Comments by "Charlie Kahn" (@charliekahn4205) on "Mental Outlaw" channel.

  1. Of course, nobody can take any physical action against RMS, because they'd have to use root and chmod to be able to execute him or even write him off.
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  2. Terry is one of my inspirations to get into low-level programming. The idea of a compiled shell using the same language as the core of the operating system, coupled with the interface of early BASIC, really sticks with me.
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  3. Reason #1: NT is old and has terrible permission management Reason #2: Windows is popular on the desktop Reason #3: desktop users are generally less tech savvy and more prone to falling for tech-related scams
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  4. Steve Jobs was a stuck-up, entitled, terrible person, but nobody cares because NeXT
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  5. Maybe that's a good thing. Humans are lazy enough to do a lot of work so they can be lazier later. The problem is when people push their own work onto other people and make it the only option.
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  6. Do you run proprietary first and then switch to Nouveau at a faster clock?
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  7. Even though Blink is a great web engine, and so is the engine it's based on, Webkit, there are a couple of others still and they should never be abandoned. Firefox uses its own engine, and another, smaller one (can't remember the name) makes their own as well. But the thing with Firefox is that even if Mozilla goes under, the people who develop browsers based on it won't go away, and can continue to develop the engine. If Firefox does, IceCat won't.
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  8.  @fricstix7072  but the Darwin kernel has extremely strong security by default.
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  9.  @Belissimo-T  no thanks. I'll stick to an OS the kernel was built to handle.
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  10. It's now used to refer to people not at all involved in the niche being discussed.
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  11. @Blaxer XO Nothing is more painful when someone pushes to master and your git gets rekt
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  12. Maybe you could use an OS without an ME driver, maybe one that just returns null.
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  13. But if Windows does everything by extension, wouldn't changing the extension of an exe to jpg make it non-executable?
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  14. @Aquarium Gravel If it were so, everyone on Earth who isn't really boring would be a social outcast with severe mental issues, and a tiny minority shouldn't be called the mainstream. Using my definition, everyone in the world can call someone else a normie in something, and everyone is themselves a normie in something.
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  15. It's like learning C after spending your entire life in a very advanced form of BASIC. It does the same things, in around the same ways, but it does have a couple more capabilities and uses a completely different syntax.
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  16.  @runneypo  It's a decently simple per-location instruction set, so it shouldn't take more than a few hundred tries to get it right. And most of those tries could be simulated.
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  17. The only problem now is with Broadcom, because they're terrible.
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  18. Until the links expire and the server drives die.
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  19. Chrome has a really terrible administration system that could practically amount to a trojan. When you log on to an enterprise account in Chrome, it signs your machine to make your entire browser also managed. You can't turn this off, and there's no clear place where this signature is found, so even when you remove the account the browser remains managed.
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  20.  @zigaudrey  or just run your web browser in a VM like a sane person
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  21.  @favorite89103  I use proprietary Nvidia and FOSS Intel, managed with Prime Render Offload via the switcheroo-control utility.
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  22. Personally, I believe he should be placed in an advisory role, rather than in a place where everything he says is broadcast publicly. If you have anyone without a filter in an area to which the press department has direct access, that is dangerous to public opinion of the organization.
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  23. I use systemd because systemd works the way I like it. It works using kernel features and compiled code so that everything boots in parallel and does so quickly. To get around the problem of configuration, it uses separate tools which interface with the services. Plus the services can be run separately from each other, while still obviously integrating well and sharing a design philosophy. And if a program doesn't support systemd services, all you need is a text file. If I wanted something else I'd switch. But time and time again I use systemd. I even use systemd-networkd on my Arch VMs.
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  24. @Fidelity happens all the time, friend.
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  25. Some requirements actually are OS-level, like driver stability, base-level security, default configuration, and package management. And, to be fair, Windows' exe system is genius.
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  26. This is why I prefer a mixed distro. I don't have the time to compile Firefox, LLVM, or the init daemon, but I do have time to compile a window manager or Clam.
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  27. Except it doesn't.
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  28. That's what a containerized Dosbox instance is for.
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  29. There's this application called ModernMix which makes Win8.1 actually pretty good.
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  30. It refers to anyone not at all involved with the niche you're discussing.
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  31.  @hankhill1964  You need to partition your drive first, or else it will wipe your disc to make room for the install.
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  32.  @subspacesausage5918  The thing about Linux is that practically every separate program is nearly guaranteed to work perfectly with any other program it needs to work with. So even though you'd have to have Audacity, OBS, GIMP, Inkscape, a file manager, a 3D editor, etc open all the time, there's never a compatibility issue and files will always open with the correct program, and even editing parts of files with a different program will nearly always work. For example, if you're using Kdenlive to animate pictures in a video, and need to edit one of them, it will always open Gimp. Such is the advantage of a library-based ecosystem. But if you want to collaborate, you either need to use a common editing protocol or all use the same central application.
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  33.  @juzujuzu4555  GNU develops IceCat, and if Mozilla goes under they'll continue to develop IceCat.
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  34. I think Netsurf uses its own engine
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  35. Also NT is old and insecure.
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  36. I feel that there is a big reason why people think Linux is difficult, and that is due to Linux's heavy reliance on a command line, which isn't familiar to most users. I know from personal experience that there is absolutely nothing less intuitive to a new user than a blank screen with a blank prompt and no help function. There's no real way to learn what commands you need to use without using another device to access the Internet, because you don't know what to even do first. I feel like, to remedy this, beginner distros should pack in a "help" command that prints out every command-line application's name and description. It could even be used to display "get started" info on login. I think this could help a lot with new users who aren't yet familiar with bash.
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  37. The client is centralized. The server is not.
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  38.  @Imarealzombi  Because the default palette doesn't look very good and I think it's hardcoded
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  39. LXQt is currently the standard-bearer for that kind of workflow on Wayland. They implemented the --replace protocol for wlroots compositors.
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  40. Isn't a source leak of Xp good? It means we can modify it and make it better.
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  41. Pop is nowhere close to lightweight, but it is a great distro for coding.
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  42.  @AcidiFy574  have you ever tried connecting an account to either of those?
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  43. I don't think those guys have the time to make a version of Surf that uses Gecko instead of WebKit
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  44.  @Jellyman916  Fedora is pretty good, and you install the latest Nvidia drivers just by installing a package from a repository that's already easy to enable.
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  45.  @multirampage1  unless you disable the feature that hides the extension names
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  46.  @imgladnotu9527  Technically Apple owns most of it.
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  47.  @BuetifullPersun  the service is in beta. If you want, you could suggest that feature to the devs.
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  48.  @zigaudrey  Modern operating systems have started to do this automatically.
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  49.  @zyansheep  Because each state is essentially its own nation, which delegates certain responsibilities and rights to a federal body in exchange for protection, services, and a say in the application of said protections and services.
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  50. Not anymore. Graphics drivers are now decent on Linux. Unless you're using Nouveau.
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  51.  @re9498  I just use Wine, and it works 95% of the time. They even have D3D translate to Vulkan now.
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  52. That's what safe spaces are for. A safe space is an area where discussion between people can occur anonymously and in good faith, without worrying about taste.
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  53. Endeavor OS and Garuda Linux are similar projects that use the official Arch repos. There are also several easy Arch installers such as Zen, Anarchy, and Archfi.
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  54. And nearly everyone below the x-axis of the political compass tends to.
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  55. @PC del Pueblo you still need software capable of accessing the ME hardware to take advantage of the ME.
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  56. Yeah, Broadcom sucks.
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  57. @Peter Andrijeczko I've found that even DNF and abrtd have problems with SELinux. I have to tell SELinux to ignore their requests.
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  58. I'm staying on GTK3 until the Gnome team cuts the crap. I wish someone would fork it to add GTK4's backend features without changing the interface all that much.
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  59.  @skyblazeeterno  Certain tasks work way better on Linux than Windows, e.g. resource management (Windows has a lot of overhead and doesn't let you stop unnecessary processes that are part of a large environment), network drivers, GUI customization, shell scripting and commands, compilation (more compilers exist for Linux users), changing your workflow, and using alternate applications. Aside from auto-updating and tracking (which you can have on Linux anyway), Windows also has a core problem in that NTFS is objectively terrible, and a simple mass copy which would take ten seconds at maximum under ext4 takes up to several minutes. When I choose to dual-boot my machine, it's not because of any privacy concerns (your CPU logs activity anyway); it's because I almost always run into a fundamental issue with Windows that I can't stand anymore.
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  60.  @ominous-omnipresent-they  VSCode is on Linux and it works great.
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  61.  @LordOfNihil  OpenGL is a wonderful thing.
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  62.  @littlepeon  Except he has later reapproached the topic in a calmer state of mind and changed his opinion most of the time.
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  63. Sounds risc-y
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  64. How are you commenting from Freetube?
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  65. Well, he's dead, so you can listen to his music without feeling guilty regardless of what he did.
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  66.  @username4471  Yet because it is interpreted, it is easy to view, modify, and disable.
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  67.  @banknote501  It is shorthand for "cisgender" to be used in the context where being used to refer to gender identity is implied.
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  68. Which one?
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  69.  @Steven-d4c  or have everyone make their own website
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  70.  @etopowertwon  Which is why he's not director or very powerful at all within the foundation.
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  71. It needs HTML3 support
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  72. To be fair, there are a few caveats to GNU/Linux or any other Unix-like OS. For instance, most distributions do not offer a way to directly access the package manager graphically, meaning you have to know the command to use for your distribution, or go through PackageKit. As well, there are points where the entire display system crashes and you have to know some commands to get back (like, say, using your sysctl program). And many of these commands have names that people wouldn't normally guess (why use cat for printing lines, or cd for goto, or nano for a text editor?). This problem also can extend to Linux's very old and extended-upon file hierarchy. Most people would probably have no idea what goes in bin, lib, var, or etc, and I'm betting tons of people would wonder why home and usr both exist at once. Most NT users would barely even know how to use their command line, since generations of graphical tools have been built to automate things. However, since Linux is at its core a hobbyist OS which has a decent shell, people don't do that much on Linux. A decent solution would probably be for a beginner distro to list basic commands on shell startup and/or if you type in 'help', since for new users there's nothing less intuitive than a blank screen, but I have yet to see any distro do that yet. Sure, DEs exist, and they work very well, but chances are people will need to use the terminal at some point, and right now that CLI has a UI which makes it seem difficult for new users.
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  73. Laser might work
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  74.  @valley5882  enough people use IceCat that LibreJS isn't that good an identifier.
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  75. Some people don't even know what command to type, or that sudo exists. Cut 'em a little slack when they get stuck at a blank prompt with no hints.
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  76. Why not contribute to Netsurf?
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  77. Then again, the executable package archive is genius, and it's totally worth the potential for malware.
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  78.  @thingsiplay  I bet with a little tinkering it could be possible to use Python as a shell. It would be the slowest shell ever, but still.
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  79. Gentoo is as simple as you can possibly get without using LFS. There's no binary format, no installer, and no GUI by default.
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  80. You could dual-boot.
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