It sounds like we need to port more software to Electron

o7

I'm doing my part!

I have my Windows installer raring to go

Real talk: ever since I put Windows and Linux on separate SSDs, rather than simply separate partitions, they haven't killed each others' bootloaders once. Best $100 I ever spent.

My second tip for solving incompetent software with redundant hardware: TOSLink -> 1Mii Bluetooth Transmitter to avoid the catastrophic linux bluetooth stack. It's brilliant. TOSLink = no buzzing from inadequate shielding next to digital lines (or "AI audio" noise floor massacre or popping or...) and no software bluetooth = OS can't screw up pairing and that OS switching can't screw up the pairing. I did this in a moment of rage after the Nth time dumping hours into yet another linux bluetooth issue only to find that someone had submitted a patch years ago but project management hadn't reviewed the patch for a year and then banned the person who submitted the patch for complaining that nobody was reviewing his patches >.<

I have windows on a separate SSD, and grub still stops working whenever I update my motherboard firmware...

Condolences. I wish I had a second trick for you but I don't.

At least I can fix it from Windows, because it's just some uefi parameter that gets borked. I have the command in a text file on my desktop.

Any specifics about the second paragraph anecdote? It seems like a serious scandal.

Hmm doesn't look like I wrote it in my journal but yeah, it was pretty gross. The reason given for the ban was some swearing in the message, but to my intuition the profanity was comfortably in-bounds and well-deserved.

I do remember the bug: Bose headphones have a low quality mode and a high quality mode (low quality frees bandwidth for microphone and maybe latency), and the linux bluetooth stack defaulted to the low bandwidth mode so aggressively that even if you changed the script to set high bandwidth mode it would immediately set back.

I have no idea if the bug is fixed because this happened in 2020 and I haven't thought about desktop bluetooth since 2020 because TOSLink->1Mii Bluetooth Transmitter solved all my problems with it.

The sorry state of Bluetooth on Linux is well known at that point. Android had to roll their own stack because the standard BlueZ on Linux is a fucking pain.

I don't really know how to trash the SSD in my software.

I don’t really know what software you write, but trashing flash from software is a thing.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/flash-memory-wear-killing-...

Run something like Chia.

(Obviously not an endorsement.)

Flash wear says hello.

Cache videos on disk aggressively