There are also fully electric, battery powered, full-on, full-size motorcycles, like those by Zero.
There are also … I don’t even know what you call these, mini-bikes? Mini-motorcycles?
Like the Honda Grom:
https://powersports.honda.com/motorcycle/minimoto/grom
Which, as you can see, are pretty dang close to the same size as some E-Bikes.
Which one is street legal, where?
What exactly is each of these things categorized as, legally, colloquially?
… who the fuck knows!, basically.
Holy shit, this fucking guy.
Holy shit you need to calm down.
It wouldn’t be. In fact, it would be a lot safer, because there are more eyes on the code. You have to control the code integration authorization process obviously.
Uh.
No.
If you fully open source an entire payment processor app, a competent coder can rather rapidly figure out how to reverse engineer its security mechanisms and then develop exploits and then do fraud and identity theft and money laundering.
Sure, there is ‘open source banking/finance’ as a movement to open source and standardize various APIs to increase integration of certain segments of banking, but… you can’t have a fully open source financial system that goes all the way through all of its security and accounts and such, 100% of it, unless you switch everything over to some kind of crypto currency.
… which has a lot of its own complications and problems.
Okay, I demand it. What now?
Well that’s a very silly thing to say, which further showcases that you don’t really understand the things you are complaining about / frustrated with.
Well, I have 13 out of 15 games that do not work on Proton, Proton Hotfix and Proton Experimental. And none of them are multiplayer or rootkits.
Which ones?
Whats your hardware?
What even is your actual OS/system setup?
Maybe we could try to troubleshoot them, instead of screaming?
But of course you’re the center of the universe, so all you say must be right and universal, my lord? It’s impossible for other people to have a different experience and problems with the system, righ
I didn’t say any of that, but ok.
See, this is exactly the kind of “IT WAS YOU, MY PROGRAM IS FLAWLESS!”-behaviour of linux users that I was referencing. You’re incompetent, ignorant people who can’t admit if there is a problem with a program. The bug is/was listed on the project page by the way, but of course you were too fucking lazy to check.
I again didn’t say that.
I said I’ve never had a problem with it, I have not encountered the problem you encountered.
You maybe wanna … link to bug?
There are lots of programs with lots of ongoing or closed issues and bugs with lots of software.
I can’t tell whats going on with your setup and your problem because you’re sceaming like a lunatic.
Well, that doesn’t mean it’s not happening, you incompetent hack. Someone can have a motor failure or a flat tire on his car, while your car still runs fine. Doesn’t mean that’s the driver’s/user’s fault.
So again, chill the fuck out, I never said its not happening or didn’t happen.
Realize that you’re angry and confused and enraged and lashing out at people making neutral statements, because you’re attributing meaning to them that is not present.
Like, you’re the reason why IT support people have PTSD.
You just said you only use Bazzite. So how would you fucking know whether it works on Linux Mint or not?
No, I didn’t.
I said I am using Bazzite right now.
I’ve been using some kind or another of linux for almost 15 years.
I am by no means an absolute expert on all things linux, but I do have a fair deal of general linux knowledge as well as more specific knowledge with the linux distros and applications I’ve spent more time using.
I just asked you to actually identify, describe the things that you want to be able to do, that you think are only doable on either Mint or Bazzite.
Maybe there legitimately are some things that are much easier or more difficult to do on one or the other!
I don’t know which though, because you are again, extremely hostile, confused, and screaming like a madman.
Yeah, I’ve heard that “just a few clicks” bit a bit too often from linux users now. I don’t want an extra Windows environment.
… ok… then… don’t expect to be able to run too much Windows programs/features/content on linux.
You realize that WINE or Proton… are windows environments, on linux, right?
I want the program to fucking work natively.
Badically no .exe or .msi or Windows specific program will run on linux natively.
You… have to set up a windows environment, a set of translation layers, like WINE and Proton or the Soda variant that Bottles uses… to do that.
That you’re emphasizing the “proprietary” part just shows how fucking salty you are that it’s not integrated into LibreOffice.
No… I am emphasizing that because it is a highly relevant factor in explaining why/how open source software legally cannot freely bundle and distribute other kinds of code that they don’t have the IP/Copyright/Patent/Trademark rights to.
I’m sorry, but my law firm uses that font and that’s how it is. They’re good fonts. Not everything you don’t like is bad.
Evidently your law firm doesn’t do much work around software IP law.
I also never said the fonts were bad, you just made that up.
Like… yes, what you are describing here, not having out of the box support, in LibreOffice, to open a .docx file and have all the supported fonts, yep, that is a legitimate problem for apparently your intended use case.
Generally, in an office/productivity context, its a good idea to make sure all the stuff you are going to be using frequently is compatible with each other… before you make a significant change over to a different program for a core part of the workflow.
People get paid 6 or 7 figures to determine the best way to go about doing that… I guess you just thought that such due dilligence wasn’t a relevant factor for your personal situation.
I would attempt to find a solution for you, but you’ve already said that it needs to just work natively, or its worthless, and I’m not aware of any solutions to your scenario that just work natively, given the other preferences and constraints you’ve indicated.
But the linux desktop environment doesn’t offer the same native functionality and comfort that I need to switch my main pcs to this OS.
They do, but you’re confused and uniformed and very angry, and:
I don’t wanna deal with the problems.
You do not want to have to humble yourself and realize how much fundamental, core ‘knowledge’ you have that is either wrong or missing.
And to be honest: I don’t want to deal with people like you who blame every problem with the system or programs on the user. Keep seething. I will switch when I think the time is right.
… Yes… I am the seething one here.
Not the extremely the extremely hostile and confused person.
For a person who works in a law firm, you’re shockingly bad at communication and image management.
I see any use of GenAI as support and endorsement of the technology, and I see the technology as a systemic attack on creative work by real people.
I mean personally, I do as well.
But… it’s Pandora’s box.
You can’t uninvent it, basically.
We could theoretically limit or heavily regulate its further development, but again realistically, with how much money and power tech corporations have, how much influence they have over lawmakers…
… unless you’re gonna go find an ‘AI’ datacenter and put salt or sulfuric acid or something into the cooling loops, no you probably can’t really do much to effectively impede it.
I do block dedicated GenAI communities, but it’s more widespread than that, showing up in unrelated comms, being used to generate community icons and banners.
I’ve also seen a bit of this, and I also find it annoying… though 99% of the time that I see something like this, its some kind of like cryptobro, when lambo, diamond hands, type person.
I don’t know that it like, stems or comes from GenAI comms on db0.
but IIRC the host of db0 is supportive of GenAI, which is what I primarily referred to, and what steers the direction the instance is taking.
Well I don’t know precisely what db0’s (the admin) exact stance on GenAI is, but I do know that db0 the instance and community has a highly involved and active goverance model for instance rules and associations. There are fairly often major discussions and votes on a good deal of issues… as opposed to many other instances that basically just come down to the whims of the admin + a clique of powermods.
db0 themself has done more than any other instance admin I am aware of to make it so that if the community itself opposes their own personal opinion, they’ll adopt the community’s opinion and simply be an executor/facilitator of it.
… says the one week old account that only exists to pick fights and do nothing other than argue ideology.
Come on buddy, its possible to say something and reference an example of a controversial/touchy topic, as an example of being a controversial/touchy topic, without wanting to engage in that controversy.
sigh
I’m not going to have this discussion, again.
I’m tired.
Thank you for proving my point that some .ml users get very very touchy about these two topics.
Oh dear god.
Welp, I tried.
But at this point I’m convinced that the Windows implementation of secureboot just basically is a direct to FBI/NSA/CIA backdoor/wiretap so uh…
Like, come on.
What other software just regularly directly rewrites the BIOS/UEFI when you try to fight it? Or just, when a Windows update happens?
Its a bootkit, as far as I’m concerned.
Yeah that’s a bit of a tough problem to crack, lol.
Great head admin, good variety of local communities, great users?
Debian is a rock solid choice.
I dock mine, hook it up to a TV.
I run a local LLM on it.
I do modelling/animating in Blender.
I do game dev in Godot.
I do video editing in ShotCut.
I do image manipulation in Krita, mostly.
I do these things far more often than I actually just play games on it.
Lol yeah.
I mean, I run Bazzite on my mine, but yeah, SteamDecks run SteamOS by default… which is linux.
Run a webbrowser inside of a Windows environment, on Linux?
WINE/Proton?
SteamOS is open source.
Proton is open source.
Steam the game platform is closed source.
Hopefully it is obvious why open sourcing a payment processing application with tens of millions of user and bank accounts tied into it would be highly problematic.
You might as well be demanding PayPal or Epic Games Store to be open source.
There are 0 games I have that do not work on Proton.
This is because I don’t play games with rootkits.
You may have heard these referred to as ‘Kernel Level Anticheats’.
They’re rootkits, and nearly every single major anti-cheat system that exists has at least one game where its been made to work with/on linux.
All game devs that say its too hard or impossible to make AC work on linux are incompetent or lying.
I have absolutely no idea how you managed to screw up Waterfox, I’ve been using it for like a year + with 0 problems.
I’ve never encountered any behavior from it like what you describe as a default setting.
I have never had to write any code to get … I don’t think any version of linux I’ve ever used, to work, as an OS.
… what… specifically, is the ‘functionality’ of both Linux Mint and Bazzite that you apparently only get out of one or the other?
Like genuinely, what does that even mean?
I play games on Bazzite, and I’ve also compiled 03DE from scratch on Bazzite, I tinker around in Godot and Blender and various other dev tool type things regularly.
It is entirely possible to work and play on either Linux Mint or Bazzite.
With LibreOffice, yeah, you don’t get all of the proprietary Windows fonts directly out of the box, but uh, Bottles is a neat flatpak that rapidly sets up a Windows environment, with a GUI, and its a few clicks to add the ‘all fonts’ dependency, snd then voila, you have your proprietary fonts.
What you almost certainly are is a jaded Windows poweruser who expects non Windows operating systems to function and be tweaked and follow the same paradigms as Windows.
They don’t.
They are different operating systems.
They work differently.
Applying your Windows based intuition will lead you to break things.
Whole lotta MacOS recommendations here, so I’m gonna say:
Bazzite.
… you can actually play games on it, and its an OS too!
More technically:
Its a Linux distro, an atomic version of Fedora, with many tweaks and pre built in utilities to make gaming work better and more easily.
If you have no idea what that means, it means that its fairly cutting edge but also very stable version of linux, where the core OS yells at you if you try to muck with it, and highly encourages you to use the various sandboxed containers it helps you use you run all sorts of applications.
The simple version of the above is: Just use the app store, Bazaar, and things will pretty much ‘just work’.
You can do more intense / power user / expert type stuff if you like, and it does take a few extra steps compared to just like, straight Fedora or Debian, but, Bazzite is much, much more noob friendly and much harder to break.
I mean, I’m an ‘anarkiddie’ according to actual tankies, but I don’t broadly discriminate against .ml users, most of them are great!
… but, a lot of .ml powermods do things like declare the Xi Poohbear meme to be inherently racist, even though it was literally created by Chinese netizens.
Or, god help you if you attempt to discuss the Holodomor.
You can do what I do and just block the genAI art comms.
No harm, no foul, I just am not interested in the content.
While I can’t say for certain, I would strongly suspect that a lot of the people in those comms are self hosting their LLMs/Image generators, if that makes you feel any better.
But uh, there are a variety of nuanced stances on LLMs and such, amongst the other m@teys I’ve talked with.
Its… not like we’re all super duper no holds barred put AI in everything advocates.
A lot of us are… quite a lot closer to ‘Butlerian Jihad NOW’, lol.
Zip is awesome! I switched over to db0, but simply because of a technical glitch on .zip like a year ago now, which was rapidly fixed by the admin… and I was too impatient to withstand not being able to post, lol.
A+ instance imo.
Populations of animals tend to either naturally maintain an equillibrium with their surrounding environment…
… or grow their population beyond the carrying capacity of their environment, and then rather suddenly collapse, sometimes even going extinct.
Wait wait wait.
So, analogously…
What would JIT compiler style code be?
… oh no.
I think it would basically be a co-dependent sycophant with no personality beyond pleasing you.
Ah you beat me to it!
Yep.
This is the real reason that an open source printer would get a ton of pushback… it would make it so that law enforcement agencies can’t use the detailed, near invisible, functional serial numbers that snitch on all their users.