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Also genuinely only idiots think it surpasses human intelligence in any way whatsoever.

It’s almost like there is rampant corruption going on or something!!

Windows DNS (I’m sorry)

Lmao. Hey what works for you is what works for you, don’t let naysayers steer you wrong.

It pains me that new achewood is behind a paywall. I understand it, I can’t justify affording it.

Fleet Commander 🚀

• Fleet: More than 10 devices · 21–50 TB
• Motivation: Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Fun / the hobby itself, Customization & full control
• My MVPs: Homepage, homelable.net, healthchecks.io, ntfy.sh, WireGuard

My fleet sounds bigger than it is since theyre all small or older and also small underpowered devices (repurposed laptops, low end chromebox, various pis).

I just finished setting up Komodo because I couldn’t find other alternatives that seemed to fit my needs. I didn’t see Arcane amongst those ones I researched. Neat, thanks.

I’m accepting that I’m becoming a little of a pointy head boss here.

Dilbert fans are almost always as big of losers as Scott Adams was.

Scott Adams once made a sockpuppet account on MetaFilter to make positive comments about himself, got outed almost immediately, then claimed that was always his goal. What a fucking loser.

lmao, that actually made me laugh

Once again, this isn’t a bug thread, this is literally me, talking about an issue with the Linux community, which was ignored in favor of… all my complaints.

If you guys can’t wrap your mind around that I don’t know what to tell you. I didn’t need help, I know there’s not currently a solution for me. I need people to not be asshats and assuming I must be doing it wrong because I have a problem to begin with… because it couldn’t possibly be Linux that has an edge case! No, it’s the users who are wrong!

Fucking jackasses.

Look, you have zero attempt at self reflection here, this conversation is over. You made an assumption that the user was at fault and were wrong. Eat it. We aren’t in a fucking bug thread with my logs. Developers got no fucking social skills.

I’m sorry you made an ass out of yourself for making an assumption.

The thing is, Grandma won’t know what the fuck is going on or what DCC/CI even is. Grandma is poor and using pieced together old systems and shitty old monitors.

I’m not looking for a solution, I’m looking for people like you to stop making ass assumptions and get off your high fucking horse assuming the user must be at fault.

I like to explain it as Windows and Mac spend their time babying the users and making things easy for them, it takes away your agency.

Linux demands your agency because you are in full control no one is there to hold your hand, no one to stop you from doing something stupid.

Windows demands very little, Linux demands a lot of attention and care and consideration.

Hey look, it’s one of the folks I’m talking about:

I’m assuming you’re trying to turn your monitor off while there is still an active HDMI signal for some reason? Otherwise why wouldn’t you just let the monitor put itself to sleep when it detects no signal like everyone else I know?

Nah, I’m trying to let the monitors put themselves to sleep, genius. That’s what’s not working. There shouldn’t still be an active HDMI signal. Disabling DCC/CI doesn’t fix the problem, either, it just goes back to the monitors not actually ever shutting off, just turning off for a moment and then coming back on, with plasmashell crashing instead of the power monitor. I don’t care at all about controlling monitor brightness with DCC/CI but when the defaults cause crashes that’s an issue.

This is an out-of-the-box fresh install with no old dotfiles moved, complete refresh. These were the defaults I was given. Deciding to set your monitors to power down after 10 mins of inactivity shouldn’t be causing crashes. i shouldn’t have to manually turn my monitors off or do hacky shit with xscreensaver to get it working in fucking wayland just to not have monitor burn-in

If you really want me too I can go digging for my downvoted comments from six months ago where all I was doing was politely cautioning people against thinking Linux is a cure-all, I can go find it for you. There were numerous people in that thread all claiming as much. “It’s easier than Windows now!!!” yeah, sure.

Biggest. Oof. Possible.

Hats off for this poor soul.

That’s really only enough power for some small devices like a Router/Modem and maybe a Pi-Hole or two.

For something that runs my desktop for 10 mins before power-down it’s about $200, bare mimum.

As someone whose monthly income is about double $200, I’d say that’s pretty damn expensive.

God, I know they’re expensive but uninterruptible power supplies often really pay for themselves.

Also-also, it works fine via USB

Oh I mean I can live with that.

Another pain in the ass for me — connecting dualsense controller via bluetooth. It connects, then just disconnects. There a workaround that includes fetching it’s ID via terminal, then using commands to connect and entrust that device. After that it connects fine. Until you need to reconnect it, that is, cause it stops being recognized. Apparently that was fixed like, a year ago. Yeah, right.

Well uhh, guess there go my plans to eventually get a dualshock controller…

I mean, I’m not trying to be dismissive of the hard work the devs do at all.

My real issue is with the endless “It’s easier than Windows now lolz!” I’ve literally been browbeaten and downvoted I don’t know how many fucking times by asshats PROMISING me that problems like this don’t fucking exist and it’s FINE to load up Linux for fucking Grandma. Oh so when the power subsystem keeps crashing and Grandma doesn’t know how to send an error report, it’s just fine?

The issue isn’t the lack of solution, the issue is Linux afficianodos acting like real problems like these are bullshit and it’s child’s play to make the jump from Windows/macOS to Linux.

And it’s not! Linux is demands more of you! It doesn’t baby you or do it for you. The last ten years have been nothing but research and figuring shit out. Windows and mac treat users like babies and Linux treats users like adults and it’s not an easy transition for a lot of folks. Windows takes away your agency, Linux demands your agency.

Sorry for the rant, I just want people to recognize Linux still has it’s quirks and that’s fine but acting like it’s for everyone is a fucking joke and a crock of shit.