And everyone telling dear reader to change distros is doing it from a position of ignorance.

Even the least reliable of those distros should not be seeing anything but the keymap issue. MTP crash, unable to login afterward, That reeks of ram/disk issues.

Time->TLS errors aren’t handled well anywhere.

As critical as they are to 2fa and TLS, you’d think every OS out there would poke around a few time servers and scream bloody murder if the time was off.

Honestly, I think we, as a society, have leaned a little too hard into time as a precise critical failure point. It’s fine for things like GPS that actually require it. but our clocks don’t need to be precisely the same to tell how recent a request and response are and we can certainly make better hashing algos

Oddly enough, giving the general public exact error messages ends up costing you in support and reputation.

They obscure the messages because the inexperienced masses start digging up red herrings. Knowledge to someone with zero experience causes a lot of confusion.

The experienced and capable users look up the codes and think about it for a minute, check their vpn, maybe a health dashboard, maybe reboot.

Just about every complex machine out there give error codes instad of real messages, even when they have large displays capable of telling you exactly what the condition is.

yeah, back when I was maining windows, I went through a lot of trouble to install non-store versions.

Of course, some places lock down their employees too much for them to do that

Don’t be too mean, but make sure your admin feels the heat.

Linux is good enough for the desktop for a fuckton of businesses. gentle pressure may get us there in a generatiohn or two

They’re preparing to rent people desktop access over the internet. Gotta trim up that you don’t own shit store code.

That combination of errors sounds suspiciously like hardware problems.

MTP crash, unexpected but not overly so, it’s old code. Authentication issues post reboot on error is super sus.

Wayland can be a little slow, but it seems to be ok for all of my ancient candidates. Keymaps kind of expected, that’s the kind of stuff that wayland is actually not great at yet.

Put that all together, I’d say you have something going on with the box.

If that documentation was awful, I’d REALLY like to see your take on NixOS :)

Hey I drove to the library, picked up all these things you needed, got dinner here ya go, free!

You drove? man that’s lazy…

He used AI to clean up translation and save time after he spent a fuck ton of time curating and delivering us a helpful product. Calling him out as lazy is an awful take.

Yup, if there was ever a decent use for AI, this is it. Lemmy can (and will) hate the shit out of it, but it took a little burden off the shoulders of someone doing us a great service.

I’ve never rage-quit, but I put it out there a few times.

I had a district manager in a burger flipper hell decide to go through all the employees one by one and yell at them about their ‘faults’ in a successul clean restaurant with decent sales/waste.

When he got to me and raised his voice, I handed him the spatula, said if you’re going to stand here and berate me now, you’ll need this because i’m walking the fuck away. I’m open to criticism, but you’re not going to treat me the way you treated all these other people. He frowned, told me I didn’t use grill salt enough and moved on to the next person.

20 Years later, I was working in IT at a healthcare company. I had just finished an exchange migration from a desktop computer to a bona fide bare metal cluster. We got the license for webmail, but never ordered the licensing for ISA, which was specially designed to secure their OWA. My boss said, “Just hook it up, we’ll order it later. The ‘big boss’ is here and I want to hand it off to him”. Me: I am NOT putting that thing on the public internet without a proper firewall, we are constantly in a stream of attacks. Boss: Just do it, nothing will happen, I’ll take the heat. Me: I’m our HIPAA contact, no fucking way. Boss: I’m ordering you to do it. Me: You want my job, decide right now, You can hook it up, go show it off, i’ll find somewhere else. He grumbled and walked away. I had more system failures on that job from him pushing me to do shit wrong, fast and cheap. That place, of anywhere I’ve ever worked, had way more danger to the public of things going down and information being lost.

If I could do it fast enough, the windows laptop has a decent mobile gpu

But I kinda want to do it in a VM, and i’d rather pass through the coral than suck up the cpu cycles on the box from the other vm’s

were me I’d be tempted to put up with Windows until something forced a change.

I’ll get to it eventually before it breaks :) Of all the windows needs, that’s the lowest hanging fruit.

Home Assistant already draws feeds from the cameras in tandem, so the alerts themselves could be replaced easily, but getting the offending image and the pixel barriers would require Frigate. I’ll probably build it up in a container and pass through a USB Coral

There’s no chat for underaged kids anymore, so it’s less of a concern.

It’s the android emulation client

1. It’ll only work until they decide to make it not work. When it stops working I’ll have to reinstall windows which would be worse.

2. It does not preform well and the controls are different. For really big builds in build a boat and obstacle courses, it underperforms enough to make them upset.

So what I have going on is Blue-Iris. I have a load of pixel barriers and notifications wrapped around times. If someone opens the community mailbox not between 2 and 4 pm on week days or 11am on Saturday, it sends me a webhook ntfy with the image and an emergency alarm (mail thefts been happening). I have it doing ALPR on two streets and then I have alarms for humans in the driveway and humans on the back porch at specific hours with more webhook ntfy. I dedupe alarms and use Blue-Iris for scrubbing and storage.

My cameras are super good at AI person detection and provide it through ONVIF so I don’t know that I’ll get a lot more out of it, but getting rid of the Windows laptop running the job would be nice.

Thanks for looking it up, I’ve already been there, it’s Android emulation and it doesn’t perform well enough for what they’re doing. One is doing split timing stuff, and the other is doing perverse things to build a boat that won’t even run under native Android.

Back when the straight wine client was allowed, it was good enough I could have switched, but I walk have been back where I am now.

I’m a bit concerned that even if I did convince them to use an emulator, Roblox would get a case of the ass and block it as they did for Linux.

As disappointed as I am that they’re stuck in Windows, I’d be irrationally angry having to reinstall Windows.

Every tool for it’s job.

I have 4 windows boxes 5 linux boxes and 3 macs in the house.

I will not force the children off Roblox I will not buy the children macs. I will not put forth monumental effort for a substandard experience just to get rid of windows.

If roblox gives in to linux with a native app or wine, (or they age out of roblox) I’ll give it a test run with the kids assuming they don’t have another game that requires the same.

I cannot eradicate the last Windows box for work because there are closed things I must occasionally deal with. That said it’s use is around once a week.

I will eventually eradicate my security camera VM, but I need a lot of time to work on frigate.

Yup for work in a multi-national company. Also Zoom fucked me over bad, their client services are just horrid.

Teams vs Meet for the big boys, meet is the lesser of shitshows.

ohh wierd, I def had an ai fame come up on the right, must be some other extension, thanks, i’ll check on it again.