Comments by "Gareth Hart" (@tgheretford) on "Brodie Robertson" channel.

  1. "Now the problem in this case is over..." In the industry, we call this "foreshadowing".
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  2. We're heading toward purity testing for both contributors and users of FOSS. This will not end well. If Hyprland is suddenly disappeared from distributions under pressure to conform or be shamed, it will be an escalation. Same if contributors and users are extradited from FOSS.
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  3. The arguments that apply to companies paying their way in a "post-open" architecture also applies to individuals and non-profits. I know there is a desire in some quarters to monetise free and open source software beyond voluntary donations. And that doesn't just apply to software, it's just as applicable to YouTube content too. The problem is, there isn't an infinite money supply for creators from consumers and charging individuals and non-profits as well as corporations for everything that provides value to them is going to get very expensive, very quickly.
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  4. It would be nice if a solution for screen tearing when gaming with XWayland, NVidia and Plasma was implemented. And the solution is not "just install Windows" for anyone tempted to reply with that.
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  5. I felt this video's opening gambit spoke personally to me.
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  6. It's a bug. Might want to report it to Brodie's Bugzilla.
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  7. I'm so old sKhool that I Kan still remember when it used to be a KomediK running gag that KDE would replaKe all the letter "C"'s with K's.
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  8. Another counter example: A smart TV you paid thousands of dollars for that has a "personalised ads" and "privacy policy" options within the settings menu. When you pay, you are still the product. All the money in the world is not enough money.
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  9. YouTube will eventually become a walled garden, they will ban VPNs, Premium will have advertisements and every monetised video will have Widevine DRM implemented. Calling them now. Also "protecting our community" is a funny way of saying "protecting our bottom line".
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  10. This could potentially raise a legal issue as you've removed something from someone's private property and replaced it without permission or consent. Particularly so if it involves a paid for Windows licence, it could be seen as depriving the person of that product, even if you could reinstall Windows. Or if you remove personal files and data, even unintentionally.
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  11. The danger then is that everything goes behind paywalls. The web browser you'll use will be paywalled as will the Operating System you're using (Google is threatening that as part of the anti-trust remedies being suggested). Accessing websites will be paywalled for access, every video you view will have to be charged a fee in addition to a paywall, comments will be subject to micro-transactions. The Internet will get very expensive for anyone except the rich. This is what Mozilla was warning about. And what happens online will spread offline too. And then life gets expensive for anyone expect the rich too.
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  12. I would be happy to use Wayland if the issues with screen tearing and delayed frames I currently have were fixed. As things stand for what I use, it is not a minor inconvenience or a quality of life update that can wait, it is a showstopper.
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  13. Straight off the top of my head, AbracaDABra, a DAB player which uses SDR dongles to decode digital radio stations.
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  14. September 2023 - Gnome will eventually not support X11 and you'll have to use Wayland. You don't need to worry about switching yet, it will take a while. October 2023 - Our app will not support X11 and you'll have to use Wayland. All the bugs will be fixed in time, don't worry, keep using X11. Prediction for November 2023 - You won't even be able to boot or run anything without Wayland. Err... NVidia gamers, use Windows?
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  15. The ironic thing being is that there are many bots in the comments who YouTube leave untouched while they delete and shadowban many of my non-infringing on ToS comments within seconds of posting.
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  16.  @mmstick  We have laws and policies, not Codes of Conduct.
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  17. I have showstopping issues using Wayland when gaming to the point where its impossible to play games. If Xorg gets dropped by distributions before (or if) it gets fixed, people like myself will feel abandoned. Now I have the technical expertise to compile Xorg via the AUR but your average user on say, Mint or Ubuntu isn't going to know how to do that. The answer is not "just go back to Windows and cope". I would like to use Wayland but not in the current state for one of my key uses.
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  18.  @IshayuG  There are TV's that people pay thousands of dollars for where the manufacturer still allows them to mine your data by default. Louis Rossmann provided evidence of this with a LG TV he purchased. If you're paying, you're still the product. All the money is not enough money.
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  19. The danger with this approach is if desktop environments become nagware and if we end up with a donate or be nagged approach.
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  20. I refuse to upgrade from X11 until I see the one true successor - Yayland from our true lord and saviour, Elon Musk.
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  21. Pantone has you beat, though that's more of a trademark than a patent issue. You can trademark wavelengths, it turns out.
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  22. Unpopular opinion in this comments section - I prefer KDE to Gnome.
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  23. Next draft - respect our pronouns, vote Democrat and buy Bud Light.
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  24. I wouldn't be surprised in order to "protect the community" if they made commenting a Premium only function in the future.
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  25. Anyone who believes that having applications glitch, tear and repeat frames on xwayland as a minor "annoyance" that only needs a distant future "quality of life" fix has never experienced it. Out of sight, out of mind and I'm alright Jack springs to mind.
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  26. I'll switch to Wayland when games do not glitch out when scrolling and moving using NVidia. And no, an expensive brand new laptop or a tower is not the answer. What I don't appreciate is the passive-aggressive lecture scalding anyone who dares deviates from the complete and total embrace of Wayland at this very second. The attitude in the social media posts really got my back up. There's a better way to communicate this without the attitude. And that's probably what has caused the response.
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  27. CoCs are the definition of the concept of "the road to hell is paved with good intentions".
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  28.  @mmstick  If they're both the same thing, why have different names and definitions for both? Dictionary definitions I can find suggest a difference for both.
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  29. Wait until they make Windows as a service that you pay both a licence and a monthly fee for and it still has ads!
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  30. Wayland and Chill.
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  31. I guess this is another example of those who want freedom as in liberty but not freedom as in beer.
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  32. I find that Codes of Conduct are the pure definition of "the road to hell is paved with good intentions".
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  33. What if they didn't stop at paywalling Red Hat?
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  34. Bearing in mind that saying something that is deemed "factually untrue" is now constituting a criminal offence, never mind potential defamation, under new online safety laws in an increasing number of jurisdictions.
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  35. Until recently, loading the cs35l41 driver manually had the danger of damaging your speakers if your ACPI files needed (as ASUS did not include information about them) were misconfigured.
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  36. I had a heads-up about this issue, prepared an up-to-date USB stick to chroot in and reinstall GRUB and then run os-prober and remade the config file to get the Windows entry back. Now I am off to bed.
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  37. I suspect there is a push to make everything FOSS and anything that doesn't have a direct or ongoing cost in life behind a paywall. The argument of "time, effort and resources" must be paid for regardless that everyone is agreeing to in the arguments regarding Red Hat will fuel Red Hat's point and give it legitimacy. We're seeing the same argument for the likes of YouTube and Android to name two. Also, criticising Red Hat is not harassment.
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  38.  @breadmoth6443  Not always the case. Mednafen's Sega Saturn emulation has a reputation for being considered the best out of all the current emulators according to the emulation general wiki.
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  39. Their ultimate goal is to disable ad blockers, serve ads and have everything behind a paywall with licence payments for services. You'll own nothing and pay for everything.
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  40. I wonder what the makers of WD-40 will make of this policy considering their widespread use of the term "Rust" as they do make commercial products for use within the computing and electrical industry which the programming language is also within. I suspect any request to pay royalties for the use of the term on their products will be met with a "see you in court".
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  41. Microsoft did this with Word and Excel in the early to mid 90s in order to get an unfair advantage over their competition and dominate the software space in addition to Windows. It is considered anti-trust.
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  42. Immersion may be Valve's lesser concern. They've just caught the eye of Nintendo in relation to the Dolphin's emulator on Steam. And like with Disney, you do not displease Nintendo's lawyers. If it goes to trial, the concept of clean room engineering case law will be re-evaluated and if Nintendo win, it would have huge ramifications, well beyond anything Immersion can do.
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  43.  @cameronbosch1213  Particularly considering the percentage of income Mozilla gets from the Google default search engine deal. The ironic thing being is that the anti-trust remedy would actually give Google MORE power by eliminating a main competitor!
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  44. KDE Plasma + XWayland + NVidia + gaming is still not a fun time with the screen tearing you don't get on X11.
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  45.  @uis246  Hardware as a service is where the industry is heading in the same way software is moving to as a service model. And everything else in life is also heading the same way.
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  46. I can't stand the professionally offended. No disrespect, of course.
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  47. How long before an open source developer requires payment to allow both the reporting of bugs and the labour to fix them in order to deal with the "entitled" users? It mirrors an argument I have seen regarding the Internet in recent times around "online safety" - the concept that communication should only go one way and be controlled by those doing the communicating to eradicate "toxicity" or "hate".
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  48.  @nikunjkhangwal  You won't just be paying for every website. You'll be charged for the web browser, every website will be paywalled and you'll pay fees and micro-transactions to click every link and browse every page. That will spread to the real world as well if they can get away with it online. And that will make life very expensive for everyone except the rich.
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  49. The idea of abolishing daylight saving time was going to be a hot take. Take the UK, if we stayed on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) all year round, it would mean in summer that it would start getting dark around 8pm at the height of summer but twilight from 2am! So most workers would lose an hour of daylight to when they're asleep with zero benefit for farmers who would also be asleep. And there ain't a hope that the UK will drop GMT and adopt year round Central European Time due to historical and patriotic rationales as well as an argument around child safety (it would be past 9am before sunrise, potentially 10am in Scotland). GMT and British Summer Time is a compromise of both.
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  50. Codes of Conduct are dressed up to look good, to encourage people to be kind and prevent hate. What they actually do is inject poisonous politics, cancel individuals and create division between the "privileged" and the "oppressed". I oppose them, not because I am a bad person who wants to do bad things and get away with it but because I can see how they can be used for nefarious and divisive purposes.
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  51. All YouTube would have to do is implement Widevine and any other DRM technology on all YouTube content to enforce advertising being served to viewers unless a valid Premium subscription is on record and it would allow them to sue under the DMCA anyone who attempted to circumvent watching adverts or paying a subscription fee. And it would stuff every other Vanced competitor taking advantage of Vanced's downfall. And it would stuff VLC who allow you to view videos with a URL without advertising or subscription. Of course, it would also make it easier for major rights holders to sue for the profiting of their content uploaded by individuals to the site without permission.
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  52.  @avisprimey  It's inevitable. Every other streaming service is doing it, so will YouTube. All the money is not enough money.
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  53. The reason why Google is going down the DRM route is that circumvention of DRM is a crime in many jurisdictions. Which would mean that a FOSS solution to this problem could be a quick way to end up in court.
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  54. That you'll be paying a subscription fee for on top of a licensing fee.
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  55. For the Firefox cheerleaders and fans in the comments, who funds Mozilla to have their search engine as the default in Firefox (for most of the world) and who could make life difficult for Mozilla if they do not play ball?
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  56. I've noticed in the last day or two a significant uptick in long form and unskippable adverts. I wonder if Google is making YouTube free so ad-ridden that everyone is being pushed to Premium whilst dealing with alternative apps and ad-blocking that would allow free alternatives? Eventually I can see Google adopting their own Widevine DRM across the whole of YouTube to kill off any alternative access to YouTube, even for ad-supported content as well as a way to evade the ad-blockers.
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  57. Good luck to them with "RS". It's the trademarked name of a large and well known components distributor who work within the computing and electrical industry in the UK and worldwide.
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  58. Maybe they, yourself, other content creators and others should start a campaign to dissuade the public from using packages for software and either encourage or outright support a distribution that only allows installation of packages with Flatpak? Something different from all the comments suggesting they trademark the name.
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  59. I would switch to Wayland now if it wasn't for the one showstopper - I play games and I notice that XWayland plus NVIDIA on a number of the simulation games (not all) that I play a lot of have terrible stuttering when I move the camera to the point where its unplayable that doesn't happen playing the same games on Xorg. Anyone wishing to reply with "just AMD bro", I use a laptop. That is not an option.
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  60. Retried Wayland on Plasma after NVidia's driver upgraded to version 530. Everything is fine except for one game-stopper, gaming on Wayland and NVidia causes graphical stuttering in frames when moving around and scrolling. The new driver version has improved things but its still noticeable. Until that is resolved, I will be staying on Xorg. Beside that, I would be prepared to use Wayland on a daily basis because all the other issues for my usage needs I noticed appear to have been resolved.
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  61.  @PhysicsGamer  And where's the competition? Firefox? Could be gone in months due to an anti-trust remedy that will wipe out Mozilla's revenue. Edge? Based on Chromium. Safari? Apple will copy whatever Google does for cash, plus they also face losing a billion through their deal with Google on iPhones. You can fork the browsers and make your own non-paywalled browser but most people won't do that, they'll just revert to using apps on phones which to be honest, companies want you to do anyway as that way, they have control over their IP and service.
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  62. Or told WD-40 to stop using the term "rust" on their commercial products without permission of the Rust Foundation. I suspect any request will be met with a "see you in court".
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  63.  @no_name4796  YouTube is too busy shadowbanning and deleting my comments. Meanwhile the bots are free to post without consequence.
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  64. They might be shifting their financial model because they're going to lose the money Google pays them for being the default search engine after the anti-trust remedies are put into place in a few months time. This of course, also means that Firefox will follow Chrome in banning ad-blockers as that technology would fundamentally harm their new model.
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