that’s not a joke lol. governments and businesses actually think like that. Whom are they gonna sue if, for example, CachyOS borks something? Since it being a community developed distro, it doesn’t provide dedicated 24x7 tech support or would quickly patch something because some business’s application stopped working on that distro.

Well they want “official” tech support from a company which they can hold accountable for any problems.

Topic aside: I want to play resident evil requiem. do i have to play previous games as well? I haven’t played any.

I just have one kernel and one Distro with secure boot. So I directly use UEFI.

I have an idea. Linux should start automatically everytime you boot you PC.

It will crash but we don’t know when. It could be 2-3 years from now for all we know or it can be tomorrow. And when it crashes a lot of people are going to lose their incomes and I don’t want to be in a position when everything is cheap but I still can’t afford.

I don’t stuff’s gonna get cheaper anytime soon (I hope I am wrong) so might as well just get it now than later (when the world has been more unpredictable than ever)

Going to add one more PC in day or 2. The courier company is holding my PSU. GIVE ME MY PSU!!!

I dream about the times when all software and games are made for Linux first and have Windows users use Wine lol.

Whatever helps you sleep at night :)

because you enjoy corporate oversight and ads? or because you don’t see the benefit to you personally?

Bruh. Everything doesn’t have to be political. I simply don’t have the time, energy and willingness to learn and contribute to a project which people in my community are not even going to use. The incentive simply isn’t their for anyone when there is already a perfectly working solution—as much as I hate to say—from Google. I wish OSM and the maps & navigation apps using it were more popular and better but they aren’t simply because they don’t have dedicated teams.

Google Maps also get contributions from the community (which is much larger than OSM). So google benefits from volunteer contributions as well as their own teams mapping stuff around the world which OSM can never match. It isn’t something like Search, Drive or Photos that can be replaced by a community driven FOSS alternative. It requires huge funding.

I throw a lot of shit at Google but Google Maps is the best piece of software they have ever created. I wish OSM was this upto date with their data but it has a long way to go. I think this that piece of software which needs a big dedicated team or at-least paid volunteers instead of community volunteers because there ain’t no way I am going out to volunteer for free to map out my neighbourhood accurately.

Lol I used to think they scrapped the maps app entirely. Surprised it still exists. Who even uses it outside the US?

it’s optional now but can be mandatory later? It literally takes a baby monkey’s brain to understand that.

Also this is literally in the PR:

Stores the user’s birth date for AGE VERIFICATION, as required by recent laws in California (AB-1043), Colorado (SB26-051), Brazil (Lei 15.211/2025), etc.

Good. I will avoid those websites.

It is always like this. Make a very anti consumer decision that everyone hates, then tone it down so the half of those people will say “we won”. This is a loss.

sushhh… the shareholders’ imaginary line has to go up.

Repeat with me.

INSTALL LINUX!

I like CachyOS but I don’t see it’s worth it to reinstall the OS for 3-5 extra fps on an rtx 4070 laptop with ryzen 9 8945h with 32 gigs of ddr5. It probably might make sense on much older and/or weaker hardware. I mean I can just switch to the cachyos kernel on current Arch install if I want but I am just too comfortable with my current setup.

I selected the Nitro+ one and I was just looking at the reviews, and found that the connectors were melting. Is there no solution to this? Because the GPU seems pretty good but I might drop it because of so many melting cases.