• DevDave@piefed.social
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    13 hours ago

    Also as a life long programmer, I have this feeling it is possible to just go in and make some changes so I can have the system just make shit up about the TPM while indeed also doing the equivalent of having system-d decide to respond with random bullshit.

    Don’t even need to be a programmer, just find a community of them that you trust that distribute their own “fixes”.

    Definitely not doing that with anything else because its both hidden in compilation and buried like herpes across multiple components. Probably/hopefully not directly related but I really want to know what they changed to break the clipboard service.

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      13 hours ago

      And you’d be technically correct, the best kind of correct.

      To the inquisitor:

      any distro that’s fully OSS can be fully compiled from scratch with any modifications you choose).

      Though yes, if you’re still using Windows, the learning curve may look like a wall.

      I really want to know what they changed to break the clipboard service

      Guessing the X11 [X]Wayland migration KDE Plasma bug report? Should be fixed in 6.5.2.

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        6 hours ago

        Adjacent comment. I’ve found working in a true posix environment is drastically better than the oddities I dealt with Win32. One annoyance is Microsoft has never been able to implement fork().

        Though i never messed with x11 as I was never motivated to see what it was like under the figurative hood.

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          6 hours ago

          It really is a hell of a lot more sane, instantly missed once you don’t have it. And yeah Fork’s a blessing when used with care lol

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        6 hours ago

        Sorry, switched contexts there. Microsoft broke their clipboard service recently which makes me think they added “telemetry” collecting logic somewhere in there.

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          6 hours ago

          Oh right, I misread. And yeah not sure (my win32 repro targets have all been locked for a while) but with all the facepalm regressions I’ve read about lately it really could be anything.

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            5 hours ago

            From my experience, the number one culprit of legacy code breaking is someone asking if anyone knows how it works. Second most common culprit is someone making a “quick patch” to legacy code.