The multi-tennant approach to the linux operating system isn’t just for security. It’s the way the OS was designed to operate. You’re not meant to use root as an ordinary user.

Disabling root removes the safety net, but it also plugs the security hole that leaving root enabled leaves.

Again, they’re not denying you entry permanently, but they absolutely can slow fuck you for weeks until your device is unlocked and checked. You people live in some little utopia that doesn’t exist.

We just deported a US citizen to Argentina without due process and its taking a federal court order for the US government to do anything about it. You really think they care about your “right” to reenter the country?

This is marvelous, but goddamn do I hate cross compiling rust projects from source.

Pursuant to CBP’s border search authority explained above, when presenting their effects for inspection, all travelers are obligated to present their electronic devices and the information resident on the device in a condition that allows for the examination of the device and its contents. If the electronic device cannot be inspected because it is protected by a passcode or encryption or other security mechanism, that device may be subject to exclusion, detention, or other appropriate action or disposition. Additionally, the traveler may face longer processing times to allow for CBP to access the contents of the device.

Taken directly from CBP’s website; regardless of any citizenship, or nationality, they can refuse to let you reenter the country until your device is searched. Period. I don’t know where this idea that “I’m an American, they can’t refuse to let me back into my own country!” narrative came from, but it is entirely fictitious. There are dozens of reasons for you to be refused reentry.

Locking down your phone does nothing for you… If they see that you have a phone and they can’t access it they simply won’t let you in the country regardless of who you are.

The only solution to this is to simply not have an electronic device when going through customs.

Overnight your cell phone to yourself if you’re that worried about it. Any other solution is superfluous and outright stupid.

If you’re entering the US through Mexico and they demand you unlock your phone and you refuse or it’s “locked down” you don’t win that conflict. You’re just a permanent resident of Mexico now because you’re not getting into the United States regardless of your citizenship status.

There is no viable alternative to Gmail. That’s why its still as popular as it is despite privacy concerns.

I can’t for the life of me understand how you’re having a difficulty understanding this to begin with…

You said that at 4% market share they would be idiots to not break their backs chasing that 4% in revenue but were there right now and they’re not breaking their back at all they’re hardly doing anything…

The entirety of your statements that you’ve said so far are verifiably incorrect because they are the reality that we’re living right now. I’m not the one that struggling with reality buddy, that’s you.

Nobody said they’re not. Jesus. You get really upset when someone points out that you’re wrong, don’t you?

Fact of the matter is, is that *nix is less than 4% of the market, and they’re not going to upset the market for that 4%. It will eventually get bigger, but until it does, there’s not a lot of hope.

This is the year of the linux desktop.

It’s not trust me bro at all. That’s the situation we’re currently in. So if these businesses would be “crazy” to leave all this money on the table and they currently are, what does that say to you?

I know critical thinking is hard, but try.

1. This number is taken from the Wikipedia page, and represents a lab setting from totally uncompressed to full HEVC encoding. It’s not representative of data savings that you get from one video codec vs another, which is likely less than 4-6% between something like VP9 and HEVC… The 25-50% of completely fucking laughable in a realistic setting and you look like and idiot for bringing it up.
2. It’s absolutely an overestimation by every conceivable metric available.
3. You can encode to whatever you want, but if you take a VP9 encoded video and re-encode it, you may only save 1% and it will take several hours to encode. There are even situations where you will save nothing, or the resultant video file is actually larger even with HEVC.

It’s zipping a zip file. Endlessly re-compressing things doesn’t yield positive results in the way you describe.

The market share is already there and there not doing open source drivers, so I guess you’re empirically wrong. I dunno what else to tell ya.

Well they’re not, so I guess they are. 🤷‍♂️

I don’t disagree, but at the same time, circle back to my original statement. Even if every single *nix user were to only use open source drivers, that’s still not enough. 4% of the market share isn’t going to change anyone’s mind about *nix support.

Blu-rays are compressed.

All streaming data is compressed at some point. I clearly meant not over-compressed. 4K video or UHD BD can both be taken from their original states and processed through HEVC to get crisp 1080p h265 10bit at a steep data discount. But it’ll take a very long time to process. It’s simply not worth it.

“Zipping a zip file” doesn’t apply here because zips are lossless.

It’s a figurative expression and I feel that was pretty damn obvious…

1. I’ve been encoding HEVC for a long time and I’ve not once seen a file-size drop that dramatically. You’re outrageously overestimating the file-size savings here.
2. If a video file is already compressed you’ll see diminished and even negative returns by attempting to compress it further. OP seems to be taking pre compressed video files from the internet and attempting to compress them again (lossy to lossy) which is very very very stupid.

I’m confused… Are you grabbing pirated video files from the net and re-encoding them… If you’re attempting to further compress already compressed video, you’re just zipping a zip file. It’s crazy and you’ll do nothing but bloat the file size (versus a properly compressed video file) and further reduce the quality of the video via artifacts. I’ll call the police and have you committed right now.

If you’re grabbing 8/4k or UHD BD movies and re-encoding them into lets say, 1080p HEVC 10bit, I could see that being worth it if you really love the movie (and have 5 days with nothing to do), but only if you’re going from an inferior compression to better (h264 to h265), otherwise like I said, you’re zipping a zip file.

Because hardware manufacturers don’t care about 4% market share. They just don’t. They can’t survive by pandering to that 4%, and it costs them time and money to make decent hardware drivers for linux.

Sad truth of it.

I mean… It wouldn’t even be the first time, so 🤷‍♂️

That’s the beauty of it! You can’t! AI can’t commit malpractice, because you have to prove professional negligence! /s

This has always been the key. Amazing to me that not many seem to take it seriously.