My latest game of #warhammer40k was insanely fun! Took another Ork Dread Mob list, with a Stompa, against Tyranids, and it ended on a perfect draw, 75 VP each.
What matters is that a Killa Kan exploded and took out a Pyrovore, which exploded and killed a Neurotyrant that was on 1HP, and then the Stompa with 1HP charged a Hive Tyrant, killed it, then the tyrant exploded in death, killing the Stompa, which exploded and thus killed my Mek, a Deff Dread, plus DeathLeaper, and a BroodLord. Awesome!
I'm doing another one of my little surveys, this time to see which parts of using #Linux on the desktop are the most problematic, and the various issues people are having.
I'll make a video on these results next week, and depending on the answers, maybe I'll make more videos on specific issues, either to explain these topics, or to see how we could improve.
So, here is the form, feel free to fill it out and share it around, so we have as many answers as possible!
@thelinuxEXP@tlenewspodcast hello
for firefox data collection feature, maybe it is far fetched, but I think that it is a sign Mozilla is getting away from privacy, at least with their browser
& for France, it just doesn't come as a surprise, for example try to open YT Aljazeera live without anything, no VPN, no Proxy, no nothing...
I do not live in the EU but that's what EU people who came to tunisia said, also, when in tunisia, browsing yt with a German VPN, Arabic news channels don't open
In this one, we have #Firefox adding some data collection (but it's fine, IMO), we have a ton of stuff happening around AI, and it's still an absolute nightmare, we have the Linux Kernel 6.9 (nice), and #France banning #TikTok in one of its territories, which alarmed a bunch of human rights / freedom associations:
@thelinuxEXP In defense of debian maintainer - i believe it's rational and good move (i mean default settings for keepassxc).
On my system, i have keepassxc (since i'm using this) compiled with no browser support, network support, autotype and other "crap" as he perfectly named.
"users" could learn how to compile packages with features they want.
This doesn't restricts any freedom, they just changed to better defaults.
If 'user' wants to take a risk, then that user should be on his own ... but seriously, that change was rational and good. If someone doesn't need security then... go ahead?
No one cares.
About tiktok, i don't use it and i do not provide data to China.
@sourcerer well, one would think that the point of a package is to avoid the burden of compiling for users. If your package makes 3/4 users compile something, youโve kinda failed at packaging.
I also think that a password manager without browser support is pretty freaking usueless for most people, so, I guess we disagree on this :)
Fantastic game of #warhammer40k this afternoon! I won with my Orks, 71 to 56, against some nasty Salamanders, with the Dread Mob detachment (without a Stompa this time).
Awesome moments included me missing 10 shots hitting on 4+ with my Meka Dread, all my Meganobz and Big Mek dying to one round of Hellblaster shooting even with 4+ invulnerable saves, 2 vehicles also exploded, which is always fun, and my gretchin were massacred by a flyer in one volley, which is also always fun ๐
@thelinuxEXP I can understand that, they might get a little repeating quickly.
I recently started to eye the Tau. I don't know much about their lore but the models are really cool. Tho I should first finish my minis. :skull_cross:
In this one, #Nvidia plans to use their open source drivers as the default, we have more details about @system76 Cosmic Desktop,a nasty attack vector that can bypass your #VPN without you knowing, plus #Valve contributing to Nvidia drivers now!
Ah yes, I see itโs time for the people in shorts to kick the ball again, as hundreds of people who have seemingly lost all politeness and semblance of being human beings shout, scream, and ยซ sing ยป in the streets and take up every single cm of the walkways with their cars.
I canโt wait to move so Iโm no longer close to the f**king stadium. I hate football and football supporters so much, it turns into irrational anger.
@4g10w Never could quite understand why so many people liked watching this stuff, and got so into it.
Then again, Iโm a grown man making videos about computer stuff and I spend my free time painting plastic miniatures, so maybe Iโm not in the best place to judge ๐
I realized that I never explained the various differences between all the different #Linux kernel variants, and since my Patrons and YouTube members voted for me to cover that topic, here we are!
Iโll go over what the real time, low latency, TKG, Zen, Liquorix, XanMod, Libre, LTS, or hardened kernels are, and which one you should pick!
@bargoderea That would require live patching the kernel, Ubuntu offers such a service, a regular sponsor of the channel, TuxCare, also does, although Iโm pretty sure they donโt support Arch based systems!
@thelinuxEXP unfortunately, guess I am stuck with rebooting every month max, unless you can show me a git repo of such a tool so I can compile it myself, that shouldn't be hard, or does it?
Well, my #warhammer40k game didnโt go well, as I tried out a dumb Dread Mob list with a Stompa! Sisters of Battle wrecked the poor thing with multi meltas, and did the same to my Gorkanaut in the same turn.
Losing half my army in one turn left me struggling, we finished the game on 53 to 75. I drew horrendous secondaries that I could never score, and my poor Ork boyz got slaughtered by the Triumph of Saint Katherine. Still, insanely fun game, and the Stompa exploding caused a lot of damage!
@kopio@stallmer Yeah, I used to be very annoyed when I lost to one of my friends who always brings ultra competitive lists, and also plays really well, but nowadays I donโt care as much.
I wonโt do secondary objectives that I donโt like or wouldnโt fit the narrative I want to build, and if it means I lose, Iโm ok with it!
@thelinuxEXP Excellent video, Nick. Other ideas VP Monsieur Corpobull may also consider:
>Reserving highest CPU, RAM and IO speeds to subscribers only
>Full screen 30 sec video advert on log-in (without option to suppress)
>Disableware - Pay to unlock features already built-in (Like car manufacturers do with heated seats now)
>Ransomware โ Pay monthly if you don't want us to syphon your data
>Sponsored UI themes & Icon Packs โ Rolex clock in task tray, Bose speaker icon, FedEx mail icon
@bargoderea@tlenewspodcast The issue is, these ROMs didnโt support the phones that were suitable for the other criteria :)
It was either good hardware with bad software, or mediocre hardware with the software I wanted.
In the end, the iPhone worked better. I still look around regularly to see if the situation has evolved, and when comes time to change phones, Iโll probably move to a FairPhone.
@thelinuxEXP@tlenewspodcast still, an iPhone, I guess it is different on the EU but in tunisia, the cheapest supported one (which is old enough) costs at least 4K TND so anyone like me who loves Apple products but has a medium-high income must look at all sides on android phones (for an iPhone, one needs to have a veeeery high income because of side spending and taxes.... Etc) so you can certainly find what you need, you just need a connaisseur on the subject, not me
Time for this week's #Linux and #OpenSource News video!
In this one, we have the law forcing #TikTok to sell or be banned in the US being passed, we have an article explaining why #Google Search is so much worse these days, we have the release of #Fedora 40 and #Ubuntu 24.04, and #Nvidia contributing to the NVK open source drivers:
@thelinuxEXP I must admit that where I grew up had me surprised by the accurate pronunciation of Arthur Huilletโs name in the Nvidia story, expecting something more along the lines of โArr*-thurr Hwill-lett.โ ๐
*(Like a pirate.)