Hmm, I don’t have any experience with USB speakers. I wonder if it’s using a standard driver or a custom one.

Snaps, and things like it, are really the only one I can blame on “Linux” (or at least Linux distributions).

I’ve had annoying headaches with drivers for 20+ years, but I expect that because Linux just doesn’t have enough users for most companies to bother making sure they have working drivers for Linux. I’ve been annoyed when some software or some tool or process isn’t as polished as the Windows version. But, mostly that’s something I got for free thanks to someone donating their time and effort, so I don’t want to complain about that.

But, I hate it when a major Linux distribution decides they’re going to ignore the standard way of doing things and only do things in their unique way. It often seems like one vendor / distributor is trying to build a walled garden and lock people in. It’s similarly annoying when vendors try to funnel people towards their “enterprise” version by making it harder to install certain apps that are “enterprisey”.

I get that it’s hard to make money selling Linux distributions. But, that’s what you signed up for. You don’t get to start behaving like Microsoft because it turns out to be hard to sell open source / free software.

Is it a bluetooth issue itself, or an issue with the drivers for that particular bluetooth hardware. Imperfect drivers has always been an issue under Linux, and will remain an issue as long as Windows has over 90% market share.

Is it your display driver that’s freezing? I’ve never had issues with one thing freezing the PC. The only time I’ve had it seem like that was the case was when it was the nVidia drivers that were having issues. But, that situation is much better than on Windows because I was able to SSH into the machine and everything seemed normal over an SSH connection. It meant I could shut things down gracefully and then eventually do a clean reboot. Meanwhile, the screen still looked as if the computer was locked up.

That’s weird. What kind of speakers do you have? Ye Olde Fashioned analog speakers tend to be hardwired for left and right. Of course, you can flip that in software, but unless you’ve touched that setting it should just work.

“pa-per”?

True Names (1981), Software (1982), Neuromancer (1984), Hardwired (1986), Wetware (1988)

Cyberpunk is lowlife and high tech. It’s completely dystopian. The early 1980s was the height of the Cold War with Reagan in power. People were not optimistic about the future in the 1980s, they were just hoping that it wouldn’t end in a nuclear war.

$11b worth of goods and services sounds like a lot, except that there are at least 1 million people locked up. Even if they don’t have to pay the prisoners for their labour, the cost of keeping them locked up is much, much higher than the value of any labour they perform.

I’d guess 99.9% of Android users have only ever used the Google Play store.

That reminds me of this awesome video

Apparently Dortmund did their own version more recently, and they did it with a whole stadium full of Dortmund supporters present.

Yes, but they can get away with a tiny amount of it

Not really. Developers have forgotten how to write small, efficient code. Everything is a web page these days, and so the bare minimum app is a web browser, and a web browser is huge.

I’ve come to terms with the fact I’m not going to be buying any new computer-type devices until the bubble pops.

I’m just terrified what happens if one of my existing devices breaks. If a RAM stick goes bad, I might have to mortgage my non-existent house.

Even those contain RAM.

are there enough people like that to make the “having sex with children party” win the elections?

The GOP? It seems like it.

What’s wrong with that?

It depends on what they did. Maybe they want to make insulting the king legal, that might be a good thing. Maybe they want to make sex with children legal…

In that case, thank you for your service. I, for one, find overly perfumed people to be just as bad as people with bad BO. I’ve had to cross the street when I was outside because someone walking in front of me was leaving a cloud of perfume stench in her wake.

On the other hand, any country that allows its prisoners to vote has a constituency that wants to decriminalize what ever it was that they did.

Not to mention, that arresting is not imprisonment. Merely being arrested doesn’t put you in prison, you need to be convicted first. When cops can easily follow orders from the top to arrest people with the wrong skin colour, getting people arrested is easy. But, with a decent system of courts, it’s a lot harder to convict them.

Look, I get that the context is about political prisoners. But, really, if the system is so corrupted that people are being convicted of something merely based on their politics, it’s laughable to think that it has free and fair elections and that voting by prisoners is going to change things.

Do you ever refuse entry for someone who is completely doused in perfume? Or is it only for body odour?

There should be a bouncer who refuses entry to anybody who stinks.

That makes me wonder, does a bouncer at a club do that? I don’t think it would come up often at a club because people who go to those try to be as appealing and attractive as possible. As a result, the bouncer is keeping out people who are badly dressed, too drunk or high, who are looking for a fight, etc. But, maybe occasionally someone is trying to seem super masculine and doesn’t put on deodorant?

We were meant to be rugged individuals, but rugged individuals living in a community with other rugged individuals.

Also, farming has always been a hard job. People who garden are doing the kinds of farming that farmers did before automation became a thing, but they’re doing it on a tiny scale. One farmer using non-industrial methods is going to have to really work like a mule to keep just themselves and their family alive. So, gardening using those same methods is never going to produce enough calories and nutrients for anything meaningful.