something like this happened to be too circa 2005 and it made me switch to debian; which stayed rocked solid until 2016 when the motherboard died.

what’s ESO?

google suggests it’s elder scrolls online, but i’ve never heard this before

i used to answer honestly like because this and i never understood; and still don’t (i’m on the spectrum); why some people got angry/frustrated and it almost always eventually germinated into a full blown fire-this-asshole-already movement in the places i worked at until my therapist made me aware that people don’t really expect a true answer and will only accept certain responses.

i call it the social handshake now and i allot an extra 10 minutes every single time i schedule a work meeting an wait to hear certain key words/phrases before continuing on for the actual reason why i scheduled the meeting. lol

then you’re in luck because it’s old news. (circa 2016 iirc).

tldr: they decided to pull away active development on some foss projects because they conflicted with their profit motive.

it’s easy to appreciate why a for-profit company would want to protect its revenue stream and it would seem that the waters would get really murky when their products rely on free and open sourced work; but i know from personal experience that much bigger fish like google and oracle have made it work REALLY well for themselves and in much better fashion (atleast publicly) than system76 has.

i wish he did that 25 years ago; this world would be a better state if he had.

i was going to argue that there’s no way that it was ten years ago before i realized that the tropico i liked was released 11 years ago. lol

afterall: 1999 was only 15 years ago too. lol

yes and not the way you’re probably thinking: the last windows rig had a dedicated nvidia card (i forget which) while the linux rig had a cheapo integrated intel gpu and the intel gpu it performed MUCH better like i described.

it could also have been the maturity of the nvidia driver back then, but then again it was the same game on both machines so it wasn’t that far apart in age-wise.

OMFG I wished I knew about this years ago! Thank you!

one possibly expensive way to find out is to add an expensive cooling solution to it to see if it stays active.

aka: the one thing amazon is good for. lol

happens to me on random websites and it wakes me tf up when i’m surfing just before bed. lol

this was so surprising to me; my favorite game (tropico) didn’t have blinking tiles/polygons on my linux rig than it did on windows.

it was super strange because i put linux on my old windows laptop and it also got the blinking; but the game got better when i bought a linux-only laptop with zero proprietary stuff on it (not even the bios). go figure.

this is one of the reasons why i’ve only purchased systemd w libre/coreboot

i’m aware that it doesn’t completely mitigate it; but it’s the only viable step in the right direction of choices that we’re allowed to have.

i sometimes wish i could go back to buying american, but the likes of system76 have already made their allegiances clear.

i used to have an old brother laser printer that lasted for almost 15 years and the replacement that i got lasted less than 2; it makes me wonder if it was intentional.

the newest device on that list is 5 years old. is this project still active?

i could have used this 10 years ago; but i guess it’s better late than never. lol

i was going to do this, but i ended up just leaving the field; much more efficient this way. lol

are you aware of any articles/documentation that can make a noob aware of how these projects compare to each other?

i’m going to eos on a nothing phone in the near future, but that’s only because i can find step-by-step documentation with exact hardware and eos version on how to do so thanks to Lemmy.

that’s for sure and especially so that the american gov’t is now controlling who can and cannot join the linux kernel developer’s group; it’s easy to see them expend a tiny bit more energy to add people to the watch list

there needs to be a LinuxDays here in the united states.