We also had machines and computers based on relays and other electro mechanical devices earlier than even vacuum tubes. If you follow Technology Connections he breaks down the inner workings of a pinball machine using that technology, but programmable machines have also been made with it.
Ubuntu is bad, that’s why you are having stability issues. Stop using it.
Also it’s dead easy to recover a Linux installation that has snapshots. Just boot the previous snapshot and go. Also could just use an immutable Linux if not breaking things is your main concern.
So why is it manual cars are disappearing if it is the better way to drive? Well a few reaons: While easy to drive, it is hard to learn, and there is alot to learn, don’t ride the clutch, how to start moving on a hill, how to start smooth, you have to constantly be changing gears in traffic, more prone to bad shifts, the car requires more attention, ect, ect.
Then why does most of the world use manuals? Automatics are mainly a thing in the land of bald eagles and school shootings. Across the rest of the world the manual is still more popular. The fact that so many people can only drive automatic tells me that maybe some of those people shouldn’t be on the road, and that maybe Americans are too dumb to drive real cars.
We live in a reality where Linux is more popular, just not on the desktop. Most smartphones run Linux, and do most smart appliances, servers, and embedded devices. So no Linux isn’t harder to use, desktop distributions not run by giant corporations are harder to use for some ineffable reason. Really Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Debian and so on all need to take a page out of Linux Mint, Chrome OS, and so on and become more user friendly.
I am sorry but you aren’t good at tech stuff if you are having these issues. It’s common knowledge that macOS and Windows don’t use the same file system, why would you assume Linux is any different? macOS meanwhile can’t write to Windows partitions at all by default. Windows can’t even read Linux ones. Linux is actually the good guy here, it can read and write to Windows partitions, and even read macOS ones I believe.
Backing up all your stuff before formatting or reinstalling is common practice. You tried to get away from that by using multiple drives without actually thinking through the consequences.
Also using Fat32 is a terrible idea. Use ExFAT, or better yet just use a real Linux file system and be done with it. Honestly you could have stuck with NTFS and it would work better than trying to use FAT32.
This is like amateur hour for running servers.
Up until this point your arguments sort of made sense. You do tend to run into more issues on Linux than Windows, primarily because of the lack of support from third parties but sometimes because of Linux distro shenanigans too, and the community is kind of toxic. But my god this last couple comments reframe it all. Your trying to do things beyond your understanding then blaming Linux when they go wrong. By the sounds of it you aren’t even running RAID or have any kind of data integrity/bit rot protection.
Android and ChromeOS are also immutable, this isn’t just a trend. Stop being insufferable. You don’t have to go to using immutable OSes, using something sensible and stable with snapshotting would work just fine. Like OpenSUSE, or Fedora. Setting snapshots up on Debian I think is more work but still doable.
Also the reason I am recommending you move away from Ubuntu is because of what Canonical has done. I actually was a fan of earlier versions of Ubuntu, even Unity.
Fedora, Arch, Void, and other distros with newer kernels have less issues with new hardware. By not using the latest hardware I mean hardware that’s been out a year or two. Not stuff that’s ancient. You probably won’t have any issues with the latest CPUs and GPUs on say Arch or Fedora, but it can be an issue for things like WiFi cards or on distros like Debian, Linux Mint, and Ubuntu.
Okay you have lost me. How does prompt engineering make communication skills more important? More importantly what do real world communication skills actually have to do with learning shakespeare or any of the other stuff I did in secondary school English.
What if charging your phone took less time than brushing your teeth? A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences could very well hold the key to a next-gen charger capable of recharging your phone in just 60 seconds....
Depending on what battery protection modes are in play, many have smart charging or other features designed to prolong life. Also a fair few batteries come out with greater than design capacity from the factory. It’s called a design capacity and not an absolute capacity for a reason. A phone battery that left the factory at 110% could conceivably still be at or above 100%.
Fyi it’s not overnight charging that’s the issue either, it’s charging to 100%. What one device consider 100% varies and devices will essentially lie to you about it. 4.2V is normally considered 100% full for Lithium Cobalt Oxide batteries yet some devices push higher than this while others skirt under to pad capacity and cycle life respectively. It’s about tradeoffs.
Why not hybrid or plain ICE vehicles powered by biofuels? Even things like waste vegetable oil can be turned into viable fuel, and it can actually be less environmentally destructive than getting rid of it in other ways. ICE technology is very mature, and we currently produce more food than we need and waste much of it. Why not put it all to some use?
Pretty much any fat could be used in compression ignition engines with the right treatment, any carbohydrates turned into ethanol for spark ignition engines, and all waste wood burned for electric power and domestic heating.
I didn’t say anything about thorium. Not all molten salt reactors are thorium though. In fact not all high temperature reactors are molten salt either. People keep mixing these technologies up.
I am looking for a way to play HDR content on Linux. From what I understand KDE 6 has experimental support for HDR, but isn’t available on Pop OS 22.04. Apparently Cosmic desktop will support HDR when it’s released, but I don’t know if the experimental version will....
I tried manjaro Linux on a live USB and it didn’t work. I specifically used manjaro because it’s an easy way to get Nvidia drivers on a live system, yes I know it has issues. I doubt Arch would be any better in terms of HDR support.
Can you just follow the instructions from this page and change the package from KDE plasma to KDE 6?
How would you do this? I don’t think that’s actually possible but if you know a way lmk.
I heard that Manjaro has greatly diverged from Arch over the last couple of years. Someone said EOS, which I think stands for Evolution Operating System is closer to Arch now, but I haven’t actually looked into it so idk how accurate that is. Arch takes more work to get set up than Pop does though, just FYI if you’re considering it. It doesn’t come with anything by default, unless you use a script to install.
You’re talking to someone who used to be an Arch user. It’s nothing actually specific to arch, it’s an initiative by KDE. People link to arch wiki because the wiki is a good source, and also because arch has more up to date packages than pretty much everything else.
Sorry, I don’t actually know how to do it. I was wondering if you can use the instructions on that page but change the package name to the latest package name. That would definitely install it, but I don’t think it will work. Based on what I read after commenting, Ubuntu LTS doesn’t have the required dependencies, and Pop is based on Ubuntu LTS. It should be available in the next version though.
Is it actually a different package name? That’s not how these types of things normally work. Either the new version is in the repos or it isn’t. The package name doesn’t container the version number either, it’s just kde-standard. I believe KDE 6 isn’t in the standard Ubuntu repos at all, even for 24.04, which is newer than the one Pop OS is based on. It seems you have to use KDE Neon to get 6 on an Ubuntu based system.
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Play HDR movie on Linux
I am looking for a way to play HDR content on Linux. From what I understand KDE 6 has experimental support for HDR, but isn’t available on Pop OS 22.04. Apparently Cosmic desktop will support HDR when it’s released, but I don’t know if the experimental version will....