Just one thing canāt define whether living in that country would be grateful or not ā¦
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Absolutely agreeā¦unless it is indicative of further restraints placed on its citizenryās freedoms. 
Itās gettinā pretty hairy here in the 'States. 
EDIT: Although I gotta say, Iāve gotten no DMCA Violation notices since I started using a VPN. Just sayingā¦
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Hmmā¦ There is nothing wrong in using VPN here either 
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It has come to my attention that Western Digital is becoming insanely anti-consumer with their latest changes to analytics. They seem to think itās okay to essentially murder your disks after 3 years powered on. A compliant offender for this behavior is Synology, but you can probably expect them to try pushing this functionality to most mainstream NAS solutions as the default.
This is gravely disturbing to me, and I wish it were viral news:
Untested step to disable WDDA:
sudo synosetkeyvalue /etc.defaults/synoinfo.conf support_wdda no
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In particular, old Sun compiler support was cleared out with various ā__SUNPRO_Cā for the Sun Studio compilers. Additionally, old USL compiler checks have been removed too.
While some may argue against dropping support for old and outdated compilers on the basis of the X.Org Serverās importance and history, support for these environments were effectively dead already. Due to the switch from the GNU Autoconf to Meson build system for the X.Org Server, Meson doesnāt support these outdated targets and in turn werenāt buildable as it was. Thus itās just removing dead code at this stage.
Thereās also been bits of other spring cleaning in the codebase, such as this interesting patch by Oracleās Alan Coopersmith. The longtime X.Org developer explained:
"unifdef SUNSYSV
I canāt tell what this code was originally for - it was added in 1988, 4 years before the release of the SysV R4 release of Solaris 2.0, and I canāt find anywhere that defined SUNSYSV."
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I think, the r/linux is going crazy about regional use of linux!
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/s/Db3nFfis7a
This is for India - 15% 
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/s/0Pfb3PYZUM
This is for Luxembourg - 6%
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I am not that surprised ,India is already an IT giant and most of the companies have atleast one back office situated in India(Maybe because of population).
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But, I use this everyday for internet access. 
Will this affect Android 10/11 devices?
And U.S. adoption @ 3.46%. Iām not surprised, and I am greatly heartened to see it that low. I wish it were lower.
The fewer of my compatriots that use it, the fewer that can !@#$% it up for the rest of us.
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I donāt consider that data of my country correct my own self 
if it is 15 % then why I havenāt met more than 2 peoples who knew a little bit about linux in my entire life( one just use kali linux to get passwords of other peopleās Wifi so that he can use their data if there isnāt much left for him 
)
Seriously, I would not consider it that true . I believe itās more like a click bait thing ā¦
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I wonder how this statistics are carried out 
Were you guys somehow counted? 
or is our downloads monitored
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No, itās just like a rumor, I believe that it is definitely incorrect
at first I didnāt looked carefully and misinterpreted as ratio of linux users in world to linux users in India .
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6 posts were merged into an existing topic: Off Topic Chit Chat - (Silliness factor 5)
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Bricks is estimated to have around 25,000 currently active installations. Users of the plugin are recommended to apply the latest patches to mitigate potential threats.
Given its successes, a merge request has been opened so Zink would become part of the default drivers built by Mesa out-of-the-box without needing to manually enable it for compilation
The open-source Skia graphics engine developed by Google allows GPU-accelerated rendering via ANGLE and Vulkan. CPU software rasterization, and more. Skia is used by Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and countless other software for 2D graphics while now WebKitGTK and WPEWebKit are transitioning to it too.
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