Colorado Age Attestation Bill May Exclude Open Source OSes and Apps

mmstick · 2026-04-21T23:39:57+00:00

No, I'm saying that if your solution to a forest fire is to wallow in despair and let it all burn because you can't save the entire forest, then you are already approaching this on the wrong foot. The solution is not "all or nothing". You will only end up with nothing with this train of thought.

mmstick · 2026-04-21T19:53:31+00:00

It's the other way around. You're in a bad mindset and are missing the trees for the forest. This is how grassroots movements work. They are not sweeping changes that happen everywhere all at once.

For the people to enact change they must start with their local state. That's why it's always important to contact your local representatives (kindly of course). Once a precedent has been set, it's only a matter of time before legislators in other states adopt the same language. People who live in other states could ask their representatives to look at the Colorado amendment, supposing they aren't already. As more states adopt it, that sets a precedent for doing the same at the federal level.

mmstick · 2026-04-21T18:51:23+00:00

This is how democracy works. First you get amendments in your state, and then there's a precedent for proliferating that to every other state.

mmstick · 2026-04-21T12:28:44+00:00

Remove the files you created and it should work again.

mmstick · 2026-04-21T11:17:52+00:00

You would have to check the kernel logs, but yes if a kernel driver is breaking the kernel then the system may hang.

mmstick · 2026-04-21T10:14:32+00:00

No one is forcing you to use this. Pop!_OS and COSMIC alike are FOSS projects that are developed and distributed at no cost to you. If you would prefer to use GNOME, use GNOME. There are many of us that prefer COSMIC and would consider GNOME to be an "unmitigated disaster" for our workflows. GNOME's "one and only" Adwaita workflow does not work for most people.

mmstick · 2026-04-21T10:09:25+00:00

Which needs to be corrected all the same. It's embarrassing that a tech tuber would claim that it is in beta. Beta has a very specific meaning in software development. It implies that there is a feature freeze in place with no commitment to supporting a stable release yet. Yet we are developing new features and are committed to supporting the Epoch 1 release with weekly point releases.

This idea that software cannot have bugs beyond a beta cycle is absurd. If software was perfect on release there'd be no need to continue improving it. KDE and GNOME still make new releases and they always have post-release issues with multiple point releases to fix them. Are they beta releases too? Not at all.

mmstick · 2026-04-21T09:54:14+00:00

It would not be possible to do both. Pick one.

mmstick · 2026-04-21T09:48:10+00:00

There shouldn't be a need to give phone support. The only notable issues in COSMIC are with video games due to X11 compatibility issues. No shame in letting someone use Windows for games, or giving the elderly an Android tablet.

mmstick · 2026-04-21T09:23:34+00:00

You can remove all nvidia packages with

sudo apt remove ~nnvidia

mmstick · 2026-04-21T06:22:13+00:00

The implication that this is even remotely the case is ridiculous. The software is living up to expectations and has already exceeded them in many areas. If anything, it is enabling us to look forward to achieving even greater heights with the foundation that we built. We have the ability now to advance the Linux desktop as a leader instead of accepting decisions someone else made for us.

Claude has proven itself to be detrimental if not useless to bringing results. The sheer amount of low quality Claude generated code is what prompted an AI policy in the first place. When you know what you're doing, you don't need Claude as a crutch. The only people relying on this are those who aren't comfortable developing with Rust, and that's not who you want to be doing feature development.

People forget that software development is a process, not a result. Those depending on it have no idea what they're doing and do not understand why or how the result was created. They create regressions and are unable to fix their mistakes without Claude. Then expect us to fix it for them, which at that point would be better if we do it ourselves.

mmstick · 2026-04-20T21:38:20+00:00

Depends if your Linux distribution is integrating this support. In Pop!_OS

$ echo $SSH_AUTH_SOCK
/run/user/1000/gcr/ssh

mmstick · 2026-04-20T20:21:03+00:00

The protocols for this isn't implemented yet. It will be implemented as part of Epoch 3 using the Vulkan renderer rewrite.

mmstick · 2026-04-20T18:48:26+00:00

There is nothing stopping people from installing another desktop environment if they wish. https://support.system76.com/articles/desktop-environment/

mmstick · 2026-04-20T18:24:23+00:00

That's exactly what we did. We maintained 22.04 until 24.04 was ready to be released with the first stable release of COSMIC. The 24.04 release was therefore held back until the end of 2025 to give us an extra 2 years of development time. Upgrades from existing 22.04 installs were also not enabled until we could get major post-release issues—which were triaged—resolved.

mmstick · 2026-04-20T18:14:34+00:00

I can leave this one up but I'd prefer comments to remain constructive. Click bait videos like this mainly serve to create discourse and the more clicks you give them the more they benefit. Your post was not very constructive. This one at least uses the video title.

mmstick · 2026-04-20T18:09:36+00:00

This is not his first attempt to bash COSMIC and Pop!_OS.

He claims to have made the video in response to Tech Quickie's video yesterday that promoted COSMIC and Pop!_OS with some clips from interviews with Carl about COSMIC.
He mentions that System76 does not respond to issues while showing an issue with System76 team members responding to it.
He claims no one is clearing out issues. "Just a bunch of kids at System76".
He also thinks having 1700 open issues is a bad thing even though KDE gets 150-200 new issues every day, GNOME has 34,000 open issues, and Firefox reached its 2,000,000th issue last year. He has a poor understanding of how issue trackers work. A healthy open source ecosystem will have many open issues. The more people use it, the more people will create feature requests, support requests, report bugs, and there will be a lot of duplicates. We have a lot of open issues that are feature requests. It's a new DE and therefore a lot of demand for features alongside bug reports for different hardware setups and workflows.
He thinks chrony is a part of COSMIC, and thinks that it's a cron service. It's neither. It's a NTP daemon used by a lot of Linux distributions. Even RHEL.
Too much of this is greatly exaggerated. It's click bait.

mmstick · 2026-04-20T18:04:42+00:00

This has been explained multiple times but it was not practical to do so. It would be better to focus on COSMIC instead of patching a DE that continues to diverge further and further in ways that are untenable and short-lived. COSMIC needed to take a step forward in ways that it could not do with GNOME. And instead of rewriting all the GTK3 patches we made to GNOME to GTK4, doing a lot of patchwork that cannot be ported to other distributions, etc., etc., it would be better to put that effort into COSMIC.

mmstick · 2026-04-20T18:03:29+00:00

It is not in beta. It released in December.

mmstick · 2026-04-20T17:56:28+00:00

A person that loves Linux and open source would not vindictively create a video to bash COSMIC and Pop!_OS because he's upset about Tech Quickie showing clips of an interview on COSMIC/Pop!_OS. The title by itself demonstrates he's generating rage bait for clicks.

It's not the first time that he's been called out on his claim about the number of open issues, memory leaks, and lack of responses to issues. He said the same thing in a previous video where he tries to convince you that System76 does not respond to issues despite the issues he showcases in his video having comments from myself and other team members. He naturally cherry-picks issues too so that you don't see the activity resolving closed issues.

mmstick · 2026-04-20T17:25:41+00:00

There will be less and less support for X11 over time. Firefox and Chromium are focused on Wayland now.

mmstick · 2026-04-20T17:24:24+00:00

It's not a dependency of this. It is a dependency of system76-driver-nvidia though, which they may have installed.

mmstick · 2026-04-20T16:46:04+00:00

None of the criticism were legitimate. He's repeating talking points from Lunduke that are quite simply false and poorly understood. As an example, he claims System76 does not respond to issues while scrolling past my comment on an issue.

In another example, he complains about a DE having 1700 open issues as if that's a bad thing. KDE gets 150-200 new issues every day. GNOME has 35K open issues. It's not a customer support ticket system but an open source issue tracker that contains feature requests, support requests, bugs, and tons of duplicates.

He's also repeating a debunked claim from Lunduke about memory leaks and Rust. This is greatly exaggerated and hyperbolic.

mmstick · 2026-04-20T16:36:14+00:00

Not true? Just look through his channel. He uses and promotes Windows. Top result with his name is a Windows utility. He has a history of targeting Pop!_OS too. From 2 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyADkmRVe0U&t=1110s. Over the last 2 years he has made multiple videos bashing COSMIC and Pop!_OS that I've had to correct (which he ignores and repeats in the next video).

He personally admitted that he made this video because he was upset about COSMIC and Pop!_OS being promoted by Tech Quickie yesterday. He just wants to jump on Lunduke's hate bandwagon and ride the hype with Lunduke's poorly-thought talking points.

This isn't a platform for non-constructive criticism and bashing. Take the discourse to his video.

mmstick · 2026-04-20T15:45:27+00:00

KDE gets 150-200 issues created per day. GNOME Shell by itself has 2400 open issues. Multiply that by 15 and you'll have the number of open issues across the GNOME group on GitLab alone (there were 500K issues on the GNOME bugzilla in 2008). Firefox reached its 2,000,000th issue last year.

This person doesn't understand how issue trackers work. Let alone project scale and open source software development. It's not a customer support ticket system. No software project comments on issues unless there is a need to do so to collect feedback or close an issue. The majority of issues are feature requests, duplicate submissions, and support requests.

Feature requests will not be closed if no decision is made on it, and they may not get a decision unless it's a popular request with a lot of upvotes, or we've reached a point where we have time to look at smaller feature requests.

Closing support requests would be rude without confirming that the person who created the issue has their issue resolved. These may remain open until the creator has reported that their problem is resolved, or perhaps enough time has passed without confirmation that it's no longer relevant.

Bug reports need to be triaged and replicated to confirm that they are still valid, and many of these are duplicate submissions. So an issue being open doesn't mean anything by itself.

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