I wrote a bit of python earlier, do I have to send you a cheque?

Well, kind of.

Linus needs to call out bad code, it’s an important part of Linux’s quality control. He doesn’t need to tell people to kill themselves.

That’s because their code quality is usually an absolute dumpster fire that only works if Wine exactly replicates obscure Windows bugs.

Man, I thought having more CPU cores was what made compile jobs faster, I’ve never tried compiling on more screens before. TIL.

Firefox only takes half an hour on my Ryzen 5800X desktop anyway. Modern CPUs can chew through those chunky compile jobs pretty quickly.

If it’s open source it’s under the user’s control, so it’s almost impossible for a company to guarantee DRM is actually implemented instead of the device just claiming to implement it, decrypting the stream and not actually implementing any restrictions.

The whole point of DRM is to take control away from the end user so their device does what a company wants instead of what the device’s owner wants. If the user has control, you can’t have DRM.

No, that’s self harm.

Your distro is crap, mine is awesome.

What distro do I use? I don’t see how that’s relevant. No, I don’t need to know what you use either.

Edit: we all secretly know that Hannah Montana Linux is the best.

Firefox is probably looking for modern hardware acceleration for its rendering engine to work.

The new amdgpu kernel driver only launched in 2015 and it was buggy and unstable for a while. GPUs from around that era default to using the older radeon kernel driver which lacks Vulkan support.

Polaris (Radeon RX 400 series from 2016) and newer just work, older cards can take some prodding.

If the ISO was on his boot drive, dd might have broken the partition before it finished reading the file.

It’s a reference to the Arch Linux fuck-up assessment form anyway.

I heard it was called Data Destroyer.