BS. Apple cameras are not top of the line, no matter what the company or salespeople tell you. I have a Sony phone (bought specifically for the camera) and a pair of Canon cameras. The Sony phone makes a better image anytime post 8PM. Apples sensors suck compared to both.

Look, I'm no fan, but if CReimer one day puts a bullet in his mouth, y'all are to blame. He is different, he doesn't "suck" objectively. And he gets nicer by the day, but still we don't leave him alone. talk about low hanging fruit. Everyone who doesn't have anything real to say shits on him by default. For not killing himself yet: he's my hero. Y'all are evil.

Except you can't expect humans to read a TOS (or even to be able to) that is written by a machine OR A MACHINE LIKE PERSON. We're not only not robots, but most of us don't resemble one. Stop thinking like a machine. I know it's difficult, but just do it - for all of our sakes.

Encryption is still hard to hack - not hard to implement. "User issues" are not that at all, except to the most incompetent interface designers. Users aren't stupid, they're human, and all the methods weve implemented are meant to negate that humanness. If one can't see that the issue 90% of the time is programmer error, that person is probably a fine computer programmer, but a terrible human one. Program for people. All problems solved.

This is trivial with filesystems that snapshot, and only slightly more difficult without. Until very recently I used ext4 on root and rsynced to central network backup once a day. Worked great. The A/B is in the fact that Linux isn't tied to hardware. Now I use btrfs for root and my systems are set up to snapshot before any upgrade procedure both in the root and userspace. I had my homeassistant VM fail to boot a week ago (as I only have 128kb internet and the host machine crashed during an extra slow and long update). I noticed that my VM host was bored at 7am, had both the host and guest fixed in about an hour. Sure, I think A/B upgrades are super clever, but I also invented my own workflow that achieves that functionality without any special knowledge: the extent of my programming experience stops at bash scripts. Seems like once again Leonarrt is reinventing the already working, although I do not understand the hate for pulseaudio - it works now even though I don't use it. My primary craft is music production, and I've always found it super easy to systemctl disable pulseaudio, then use JACK audio and a manual start of pulse to bridge to Jack. I wonder if people have forgotten that modern software emulates hardware - once one knows this, workflow follows easily, even for a know-little evangelist like myself.

Off-topic: F*** slashdot and this "anonymous posting has been turned off" stuff. I wouldn't even mind logging it if I had the option to post what I had typed after doing so. Now I'm forced to recreate and re-edit what was otherwise a magnificent piece, and I'm sure that I'm now too irritated by the very notion to be as calm and gentle as I was a moment ago.

But I digress...

It seems like you've chosen the wrong distro. In Ubuntu (or Mint, or the incredibly numerous Ubuntu derivatives), installing proprietary drivers is as easy as doing a desktop search for "additional drivers" and choosing which one you want to use. Then DKMS handles the *module* (different from whole kernel) compilation for you.

Having said that, I and my wife use Nvidia's proprietary drivers on our gaming and multimedia consoles, and they work great (games like No Man's Sky work better under Steam's "Proton", which is a Steam customized version of "WINE", than they do on Windows 10, admittedly largely due to Linux's endless customizability compared to Windows' limited version of the same -- you can only turn off so much on Windows, in Linux, you can turn off the whole dang thing if you're so inclined), but Nouveau drivers (or rather, open source drivers in general) are the only driver capable of teaming multiple cards from different manufacturers together. My primary workstation, which I use mostly for audio design and engineering, needs as much pixel real estate as possible to emulate the look and feel of racks of hardware, effects plugins, and patchbays, and runs an old onboard intel card alongside an (also old) nvidia card on the PCI bus. Both have dual heads attached (1920x1080 primary and 1280x1024 on the nvidia, 1280x720 projector and 1280x1024 on the intel), and I can run 30 FPS on all at the same time with no issues. Can't do the same AT ALL on Windows, much less with everything pegged. And for everyone guffawing at the framerate, bear in mind that when I need high FPS I use another machine, and 30 FPS is more than everyone here is used to seeing on the biggest screens, and I can assure you, when you're just using pixels for knobs to turn, that's plenty faster than our eyes or fingers.

And for my final point, I'll just mention that the people at Disney (Marvel, Pixar, etc.), Universal, Sony, and WB, are definitely not using Windows or macOS. They're using custom Linux workstations with software built by engineers in house like everyone else in tech. Only the very lowest rung of "professionals" are using anything but Linux, and most of even them are on Macs. Professionals in the multimedia content creation industry do not use windows. People who use the OS that came with their inexpensive hardware are the only ones who do. Good for them and good for you, if you or others feel like it's a fair tradeoff to sacrifice performance, bandwidth, and screen real estate in the form of black box services, telemetry, and ads, for a computer that works like a toaster with little to no user input as regards setup or maintenance: enjoy your toast!

Embrace, extend, extinguish will never go away. It's everyone's mantra from Microsoft, to Apple, and even Google who have been so "pro open source". Check out my essay on how to combat this: https://volocian.com/adopt-adapt-abandon/

"sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras" you're welcome :-)

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I realize this may be a bit esoteric, but if one were truly trying to be as selfish as you suggest, wouldn't one want to consider societal benefit their very first consideration? If your entire business model is predicated on sucking resources out of others in order to amass them for yourself, you can't help but follow that logic to its conclusion, which is that you'll be left alone with a bunch of resources and nobody to help you with managing them. Death follows quickly. Basically, what all the world's major religions and philosophies (including both capitalism and socialism) boil down to is simply: what benefits us all benefits us as individuals. The other way around doesn't work no matter how you try to reason it. You're free to go ahead and believe that somehow you're making your own life better by robbing others (which is exactly what you're doing by trying to monetize someone else's work, ever), but simple math would disagree with that belief. Basically, if you're truly selfless, you have to put the needs of society above your own, and if you're truly selfish, you do the same, recognizing that you're a fragile human being and no matter how much money you can make, you cannot make it on your own. To think otherwise is ignorant of the most easily visible circumstance of your own situation: that you seem unable to even make a "profit" without the help of others.