Do you mind if I ask what flavor of Linux you were running, what the desktop(s) were and what were the issues you were getting?
That is usually followed by "ah yes, that particular distro is known to be broken, no wonder you were having problems".:)
There have been various issues like the GP comment described, but I won't write a long rant about them. Right now, if I sent a letter to Santa Claus and wanted to have just one issue solved, it would be the problem where the laptop brightness goes in multiple steps under Debian-based distros such as Mint and Ubuntu. Apparently this is because there can be multiple listeners to the backlight event (GPU driver, ACPI driver, OS, BIOS...) and they all do the adjustment without consuming the event. Anyone can observe this problem on a laptop. This is so basic stuff that it cannot be consistently broken like this.
Fix the brightness adjustment. Doooo it. No, I won't do the engineering work to fix it. I have other problems to solve than personally fixing my OS bugs. Windows works fine.
Let's fix the basics first before going to these expensive and complicated cyberworldz additions. At the end of the day, most people would be happy if their landlord just adjusted the basic heating and ventilation to work properly.
What if Windows Explorer just fires up an Internet Explorer container inside itself? What if ripping away IE would only cause Windows Explorer to not be able to open URLs?
I guess you missed his/her point as well. With Windows you got free updates up until July this year. With Linux you would have had to finance that yourself. Installing Linux in 2003 and paying someone to make updates for you would most likely not have been cheaper.
That was exactly his point: you can hire another company to continue the maintenance. With Windows, there is no such option even if you were ready to throw cash on the table.
Ok, I have myself taken these warning seriously. But at the same time it has left me wondering why just in the recent one or two years, this issue has come up so strongly? The "Sit and you will die, bitch!" headlines are everywhere. Surely static postures are always harmful, but if the risk was that bad, wouldn't this alarm bell have ringed years ago? Is this just some kind of new "fish oil" trend?
You could mitigate the damage by taking small walking breaks while in work. Go to the gym couple times of week. Use a standing desk at home: the Ikea Björkudden is a relatively cheap option at $99.
I hate that garbage. Newer releases of Windows try really hard to get me to use some stupid online account to log into my own computer. At the same time, all sorts of spying and datamining features are conveniently brought into play.
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Is there really such a security risk? I thought one would first upload buffers to the GPU memory and then shaders would then access those buffers.
My recommendation would be to submit a Chrome bug report.
Do you mind if I ask what flavor of Linux you were running, what the desktop(s) were and what were the issues you were getting?
That is usually followed by "ah yes, that particular distro is known to be broken, no wonder you were having problems". :)
There have been various issues like the GP comment described, but I won't write a long rant about them. Right now, if I sent a letter to Santa Claus and wanted to have just one issue solved, it would be the problem where the laptop brightness goes in multiple steps under Debian-based distros such as Mint and Ubuntu. Apparently this is because there can be multiple listeners to the backlight event (GPU driver, ACPI driver, OS, BIOS...) and they all do the adjustment without consuming the event. Anyone can observe this problem on a laptop. This is so basic stuff that it cannot be consistently broken like this.
Fix the brightness adjustment. Doooo it. No, I won't do the engineering work to fix it. I have other problems to solve than personally fixing my OS bugs. Windows works fine.
Those small glitches were the very reason I switched from Linux to Windows. Linux is amazingly buggy on desktop these days.
Let's fix the basics first before going to these expensive and complicated cyberworldz additions. At the end of the day, most people would be happy if their landlord just adjusted the basic heating and ventilation to work properly.
recent years have also seen MCA bus support being removed from the kernel
Just for reference, here's also the original discussion on MCA support removal from 2012 in LKML.
Unless he's a complex number...
Finally some actual detective work. Thank you.
What if Windows Explorer just fires up an Internet Explorer container inside itself? What if ripping away IE would only cause Windows Explorer to not be able to open URLs?
Okay. Provide the proof that it is used by Windows Explorer.
IE is entangled with Windows
That was true in Windows 98 times, but has anyone actually verified if that still is?
In my experience, that's a constant problem for everything that comes outside of the distro's repositories.
Yes? Please continue.
I guess you missed his/her point as well. With Windows you got free updates up until July this year. With Linux you would have had to finance that yourself. Installing Linux in 2003 and paying someone to make updates for you would most likely not have been cheaper.
Ah, yes. I missed the point indeed. :)
Does it also mean that every line run inside an exception block has an C-style assert() test attached to it?
The message from "Black Copter Control" above contains a hyperlink with an example of such deal.
That was exactly his point: you can hire another company to continue the maintenance. With Windows, there is no such option even if you were ready to throw cash on the table.
Not a UFO, already determined that even in the summary. We know what it is, thus "identified". Not "unidentified".
The summary meant that it was unidentified for the observers when they perceived it for the first time.
All exceptions implementations cause a performance hit.
Hmm, never thought about that.
Does that mean that if I run a function inside an exception handler, it runs slower?
It does not hurt either. But remove the gym part from my message if you want. :)
Ok, I have myself taken these warning seriously. But at the same time it has left me wondering why just in the recent one or two years, this issue has come up so strongly? The "Sit and you will die, bitch!" headlines are everywhere. Surely static postures are always harmful, but if the risk was that bad, wouldn't this alarm bell have ringed years ago? Is this just some kind of new "fish oil" trend?
You could mitigate the damage by taking small walking breaks while in work. Go to the gym couple times of week. Use a standing desk at home: the Ikea Björkudden is a relatively cheap option at $99.
I just meant the Wikipedia article.
As a sidenote, it's annoying how in that welcome sign picture, the light fixture blocks the text "invent" on the sign. It's badly planned.
I hate that garbage. Newer releases of Windows try really hard to get me to use some stupid online account to log into my own computer. At the same time, all sorts of spying and datamining features are conveniently brought into play.