Posts by FernTheConcentricGuy

Cambodian authorities crack down on cyber slavery amid international pressure

Never mind Cambodia this sort of thing is happening right in our backyards.

Why the Linux desktop is the best desktop

I am the perfect computer layman having no programming skills whatsoever. I still love to fiddle with computers and in this case, I've been playing with Linux on and off for a number of years. I've seen it grow from an OS where even getting Youtube to work required some tweaking to a box that will let me playing CSGO, which is a feat in its own right. I'd tried the game on a Ryzen3 laptop but just couldn't get the thing to launch. So I acquired a gaming laptop running eight cores and put Fedora 35 on it as a dual boot option. I could not help but feel excitement for the fact CSGO was now running on Linux. Mind you the frame rates are not as good as PC but it's still rewarding. The odd thing about this laptop and Linux is that I experience severe hanging randomly when executing, mostly during startup and at shutdown. I guess this is probably just a case of surveillance dealing with a machine faster than their tools: "Want to close our back door, not before we sync your data".

We take Asahi Linux alpha for a spin on an M1 Mac Mini

Apple can certainly create a following by having Linux run on their hardware. The more fanbois they have the better their sales will be. Bootcamp is the perfect example where a relunctant Windows user had no reason not to migrate towards fruity fabrications if they had the desire.

IBM looked to reinvigorate its 'dated maternal workforce'

This is backlash of a failed project I would imagine. Watson is going down and they need to go elementary on their staff.

Linux distros haunted by Polkit-geist for 12+ years: Bug grants root access to any user

Re: Meanwhile in the NHL

"This vulnerability has been hiding in plain sight for 12+ years and affects all versions of pkexec..." That's his first name minus exec. Sencondly to gain root access in linux you would have to use the su ie super user command with a password; that's his second name if you add ban.

BOFH: What a beautiful classic car. Shame if anything were to happen to it

Jesus Built My Hotrod

If the car spoke proper English like KIT, then it wouldn't be a car would it? It would be a sovereign player injecting into the exploding economy at its heart's content.

Planning for power cuts? That's strictly for the birds

Re: I say it's plausible

Surely a job for an avian fluke meter.