The softest of soft pushback = abuse. Nice.

Well, that’s one candidate. And a reference to an official gov doc doesn’t meant the info was extracted or summarized accurately.

How about the others?

How do you know that anything it displayed was accurate for those candidates? Every single time I’ve asked it to include source links, those source links don’t actually support the AI’s statement.

Windows 10 is not outdated. It’s currently supported, with security updates available through at least October 2027.

Just wanted to make sure people knew that.

Sure would:

Goldman Sachs quietly crowned CEO David Solomon the early 2025 pay leader among Fortune 500 company chiefs with a double-digit percentage raise that puts him above both JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon and Disney’s Bob Iger.

Thanks! I’ll figure out how to set it to check monthly.

Thanks!

Fuck those boxes and the game. Steal the computer. Any computer that can predict individual human behavior with 99% accuracy would be worth billions. If such a thing existed and could be controlled, it’d be a total waste to have it running grad school human lab experiments. That’s actual god-tier power.

Thanks for reading through this. No Nvidia card. it’s AMD Ryzen 7 CPU with integrated Radeon Vega 10 GPU. 20 GB system memory with 2 GB allocated for the video card. I didn’t install anything for graphics, I just let Fedora do its defaults.

I looked up the codecs to get the specifics. This was the first thing I found when having Firefox + YouTube issues: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/openh264/

Installed that and it wasn’t any better. Then had to figure out how to remove it and try the rpmfusion stuff (whatever that is).

Here’s the output of systemd-analyze critical-chain:

The time when unit became active or started is printed after the "@" character.
The time the unit took to start is printed after the "+" character.

graphical.target @12.832s

└─sddm.service @12.832s

  └─plymouth-quit.service @12.727s +98ms

    └─systemd-user-sessions.service @12.681s +20ms

      └─remote-fs.target @12.659s

        └─remote-fs-pre.target @8.131s

          └─nfs-client.target @8.130s

            └─gssproxy.service @8.044s +85ms

              └─network.target @8.037s

                └─wpa_supplicant.service @8.002s +33ms

                  └─basic.target @4.810s

                    └─dbus-broker.service @4.627s +137ms

                      └─dbus.socket @4.607s +1ms

                        └─sysinit.target @4.596s

                          └─systemd-resolved.service @4.452s +143ms

                            └─systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service @3.827s +613ms

                              └─local-fs.target @3.814s

                                └─boot-efi.mount @3.692s +119ms

                                  └─boot.mount @3.552s +118ms

                                    └─systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-e61e388b\x2d6938\x2d4f16\x2d9746\x2dce2c084d3f44.service @3.206s +170ms

                                      └─dev-disk-by\x2duuid-e61e388b\x2d6938\x2d4f16\x2d9746\x2dce2c084d3f44.device

And here’s the output of systemd-analyze plot > plot.svg (had to covert to jpg to allow the upload):

I just switched from Win 10 & 11 to Fedora KDE, about 2 weeks ago. Total Linux newbie. Not looking to hack my OS or anything. I’m relatively computer literate, but not at all a programmer. I just want an OS that works and mostly gets out of the way. And obviously doesn’t spam me with ads or steal my data or lock me into a subscription.

So far: Fedora and Plasma have been wonderful. But…

• Computer feels slightly slower. I’m surprised by this.

• Fedora or Mint…“it just works” isn’t exactly true based on my experience. “Most stuff mostly works okay” is more like it.

• I had a service keep crashing upon boot: xwaylandvideobridge. Trying to read people’s reports and diagnose was frustrating. I ended up removing it (which I had to look up and figure out how to do). Not sure if I broke anything or not, but it seems like things are working.

• Boot time is definitely slower compared to Win11. Not slow, just slower. Like 35 seconds. I tried to figure this one out using stuff like “systemd-analyze” but that was also annoying / frustrating. Trying to interpret the output and then trying to interpret what the tech people are saying in the forums. Plus my specific output I was getting from those programs didn’t look right or make logical sense (like it was adding up a bunch of processes as 11 seconds, but then saying each of those processes itself took 11 seconds, which I guess is possible if they are running simultaneously, but not sure).

• Weird stuff with youtube / video codecs. Firefox would glitch/hang/freeze playing youtube, especially if god forbid you try and do something radical like scroll back in a video. I seriously thought my video card was self-immolating. I finally just figured this out after much suffering. I think there was something about cisco h.whatever codecs, which I installed. But those are apparently terrible. Then I followed this not newbie-friendly fix after trying to figure out how to remove the Cisco ones: https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Multimedia?highlight=(\bCategoryHowto\b). Not sure why this kind of stuff doesn’t work out of the box. Having one of the biggest websites glitch using one of the biggest browsers is…not…great.

• HP printer: finally, some good news! I have an HP laser printer and had to print some stuff off last night (a PDF and Word doc). Plugged in the printer, it recognized it correctly, I added printer, it added itself smoothly. Then ctrl-p worked flawlessly.

How do you get a sensor data image from a camera?