Yes, I do. I'm a devops engineer and even "coding camp devs" have problems understanding what I do for a living.

Flatpak is not the answer here. For example, flatpak version of codium doesn't recognise terminal settings out of the box. Since such trivial thing is a problem, image how difficult it would be to use it with various file systems, sync options, etc.

If it's a motivation issue, you will need to figure it out on your own. I could give you some advice but motivation depends on a specific use case. If you want I can share what motivates me but there's no guarantee it will work for you.

As for getting back on a tech horse, there's a trick I've been using every time I was learning a new thing and it worked every single time. I start with a project idea. I write down the major goals I want to achieve and start working on it. At first I do the "quick start" adjusted to fit my project. It usually ends up with a working proof of concept and a list of things I don't know/understand. Next, I learn about the those unknowns and update the project with what I have learned. This raises more unknowns which leads to more things to learn about. After few iterations, when I'm happy about the project, I start a new, more complex project. And so on.

This is the scene and the title seems familiar. Thanks!

Lol, those kids will more stupid than home schooled covid kids.

Thanks for reminding me, there's also " supporting" linux community...

Are your specific issues a reason normal users shouldnt use Linux? No

I cannot agree. Most of the users would be upset about bluetooth dropping connection or constant issues after running updates.

Your comment is a perfect Linux answer - it works on my computer :) And I don't mean it as an insult. The problem here is that Linux, despite of all its advantages, is not for a global consumer.

I think, you should keep these two things (messing with containers accessing GPU and “just play a game”) separate. I mean on separate boxes. Because now you can’t “just play” because you’ve been elbows deep in OS internals. You can’t take apart your fridge and then expect it to just cool the water the next day

I agree, that's a valid point. But, I had a clean system, prepared for a normal user (clean install, official repositories, etc. And still GPU drivers refusded to work. I have covered all basics before I asked for help and even I got some good advice that worked, I ended up in the same place.

Then I’m guessing these might need some KDE envs

True, but sill for a regular user it looks like "Linux is ugly"

Ah, you’re trying to breach the non-open wall. Is there an app on i* that allows you to set up an ftp/http file sharing server on the device? You probably could set it up as rclone upstream

I know too well the unbreakable apple garden. And I don't mind tinkering with it but again, we are at the regular user level, that wants things just to work.

Privacy means that no one can see your data, and only you can decide who can see it. Anonymity means that everyone can see your data but no one can match you with the data.

As for the question, yes, I would more than happy when people could understand the risk of giving up the privacy. But I'm afraid that not many people would understand the message carried by those books.

Start with Gentoo or Arch (maybe Slackware). These are close to the grass, so the way to set things up is the way to fix things up

I've tried Mint, openSUSE, Debian, Gentoo and Arch but I had other, non-regular user issues with those. I wanted to point out the standard issues.

are these gtk based apps? Different toolsets require different envs

Some were GTK based other were "optimised" for KDE

Have you tried syncthing?

Yes, I use it on a daily basis but there's no easy way to get it working on iOS/iPadOS.

As I wrote, I did the clean install. Even if I didn't do a thing with it, it would still break. As it did couple days ago.

As I said, I did a clean install and still all Steam games were failing on directx issue. Also, a "regular" user when switching to Linux will have to know what a GPU driver is in order to use it, event if it's just for playing games. And the cherry on top - once I fixed the directx issue and I was able to play a game I wanted, the drivers update broke it. And despite spending days on fixing the issue, I got back to a square one.

In a perfect world, data collected by companies would be used to improve user experience. But we don't live a perfect world and nowadays if a company doesn't provide yearly income from investment it goes under. And to keep the numbers up, companies screw its users.

Nice catch! I just checked the blog post about WireGuard on Linux and found this

Yes. WireGuard is fully integrated into our apps ..... This includes ..... kill switch, permanent kill switch (Windows) .....

It looks like kill switch doesn't work with WireGuard on Linux or has a UI glitch.

Ok, but why? And to be clear, I'm not against what you wrote, just wondering about people's motives.

Don't want to be a devil's advocate here but nowadays it's left-wing weirdos that use publicly available data to cancel people they don't agree with. Let's keep personal political views out of this discussion.

As for the first paragraph, I vaguely remember reading about this. And this is a great example.

I use SMS and good old phone calls. You would be surprised how much people freak up when you call them. For work I use Slack, sometimes Teams. And on rare occasions, Messenger to talk to some family members.

edit Forgot about emails. I use it for more planned communications.

Funny thing, yesterday there was an update for nvidia drivers. I was stupid enough to install it and now I have the same directx error as before. I'm done with gaming on Linux.

__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia

This worked. I haven't checked the bios yet. If there's an option to disable integrated graphics I will use it. For now I will just use the vars.

Why don't more people use Linux?

Because Linux breaks randomly, in many cases without user interaction. New driver update - external monitor stops working, games break, etc. Official desktop widgets - tend to break without any reason. Apps don't follow desktop theme.

I'm a software engineer and I work a lot and I want to spend my free time using OS, not fixing it. After my recent issues with graphic drivers I decided to buy a Windows PC just for gaming. I will stick with Linux for my home server and work.

Yeah, I think I messed it up :) Now my system starts in cli mode. Well, I wanted to nuke everything anyway so no harm done.

edit

I was able to switch to gui but still no luck with the gpu.

You might be right. I have a feeling that when I blacklisted nouveau rest of the stuff got deleted from this line. I'll give it a try.

bat /etc/default/grub

───────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
       │ File: /etc/default/grub
───────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
   1   │ GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
   2   │ GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)"
   3   │ GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
   4   │ GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true
   5   │ GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="console"
   6   │ GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rhgb quiet rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau"
   7   │ GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"
   8   │ GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true
───────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

I did all those things before I asked a question.

::: spoiler modinfo nvidia

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parm:           NVreg_DeviceFileGID:int
parm:           NVreg_DeviceFileMode:int
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parm:           NVreg_UsePageAttributeTable:int
parm:           NVreg_EnablePCIeGen3:int
parm:           NVreg_EnableMSI:int
parm:           NVreg_TCEBypassMode:int
parm:           NVreg_EnableStreamMemOPs:int
parm:           NVreg_RestrictProfilingToAdminUsers:int
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parm:           NVreg_EnableS0ixPowerManagement:int
parm:           NVreg_S0ixPowerManagementVideoMemoryThreshold:int
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parm:           NVreg_DynamicPowerManagementVideoMemoryThreshold:int
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parm:           NVreg_EnableGpuFirmwareLogs:int
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parm:           NVreg_KMallocHeapMaxSize:int
parm:           NVreg_VMallocHeapMaxSize:int
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parm:           NVreg_TemporaryFilePath:charp
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:::

Already did that. Didn't help.

It didn't work. At this point I'm considering nuking the whole thing and start with the fresh system. If it won't work I will buy a Windows PC just for gaming.

Start with a full sized Raspberry Pi. You will be able to use regular python to do stuff. When you're comfortable enough with it, move to Raspberry Pi Pico and MicroPython. From there jump to Arduino. You will still be able to use MicroPython but eventually you will end up with using C.

Also you should get some knowledge on basic electronics. The deeper you get, the more hardware related things you will need to deal with.

I guess I'm not the target of this ad because I prefer to "measure twice, cut once" aka plan more, do less.

No need to duplicate my comment - https://lemmy.world/comment/12073034

I don't have a response to share but I always lose my mind when I see AWS error messages, especially when using bazillion layers like CDK for Terraform, executed from the shell script that runs a python script in the CI/CD pipeline.

One of the issues I will never forget was the debugging of permission issue. Dev reported an issue, something like "cannot access the SQS queue from a recently deployed script". The error message was like "cannot access the queue due to missing policy in assumed role" (or something similar). So, I have checked the python script and related policies - all good. Next I've moved to a shell script, still no luck. After that I went through the CDK files, no issues. I was about to involve the AWS support when it turned out that the queue name has been changed manually in the AWS console. AWS, instead of point out that the queue is missing, raised an error about missing access permissions...

TikTok is not the problem. The problem is "I have nothing to hide" mindset. People don't care about privacy because "ignorance is bliss". Some people are just not aware about risks of giving up on privacy and other put continence over privacy. Until the general perception of privacy changes, apps like TikTok will thrive.

Installing drivers manually was the last resort. Before that I did the sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia.

Sorry about that, I forgot to add more details. I have updated my post.

Same, I always use vpn and no issues so far.

None, you should appreciate people in your life on a daily basis and not because some holiday tells you to do so.

I never had issues posting on Lemmy when using vpn. If Lemmy starts blocking my vpn I will stop using Lemmy.

Raspberry Pi + plasma big screen and you can make your own Linux TV box

Every machine is a smoke machine if you operate it wrong enough.

And my favorite: If you're good at something, never do it for free.