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Linux boomers still use ALSA and Slackware. 10 years old is new to them.

Nothing, but it’s new so people hate it. See also: PulseAudio, Pipewire, Wayland.

I use btrfs on my NAS and it shits the bed about once a month. Thankfully I use NixOS (btw) and have working backups so it’s not too hard to restore but still.

And a second weekend to actually make a working bootable Windows USB.

It was most likely a joke.

The small bird is a CPU executing its instructions. The big bird is a keyboard sending an interrupt for the CPU to process immediately.

Its French for “free”, as in freedom. Free is ambiguous and can also mean free of charge.

Shout out to Nintendo requiring to go to a store at certain dates to get special Pokémon which cannot be obtained any other way legitimately. Do they still do this shit?

Don’t laugh too loud, you’ll make LibreOffice Base crash somehow.

If Apache archived all their dead projects, they wouldn’t have any project left.

It is pretty much the same as 20 years ago. That is, good enough for basic use cases but nowhere near as complete as MS Office. It isn’t a serious program for professional use.

At a glance, replies by ChatGPT to support questions look much more useful than whatever so-called certified professionals write on official MS support forums. Not that it is particularly hard.

The main obstacle in Wayland adoption was Wayland not being usable for years.

SecureBoot pretty much does this. There is nothing preventing motherboard manufacturers from blocking adding non-MS keys if they wanted to.

iGPUs are more than enough to play most indie games.

I can’t find an exact date, but there is a YouTube tutorial from 2018 on removing the battery whitelist, so it’s been at least 7 years.

ThinkPads refuse to work with non-Lenovo batteries.

systemctl enable --now systemd-airbagd

Car infotainment systems already run on Linux. Tesla famously use Ubuntu.

Android is fucking garbage, I’d rather use Windows. Unfortunately, other mobile OSes are somehow even worse.