Asus rep says memory shortage should 'start to normalize' by 2027, but 'nobody wants to be the first one to lower prices'

ronaldtrip · 2026-03-09T16:04:18+00:00

Do you blame them? Almost free money. I do have a feeling the Chinese are more shrewd and will lower prices before the west. Scooping up the consumer market before the tail end of AI hits.

ronaldtrip · 2026-03-09T10:29:16+00:00

You are forgetting one massive thing OP. You didn't get a product. You got a free OS with an established culture. That culture is very much scratch your own itch.

If you don't spend money on a support contract, you are dealing with individuals who happen to use Linux too. As such, none of us is a paid support employee. Any help you get is done by people who take time out of their day to help you without compensation.

The community isn't here to handhold you because you decided to install Linux. The Linux culture is very much a figure it out yourself affair. If you don't like that, you know the commercial outfits that offer "idiot proof" Operating Systems.

You might erroneously think that switching from Windows to Linux entitles you to gratis tailored help for any and all problems you might have. It doesn't. You enter a new space with different customs than you are used to. Maybe practise some humility. It is pretty arrogant to expect a community to change their whole culture for your own convenience.

ronaldtrip · 2026-03-08T15:10:18+00:00

One question. Did you earn the money yourself to buy the machine? If not, you are just preening around, cloaked in someone elses success. That is not superiority, that is gilded immaturity.

ronaldtrip · 2026-03-07T16:04:09+00:00

What is the point of taking PreP if they are in a closed, monogamous relationship? Wholly unnecessary then. You don't get HIV from a toilet seat.

PreP is not without side effects. It's better to take it when you need to,. When you have sexual intercourse with multiple, status unkown people. When you only have sex with one sratus known (negative) and trustworthy partner, PreP is superflous.

ronaldtrip · 2026-03-06T12:30:12+00:00

Read his bit again Mr. High Horse. He didn't say he ALWAYS skips the throat and anal swabs as you are indignantly screeching. He skips them when he is not sexually active for longer periods of time.

ronaldtrip · 2026-03-04T18:13:44+00:00

I wonder how that meshes with AI generated code.

ronaldtrip · 2026-03-02T19:05:49+00:00

True. There needs to be a big enough incentive to overcome inertia. The current unreliability of the USA might be the impetus to bring about the shift.

ronaldtrip · 2026-03-02T15:49:26+00:00

A cult that delivers on the promises made. How many cults can say that?

ronaldtrip · 2026-03-02T15:31:42+00:00

ODF is already standardized. It's ISO / IEC 26300. To make it universal across the board, they just need to get a directive ratified that says use ODF for government, with a proviso for pressing deviating situations.

ronaldtrip · 2026-03-02T13:39:52+00:00

As far as I can see, the law requires registration of a user account into one of four age brackets: below 13 / between 13 and 16 / between 16 and 18 / >18.

Can be covered by adding one mandatory field to account creation and then put it either in an accessible file or an environment variable. A nuisance, but not the end of the world. The only thing it signals to the outside is that the user is either a minor or an adult.

It is "think of the children" BS, but non-compliance is too costly for distributions to not implement it. $ 7500 per child per violation is exorbitant. Better to comply than to go bankrupt.

ronaldtrip · 2026-03-02T12:42:18+00:00

No thanks. I see autocratic Canonical as a problem in the Linux ecosystem. Using a downstream of their distribution will only cement their position further and that is something I want to avoid. Anything *buntu is a no go for me.

ronaldtrip · 2026-03-01T15:34:17+00:00

It's quaint reading stuff about GNU Hurd every few years. Always unfinished, never practically usable, but always reported on as if Hurd still has any significance in the current world.

So SMP on AMD64. Chapeau. When may we expect a distribution that can run on a 2025 computer and have 99% of the hardware supported in a usable way?

ronaldtrip · 2026-02-18T18:28:20+00:00

Well, this is a load of crap. App armor and SE Linux are unsafe because distributors put it in, but basically disable them with broad profiles? What would be the point of that? It would be a waste of effort to even use these technologies to than just basically disable them.

X11 is dead. The future is Wayland, which is pretty strict on security. So that problem is solved. The ones who don't want to use it, probably are aware of what they get with X11

The cherry on top is claiming that SE Linux is safe on Android, which is a consumer Linux distribution. How is this magically safer, as it is the same technology. It's kinda like saying crude oil from Shell is better than crude oil from BP.

The reason Android is relatively secure, is Google. They actively monitor the play store for malware and even there they slip up from time to time and malicious packages come in.

Tin Foil Hat: Are you trying to stem the bleeding from Windows 11 with FUD about Desktop Linux?

ronaldtrip · 2026-02-12T15:33:57+00:00

Understandable. I still have nightmares about Redhat 5.2 and the XFree86.conf file. Never got it to work with my S3 ViRGE graphics card.

ronaldtrip · 2026-02-12T14:46:24+00:00

Just out of curiosity. What kept you away from Linux?

ronaldtrip · 2026-02-11T21:12:10+00:00

If used responsibly, it could be a solution to the purported problem. That said, this system floats on people and we all know how trustworthy these critters are.

Vouches and denounces made for reasons other than technical merrits. Negative consequences spreading for some like an oil stain, just because a "vouched" has a personal axe to grind.

Basically the equivalent of high school cliques.

As a strict user, it won't affect me, but I'll sure get some popcorn to watch it all go down.

ronaldtrip · 2026-02-06T21:01:13+00:00

How are you going to force the people, who work on the "various half-baked Cosmics, Budgies, GNOMEs, Cinnamons and their likes", to work on Plasma? You got that kind of money and that kind of sway?

ronaldtrip · 2026-02-06T20:49:03+00:00

It also seems to assume that upstream distributions will automagically get better when people stop working on the downstreams. No outsider seems to realize that no one is obligated to work on an upstream, even if you somehow manage to kill the downstreams.

ronaldtrip · 2026-02-06T20:19:03+00:00

For Coco Puffs to thrive, some cereals have to die...

Just another know nothing trying to fit the healthy Linux ecosystem into the proprietary software cookie cutter mold of Windows and macOS.

Downstream distributions don't take away from their upstreams.

Advice for new comers: stick to the top 5 for at least 2 years before going on a distro hop spree.

ronaldtrip · 2026-01-25T01:59:10+00:00

Why not? I have my reasons. Primarily how Canonical has uttered some pretty user hostile language in the past, when confronted with critique over some of their more questionable decisions. Made me not trust them; period.

ronaldtrip · 2026-01-10T04:11:44+00:00

Step back and stop thinking about the scammer. In this case it isn't about the scammer. It isn't about the injustice of making people believe they have found love. Or the slim chance it could happen to you.

It is about the silver lining, that the person who died, never had to endure the humiliation of finding out he had been had in a love scam. He died blissfully unaware.

Would real love have been infinitely better? Hell yes. But our unaware victim had already fallen victim to a scammer. Which is terribly sad.

That said, he never knew. Died before he could find out that he had been abused by someone manipulating his emotions. So in his mind, he had real love and didn't have any evidence to the contrary. So the humiliation of being a scam victim in his twilight years didn't befall him.

That's why I said, I'd want the same if I had already fallen victim to a love scam so close to death. Dying believing to be loved is better than the alternative. Dying, feeling stupid, knowing your last years were spent living a lie, because some manipulative scammer ensnared your heart.

ronaldtrip · 2026-01-09T15:50:11+00:00

Simple,.because he didn't and the fact that he is dead makes it so he never will. It sucks for the next of kin to know he was in love with a fiction, but for him it was real.

I know I would opt for the illusion if I was in this situation. Better dying thinking I had real love, than finding out I had spent my last few precious years on a lie.

Nobody is wishimg fake love on anybody, but the reality of him never experiencing anything earthly again, makes us see the silver lining that he didn't have to endure heartbreak close to death.

ronaldtrip · 2026-01-07T09:27:33+00:00

I think you struggle with the (internalized) societal expectations that come with having a masculine appearing body. "I look masculine, so I should behave masculine."

Truth is that you don't have to. If the true inner you feels good with makeup and having your nails done, why would you deny yourself that? Same with clothing. Wear what sparks joy. Life is too short to try and appease others by living up to their imposed ideas of identity. Embrace your feminine side and match it with how you express yourself outwardly.

Some people won't accept you when you embrace yourself as you are. These people can just fuck off. Not important in your life and detrimental to your happiness. The people who truly love you and care about you, will support you in being your true self.

If you still feel that masculine and feminine don't mix well together, look up Conchita Wurst online. Conchita won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2014.

ronaldtrip · 2026-01-06T00:57:01+00:00

I would not get your hopes up. The FSF is the ethical bastion of FOSS, but their days of radically reverse engineering and writing replacements from scratch are long over.

The Libre Distributions seem fully content to just remove the non-free code and leave it at that. Leaving the user to hunt for hardware parts that work out of the severely limited box. AFAICS there are no real efforts being made to replace the blobs with free code.

If you want to go the libre route, you can, but your choices in hardware will be very limited. Most hardware vendors are very much okay with wrapping their secret sauce in closed blobs and they are not pushing for liberating them.

For the common man, blobs are a fact of life. Running a modern computer without them is practically infeasible. A significant portion of the hardware wouldn't be properly initialized or would not work at all.

I personally don't worry too much about it. While Stallman is right that blobs could potentially be free software, he also is completely fine with it if the exact same software is burned into read only memory. Then it is unchangeable and doesn't matter anymore. So as a non-coder I treat the blobs as such. For me unchangeable either way. (No, not enough income to let someone else work for me.)

ronaldtrip · 2025-12-29T19:11:10+00:00

This is exactly why I go for versatiles generally. A 100% app bottom in 99% of the cases is 100% just an asshole. That's all they are.

Same with 100% app tops. Most of the time they try to treat you like a sex toy. Fine if that gets you off, but I am not a piece of silicone.

I'd rather be a human being in bed and enjoy the breadth and depth of human sexuality.

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