Do you by any chance happen to own a (plugged in) VR headset or another device that would consume a lot of USB throughput? I had the exact same issue with my g502 and my problem was that I had plugged in the headset into a port connected to the chip set rather than the CPU directly.

To diagnose, try unplugging every USB device you don’t immediately need, that sort of thing.

Well that’s the thing though, he claims he did a bunch of stuff at Microsoft and all of it is conveniently very fun to say in a YouTube video for views but literally none of it is verifiable. It would be fine if he was trustworthy but he’s also going around claiming “as an intern, I shipped a lot of major features” which that’s just straight up false, interns don’t do that.

At the very least, I would take all claims made on his wikipedia article that are not immediately followed by a citation with a massive grain of salt.

The fact he then went on to sell registry cleaners and support contracts is telling.

You can strip exit data in less than 1ms on a phone processor in 90 lines of js btw https://github.com/Coteh/exifremove/blob/master/src/exifremove.js

You’re delusional if you think FAANGs don’t harvest the shit out of every single but of data they can get on you, including exif.

Every site that allows image upload in existence now strips this data by default, but they do it on their server so they can get it first.

He has streamed path of exile 2 which is pc-only.

It’s really just that Linux is the only thing where it’s possible to run an envient version on modern hardware

Publishers under the impression that they somehow deserve “billion of dollars” more money than they already get for checks notes being a middleman.

I suggest you put the Markov chain stuff in spoilers, that way it’s easier to ignore.

Oh yeah definitely, that’s a major problem that’s specifically created by this policy.

It prevents you from jobs like airline pilots, the rationale being that placing someone potentially suicidal in control of a plane full of people isn’t a good idea. The rationale doesn’t really make total sense but you can see why they’d think that way.

1. yes you do. A good distro I recommend newbies is Linux Mint, because it’s visually similar to windows. Another great option for beginners is Pop!OS, because the developers take more care to automate things that you might encounter when first starting to use Linux. Overall, it doesn’t really matter that much what distribution you choose in terms of what software is available, it all comes down to design choices that change how hard things are to do (but reward you with more customization, of course)

2. you will not be able to play some games that have an anticheat that forbids linux. The main culprit is EasyAntiCheat (while it does support linux, enabling that support is a choice by the game’s developer). The main games I have noticed can’t work are Fortnite (EAC), Hunt: showdown (EAC), league of legends & Valorant (Vanguard), R6 Siege (EAC) and PUBG (EAC). You can use protondb to learn what games in your steam library are known to simply not work.

Don’t expect games that you own on the windows store to work at all (this includes Xbox game pass). Most of them are available on steam, but that requires buying them again.

Most of the other stuff works, generally. Valve’s Proton supports a very large part of most games today, and unless the game you want to launch is very old or specifically doesn’t want you to use Linux, chances are the game will work first try, especially indies. Protondb is a great help to see what parameters one needs to use to make it work if it doesn’t first try. Make sure to “enable proton compatibility for all games” in steam’s main options, otherwise it won’t let you download game.

For tools that aren’t on steam but target steam games (for example mod managers), you should use protontricks (it’s most likely in your distro’s package manager, you don’t need to download it from GitHub) to launch the tool’s exe inside of the proton context of that game (steam maintains a separate pseudo-windows install (a “wine prefix”) for each game that uses proton). From there, the tool will behave as if you launched it on windows.

For tools that stand alone, you can add them to steam as a non-steam game and in it’s properties, force it to use proton, which allows you to launch e.g. cracked games. I also recommend using Bottles to manage your third-party launchers.

3. most likely you’ll be fine. You’re unlikely to encounter any issues that haven’t been encountered by anyone before, so don’t hesitate to Google and to ask for help on various forums. You don’t need to know how to program to use Linux, though it does unlock some pretty nice things (it also does on windows for that matter)

4. windows 10 LTSC will continue being available for a few years. If you need a windows partition (imo you only do need it if you want to play games that have restrictive anticheat), I suggest installing it on a separate disk altogether, because windows tends to not play nice with other partitions on the same disk, and will create headaches you could have avoided.

5. welcome! I hope you’ll enjoy your time away from ads in the start menu.

Also, if someone claims asylum, international law explicitly forbids sending them back to their country (not that international law has any bearing whatsoever on this but y’know, add a layer on top)

I mean, signing a change.org petition has resulted in absolutely nothing, ever, so it’s not like your vote is exactly vital here

Who fucking cares what the reddit mod of /r/macos thinks man…

My latest project runs on a VM I use vscode’s ssh editing feature on. I edit the only copy of the file in existence (I have made no backup and there is no version control) and then I restart the systems service.

So what if I mess it up? Big deal. The discord bot goes down for a few minutes and I fix it.

Same goes for the machine configs. Ideally the machines are stable, the critical ones get backups, and if they aren’t stable then I suppose the best way to fix it would be in prod ( my VMs run debian, they’re stable).

XY problem: you’d spend more efforts and resources sourcing and installing this thing (that I’m pretty sure doesn’t exist) rather than fix the existing sensor that’s already in the mouse. Fix the existing sensor that’s in the mouse.

You can also use yt music revanced.

Yeah it does

Doesn’t this mean that the system is never up to date? If so, please don’t.

Not on Google. They work on kagi and I assume they do on DDG/searx etc