Ah thanks for the clarification, that’s pretty neat, I’ll update my comment

One doesn’t exclude the other. And if you really hate QR codes that much I’m sure there will be a flag or you can recompile the kernel without this, it’s Linux after all

Lol just what I found first with a quick google, but it is funny

My guess is it means this sort of recent windows feature of showing a QR code on how to search for the issue you’re experiencing

Having a QR code with a link to the error code or at least a way to search it is an excellent UX thing, especially for those who are less accustomed to dealing with Linux kernel panics

See the comments in response to mine on how this might look

Could always run it in a vm if you just wanted to poke around

During my normal usage in Linux, which includes web browsing with Firefox, video playback with Haruna Media Player (with hwdec set to auto), writing in Obsidian, and lightweight coding in Visual Studio Code and Android Studio, the tablet lasts for 6 hours.

There’s no such thing as lightweight android studio lol. The battery would likely last much longer just playing a movie at low brightness, which is usually what hardware companies do to measure and advertise battery life.

“Do you even know who my dad dictator is”

Tabs, https://visor.binaryage.com/ visor mode terminals, integration with desktop themes, OS auth for allowing sudo, (e.g. biometrics). While you may prefer a bare minimum terminal, there’s plenty of valid use cases for a terminal with good integration to the desktop environment.

…and proton advertises as both, which as pointed out, isn’t true

New article: Debian isn’t your only option

Also I think there’s a vast majority of crap in app purchase games that will happily pay money to unity as they run their gacha systems. Real, honest developers care about stuff like this, but international game farms (the kind that always seem to be sponsoring YouTubers and streamers) are just running calculations on what it will cost them to keep using Unity.

And now that unity has backed down on pricing those devs are still raking in money, so they, as potentially unity’s biggest customers, and unity themselves, don’t care what more indie devs think as they push forward higher growth targets.

Yeah I work for an emergency management SaaS company and we block outdated OSs and browsers and it’s wild how we will occasionally get pushback from potential new customers who are surprised we don’t support their outdated IT infrastructure due to the security risk

WSL train choo choo

The thing that annoys me the most with this is powershell “modules.” Like the most recommended module to use powershell to update windows… just has a raw DLL in its repo

https://github.com/mgajda83/PSWindowsUpdate

The source code is just “run routines from this binary file, that you will never see the source code of”

The systemd-bsod will also display a QR code for getting more information on the error causing the boot failure.

That’s pretty neat. Nowadays with the proliferation of smartphones that’s an easy way to move straight to troubleshooting the issue

Yeah things like selinux and apparmor have been around for a long time, sandboxing is just an evolution of that

Yeah I’m hybrid Windows/Linux user, but many of my drives are Bitlocker encrypted. I need to install a bios update. To do so, it requires me to decrypt every bitlocker drive and not just the OS drive. Because the TPM keystore is based on the OS key store for each bitlocker drive. It’s frustrating, but it makes sense, so I’m all for additional security

Thankfully as only 30% of the other investors have that option, it appears the controlling entity can let them sell their shares if they want out in the direction the company is going