Ok, fine, I switched to Ubuntu MATE and within 5 minutes of adding the nVidia PPA for the latest drivers the system crashed and wouldn't boot anymore due to kernel/nvidia driver issues.
Why did you need to use a PPA for that? The drivers are already in Ubuntu's repos and while I can't say about the Mate-version at least in the Unity-version you just clicky-clicky a few times through the settings-app's "Additional drivers" or whatever its name was to download and turn them on.
I can't say about using proprietary, premade devices like Nest, but if you're willing to use Arduinos/ESP8266/whatnot and do a bit of programming you can use an OpenWRT-based router to run an MQTT-broker, or you can use a separate device like e.g. a Raspberry Pi for that and then Arduino/ESP8266/whatever for toggling of relays or logging power-consumption or temperatures or whatever you want automated. You don't actually have to connect any of the stuff to the Internet at all, or you can use an MQTT-client over an SSH-tunnel, or write your own front-end using Apache2 and PHP or a billion different other ways if you want it reachable from the Internet, too -- you have full control over what can and what can't be done over the Internet or if any of it can be accessed from the Internet at all.
This is, however, obviously the hard, DIY way of doing it. If you want an easy plug-and-pray system I have no idea if there even exists anything that doesn't share your stuff with 3rd parties. I, not-so-surprisingly, am in favour of the hard way that doesn't share everything with random, greedy 3rd-parties.
The obvious question was, wait a minute, how do you know what they *never* show unless you're up every night at 2AM watching their porn?
Are you just stupid or are you having a particularly bad day or something? There are fucking plenty of opportunities to see their marketing-stuff without ever visiting their website, and their marketing-stuff is obviously not the same thing as the porn-videos themselves on the website. Your comparison just doesn't fly, I wasn't speaking about Pornhub's actual content, I was talking about their marketing-stuff -- two entirely different things.
I love Pornhub-folks' sense of humour: they often have hilarious and creative ad-campaigns and posters and whatnot and they seemingly fully condone of the various silly shenanigans the community decides to randomly whip up. I have no need for Pornhub's content myself, but I do like their attitude and I wish more companies were as creative and funny with their marketing -- at least Pornhub's stuff nearly always gets a hearty chuckle out of me, instead of making me go all frownyface and groaning out loud in annoyance like most advertising does!
..when the Netflix - app restricts video-quality to 480p anyways unless your phone/tablet is Widevine L1 - certified! Both my phone and tablet have 1080p - displays, 480p just looks fucking atrocious:(
Personally, I find "simultaneously" to be a better term here than either "at once" or "at the same time." Alas, it's totally not a topic worth nitpicking about.
All I see is talk about misogyny, but misandry is no more acceptable and should be talked about as well. Personally, I despise people who engage in either stuff I certainly do not approve of certain kinds of girls/women disguising their misandry as "feminism."
I have all the previous Fallout-games, including Fallout Tactics, and.. well, I was bored with Fallout 4 already before I was half-way through with the mainline story. The game is surprisingly dumb, things just keep repeating over and over and over and nothing you do really seems to have any effect on the gameworld, like e.g. you go and help a settlement, then 30 minutes later the same settlement has the exact same trouble again, and again, and again, and again... Similarly, you go and kill enemies off one area, go barely 500 meters in some direction and come back and POOF -- new ones have spawned. Also, the enemies were either god damn enormous bulletsponges that could take several nukes in the face or they were made of paper and sugar and died as soon as you looked in their general direction, never being balanced in any way or form. That dogmeat? Oh, geesh, that fucking piece of shit is in your way all the god damn time, not letting you go through doorways or getting out from behind a desk or running on top of a corpse you're trying to loot and so on.
The game is a boring mess and instead of progressing and improving from previous ones it took several steps back.
You must have misunderstood something, I didn't say anything about having to press buttons to block ads. I was very specifically talking about disabling the whitelist -- once it's disabled there is no practical difference between uBlock Origin or Adblock Plus, you know, and disabling the whitelist is a one-time operation that literally takes a few seconds. If one already has Adblock Plus installed then uninstalling Adblock Plus and installing uBlock Origin is more work than just disabling the whitelist.
You stopped using it altogether instead of just, you know, clicking three (I just checked!) times and moving the mouse a bit to disable the whitelist? I could understand if you had some other reasons why you quit with it, but quitting because disabling the whitelist was too much work for you?
But absolutely trivial to do on a RAMDisk. This seems like a solution in search of a problem, however said problem was solved long ago with far superior capability.
Do explain how to share that RAMdisk between tens of thousands of processes running on multiple different systems, possibly handling petabytes of data and needing redundancy, too? Oh, right, RAMdisks can't handle such needs.
You're talking about BIOS graphics mode 13, MCGA 320x200 x256 colors onscreen pallet with an available color selection for those 256 palette entries of 24bits per R,G, or B.
Minor nitpick: the colour-palette only had a depth of 18 bits, ie. 6 bits per channel, not 24 bits.
dmenu instead of unity launcher, then pick your window manager e.g i3wm... done.
Personally, I like Cinnamon as my desktop-environment when using Linux. It's clean and tasteful, without being too dumbed-down or anything. Too bad the version in 16.04's repos is, at least for now, still quite broken -- every time I install removable media something goes wonky with the desktop and the icons I have there. Still, even as-is, Cinnamon sure beats Unity in usability IMHO.
If you mean the setting about including results from Amazon when you're searching for things in the launcher: the option is still there, but it does default to off and you have to manually go and turn it on if you want those results.
I do not disagree about the support, I disagree with the anon's post. As I said in the other Odroid C2-advertisement that was just recently posted here, RPi seems like it has the most longevity of the various ARM SBCs for now -- it even has a FOSS GPU-driver now (a work-in-progress, but nevertheless), capable of full OpenGL instead of just GLES, and that's not something any of the other boards can claim.
If one was looking for SBCs I'd recommend the RPi over the others, even if it has worse specs, simply because of the promise of better longevity and larger community. If/when they release the RPi4 I do wonder if they'll go with Videocore V -- the community is already familiar with Videocore IV, so that familiarity and knowledge might aid in porting everything over to Videocore V faster than to something entirely alien.
As opposed to 4K video at 60 fps on the ODroid? Depending on how to slice that up you should be able to transcode 2 or 4 Full HD streams at 30 fps at the same time.
You're mixing up encoding and decoding. The S905 can't encode at 4K @ 60FPS, it only does 1080p @ 60 FPS encoding.
RPi is a video capture/processing chip (Broadcom VideoCore) with an ARM co-processor. Compresses, manipulates, and streams Full HD input video in real-time.
ODroid has no video input at all (the product page suggests getting a USB camera which performs its own compression, because the ODroid could never keep up)
Ok, probably most users care more about the general-purpose ARM cores and Linux than the VideoCore, but it's just wrong to say that ODroid "has the same cores but faster", when the biggest portion of BCM2837, the VideoCore, is completely absent from the ODroid.
Incorrect. The Odroid-C2 uses the Amlogic S905 SoC which does have a built-in encoding/decoding block. It supports much higher resolutions and framerates than RPi, including formats the RPi's Videocore IV doesn't support at all; Videocore IV doesn't support e.g. HEVC, let alone 10-bit HEVC, whereas the S905 does do both.
but typically replace (at least) kernel and bootloader with custom versions
Um, how else do you expect them to do it? Ubuntu cannot support every possible board out there. ARM-hardware is a wild, wild west and not nearly as standardized as x86, with nearly each and every board requiring u-boot specifically built for that specific board -- there is no generic build that you can distribute that'd work on even a fraction of all of them.
also often not being available in (buildable-) source.
It looks like the AC is talking about two different things. You got an answer about metamoderation, but there is also mod points which is normal moderation.
Ah, yes, that clarifies it a tad.
Mod points are only given to users with excellent karma (I think), which shows on this page: https://slashdot.org/~Gaygirli... but I think only for you. I seem to get 5 or 15 points a week to use to moderate posts, which is done by clicking on a drop box that shows next to the Share link on the bottom of each post, but only when you have mod points.
If you have excellent karma, and still don't get mod points ever, it may be that your account was blacklisted by an editor for something, but that would be an unusual thing for them to do. Whipslash may be able to look into it and let you know why you never get mod points.
Yeah, I've never gotten any mod-points, ever, and thus no such option to moderate posts, even though it's always said my karma is excellent. Odd.
I created an account several months ago and I'm not eligible to metamoderate. My account has excellent karma. Why is this? I understand that the newest users probably shouldn't get mod points right away, but why not make it a few weeks after account creation? It seems like a bigger pool of moderators and metamoderators would be better.
I've never been able to moderate, even though I've been here for several years now. I don't even know how one is supposed to moderate posts, but I assume you get something to click on when viewing posts -- if so, I've never had those. I don't really mind it all that much as I don't generally downvote/downmoderate things anywhere else either, and the posts that I would upvote/upmoderate tend to get upvoted anyways; it's just been a bit puzzling as I've been under the impression that I should have been able to moderate at least some posts by now, after the several years I been here.
You are confusing things. The drivers are part of the kernel's sources, but you can either build them compiled-in or as modules that are then loaded when needed.
People fight about SystemD, various open source licenses, differences between DEs, filesystems, but at the same time there's these fundamental problems which should get way more attention. Sometimes it feels like we are in a house arguing what kind of wallpapers bring the best experience, while that same wall is infested with mold inside.
You're setting up a false dichotomy, there: the fact that some people are designing filesystems or DEs or Systemd or such isn't necessarily away from progress on the ACPI-stuff and the likes. Not everyone knows enough about ACPI, for example, to be able to contribute anything useful, so them working on something else doesn't hinder the progress on the ACPI-stuff in the least.
Also, not everyone agrees with your priorities, like e.g. a lot of people deem work on filesystems more important than getting ACPI totally right -- not everyone needs working suspend, not everyone is running Linux on a broken laptop, but filesystems? Improvements in them are likely to have a much wider area of effect.
I don't have an Odroid-C2, but I'm not sure it even supports decoding of video in hardware under Linux at all at the moment. If it had to be decoding video in software and display it on an unaccelerated X-framebuffer... well, yeah, you'd probably be looking at some dropped frames. I would recommend going on their IRC-channel #odroid on Freenode and asking what the status of hardware video-decoding on the C2 is; I may or may not have outdated information regarding that.
Kodi, as far as I've understood, should work under Android just fine, though -- there are several Android media-boxes out there that use the same SoC and Kodi works great on them. The SoC is great for that stuff since it supports a whole range of stuff, including 10-bit HEVC. Google e.g. Mini MX if you're interested in just a low-power Kodi-box. I wouldn't bother going with the Odroid just for Kodi, though.
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Ok, fine, I switched to Ubuntu MATE and within 5 minutes of adding the nVidia PPA for the latest drivers the system crashed and wouldn't boot anymore due to kernel/nvidia driver issues.
Why did you need to use a PPA for that? The drivers are already in Ubuntu's repos and while I can't say about the Mate-version at least in the Unity-version you just clicky-clicky a few times through the settings-app's "Additional drivers" or whatever its name was to download and turn them on.
I can't say about using proprietary, premade devices like Nest, but if you're willing to use Arduinos/ESP8266/whatnot and do a bit of programming you can use an OpenWRT-based router to run an MQTT-broker, or you can use a separate device like e.g. a Raspberry Pi for that and then Arduino/ESP8266/whatever for toggling of relays or logging power-consumption or temperatures or whatever you want automated. You don't actually have to connect any of the stuff to the Internet at all, or you can use an MQTT-client over an SSH-tunnel, or write your own front-end using Apache2 and PHP or a billion different other ways if you want it reachable from the Internet, too -- you have full control over what can and what can't be done over the Internet or if any of it can be accessed from the Internet at all.
This is, however, obviously the hard, DIY way of doing it. If you want an easy plug-and-pray system I have no idea if there even exists anything that doesn't share your stuff with 3rd parties. I, not-so-surprisingly, am in favour of the hard way that doesn't share everything with random, greedy 3rd-parties.
The obvious question was, wait a minute, how do you know what they *never* show unless you're up every night at 2AM watching their porn?
Are you just stupid or are you having a particularly bad day or something? There are fucking plenty of opportunities to see their marketing-stuff without ever visiting their website, and their marketing-stuff is obviously not the same thing as the porn-videos themselves on the website. Your comparison just doesn't fly, I wasn't speaking about Pornhub's actual content, I was talking about their marketing-stuff -- two entirely different things.
I love Pornhub-folks' sense of humour: they often have hilarious and creative ad-campaigns and posters and whatnot and they seemingly fully condone of the various silly shenanigans the community decides to randomly whip up. I have no need for Pornhub's content myself, but I do like their attitude and I wish more companies were as creative and funny with their marketing -- at least Pornhub's stuff nearly always gets a hearty chuckle out of me, instead of making me go all frownyface and groaning out loud in annoyance like most advertising does!
..when the Netflix - app restricts video-quality to 480p anyways unless your phone/tablet is Widevine L1 - certified! Both my phone and tablet have 1080p - displays, 480p just looks fucking atrocious :(
Personally, I find "simultaneously" to be a better term here than either "at once" or "at the same time." Alas, it's totally not a topic worth nitpicking about.
All I see is talk about misogyny, but misandry is no more acceptable and should be talked about as well. Personally, I despise people who engage in either stuff I certainly do not approve of certain kinds of girls/women disguising their misandry as "feminism."
I have all the previous Fallout-games, including Fallout Tactics, and.. well, I was bored with Fallout 4 already before I was half-way through with the mainline story. The game is surprisingly dumb, things just keep repeating over and over and over and nothing you do really seems to have any effect on the gameworld, like e.g. you go and help a settlement, then 30 minutes later the same settlement has the exact same trouble again, and again, and again, and again... Similarly, you go and kill enemies off one area, go barely 500 meters in some direction and come back and POOF -- new ones have spawned. Also, the enemies were either god damn enormous bulletsponges that could take several nukes in the face or they were made of paper and sugar and died as soon as you looked in their general direction, never being balanced in any way or form. That dogmeat? Oh, geesh, that fucking piece of shit is in your way all the god damn time, not letting you go through doorways or getting out from behind a desk or running on top of a corpse you're trying to loot and so on.
The game is a boring mess and instead of progressing and improving from previous ones it took several steps back.
You must have misunderstood something, I didn't say anything about having to press buttons to block ads. I was very specifically talking about disabling the whitelist -- once it's disabled there is no practical difference between uBlock Origin or Adblock Plus, you know, and disabling the whitelist is a one-time operation that literally takes a few seconds. If one already has Adblock Plus installed then uninstalling Adblock Plus and installing uBlock Origin is more work than just disabling the whitelist.
You stopped using it altogether instead of just, you know, clicking three (I just checked!) times and moving the mouse a bit to disable the whitelist? I could understand if you had some other reasons why you quit with it, but quitting because disabling the whitelist was too much work for you?
Um, VLC is available straight from Ubuntu's own repos.
But absolutely trivial to do on a RAMDisk. This seems like a solution in search of a problem, however said problem was solved long ago with far superior capability.
Do explain how to share that RAMdisk between tens of thousands of processes running on multiple different systems, possibly handling petabytes of data and needing redundancy, too? Oh, right, RAMdisks can't handle such needs.
You're talking about BIOS graphics mode 13, MCGA 320x200 x256 colors onscreen pallet with an available color selection for those 256 palette entries of 24bits per R,G, or B.
Minor nitpick: the colour-palette only had a depth of 18 bits, ie. 6 bits per channel, not 24 bits.
dmenu instead of unity launcher, then pick your window manager e.g i3wm... done.
Personally, I like Cinnamon as my desktop-environment when using Linux. It's clean and tasteful, without being too dumbed-down or anything. Too bad the version in 16.04's repos is, at least for now, still quite broken -- every time I install removable media something goes wonky with the desktop and the icons I have there. Still, even as-is, Cinnamon sure beats Unity in usability IMHO.
If you mean the setting about including results from Amazon when you're searching for things in the launcher: the option is still there, but it does default to off and you have to manually go and turn it on if you want those results.
I do not disagree about the support, I disagree with the anon's post. As I said in the other Odroid C2-advertisement that was just recently posted here, RPi seems like it has the most longevity of the various ARM SBCs for now -- it even has a FOSS GPU-driver now (a work-in-progress, but nevertheless), capable of full OpenGL instead of just GLES, and that's not something any of the other boards can claim.
If one was looking for SBCs I'd recommend the RPi over the others, even if it has worse specs, simply because of the promise of better longevity and larger community. If/when they release the RPi4 I do wonder if they'll go with Videocore V -- the community is already familiar with Videocore IV, so that familiarity and knowledge might aid in porting everything over to Videocore V faster than to something entirely alien.
As opposed to 4K video at 60 fps on the ODroid? Depending on how to slice that up you should be able to transcode 2 or 4 Full HD streams at 30 fps at the same time.
You're mixing up encoding and decoding. The S905 can't encode at 4K @ 60FPS, it only does 1080p @ 60 FPS encoding.
RPi is a video capture/processing chip (Broadcom VideoCore) with an ARM co-processor. Compresses, manipulates, and streams Full HD input video in real-time.
ODroid has no video input at all (the product page suggests getting a USB camera which performs its own compression, because the ODroid could never keep up)
Ok, probably most users care more about the general-purpose ARM cores and Linux than the VideoCore, but it's just wrong to say that ODroid "has the same cores but faster", when the biggest portion of BCM2837, the VideoCore, is completely absent from the ODroid.
Incorrect. The Odroid-C2 uses the Amlogic S905 SoC which does have a built-in encoding/decoding block. It supports much higher resolutions and framerates than RPi, including formats the RPi's Videocore IV doesn't support at all; Videocore IV doesn't support e.g. HEVC, let alone 10-bit HEVC, whereas the S905 does do both.
but typically replace (at least) kernel and bootloader with custom versions
Um, how else do you expect them to do it? Ubuntu cannot support every possible board out there. ARM-hardware is a wild, wild west and not nearly as standardized as x86, with nearly each and every board requiring u-boot specifically built for that specific board -- there is no generic build that you can distribute that'd work on even a fraction of all of them.
also often not being available in (buildable-) source.
A quick look at their wiki lists instructions on how to build both u-boot and the kernel from sources.. http://odroid.com/dokuwiki/dok... http://odroid.com/dokuwiki/dok...
It looks like the AC is talking about two different things. You got an answer about metamoderation, but there is also mod points which is normal moderation.
Ah, yes, that clarifies it a tad.
Mod points are only given to users with excellent karma (I think), which shows on this page: https://slashdot.org/~Gaygirli... but I think only for you. I seem to get 5 or 15 points a week to use to moderate posts, which is done by clicking on a drop box that shows next to the Share link on the bottom of each post, but only when you have mod points.
If you have excellent karma, and still don't get mod points ever, it may be that your account was blacklisted by an editor for something, but that would be an unusual thing for them to do. Whipslash may be able to look into it and let you know why you never get mod points.
Yeah, I've never gotten any mod-points, ever, and thus no such option to moderate posts, even though it's always said my karma is excellent. Odd.
I created an account several months ago and I'm not eligible to metamoderate. My account has excellent karma. Why is this? I understand that the newest users probably shouldn't get mod points right away, but why not make it a few weeks after account creation? It seems like a bigger pool of moderators and metamoderators would be better.
I've never been able to moderate, even though I've been here for several years now. I don't even know how one is supposed to moderate posts, but I assume you get something to click on when viewing posts -- if so, I've never had those. I don't really mind it all that much as I don't generally downvote/downmoderate things anywhere else either, and the posts that I would upvote/upmoderate tend to get upvoted anyways; it's just been a bit puzzling as I've been under the impression that I should have been able to moderate at least some posts by now, after the several years I been here.
Well, it might not be broken if you didn't put it in there..
You are confusing things. The drivers are part of the kernel's sources, but you can either build them compiled-in or as modules that are then loaded when needed.
People fight about SystemD, various open source licenses, differences between DEs, filesystems, but at the same time there's these fundamental problems which should get way more attention. Sometimes it feels like we are in a house arguing what kind of wallpapers bring the best experience, while that same wall is infested with mold inside.
You're setting up a false dichotomy, there: the fact that some people are designing filesystems or DEs or Systemd or such isn't necessarily away from progress on the ACPI-stuff and the likes. Not everyone knows enough about ACPI, for example, to be able to contribute anything useful, so them working on something else doesn't hinder the progress on the ACPI-stuff in the least.
Also, not everyone agrees with your priorities, like e.g. a lot of people deem work on filesystems more important than getting ACPI totally right -- not everyone needs working suspend, not everyone is running Linux on a broken laptop, but filesystems? Improvements in them are likely to have a much wider area of effect.
I don't have an Odroid-C2, but I'm not sure it even supports decoding of video in hardware under Linux at all at the moment. If it had to be decoding video in software and display it on an unaccelerated X-framebuffer... well, yeah, you'd probably be looking at some dropped frames. I would recommend going on their IRC-channel #odroid on Freenode and asking what the status of hardware video-decoding on the C2 is; I may or may not have outdated information regarding that.
Kodi, as far as I've understood, should work under Android just fine, though -- there are several Android media-boxes out there that use the same SoC and Kodi works great on them. The SoC is great for that stuff since it supports a whole range of stuff, including 10-bit HEVC. Google e.g. Mini MX if you're interested in just a low-power Kodi-box. I wouldn't bother going with the Odroid just for Kodi, though.