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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

10 months

If Linux Kernel 6.6.6 isn't named "Kernel of the Beast" I'm quitting Linux and switching to FreeBSD

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

1 month

I am 26 years old I have been using computers since I was 8 I just found out that pixel is short for picture element

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

5 months

Windows users seem to have 2 states of being: 1. Windows is the only useful operating system, I don't like or dislike it, I just use it 2. Why does Microsoft keep making Windows worse, why do we keep seeing more and more ads Is there anybody that actually likes Windows

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Brodie Robertson

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2 months

Shout out to whoever in the North Korean government is using Flathub

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Brodie Robertson

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5 months

It's rare to see a 10.0 rating and it actually feel justified

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Brodie Robertson

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8 months

light themes suck... nah most designers suck, have you ever seen windows 7, light theme doesn't mean white on white on white

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Brodie Robertson

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1 year

Shout out to RHEL for doing what no other distro has the balls to do and finally mark as deprecated

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

5 months

Wait until you discover this other neat little OS

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Will you pay?

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

4 months

NVIDIA officially doesn't suck on Linux anymore, the drivers are still proprietary but at least they work

NVIDIA 555 Beta Linux Graphics Driver Released with Explicit Sync Support - 9to5Linux

NVIDIA 555 beta graphics driver for Linux is now available for public testing with explicit sync support on Wayland and other improvements.

9to5linux.com

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Brodie Robertson

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3 months

Linus Torvalds Like if you agree

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Brodie Robertson

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2 months

Seems like a good day to support Linux

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Brodie Robertson

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2 years

Non developers talking about programming issues is always adorable

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Brodie Robertson

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4 months

Surely nothing will wrong here and surely the locally stored data will never be sent up to Microsoft servers without you knowing, surely that'll never happen. Check back on this tweet in a few years to see how that played out.

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Satya Nadella says Windows PCs will have a photographic memory feature called Recall that will remember and understand everything you do on your computer by taking constant screenshots

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Brodie Robertson

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1 month

@hbkirb A less common abbreviation than px is pel which does sound less common

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Brodie Robertson

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4 months

Give me your most controversial Linux takes that nobody wants to admit are actually true. I'll start, Photoshop isn't actually a big deal for most people and it being missing is easier to complain about than fixing the real issues on the #Linux desktop

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

11 months

Anime has never had a bigger true

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Brodie Robertson

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6 months

If Linux is so good why isn't there a Linux 2

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Brodie Robertson

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2 years

It is truly a sad day when my 35 year old CPU may no longer run modern linux

Linux Kernel May Drop i486 Support as Torvalds Backs Pentium Plan

The 486 DX was introduced in 1989

www.tomshardware.com

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

1 year

I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this but another logo has fallen victim to the corporate minimalism virus #Firefox #Thunderbird #Linux

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

9 months

Thorium is only not a dead project but there's some hilarious shit going on in the repo, hidden around the browser, and a bunch of his other projects is a bunch of furry and some hentai, enjoy your furry porn if you to want but why is it in a web browser

Alex313031/thorium

Chromium fork named after radioactive element No. 90. Windows and MacOS/Raspi/Android/Special builds are in different repositories, links are towards the top of the README.md. - Alex313031/thorium

github.com

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

1 year

Imagine being such a smooth brain Apple simp that you think this is a bad thing

Apple Hub

@theapplehub

1 year

Apple will finally allow for sideloading apps in iOS 17 to comply with EU regulations This would allow users to download apps outside of the App Store and allow developers to avoid the 15% to 30% fees Source: @markgurman

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Brodie Robertson

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1 year

I am the only real Arch Linux user

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

2 months

Who would win in a fight, an absolutely plastered Linus Torvalds or Richard Stallman with a katana?

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

2 years

Linus Torvalds famous for developing the Linux kernel, distributed version control system Git, and apparently he's an avid scuba diver and created the open source scuba dive logging and planning software Subsurface. Only just discovered the 3rd one

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

2 months

Not that one

COSMIC Desktop

@COSMIC_desktop

2 months

What color will you make your container background? The possibilities are endless with COSMIC!

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

2 years

@LinaAsahi I guess it's time to pull together all the comments saying that GPU drivers for the M1 were impossible and this whole project was a waste of time. I can't believe how far you've already taken this

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Brodie Robertson

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2 years

KDE is basically the McDonalds of the Linux world, instead of McSoftware we have Ksoftware. So go enjoy Kwatching KYouTube Kon Kyour Kdesktop Kwith Kyour Kheadphones

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

2 months

@SunlessSolaire Look I wouldn't be surprised, there's a Saudi Arabian prince with a well known steam account lol

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

1 month

Please give me kernel level access to your computer, I promise I won't abuse it

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

4 months

I will die on this hill. There are 0 excuses for why GNOME does not support server side decorations as a fallback, client side decorations should be available for apps that want them but you cannot, and will not force every app to implement them so get used to the bug reports.

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

1 month

New copypasta acquired: FYI I am a gen z programmer. I have been around longer than you and I have more experiences in life than you can understand. Take what I say as good advice.

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

8 months

OBS refuses to merge a basic change adding Kick to the RTMP list as "Kick does not meet our requirements because the platform supports and encourages detestable and vile content and creators, and we as a project do not want ourselves associated with it."

[RTMP] Adding Kick as Stream Service by JustZerooo · Pull Request #10043 · obsproject/obs-studio

Description Just add kick.com to the aviable rtmp services. Motivation and Context How Has This Been Tested? Yes and it worked. Types of changes Checklist: My code has been run ...

github.com

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

6 months

RIP yuzu, the source code is still out there so hopefully someone in a country that doesn't give a fuck about Nintendo's lawyers has the knowledge to work on it

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

9 months

We're back

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

1 year

RIP @LinusTech someone clicked an email they shouldn't have

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

5 months

Hit me with your worst Linux takes, I'm sure you've all got some bangers.

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

8 months

Forget rewriting the kernel in Rust, let's go backwards and rewrite it in assembly

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

4 months

1997: Here's thing but with internet 2010: Here's thing but now it's smart 2020: Here's thing but now it's got web3, blockchain and tokens 2024: Here's thing but now it's got AI Nowhere along the way did we think, maybe a rice cooker is ok just being a rice cooker

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

3 years

@OrdinaryGamers Remember when FaZe was just a Call of Duty clan, what a simpler time that was

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

19 days

If there's one statement I find insufferable it's "Linux is just a kernel" as a rebuttal to anything. Firstly you're a moron, Linux is the colloquial term for the operating system, get over it already. Secondly, it's not actually a rebuttal to anything, it's just semantics.

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

2 months

If Blink the engine for Chrome forked off of WebKit and WebKit forked off of KHTML, the engine from the KDE project does that mean that KDE is to blame for Chrome. I am legally required to say this is a joke

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

21 days

We need to change KDE back to the "Kool Desktop Environment". I suggest using this name in every possible context to gaslight everyone into thinking it's still called this, then eventually the developers will have to accept it as well.

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

10 months

The craziest thing to me about the new Steam Deck OLED is Valve made the device better with a bigger battery, bigger storage, new OLED HDR screen, bigger screen, higher refresh rate and didn't keep the price the same, they actually lowered it.

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

3 months

linux is stored in the balls

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

3 years

This story went around the world, every tech outlet on the planet has talked about. Lew has outdone himself with the hoax this time

Lewis Spears

@LewSpears

3 years

Back at it, thanks for playing @VICENews I Tricked VICE Into Running a Fake Story. It Went VIRAL WATCH:

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Brodie Robertson

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3 months

I can't believe it, VR is actually happening on GNOME, the protocol actually got merged

Add Wayland DRM lease protocol support (!3746) · Merge requests · GNOME / mutter · GitLab

Add Wayland DRM lease protocol support. Based on the work by

gitlab.gnome.org

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

3 months

If you had your own Linux distro what would you call it

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

10 months

Why are Windows users so stupid, why do I get people in my comments telling me how great Windows 7 still is in 2023. There is literally no rational argument to be running Windows 7, feel free to make one, but hot take, I will never encourage people to run an EOL operating system

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

5 months

Remember when we were all naive and innocent and using Linux was fun

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Brodie Robertson

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1 month

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as CrowdStrike, is in fact, CrowdStrike Falcon, or as I've recently taken to calling it, KernelStrike

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Brodie Robertson

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1 year

I'm sorry, what year is it right now

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Brodie Robertson

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2 months

@Tervicke With 316 downloads it's not widespread use, it's funny if it was actually North Korea, but it's probably just somebody doing some fun IP masking

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

3 months

If you don't watch my Recall video this is the most important point: Recall is not opt-in it is opt-out, if you have a supported PC the default behavior is store a database of every action you take

Tom Warren

@tomwarren

3 months

this is the out of box experience for Windows 11's new Recall feature on Copilot+ PCs. It's enabled by default during setup and you can't disable it directly here. There is an option to tick "open Settings after setup completes so I can manage my Recall preferences" instead

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Brodie Robertson

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5 months

GNOME is obviously the biggest Linux desktop but I wonder how much of that is due to it being the default. I wonder if KDE or GNOME would be bigger if Fedora and Ubuntu offered their KDE versions with as much ease as the GNOME versions

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

5 months

You've seen package managers You've seen piping curl into bash But have you ever seen sourcing a script from curl every time you launch the shell

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

1 year

@MalicartMH @ShitpostRock Proximity is great but you need to have super tight hitboxes, I should never be getting hit unless the attack actually touches me and that's very difficult to do well

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

1 year

True and real

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

1 month

Thank you to that guy in my youtube comments who mentioned the KDE window decoration Klassy, this is night and day better than the breeze default and actually has colored borders

GitHub - paulmcauley/klassy: Klassy is a highly customizable binary Window Decoration, Application...

Klassy is a highly customizable binary Window Decoration, Application Style and Global Theme plugin for recent versions of the KDE Plasma desktop. - paulmcauley/klassy

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

4 months

WE HAVE CRACKED THE FUCKING CASE, I THINK WE KNOW WHY KDE KEEPS STUTTERING AND IT'S REALLY STUPID

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

1 year

Please get @LinusTech to see this video, you have encouraged millions of people to run an incredibly dangerous Windows install with almost no mention of it's flaws @linusgsebastian @luke_lafr @Anjyoun #Windows #AtlasOS

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

1 year

Unveiling the logo for my new Linux distro

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Brodie Robertson

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1 year

What a mess of an apology video #linustechtips #LTT Monetized with 2 merch plugs Spreading in jokes to break the tension Leaking value of the Billet Labs prototype which they didn't want to make public Lying about emailing them before the controversy

What do we do now?

Discuss on the forum: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1526561-what-do-we-do-now/CHAPTERS---------------------------------------------------0:00 Terren, our ...

www.youtube.com

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

8 months

Anyone who spread the lie that you never need to reboot Linux should be sentenced for treason

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

7 months

Some of you guys said it wouldn't happen, but here he is, the one and only @ThePrimeagen #Linux #Programming #OpenSource

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

4 months

Translation: Please for the love of god stop demanding your money back

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@PlayStation

4 months

Helldivers fans -- we’ve heard your feedback on the Helldivers 2 account linking update. The May 6 update, which would have required Steam and PlayStation Network account linking for new players and for current players beginning May 30, will not be moving forward. We’re still

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4 months

@WilliamCail1 Because drivers work?

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5 months

@fuckedallover Github pulled the repo

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Brodie Robertson

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7 months

@iownfivewiis Blame the device for reporting itself like that

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

1 year

Actual Canonical on my video

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

5 months

I'm sure Microsoft can find a few thousand dollars in a couch somewhere to get this fixed

FFmpeg

@FFmpeg

5 months

The xz fiasco has shown how a dependence on unpaid volunteers can cause major problems. Trillion dollar corporations expect free and urgent support from volunteers. @Microsoft @MicrosoftTeams posted on a bug tracker full of volunteers that their issue is "high priority"

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Brodie Robertson

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8 months

The day of reckoning is almost upon us #Linux

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

9 months

Even if COSMIC isn't out yet, it's having a positive impact on the ecosystem

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

4 months

I've seen a lot of people rightfully discussing the privacy implications of Windows Recall but not as many mention that this "feature" is going to lead to people unintentionally breaking NDAs when their Recall data gets leaked from a malware.

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

2 years

Why People dislike FOSS companies Canonical: Seems to do nothing when they do something it's not what people want Mozilla: Does everything except what they should be doing RedHat: Does everything, does it well, when RedHat's name isn't attached people love it, but Redhat bad

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Brodie Robertson

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5 months

Update as this sitation is evolving very quickly, Lasse Collin (the original XZ maintainer) is aware of the backdoor and will begin work soon to clean up the project. Jia Tan has also committed to the kernel in the past so now they're also scrambling to analyze some code.

Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

5 months

The XZ Linux Backdoor Is Incredibly BAD!! #Linux #YouTube

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Brodie Robertson

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1 month

> make a joke about not liking C++ > defenders come out to say how it's great for game development and systems programming > video is about a window manager > "I'm very confused why people are bringing these up"

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

9 months

I'm calling out every Linux dev that uses i386 to mean i386, up to i686, stop it. Nobody besides Linux devs does this, its a stupid name for the group. Just call it x86 like everyone else 🤓 Um Aktualy, x86 also include 16 bit CPUs No one cares they haven't existed since the 80s

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

10 months

Courtesy of my sister and some drunk middle aged women who wanted to see me in heels and fake booba

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

10 months

Xorg is a ticking time bomb, once Red Hat decides to stop maintaining it some of you people better step up to maintain it yourselves or you'll be in for a rough ride.

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

11 months

🎉🎉🎂HAPPY BIRTHDAY @CyanNyan6 🎂🎉🎉 I've got a Halloween party coming up and I thought you'd appreciate my costume. I'm really glad we got to meet because of your LFS streams and I hope you have an incredible day, also hopefully I'll find some time to catch your stream

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Brodie Robertson

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2 years

Didn't think saying "Don't run Windows 7 in 2022" was controversial. There are only 2 reasons too still be using it. 1. You have a specialized use case where the software you need can only run on Windows 7 2. You bought a computer a decade ago and have no idea what an OS is

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

1 year

I don't like being right but don't tell me I didn't warn you this would happen. I'm more surprised that it's taken this long for YouTube to start experimenting with blocking ad block

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

11 months

This is why VPN marketting works so well

Jon Gorenflo 🇺🇦🌻

@flakpaket

11 months

*Eye twitch*

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Brodie Robertson

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10 months

I didn't think it would actually happen lol #Linux

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Brodie Robertson

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21 days

I'm excited to see how COSMIC progresses, it has the potential to be the only desktop environment that fits my use case. Right now it's an alpha and has a number of annoying bugs and missing features but the core is good.

COSMIC Desktop

@COSMIC_desktop

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Ahh, tiling and stacking, the best desktop experience. #COSMIC

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Brodie Robertson

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4 months

The saga of GNOME DRM Leasing is fun > ACK let's implement it > No we're not implementing we never agreed to do so > Valve should come up with something better > Lets implement a portal > Lets not > Lets implement a Dbus service > Lets not > Lets implement the protocol actually

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15 days

We don't need no Windows where we're going

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2 months

@DerpedCrusader @iownfivewiis IP addresses are not home addresses, they do not tell you where someone is located, they tell you where an IP range is assigned

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6 months

Some 15 year old kid decided to pick up Yuzu as a fork, this is super early days so I wouldn't hold out hope for it but we'll see what happens

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Brodie Robertson

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1 year

pwease don't instawl pwopwietarwy software 🥺👉👈

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Brodie Robertson

@BrodieOnLinux

3 months

Throwback to the good old days, it has been a long time since I've had a new comment like this

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Brodie Robertson

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2 months

A Steam Deck 2

Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

@gamingonlinux

2 months

Will anything dethrone the Steam Deck? Probably not #SteamDeck

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7 months

Hot Take: The "I'm new to Github guy" is an absolute asshole but is actually completely right, all the developers coping right now that Github is a dev platform are wrong. If you only release your app on Github it's no longer just a development platform it's also distribution one

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Brodie Robertson

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9 months

NVK and Nouveau today are Proton 5 years ago, when Proton was announced it was insanely impressive but so limited compared to now, with 5 more years of development we may no longer even think about drivers when you buy a GPU Proton Announcement:

Steam :: Steam for Linux :: Introducing a new version of Steam Play

In 2010, we announced Steam Play: a way for Steam users to access Windows, Mac and Linux versions of Steam games with a single purchase. More than 3000 of the games that have been added to Steam...

steamcommunity.com

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Brodie Robertson

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2 years

Manjaro adding and removing h264 support from the Mesa package 3 times in 2 weeks is the most Manjaro way of doing something

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1 year

This is the greatest picture ever taken of Linus Torvalds, prove me wrong #Linux

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2 years

So it seems like @elonmusk is doing a good job right now 🤡🤡🤡

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4 months

I've been saying Neofetch was dead for years, good job catching up. It's a great project on it's technical merits but being written in bash script it's always been one of the slower options there are so many other great implementations nowadays

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Brodie Robertson

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1 year

With all this Red Hat stuff happening right now I want to make something very clear, going around harassing Red Hat employees, and Fedora contributors is not useful to the discussion and won't make anything change.

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Brodie Robertson

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11 months

@ThePrimeagen asked to do a react to one of my videos, this goes out not just to him but everyone else, as long as you're not uploading the video 1:1 it's free real estate, do a react, meme edits or whatever else you want, all of it is fine with me.

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