Another Linux lie: we support audio devices

This is the year twenty twenty three, and people of Earth now travel between stars... Or something along these lines. We have mastered space travel but cannot master the insertion or removal of a 3.5mm stereo jack.

Seriously, if Windows can successfully switch among audio outputs (and sometimes inputs), what is preventing Linux? We have a vibrant community of enthusiasts... We have genius developers contributing code to Linux, through world-wide collaboration... Ah, oh, ah!

Seriously, this is 2023, and Linux still has no audio subsystem that can sense that I remove my headphones plug from its jack! Hey, adepts of the cult of Linus, how do you spell 'retardation'? How do you spell 'disrespect'? How do you spell 'inconsiderate'?

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20 years

It's only taken Mozilla Foundation 20 years to resolve the humongous memory leak from adding/removing tabs. Speaks volumes about the priorities of, quote, FOSS, unquote, quote, community, unquote.

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The downfall

The downfall of our civilization will be brought about not by menace but by stupidity and carelessness. Here's how I know.

The top of the back panel of my 25-year-old electric stove was flat. I could keep a box of toothpicks on it, with which I tested the readiness of my cakes and pastries. Not anymore because the top of the new stove is sloped. Some retarded genius saw fit to change the design and slope it so that anything set on it will slide and fall behind the stove.

That individual either had no idea how the said top may be used or did but decided to screw us stove owners over. I lean towards the former: it was an inconsiderate idiot rather than a cunning menace.

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Pressure

The longer I live the less I understand the world around me. We as a society seem to kind of subscribe to the ideal of freedom but do we live by it? In IT world this controversy manifests differently but similarly to social media with its institutionalized trolling and cancel culture. In IT, we are under pressure to conform to mainstream.

This is how it works. Ask a question about deviating from the mainstream, and instead of whomever willing to answer it realizing that the asker has a good reason for asking this question and instead of giving a straight answer they lecture the asker. The lecturing always goes along the same lines: you put yourself at risk by deviating from the prescribed mainstream. HELL YEAH! Everyone is at risk, and no one is willing to even remotely take responsibility for it! Just read license agreements of any piece of software, including libraries, services, drivers, and whatnot. Each and every of them contains profuse declaration of non-responsibility, AS-IS offering, non-suitability for any particular purpose, yada, yada, yada.

So, why do you even bother lecturing us about the risk, online, whereas you explicitly deny responsibility in your contracts? Why such hypocrisy?

Bottom line is, this pressure is institutional, persistent, pervasive, omnipresent, and therefore supported on the highest levels of societal pyramid. Our society is hypocritical and does not live by the ideal that it declares. Do you know what it means? It means that no one respects nothing and no one else. And this in turn means that we are not afforded any freedoms. Everything we see and hear is a lie.

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For how much longer does the world have to compensate for shitty developers' BS?

For about 10 years now, every time I touch a new piece of software or a new version of an existing software I realize that it is a horrible POS. Developers have clearly gone dumb and mad yet they become defensive when their bugs or horrible design decisions are challenged. It has to be the other way around: we should lash out at them, and they should shut up and fix their bugs. Because if the current trend continues soon all of the software in this world will be horrid. I want to get off this planet before it is too late.

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What a piece of shit Android is!

Buttons that do not perform their stated function - what are they? When I hit the physical power button on the side of the phone, and a dialog appears in the middle of the screen, with 3 buttons: Power Off, Reboot, etc, and I hit 'Power Off' then I expect the phone to do just that. But instead I get another pop-up dialog: Safe reboot, blah-blah-blah, Cancel, OK. WTF safe reboot are you talking about? I've pressed 'Power Off', so do it! No, it won't. And I am left figuring out that this abomination expects me to tap it twice.

They absolutely could not make that dialog a little bit larger and add a note under 'Power Off' that could say 'Double tap to power off, Tap to safe reboot'. Something prevented Google from being clear. What is it?

These absolutely counter-intuitive icons that do not look anything like their intended action... Why do you insist on us having to guess it? Why can you not be clear? What will happen if you do? Will you writhe in pain on the pavement and die a horrible death if you, once in your lifetime, create an intuitive UI? I doubt it even though you deserve it. I wish it happens to you, scumbags!

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We fucked up. No sorry.

The kernel 6.2.8-100.fc36 is so fucked up that upon its update DNF removes it. Of course! It causes systems to hang after half an hour of inactivity. Embarrassed? They should be. I do not often see kernels being removed by the update process. Usually they keep piling up in grub2 menu, but not this one.

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