as much as I like this idea, I assume it would also magnify the punishment if you get caught.

That has been my experience too, having run Linux on different diy PCs from gtx970 to rtx3090. Everything has just worked.

So an acquaintance’s son asked for upgrade advice and I told him to get a rtx5060 because that would give him the most performance on his limited budget, without also requiring a PSU upgrade… And it turned out to be a nightmare to get it up and running. I spent hours to get it to boot and then to actually use the GPU, and the computer still freezes on shutdown so he has to hold the power button to turn it off.

It could be the combination of rtx50xx, gigabyte motherboard and Bazzite, i.e. not necessarily only Nvidia’s fault but the computer worked fine while he had a gtx1080

It could be… But if we’re speculating, it could also be the opposite. For example if someone has software they really need Linux for, thanks to WSL they don’t need to switch or dual boot. Additionally, if someone uses WSL and it gives them a lot of trouble, then it might also give them the idea that this is because Linux is bad.

WSL is to Window users kind of what Wine/Proton is for Linux users. It’s not exactly the same because people have more reasons to want to ditch Windows, but I doubt Wine/Proton is a stepping stone to full Windows for Linux users :)

They might be thinking of .deb vs .rpm

I haven’t touched it in a few years but I had to switch distro because (X)Ubuntu filled my system SSD with multiple copied of every single Snap it had installed. Iirc it saved the last 3 versions and there was no way of turning it off

IMO Ubuntu is a good fit for people who don’t want to learn anything about computers and have no opinions about how their OS should work, so they want someone else to make all decisions for them. Nothing inherently wrong with that, it’s just not for me. I switched to Fedora because I want to be in control of my computer

Copy-paste should work with Wayland, so there is probably some way to fix that problem if you decide to give it another try, at least if you password manager is open source

If you want a DE which looks similar to KDE, try Xfce with Arc theme and some nice icon pack.

I use KDE (and it’s snappy on my hardware) but I like it because it has a lot of features and advanced options which it tries to make easily accessible to the user. IMO this is pretty much the opposite of “modern”, which is usually very minimalist, and UX designers like to remove or hide as much as possible. I’ve tried Gnome several times but personally I can’t stand it just because it’s a modern UI :) You try as many as you can and pick the one that suits you best of course, just thought it was funny that the same word can have different meanings to people.

Did you hot tighten the nozzle while putting it back? Don’t think it caused your current failure, but cold tightening can lead to more clogs in the future.

I think layer shifts can be caused by many different things, but the first thing I’d check is that the bed carriage can move freely and there isn’t something mechanically blocking it, like a wire or a misplaced screwdriver. The second thing I’d check would be the belt and gears, so that the bed can’t move without the stepper motor also spinning.

Every few years the brand name appears to be sold to some new company

I think they’re saying that it happens when you run one app as root, then you can’t copy-paste to other apps. It’s not a problem when running graphical apps as your normal user account.

Never used this software, but I would recommend looking it up on flathub and there should be links to the project homepage (if you need instructions for how to use it) and to its issue tracker (if you think you have found a bug).

Btw. I’m guessing your post is getting downvoted because it’s impossible to know what is wrong based on the information have have provided. “It doesn’t work” and “it doesn’t produce any answers” tells us absolutely nothing about the actual error. Almost anything could be causing those kind of symptoms.

Price is comparable to a used RTX3090 with 24GB vram, which is probably more attractive to someone who is also interested in Linux/Windows gaming (and already owns a pc I mean). I would also guess that the RTX would be faster than the MacBook. IMO unified ram is more interesting when you can get a lot of it

2010 is ancient technology, according to wikipedia Nvidia released the 600 series in 2012… Even if there was some inference engine supporting it then lack of computational speed and memory bandwidth would probably make it not worth the effort.

I bought a used 3090 two years ago, and back then they were usually listed for €800-1000 in my country. I thought I was lucky to find one for €700 after searching for a few months, and I don’t think they’ve ever been cheaper than this here. There are definitely fewer of them available now, but you can still buy one for €950 (and possibly even lower if you’re patient). So prices have gone up, but IMO not by ridiculous amounts like RAM.

• Full Bore is IMO one of the most underrated games on Steam (10+ years old and only 78 reviews) if you like puzzle platformers.
• Baba is You if you like puzzles without platforming.
• Dropsy surrealistic point-and-click.
• SteamWorld Dig 2 metroidvania, and currently on sale.
• Ittle Dew Zelda-style adventure game… with puzzles.
• VVVVVV retro puzzle game, with platforms but no jumping.

I thought I had more varied taste in games but kind of realizing that there’s a pattern now that I’m writing down the ones I’ve enjoyed the most.

When shopping for a cheap 3d printer forget about brand loyalty, most of the common ones have released both a some decent and some garbage printers. That doesn’t mean they’re all the same though, some brands are worse than the rest. Since I started 3d printing I’ve been told to avoid Flashforge because they (allegedly) make printers that are designed to fail, and that they have altered common open designs to force you to buy their extremely overpriced spare parts instead of cheaper/better third party components.

Unfortunately I’ve been out of the 3d-printer-recommending loop for a few years but when I was more active Sovol had an above average track record. However, there is nothing saying that they won’t do the same thing as Creality, and drop any semblance of quality while bribing youtubers for good reviews once they are popular enough.

I’m not saying I think it’s going to be intentionally killed or taken down, my prediction is that everything is going to turn to garbage when bots are vastly outnumbering human users. And I think that unfortunately the only form of “captcha” that will be able to keep bots out at scale is some form of centrally issued human ID coupled with an unbroken cryptographic chain starting on hardware level. But I am of course talking only about larger public services, small invite-only private instances would definitely still be an option.

3. With AI becoming stronger and stronger, it’s just a matter of time before the part of the internet without OS-level attestation tied to government issued IDs is going to become completely unusable. At some not too distant point anyone with a Claude/ChatGPT/etc subscription will be able to instruct it with things like “Invent 20 different personalities and create accounts on different Lemmy instances for them. Write neutral comments for them for a few weeks, then gradually begin to subtlety promote X. Use your psychology skills etc. to manipulate other users to support X and coordinate the accounts to shut down anyone criticizing X. Always post in character and never reveal that you are an AI.” Then multiply that by a million people trying to push their ideas, products, politics, conspiracy theories, etc.

The large free search engines have really gone down the drain recently… Kagi (a paid search engine) also has a small web feature, but it’s really cool that you’re building something that isn’t profit driven. I’ll be sure to share your search engine with my friends!

If they are getting valid findings with high quality reports from AI tools already, why would they do that?

Sure, we’ll find workarounds

I’d phrase it as “we might occasionally find workarounds that kinda work sometimes”. I tried running de-Googled Android on my phone for a while, and the only reason I could use it for online banking, pay for public transport, contact health services, etc. was because some people had reverse-engineered Google’s services (i.e. microG). It also stopped working every now and then when something changed, and to my knowledge Google could also shut it down instantly if they started encrypting their APIs. I wouldn’t bet on there always being workarounds if this push to lock down operating systems and online services continues.

Someone else posted something interesting/alarming the other day… With AI becoming more advanced and also more accessible, it’s going to be increasingly difficult to keep spam, scams, etc. at bay. If the mainstream computing world ends up in this gilded cage trap, even if a minority choose to maintain and use forks that stay outside the system, it might be quite difficult to keep for example a forum functional.