Came here for Arch Stability, stayed for the discussion on how to be better people. Big respect DT! Thank you for that, I wish you a wonderful day, and great rest of your weekend!
Your "rant" at the end was very valuable, I appreciate it! I am somebody interested in buddhism, but when my rights get violated I get increasingly angry.
The rant on free speech, basic freedoms and the "be the change you want to see in the world" was a one of the best things a channel about Linux could also contribute to all humanity! DT, you're amazing even in that aspect, thanks! Made me reconsider what I think about freedom.
You are a very charismatic and intelligent person, it was a great pleasure for me to watch your channel for many years. I will remain your steadfast admirer whatever pace you choose to upload new videos ❤
Thanks DT, I didn't know the stable/unstable info. Glad to get to the bottom of the tan, refrigerator and free speech questions too. Around the 13 to 14 minute mark I swear I heard at least 2 Eagle screeches! 🇺🇲
There is a massage therapist in an office down the hall from my office. Sometimes, when he's cracking someone's back or whatever, I end up with some interesting screams that bleed through the mic.
I absolutely love all your "talk-videos". I really struggle to remember at least one person that would be so pleasant to listen. Maybe because it's rare nowadays to hear not hateful, honest, positive but realistic thoughts? Love it, keep it up.
So true about taking occasional breaks. You can see it on their face and hear it in their voice when someone needs a break. I see this when a friend turns a beloved hobby into a business. Fun and passion turn to dread and misery.
i've been using Linux on Dell for 2 years and have absolutely no issues with it. i think it takes from the fact that Dell used to ship laptops with Ubuntu preinstalled, but tbh i have no clue if that's the case anymore.
I have a simple personal rule and it follows the wisdom at the core of our Constitution... I don't exert any kind of controls over ANYONE unless their choice of actions, infringes on the actions I wish to take in MY life, damages me or any of my loved ones, or those I am morally responsible for.... That word "infringe" is such a good and powerful word... I feel the same way as you, DT, about freedoms, and will not infringe on anyone else's freedoms UNLESS they infringe on MINE... However, I SHALL Defend my freedoms when they ARE infringed upon, or they will be 'taken' by the 'infringer'... This Country MUST get back to 'not infringing on each other' !!!
I tried to like this more than once, but it only counted the final click. I was one of the people that mentioned using a separate partition for the /home folder too, but you didn't see my post, nor will you see this one, but that's okay, most of my posts are ignored and the few that aren't ignored are usually only responded to by people that hate my posts. At least, the ones that RU-vid doesn't delete anyway.
The Georgian (Gregorian) character displayed in the starship prompt, which looks similar to eth, is probably due to a font issue. If I remember correctly, installing a monospace font such as JBM-nerd, or ttf-symbols-{common,mono,nerd} would fix the issue. I don't think it's deliberate, DT! I hope this message gets pinned (at least if I'm right) so that others would benefit from this.
Regarding installing Linux on MacBooks and why, after about 5 years, Apple discontinues support for its OS on that hardware. After 7 years, a MacBook is basically a paperweight. The hardware is fine but the OS is unsupported. One can buy an old MacBook, install Linux and have a perfectly good production machine.
I do like debating with people but my goal is not about winning. The goal is to discuss, ask questions, learn about the other person, spread some scientific information. I do encounter people who are abusive. I don’t respond with abusive words since I find that that is pointless. It happens often when talking about politics, religion. When it is a purely scientific discussion, it never turns abusive. They correct me or I correct them and everyone accepts the answer.
You have changed me. I'm know with you on politics. Negative and Positive, its all by design and social media is the modern tool. Ironically RU-vid is potentially evil. Love ya work keep it up and good to see ya back. -OneLove
Count me as one of those weirdos who wiped out MacOS on a MacBook Pro to install Linux. I actually have a couple of them. A 2015 running Arch + DWM and a 2012 with Kali for some pentesting fun. I have always liked the overall look and feel of Apple hardware in particular on some of their older devices. But their software stinks. Too locked down.
I almost forgot. I totally agree with your views on the American individual's unalienable human rights, individual rights to own property, second amendment right, first amendment, right to free speech, freedom to worship the religion of choice. And more. Having spent a career of 35 years, which 20 were as International airline pilot as captain and first officer. What I found is the world population has more in common with the everyday American People than not. Just some places I flew the heavy jets to, Africa, Accra Ghana, Monrovia, Liberia, Beijing China, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Japan Narita, Hanadia, Kanasai, Tawaian, South Korea, Incheon (Reykjavik Iceland medical emergency divert), UK London Heathrow , Amsterdam, Schiphol, France Paris (Charles De Gaulle), Dublin, Ireland, Italy, Rome Milan, Greece Athens (Athen's is the father of Democracy), Mumbai India and Bangkok, Thailand. -- I have met and have lots friends that span the globe over the years. It's very unfortunate that politicians and politics cannot leave well enough alone! What is happening is by design ...
Hey DT! I enjoyed your rant at the end about politics, but I just want to bring up one point that you might find interesting. You mention how you believe human freedoms must be inalienable, and how politics is a force for negativity, violence, and hate in the world. My question is, what about the countless revolutions in human history, where the people managed to give themselves more freedom, and more rights? Revolution is, inherently a political act. In my opinion, we simply need to draw a line between online discourse disguising itself as "politics", which is actually just nothing more than blindly supporting a "team", and real politics, which has the power to influence the world, for better or for worse.
My first Linux install was Ubuntu 10.04 on my old Fujitsu Lifebook and I almost never had to troubleshoot in 4 years unless I was trying to install something with Wine.
Hey DT, I was wondering how is your Threadripper system doing. Are you still using this as your main workstation with the Radeon VII? Are you thinking of upgrading your hardware?
When you were talking about the negativity of twitter, it's designed to be negative. Most of the comments on there are made with argument bots and AI. Most people I have worked with say they don't like to talk about politics and then turn around and shove their political view in everyones face on facebook. One of the things I like about this page is......... No politics.
Hey DT. I am curious as you have influenced my own channel equipment purchases and some college in Media Production ;-) But I am looking for a pop filter like the one you are using and found a rather expensive one called a "REPOP" from Broadcast Supply Worldwide (about $59 USD plus shipping), but wondered which one you ended up with IF not the REPOP. Thanks as always.
Welcome back!!! Love your content and platform. I’m looking to transition form Windows and IOS for personal use and I have been following you for about a month and also joined your community. You did a video on Linux Mint from Newbie to Power user and I love it!! I planning to use the that video to deploy a Linux machine , would you recommend that Distro and the recommendations that was made it that video
when it comes to seperate home drive i found it quite fragile in past and beyond that hauling all the cruft from you previous install kinda makes me not want to do it. and honestly setting up home directory is like 5-10% of all system config if you are using a DE and maybe 20% if you are using WM
As I continued to watch the video, I wanted to chime in on note taking. Myself, just any text editor works for me. Currently, due to my college coursework and HAVING to live in Windows for the time being, I am using Notepad and I just jot down whatever and sometimes it is old school on the old pencil (actually pen) and paper. 🙂
"Don't be angry," is fine when you don't need anger to preserve yourself from the wolves. We live in a contentous time, and indeed much of that contention is born of ineffectual petiness. But there are times when contention is required to preserve or establish the very freedoms espoused in the video.
Same here in the UK. Government is driven by political ideology. It's time policians started doing what's right for the electorate - NOT the party the politician is a member of.
I think too many also confuse what the term "stable" means in regards to software and release versioning. Contrary to what a layman might think, it has nothing to do with something being "unstable" and crashing. It has to do with how often software updates gets pushed to the user.
i have to disagree both meanings are equally correct. while running a piece of software if someone asked me is this software stable i would answer depending on how much it crashes. Another proof of that it has both meanings is the word unstable which clearly can and is utilized in both contexts and word unstable is a single word synonym for negative form of stable(not stable)
@@bigpod I mean. it literally has a definition within the realm of software development, it isn't my personal opinion on the matter, so agreement/disagreement aren't really related. Whether or not I agree with what word is used does not change its meaning within the field. A "string" has different meanings to a knitter and a developer, and agreement on who is correct does not change its meaning to either.
@@ForeverZer0 sorry but that just aint the case there is no singular definition for stable in software development there are multiple usages of stable, first one which i found that most closely goes with what you say would be unchanging, but there are other usages of word stable as well like for software that is well tested and doesnt crash this goes well in hand with again word unstable which is negative for of stable and usage of stable in broader computer field.again context matters
I think in regards to the first question it would've been nice to answer why Arch's doesn't have a branch that is like Debian's stable branch, which is probably what the person of the first question had in mind.
What a great attitude. I feel similar to you concerning political discourse. If we all spent as much time getting our own lives in order as we do arguing on the internet, we wouldn't have TIME (or bandwidth) to be worrying about what other strangers living differently than us are doing in their bedrooms and conversations they're having with their doctors. PRO TIP: If you have the time to argue on the internet, you have the time to install a fresh linux box, read some docs and eliminate bloated privacy invading software from your life. A FAR better use of our time.
And then when you finally pull your head out of the sand, you realise that the world has been destroyed because everyone lived in ignorance. I never liked politics and I still don't, but these days it's very important to be involved. Politics, like them or not, determine how our world is shaped and how we live our lives. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Ever heard of the Rust Belt? Thats what Americans got for ignoring globalism. If you live in a border state you can't ignore the border. If you have a young child in school you can't ignore the creepy indoctrination. Being ignorant is how people like the Nazis and Bolsheviks gained power.
arch could 100% have a stable/point-release branch, it'd just require even more effort for the devs and without corporate support, this is hard to achieve, i'd really love a monthly release arch based distro that simply performs a package freeze every month and only updates in case of serious bugs/security vulnerabilities
would be nice if you do more gentoo videos its lot different distro and i belive its need more attention im currently preparing my self to agine dive in gentoo hyprland but mostly confuses me overlays and make flags not use ones
im acctully on garud dragonize now after 5years on arch messing with everything i end up with so much config files tho it worked well no issues but decided to do reinstall OS now im on garuda like 3-4 months works great boot soon im going to gentoo i got ryzen 7 2700 im gonna use all cores 😁
Like how you prefer not to go into political discussion. Definitely appreciate your explanation and views on 1st and 2nd Amendment rights. I watch your channel after watching the quartering or liberty bell or ... So thank you for trying to keep politics out on your channel.
He prefers not to but always dips his toe in it. There are many more amendments than just 1 and 2 Also 2 was always meant for state militas not for the private individual. Why does every Tom Dick and Harry need a rocket launcher? Check out amendments 13, 14, 19
Hey DT, the blue-blockers (and clean-shaveness) make you look different. (Not better, not worse, just different 🙂) Did you always use contact lenses, or was one of things you needed to deal with, getting an eye prescription? If that's not too personal a question, of course.
i can agree my laptops were lenovo and one toshiba, but its not about the brands, its about whether you use amd or the other. if u want linux laptops make sure there amd, :)
in my experience wifi chipsets can be an absolute pain. intel laptops generally have intel wifi (which is best imo), realtek is ok too but not as good as intel, mediatek (and the new amd wifi chipset) is pure garbage tho.
While I agree with most of your statements, i think it is important to note that politics are not necessarily the root of all negativity and evil, rather evil and extremist idiology. A functioning society must have strong morals and representitive governing leadership through politics.
It's a shame you're not political lol you have the right view of how to treat people, I'm very political, but everything you said on politics is true, it's why I'm so cautious on who and how I talk about such subjects, offending or wining a discussion should nvr be the goal, what is true and right should be the goal, I don't debate with angry people lol but a fun back and forth with open minded people is a blast and productive
The Arch response wasn't really satisfactory for me. Questions are most of the time not literal, and his question also made me wonder about it; what it wanted to know is why there isn't a stable version like in openSuse with lean and tumbleweed, not if through tecnicality the common Arch is the ""stable version"".
Hey DT, Since you also mention privacy as a basic right. Don’t you see that our basic rights are in competition with each other? You can’t have absolute freedom of speech without abandoning privacy for example. It’s all checks and balances.
Damn, Martin Luther King must have been like the pinnacle of racist division. If only we'd never had people like him and other abolitionists and been more passive things would have worked out better.
That's really not fair. You put on glasses and look 10 years younger. I put on glasses and look like Santa Claus telling kids to get off the lawn. I always love watching your videos, fellow DT.
I agree with you that arguing politics is about as effective as pounding sand. I want to add to that point. First of all, I think most of us agree we only have a finite amount of energy and time. Second of all, I think most of us would agree there are things our government could do that benefit all of us, not just one side. (for the sake of not sparking a political debate here, I wont specify what I feel those are). For every unit of time you spend arguing with the other tribe (that's really what political parties have devolved to, tribalism), that unit can no longer be spent reaching out to your government for things that actually matter. Its like running a race and then voluntarily choosing to run through mud instead of solid ground. Then look at the outcome...you know who wins no matter which party is elected, no matter which rage-bait political story goes down? Corporations win. Because they effectively own both tribes through financial contributions. bottom line: getting caught up in tribal rage-bait debates ultimately surrenders our agency to corporations, further empowering them.
I admire you attitude towards politics and people in general. But I think it's not accurate or wise to say that it's politics in itself or arguing that is the problem. In a situation in which your own behavior is the determining factor for how your life goes, your attitude is in fact the best way to handle politics - not at all. This works if there are no immediate material problems determining your life. If you have a good job and make a decent living, you can quite easily extract yourself from politics and just not argue with "them". If you live on the edge, and if that's not a choice but something that you suffer, then politics in one form or another might be all you can do, except to resign yourself to these circumstances. You can argue (even if you're not arguing), that in the developed world or more specifically in the USA, there are no circumstances in which your situation really depends on others. There is always a way to "make it work". I can agree to that, it's just that my sense of fairness has a hard time to justify why some have is extremely easy by inheriting freedom and opportunity while others have to struggle. But that's an abstract problem and I can see that while it concerns others, it can be ignored and doing just that might actually improve not only your personal circumstance but also the overall well-being of society, a little peace, just or not. You favor freedom over other values (that you don't mention) and again, it's perfectly fine to have preferences. You apparently also want to enjoy peace and a friendly or civilized discourse. The question is whether your approach is or should be more than a personal preference. When you tell agitators - independent on what they are fighting for - that their fight is not only pointless but also the actual source of the problem, then you make your personal choice the standard for their actions. Fighting is destructive. That makes it suspicious, because creating, working towards a positive goal is always as good as the objective or at least as the outcome. You are constructive, creative and positive. That's great. But what about malicious actors? Can and should they not be opposed and if so, how do you do that if they insist. That of course always raises the question who gets to decide what is benevolent and what is malicious. The result in the USA are Democrats and Republicans. I personally would not fight for either of these choices but if I had to and could, I would oppose both and not feel guilty at all. You dabbled in politics by claiming that you don't do politics. In this regard, you are exactly like the rest of us, you feel like your views are wisdom and theirs is politics. That's what we "politicians" think too. I would not argue if people would just understand that what they say and think is nonsense. I would not scream if people would not lie into my face. I would not fight if people would honor the bare minimum of respect or human decency. The real question is whether any of us is right or to which degree and then the next question is why it is so hard for us to agree on who that is. In most cases the problem at the source is plain simple egoism or greed or whatever you want to call it. Fighting is bad because in most cases nobody or the wrong side wins, so that the fighting does little more than to add insult to injury or to increase the damage done overall.
I don't fet the Twitter/X politics discussion/ complaint. You don't have to follow politics or people spouting political billshit. Twitter is just fine if you only follow rational people.
Arch stable is Void linux believe it or not. Hear me out: You can't go for too long without upgrading Arch, that is not the case with Void, you go as long as you like and hit the upgrade button when you feel like it.
