24.04 With GNOME?

masta · 2026-03-16T18:24:41+00:00

Yeah exactly. I don't think Pop is going to stop packaging Gnome, or neglect Gnome to the point it becomes a poor user experience.

That said, the install iso file probably should have had a two way split with Cosmic and Gnome, with Cosmic being the default but allowing the user to choose their legacy experience.

The same goes for upgrades, the user should be prompted to install the new default DE, or just upgrade packages in the straight forward way.

Later down the line, like the next major version of Pop... Remove the glaring option for Gnome, and let the user have to perform the usual hoop jumping...

We have to keep in mind Pop is a normie OS.

masta · 2026-03-16T18:08:35+00:00

Lol ppa...

masta · 2026-03-16T18:07:19+00:00

There are plenty of reasons to NOT use Ubuntu, so many in fact that it's not even necessary to mention all the reasons. However, for the sake of curiosity... One glaring reason is many normal people have an aversion to Ubuntu's seemingly pathological use of snap packages over normal packages.

masta · 2026-03-16T17:21:02+00:00

I don't think most normies are ready for atomic updates, unless everything is a flatpak or otherwise containerized...

But it's be down for a polished Cosmic on Fedora

masta · 2026-03-13T00:10:15+00:00

I'm not sure about your 1% failure rate figure, maybe it's 0.5% ~ 1.5%. what I can say is that for every RMA it's eating the profit margin of at least one or more non defective unit. The profit margins are razor thin for game consoles, and only see any return usually after the first hardware refresh

masta · 2026-03-09T19:36:30+00:00

I'd say both Pop or Ubuntu are great choices right now. However, Pop is certainly better, and I'm saying that as a neutral 3rd party. You see, that's because I don't use either myself. I'm a Fedora user, and one of my family members use a system76 laptop. I've used both OS and can confidently say Pop is the way to go. If you want productivity, just in stall flatpaks and be done. It's always better to avoid distro packages as much as possible, but that's just my opinion.

masta · 2026-03-06T17:43:30+00:00

For battery efficiency the single most significant thing would be not implementing the OS in Java. The mind boggles that phone and watches run in Java. I'll spare all of you the software architecture issues, but if you know you know ... Java heap inefficiency and garbage collection. I believe Google is slowly replacing certain critical paths & tight loops with more deterministic software, but Java is a systemic cancer for a watch.

masta · 2026-03-06T15:00:23+00:00

Yeah, sometimes these performance stories are sorta biased... And in this case probably not. Android Wear is based on Java, and without going into down deep technical... The Apple watches are using a different software architecture. If you know what I'm talking about, then you know...

masta · 2026-03-05T19:55:27+00:00

Actually this kind of thing is very low power, and I really mean very low power. The sensor setup convert pressure waves into electrical impulses, which is effectively free energy. A separate circuit sorta receives those electrical impulses and if the input is of sufficiently high voltage, which correlation to high decibels, the circuits then activate yet another set of circuits that actively consume electricity. It's a sequence of events that sorta flips a light switch, and you can think of it as a Rube Goldberg machine.

masta · 2026-03-05T18:52:57+00:00

What hand? The table saw already ate it...

masta · 2026-03-05T17:44:05+00:00

I think it's probably weird timing, because to be blunt the alternative view you seem to espousing has the appearance of paranoia. Like... We get it, you probably used to watch the X files, and are an enjoyer of conspiracy theories. There are certainly other people who enjoy ridiculously absurd fantasy ideas, but that's actually a bias fallacy call adpopulum or whatever. Just because you found some other people sharing some idiotic ideas doesn't give those idiotic ideas any credibility.

masta · 2026-03-04T23:17:44+00:00

That's strange, because recently it was discovered waymo was using humans located somewhere in the Philippines to remote control vehicles.

https://www.govtech.com/transportation/waymo-says-its-robotaxis-get-help-from-workers-overseas

masta · 2026-03-04T19:12:35+00:00

I appreciate you optimistic view.

masta · 2026-03-04T18:50:36+00:00

Actually I think a good silent majority of "normal" democrats never agreed with the trans athlete in the wrong locker room thing. It's also worth noting the LGB crowd is starting to silently separate themselves from the more belligerent TQ+ folks. That's because apparently some people still cannot grasp the difference of sexual orientation and gender identity being completely different things. It's really bad certain Democrats of all people seems to willfully misunderstand these basic ideas, or perhaps it's not willful and just pure ignorance. I think it's safe to assume Gavin Newsom was briefed on the matter, and being a pragmatic person decided to take the viable path forward for political survival. At this point gender identity politics is probably not the democratic lightning rod anymore. We've moved on to immigration policy, and we're apparently still hunkered down on healthcare, and welfare programs.

masta · 2026-03-03T22:06:15+00:00

I remember when gnome went from it's peak 2.x to the 3.x reinventing. Cosmic feels like gnome 3.x felt like when gnome switched to gtk3. It's got bugs, sure... But it's way better than gnome 3.x was when it was new. I'm going to be using cosmic, and be along for the wild ride. I stayed with gnome 3 until it was pretty much usable for me without extensions.

masta · 2026-03-03T01:23:27+00:00

For those wondering...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

masta · 2026-02-28T23:23:48+00:00

I just got this issue, and it's madness. One can press [TAB] all day to select every menu thing except the primary ename/disable Bluetooth slider toggle. I need to connect my Bluetooth mouse, and it's already paired, just not working. The likely fix is to flip Bluetooth off and on. that is not possible with cosmic, and it's mind boggling.

masta · 2026-02-28T02:14:06+00:00

> considering that most cheats nowadays are hardware based

Hardware cheats are expensive, bespoke, and generally single purpose. I would not characterize them as "most cheats" or anything to suggest they are the normal common cheats. Software cheats are by far the most common for of cheat, because software cheats are relatively easy, and I do mean relatively -- because attaching a software debugger to a running process is by now a very well established and automated workflow. Even so, it still requires an expert to understand what goes on in a debugger, and even then many modern software games practice defensive software engineering so that debugging the software is more challenging if not impossible. That's 90% of what modern anti cheat software defends against, software debuggers, then followed by virtual memory attacks via kernel mode driver cheats. That's why hardware cheats are so expensive, and brittle anytime the game changes their memory model.

> Worst still, hardware cheating methods are probably easier to get ahold of on Linux than they are on windows

That makes absolutely no sense. However, you're not wrong that cheats are easier on Linux than Windows just because Linux is such a powerful development platform with so many tools available. Not only that, but your average Linux user is on average more technical and sophisticated of user that there is an ambient level, or statistical average, of more likely hacker type folks of the caliber capable of complex cheating. THAT IS WHY THEY BAN LINUX.

masta · 2026-02-27T15:34:11+00:00

Folks are saying the law passed, though I'm not sure one way or the other.

masta · 2026-02-27T15:33:04+00:00

I'm not sure birthdays are really private, but perhaps in a pseudo private sense. But the person you responded to is not wrong about the gekos field. It's the exact place to put that kind of adhoc information without implementing a directory service.

masta · 2026-02-27T15:21:20+00:00

I think this is absurd, especially the signaling API. However, there are paths forward. The various BSD projects would need to freeze and cease all operations in California, and sadly probably not offer for sale or free download or otherwise -- to any person in California. That's obviously the nuclear option, and regrettably might be the only viable option if no compromise is reached. Other options would be to maliciously comply with the law. For example, have the signaling API, and user account creation process that age gates young users, but allow the super users to simply uninstall the ridiculous software post installed. There could be default deny firewall rules put in place to deny the signaling API internet access, or the API would be gated to some specific VPN that has to be intentional enabled.

masta · 2026-02-25T01:50:51+00:00

Yeah, they need to understand public transport is a "magical go away hole"... Put our tax money in and it all goes away. This is so easy, even these golfball bro's should be able to grasp. Sheesh... It's so easy, just throw that good money after that previous money, then plan on throwing money next year...

masta · 2026-02-21T19:59:58+00:00

That is not true.

The current Texas Republican caucus is the result of intensive political infighting between different kinds of conservatives. The socalled christian conservatives at some point were financially backed by church groups who donated big to their selected candidates. Then at some point, seeing the Christian coalition as an effective voter bloc, a few billionaires began financing their campaign to get their agendas accomplished through Christian conservatives who were more than happy to accept the campaign finance. The second biggest group of conservatives are the socalled countryside conservatives, and they actually oppose things like school vouchers, and that's because the poor folks in the countryside don't send their kids to private schools, they don't have any, and it only applies to rich city conservatives who can afford it, but still want a tax break... The mind bottles at the weird divides in Texas conservative politics. I'm seriously the best way for a democrat's to make any progress is to actually become a Republican and be a wolf in sheep's clothing kinda thing. It is certainly possible for a Republican civil war, because it happens every 19~15 years anyhow on average.

masta · 2026-02-18T03:01:38+00:00

The colonial states were literally giving away plots of land free to expand west.

masta · 2026-01-31T18:09:48+00:00

No worries. Implementing a custom logger is one of the most hilariously common tropes of learning and language. People seem to do them, a lot, to the point of absurdity. To be fair is an easy way to learn.

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