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Comment · 15 days ago
You are in a bubble/biased. I've switched to Linux on desktop half a year ago. For the average user, Linux has as many issues as Windows (or as few, more precisely).

In Windows, things mostly worked, with some minor annoyances. For example, night light stopped working at some point. Forced reboots for updates are another things I really don't like. SMB file sharing still does not work well out of the box, esp. w. Android phones.

In Linux, it is kinda the same, with the exception that I had a few really bad cases when GUI stopped working at all (terminal worked still, but barely).

My Lenovo laptop officially supports Linux. Still.

Things that I had lately (And I don't remember half of it) 1. BT headset disconnecting after a few seconds of connecting.

2. BT Game controller not detected by PC sometimes.

3. Application installs are weird and not that convenient. Sometimes you use package manager, sometimes AppImage, sometimes flatpak, sometimes brew, sometimes source code, sometimes zipped binary.

4. KDE vaults cannot be closed, because KDE indexing service locks dirs/files inside them.

5. KDE Indexing service indexes stuff that needs not to be indexed, hogging SSD resources and killing its lifespan.

6. KDE built-in screenshot app does not have good good annotation shortcuts, and annotation tools could be better.

7. Multi-monitor support have minor issues out of the box. Either display is garbled when laptop comes out of the sleep, or it does not support DisplayLink out of the box, or something else.

8. Graphics hardware acceleration in Firefox sometimes works, sometimes does not. Lately it does work, which is nice.

9. Game had a bug when it was choosing wrong GPU. No system configuration option was helping at all. Like literally nothing. Only disabling embedded GPU in Bios did.

10. Hibernation menu item exists, but does not work, coming out of hibernation is broken.

11. If you use hard links and directory bind mounts a lot, you will soon find that these are declared as working, but half of the software breaks when encountering them.

12. Laptop performance profiles selected from tray kinda work, but not reliably. I have to use laptop Fn button shortcut for them.

13. When I tried to change some stuff in keyboard layouts for non-english language, I encountered some weird behaviors/bugs. It took me a lot of time to properly configure CapsLock as a keyboard layout switch. On Windows, it is not possible as a built-in feature. With 3rd party - one tiny 20kb app.

14. While audio works mostly very well, sometimes, with a lot of audio devices, they glitch a little.

15. Bluetooth devices take a long time to display in connection list.

16. BT mouse takes 5 seconds to wake from sleep.

17. For me, fonts looks slightly worse then on Windows. I tried a lot of options, but I prefer Windows ClearType default look on my FullHD monitor.

18. Dolphin file manager has quite a lot weird/inconvenient behaviors. How it allows to work under root permissions (weirdly), how it handles absent network drives and some others.

Comment · 19 days ago
Yeah. I did almost the same with KDE Spectacle. It lacks good shortcut keys for annotations. I've just asked AI to add them. Sent a manually reviewed TINY patch to maintainers, never heard back.
Comment · 1 month ago
I did something similar with Russian music broadcasts Muzprosvet and FM Dostoevsky.

Here: https://radar.lv

These were cult broadcasts for the new music, each with its own flavor.

Later, more broadcasts were uploaded to the website.

Now, 95% downloads are bots.

Still, chezch broadcasts Seance with ambient music is still uploaded.

If you like to discover music, welcome. Its in Russian, but easily translated by Google etc.

Comment · 2 months ago
Meh, too pop. Hildur Guðnadóttir!
Comment · 2 months ago
It was by many, and it was decided to be too hard. Nobody is ready to do that.
Comment · 3 months ago
I wonder if LLMs will evolve to allow ordering such things by request. Surely this is a a dream of many, manufacturing things same as we are vibe coding apps.

This is probably not near, but maybe in 10-20 years?

Comment · 3 months ago
They are often from residential IP.there are even businesses that allow you renting such IPs
Comment · 3 months ago
I have small website with archive of older radio broadcasts mostly in Russian. Lately, 90% of traffic comes from USA ;)

Previously it was like 5%.

URL is http://radar.lv btw

Thanks God i can serve up to a terabyte per month of traffic easily, otherwise it would be a catastrophe. I am not against bot scraping, but I worry about stability for meat visitors.

So, I think of enabling payments for website visits cloudflare recently developed.

I also have the problem of old technology like the mentioned site. While my personal blog uses static generator, archive website uses ancient Drupal version, which has no security patches for many years already.

Comment · 3 months ago
I guess when cheap Chinese model was very close to SoTA models
Comment · 3 months ago
I'm using such pad as a second gamepad when I need one :) It is actually not too bad, if combined with a multikey mouse
Comment · 3 months ago
That is one of the reasons why desktop Linux conquest is slow. Linux people won't approve such kludges, which means broken applications and back compatibility. I am not sure which strategy is correct, but I certainly have a compassion for users who just want their pc to work, and not search for library versions or manuals how to compile code in a new system.
Comment · 3 months ago
This happened in Switzerland with cash.
Comment · 3 months ago
Pragmatically, often users without new browsers and OSses are not the best clients. In ideal world, sure, I want to support everyone. In a world with limited resources, I would better spend my time elsewhere.
Comment · 3 months ago
There is a description of an access token, so it looks like you'll have some time to access a page. Anyway, this is more for bots. If you want this page so much, just print it to pdf.
Comment · 3 months ago
It a pity. So many good studios gutted, for the only reason "margins too thin"

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