Oh, don’t get me started on Windows issues. Lol. But the only reason we use Windows at work is for Office, otherwise Tue CAD software has a Linux version yet runs better.

Yep, I have used Linux since 2017 after W10 just made everything slower for home use and work. I have been using W11 for work lately, and it sucks. The office16/root/vfs/ProgramFilesCommonX64(86)/office16/ai.exe and aimgr.exe keep hogging resources in task manager and bogging down the system when ever I try to get work done. Deleteing those files helps but they come back after updates, so for now I created two empty text files and changed the filename and extensions to match the deleted files, so far that has kept updates from reinstalling those ai files

It all depends right? When I first setup Linux I spent hours tweaking the look of it in Plasma. Now that its coming up to 8 years on Linux, I just use GNOME desktop and don’t mother with customizations.

There are various guides, and don’t forget to use Sudo with fastboot command. https://xdaforums.com/t/guide-windows-linux-how-to-unlock-your-bootloader-official-and-unofficial-way.3885578/

Udev rules https://github.com/M0Rf30/android-udev-rules

You may be able too ssh in as the media user and not root, so that permission is set properly for that user/group

Appimage is an immutable exe. Like a CD ISO It stores config in a home folder variable location.

You can flash twrp or download app to phone. Windows is sefinetly not a requirement because I only have Linux machines

No, you can do it via the Linux fastboot adb tools. You typically have to paste in a udev rule so system sees the phone as expected. Or if you have a Pixel theGraphenesOS web based setup is easiest, you don’t need any knowledge just click the buttons on the webpage

The vise grips on the CPU. LOL

If you are trying a new install go for something with timeshift or Silver Blue, OpenSUSE snapshotting. You can trash the whole setup, then reboot to the previous state. A catastrophic failure becomes a 1 minute fix.

Try GNOME extension. Awesome Tile. Number pad arrangement becomes window placement. In settings you can choose gap between window and screen edge. Hitting same key repeatedly resizes that window in its current location.

There was an app or extension that let’s you use the number pad as directional arrows for window placement. Like 7 would move to the top left corner, 4 would move it as half screen to the left. Hitting them again does resizing. I’m trying to remember the name, it wasn’t an lntuitively named tool. But you could try Awesome Tiles to see if that works.

It’s corporate arrogance. “We are so big we can take that market” without understanding what built that market. They think business is numbers but it is about relationships with people.

As VP of Prime Gaming at Amazon, we failed multiple times to disrupt the game platform Steam. We were at least 250x bigger, and we tried everything. But ultimately, Goliath lost. Here’s why:

The 15+ year long attempt to challenge Steam started before I was VP of Prime Gaming, but we never cracked the code. Not under my leadership or anyone else’s.

The first way we tried to enter the online-game-store market was through acquisition. We acquired Reflexive Entertainment (a small PC game store) and tried to scale it. It went nowhere.

Then, after buying Twitch, we created our own PC games store. Our assumption was that gamers would naturally buy from us because they were already using Twitch. Wrong.

Finally, we built “Luna,” a game streaming service that let people play without a high-end PC. Around the same time, Google tried the same thing with their product “Stadia.” Neither gained significant traction. The whole time, Steam dominated despite being a relatively small company (compared to Amazon and Google).

The mistake was that we underestimated what made consumers use Steam.

It was a store, a social network, a library, and a trophy case all in one. And it worked well.

At Amazon, we assumed that size and visibility would be enough to attract customers, but we underestimated the power of existing user habits. We never validated our core assumptions before investing heavily in solutions. The truth is that gamers already had the solution to their problems, and they weren’t going to switch platforms just because a new one was available.

We needed to build something dramatically better, but we failed to do so. And we needed to validate our assumptions about our customers before starting to build. But we never really did that either.

Just because you are big enough to build something doesn’t mean people will use it.

Reflecting on these mistakes, I realize how crucial it is to deeply understand customers before making big moves. That’s why James Birchler’s guest newsletter caught my attention—his piece is a practical guide on obtaining real customer insights and using them to challenge entrenched assumptions that can hurt product success.

James breaks his advice down into three key steps, illustrated with stories from his time as VP of Engineering at IMVU:

1. Talk to Real Customers Before Writing Code
2. Test Assumptions, Not Just Features
3. Build Measurement Into Your Process

After explaining how he learned these lessons the hard way (getting screamed at by customers and board members), James shares action items you can implement within a week to improve how you understand your customers.

I wish Amazon had followed James’ playbook before trying to take on Steam. But since we didn’t, at least you can.

Hoefully that works. It was hours of trying different formating, zeroing etc, the error it gave me lead me to search and finally get a one liner that fixed it all. But why I didn’t add it to my notes is a mystery LOL

I had a somewhat similar issue, kernel kept seeing the old RAID flags of a formatted drive, so would not mount, and clonezilla wouldn’t touch it either. I had to run some special command that specifically removes a certain info. I can’t recall what command it was, but once I ran it everything was fine.

Could have been wipefs followed this maybe… https://www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/cd/soft/unix/RAIDmetadata.html

Could have been combine with the lvremove command also. Really should have saved the notes.

I get that challenge part, I installed Arch ( pre script days) to see what the fuss was about, it was not that difficult if you follow steps.

I’m just parroting what teachers have been telling me; that the newer generation lacks problem solving skills and other skills (on average). No doubt there are awesome parents out there fostering learning and you will have some kids engaged, but we do have a situation where parents aren’t following through on what the kids should be doing at home to help them in their future, and use the iPad or game console as a babysitter. Ask any teacher that has been doing this for a while and the trend they are seeing.

Not every kid will be able to do this. Most kids are so used to phone apps just installing and working they haven’t built tech curiosity skills. And from the teachers in my family, the current 9 years olds struggle with reading and thinking skills

Too many distros to compare. If you want to tinker as a beginner and not have to reinstall for minor mistakes, go for something like OpenSUSE, it has Snapshotting with Rollback built in. You make a mistake, reboot to the previous snapshot and make it the default if everything is normal. NVidia also hosts a specific repo for OoenSUSE so I have never had graphics issues.

I’m on opensuse, which has a direct download from nvidia repos, it has been great. Almost all my steam games work. One complains it needs some unity c library , prompts to install then it runs. On the next run it says same thing, but since it is installed dialog prompts yo unistall, I say OK and game runs LOL