It’s the constant war on end users that chased me away from windows.

You can’t say no to their relentless advertising. It’s “maybe later”. The pushing to require a Microsoft account. Ads in the start menu. Windows Recall.

The list goes on. You get as much agency as Microsoft allows, or you violate your eula and modify the os to remove things you don’t want.

We didn’t know it at the time, but windows 7 was peak windows.

You’re the one who brought him into the conversation.

Fucking same.

I deleted my main account once they first came out with the reddit recap, and deleted my replacement when they fucked RIF, never to return.

I still lurk without an account sometimes, but that’s all they’ll ever get out of me.

What I want is a way to answer the phone like a fax machine. Just press a button and the call gets answered and immediately starts playing that fax machine sound.

I’ll bet that would stop calls. Surely they have something that can tell if they’re calling a fax machine over and over.

I think the example you’re using is closer to emulation.

I’m not an expert by any means, most of my technology experience comes from hardware. But Proton isn’t changing the Linux ecosystem, and the programs are still expecting a windows environment when they’re run via Proton.

From what I recall, Linux and windows can both do the same stuff, they just have different names or different ways to ask for resources. And Proton receives the request for whatever and converts it to the Linux equivalent.

It’s not nearly as bad as it was in the past, now that the graphics APIs are system agnostic.

Most simply put, it’s a layer that allows a computer program expecting windows to run on Linux. It isn’t emulating anything, just sorta like translating.

Think of it like a language. Windows speaks English, so a program expects to talk in English. But let’s pretend like Linux talks Spanish. Proton translates the English commands to Spanish for Linux to understand and execute, and then Proton converts the responses back to English for the program.

Plus, by the time you find the end, the crew can have moved on.

You could also exploit that to ambush the people trying to follow the cable farther into enemy territory.

Exactly. He’s just looking for a place to stake his little fiefdom where he can circle jerk about how bad Linux is, no matter how incorrect he might be. There’s no implying that Dear Leader is wrong, just stroke or get banned.

It was an unpopular shitpost community.

As a Linux user, I can enjoy memes about real problems with Linux, but his posting went beyond memes and straight into hate boner territory. He once said something about how open source is bad because a company charging money for services creates jobs.

Anything other than circle jerking about ‘Linux bad Windows good’ got you banned.

What was happening when you tried to connect?

It’s basically just an end you attach to the fiber:

https://www.gomultilink.com/products/066-222-10?category=44

You’ll use a cleaver to break the fiber at a 90 degree angle to reduce attenuation, and slide it into the connector. Once it bottoms out, you press something down and it grabs the fiber, holding it in place.

I know it’s Youtube, but here’s a video of the process:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuKm7t87SJU

The idea is you would pull a fiber cable through a building and terminate it with ends like these. Then install them into a bulkhead to make them similar to solid-core CAT5/5e/6 cable into a patch panel. You can then use premade jumpers to connect from the building wiring to the devices you’re using.

The fusion machines are generally used for long distance links because of the significantly lower attenuation per splice. A fiber line that goes 40 miles is likely to have tens if not hundreds of splices in it depending on the number of spans of cable, and industry standard for fusion splices is 0.00-0.05 db attenuation per fusion splice.

You don’t need to fuse every fiber connection unless you’re doing really long distance fiber.

For runs inside a building, single pulls with mechanical splices would work just fine. You shouldn’t get much loss as long as there aren’t more than two or so mechanical splices.

Source: worked as a technician for a fiber optic ISP.

If you want to fully wipe the disks of any data to start with, you can use a tool like dd to zero the disks. First you need to figure out what your dive is enumerated as, then you wipe it like so:

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX

From there, you need to decide if you’re going to use them individually or as a pool.

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Plus, there’s all the cool stuff Valve has been doing for Linux gaming. All the effort into Proton, the steam deck, etc.

At this point, I’m sticking with Steam to reward them for investing in Linux.

I’m not disagreeing with anything you’ve said?

I’m saying that just adding Mozilla’s PPA to your sources won’t change apt’s behavior when installing Firefox unless you tell apt to prefer the package offered by the Mozilla PPA.

As someone who uses Kubuntu as a daily driver, I’m well aware of the snap drama and have worked around it using the method I pasted above.

Even though it’s an underhanded move by Cannonical, I’m still glad the OS is open source since it makes the workaround so trivial.

It takes a little more than just adding a different repository to your package manager, you have to tell apt which to prefer:

echo ’
Package: *
Pin: origin packages.mozilla.org
Pin-Priority: 1000

Package: firefox*
Pin: release o=Ubuntu
Pin-Priority: -1’ | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozilla

Biden never had enough control of the whole government to get those things done without Republican buy-in.

A Republican controlled house won’t send a bill like that to the Senate. A Republican controlled Senate won’t send it to the President.

You can be upset at Biden, but we’ve rarely ever given a Democratic president a Democratic Congress to help him get anything done.

It’s generally better to use more than you need than it is to use too little. Unless you’re buying specialty thermal paste, it will be nonconductive so any paste running off the sides won’t hurt anything.

Using different patterns can trap air, which will reduce thermal conductivity.

I don’t disagree that you’re finding issues. But I’m not convinced these would cause a CPU to overheat at idle.

They might cause issues with temps under full load, but I think his main issue is the watercooler isn’t moving heat from the CPU block to the radiator.

Don’t do 5 dots, do one big dot in the center. About the size of a pea.

The pressure of the heatsink will spread it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7x2sUt0mqo