Michael should be getting royalties

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-DRM-Firmware-Repository

  • 4ffy@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    This might be the first time I've ever seen something productive happen in the Phoronix forums. I love that place. Go to any topic with more than about a dozen posts and it's almost guaranteed to be a flame war. Genuinely one of the funniest places on the Internet.

    Check out this one. It took like three posts!

    • bamboo@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      The phoronix forums are insanely toxic. Everything is bad. Gnome = kid's toy. systemd = written by Satan himself. Every programming language = too slow. Anything vaguely interested in fostering a diversity, equity, and inclusion = true colors come out in full force.

      It's so toxic yet I subject myself to it every now and again. There's absolutely no moderation going on and it shows.

        • bamboo@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          It's super confusing, like I feel many commenters there live in a different universe. They talk about how Wayland is a failure that has failed to get off the ground, while it's the default in most of the major distros at this point.

          • flashgnash@lemm.ee
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            1 year ago

            It's really good so long as you aren't trying to use it with Nvidia especially for gaming in my experience

      • GenBlob@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Once in a while I venture their forums as a morbid curiosity and it always delivers.

      • drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 year ago

        There is some, but unless it gets really uncivilized no action really gets taken. a couple users have been banned

        IMO I prefer it that way myself though. you either learn something neat, or engage in a class shittery. lots of other more polite forums such as this if phoronix forums isn't to taste

      • heartlessevil@lemmy.one
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        1 year ago

        What part of any of those opinions is toxic? Lol. If your feelings get hurt because of your parasocialtechnological relationship with software you didn't even write, take it up with your therapist.

        • LanyrdSkynrd [comrade/them, any]
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          1 year ago

          Did you not see how that turned from a really inconsequential disagreement to something emotional and personal almost immediately?

          Sure, no single post was particularly toxic on its own. It's the holy war tenor of discussions on Phoronix that all but guarantees that every discussion ends up as a flame war.

        • Kuori [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          Anything vaguely interested in fostering a diversity, equity, and inclusion = true colors come out in full force.

          if you don't understand how this is toxic then you are dumb as dogshit

    • LanyrdSkynrd [comrade/them, any]
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      1 year ago

      That's hilarious.

      "Mozilla is allowing you the option to build Firefox without X11 dependencies"

      "Mozilla hates freedom!!!"