The problem with using those debloat tools is that Windows will quietly re-enable things with Windows Update.

Nuke windows, use Linux, post your problems in the Linux community and we’ll get you operational.

Yup, I’m using a 3080 with no problems.

It sucked with gamescope, but with GE-Proton10, we can use Wayland for HDR, like Linus intended.

See xkcd, press upvote

For reference, those letters are just short for, respectively

address
address add
route add

Almost certainly this.

Type nmcli, if it does anything but complain that it can’t find that command, you have NetworkManager installed

Random Archwiki tip: If you use duckduckgo you can preface a search with !arch or !aw to search the Archwiki

There’s a bunch of other !bangs: https://duckduckgo.com/bangs?c=Tech&q=linux

This is a lovely sheet of paper…

There’s a project working on making CUDA work on all (read: AMD) graphics cards. It’s alpha-level, but the progress makes it look promising.

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/a-project-to-bring-cuda-to-non-nvidia-gpus-is-making-major-progress-zluda-update-now-has-two-full-time-developers-working-on-32-bit-physx-support-and-llms-amongst-other-things

e: Tom’s Hardware links are half the size of the article 😂

I do agree with a lot of what you’re saying.

Linux has historically been a space for tech people and so the default assumption is that the user is competent (jokes aside…) and capable of understanding technical writing.

So, naturally, if a person asks a question which is answered in the documentation then they’re reminded that the answers exist already in the expected places and asking other people to do your own research for you rude.

The Linux demographic is shifting and we need to adjust, but cultural norms change slowly.

and they’re looking for friendly alternatives.

I think that this is part of the trap that keeps people stuck in the spyware/enshittification market.

Technology is complicated.

Try to imagine, from a technical point of view, how complex it is to run a service like Netflix. There are a lot of highly trained people designing, managing and maintaining the various systems to run the service that lets a user touch a picture on their phone screen to see a movie.

The user has an easy, friendly experience but that’s only because Netflix handles all of the complexity. This seems like a good deal initially. I mean, $10 $12 $15 $19.99/mo is a good price to pay to not have to know how to do all of that.

But, now the user is completely dependent on service providers to stand between them and the complexity of technology so they never have a chance to learn because they never see how anything works.

This Faustian bargain is what lets these companies continue to spy on people and jack up the price of services while offering less service. Where are the users going to go?

Linux and the open source community offer a different bargain. You have to learn how to do things for yourself, but now you have actual meaningful choices about how you use technology and a community of people who are trying to solve the same problems as you.

Sure, it isn’t as easy. But easy isn’t free, and I’m tired of paying what they want to charge.

Up until now, we’ve been hiding it in wikis and books, where we know nobody will look. 😂

There are some user friendly distributions, but even they will be uncomfortable and frustrating to use when you’re new.

Having to relearn how to use a computer is daunting for people. It’s a lot easier to just touch an app and have the instant gratification.

The point of all of these apps and services is to get people dependent on them so that they’re unwilling to leave because the alternative requires effort. I don’t know that Linux, as a whole, can ever be that user friendly. But, eventually some people will be tired of being squeezed for cash and spyed on just to save a few weeks of reading and learning.

There’s a learning curve, sure.

There was one for Windows too, but most people don’t remember the hundreds of hours of learning that they’ve done to become competent users of Windows.

Just jump in, don’t dual boot. Having no option of giving up and booting Windows makes you motivated to learn how to use Linux.

There’s a community of people who will help (while also sometimes being insufferable assholes) and the skills you learn will be more durable. You’re not going to see Linux 11 come along and mandate that you buy a new computer or anything.

It’s like people are just now noticing that they have zero ability to control their own digital lives because they traded it all away in order to not have to take the time to learn how to do things for themselves.

Unless there is some Black Mirror type built in privacy block of people showing up as glitched out avatars if they haven’t opted in.

It looks like you’ve thought of an idea to solve the problem that you stated.

Ah yes, that’s the link

Syncthing is great.

That reminds me, I should donate them some money. They’ve saved me untold amounts of money and headache from dealing with cloud services.

I’m not saying use technology to extend a person’s biological memory. I’m saying use technology to keep a record of a person’s life (obviously I know the privacy implications of doing this in actual practice in the year 2025, which is why I prefaced my comment with “In a techno utopia”).

You, personally, will still forget things and be capable of nostalgia.

I think it’s pretty uncontroversial to say that people like to have pictures. They collect pictures of vacations that they enjoyed, pictures of their children when they were X age, pictures of dead relatives and pictures of themselves with friends. Because people enjoy revisiting memories. When video cameras became more ubiquitous, people took videos of vacations they enjoyed, videos of their children’s first steps, videos of themselves. There are entire markets for services which let you store and retrieve every picture that you’ve ever taken.

At the same time everyone has a story where they wish they had recorded some event. For example, a baby’s first steps that a spouse missed because they were at work or some unexpected spectacular event. Or even mundane things like ‘Where did I leave my phone?’. Having the ability to keep a record of memories, in video or in some hypothetical full-sensory recording, of every moment is something that people would be interested in.

Compare this to prompting your local AI with “give me a perfect list of songs from my childhood”.

Perhaps this is just a matter of taste, because I would absolutely do this.

Yeah, my high school had a computer lab donated by Cisco to teach their CCNA course. There were like 2 students taking the class and 25 PCs, so we setup one to run WinMX, Kazaa and eDonkey.

They all had CD-RW drives. We were minting music and movie CDs (divx encoded SD movies were under 650MB so they would fit on a CD), and selling them on campus for $3-5. You could get a 100 blank cd-rs for around $40, so it was very profitable.

I remember, that was a dramatic change.

Also, most people now dont remember this, but YouTube was initially popular because their flash video player was efficient, worked acrossed many different system configurations and browsers and dynamically changed resolution to match your connection.

At that point you had some people with broadband connections and a lot more with dial-up. So often dial-up users would not be able to watch videos because they were only available in one resolution.

YT had 144p (or less!) videos ready for dial-up users and higher resolution videos for broadband users and it automatically picked the appropriate video for the client. This made it so most people (dial-up users) would look to YT first, because you knew that YT would have a video that you could actually watch.

Then Google bought them.

Given that a lot of people communicate via social media, that record already exists but we don’t have access to it most of it.

I communicate with a lot of my friends via IMs and so there’s a perfect history of our conversations in the chat logs. It is useful to be able to search to find a previous conversation. I’m not a masochist so I don’t go back and dwell on arguments or things said in anger.

There are people with medical conditions that would benefit from having an augmented memory. People with early Alzheimer’s, or Traumatic Brain Injury could recall previous conversations confidently.

People with high functioning autism could use the record to handle social confusion. Often they’ll have difficulty in social situations without understanding what went wrong, so their memory of the encounter will be incomplete/unreliable. Having an objective record could let a trusted third party help them learn/understand what happened.

I could imagine people wouldn’t mind leaving their memories to their children after they die. Or victims/witnesses of crime using their augmented memory to accurately identify the perpetrator.

Sure, I can easily think of downsides as well. But, it does seem likely that these kinds of devices that are always recording will become more common as prices for storage and hardware keep dropping.