If you pay ten bucks you can get a vps with a few gigs of space for a year and just put your kilobyte of config files there. If you don’t want the malicious vps admin to crawl it you can encrypt a zip of them.
It costs ten bucks but you get an offsite storage vault with a public ip and in some scenarios that’s desirable.
This is what MIT license defenders have to deploy to mimic a fraction of our power.
Yeah the technology existed forever but it wasn’t until a developer didn’t have to target the floppy disk or cd rom or even really pay for hosting at all in most cases that it took off.
I am also not excited for the year of the linux desktop. It’s genuinely gonna suck.
People used to use alsa directly (he’ll, I used to use oss directly).
When pulseaudio came along it broke a bunch of stuff and had a lot of problems but there was massive institutional pressure to adopt it because everyone wanted a unified framework.
Pipewire provides that framework and doesn’t break like pulse did. Admittedly pulse has gotten better but still sucks to interact with.
I made that statement right after suggesting the op stick with the x11 plasma branch until a maintained fork appears.
It’s not exactly a one to one comparison.
Idk how long you’ve been around linux. Theres another old timer itt who brings up some of the things i will.
People get popular support for saying Linus is a jerk. I never met the guy so idk. When I look back on decades of using the operating system with many components failing to be maintained because their creators couldn’t keep going, their lives changed or they simply lost interest, soulless grifters like poettering ruining the experience for the rest of us and the community in general struggling to stay afloat in the waves and eddies created by the motion of massive multinationals and governments swimming beneath our feet, I understand his behavior.
Wayland is another in a long line of rushed rollouts that don’t consider your use case because it’s not for you.
I truly hope someone picks up maintaining and patching plasma, but if it’s anything like past times, consider sticking with the old branch. If that seems like a dead end, maybe switch to a distribution with lts versioning.
Remember how many people stuck with alsa until pipewire came along.
The year of the linux desktop is gonna be a rough one.
The reason I asked that is 3.5” drives can’t operate from usb bus 5v like 2.5” ones can and you didnt specify.
Have you tried hot plugging the drive into the dock while it’s plugged into the computer? If the usb sata controller is slow on the uptake it might miss the relatively narrow chance to report to the pc what’s going on.
Don’t worry about damaging your drives doing that btw, it’s extremely unlikely that you have a disk whose firmware doesn’t support it and all sata ports support it electrically.
As an addendum: is the drive even good? Do you have a known functional disk to test with?
E: oh yeah, on the off chance that the disk is uninitialized get everything plugged up and do an lsblk to show the various block devices. Sometimes if I plug up a disk with no partition table or superblock or whatever gpt uses nothing happens but lsblk shows it and I can mess with it.
Do you have it plugged into the wall?
In the ops defense, they’re probably not accounting for their labor and calling anything in between cost+parts and sale price “profit”.
Eh, gnome is the default on some of the biggest distributions in a time when apparently lots of people are trying Linux for the first time so there’s an outsized opportunity for their usual shenanigans to have consequences for the rest of us.
Which has happened a bunch of times in the past.
Historically speaking, the gnome devs have made “disabled by default” the first step towards removing a feature everyone uses.
Do journalctl and look at what’s happening.
Making something not the default then removing it because it isn’t widely used (because it’s now disabled by default and users have to know it exists and then turn it on) is the gnome way.
Make no mistake, they’re trying to remove features they don’t like. There are lots of people involved in free software because they didn’t get to be in control of nonfree software.
You’re gonna have to go a few years back to hit all the goals you have, but a 3060 12gb or even 3070 if you can get one under your price point is gonna have at least 12gb of ram, be near your tdp, maybe over but you can set a power limit, allow you to work with llms and have good linux support.