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  • oh you watch videos and it’s hard to concentrate after a while? Welcome to actual driving jobs

    Watching videos is comparable to e.g. ATC work. I don’t see driving as comparable. In one you’re actively doing something. In the others you’re only checking for stuff that might go wrong but usually goes ok.

    There’s a significant difference in ATC vs the training AI: in ATC work people are swapped out after a few hours and they have regular breaks. While here for that AI the company is pretending it can be done for an 8 hour shift.

    I have no doubt that we will likewise see the mental and physical effort of driving as well as the danger of it become as unconscionable as threshing or machine operator work is to us now.

    Meh, that’s been said for ages. Currently the reliability of automated driving is often crazily overestimated. Human driving is pretty reliable, especially on highways.

    Change for the better is good. But just because there’s a computer involved doesn’t mean it’s already better or that’ll be foolproof.



  • That said, the amount of troubleshooting and wasted time that it took to figure out that the CPU was responsible for months of random crashes

    I went through something similar, so I understand.

    My (AMD) CPU was defective. But if was only noticeable that it would never be able to wake up from suspend. I didn’t really notice crashes. Just broken suspend. I thought it was a Linux kernel bug, though couldn’t figure out any details. Only after almost a year of pain (no suspend) the CPU just didn’t boot at all anymore.

    It was sort of replaced under warranty by the store. They took ages to investigate, then gave a store gift card. Likely because the CPU was temporarily out of stock. I had to wait for the CPU to be in stock to be able to buy it again. Fortunately still had the previous AM4 CPU.

    The new CPU suspends without any issues. Took months to be able to not doubt suspend. E.g. if it was suspended I usually thought it had crashed.

    An unreliable CPU is a terrible experience.



  • So instead of accepting that the driver should be GPL and part of the kernel, you turn things around and pretend the development of the kernel is the way that it is because of a conspiracy against Nvidia?

    The bit regarding Wayland doesn’t make sense, no idea what you’re getting at. Though maybe you don’t follow Linux developments?





  • If you’re THE leading DE project at least try to accommodate those DE’s that depend on your code or meet with them to inform them well in advance and discuss the best options for those DE’s.

    It’s always easy to say that other people should do more work to benefit others. Libawaita isn’t anything new. It was announced loads of times.

    In other words, work together for the good of all users

    That the current status isn’t what you want isn’t the same as not working together. Further, there’s usually a limited amount of time and attention.

    Within Linux there’s loads and loads of opinions. Loads of different desktop environments. That complexity cost development time. Time that isn’t infinite. Again, it seems to easy to direct how others should spend their time and/or to argue that they aren’t doing enough for your liking.




    • Background I was using got removed, got a better one anyway

    I had that happen a few times. This time I downloaded those backgrounds again (from gnome-backgrounds repository). Still, it’s pretty annoying to have this happen.

    I upgraded just before the beta. Discovered a mutter crash, reported it, it was fixed in a day or so.



  • Never heard about this. They’re website is awesome, they have a extensive list of changes they made. Don’t agree with removing SELinux though. It stops enough security issues and it doesn’t seem good to have such a change while likely (didn’t check) rely on Fedora for package updates.

    Kind of wonder how old certain changes are, e.g. Fedora did change the vm.max_map_count.

    Edit: forgot to say that I do like it. I like opinionated software/projects even if I might not use it myself.


  • Those hacked together system-specific bash scripts were shit.

    With a different feature set per script as well. The systemd service files have often been pushed upstream.

    Pretty sure people liking those scripts never really tried dealing with them across distributions. Though this just rehashes things that were said when distributions decided if to switch to systemd. Still the same strange claim that those scripts are somehow easier. It wasn’t, it is also way easier to package a systemd file from upstream than to maintain that stuff within a distribution.


  • I wonder if this is still true, now that he no longer works for RedHat, but Microsoft.

    Why wouldn’t Fedora do that? Decisions are decided by multiple people, they are not forced through or just decided unilaterally by one person.

    Enough people in Fedora try to improve the low level stuff. I’m looking forward to that homedir systemd stuff. Don’t care about this sudo alternative.