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reminds me of stories of when they would target wrestling fans. Like they would pretend they were WWE wrestlers and talk to fans and get them to send them money cause they’d be broke. Then one time of the fans actually went to a show to confront one of the wrestlers about paying them back. jumped the barricade and everything.

Just blows my mind that it always seems to be mentally ill individuals that have a ton of money and they can just easily hand it out like that.

yeah I don’t get it either. tiling I guess. the problem is, they’ve progressively made it worse.

There’s just something “off” about Cosmic that I can’t but my finger on. In the early alphas it was good, decent for being an alpha. But with every release, to me at least, it just feels like it’s gotten worse. slower, features that haven’t really been expanded on, etc. It just looks/feels like GNOME with the option of tiling. the options for customization, much like GNOME, are limited. no where near what you could potentially do with KDE. the thing is though if you want a DE with basic tiling then it stands out. its good for that. I mean sure you can get tiling with KDE if you use something like Krohnkite but that on it’s own is pretty janky for certain things.

I dont’ know it’s weird. I once went from early alpha using COSMIC as a daily driver to now trying it out again and immediately getting rid of it. maybe I’ll give it another swing today.

weird requirements for sure. sounds like they want an investigative journalist that also has a few years of web development under their belt which is…an odd mix to say the least.

good luck to them I guess. they’re going to get either journalists or web developers applying but doubt they’ll get they’re magical Clark Kent that takes their glasses off and then becomes Web Developer Man.

sooooo a site that says it’ll do something but in turn won’t actually do it.

companies already post ghost jobs via AI on linkedin/indeed/etc so there’s no need for this. No one, other than the Linkedin Tech Bros/Wannabe middle managers, is going to use this.

Feels like Sam is grasping at straws right now to keep his shit afloat.

I did one years ago on Reddit and someone made a youtube video out of it without my permission that went semi-viral so I’m sure it’s on there somewhere. Just youtube something like “Reddit porn industry AMA”

started my career as a developer working for an adult entertainment industry company (porn) so yeah. Everything I know today is from titties and the bang bus.

he said he never heard of Nix or NixOS. that’s it. it’s a dumb article that just poorly sums up a few youtube videos of his talk.

as a consultant/freelancer dev whose entire workload for the past year has been cleaning up AI slop, no with dev it hasn’t been what I would say a smooth or even good implementation. for my wallet? been a fantastic implementation, for everyone else? not so much.

The thing is as a TOOL it’s great depending on the model. As a rubber duck? fantastic. As something that the majority of companies have utilized with vibe coding to build something end to end? no, it’s horrible. It can’t scale anything, implements exploits left right and center, and unlike junior devs doesn’t learn anything. If you don’t hold its hand during a build then it’ll quickly go off the rails. It’ll implement old APIs or libraries or whatever simply because those things have the most documentation attached to it.

An example. a few weeks ago a client wanted to set up a private git instance with Forgejo. They had Claude Code set it up for them. the problem? Claude went with Forgejo 1.20. ForgeJo is currently on 12.0. MASSIVE security hole right there. Why did Claude do that? 1.20 had more documentation as opposed to 12.0. And when I say “documentation” I could simply be referring to blog posts, articles, whatever that talked about it more than the latest version because The LLM’s will leverage that stuff when making decisions for builds. You also see it if you want something in Rust+Smithy. Majority of the time the AI will go for a very outdated version of Smithy because that’s what a lot of people talked about at one point. So you’re generating massive tech debt before even throwing something into production.

Now like I said as a tool? a problem solver for a function you can’t figure out? it’s great. the issue is like I said companies aren’t seeing it as a tool, they’re seeing it as a cost saving replacement for a living human being which it is not. It’s like replacing construction worker with a hammer attached to a drone and then wondering why your house frame keeps falling over.

in your case I’d say Fedora with a DE you can customize to your liking. Honestly just go for a KDE Fedora then you don’t have to think about it.

I’d also say CachyOS but that might be out of your ballpark. Cachy just works. yes it’s Arch based but it’s by far the best Arch based distro out there. Monthly, on the dot, updates and works with whatever DE/WM you want to throw at it. Hell during the installation it gives you a bunch of DEs/WMs to install with it and all have been customized to work with CachyOS so you don’t even have to think about it.

it’s because Youtube is a content monopoly. TikTok is a platform for short content…on youtube it’s a feature with shorts. Twitch is a platform for live streaming content…on youtube it’s a feature with, other than discoverability, the same features. Any music streaming service? again…it’s a feature on youtube. The fact I could export my playlists from any music streaming platform and import it to Youtube and listen to it ad free via an ad blocker? come on. So as opposed to using multiple platforms, with youtube you have it all in one place. So no, this will not get people to stop using it.

Premium you don’t need if you’re even the slightest bit tech savvy. but no one is ever going to stop using youtube, there’s no point. I mean I use peertube as much as possible but every now and then I’m back on youtube because of all those features in one place and some things I just can’t find on peertube.

I mean there’s no point to it, it doesn’t speed anything up.

For example this morning I had a client meeting (saturdays, ugh) so I went to the train station cause it has a mcdonalds and it opens at 630am. They have 5 kiosks there and one person manning the til. People who were ordering from the til were getting their orders faster than people who used the kiosks. I had to wait 10 minutes just to get a coffee and muffin simply because I used the kiosk.

And it doesn’t even make sense. I would have assumed all the orders go through the same system regardless of where it was placed but apparently not. apparently people who don’t use the kiosk get priority?

meh just do what Amazon does “Hey if you’re student you can get Amazon Prime for $5! how old are you?”

me: “I’m 20.”

Amazon: “Ok here’s your cheap prime!”

/me groans getting out of the chair cause I’m in my 40s

Point being just slap up an unverified age gate and be done with it. Really, truthfully, whose going to actually check? who even cares to check? it’s all just a dog and pony show to please the conservative and “think of the children” religious nut jobs who have no idea how any of this shit works anyways. Just spend 2 minutes whipping up a site with a centered div that has a drop down menu asking “how old are you?” less than 18 send it to a “no internet for you page” greater than 18 “go look at porn” page.

Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know what’s REALLY happening that they’re requiring scanned IDs or faces or what have you. and no company in their right mind is going to fight this as it’s free and easy data collection. Bluesky doesn’t give a flying fuck as they’re just going to end up selling the data they collect.

Peertube takes awhile to figure out/get going. Other stuff like Mastodon/Akkoma, Lemmy/Piefeed, were easy to figure out to the point where I just set up my own Akkoma instance on my server.

Peertube…oof that took awhile. Yeah the problem is the recommendations and search. you really have to get in there and dig through the top layer of shit before you find the diamonds underneath. There are some FANTASTIC tutorial channels on PeerTube for dev stuff, linux, game dev, etc.

Also the other problem is finding a good Peertube instance. Don’t go by whatever lists are out there, it’s honestly via word of mouth that you’ll find the good ones which is sort of a shame. I think that’s the main thing that’s holding it back. for stuff like Mastodon or even Piefeed/Lemmy what instance you’re on doesn’t matter all that much as their all incredibly connected and pretty much provide you with the same “front end” so to speak.

Peertube? it’s a mess in most cases. Some instances are super duper customized to the instance owners preferences, others are barely searchable, etc so in a way unlike other fediverse stuff Peertube feels a bit disconnected from itself

well it’s already happening. look what recently happened in Mississippi with age verification.

protip if you’re American and you ask “how long until America has such and such” chances are, 9 times out of 10, it’s already happening or has happened and you’re just not aware.

Yeah I know but you still have to wait for ships to show up to get their parts right? unless they changed it you don’t have access to ALL ship parts right off the bat in creative mode do you?

I’ll be honest with you for me personally I just don’t have the patience for the game. I just want to build my ship with whatever parts are in the game and explore. that’s it. I don’t want to mine resources, I don’t want to wait in some random station for some random ship to show up that MIGHT have the part I want. I don’t want to do any of that.

I barely made it out of the tutorial and forced my way through it.

Nothing wrong with NMS but I didn’t want to play it the way it made me play it. I just want to build in peace and explore.

this was 30+ years ago, I’ve never been to one since then so I’m very sure it’s changed.

it’s been a spell since I’ve been to the US but the only thing I remember about Cracker Barrel is the triangle/golf tee game they had at the tables. The food? I don’t remember anything about the food or what I even ate. but that game? I was all over it.

I actually preferred Bob Evans breakfasts. I remember as a kid whenever my family visited the states I would insist we go to Bob Evans for breakfast.

Examples: Virtua Racing on the Genesis or Star Fox on the SNES. they were slow and quite laggy. sure they were essentially pushing the limits of what the console could do and in the case of Star Fox had to have the FX chip in the cartridge but I wouldn’t call racing around on the Genesis in Virtua Racing a “smooth” experience.

Other games are like this too with loading. Mortal Kombat CD on the Sega CD. you get to the Shang Tsung fight and the game has to load every time he morphs. Other games would also slow to a crawl if there was a lot on the screen. To your point Ranger X on the Genesis had these little tadpole enemy things that could quickly populate the screen if you didn’t take them out quickly it would slow the game down. Same would happen on the PSX with the game Loaded.

ah this was EXACTLY what I was looking for! thanks!