Thanks for your answer.

I would be interested to know what definition of fascism you are using that includes the USSR and North Korea. Fascism is not the same thing as authoritarianism, if that’s the definition you’re going by.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism

A significant number of scholars agree that a “fascist regime” is foremost an authoritarian form of government; however, the general academic consensus also holds that not all authoritarian regimes are fascist, and more distinguishing traits are required for a regime to be characterized as such.[2][3]

True! I didn’t even think about that. Great movie.

Interesting, thanks. I wasn’t aware of any of that. Yes, it sounds complicated, and I hope that Linux can eventually improve these issues you mentioned.

I’ve heard that too! I also remember cartoons where a character would hit the ground with a pick axe and oil would come gushing out.

From what I’ve been hearing, AI has indeed been getting worse, not better. I think I read this in relation to ChatGPT 5 compared to previous models.

Later, I calculated that you’d experience 15g at the tip of a typical one.

Sounds like a fun ride to me! /s

I’m with you in thinking that this is not impossible. I think geology is something that can do funny things in some places.

By the way, in some places oil seems to be pretty close to the surface. If you visit the La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles sometime, there’s essentially an open lake of oil (tar) that you can visit, and as you walk the grounds around it you’ll see some spots where the tar is seeping out from the ground and you have to watch out not to step on it.

There’s even a museum dedicated to this, including a “replica” of the boat!

Thanks, I hadn’t seen a ??? -> Profit meme in quite a while! : D

Got you, I understand now that you were more countering Linux fanbois than putting down Linux itself. In any case, I’m not sure I understand several of your points and would like to understand them better.

Are you saying that you prefer KDE Plasma, so that Pop OS being based on Gnome is a non-starter? On a related note, if you haven’t yet, take a look at the Pop OS beta for their COSMIC desktop. It’s kind of in-between KDE and Gnome and written in Rust. It’s more like gnome, but has more features and allows more tweaking out of the gate. Plus it seems very fast. It’s pretty close to being released, I think I heard December 11th or some date around that?

What do you mean about changing the explicit driver and manually messing around with nouveau? How about the bios setting part?

I feel that Linux can work pretty well for a lot of people. Sure, nothing works for everyone though.

I will remind you : Nvidia is not easy on Linux. And so far as my research it never has.

So far for me, NVidia has been easier on Pop OS than on Windows. The proprietary NVidia driver comes pre-installed on Pop OS downloads (the ones intended for NVidia).

If we compare from bare metal:

Windows: download the OS, prepare the media, install the OS, look for the correct driver, download it, install it, make sure to avoid the unnecessary junk that comes with the driver.

Pop OS: download the OS, prepare the media, install the OS.

Edit: It’s early days still though. Only installed it this week.

Absolutely!

Haha, no problem!

They shouldn’t have used a “cuck license”?

Haha, recent IT history. :)

For the cameras themselves, if you would be interested in DIY solutions and have some old spare Raspberry Pis around, you can turn them into streaming IP cameras and have some control over what camera specs and lenses you use. I can’t tell you how they compare to purpose-built cameras though.

Huh? There’s a post about exactly that pinned at the tops of !linux@lemmy.ml for quite a while. Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you’re saying.

That’s all fine and I understand your points and wishes. I think your first reply was downvoted because it was offtopic to the post your were replying to and because it did sound like you were complaining about Linux.

FL studio and Ableton through WINE, I presume? That’s really the responsibility of the FL studio and Ableton developers, not Linux. I got Bitwig specifically because it supports Linux natively, and I hear it does it well (I haven’t tried it on Linux yet). From what I understand, the situation with Nvidia is also largely on Nvidia’s camp, although some distributions have gone above and beyond to get their GPUs to work well from the get go, like Pop OS, which I also just installed recently. No idea about Intel, but I thought I had heard that their support (and AMD’s) for Linux was much better than Nvidia’s.