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Realtek is basically on every retail motherboard manufacturer. Gigabyte, Asus, MSI, Biostar, ASRock, etc. If you're talking about hi-end or server grade motherboards, yeah, but let's face it, the chips are cheap so they're practically in every household.

They're still waiting to be mainstreamed into the kernel. The process of integrating drivers into the kernel is complicated. Coding practices of the coder that wrote the driver play a large part in that. Buggy or badly written code will not get accepted. Not all of these drivers have the code quality that is required in order to be merged with the kernel.

The real problem is catering to manufacturers demanding to have their own bespoke driver pack, often including some stupid branded management application, when it's just the same as the other dozen manufacturers packaging of the same product. Then you end up with bloated "driver packs" and a system tray of a half dozen vendors screaming for you to pay attention to them and know that they are somehow contributing to your experience.

This is exactly why I use driverpacks in Windows (3rd party, like SDI). If the drivers are not in the pack, I download them from the manufacturer and if they're packed with an app, I just extract the whole thing and point Windows (through manual driver update) to search for the drivers in that location. It will install only what it needs to work, nothing else.

they still sold their devices, but the users that were oblivious suffered

Or they did know, but the copy was a lot cheaper than the real thing. Hell, I've done it. If it does the same thing, why buy the more expensive thingie. I get IP rights and all that, but seriously, in the end, you just have to deal with these things. Unless you're Intel, you should expect your device/chip to end up being copied. China doesn't enforce western world IP laws, so it's a "free for all" kind of a thing there. If you plan on doing this (making your own device/chip), your device/chip better be niche enough so it's not viable to actually copy the design. Otherwise, copies will pop up left and right.

Maybe write him a PM, I don't think he reads posts that much, lol 😂. And just for the hosting, not coding the bot. He's way too busy with AI Horde and other projects.

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There could be months or years between updates to the driver.

Yes, but someone still has to implement that "a thing or two" in it every few years.

Some manufacturers have great first-party Linux support. Intel is a good example - they contribute a lot of code to the kernel, and their drivers are maintained by employees.

Agreed. But, to be honest, most aren't. Just take a look at Realtek. There's bound to be at least one chip made by them on your board (in most cases, two, LAN and audio, two very crucial pieces of hardware).

Are you doing a bit? Why is a salt filled washing machine tub needed for grounding?

More active surface in touch with the soil, better conductivity. The salt increases conductivity. Once it starts transferring some of it to the sourrounding soil, the conductivity will be even better.

You can literally buy a grounding rod on Amazon for like $20 with a cord to connect to whatever you need. Just buy one of those and run the cable out the window. It has a handle, it pulls out of the ground when you’re done, and you can clean it off and put it away. No permanent installation required.

I was talking about a permanent solution, not a temporary one.

Oh, OK, I think I get it, we have a place like that in jokes over here as well, except it's made up 😂.

Lol 🤣🤣🤣

Lol 🤣... yeah, he likes it 🤣...he starts falling slow motion to the ground to evade the attack and pick up something bigger from the neverending imaginary aresenal 🤣.

What's the deal with Nebraska? Are people from there like really polite and helpful?

Android warns you every step of the way if you do stuff the manufacturer and Google don't advise (basically, anything that doesn't come from the PlayStore or messing with services and permissions). If you're an average Joe, certainly you're not gonna do those things. Manually installing apps not in the PlayStore requires you to first find those apps, which is not something your average Joe will do. Messing with permissons or services, again, regular users wouldn't even know where to find those settings or what they mean, let alone know what bypassing those will do... and you get warned all the way through the process. Even if you accidentaly tap on something, if it's an advanced setting, it will awarn you, and you have a countdown before you can tap Yes or tick the "I agree" box or whatever. Certainly a regular user will understand that this is not something to be messed with, so it will not choose to bypass those settings.

I know what you mean... I've made shitty choices most of my life... but, things are what they are, have a family now as well and you can't just give up on that.

But, still... as you I sometimes wonder what things would have been like if I didn't make my current life choices.

Yeah, I know, that's why the kernel with the drivers is not more than 150MB. Otherwise, you'd have the Windows situation where driverpacks compressed with 7z (LZMA2, solid archive, 273 word dictionary size and 2GB decompression memory, which requires about 128GB of RAM to compress) take about 30GB.

You have to pack the driver from each manufacturer because of signatures, even though they might even be the same with other drivers in the pack... but, REV differs and oh well, the driver installer doesn't recognize that driver as a valid one for that device.

Tell him what I proposed in the comment above. It's not expensive at all and works great (have done it in a few houses).

This is what was told to me by an old-timer electrician.

You dig a hole, 2m x 2m x 1.5m (or as deep as you can dig with a shovel). You take the load cylinder from an old washing machine. Weld a rod to that thing (on the side of the cylinder, not the middle). Make the welds good cuz that thing will go under ground and the elements will eat through it in a matter of years if it's not welded correctly. Put the cylinder with the rod in the ground. Make a mixture of about 3 to 5kg of salt with soil (depending on the size of the cylinder and the type of soil) and fill the cylinder up with that. Put the rest of the dirt in the hole. Voila, a grounding solution that will last at least 50 years (or at least that's what he told me).

not allowed to drive a grounding rod into the ground, etc...

What 🤨... how so?

It's mind boggling just thinking that things like this depend on the effort of one or two guys... while on the other hand, it's not so uncommon that a team of engineers and developers fails to deliver a working (mostly) bugfree product.

I think management is who is responsible for the shitty decisions, as always... and, in general, just holding the team back.

Damn... now that's a wholesome moment 🥹.

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