I definitely think this was a good move. Proprietary video codecs are silly and I’m glad VP9 and AV1 have been so widely adopted. I do wish more services used them instead of h.264 but at least it’s something.

The thing about the kernel in particular is it’s already mostly about money. With very few exceptions most maintainers are employed by someone, even just the Linux foundation, to work on the kernel full time. There’s very little community involvement outside of the random patches here and there that community members submit. I think what OP is getting at is it would be nice if there was a community sponsored maintainer so it wasn’t all just corporate employees but that likely means providing financial compensation.

Making a feature request is one thing but complaining isn’t helpful especially when they’re working on other things. It’s not like they’re sitting on their asses doing nothing.

I do get the irony, but I also do get where he’s coming from about users always asking for more.

I’m also a plain compositor person but gnome is my favorite DE and sometimes I kinda miss the polished DE experience. My productivity doesn’t…but sometimes I do lol.

Even as a systemd user I’m starting to feel the kitchen sink creep in

Yeah I agree here. I’d expect my laptop to stay asleep if it was asleep to begin with. Also I find it kind of annoying that in order to fix bugs they have to change Linux to mimic windows, especially when it’s a situation like this where the change specifically results in a different behavior which is noticable to users.

It’s funny because you can tell whoever wrote this has never run that command. You need to either put --no-preserve-root OR /*. Using /* obviates the need for the flag --no-preserve-root.

As someone who believes in, deploys, and locally validates DNSSEC I disagree with your meme lol.

This reminds me of this lol… unrelated but still funny

Fact of the matter is RSA is perfectly secure still…and ECDSA/ED25519 should also be extinct given the rising need for post quantum cryptography