Lvxferre [he/him]

Do you mind if I rant about related stuff?

1. Posters who derail discussions about uncommon topics, so they can talk about what 90% of Lemmy/PieFed/Mbin is already talking about.
2. Posters who can’t be arsed to do due dilligence, too irrational to interpret what others say, but still assuming / lying that they’re “helping” when they screech at random people.
3. Posters who equate 50 with either 0 or 100. Doubly so when it comes to morals.
4. Posters who assume that, unless you’re talking 100% of the time about a topic, you don’t care about it.
5. Posters who whine if you write more than two lines of text.

Sorry if it’s a wee bit off-topic, but I had to get it out of my throat. (Or fingers.)

“There are SSR ingots mixed in! So keep buying them, eventually you’ll get one! We do this for the sense of pride and accomplishment of blacksmiths like you!” - Electronic Arts-Nāṣir.

I’m not exactly sure, but perhaps people are a wee bit less eager to swallow bullshit from someone who has been shown bullshitting before? Just a thought. ¬¬

Reddit Inc. as usual demonstrating that it does not know its site’s biggest strengths and weaknesses.

In Reddit, you are what you post. It’s essential to be able to see the others’ profiles; that gives them context on how to interpret what you say.

Hiding profiles is not an even remotely good privacy feature - because you shouldn’t be sharing private information in Reddit on first place. And it doesn’t work well to address harassment either; the thing with harassment in Reddit is mostly many-against-one, not one-against-one.

>be me
>working since midnight (4AM now)
>see this
>“oh I got half a Berlin ball in the fridge!”

The fun part is, it works even if you’re aware of it.

Frame it as a false dichotomy instead of false equivalence. Then two things become obvious:

1. Cat shit is not elephant shit.
2. Cat shit is still shit.

You’re concerned people might fall for #1. That’s fair; but OP is telling people to not fall for #2.

In other words, OP is a reminder that we shouldn’t shield the EU and its actions against criticism, just because Canadian Mexico does it worse. They might be different on level, but some of the former are problematic for the exact same reasons and causes as the ones of the later. And yet people do it all the time, trying to “sell” the EU as if that entity was the good guys, and USA as the villain - no you muppets, it’s dark grey vs. black, both are villains.

Painful but not deadly. Wikipedia mentions someone complaining about the pain a month after.

Bluesky speedrunning enshittification.

Personally what I hate is not the tech developments being labelled “AI”. It’s the industry behind it, and how much it filths itself with deception.

This sort of neural network is good for small and menial tasks, where accuracy is not too important but volume is. For that you don’t need large models, you need smaller ones, that take a fraction of the data and energy to process (“train”). Then you’d advertise them for what they are - a bunch of useful tools.

But we’re talking about an industry led by con artists, billionaires, liars and vulture capital. Their eyes get bloody in rage, if they don’t see smoke and mirrors; they don’t care about truth, but appearances. It needs to look “grandiose”, it needs “hype”, it needs “marketability”. It needs all that “AGI SOON!”.

So the models get bigger, bigger, and bigger. But not necessarily better; more sycophant, more assumptive, more energy-demanding.

Then you plug everything wrote in the article as a consequence.

My first “test” was Conectiva. I lasted a few days with it, then ditched it. (I think this was in 2002? Conectiva would eventually merge with Mandrake.)

Then a few years later I went for Kurumin. It was a local Knoppix derivative, focusing on ease of use. Eventually Ubuntu became popular enough that Kurumin’s maintainer saw no reason to continue the project.

Frankly, based on what people in this thread are saying, the developer is unable to follow proper procedures to submit code. I personally would not trust someone like this.

Can I post a potentially controversial opinion?

NO, YOU CAN’T. (just kidding.)

Serious now: if I got it right, this game bar is an overlay showing FPS, CPU/GPU usage, screenshots/recording, stuff like this. It doesn’t look too hard to implement in Linux, and apparently there’s a GNOME extension in the makes for that. (If it’s compatible with Cinnamon I’ll be a happy camper. I’d rather not touch GNOME directly with a 3m pole, but the tools for GNOME are sometimes OK.)

Can confirm. Mine is doing that right now.

That is only possible thanks to ““a very involved community””; he noted that most of the edits on the ArchWiki were made by contributors outside the maintenance team.

there were some basic rules that should be followed, starting with ““assume good faith””.

The second rule, he said, is ““when in doubt, discuss changes with others before making a hasty decision””.

they wanted to avoid edit wars: ““the worst thing that can happen on a wiki is a few people just reverting their changes after each other””.

The team tries to encourage contributors to not only make one change, but to learn the guidelines and keep contributing—and then help teach others the guidelines.

I think his points can be summarised as “build a welcoming community, that encourages users to contribute”. It’s solid advice for any wiki, not just distro wikis.

childhood youtubers

…I feel old.

Distro choice matters less than it looks like, and it’s fairly subjective. As long as you stick to a serious and newbie-friendly distro, you should be fine - for example, you could simply keep using Pop!_OS, why change it?

That said, a few distros you might want to try:

• Mint - another newbie-friendly Ubuntu derivative. If you feel like you must try something else, but you don’t want it to be too far from your comfort zone.
• Debian - because it’s the grandfather of Pop!_OS (and Mint); it has some rough edges, but it’ll be a good learning experience. Note Stable tends to stick to really ancient packages.
• Fedora - it’s also newbie-friendly, but from another different family. If you feel like stepping outside your comfort zone.

Also note you can dual boot different Linux distros, just like you’re dual booting Pop!_OS and Windows. Or even multi-boot.

Microsoft is already responding to the potential shift. The upcoming ROG Xbox Ally X handheld from Microsoft and ASUS will reportedly ship with a gaming-optimized version of Windows 11 with a dedicated Xbox UI and interface that aims to streamline the experience while boosting in-game performance and overall handheld efficiency.

Given how much Microsoft wants to shove AI tools every where in Windows, I don’t think this optimisation will make much of a difference.

why isn’t there H₂O₂

Because the undergrads used it for acetone peroxide.