There’s actually quite a lot we can do about it, and not only does that materially help our situation, it also reduces the feeling of helplessness and despair dramatically, and you’ll likely meet some friends along the way.

Here’s a handy guide on how to get involved in that sort of stuff.

I’d also highly recommend Full Spectrum Resistance to anyone who wants further info on how to resist (audiobook version here).

I definitely had a few blue screens with XP over the years, maybe once every 5 or 6 months?

7 was super stable on my hardware, I’ve probably had about the same amount of blue screens on that as I did on Windows 10, maybe about 4 or 5 from what I can recall. The bigger issue I had back then was AMD’s GPU drivers were insanely unstable at that point, resulting in constant green screen crashes from youtube videos.

At least for me, blue screens haven’t been too much of an issue, especially since after they reboot, everything is still working as normal. That’s in contrast to Windows 11’s bugs introduced from updates, which often introduce a new persistent problem that a user either has to actively troubleshoot to resolve, or cannot resolve on their own, leaving them to wait until Microsoft pushes out a fix.

Examples of that being:

• KB5077181 breaking Blutooth and causing Samsung devices to lose the ability to access the C: drive
• KB5085516, preventing users from resizing or moving windows, which itself was supposed to be a fix for KB5079473
• Microsoft themselves admitting that multiple major core features were broken for months

I personally consider the severity and frequency of these issues appearing in Windows 11 to be fairly unprecedented in the history of Windows, which happens to coincide with the QA team being fired.

(I didn’t downvote you, btw).

I think a majority of people would consider needing to disable multiple parts of the default installed system to not encounter potentially breaking bugs to be a pretty big indicator that the platform is not as stable as it used to be.

Personally, I never had to disable anything, perform any specific actions, or disable a particular part of Windows XP, Window 7, or Windows 10 LTSC to achieve a very stable system, and new updates generally didn’t introduce any bugs either since MS had a pretty big QA team.

There are now regularly reports of major or critical components of a windows system failing or even becoming unbootable due to updates or bugs in new features in Windows 11, which is very much a change from the norm.

It is likely these bugs are being introduced far more frequently due to MS laying off the majority of their QA team, and instead relying on regular users to report bugs after they have already been shipped.

Not unless you use AI, which encourages water and energy waste that contributes to climate change.

You could try reading the video transcript if you prefer not to watch it. You can access it by clicking on the ‘In This Video’ button to the right of the play and volume buttons on the video itself.

That’s kinda his trademark, actually. He often combines it with a heavy dose of sardonic humor.

Anarchists and Libertarian used to be synonymous, since Libertarian was a way to talk about Anarchism without being persecuted. Later in the US Proprietarians coopted the term Libertarian, and later even Anarchism by claiming to be ‘Anarcho-Capitalists’.

A person who believes that an authoritarian state is righteous and justified as long as it calls itself communist (even if it’s not), examples being the USSR, North Korea, China, and oddly the current capitalist Russian federation. You can find a more in-depth answer here.

I can’t say that I’ve done a purposefully slow jog. I tend to push myself to where I become out of breath and then need to walk to catch it (which is kinda easy for me to do, and may be related to having asthma as a kid, but not entirely sure), so that could be why. A friend gave me a fitness band a while back that can display bpm, I’ll try using it next time to see what happens if I maintain that 133bpm range. Thanks for the suggestion! :D

Honestly deserved since they union busted so hard recently.

FYI, Pixelorama is sold on Steam as a source of revenue like Krita does, but it’s open-source and free to Linux users on Flathub or from their Itch.io page. It’s a great app on par with asesprite.

My opinion is that painting with such a broad brush that anyone who simply jogs in the woods is performing a selfish act and unable to appreciate nature the correct way is an elitist claim, as it doesn’t allow for people who do deeply respect and appreciate nature, but who may also enjoy exercising among it, or for people who experience nature differently from the way you do.

You seem to have an absolute viewpoint that there is objectively only one correct way of experiencing nature. No one is stopping you from making that argument, but you are not entitled to everyone agreeing with that viewpoint and how it is presented.

I just don’t like when people pretend they aren’t taking drugs when they are.

There are many people who do not appear to experience ‘runners high’. I am one of those people, I have never experienced any noticeable pleasant side-effects from exercise itself, just a rather unpleasant burning sensation in my lungs. Regardless, I still ride my bike or jog to maintain my health, and I vastly prefer doing so amongst nature if I can.

you are framing this conversation in a way that if I criticize a broad cultural movement centered around the outdoors for being shallow this necessarily means I think I am superior.

Claiming the way an entire subset of other people experience nature is inferior and shallow compared to yours is kinda the definition of a sense of superiority, yeah.

I have no problem criticizing people who litter in nature, or destroy it in some way, but putting every jogger into the same box, with disregard to the variability of those people’s respect and appreciation of nature just due to the way they personally enjoy it? Yuck.

By saying jogging through nature is inherently selfish compared to walking through it. I’d also say you pretty clearly look down upon those who like to exercise in nature based on your other comments here, and your framing of people doing it for ‘the drug chemicals’.

You say you’re not bashing them, but I’m not sure that defense works since you’re kind’ve framing a different way of experiencing nature as inherently inferior and ‘selfish’ compared to your preferred way, instead of framing it as two equally valid ways to experience it (as long as it doesn’t hurt the local ecology, or leave any litter).

The overall vibe I get is a sense of elitism that only your own preferred slower way of taking in nature and pondering it is the truly valid way of experiencing it. But that’s just my 2 cents.

I am saying it is fundamentally selfish and is a different pursuit than trying to actually connect with, observe and know nature by listening instead of pressing your body to its physical limit just to prove you can and get those sweet exercise drug chemicals going in your brain.

That really comes off as extremely elitist, IMO.

Unfortunately he decided to test both hardware and software. The comments pointed out that testing Linux on a pi was sandbagging it, but he responded he wanted to test the cheapest options. Apparently he will try Linux on an older workstation laptop he has, but I wish he’d done that from the start, as people may suspect Linux is buggy due to the ARM version of Reaper crashing.

The kernel update issue on Android is going to be exactly the same for PostmarketOS and for the exact same reason: proprietary firmwares and/or drivers.

That is not the case, as PostmarketOS uses community made open-source drivers, even for the GPU, and all devices that it supports uses the mainline kernel, as all of the drivers they develop are upstreamed to mainline, instead of it being a proprietary driver that is locked to a specific kernel.

The open-source drivers aren’t currently as polished as the proprietary ones, but as we’ve seen the open-source AMD driver for desktop, it can become the best option with community effort and funding.

and now you need to maintain both a GNU/systemd/Linux AND a compatibility layer with Android

The point of adopting Postmarket is that they could then rely on the open-source community to help with maintaining most of of the components, much like how Linux desktop or Linux Server works currently. Waydroid is developed by its own team, so they wouldn’t need to fork that and maintain it to have access to Android apps (though they could help contribute to it if they wanted to).

From a security and privacy standpoint, Linux was never designed to handle hostile apps designed to aquire as much data as possible. Android has a sandboxing system

Android is Linux at the core, yet it was able to be hardened, which shows that PostmarketOS could be similarly hardened if such features were adequately funded and developed by the EU. Linux already has Wayland, which is a huge step forward for security, and Flatpak packages already have Android-like permissions built in (though they would need to modify how those work by default to increase security).

I’m not entirely sure if that would be better than just adopting PostmarketOS, since forking AOSP would mean maintaining a fork of that entire ecosystem, and I’m unsure how they would deal with all the phone manufacturers dropping support for phones rather quickly, or using outdated kernels to access GPU and hardware drivers for said phones after the manufacturer drops support.

Investing in PostmarketOS instead would bring with it much less stuff to fork, along with access to the mainline linux kernel (instead of outdated Android ones) that use open-source GPU drivers that can be effectively maintained, and it can support Android compatibility with a compatibility layer, Waydroid.

A polished PostmarketOS ecosystem only seems to offer advantages compared to a forked AOSP, so if they’re choosing which to invest in, Postmarket seems like the clear winner.

Graphene is good, though it’s still pretty reliant upon Google not making life even harder for them, which it has been doing consistently.

A safer long-term option that is detached from Google’s whims entirely is PostmarketOS, which isn’t based on Android at all, but is instead a project based on Linux directly.

They apparently had a pretty big negative stigma in the audio production world as just that; a toy for un-serious amateurs, or only useful for making beats or loops, instead of as a more general DAW for other genres.

A DAW will want hardware access and wine hardware drivers don’t really exist

I’ve read in the past that some DAWs like FL Studio run quite well in Wine, but I’ve never tried it myself. I agree that it’s best just to use a native Linux DAW.