Personally, I don’t see how this guy’s project hurt them in any way, even if he was making money from it. That’s assuming each copy involved a purchase from them (and if not, that would resolve it IMO).

I disagree with the hate paid mods get, at least in the current economic model. Though even if there was a UBI, I think worthwhile work should be rewarded.

And they still have a DAC because they drive physical speakers.

If it’s about water proofing, the same solution that makes the charge port water-tight would work for a headphone jack.

And I have a combined charger/audio jack adapter for my car. It’s cold now, and the adapter doesn’t connect very well until it warms up. And since the audio is now being accessed via USB, the phone needs to unlock before it will start sending a signal. And every time it loses that connection, audio stops and the phone needs to be unlocked to start it again (lock screen play button will only play through the phone speakers until it’s unlocked).

Not to mention just getting a decent adapter isn’t straightforward either, especially in this day of so many fly by night “businesses” that just stick around long enough that the real negative reviews start to cancel out the fake ones they purchased as a cost of being in the fraud business, not to mention the “legit” businesses so often embracing enshitification and misleading marketing.

Oh also sometimes my car’s RPM can be heard through the speakers because that’s how it generates the current to power the adapter and it isn’t sufficiently isolated like it was on the phone.

I hate speakers with open bluetooth. I’d rather have to press a button than let anyone in range potentially have control, partially for shit like this, partially just because someone looking to connect to their own device might pick mine on the list if theirs isn’t showing up.

My soundbar is very good at always showing up on that bluetooth device list and I have had neighbours randomly connect to it. I’ll usually turn the bt off at that point, but it’s usually on because I use it sometimes. Just wish it had some sort of security instead of being designed for people who might have enough trouble getting the power on.

Shareholder call:

While we did see a record low revenue on Jan 25th, we made up for it with record high revenue on Jan 26th. Not only was makeup buying more intense than normal activity, numbers were greatly helped by adding popular product links from the “thank you for your feedback” page, which also gives the executive team things to laugh about.

But the adults have the power to tell the kids to go to their room so the adults can play. Also, up to a certain age, you can just let them hold a controller and they think they are playing (or don’t even understand that anyone is playing and just think holding controllers is something fun to do while watching some things).

You could have it write unit tests as black box tests, where you only give it access to the function signature. Though even then, it still needs to understand what the test results should be, which will vary from case to case.

Funny thing about “AI skills” that I’ve noticed so far is that they are actually just skills in the thing you’re trying to get AI to help with. If you’re good at that, you can often (though not always) get an effective result. Mostly because you can talk about it at a deeper level and catch mistakes the AI makes.

If you have no idea about the thing, it might look competent to you, but you just won’t be catching the mistakes.

In that context, I would call them thought amplifiers and pretty effective at the whole “talking about something can help debug the problem, even if the other person doesn’t contribute anything of value because you have to look at the problem differently to explain it and that different perspective might make the solution more visible”, while also being able to contribute some valueable pieces.

You wouldn’t believe how much the set that comes with purple costs.

One video showing something better than the entire concept of the metaverse. Probably because this doesn’t look like a way to create a space specifically to rent, sell or advertise shit.

Define “important” in this context.

Unless you have pockets with zippers, fanny packs are great for riding roller coasters if you’re only carrying a fanny pack’s worth of things. Especially one that can sit unnoticed under your shirt, since staff will sometimes make you take it off if it’s obvious.

I think the problem with that is that the distros are each essentially personal projects. Some individual or team has their vision of what they think Linux should be and make their own effort to make it. There isn’t just 3 big distros because there’s more than 3 teams that want to make their own. And since no one has control over what distro anyone else can make, each person’s only options are to start their own distro, work on someone else’s, both (and more, since there’s no limit on how many distros you can contribute to), or neither.

Though personally, I think more options is good. Just like with the lemmyverse, if admins for one distro make choices you don’t like, you’re not stuck with them because you can either switch distros or start your own fork if you think it was on the right path before that bad choice.

All I can say for sure is that, from my experience, Fedora is ready for the masses (at least the technically competent who are willing to learn, the others are just as lost on windows, outside of their usual activities).

The downvotes might be because it’s not something anyone can do.

I don’t get any indication from the search that there’s a single unfixable issue, seems like various crash/freezing issues being reported over the months. I’ve only seen an issue where I needed to restart my system once in the year or so I’ve been on Linux, and that seemed to just be linked to one game (that I’ve since played without issue).

This is also the second time I’ve seen someone with a vague reference to an amd issue that is described in a way that sounds both profound (breaks for system) and mundane (by making it freeze once in a blue moon). And instructions to do a search that will give results but the implication is that they are about some massive single issue when the search term is going to give lots of unrelated results. Smells like disinformation to me, or rather trying to make nornal issues appear like massive ones.

Replace “amdgpu” with “nvidia” or “linux” with “windows” and there’s still tons of results.

Oh come on, I see right through your posturing to be allowed to open an all-dolphin game dev sweat shop. Stop it, it’s a waste of money because the whales always interfere and get the dolphins to unionize after the dolphins earn their programming degrees and then they go out and write emulators (because obviously we just close the shop). One of these days they’ll get in contract with the penguins and might start pumping out Linux distros!

Pour quois pas les deux

If the rate is so low in the US, why would it be unethical to do it there? You could also take samples from babies whose parents are getting or refusing the vaccine anyways. Sure, those decisions on their own will introduce more variables, but they could do a “outcomes of being raised by pro/anti vaccine/medicine parents” study.

If the goal was the truth, at least. It would be hard to do that study without any bias either way, with how political the whole thing is.

On the one hand, I agree, but on the other hand, this means that the ones supported by the billionaires will have the advantage.

Not that there’s any guarantee media you pay for isn’t owned by billionaires paying more. Or just promising things to bootlickers that they might never intend on following through on.

Never heard of the French, the culture that gave the world the word “cuisine”?

Not that that means anyone “stole” anything from the French, just that your statement was as dumb as it was racist.

Now if you had said a lot of north American cooking is boring and relies way too much on sugar and factories or smothering the food in pre-made sauces to hide its blandness, making other cultures’ cooking really stand out here, I’d agree with that.

Yeah, the Linux community has done a shitload of work to bring Linux up to as good as windows (in the technical sense) and better than windows (regarding the often hostile user experience).

Microsoft is now helping with the marketing by making the windows experience even worse, driving more people to “take the plunge” only for them to realize there isn’t a place where the floor suddenly drops away and you’re left helpless, and that that actually is a better description for using windows outside of the rails MS wants.

If you use an AMD gpu, there’s actually fewer steps to go from empty disk to playing a game, assuming that game isn’t trying to do things with the kernel or is one of the rare games that aren’t compatible for reasons other than anti-cheat (I’ve seen one game like that so far, forget the name of it but a logistics game that needed some dotnet library or something and I ended up giving up and refunding it rather than troubleshooting it until it worked, though others on protondb did say they got it working).

The days where windows gives an easier or better experience are gone, even ignoring all the next level enshitification of win 11. I’ve been on Linux for about a year now but wish I had switched sooner.

Goo goo ga chu?