Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "Brodie Robertson" channel.

  1.  @Pumpkin-Link  Me too. The last Windows I daily drove was Win98. I tried XP for a short while and went back to 98 and Slackware dual boot, then eventually just Slackware.
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  2. Agreed, the only "distro" that I think shouldn't bother with one is LFS, and we all know why.
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  3. You're like the Steve Hartman of Linux journalism.
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  4. I've always known that I don't count. Here I am an onboard graphics user my whole computing career.
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  5. We absolutely should expect large corporations to take licensing seriously, and we should ourselves as well. However, in the past Microsoft violated the GPL and had zero repercussions. Their code generator thing on GitHub may well violate it as well, but IANAL and the laws may not agree and even if they did no prosecutor would take up that case.
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  6. I used to use elinks back when Yahoo Chat was still a thing, simultaneously running zinc and irssi. I miss those days when nearly all web pages could actually render well in elinks.
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  7. Well, back when I was in high school I was part of the first computer class dealing with all the garbage that we were learning. It was all Windows specific garbage and we were using WinNT. All of us in that class were the ones to setup the computers for the whole school. Pull them out of boxes, connect all the wires and plug them in, install the OS and connect them to the network. We all had the admin password and they didn't care what we did. Someone installed a bunch of games and eventually the network administrator changed the rules and revoked our access. As far as permissions go on Linux, I've always found them far easier to setup, and a simple boot disc with the network cable pulled was all you needed to change the password, regardless of what the kids changed on the system and thus taking it back wasn't hard. Once they're locked out, you don't make the foolish mistake of giving them sudo or su access and install things they request for them, if it's reasonable. Only lazy network administrators give out the root password or enable sudo.
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  8. Bah, who cares if we're in the minority, I'd do the same. I've got rivers near me. I'd likely be a lot more productive in my day job and various hobbies if I didn't have YouTube distracting me anyhow, and if the rest of these addicts were honest with themselves and willing to better themselves they'd touch grass too.
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  9. Sometimes real life is boring, but boring is good. Boring is predictable, preparation friendly, reliable, repeatable.
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  10. I don't think hardware should be locked down to the point that you can't hack it, but for them to close the source is fine. If you could flip a switch and your device would be branded in a certain way like those one time fuses, that might be okay as long as you could still get updates to the firmware. Obviously that might pose a problem for a trusted platform, but if things were designed correctly then it shouldn't matter for nearly everything you use a device for. Only truly secure communications would be affected, and even then only if it's a matter of you not trusting your own device should some third party get their hands on it. Also, I got like 420 today. :)
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  11. I hear you. I'm frequently getting shadow banned for wrongthink.
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  12.  @terrydaktyllus1320  It's a de facto standard because everyone else does it the right way.
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  13. I wonder how hard it would be to patch the old OS to use the newer method. I'd bet Rene Rebe could do it.
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  14. I don't use Ubuntu, so I didn't know that snaps auto-updated. Quite frankly, the more I hear about Ubuntu, the more glad I am that I don't use it. A universal package manager is certainly a good idea, but the more problems I see with a lack of code reuse and permission issues the more I wish they'd try to collaborate on doing a standard package format for all distros. Though systemD certainly complicates that.
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  15.  @mskiptr  You may mean it sarcastically, but this would actually be good.
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  16. There's a joke in there somewhere about his brain showing static because of the lag in releasing Jai.
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  17. That's not how it works. The source code may be huge, but you select the options to include support for your hardware and build a binary. That binary is what gets used by your system and is generally pretty small. I've a lot of options set in my kernel and the huge kernel build is still only 11mb, the generic is only 6.8, and the custom is only 4. You can go tighter than that if you want.
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  18. As a longtime Slackware user, I would recommend Fedora or Mint for a new user.
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  19. Amazing that Linux does this in a more user friendly way than Windows and yet people believe the opposite.
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  20. I'll say more or less the same thing I said under Mental Outlaw's video with an addendum: I think all firmware and device drivers should be open source, and while I don't know for certain, I'd guess the reason for the oddball naming scheme of Intel processors is to make it possible for them to track leaks on projects. Let's say groups A, B and C each get a codename, Agamemnon Lake, Boudicca Lake and Constantine Lake. You see one of those in an article and you immediately know it was someone in that group. The real name winds up being Sapphire Lake and you blame the change on some middle manager who works alone in another division and everyone accepts it.
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  21. Indeed, it's inanity like that which holds us back. As well as childishly renaming prefixes because hard drive manufacturers cheat their customers and pretending that it's because it's a metric prefix even though they were never defined in a metric way from the start and everyone knew it. Who in their right might thought up kebi and mebi and other garbage like that for prefixes, it's stupid.
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  22.  @eyssewieringa2084  You literally could. Just label packages as stable and unstable. You could set your system to default to stable, which would be sensible, then request unstable when there's something new you want to try. Wouldn't be a bad idea to install them to different locations too.
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  23. Wait, are they saying that 486's didn't have rdtsc? Because I remember using that instruction even back in the 90's when I wrote an uptime program for my Win98 box. As for the floating point emulation, I hope they keep that around even if it's not used because it's just incredibly cool. It would be a great benefit to any new developer that reads the source to understand how floating point numbers are decomposed in a real world scenario as opposed to some hypothetical discussion.
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  24. I'd say bare minimum, a shell and a C compiler/linker suite of tools, everything after that is cream. I am shocked that A&M had a distro as I've always had this impression that UT was supposed to be the better school, but I think that may just be propaganda now.
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  25. If not for browsing the internet and playing certain games I definitely would live in the terminal. As it is now I spend a vast quantity of my time there, but this definitely intrigues me. Although, I've never really been a fan of the blocky terminal cursor, so that's another plus for GUI environments.
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  26. Agreed. The government needs to file an antitrust suit against them, if they have the balls.
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  27. They'll refuse to, at first, then they'll give in as long as the proposal implements a way for them to have a separate system. Eventually, they'll just be the same system with both acting as partners in controlling it, until one company buys the other. Not that it matters because the entire internet is already under their thumb.
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  28. I also have several zip drives, including one that's in an internal 5.25" drive bay. For that matter I've got a bunch of zip disks that are encrypted and no memory of what the password is for any of them.
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  29.  @formbi  I would say it's more to do with the fact that people jump the gun and make wild assumptions about anything and everything and he is very precise in his language while everyone around him is sloppy. The funny thing here is that I take the exact opposite stance where as a person I think he's perfectly fine, but his stance on the licensing of software and the industry at large has actually held Linux back from wider scale adoption. Although, I tend to look at things from more than one angle and understand nuance.
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  30.  @frog-girl-68000  Because the command is called grep, that's why. Of course I'm now considering cloning grep and naming the clone globally_search_for_a_regular_expression. Yeah, I hate dashes in filenames, underscores for life.
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  31.  @AlucardNoir  I disagree. I think we need more of what IRC provides, a decentralized communication system. We just need to change it to obscure IP's.
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  32.  @myownfriend23  And you're still wrong. The reference implementation is what the majority of people are using who are still using X11. And worse yet, they had a security framework ready to go. If the maintainers, who are the same people that decided to start from scratch with Wayland without having spent any time trying to understand X, if they had just decided to force everyone to use the security framework, then everyone could have adopted that and it would've been fixed at least 10 years ago, if not more. Stop trying to sound like you know what you're talking about and get back on the short bus.
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  33. From the sound of things, there are a lot of us KDE users out there.
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  34. I get what you mean, but the AppImage "flaw" of not setting a desktop entry could be fixed with any of a million simple methods. I might go with the program itself setting one, or if you want to prevent it from automatically writing to your system a shell script would work. I still haven't bothered to look into why FlatPak won't run on my system, hopefully it's not a dependence on something systemD related, but every AppImage I've used works and if I want it in the menu as opposed to starting it directly from the terminal I'll create the entry myself if I need to. However, I would say for newbies, it would be a good idea for them to add something so that a desktop entry is created automatically.
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  35. What's your project?
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  36.  @ringo8410  If that's how you meant it, then I can agree with that.
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  37.  @entelin  If they're the hardest to notice in advance, then how does Rust solve them in advance?
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  38.  @wayland7150  It's refreshing to see people in tech who are even aware of these things and don't ignore them, let alone that also support the opposite. After all, self defense is a right and if someone attacks you in a group with a semi-auto rifle and plenty of mags at hand, shouldn't you be able to arm yourself to defend your life and the lives of your group?
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  39. Those Russian programmers are real hardcore-js.
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  40.  @__Brandon__  Just remember to put everything in one window before closing.
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  41. Fair point. I know I wouldn't want someone contributing to any of my projects if they had no clue how to program.
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  42.  @BrodieRobertson  Maybe I'm weird, but while I strive to be as grammatically accurate as I can, and I notice nearly every single time when someone isn't, I still don't care. I recognize that not everyone has the time to double check things.
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  43. Sure, Linus let it into the kernel because he really wanted it. Not because he was forced to by external forces. Nope, not at all. Also, that bit about rewritten drivers really doesn't help, especially since even people like you keep trying to gaslight on the meme being nothing more than a joke and not their intention. Yeah, it's definitely not their intention to rewrite everything in Rust while they quietly rewrite a lot of things in Rust.
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  44. I'm no lawyer, but I feel like that's super illegal. If it's not illegal, it probably should be. Then again, a lot of things that various tech companies do should probably be illegal but with their lobbying power never will be.
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  45.  @jasonfahnestock9494  Being able to change the BIOS however you see fit is a good thing. Just wait until someone puts out an open source UEFI BIOS that allows you to fully control your own hardware.
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  46. Yeah, it's more appropriate for people that think upside down. I can understand a fair bit of functional programming, and have used various Lisp's throughout the years, but Haskell just makes me want to barf.
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  47. Maybe a bunch of us should collaborate on a program that we'll call `egg` and it will be nothing but easter eggs.
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  48.  @colbyboucher6391  Which is why we need to judiciously kill off certain standards and never allow them ever again. Sometimes that means the oldest, sometimes it means the newest, and sometimes everything in between.
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  49.  @androth1502  That doesn't actually sound like a bad idea. Have you done LFS? Maybe give it a shot if you haven't, and watch Rob Landley's talk beforehand. That'll give you some ideas for where to go with it and at least give you a starting point.
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  50. Yet another reason to dislike the modern internet. HTML is just a mess, as is CSS and JavaScript. I would love to see all three replaced with a single language that is a programming slash layout slash styling language all in one. Designed from the ground up for both open design and accessible design.
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