Sounds like a discussion about if someone likes apples or pears

do I still count as 100% asexual even if if I find that stuff funny and make jokes?

If someone is homosexual and laughs about heterosexual jokes, is the person then bisexual? And how many laughs about those jokes are needed, so that the homosexuality gets transformed into bisexuality? And this is comparable to asexuality, what you tell me asexual jokes and I find them funny. It wouldn’t change my sexuality or it wouldn’t change your sexuality if you laugh about sexual jokes. I mean, are asexual people not able to laugh about things they have no interest, like sexuality? Its not like they lost their humor.

Everything is fine with you. If you say, that you are asexual, then you are. Laugh about whatever you want. “Weird” is subjective. And I think there is absolute nothing weird about it :)

Oh yeah! Nothing to do with you, I was just explaining why I am responding in this thread, rather than where you wrote your post.

Ah OK, sometimes my english understanding skills suffer :)

I was just adding on that if it were about the legal requirements, then they would have done it once those requirements came into force.

I understand now. It makes a lot of sense, didnt thought about that. The war is going for two years now, but they decided to do it right now. Should they have pressure from the US government, than it is a bad sign for the open source community. It shows clearly, that the decision making of important projects like the Linux Kernel, can get heavily influenced by them. Not good and choosing the USA as a location is a bad decision and should be avoided in the future.

Torvalds came out and said he hates Russians, I think we should believe him.

I totaly believe him. I guess you can troll him by sending a simple mail like “hello Linus how are you?” with a russian TLD and he will believe it is a top-tier professional russian actor. Tbh he formulated all this in a way like his Finnish ancestry is the reason for this. Some people should not talk or make decisions about things about they don’t know anything.

Linus is a very intelligent person in the field he has talent. Outside of it, especially if it gets combine with his attitude, he as quite a clown.

I have to respond to what @rostselmasch@lemmygrad.ml wrote in Linux for Leftists since I’m banned from there for not bending the knee to liberals. Funny how I got proven right about the CoC, but anyway…

I dont quite understand, but I guess it has nothing to do with my content? Like, I dont remember you and I hope I had nothing done to get you banned from there.

While the legal requirements can be understandable, what can’t be is that it took them 2+ years to act on it (sanctions were in place for a long time).

I know what you mean. With understandable I only mean, that according to Linus there are following what their lawyers are saying. And they also seem to be very quite about it, like the cant speak about it (something like NDA or they have to be carefull). They are still vague and the transparency is bad. Are they pressured or how much is the US government involved in all of this.

Think about it. They’re expecting people to prove they DON’T work for a company. How do you prove something like that? Send them a picture of an empty desk and point to the lack of employment contract? It’s a bullshit requirement that nobody can meet, thus ensuring Russians stay banned.

I really really dont actually know. My guess is that they probably have to provide documents about their place of work. This are personal information and nobody would be happy about this.

My biggest problem is, that everything is vague and still not clear. Its fishy, but there is probably more behind of it and they are hiding it. Either on purpose or, what I think is more possible, because they are somehow not allowed or strongly advised to not say anything.

Well, it is actually kind of “understandable” if you look at this here. It looks more like an advice from there lawyers to go this way. Since Linux Foundation is based in the US, I think this is a way avoid problems with the US government. Contributions are still accepted, but there is need for more more documentation and those ppl. can’t be mentioned in the MAINTAINERS file. In the future the should switch their location to another country, where such compromise is not needed.

BUT! If you want read something pathetic, give Linus a try. So after he talked about being Finnish, not supporting russian aggression (This was never the topic) and everyone is a russian troll, he gets few Questions regarding transparency and that this was the only problem with it.

So Linus Torvalds, an important figure in the world of IT - where only good things can come from continuing to do something he has a talent for - made the mistake of talking about something he has no talent for, but combined it with his appalling attitude. He simply accuses anyone who questions this decision of being a paid actor:

I’m also not going to start discussing legal issues with random internet people who I seriously suspect are paid actors and/or have been riled up by them.

By questioning this decision I mean: Asking for better transparency. Never forget: A person can be a genius in a specific field, but an idiot in anything else.

Honestly I wouldn’t use antivirus software, it is snake oil in my opinion. But if you really think that you need one, then use the standard Windows Antivirus, in think it is called Windows Defender.

For VPN: You can try Mullvad VPN. You can also pay with cash, there is no need to provide any personal information

When chinese maintainers will get removed?

It’s the misleading exclamation mark. If I see this picture, my impression is that kitty works only with issues on Linux

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the death of Hamas leader Jihia Sinwar offered a chance for peace in the Middle East. In a recorded video statement, however, he warned that the war in the Gaza Strip was not yet over and that Israel would continue until the hostages were returned.

OK, war not over. There more right hands of evil somewhere there. Its all about the hostages, if they are back, everything will be reverted back lol

Sorry to hear that. You are not the only one who had to learn it the hard way :/

Usually dmesg should tell you something. If you tried everything you can and the problem is still there, try it on Windows. If it works on Windows, then the gpu should be fine. Then I would try different kernels and maybe also try different drivers.

Of course. I’m not happy about many things, but that doesn’t give me the right to harass somebody.

They are not being harassed, but are being shown in this way that their intentions and behavior are more than just shit

Pointing out something politely is very different from jumping on a bandwagon and spamming an issue, or creating meme issues and meme pull requests. We should be better than that.

Is that really what we want? Anything slightly popular making a misstep to be hounded by an online mob?

This is not a misstep. They just don’t want to hire developers for Winamp and rather try to outsource the work to others for no cost. And then they call it copyleft while forbidding anyone to do anything else with the source code except sending them pull requests. That’s disrespectful, rude and simply shameless. This is fully calculated, not a misstep. If it was just a misstep, then I would agree with you about these meme pull requests and so on. Saying this, I absolutely understand why the receive such “feedback”.

This whole thing sounds more like a way to get some pull requests to fix their product for free. That’s not open source. The source code is simply available, that’s all. In the first run they even prohibited to fork it (!!!) while it is necessary to work on this project. They may fixed it, but you are still not allowed to do anything with it, only provide free work. Of course people are not happy with it.

They should delete this repo and change their license if they want contributors for free. Or just hire programmers for money.

You described a problem you have with an OS you use, which I fix every day at work. No Linux, just Windows. It is the most normal thing, that drivers might not work or the Hardware is faulty. We often have to change something, try different things and you don’t need Linux to tinker around, the Windows environment offers enough opportunity to do so. And your problem sounds like a driver problem or maybe faulty hardware. It has nothing to do with Linux.

You definitely don’t work in IT, otherwise you wouldn’t mentioned printing. Printers are evil beings itself and these fuckers don’t care wich OS you use, they just don’t want to work properly. Hardware supports depends on the kernel. That’s normal, Windows 7 also doesn’t support newest hardware. There is still nothing specific Linux. Regarding UI: KDE Neon is great, try it.

Yeah, Windows has problems. But those arise more typically for advanced users (and that’s including Windows 11 being more and more broken over time).

Would this be true, I probably would need to change my profession.

But until the more boring stuff gets worked out, it’ll still be hard for it to be used more commonly, and thus harder for it to get more funding and usage as well.

Because of your ethernet problem? I understand that you are mad for the problems you have now, but I wouldn’t use your experience with the ethernet NIC as a basis for the question how good all Linux distributions are usuable for everyday work.

Idk, maybe it’s just Debian based distros these days and I’m behind in the curve. Fedora based ones like Bazzite haven’t given me issues so far at least.

Look, drivers get updated or introduced in newer Linux kernels. You could decide which distribution you want to use depending on the kernel. amdgpu got fucked up since a specific release and my RX580 won’t work if it loads, so I am still using an older kernel. In Windows the drivers crashes often sadly. You need to look how well a specific hardware works and then decide which kernel you should use. We always do this on work with Windows and it is really needed, because manufactures sometimes don’t really care about there drivers and compatibility with newer Windows 10 versions or Windows 11.

This is probably also the reason why you got downvoted so much, because you describe a generic, OS independent problem and then you blame Linux kernel for it and all Linux distributions, while you are using a specific distribution named Linux Mint. If you replace Linux with Window in your rant, it would be the same way wrong. But I hope that your problem gets fixed. You are free to describe your problem in specific communities, they probably might find a solution with you together.

How is this a explicit Linux problem?

I am an anti-revisionist Marxist–Leninist and revolutionary communist

Great tautology

Its over, Texas will win soon. Slava Texas, glory to Texas.

Well, thats something I really dont want. Hardware in my brain. How long till zero day exploits for your Hippocampus

Thank you, I will use tankie.tube for this