For the third time, not a consequence. Consequence implies some sort of sacrifice.

You mean like not being able to use a system with an Nvidia card? 🤣

OMG dude. This is pathetic.

Consequence: “a result or effect of an action or condition.”

e.g “being stuck buying only amd kit”

Oh no, absolutely nothing else to add. I don’t want to confuse you with “software engineer speak”. Enjoy the self-imposed ignorance.

This is the literal definition of a consequence. 🤣

My guy, I don’t even know what these words mean. And with AMD, I don’t have to become a software engineer. It just works.

Fucking hell…

No consequences here. I’m perfectly happy continuing on using AMD.

Sure - and you’re limited to systems that use an AMD chip. Consequences. I’m sure you justify this to yourself though.

Why do you think AMD always work out of the box and people constantly have problems with Nvidia? Is it because they’re “ignorant” or because it’s unnecessarily convoluted?

I don’t think - I know. Because one is integrated with the kernel and built and distributed with it and the other is a separate module. This isn’t something unique to nvidia either - my system has modules from system76 as well as v4l2loopback that are also compiled separately.

But since I install my packages using “apt” they are all managed by dkms and I don’t need to worry about it. Because I took a few minutes to learn about how my computer works.

I suppose if you don’t know what you’re doing - that’s true. It’s not something unique to nvidia either - it’s true of any drivers outside the kernel source. But that’s what dkms is for - it automatically handles it for you when you update your kernel.

If you don’t want to learn how the system you use works then you suffer the consequences. Or you just continue to blame nvidia for your own ignorance as I’m sure you will.

Did you use your package manager and dkms? You need to recompile the driver hook with each kernel update.

I’ve had Nvidia cards since the Riva TNT2 and it’s been reasonably smooth sailing… 🤷‍♂️

The data is relational. Spreadsheets are a pain to use for that.

LibreOffice Base seems like a good idea for something like this. SQL based with a UI to create forms, reports, etc.

It’s probably one of the few times it would be an appropriate tool to use!

Just like in DOS. Most things worked with one setup - but you always had that weird game that needed the mtmcdas.sys driver rather than mtmcdae.sys driver or something.

Man, WINE really brings back the old experience of DOS with building different boot disks to run different programs and games.

I doubt it - it runs in an android sandbox. Why would they even bother? it’s easier to just create a filesystem “chroot” and use that. That way you get full read/write and control of versions.

Which still needs a wayland compositor to work, but I get your meaning now. You simply want it to be possible for there to be GUI support with some sort of wayland compositor.

I don’t think you know what you’re talking about… It’s a protocol. A document. You need some application that implements it. Like KWin, or Gnome.

…and a filesystem layout. They don’t install things to the “root” linux so they have their own /var, /bin, /usr, etc.

There’s no app called “Wayland”. So I’m not sure what you want “hooked up”.

My sense was that it’s kinda like cygwin. Just natively compiled apps and a filesystem layout.

What do you mean? Wayland isn’t “a thing”.

As I mentioned in reply to another comment of yours, the main difference in my opinion here is that I am posting this as an individual one-man company compared to something like Oracle. And the Oracle free tier still requires you to sign-up and provide your data. This free version does not have such a commitment.

I don’t care who you are? Nor do I understand why that matters - it’s not you I dislike it’s your ads. You seem a decent fellow. The rules say “no spam” not “no spam unless you’re, like, a super-cool dude with an exciting new project!”

You’re welcome to create a xpipe@lemmy.world community for people who are interested in your product. It’s free to create and you can share all the up-to-date and exciting changes you’re making as much as you like.

You could also just downvote the posts you don’t want to see and move on, you don’t have to read my posts if you don’t like them.

I have. But this is never an effective strategy against fighting spam. Which is why I raised it as a question to the community.

Oracle’s cloud platform has an “always free” plan that self-hosters tend to use - yet I don’t think we’d accept Oracle posting monthly updates in this community. But maybe I’m wrong. Maybe this community should be for ads then?

If users were posting and discussing products that’s something else. That’s a community discussing things they find interesting or useful. Direct advertising is just self-serving. You can pretend it’s not - but we both know it is.

These XPipe posts have gone well beyond “I did a thing” and are starting to feel like I’ve subscribed for release updates that I can’t unsubscribe from for a product I will never use. So at this point it’s spam.

Edit: Well - I guess I could block you as a user - which I don’t really want to… But that seems to be the only option open to me.

That isn’t the question at all. It’s about whether we allow companies to market directly in this community. And apparently we do.