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The Phoronix forms, where AMD and NVIDIA engineers can effectively communicate (lemmy.zip)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Michael should be getting royalties

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-DRM-Firmware-Repository

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[–] 179 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (29 children)

This might be the first time I've ever seen something productive happen in the Phoronix forums. I love that place. Go to any topic with more than about a dozen posts and it's almost guaranteed to be a flame war. Genuinely one of the funniest places on the Internet.

Check out this one. It took like three posts!

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  • [–] 96 points 3 years ago (15 children)

    The phoronix forums are insanely toxic. Everything is bad. Gnome = kid's toy. systemd = written by Satan himself. Every programming language = too slow. Anything vaguely interested in fostering a diversity, equity, and inclusion = true colors come out in full force.

    It's so toxic yet I subject myself to it every now and again. There's absolutely no moderation going on and it shows.

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  • [–] 59 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Any post mentioning Wayland or btrfs is guaranteed to have at least 60 comments

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It's super confusing, like I feel many commenters there live in a different universe. They talk about how Wayland is a failure that has failed to get off the ground, while it's the default in most of the major distros at this point.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    There is some, but unless it gets really uncivilized no action really gets taken. a couple users have been banned

    IMO I prefer it that way myself though. you either learn something neat, or engage in a class shittery. lots of other more polite forums such as this if phoronix forums isn't to taste

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Interestingly, the guy who made the referenced post, 'avis', is allegedly the new name of 'birdie', a well-known troll on the forums who was banned a while back. Basically everyone there agrees that it's him and no action is taken against this new account.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I don't think there is any doubt that avis is artem lol his profile even says banned in it as a joke. as long as his behavior is better, which it has been even if only marginal, there won't be an issue. even if he does nearly single handedly cause most of the 5+ page... debates

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  • [+] -20 points 3 years ago* (6 children)

    What part of any of those opinions is toxic? Lol. If your feelings get hurt because of your parasocialtechnological relationship with software you didn't even write, take it up with your therapist.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Did you not see how that turned from a really inconsequential disagreement to something emotional and personal almost immediately?

    Sure, no single post was particularly toxic on its own. It's the holy war tenor of discussions on Phoronix that all but guarantees that every discussion ends up as a flame war.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Anything vaguely interested in fostering a diversity, equity, and inclusion = true colors come out in full force.

    if you don't understand how this is toxic then you are dumb as dogshit

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Man, that guy really likes X11.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Any "X11 vs Wayland" discussion will eventually devolve into a fight beteeen diehard X11 fans and diehard Wayland fans, lol.

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  • [+] 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Although, screen sharing has been solved a while ago. Any application that doesn't work is because the developers are shit (I am looking into you, zoom and you half-assed implementation using an screenshot-API-based gnome-only implementation).

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    Especially when the original article is about anything related to Rust. An hour after the article is live you'll have 50 posts arguing and trolling like there's nothing more important in the whole wide world. So entertaining!

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