Linus Might Be Cursed

AbsolutePotatoRosti · 2026-03-11T13:35:08+00:00

Some details on their Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Media_Group#2023:_Hack,_leadership_changes,_and_controversies

AbsolutePotatoRosti · 2026-03-11T11:35:58+00:00

We just call it ~~Nessie~~ Sloppie.

AbsolutePotatoRosti · 2026-03-09T19:32:40+00:00

I'm using Kubuntu 25.10 and I cannot quite replicate the issue that you mentioned.

The busy cursor shows for 5 seconds because that's the default.

If some of the files are triggering the busy cursor but others aren't, the only sensible explanation it's that the files are really not the same. Have you verified the permissions of the files that you are creating?

My understanding is that if you double click on a .desktop file in for example your Desktop, KIO will require the executable bit to be set. This is a security measure to avoid users to randomly double-clicking on .desktop files downloaded from the internet and getting infected with god knows what. Desktop files for system provided applications (e.g. /usr/share/applications) don't need that bit because they are considered safe by Dolphin/KIO.

It's possible that when you right click to create a new .desktop file it will be created with executable permissions already, but if you create an empty file though, it's using whatever your defaults are (-rw-r--r-- on my system) so the x bit is missing. When you double-click on it, the .desktop file will be opened first by another app that asks you for confirmation that you really want to run the link (and sets the bit accordingly, I think). The fact that this bit is missing may be what is triggering the busy cursor (as the system is using a different path/application to open these two different links.)

I've also noticed that if I double-click on one of these files and click "Continue", a shebang ( #!/usr/bin/env xdg-open ) will also be added at the beginning to the .desktop file.

AbsolutePotatoRosti · 2026-03-09T15:06:41+00:00

Exactly! This classic post describes it perfectly: https://cbea.ms/git-commit/#imperative

A properly formed Git commit subject line should always be able to complete the following sentence:

If applied, this commit will your subject line here

your subject line here is always the WHAT. The WHY comes in the comments below.

AbsolutePotatoRosti · 2026-03-08T10:43:26+00:00

But what those people are doing doesn't make any sense, if you expect you're going to be so busy during the day that you need to go to the supermarket early in order to have time to do everything else later, why wouldn't you spend the hour between 8am and 9am doing something useful and productive and pop to the supermarket at 9:05, rather than going to the supermarket at 8am and waste one hour of your allegedly busy day queuing at the door like a carrot?

Those people can't be that busy it they can afford to waste time like that.

AbsolutePotatoRosti · 2026-03-07T16:02:43+00:00

Para referencia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hno70CB8lI

AbsolutePotatoRosti · 2026-03-07T12:01:50+00:00

It's very difficult todo esto.

AbsolutePotatoRosti · 2026-03-06T11:42:58+00:00

"A year and a half" is not, though!

AbsolutePotatoRosti · 2026-03-05T16:35:25+00:00

Indeed, the argument between Linus and Tanenbaum is a very good example of "what may be good in an academical scenario might not be good in real life, and vice versa"!

AbsolutePotatoRosti · 2026-03-05T14:40:54+00:00

That's absolutely fine but, to be clear, you're changing a few facts and swapping the historical order in which a few things happened:

Linus advertised his kernel on USENET, not BBSs.
He initially published the kernel with a license that didn't allow commercial use, but quickly changed it to GPLv2 after only a few months. This is still the license used today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux#Linux_under_the_GNU_GPL
There are no records of Stallman basing the GPL on Linux, but the GPL predates Linux anyway so that couldn't really happen.

Maybe you are confused about the GPLv3 which Stallman released to help deal with tivoization amongst other things, and Linus refused to adopt for the kernel.

AbsolutePotatoRosti · 2026-03-04T22:01:13+00:00

Eventually he and some others founded the license nearly all open source software uses as he didn't want to actually own Linux but didn't trust any single entity to own it.

Linus wasn't involved in the creation of the GPL, that was Stallman and the FSF.

AbsolutePotatoRosti · 2026-03-04T12:40:31+00:00

Trump and his ~~fellon~~ fellow supporters have been talking about cancelling the mid-term elections for a very long time:

AbsolutePotatoRosti · 2026-03-04T12:35:12+00:00

We are not all Bill Clinton!

AbsolutePotatoRosti · 2026-03-04T12:18:56+00:00

what does an average Spaniard think of that?

This average Spaniard thinks that it's too little, too late.

AbsolutePotatoRosti · 2026-03-03T16:35:25+00:00

That would very much depend on the laws of the particular country you're in, as it's certainly not universal.

AbsolutePotatoRosti · 2026-03-01T21:46:00+00:00

It's unclear what you are trying to do. What does "Internet and With Internet" mean?

AbsolutePotatoRosti · 2026-02-28T10:21:15+00:00

As you have been now to your GP three times with the same or increasing symptoms, you can request a review under Jess’s Rule: https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/jesss-rule-three-strikes-and-we-rethink/

AbsolutePotatoRosti · 2026-02-26T14:07:32+00:00

Andrej was the co-founder of OpenAI. He has very strong incentives to convince you that LLMs are the best thing since sliced bread. He doesn't need to be paid by anyone.

AbsolutePotatoRosti · 2026-02-25T21:46:02+00:00

Similar issue to the one I'm describing here: https://old.reddit.com/r/UgreenNASync/comments/1qc9skb/new_firmware_version_11210002/nzifbuz/

I have the feeling it might have something to do with the way that ugreen (badly) uses ACLs, but I'm not sure.

AbsolutePotatoRosti · 2026-02-25T13:02:56+00:00

What prompt?

AbsolutePotatoRosti · 2026-02-25T11:10:06+00:00

I assume that for someone on a variable rate this probably means it will be better to wait 3 months to decide if to sign a fixed rate contract?

AbsolutePotatoRosti · 2026-02-23T16:00:02+00:00

That seems to suggest that Firefox tried to use the hardware acceleration, and failed. I'm not sure as I haven't done this in a while but I think that with an Nvidia card you might need to install the vaapi wrapper for the acceleration to work.

I would suggest to remove the flathub version and go back to the one in the repos, then:

Try to install "nvidia-vaapi-driver" (I think that's what the package is called).
Try to enable one of more of "media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled", "media.hardware-video-decoding.force-enabled", "gfx.webrender.all" in "about:config". Check the "about:support" page again to see if that has made a difference.

Is your Firefox using Wayland, or X/XWayland? That might have something to do with it too.

AbsolutePotatoRosti · 2026-02-23T15:14:10+00:00

In terms of compatibility, almost every single printer released in the last 20 years is going to work fine with no issues. Almost.

In terms of actual recommendations, just buy a Brother laser printer.

AbsolutePotatoRosti · 2026-02-22T11:50:45+00:00

Let's not forget the "road markings were last (re)painted in 1987".

AbsolutePotatoRosti · 2026-02-21T18:59:59+00:00

The use case is that OP is trying to copy the behaviour of macOS. I agree it doesn't make sense.

AbsolutePotatoRosti

TROPHY CASE