https://tilvids.com/ isn’t horrible, but you have to go in with an open mind

Good perf per watt, but super expensive, walled garden, internally spying and nearly unrepairable.

I’ve never heard of them. They look kinda neat, you’re still paying the processor fees, but they can save you a few percent.

I want a distro that’s hard to understand, hard to make work, hard to update and gives me superpowers like being able to move box to box by taking a file or two with me.

Ohh, i fully agree. but the second someone does a convincing fake of him saying stuff that would make him big mad, he’ll go off and start denouncing AI :)

One way, or another, that revenue stream will go to shit, they’re just doing a smash and grab while they can.

Man, are they gonna be pissed when people use this against them as well. Collectively we have more time to do stupid shit :)

yeah ever since bookworm, they seemed to sort it out…

The NixOS, it callllssss usssssss

come in they ssssaid, itssss delcarativvvveee they ssssssaid.

Wait i just put an environment variable in conifguration.nix and moved home manager back out of my home folder to a central spot why does sddm take 5 minutes to give me Wayland now?

edit: OMG 6 hours later and I have it working. I have a configuration.nix that i re-grew with my 2025 backup and a configuration.nix.slow that is still broken if i switch it out. SDDM timeouts all over the place

the diff between them give 0 indication why sddm would fail.

I kinda want to go back through line by line and find out what did it, but I kinda also want to sleep, eat and go to work in a few hours :)

edit: edit: no rest for the wicked. I ran it through Meld, and there was very little there. Best I can tell, my home manager was synlinked to the wrong config in the store. I’m running it modular, so the nixos-rebuild “should” have moved its configs. The defunct home manager somehow broke QT6 and I lost my file/edit menus in qt apps, the fix for that was a template override env var in configuration.nix. When i fixed the borked home symlink, that failure stopped being a failure and the QT override somehow gave SDDM heartburn. I hadn’t seen it because I rarely change home manager, and whatever was wrong sat that way since 25.11.

Removing the line for QT to ignore the template stopped SDDM/Portal from loading and crashing for 5 minutes straight.

Careful on your uninstall, once my wife uninstalled from her phone*, all of a sudden her account can’t re-connect to delete her data. There’s lots of talk about this on the forums. Delete your account and uninstall all at once.

• my brain said the work i was thinking it wasn’t

The vague part is:

say uninstalls are 1000 / day, so that’s 100%

up 150% is 2500 / day, so 250% of nominal

or is it :)

Ying and Yang. You don’t give us what we want, we don’t buy into it.

We’ll buy POS chinese laptops before we rent a desktop from them.

I don’t understand, we had this in the 90’s and it didn’t work then. No company or user wanted their whole desktop to be offsite.

It’s the blanket name for their security architecture. The thing that makes sure your kernel is blessed, tries teo tell if you’re rooted, then sets a fuse flag if anything is off. It also provides a secure, encrypted profile for your phone that bifurcates apps, data, blocks screenshots. The data from the flag is available to apps to tell that your phone is potentially insecure. For the most part, they only block Samsung banking/pay apps and make your secure partition inaccessible.

My next phone will be something degoogled. hopefully something linux.

I’ve already wiped an old disconnected android phone for use with my drone/cameras that require a mobile device.

That means they were making money by people running their os.

If they spend the money on re-engineering their devices not to allow it, there was a cost advantage to selling your data.

2023/4 was steam but it was also before Microsoft started losing their mind thinking forcing people into AI would just blow over.

I expect 2026 will have a couple more percent as a load of people are trying to escape and some of them will make it.

why is the acceleration still slow?

1. There’s no marketing

2. Fear. Linux used to be a lot more complicated. It has a reputation. Windows is still far better at getting you to a gui if you really fuck it up. Checkpoints on updates and safe mode save a lot of peoples bacon.

3. Game performance is still markedly slower, and anti-cheat titles are unplayable.

Games are getting better, ease to install is getting better. Title availability is slowly getting better, but a lot of it is electron, so the titles themselves are getting worse. Wine/Proton is amazing and improving every day.

They want the key, verifiably off the box, in clear text. Any usb stick. any sd card. Not great, but not any barrier that’s worse than needing to setup a microsoft account.

it’s default in that it’s the top item on the list, but I can’t actually fault them much here, that dialog is crystal clear and you have to log into a Microsoft account to save it there. They don’t really push you very hard to put the key into their cloud.

I fault them more for not using zero-knowledge encryption to protect the user’s key.

Grey area, user chose to store the private bitlocker key to their online Microsoft acct, it’s optional. It’s still a dirtbag move, but probably less illegal.

I like to know when a package arrives, and when someone has stolen it.

Doorbell cams are just too convenient. You already have power there. There’s footage and audio.

Of course, I’m technically inclined…