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so, one person told me I should give the bug reports to the dev.solus.com for those dmesg --kern things and then the other person called me a I don't care if its fix in this distro at this point, I could outside of it, at this point it doesn't matter, since red text means nothing and is not a threat , but this behavor below is not ok, to call people support vampires. I am not sure what country is the Solus linux project in, but I am a American and I find it rude to be talk to by someone like this below, so should I email microsoft or I report this message to someone at the reddit forums , since I think this type of reply is very rude. when I was trying to be helpful about what I had seen in the red text, not that microsoft can close the solus project, I wouldn't want something like that to happen, since I look forward to seeing what solus 5 is going to be like, but I again did find ermo reply to me very rude, they could of just closed it without making a reply like that at me, I am not mad about it, well maybe a little bit. since I took my own time to screen capture, do the dmesg --kern > text.file which I sent to dev solus com but they had close it there compainly at me that I should of done so when I recall reading a admin telling me to go there to report these or the red text in the kernel that why I said I got a mixed message from the admins here, and maybe I should not hold it against them, but being told to report it to dev.solus.com when getting it close their because of someone at this forum, well you might understand why as a home user and a Xbox series x pc gamer who Microsoft owns that too, since I buy their video game stuff since I like xbox games and such in any case. I am a learning-disabled student, was in special ed was in high school for English, writing and math problems etc... general ed subjects. I might take it as being rude. to get a reply like that. so, I do have some writing problems, and my skill level in writing might not be up to ever one's standards. and no I was not trying to be a support vampire, I found this to be very rude, as I was thinking it had something to do with the tv series " What we do in the dark" is which I had thought of when I read this, being a fan of that tv show. I think errors can be report to

https://www.kernel.org/category/faq.html
also I noticed solus is not even listed at a few websites , anymore or maybe it never was.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7908628/

ermo a day ago wrote this

You're being a support vampire. Please stop.

looked up that term or I asked bing chat to define it

A support vampire is a term used to describe someone who repeatedly asks for help from others without making any effort to solve their own problems or learn from the answers. A support vampire usually expects others to do their work for them, and does not appreciate or acknowledge the help they receive. A support vampire also tends to ask the same questions over and over again, without searching for existing solutions or reading the documentation. A support vampire can be very frustrating and annoying for those who try to help them, as they waste their time and energy.

The term support vampire is mostly used in online communities, such as forums, chat rooms, or Q&A sites, where people seek and offer help on various topics. The term is especially common in computing and programming related communities, where users often encounter complex or technical problems that require some research or experimentation to solve. The term is considered derogatory and insulting, and it implies that the person asking for help is lazy, ignorant, or incompetent.

The term support vampire was coined by Amy Hoy in 2006, in a blog post titled "Help Vampires: A Spotter’s Guide"1. In this post, she described the characteristics and behaviors of support vampires, and gave some advice on how to deal with them. She also created a quiz to help users identify if they are a support vampire or not2. The term has since been adopted by many other online communities, such as Stack Overflow3, Reddit4, or Discord5. Some of these communities have also created guidelines or rules to discourage or prevent support vampirism, such as asking users to do their own research before posting a question, providing clear and specific details about their problem, showing their own attempts and efforts to solve it, and being respectful and grateful to those who help them.

so I asked bing chat, this quesition can you confirm the information it gave me is correct?

I asked it this "where is the company that solus linux is hosted at? is it located in the US?" I learn it sounds like Microsoft hosts it if that's correct, on github.

Solus Linux is an independently developed operating system that is based on the Linux kernel and offers a choice of four desktop environments: Budgie, GNOME, MATE, or KDE Plasma1. Solus Linux was originally created by Ikey Doherty, who left the project in 2018 and assigned the ownership and leadership of Solus to the development team2. Solus Linux does not have a physical company location, but it is hosted on GitHub, a web-based platform for software development and collaboration3. GitHub is owned by Microsoft Corporation, which is headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States. Therefore, you could say that Solus Linux is indirectly hosted in the US. However, Solus Linux is also planning to rebase itself on SerpentOS, another Linux-based operating system created by Ikey Doherty4. SerpentOS is still under development and its hosting location is not clear yet.

    I'm not sure who you think at Reddit or Microsoft is going to care about any of this, but they won't. What makes you think it's acceptable to come here and start making vague threats?

    I also don't know where you got mixed signals from; from what I saw, you created a forum thread, was told that there didn't seem to be any actual problem, then proceeded to go around in circles either ignoring or dismissing what the other person told you.

    You were then told to report an issue on the dev tracker if there was an actual, demonstrable issue. At which point you created at least three separate issues for the exact same stuff in the forum threads that you were told weren't a problem.

    And then you for some reason go to the Budgie Desktop issue tracker and make an issue there about some Solus thing and Rufus, which was correctly closed because the Budgie tracker has absolutely zero to do with Solus.

    So that's where we're at right now. What exactly did you intend to accomplish with this?

      EbonJaeger

      yes, the budgie thing it was mistake, I fingered that out afterwards, it's not like I can delete it from their, I think. I was not making vague threats, not even sorry if you mistake it as that. I was asking about how gnome edition has the nvidia compatabily option, I didn't see that when booting up the solus budgie version since it doesn't work or display on my monitor. I am a american that who I am, and I think I might of block you at reddit, sorry about that, I was a bit mad about being called an support vampire. when that's not what I was trying to be or do , again this was not a vague threats, on my part.
      and yes, someone told me to report an issue to the dev tracker bug I guess it was not an issue since it was closed,
      about that budgie thing I had problems booting up the solus budgie 4.4 image, I seen one reply that said to me to report it to dev.solus.com website, which I took time to do for my own free time at home. no it was three separate issues for the 3 devices I had at home, I had no idea you would see it as the exact same stuff, I didn't know I was to do it all from the same post. yes, that was told it werent's a problem , that fine but I will ask this is there a way to hide the bootup red text since the kernel when it loads with silent boot in grub2 or whatever it using it doesn't hide those messages when Linux loads itself into sddm or x server. I will research this on my own I don't need to be called support vampire again since that was rude, and I really am a learning disabled student with writing problems. I was not joking about that in any case.

      I do take it a bit personal, again I am learning disabled with writing problems, maybe I shouldn't of take this so personal. since it's just a Linux distro, which I find it dumb I have better things to do like play on my video game consoles or watch tv shows, sorry I can't find a better word to use than dumb to describe this, when some get mad at me for trying to be helpful which I guess I was not but anyway again I wasn't trying to make any type of vague threats. at this point, I will not write back about this matter. also, these kernel red text messages which are not real problems as you guys had made that clear already are not seen in kubuntu or ubuntu kernels, only yours I don't recall seeing the same messages under the debian based one ever, I am not sure why one linux distro has them and the other doesn't. I was using ubuntu and arch linux before this one. with arch linux I had to have secure boot off. yes I was trying to be funny or off set that comment about support vampire about that tv series, I didn't take this personally as much as others do, again I was only trying to be helpful if someone doesn't see it that way sorry, but I live in a free country the US of A not a Censorship, Silencing, Suppression place. but in any case take care 🙂

          Maximalprime2 I am a American

          I am pretty sure this guy is a troll. If he isn't, please don't drag the rest of us Americans through the mud with you. I am grateful that these volunteers produce something I love. There's zero reason to talk to any of them like this.

            I think most know whats going on and prob should let it rest for sake of forum.

            And to tho am not 100% sure but from what I read there was some issues with the 6.3 kernal
            maybe these problems stem from that everybody is jumping to the 6.4
            But I am glad we have people to help us out like they do.

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            Maximalprime2 The unprivileged eBPF is disabled in Ubuntu and OpenSUSE. That's why you don't see that text on those distros.

            To disable unprivileged eBPF (and get rid of that red text) on Solus, you need to add kernel.unprivileged_bpf_disabled=2 to /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf and reboot.

            The other red text is produced by kernel, it's not an issue of bug with Solus. It won't affect the use of your laptop, so no need to worry about that.