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Does alsamixer allow you to change to the correct soundcard? What does pacmd list-cards output?

Rockbox is all well and good until you realize your car's stereo doesn't recognize your iPod Classic as a music player anymore. Hours of forum rabbit holes later: turns out it's special firnware that Rockbox can't access, and probably won't ever be able to (unless apple voluntarily forfeits some encryption keys).

Like every other DAP, Rockbox gets your iPod recognized as a usb storage device by most vehicles. For the stereos I've used, this is a headache because they needed to index the entire filesystem at an agonizingly slow bandwidth... every time I started the car or had unplugged the iPod. One car slowly gave access to songs as they were discovered, gradually revealing the files to you over time, the other just displayed a message until completed (which hasn't ever happened, even on hour+ car rides). The same things occured with my Onkyo DP-X1, except that indexing would finish within my lifetime.

It was easiest just to use the 3.5mm jack for the car stereo tho, due to the indexing being required every goddamn time the car turned off or the player got unplugged. Which is a shame, bc my stereo may be stock, but they are quite nice and expensive DAPs (i even tricked the iPod out with an iFlash for SD card capabilities and a custom shell) and should be able to stream digital audio over USB.

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Stop putting words in my mouth. I never mentioned spaghetti code, and i said nothing about being better or smarter than either Xorg or Wayland devs

This is an excellent counterexample to claim 1, and I wish this was the top response to my comment. It not only negates the claim that "maintenance mode" isn't bad, it also provides specific examples of when it is bad.

Then the problem is that it's abandoned, not that it has stagnated (which can also be phrased as "stabilized" depending entirely on context and the speaker's/author's personal feelings about the project). Once again, I'm not saying that Xorg is good, but that particular critique needs to stop; it's major flaw is that even the "maintainers" are sick of it and want it to die, not that it has ceased major developments.

Even the article acknowledges this:

Having something as central as the window server being unmaintained is a major issue, as it means no bug fixes, no security patches...

But it also falls into the "Bells and whistles" side of the critique immediately after:

... and no new features

and it even starts of explaining the problems with X by saying it's in "maintenance mode." I couldn't care less about new features, the Pareto principle implies 80% of users don't need new features regardless of how much dopamine they get from seeing the marketing hype. "Maintenance mode" isn't a bad thing, it's a good thing. Abandoned projects that most GUIs still rely on is a disaster waiting to happen.

The new architecture allows developers to fix one thing without accidentally breaking 3 others.

That's an extremely bold claim, and vague, with no actual examples. Do I take it on faith that changing code can break things with X? Yes, but I, having worked with code, just assume that's what happens to all software. Do I believe that Wayland has found a way to do away with that problem of software architecture (and not necessarily protocol architecture)? Not unless they've somehow found a way to compartmentalize every single module such that every aspect is fully isolated and yet has interfaces for every potential use case that could ever be dreamed up. Any devs in the comments want to pipe up and let me know how that endeavor has worked for them in past projects?

I'm guessing it's just malware that has had its source posted on github or the like, contrasted with the "hacker"/APT groups that actually charge to download and run their C2 servers

And there are a few other companies that sell Linux preloaded, like System76, or Pine64, or Star Labs, or Purism, or Malibal, or Slimbook, or ThinkPenguin, or Lenovo, or MOTHERFUXKING DELL

And if that's not enough variety, you can always buy used from Ebay

Surprisingly profound for just another windows v linux slapfight. I recently watched Cory Doctorow's DEFCON talk on enshittification, and something he brought up is how once-good, now-shitty social media platforms held their users hostage by being the only platform with all their "friends" (or at least that specific group of people)—the alternatives being to organize dozens of people to migrate to a new service or losing all those friends.

Real friends aren't platform exclusive

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dir hosts* /s

I get the sneaking suspicion that this is the kind of response OP mean by "biased answers," but it's also just true. Some distros will harvest data, but it's much easier to avoid than with Windows

Wundows 11 (my work's pc), has adequate window management. It's still mostly accessed by mouse (drag to the top of the screen) instead of having the keyboard power of, say, i3wm, but it has more variation than the "left half, right half, maximize, minimize" of prior Windows'.