edit: no comment regarding the headshell because I’m not familiar with that kind of design but looks fine from the pictures.

Or, you know, Israel is a genocidal terrorist state and it’s been doing this sorta shit for decades.

I hope Valve will make the Index VR work again after breaking it with the 2.x updates in October :')

Guix ftw!

I know you need a new nvidia driver every time the kernel updates, but why keep 50 kernel versions? My beef was them offering so many (outdated) versions instead of keeping the latest one which would make things very simple for users (imo).

I know that these packages are “linked”, and for every kernel update you need a new nvidia driver, I don’t understand though why they keep so many kernel versions in the repo (and their respective nvidia drivers ofc). Just makes things confusing, I assume people generally want the latest kernel the distro has to offer, or if they want something else it’s a different kernel “flavor” like lts, zen, rt, etc.

Only Valve has the motivation and means…

I think they have the means but not the motivation. I can think of only 2 reasons why the state of anti-cheat is the way it is:

1. They don’t want to spend money to fix it
2. They don’t want to ban paying customers

It’s not all “purists” and “tribalism”, Manjaro actually has issues. Besides the well known certificate issues and older packages, I have the following anecdote which made me really dislike it.

A friend has Manjaro and one day his nvidia drivers stopped working after an update. I helped troubleshoot over the phone, while looking over the wiki. For nvidia drivers they have their own wrapper around pacman.

Turns out there’s a different nvidia driver for each kernel version. Already a stupid design. So unlike arch where there’s 1 kernel package (the latest the distro offers) and 1 matching nvidia driver, Manjaro has dozens…

The wiki never mentions how to install or update the drivers manually with pacman or anything like that. It pushes their own tool, a stupid wrapper around pacman, which is supposed to manage this for you.

In my friend’s case, the tool failed. It was trying to run pacman but there was a conflict issue. But the tool didn’t show the pacman output, so we couldn’t figure out what the tool is trying to do, and why it doesn’t work. We tried removing the tool and re-installing, and all kinds of messing around with it. It failed to install the drivers, it failed to remove the drivers, it kept failing whatever we tried.

Eventually we figured out the naming convention they used for the packages (again not mentioned in the wiki), and manage to install the correct kernel - driver pair manually, using pacman.

Tl;dr: poor design, bad documentation, and they push their own crappy tools which hinder instead of helping

and ofc console exclusive…