doodoo_wizard

I am also not excited for the year of the linux desktop. It’s genuinely gonna suck.

They are waiting for a new jurisprudence that has decided how police are expected to respond to information from the panopticon.

If the new decisions end up painting a picture where it’s okay to be shown hearsay by the panopticon then as long as there’s a sound investigation and solid evidence they’ll be able to keep using these systems, now with codified policies.

If it comes down that cops aren’t supposed to look at the panopticon then they will just sell them off to people who can (the prison system) and cover up everything they did as best as is possible.

It lowkey literally is. They make these stretchy pull over balaclava things as athletic wear that you can pull up over your face.

You can always cover your face in public. Islam is the light.

Just cover your face in public

E: Islam is the light

Everything works fine. Stop worrying.

If you want to be 100% sure (and this is smart in general in all of life!), open a bank account and get a credit card tied to it for payments. Go to taobao or AliExpress or something where Alipay or WeChat are used and try them out with your new financial details.

It doesn’t matter what credit card you get because credit cards are an incredibly not private method of paying for stuff and merchants, processors and everyone else are strongly incentivized to collect and sell user transaction data.

This is going to sound counterintuitive, but don’t get a vpn to bypass the firewall if you don’t have a non-espionage reason to do so. The reason I say that is you’re pitting yourself against a nations cybersecurity people and there’s a good chance they’re smarter than you. It would be better to be able to say “I saw on reddit that I could use this vpn to access this forum for a game I play” and then show the cops all your cringey posts and your hundreds of hours of playtime than to say “I wasn’t doing anything!” or “I just value my privacy!”.

People used to use alsa directly (he’ll, I used to use oss directly).

When pulseaudio came along it broke a bunch of stuff and had a lot of problems but there was massive institutional pressure to adopt it because everyone wanted a unified framework.

Pipewire provides that framework and doesn’t break like pulse did. Admittedly pulse has gotten better but still sucks to interact with.

I made that statement right after suggesting the op stick with the x11 plasma branch until a maintained fork appears.

It’s not exactly a one to one comparison.

Idk how long you’ve been around linux. Theres another old timer itt who brings up some of the things i will.

People get popular support for saying Linus is a jerk. I never met the guy so idk. When I look back on decades of using the operating system with many components failing to be maintained because their creators couldn’t keep going, their lives changed or they simply lost interest, soulless grifters like poettering ruining the experience for the rest of us and the community in general struggling to stay afloat in the waves and eddies created by the motion of massive multinationals and governments swimming beneath our feet, I understand his behavior.

Wayland is another in a long line of rushed rollouts that don’t consider your use case because it’s not for you.

I truly hope someone picks up maintaining and patching plasma, but if it’s anything like past times, consider sticking with the old branch. If that seems like a dead end, maybe switch to a distribution with lts versioning.

Remember how many people stuck with alsa until pipewire came along.

The year of the linux desktop is gonna be a rough one.

You can’t turn back the clock. Meaningful changes require a different social relationship between people and production.

The reason I asked that is 3.5” drives can’t operate from usb bus 5v like 2.5” ones can and you didnt specify.

Have you tried hot plugging the drive into the dock while it’s plugged into the computer? If the usb sata controller is slow on the uptake it might miss the relatively narrow chance to report to the pc what’s going on.

Don’t worry about damaging your drives doing that btw, it’s extremely unlikely that you have a disk whose firmware doesn’t support it and all sata ports support it electrically.

As an addendum: is the drive even good? Do you have a known functional disk to test with?

E: oh yeah, on the off chance that the disk is uninitialized get everything plugged up and do an lsblk to show the various block devices. Sometimes if I plug up a disk with no partition table or superblock or whatever gpt uses nothing happens but lsblk shows it and I can mess with it.

Do you have it plugged into the wall?

In the ops defense, they’re probably not accounting for their labor and calling anything in between cost+parts and sale price “profit”.