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You are in a bubble/biased. I've switched to Linux on desktop half a year ago. For the average user, Linux has as many issues as Windows (or as few, more precisely).

In Windows, things mostly worked, with some minor annoyances. For example, night light stopped working at some point. Forced reboots for updates are another things I really don't like. SMB file sharing still does not work well out of the box, esp. w. Android phones.

In Linux, it is kinda the same, with the exception that I had a few really bad cases when GUI stopped working at all (terminal worked still, but barely).

My Lenovo laptop officially supports Linux. Still.

Things that I had lately (And I don't remember half of it) 1. BT headset disconnecting after a few seconds of connecting.

2. BT Game controller not detected by PC sometimes.

3. Application installs are weird and not that convenient. Sometimes you use package manager, sometimes AppImage, sometimes flatpak, sometimes brew, sometimes source code, sometimes zipped binary.

4. KDE vaults cannot be closed, because KDE indexing service locks dirs/files inside them.

5. KDE Indexing service indexes stuff that needs not to be indexed, hogging SSD resources and killing its lifespan.

6. KDE built-in screenshot app does not have good good annotation shortcuts, and annotation tools could be better.

7. Multi-monitor support have minor issues out of the box. Either display is garbled when laptop comes out of the sleep, or it does not support DisplayLink out of the box, or something else.

8. Graphics hardware acceleration in Firefox sometimes works, sometimes does not. Lately it does work, which is nice.

9. Game had a bug when it was choosing wrong GPU. No system configuration option was helping at all. Like literally nothing. Only disabling embedded GPU in Bios did.

10. Hibernation menu item exists, but does not work, coming out of hibernation is broken.

11. If you use hard links and directory bind mounts a lot, you will soon find that these are declared as working, but half of the software breaks when encountering them.

12. Laptop performance profiles selected from tray kinda work, but not reliably. I have to use laptop Fn button shortcut for them.

13. When I tried to change some stuff in keyboard layouts for non-english language, I encountered some weird behaviors/bugs. It took me a lot of time to properly configure CapsLock as a keyboard layout switch. On Windows, it is not possible as a built-in feature. With 3rd party - one tiny 20kb app.

14. While audio works mostly very well, sometimes, with a lot of audio devices, they glitch a little.

15. Bluetooth devices take a long time to display in connection list.

16. BT mouse takes 5 seconds to wake from sleep.

17. For me, fonts looks slightly worse then on Windows. I tried a lot of options, but I prefer Windows ClearType default look on my FullHD monitor.

18. Dolphin file manager has quite a lot weird/inconvenient behaviors. How it allows to work under root permissions (weirdly), how it handles absent network drives and some others.

Yeah. I did almost the same with KDE Spectacle. It lacks good shortcut keys for annotations. I've just asked AI to add them. Sent a manually reviewed TINY patch to maintainers, never heard back.

I did something similar with Russian music broadcasts Muzprosvet and FM Dostoevsky.

Here: https://radar.lv

These were cult broadcasts for the new music, each with its own flavor.

Later, more broadcasts were uploaded to the website.

Now, 95% downloads are bots.

Still, chezch broadcasts Seance with ambient music is still uploaded.

If you like to discover music, welcome. Its in Russian, but easily translated by Google etc.

Meh, too pop. Hildur Guðnadóttir!

It was by many, and it was decided to be too hard. Nobody is ready to do that.

I wonder if LLMs will evolve to allow ordering such things by request. Surely this is a a dream of many, manufacturing things same as we are vibe coding apps.

This is probably not near, but maybe in 10-20 years?

They are often from residential IP.there are even businesses that allow you renting such IPs

I have small website with archive of older radio broadcasts mostly in Russian. Lately, 90% of traffic comes from USA ;)

Previously it was like 5%.

URL is http://radar.lv btw

Thanks God i can serve up to a terabyte per month of traffic easily, otherwise it would be a catastrophe. I am not against bot scraping, but I worry about stability for meat visitors.

So, I think of enabling payments for website visits cloudflare recently developed.

I also have the problem of old technology like the mentioned site. While my personal blog uses static generator, archive website uses ancient Drupal version, which has no security patches for many years already.

I guess when cheap Chinese model was very close to SoTA models

I'm using such pad as a second gamepad when I need one :) It is actually not too bad, if combined with a multikey mouse

That is one of the reasons why desktop Linux conquest is slow. Linux people won't approve such kludges, which means broken applications and back compatibility. I am not sure which strategy is correct, but I certainly have a compassion for users who just want their pc to work, and not search for library versions or manuals how to compile code in a new system.

This happened in Switzerland with cash.

Pragmatically, often users without new browsers and OSses are not the best clients. In ideal world, sure, I want to support everyone. In a world with limited resources, I would better spend my time elsewhere.

There is a description of an access token, so it looks like you'll have some time to access a page. Anyway, this is more for bots. If you want this page so much, just print it to pdf.

It a pity. So many good studios gutted, for the only reason "margins too thin"

I wonder about the future of inExile and clockwork revolution

Nah, expedition has enough of a game in it. Parry mechanic is pretty addictive, and gameplay is kinda fun. Exploration, too, is strictly gaming aspect, not cinematic.

God of war is plainly movie on rails compared to E33

Yes, and I don't understand how people like this paper authors mostly disregard all these achievements. It is obvious now that our common definition of "understanding" either is flawed, or at least needs redefining and precisioning.

Well, I tried to contribute using AI. Brew and far2 accepted my work, KDE spectacle maintainers did not answer.

Both PR were tiny, not different from human PR. I still believe these were valuable additions, and obviously some maintainers think the same.

I read about Russian VPN situation from time to time, and any simple obfuscation attempts fail now. They had to invent more protocols, like TrustTunnel. Previous popular protocol was VLESS, and it used TCP.

TrustTunnel uses QUIC and possibly UDP, looks like similar to what is described in the article. So, I guess, Mullvad might work in DPI-heavy environments, but I wouldn't be as sure as author is. All I know it is becomes harder and harder to obfuscate VPN traffic in the countries with good hackers who work for the government.

This is my dream. To reverse engineer my bikes charger and create an USB pd to take with me on a self-sustained trips.

I think homebrew is different in comparison to flox,mise and devenv. Later are for reproducible dev envs, former is for installing tools globally where you cannot/do not want traditional package managers or building from source.

I was so impressed with Homebrew, I've added a formula for far2l-tty.

Thanks for your job!

I think it is focused on GitHub. It might not be suited for many people this way, but it works well. Opionated design.

Wdym tried?

There are many thousands of users of Linux homebrew, mostly users of atomic distros. I am one of them. I was so happy using homebrew that I've added new formula to its repo, far2l-tty

You can have multiple versions of tools installed. But overall, homebrew plays well with atomic distros. They are thing in itself, yet getting more popular lately. Im using them at home and on the server, and it feels calmer, because I can't fuck up whole system easily. Considering I'm using llms without sandbox often, this is pure gold.

Comparison of which managers?

Adding package to homebrew is straightforward, except that it has a lot of (reasonable?) requirements to make it right. Basically, you make a PR with a "formula" to their main repo from your branch. Formulas are ruby programs. LLM can do it easily, and such code is accepted if correct.

I dunno, Temu is worse. They use "lootboxes", that's something very hard to imagine in MS or Google products.

I want to test how it will handle e-bike software and hardware RE for my bike. Opus was really good for that, but still made some mistakes. With Fable, I hope I will be able to do a total RE of most components, hopefully including motor firmware to some extent.

Reminds me of a time when my homepage (before lj blog) was using cmsimple. BTW, c still exists. Not sure if it is still "simple" tho.

https://www.cmsimple.org/en/