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Sevaris | 5 years ago | on: 13,500 Vivo Smartphones found running on same IMEI number

I think mfg usually stands for manufacturing. So it seems he's talking about manufacturingers. Not sure what the difference is between that and manufacturer though.

Sevaris | 5 years ago | on: New slats make the Golden Gate Bridge sound like a David Lynch movie

To be fair, the Sony WF-1000XM3's are awesome and I love mine. Living in a big city is so much more pleasant with noise canceling. It can be surprising to take them off and realize how loud the environment around me actually is.

Sevaris | 5 years ago | on: Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap

I used to be when I was younger. I used to spend days and weeks on this stuff and enjoyed it. But nowadays I have more important (and interesting) things to do (from my perspective).

Sevaris | 5 years ago | on: Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap

> I gather that you simply want something more opinionated than Arch, and that is OK, even the BSDs have a more opinionated install procedure than Arch.

Yes, this is why I emphasized the "install and go" aspect of Manjaro. It requires a certain amount of "opinionatedness" by the maintainers, which of course isn't a priority for Arch, which is also fine.

I saw and understood the reasons for scrapping the beginner's guide. I still disagreed with it. All I saw was that the Arch community was unwilling to provide for beginners. Yes, it's a lot of effort and it is to a degree duplication, but it's duplication in the same way that Simple Wikipedia is a duplication of Wikipedia. It sort of is, but it sort of isn't.

It's duplicated effort, definitely, and if you don't prioritize onboarding beginners, then it's also wasted effort. But as somebody who personally used the guide a lot, as somebody who takes no pleasure in scouring through 5 different 30 page long wiki pages to find an answer to something trivial, the documentation as is simply isn't an adequate replacement for the beginner's guide. I've accepted that the Arch community has decided that it's the best solution, but I won't stop criticizing them in discussions like this for sacrificing such a great resource just because we happen to have different priorities.

Sevaris | 5 years ago | on: U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech business

> It's as if the culture of every business has become captivated by the idea of becoming an oligopoly. My guess is because it's extremely attractive -- once you "make it" you don't have to compete any more.

You say this like it's new. US anti-trust law started in the late 1800s because of a slew of consolidation in the railroad industry.

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

The UK has had legislation to control monopolies for hundreds of years.

Sevaris | 5 years ago | on: U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech business

On the other hand, AT&T doesn't affect anybody in Europe, but Facebook and Google have clear global effects.

Sevaris | 5 years ago | on: U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech business

It's incredibly anti-competitive behaviour and it's baffling that governments are allowing it to go unchecked. Even the WhatsApp purchase was greenlit with caveats (not combining FB and WhatsApp user data) ... which were promptly ignored by Facebook. I seriously want to know who they paid off to get that acquisition. There's no way that was above board.

Sevaris | 5 years ago | on: Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap

Please tell me you're fucking joking. You can't be serious. This ties into one of my other comments about how god awful the documentation is for beginners (or even intermediates) after scrapping the beginner's guide.

> Maybe, but not all people have the same opinions...

Yes. And that's fucking fine. Arch Linux isn't opinionated. Which is great, but not what I (or others) might be looking for in a distro.

Sevaris | 5 years ago | on: Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech

I think I'm losing my mind.

https://www.investigativepost.org/2020/06/05/police-unit-res...

> “Fifty-seven [officers] resigned in disgust because of the treatment of two of their members, who were simply executing orders,” said John Evans, PBA president.

> The announcement comes one day after two members were suspended without pay when a video surfaced, showing the officers pushing over a 75-year-old protestor, causing injury. The BPD Internal Affairs unit has opened an investigation into the incident.

Sevaris | 5 years ago | on: Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap

> BTW, you do know you don't ever need to reinstall Arch (on a single machine)?

People say this, but I've found plenty of reason to reinstall Arch (none of it necessarily having to do with Arch, and more trying different distros out of curiosity and Arch remaining my main distro). I always have these discussions with Arch veterans who seem so incredulous about my frustrations with Arch. And I sort of chalk it down to the fact that I ended up installing Arch anew more often than once a year and the last time you or some other vet installed Arch was years ago. I think there's a fundamental disconnect between Arch vets and beginners (or even intermediates), which is clearly shown by the scrapping of the excellent beginner's guide.

Sevaris | 5 years ago | on: Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap

My main problem with Arch is that there's rarely a point where I feel like I've finished installing. There's always something missing or something not configured right. Shit, dialog still isn't a default package in 2020, which you need to use wifi-menu during the install process. So if you happen to forget to install that (and it isn't mentioned anywhere in the documentation), you're going to have to reboot into the live media, chroot into your install, install dialog, then reboot again.

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/any/netctl/

Why in the fuck is dialog an optional dependency?

Which sort of ties into my next problem which is that Arch simply isn't opinionated enough. Which is fine for people who want that kind of experience, but if you used Ubuntu before and you want a similar "install and go" experience, Arch really isn't the right answer. It is if your goal is to tinker with Arch, but that isn't what everybody wants.

Sevaris | 5 years ago | on: Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap

Afaik, upstream packages aren't changed by Arch maintainers. It's the whole point of using Arch. And if you're using AUR, you'd better be checking the PKGBUILD (because no, it isn't verified by anybody). At the very least, you need to be checking where the package is being downloaded from.

Sevaris | 5 years ago | on: Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap

Manjaro is install and go. Arch Linux is ... well, if you haven't done it before, you're going to waste at least an hour going through the awful documentation trying to piece together what the installation flow is supposed to be. The beginner's guide was scrapped and the replacement is awful. So if you're new, it's going to be painful. And if you aren't new, it's still painful if you just want to install your OS and get working on things that actually have anything to do with things that interest you. You like Arch Linux, fine. But don't pretend everybody wants to install and configure everything manually, then mess around with whatever seems to be not working because the moons aren't aligned just right that day. I'm tired of Arch Linux. I'm tired of all the tinkering. I'm tired of the additional cognitive load of all the things I have to make sure is configured right. I already waste hours of my day just getting tooling to work for whatever god awful language I have to work with that day. I just want things to work. Manjaro just works.

Sevaris | 5 years ago | on: Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap

I've tried it on nVidia and AMD systems, and I'd been using it to troubleshoot customer laptops as a technician. Never had issues with drivers.

Sevaris | 5 years ago | on: Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap

You're never forced to update. I'm don't even think Arch natively supports automatic updates. You can also tell pacman to skip a package from being updated if you're aware of a problematic update but you want to update the rest of your system.

And yes, Arch takes in the upstream vanilla packages, though there are testing phases before updates reach stable repos. I'm not sure any of this is a bad thing. It also means you don't have to wait 6-12 months for the newest version.

Sevaris | 5 years ago | on: Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap

Ugh, no. Manjaro is the no-nonsense "I really don't want to waste time troubleshooting my own shit" version of Arch Linux. I stopped using Arch when I found Manjaro and I'm so glad I did. Arch just requires way too much fiddling for it to ever feel "complete" and or finished.

Sevaris | 5 years ago | on: Amazon refuses to sell book on Covid-19 and lockdowns

You realize wide swaths of the global population use communal transportation in the form of trains, busses and subways? And then go to work in poorly ventilated factories or office buildings? I'm not sure what you intend as the solution other than nobody may ever leave the house again. Social distancing simply doesn't work when applied to everyday situations like this unless you find a way to get most people to opt out. Just working in the same office means a high risk of transmission despite whatever 1-3m distancing rule you want to instate.

Sevaris | 5 years ago | on: Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On - Especially During COVID

It's not like you can postpone protests. It either happens now directly after Floyd's death, or another injustice goes ignored by basically everybody and police brutality as people know it continues unabated. I'm not really sure what you're saying here. It sounds like you're against protests and you believe Covid19 was totally exaggerated.

Sevaris | 5 years ago | on: Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech

https://old.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/gwxsl0/an_...

https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/gx20pi/lapd_shoots_ho...

https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/gwzrap/this...

https://old.reddit.com/r/ActualPublicFreakouts/comments/gwvk...

After seeing things like this (hell, these are some of the tamer videos I've seen in the past week), I'm not sure how anybody can seriously still support the police. Police as a concept is absolutely necessary in a civilized society. But the police that the US has? They're nothing but state-sanctioned terrorists.

Sevaris | 5 years ago | on: Hands-On Scala Programming

Oh, wow. This looks fantastic. Unfortunately far beyond my current budget, but definitely going to keep it in mind. I've been wanting to learn Scala for a while now.