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its probably the video codec, ads also tend to be very short and are capable of fully buffering, unlike videos, so they can often manage to send properly, compared to a video.

Really efficient video codecs tend to be a real bitch on lower end hardware.

yeah pretty much this, linux just cooks. You gotta let it in the kitchen first.

Also, you might want to consider openscad if you have some adventurous students, it’s quite intuitive if you understand programming syntaxing, and relatively clean and minimal. I’ve long been put off from learning something like freecad because the UI is just an utter mess and has no clear utility to it, but something like openscad is MUCH more accessible to me, even though it may be more restrictive in the long run, having the ability to use it is probably beneficial.

Like i’ve said before, and like i’ll continue to say until people like you and me make a significant dent in this problem, you need to teach kids how to use the things you want them to use, if you don’t teach them linux, they won’t know linux, if you do teach them linux, they will know linux, it’s literally as simple as that, and why anybody is surprised by this baffles me, it should’ve been obvious frankly.

The feeling of being “a real hacker” seems to be very motivational for the youngsters.

kids love to learn, they are literally built for it, they have a high level of neuroplasticity, you just need to give them the tools, the resources, and the ability to do so, and they will do it.

i’ve said it time and time again, the second you simplify an interface, it lessens the bar for entry, we’ve only done this over the last 20 years in tech, it should be no surprise that people who never have to use C drives, don’t know what the fuck a C drive is.

QUICK INDOCTRINATE THEM INTO THE LINUX MASTERRACE!!

on the server side, sure, on the development side, sure, on the desktop side? Not very much, it’s usable, thanks to the core of dedicated users, but to be “perfected” it needs a larger userbase.

I planned and sharing that third drive between Windows and Linux so I don’t require duplicating data.

you should definitely be able to do this, i’ve done it before and even played gtav off of it, i’m not sure if it has significant performance penalties, it might slow down game loading, or cause micro stuttering, weird stuff like that, but it will definitely work, it’s just something you should use in the meantime while you work towards moving away from it in the future.

A home server/NAS is also in the works, and I’ll be looking into Samba.

there are other options, but im pretty sure every other option is based on the SMB protocol in some way, samba is just the most barebones way of doing it, if you like tinkering and just want a file sharing server on your local network, it’ll work great, just be sure to enable that weird renaming flag that allows you to translate the character set, since windows has a very weird restriction character set for naming, while linux pretty much only prevents you from using / (directory separator)

truenas is one of the industry staples, but that’s more involved, has a lot of config and flexibility as well,

It’s just been a bit enlightening finding out all the unicorns and rainbows on the Linux side of the fence are equines of indeterminate parentage with paper cones glued to their foreheads and RGB light strips soldered together with a “trust me” sticker on them.

it’s both the worst, and the best part lol. It’s great because everything is so standardized and well implemented half the time it feels like using an open ecosystem, which is truly the best. The other half of the time you have so many options you have no idea what to use, in which case i usually like to select by popularity and it’s minimalism.

Microsoft is still a ghetto, and Apple is a WASP country club where the HOA president lives next door and is “retired”. Computers are both at an all-time high for choice and in some of the worst states it’s been in.

linux is quite literally whatever you want it to be, and that’s why its the best. Can be anything from NYC to a suburb, to a hippie commune if you so choose, just depends on what you want lmao.

linux would gain more support, more developers, and more market share, making it more universal. All of these are going to be beneficial to everybody.

I still haven’t set up an automatic mount point for my shared NTFS drive to load on boot, both because I don’t have a good grasp on the fstab and because Windows does a chkdisk every time I mount it in Linux. Dual access storage still seems iffy as of 2025.

i’ve been fine mounting my C drive under linux using ntfs3g under arch linux (similar enough to manjaro) though this was prior to ntfs being natively supported in the kernel, so that may have different consequences, realistically i would advise you to use a network storage for inter device compat since you can run samba or something, which is well integrated into linux and windows (though it’s a little fucky in linux, it does work, and it works reliably) It makes life so much easier. Either that or use an external drive that you intend to be intercompat, not running NTFS, but using ext4 or something. That’s another decent option.

My best advice to you going forward is be thoughtful about the devices and software you spend time and money on, it’s really easy when you’re in the windows environment to just use whatever exists, but on linux you do have to spend a bit more time thinking about it, but that’s just the nature of the beast.

why doesn’t everybody understand that it’s ALWAYS the year of the linux desktop, you just haven’t been invited yet, that’s the only problem.

personally im not a fan of IoT devices being on my lan, so i would prefer to use things like zwave or zigbee, or just ethernet, minimizes attack vectors which is good.

You really can just put a network connected raspi on just about anything and integrate it into some form of centralized automation.

i was not ready for the furry posting, but here i am

it really is so true.

you install linux on one machine, and then suddenly every other machine you own has linux on it, ssh, and you use shit like rsync to manage shit over the network. Before you know it you’re running a snapcast server to manage multiroom audio automatically configured into your smart home network. (i haven’t gotten this far yet, but it’s eventually going to happen lol)

The pipeline is real.

w520 goes hard. Still a very capable machine with the sheer amount of cpu horsepower it has from that era.

Not comparable to modern chips of course, but for what you can get those things for, damn it’s not bad.

i mean, if it’s not directly factually inaccurate, than, it is open source. It’s just that the specific block of data they used and operate on isn’t published or released, which is pretty common even among open source projects.

AI just happens to be in a fairly unique spot where that thing is actually like, pretty important. Though nothing stops other groups from creating an openly accessible one through something like distributed computing. Which seems to be a fancy new kid on the block moment for AI right now.

i still sleep like shit unfortunately…

I blame carrying the weight of a failing humanity on my shoulders. Darned sociology ruining my life!

pretty much just a restatement of my original comment, but three weeks later, almost.

oh cool, so i just get to enjoy SOAD now.

idk whats going on here, but i like SOAD, and i like linux, so.

Am i supposed to hate systemd right now, or are we supposed to like it? What are we doing today?

but those are likely to be repeat offenders, so i’m not actually sure that how that would effect it.

The raw number of rapes will go up, but rapists will probably rise quite a bit less.

Statistics is hard >:(

but safety is to some degree also derived from feelings, because human psychology for some reason.

There is no winning here, i think.