As someone who's been using computers as far back as 1982 I've been complaining that this is even a thing back in the early 00s. Modern software just isn't created with performance in mind.

Brilliant commentary.

The best is all the people donating money to the millionaires in California that have more than enough wealth and insurance to pay for the loss. These are the same people that couldn’t be bothered to take their pets with them leaving them to burn alive in the fires. Can only imagine how much they are laughing at the poor Americans that are giving them money.

From what I've heard, the natives who lived in california tried to tell the pilgrims they needed to maintain the forests, but they got mocked for it. Fast-forward to today, and it still gets ignored.

The writing was on the wall when people all across social media were griping about celebrity homes burning down. Yes, people were actually bringing up media friendly, vapid, selfish Hollywood celebrities because their homes burned. I don’t care about these celebrities. Not at all. The ones I actually do care about are either dead, retired, or have gone to the Right. Robin Williams is one such celebrity. Regardless of what people here think, he was one of the greatest talents to ever hit California. I loved the man and was absolutely devastated when he died. California remains the #1 state in GDP. If it were its own country, it is easily ranked in the top 15 - 20 in the world. What is North Carolina getting? According to leftists, it’s a Red, backwards redneck state full of you know who supporters. Meanwhile the governor of California continues to shaft normal people out of a decent living while the rich get priority. It makes me absolutely sick and to see the jarring contrast between the two states is utterly appalling.

Why don't you just try rust? There is a reason for why it spreads so fast. It really is better imo.

Mainly because California is a blue state and North Carolina is a red state. This is why they get a loan instead of help. North Carolina is still in shambles, mark my words, California will be fixed fast. Extreme bias.

Hollywood celebrities couldn't care less that their (unsellable) mansions burned to the ground, because now they will get all the fat insurance money. 💰

hey, screw you...we are not lunatics. we are purists.

Thanks this helped me get started

You're just a fishist Jody, a fishist. Fish were here before us, they're more important than us

Hi people. I'm not really too sure, but I think Jody screamed, "Don't use Driver Updater!" 🤣 I learned the hard way, too. I ran the stupid thing, and just like Jody said, it hosed my keyboard, mouse, and touchpad . I had to get a local computer fix-it shop to reinstall Windows. Good luck getting a refund for that DU'er piece of shit.

Lies

Nonsense. It doesn't ahve to be used by the majority. Linux is successful and does what many of is need it to do. I don't know what you're tryign to do with it, but the fact that its not for you doesn't mean its objectively no good. Speak for yourself.

Don't forget that they want to technocratically implement 15-minute cities & ENMOD is a real thing...since like...Vietnam. 🙄

Jodyyyy!

Linux has a problem for sure, I'm hoping that these start to self-correct over the next few years. We're already seeing corporations abandon DEI.

And example of slow code improved by 40 MILLIONS %. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWSWco14o7d7odU

Discrimination encourages excellence.

Culture war bulshit comes to open source. This guy should delete this video. And I don't even like Rust.

So much truth. It's quite difficult to get usable data from a cloud provider now where previously the data was yours and the access to the programs you used to create the data was on your own machine. Now EVERYTHING can be turned off if you didn't pay the monthly ransom. This is not progress.

Am I was in echo chamber? Because 2 years in rust community I never heard this bullshit about inclusivity or else from rust "funboys"

The thing is, those computers were much easier to understand and program for. Many years ago, I tried learning DirectX programming. And by the time I managed to get it to draw a basic UI, Microsoft released a new DirectX Version where all the functions were different. Not only do you have to know a dozen APIs with hundreds of functions, you have to learn new ones every other year. The systems of old had one single fixed API and maybe a handful of chips with a few registers each. And they don't change, ever.

Or worse than that.... let the community finish and fix it for you. Soydevs

This is only partially true but because Rust is a recently built community and is plagued with woke lunatics, but on the other hand is an excellent driven project from a technical and developer experience perspective, so the only solution is bring real diversity to the rust community, and by real I mean, ideological diverse people that can stand and that try to left the politics aside.

think about people

Enjoy your spyware

It was so much worse when we didn't have to pay a monthly fee to use our heated seats.

Imagine a world with no DLC, no season passes, and no updates to fix a shitty product. That's why gaming was better, and why trash products quickly died.

These Dell Optiplexes are beloved. Lenovo kinda killed the Thinkpad for me years ago but it remains one of the very best laptops today. DELL is HELL but the Optiplex Remains the Budget King! That is :-(

Back in the win7 times they (all major manufacturers) were still making things overall good. But it is no longer the case. My new Dell laptop is so cheap plastic all the way and the battery is integrated, that it's in a constant state of 1-step away from damage, or at least that is the feeling I get from it. Adjusting the screen position alters the WiFi speed greatly - just to give you an example. Usually, inside the laptop's monitor frame around the screen is hidden a wire-antenna for WiFi. I guess it doesn't do a good job on my laptop. And it's not just Dell, I mean all (or almost all) new laptops are piles of crap. I have an old Lenovo ThinkPad, business class, which is a bit old, but still working well and was made solid, hard to compare to any new laptop. The first laptops were built by engineers. The laptops now are built by marketeers.

What you said is so true and is what's scares me the most when a think about the future.

If only I had more upvotes to give. It's not just you, at all. Two corrections: 1) LEDs do not need to be sent pulses to dim. Constant current is a thing, and works great. Tint shift is tiny, these days. 2) White LEDs actually are a problem, in this context. Part of what makes them seem so blindingly bright is that there is too much blue, rather than a balanced spectrum. That's also an issue for street lights. It messes up our night vision, and is causing real ecological problems. LEDs that don't exhibit these problems, sans the racetrack sharp cutoff, exist, but aren't as cheap. Car makers like cheap, in context. The directionality is something that could be fixed, by the same government that caused it in the first place. Worst yet, many people *with* these new vehicles often notice it, too. But, there aren't any other options, aside from getting a much older car.

GNOME is gimped. However KDE is good... barring kernel level issues as you outlined in this vid, given more time & devs, they can definitely create an excellent desktop. KDE is already very good, but not excellent... but yeah low level architectural issues are much more difficult to change. Even changing from glibc to musl breaks stuff in a lot of places. And now extricating systemD without loss of too much functionality is becoming harder with each month as systemD is eating up more & more functionality... insane feature creep. And I have no idea why everyone in the Linux ecosystem except for KDE folks are all adopting GTK which is being lobotomised by GNOME...

I have an old Lenovo where all the casing panels fold out and the drives and cards just pull out using the blue handles. Great design for maintenance. Not a single screw to be undone!

Less is more! Change my mind. 😁

Garbage that wasn’t designed to last or have quality. I miss when America had more quality products. That was decades ago.

On the bright side, I've learned a lot of keyboard shortcuts, and memorized tab orders, that I didn't used to need, and it has been good for my RSI. I'd prefer to have corners I could cut myself on, though.

Leftism kills beauty. Equity kills creativity. Fake diversity kills cohesion and culture.

Yup! "You will own nothing and be happy." 👹

I enjoy my Lenovo lappy, it's been a great machine. IBM has had as many issues as almost every PC and tech retailer....successes, absolute fails and progression or in many cases regression. They been in the game longer than others but timestamps doesn't validate the scrutiny but as Jody emphasizes some of the designs absolutely do. Machines in the future aren't meant for techs like us to repair ...nope, they're meant to be retired and new hardware purchased ...sad but true. Dell, notta fan but their 390s and big ole 790s are still not bad machines with easy upgrades.

There is a sort of paradoxical thing going on, where people wanting to make things, "easy to use," don't. That is an issue with Linux Mint. Now, at least with XFCE, it's not a bad distro, overall, and it can make trying out Linux easy, not from your power user standpoint, but from someone that has only used Windows or MacOS, and can't really make their way around the system, at first. However, if you're not that, then there comes a problem. In their effort to make things simple, for you, the dumb user, they have chosen software, and configuration options, that are too dumbed down to be fit for purpose. What you want from Windows is the ability to discover what you need, and need to change, fairly easily. KDE and XFCE mostly do this, as DEs. Then, you're going to want distros that are for people to use, not writers to praise. I use a big bloated Arch-based distro, now, and previously was using MX. VLC, which, however much you may dislike it's UI (the settings UI is objectively awful), does all the basics from the right-click menu, just like MPC-HC. I haven't had to install it on any distro I've used for my main system, for many years. But, if the distro comes with SMPlayer, or KMPlayer, or whatever, it should also have those common options (fixing AR should be a basic feature). The trouble is that if you want the training wheels, you're getting the kneepads, reflective jacket, and big helmet with them.

"Sofware's a gas that expands to fill it's container." That was just beautiful! I worked in a call center doing phone support for the Sony VAIO decades ago and we knew perfectly well that the new OS that TinyFlaccid just came out with was specifically intended to require people to buy a new computer with the hottest Intel CPU in it. Around here we run Linux on old AMD server HW. About $500 to build a machine with 32 cores and 128GB of RAM. Even Linux sucks these days, though. I'm starting to think OpenBSD might be the way to go. Even open source software sucks now. Remember when TinyFlaccid had a text editor that you could just knock out a quite and professional looking letter on? Yeah, not so much these days. Even LibreOffice requires a giant learning curve just to type up a fucking recipe. There aren't any Rich Text editors around any more. No one wants to write something like that because it's simple to use and they won't get any vendor lock-in from something that the user didn't have to spend a month learning to use. Vendor lock-in doesn't just come from the money you spend on a product. Sometimes it comes from the time you spent on learning how to use the stupid thing.