something like this happened to be too circa 2005 and it made me switch to debian; which stayed rocked solid until 2016 when the motherboard died.

what’s ESO?

google suggests it’s elder scrolls online, but i’ve never heard this before

then you’re in luck because it’s old news. (circa 2016 iirc).

tldr: they decided to pull away active development on some foss projects because they conflicted with their profit motive.

it’s easy to appreciate why a for-profit company would want to protect its revenue stream and it would seem that the waters would get really murky when their products rely on free and open sourced work; but i know from personal experience that much bigger fish like google and oracle have made it work REALLY well for themselves and in much better fashion (atleast publicly) than system76 has.

i was going to argue that there’s no way that it was ten years ago before i realized that the tropico i liked was released 11 years ago. lol

afterall: 1999 was only 15 years ago too. lol

yes and not the way you’re probably thinking: the last windows rig had a dedicated nvidia card (i forget which) while the linux rig had a cheapo integrated intel gpu and the intel gpu it performed MUCH better like i described.

it could also have been the maturity of the nvidia driver back then, but then again it was the same game on both machines so it wasn’t that far apart in age-wise.

one possibly expensive way to find out is to add an expensive cooling solution to it to see if it stays active.

happens to me on random websites and it wakes me tf up when i’m surfing just before bed. lol

this was so surprising to me; my favorite game (tropico) didn’t have blinking tiles/polygons on my linux rig than it did on windows.

it was super strange because i put linux on my old windows laptop and it also got the blinking; but the game got better when i bought a linux-only laptop with zero proprietary stuff on it (not even the bios). go figure.

this is one of the reasons why i’ve only purchased systemd w libre/coreboot

i’m aware that it doesn’t completely mitigate it; but it’s the only viable step in the right direction of choices that we’re allowed to have.

i sometimes wish i could go back to buying american, but the likes of system76 have already made their allegiances clear.

i used to have an old brother laser printer that lasted for almost 15 years and the replacement that i got lasted less than 2; it makes me wonder if it was intentional.

the newest device on that list is 5 years old. is this project still active?

are you aware of any articles/documentation that can make a noob aware of how these projects compare to each other?

i’m going to eos on a nothing phone in the near future, but that’s only because i can find step-by-step documentation with exact hardware and eos version on how to do so thanks to Lemmy.

that’s for sure and especially so that the american gov’t is now controlling who can and cannot join the linux kernel developer’s group; it’s easy to see them expend a tiny bit more energy to add people to the watch list

there needs to be a LinuxDays here in the united states.

if you’re into hacky workarounds like i am; you can use an android as a trackpad.

my home server was also multimedia center as well as one point running kodi & plex and i setup x11vnc on it and an old android phone to act as trackpad so that i can channel surf with the phone that was already in my hand.

I put mandrake on it and used the machine for another 6 years; one of the best buys I ever made.

i used to have one of these and it was the first time i went with linux fulltime.

i was an employee of fry’s electronics so i got a discount with it as well. lol

EDIT: mine didn’t come with speakers, but that keyboard made me feel nostalgic. and speaking of penny pinching: fry’s never updated their sales/inventory system past msdos 6.22

It was nowhere close to be mature enough to be in the kernel. The developer is nowhere close to be mature enough to be involved in the kernel

what independently verifiable condition(s) will satisfy these requirements?

i wish i understood why people use those apps to browse lemmy. i used to think that they were pointless, but watching them drive up the userbase numbers up for .world and .ee made it seem like i must be missing something so i tried all of the ones i could find and the experience was the same for me as it is with a browser.

i use zsh on my work macs and now i’m thinking of doing so too on my linux machines because of this lady’s videos.

i’ve been using bash for 20+ years and my work macs keep reminding me that the transition is going to have hiccups because bash has become muscle memory for me.