Virtual Insanity

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  • Have had this issue myself asking with other DD card related issues.

    I can’t understand why the pi foundation persist with using SD as the only physically practical storage option.

    They’re looking post the point of needing a way to snap on reliable EMMC storage, as a default, in a way that doesn’t leave a cable or something permanently plugged into a USB port.

    Sure, USB is a fine option, but I hate that it’s only an option and not a designed default.

    Most of us only need 8GB or so for the OS, 8GB or good quality durable EMMC should hardly cost anything.

    Other tiny computers and even economy notebooks and Chromebooks already use this.



  • The person that made the claim never responded. I don’t know what you’re talking about.

    However I did respond, when I could.

    So point stands, an accusation was made without evidence, and that accusation is still there, and now mine and one other post responds to that accusation… that again is without evidence.

    My issues is, when I made that last post, why was I asked for a source, but no one asked the person making the claim against DDG for a source?

    If the people asking me for a source had also asked the original claimant for a source I’d have no issue.

    The practice of asking the counter claimant for a source and not the claimant is rife, unfair, unreasonable and needs to be called out.

    If seems far too common to accept a say so when an accusation is made online.






  • Is it fair that I have to post a source when someone criticizing doesn’t?

    I’m just a passing stranger that just happens to have good knowledge about a significant misunderstanding that happened a year ago.

    I don’t walk around with ‘sources’ to all of the knowledge I’ve ever gained hanging out of my back pocket.

    This is why “source?” posts are stupid and unreasonable, double so when in response to something where a source was never provided.

    Now… that all said, I do have a moment now that I didn’t have previously to provide additional information.

    This article… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31490515 …Is a starting point, and more info can be found with your own search.

    The basic gist was that it was claims DDG pass user data that could identify a user to Microsoft from searches, however this was never the case.

    I have to allegiance with DDG… they do an ok job. But I do indeed think it unfair they get continuously accused of wrongdoing, even still to this day as evidenced here.

    This is just another case of bad, negative or incorrect information getting more publicity than the facts.








  • If I had a dollar for everytime someone said Linux isn’t bad now is be living on Mars.

    What you’re really saying is your needs are simple and you’ve managed to get what you need.

    This does not translate to everyone as others might have more complex needs than you.

    TrackIR is still a nightmare on Linux, and searching for help with that reveals about 10 situations where no one got a good result and one person who seemingly got lucky.

    Another issue is MS Office. Formatting and macros get broken by FOSS alternatives so don’t even go there.

    There are at least a dozen more issues (NVIDIA, difficult hardware etc …).

    Suffice to say everytime someone pops up saying it works now just starts looking silly.

    Until we get native support and better documentation and testing Linux is still an outlier for anything more than basic productivity or gaming in a bubble.