While I prefer YouTube more, RuTube is maybe a good way to learn russian. Has anyone experience with that? Like, can I watch channels for children (ideal for learning a language) even if I not in Russia or is there something like geoblock?

Sounds like a discussion about if someone likes apples or pears

Oh yeah! Nothing to do with you, I was just explaining why I am responding in this thread, rather than where you wrote your post.

Ah OK, sometimes my english understanding skills suffer :)

I was just adding on that if it were about the legal requirements, then they would have done it once those requirements came into force.

I understand now. It makes a lot of sense, didnt thought about that. The war is going for two years now, but they decided to do it right now. Should they have pressure from the US government, than it is a bad sign for the open source community. It shows clearly, that the decision making of important projects like the Linux Kernel, can get heavily influenced by them. Not good and choosing the USA as a location is a bad decision and should be avoided in the future.

Torvalds came out and said he hates Russians, I think we should believe him.

I totaly believe him. I guess you can troll him by sending a simple mail like “hello Linus how are you?” with a russian TLD and he will believe it is a top-tier professional russian actor. Tbh he formulated all this in a way like his Finnish ancestry is the reason for this. Some people should not talk or make decisions about things about they don’t know anything.

Linus is a very intelligent person in the field he has talent. Outside of it, especially if it gets combine with his attitude, he as quite a clown.

I have to respond to what @rostselmasch@lemmygrad.ml wrote in Linux for Leftists since I’m banned from there for not bending the knee to liberals. Funny how I got proven right about the CoC, but anyway…

I dont quite understand, but I guess it has nothing to do with my content? Like, I dont remember you and I hope I had nothing done to get you banned from there.

While the legal requirements can be understandable, what can’t be is that it took them 2+ years to act on it (sanctions were in place for a long time).

I know what you mean. With understandable I only mean, that according to Linus there are following what their lawyers are saying. And they also seem to be very quite about it, like the cant speak about it (something like NDA or they have to be carefull). They are still vague and the transparency is bad. Are they pressured or how much is the US government involved in all of this.

Think about it. They’re expecting people to prove they DON’T work for a company. How do you prove something like that? Send them a picture of an empty desk and point to the lack of employment contract? It’s a bullshit requirement that nobody can meet, thus ensuring Russians stay banned.

I really really dont actually know. My guess is that they probably have to provide documents about their place of work. This are personal information and nobody would be happy about this.

My biggest problem is, that everything is vague and still not clear. Its fishy, but there is probably more behind of it and they are hiding it. Either on purpose or, what I think is more possible, because they are somehow not allowed or strongly advised to not say anything.

When chinese maintainers will get removed?

bad think

It’s the misleading exclamation mark. If I see this picture, my impression is that kitty works only with issues on Linux

Do they ever get old? Looking at the picture, its like never changing

You can’t know, because you know freedom units and in the soviet union there was no freedom

Usually dmesg should tell you something. If you tried everything you can and the problem is still there, try it on Windows. If it works on Windows, then the gpu should be fine. Then I would try different kernels and maybe also try different drivers.

Somehow funny. Exactly 49,5cm. Not more or less.

Of course. I’m not happy about many things, but that doesn’t give me the right to harass somebody.

They are not being harassed, but are being shown in this way that their intentions and behavior are more than just shit

Pointing out something politely is very different from jumping on a bandwagon and spamming an issue, or creating meme issues and meme pull requests. We should be better than that.

Is that really what we want? Anything slightly popular making a misstep to be hounded by an online mob?

This is not a misstep. They just don’t want to hire developers for Winamp and rather try to outsource the work to others for no cost. And then they call it copyleft while forbidding anyone to do anything else with the source code except sending them pull requests. That’s disrespectful, rude and simply shameless. This is fully calculated, not a misstep. If it was just a misstep, then I would agree with you about these meme pull requests and so on. Saying this, I absolutely understand why the receive such “feedback”.

This whole thing sounds more like a way to get some pull requests to fix their product for free. That’s not open source. The source code is simply available, that’s all. In the first run they even prohibited to fork it (!!!) while it is necessary to work on this project. They may fixed it, but you are still not allowed to do anything with it, only provide free work. Of course people are not happy with it.

They should delete this repo and change their license if they want contributors for free. Or just hire programmers for money.

You described a problem you have with an OS you use, which I fix every day at work. No Linux, just Windows. It is the most normal thing, that drivers might not work or the Hardware is faulty. We often have to change something, try different things and you don’t need Linux to tinker around, the Windows environment offers enough opportunity to do so. And your problem sounds like a driver problem or maybe faulty hardware. It has nothing to do with Linux.

You definitely don’t work in IT, otherwise you wouldn’t mentioned printing. Printers are evil beings itself and these fuckers don’t care wich OS you use, they just don’t want to work properly. Hardware supports depends on the kernel. That’s normal, Windows 7 also doesn’t support newest hardware. There is still nothing specific Linux. Regarding UI: KDE Neon is great, try it.

Yeah, Windows has problems. But those arise more typically for advanced users (and that’s including Windows 11 being more and more broken over time).

Would this be true, I probably would need to change my profession.

But until the more boring stuff gets worked out, it’ll still be hard for it to be used more commonly, and thus harder for it to get more funding and usage as well.

Because of your ethernet problem? I understand that you are mad for the problems you have now, but I wouldn’t use your experience with the ethernet NIC as a basis for the question how good all Linux distributions are usuable for everyday work.

Idk, maybe it’s just Debian based distros these days and I’m behind in the curve. Fedora based ones like Bazzite haven’t given me issues so far at least.

Look, drivers get updated or introduced in newer Linux kernels. You could decide which distribution you want to use depending on the kernel. amdgpu got fucked up since a specific release and my RX580 won’t work if it loads, so I am still using an older kernel. In Windows the drivers crashes often sadly. You need to look how well a specific hardware works and then decide which kernel you should use. We always do this on work with Windows and it is really needed, because manufactures sometimes don’t really care about there drivers and compatibility with newer Windows 10 versions or Windows 11.

This is probably also the reason why you got downvoted so much, because you describe a generic, OS independent problem and then you blame Linux kernel for it and all Linux distributions, while you are using a specific distribution named Linux Mint. If you replace Linux with Window in your rant, it would be the same way wrong. But I hope that your problem gets fixed. You are free to describe your problem in specific communities, they probably might find a solution with you together.

How is this a explicit Linux problem?

If NATO approves it, Russian will probably fire more than enough missles on Ukraine, far more then last time. NATO havs no limit if its about sacrificing human life to achieve their goals.

Psychoanalysis is quackery. It was progressive at a certain point, but it got pretty fast reactionary.

Had “age is just a number” always this implication or did it occure through the internet? I said it once to my grandmother back then, when she was sad, the she is not young anymore and will probably die soon. I have the feeling that phrases and words got “corrupted” over the time.

Absolutely forgot “Arbeit macht frei”

“Freedom Gas”

The US way of pretending to be the good guys: Put freedom on everything. Freedom Gas, Freedom Fries, Freedom Toast, Liberty Cabbage. I will now pretend that the letter F in F-16 stands also for Freedom. I am waiting for Freedom Tanks, Freedom Missiles, Freedom Warships and Freedom Nuclear Annihilation. Freedom World War, Freedom Genocide, Freedom Fascism.

Fascist parties have by the way the weird tendency to put Freedom in their name or something with liberal:

• Alliance for Peace and Freedom
• Liberal Democratic Party of Belarus
• Free German Workers’ Party
• Party for Freedom (Dutch)
• Freedom Party of Austria
• Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
• American Freedom Party

Soooo much freedom that I don’t even know what freedom actually is anymore