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And I have some container updates to test!

2nd for alpine, it’s what I use for my wg

If you’re gonna use use the ogg container, you might as well use the newer opus compression.

I do, but only for work. There are certain tasks you can’t do easily with just api calls.

“Ghost”… That brought back memories, thank you.

Good story. And boy, I’m jealous of your first time, I wish I could go back, in a way. Keep going, it gets better.

You just went on about how easy nix is to configure, then about adding bluetooth devices, then jumped to installing ableton on windows.

Op specified they are a musician using a studio distro for studio tasks. You didn’t address any of that.

I get that you’re impressed with nix and want to share, and nothing wrong with that. But let’s at least stay on topic.

Completely dodged the question to crow about nix. I’m 90% convinced nix users are the new “arch BTW” users.

That is now in question after Google has decided to close android development.

I ran Xubuntu on a 2011 macbookpro I upgraded to 8gb RAM and an ssd. It runs fine, but it’s no longer good as a daily driver because the architecture doesn’t support decoding basic video codecs we take for granted to watch youtube and so on.

So it will work, but you may find web-based stuff will make the cpu spike to 90%.

I suppose you’re right.

That’s just part of being an adult? Pick one. If you don’t like it, pick a different one next time.

Live your life, ffs. Why does this need to be explained?

It’s fine.

Every Linux user goes through this, because the freedom means choice, and choice means lots of options.

Sad, but true. I have Linux on a surface pro 6. I got to know the new gnome after not using it since 2012. It’s pretty awful.

Not really.

Move the bar up top, add a dock. Macos.

We’ve been “almost there” for 10 years. Ampere was supposed to come in scaled-down versions for laptops and workstations, but we never saw those.

I do trust Apple more than Google

You shouldn’t. Neither of them give a sh*t about you.

The road isnt really paved, everyone took their own path. You have to commit to your arm64 hw platform.

There are quite a few arm64 laptops, hybrid tablets, even towers. But I can’t predictably decide which one I want because hardware specs and drivers for arm64 are almost all different, which is the same problem with riscV getting more adoption.

However, the work of giving owners more options for Linux on arm64 is good, just like the surface Linux kernel for ms surface products.

Agreed, you absolutely can find similar complaints about search engines, and there were similar fools back then who relied wholesale on search results and nothing further.

I’m looking for people who can problem-solve, not just click-click-next use tools. When search engines made life easier, the folks who didn’t try anything past searching google just didn’t advance in tech fields if they couldn’t get it done. The people I’m talking about now are walking into jobs that require thinking while literally proclaiming that they let something else do the thinking for them.

What am I supposed to do with a tech who can’t get past an ansible deployment because he couldn’t figure out how to find and use the ansible wiki? As I plainly said, it’s not the technology, it’s the culture.

Your “boomer” take on this isn’t valid because I’m also getting the AI-bro talk from idiots my age as well.

Last, I’d like to point out that you don’t know what gatekeeping means. Maybe chatgpt can help you.

I’m in my 50s, I’ve been in IT professionally for 30 years, using Linux for 25 of those.

I hate AI.

I don’t hate the technology, but I hate the culture of “ez learning” and the marketing. Literally people who have no clue about technology openly saying “wanna bet?” when I say it doesn’t always have the right answers.

Sure, 19 of 20 chatgpt answers are great, but that 20th answer is dangerously wrong. Like, wreck your infrastructure wrong.

I also hate what it’s doing to young minds the most, though: the 20 something techs I hire will lean on AI so hard, they have no sense of what to do if the answer isn’t forthcoming, just ¯\(ツ)/¯.

AI is killing problem-solving.

Edit: I’m distinguishing AI from ML here, which I do use as a pattern recognition tool.