Old people defending status quo.

Nvidia’s poor Linux support has been a thing for decades.

If at all, the situation has recently improved. And that only after high-profile Linux developers telling Nvidia to get their shit together.

Then do whatever you need to do to stop freaking out about other peoples’ right to choose to not deal with LLMs.

Jeez. Calm down.

I tried it and moved the directory. Results:

• Firefox opens, settings from the profile are still there.
• Empty ./mozilla/extensions directories are recreated on startup.
• Firefox cannot show any websites anymore.

Yikes.

Always good to know that after sitting on it for 2 decades, shipping some half-assed shit was the best they could do.

Yikes, thanks! Good to know.

Good decision. Sounds like a decent human being!

Just take the L and go away.

I would be deeply uncomfortable to work in an environment where one couldn’t ask the author of a change for insights or rationale, because the author let some machine write it and therefore lacks any deeper understanding.

Only if you like “eventual consistency”, in the sense of “eventually, your data is consistently gone”.

If you are going to annoy people, do it properly.

Incorrect.

Rust is not a functional, let alone functional-first language.

Absolutely delusional.

code that is readable, auditable, and easy to port

Yeah C is the language that comes to everybody’s mind reading that. /s

C’s simplicity …

Is that simplicity currently in the room with us?

… and widespread adoption make it the best choice for this philosophy.

Ah, the asbestos argument.

If people want to run the latest kernels on hardware that isn’t maintained anymore, they need to toughen up and send patches …

… or they stick to an old kernel for their unmaintained hardware.

Both is fine to me, but that entitled Boomer attitude of “nobody should have nice things, because that would challenge status quo” needs to die.

“apparently it’s a better safer C++, but I’m not going to switch because I can technically do all that stuff in C++”

The main difference between C++ and D was that (for most of the time in the past) D required a garbage collector.

So, D was a language with similar Algol-style syntax targeting a completely different niche from C++.

Trying to correct your quote, it should read something like “I’m not going to switch because I can’t technically do all that stuff in D that I’m doing in C++” for it to make any sense.

Packages are usually provided by distribution packagers, not by the developers of the code itself.

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That –at best– gives you the same performance.

EDIT: Ok, I misunderstood – you meant the performance of “case insensitive in kernel” vs. “case insensitive in userspace”. I get your point now.