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This is probably heartless: but if your business was going to to under without massive loans, and you took said loan, well, congrats: the existence of the business which (from the article) can afford to pay it back is only there BECAUSE of the debt.

It's not some boat anchor anyone but the owner undertook, and they did it for a good reason. Does it make your company worth less if you try to sell it? Sure, but how much is a bankrupt and dead company worth, again?

I'm generally NOT a 'the free market will sort it all out' type, but in this case, that feels like the correct thing to let happen.

As someone who's worked in this environment, the providers are screwed either way.

If you do nothing, then a customer is mad that you were not secure enough and they got hacked.

If you do something, then a customer is mad that you've made security changes that break their shit.

At the end of the day, the devops people using this stuff don't understand security, and don't want to understand it. But no matter what the provider does, it's wrong for some segment of their users, so like, it's not that they won't secure it, it's that the feedback is negative as all hell when they do.

I like to think of Windows as the Zelda sidekick of OSes.

Non-stop interrupting what you're doing to tell you something you don't need to know or care about, and constant "HEY LISTEN" nags for all sorts of shit that you either already figured out, knew about, or don't give a shit about.

The amusing thing here is that I forgot all about Tuxedo and System 76.

I would suspect that might be exactly the problem: as far as I know, neither of them advertise at all, or if they do, it's something that's completely forgettable and somewhere that someone who's not deeply involved in Linux is ever going to see it.

You're right that they have the most incentive since they actually sell something you could (theoretically) want to buy, and are probably not living on large enterprise contracts since I don't think I've ever seen hardware from either in the wild.

100% agree. Most Linux users and companies are trying to sell on a list of things Linux doesn't do, or technical features which pretty much absolutely nobody gives a crap about who isn't a tech nerd in the first place.

I was actually thinking of Apple's I'm a Mac/I'm a PC ads as something that could actually probably work, because at this point Windows has shittified itself to the point that even non-technical people I know IRL grumble about it. (I tell them to buy a Mac because I'm absolutely not about to become level 1 Linux desktop support.)

But again, who pays for it, and why? I don't think there's ANY financial incentive for consumer marketing from anyone who makes a distro that can afford an actual ad, because none of them are structured to give a shit about consumer use: it's all enterprise support contracts, and if someone happens to use it on their desktop, cool but not their actual business.

While I know the M word is often seen as bad, I've long thought Linux could benefit from some actual real marketing that's utterly divorced from any nerd shit ;)

As to who in the world would pay for that, I have no idea, but there's a lot of like about Linux if you could get a slick, clean, polished explanation and NOT have some Linux nerdbeard (like, say, myself) try to explain, well, any of it.

Okay, "threatening a catastrophe" might be the most awesome charge I've ever heard of.

I wonder if some of these long dev cycle flops that have happened are because they're long development cycles.

Like, this game may or may not be any good at all, but I would assume the logic was reasonable when they started work on it 8+ years ago.

I wonder if the push for everything having to be RTX-enabled AAAA live service games is kneecapping them, simply because it takes far far too long to make and bring to market.

Or it was just a flaming pile of junk, but I kinda think there's maybe more going on than just that with some of these releases.

Sorry :(

(But seriously that formatting and phrasing was very very AI looking.)

Um, question?

Did an organization which has a sole stated purpose of getting people to write something actually say that requiring someone to actually write something is ableist?

AI isn't writing any more than my dog taking a shit and then scooting her butt around on the carpet is modern art.

Doubtful. They always are optimistic how many people would subscribe, it turns out that nobody subscribes, and then it's either them folding or speed-running enshittification and spying.

ChatGPT, is that you?

A computer I don't like very much, booted into some sort of Linux live environment, and zero network connectivity to anything: physically disabled if at all possible (like I mean a switch, not prying your wifi chipset out or whatever).

I'd still maybe build a modern OpenSSH package.

There's been an awful lot of RCEs in the past two decades and uh, if that's rawdogging the internet, I'm honestly shocked you haven't been hit with any by now.

Well, in 2009 it was what? like .5% of all desktops or something? Can't really go down from there.

I don't disagree the trend is up, I mostly disagree that the number provided is accurate and is likely wildly wrong: it's possible it's wildly low, but I really don't think so.

Anecdata: I know more people in my circles that have switched from running Linux on their computers than to running Linux. Almost 100% of the switchers moved to Mwhatever Macbooks because they got tired of dealing with the shit that is x86 laptop hardware, and Linux use was the casualty of shitty hardware.

The problem is I don't think I believe those numbers represent actual desktop use as an exclusive desktop use platform.

They're just 'someone visited a website with a linux user agent', which could mean an awful lot of things ranging from someone doing automated scraping with a headless chrome, to an actual user, to someone just plain lying about what OS they're using in order to break fingerprinting.

The number goes up and down WAY too much percentage-wise between months for it to be a really good measure of how much linux on the desktop there actually is, as much as I'd like it to be true :/

Comedy NNTP option here.

It's an established, stable, understood and very very thoroughly debugged and tested protocol/server solution that'll run on a potato and has clients for every OS you've ever heard of, and a bunch you haven't.

Setting up your own little mini-network and sharing groups is fairly trivial and it'll happily shove copies of everyone's data to every server that's on the feed.

Just encrypt your shit, post it, and let the software do the rest.

(I mean, if it's good enough to move 200TB of perfectly legitimate Linux ISOs a day, it'll handle however much data you could possibly be backing up.)

Disclaimer: it's not quite that simple, but I mean, it's pretty close to. Also I'm very much a UNIX boomer and am a big fan of the simplest solution that's got the longest tested history over shiny new shit, so just making that bias clear.

Just a configuration option for Frigate, https://docs.frigate.video/configuration/object_detectors/

Other than picking that type, I don't think I had to make any other configuration changes as I was already passing the iGPU through to the container for hardware acceleration.

(As a side note, even with openvino, 4 cameras using the hardware decoding, AND jellyfin transcodes, the iGPU basically sits at 5% usage. The openvino stuff is shockingly efficient.)

8th gen is perfectly fine; it's the same GMA 630 that's in my 10850k which is doing 4 cameras without even breaking a sweat.

If you can use the openvino stuff, you can skip the coral.

I actually saw a performance improvement moving from the coral to the openvino/iGPU, amusingly enough.