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arthur,

Or “chuviscado”, that could mean light rain.

arthur,

Interesting, but seems difficult to enforce

arthur,

Metal Gear Solid 1

Cyberpunk 2077

Civilization V

Gods Will Be Watching

Portal

Splinter Cell Blacklist

Dead Cells

Sniper Elite 3

Dirt Rally

Ghost of Tsushima

Building a brand new machine and leaving Windows for good

I’m sick of Windows, and especially what it’s become, and the way its trending looks like it will only get worse. I’ll be building a brand new PC this summer and want to choose a Linux Distro instead. In preparation, I’d like to try out a virtual machine with a Linux distribution. I am solidly familiar with Ubuntu, but I...

arthur,

If buying a graphics card is in your plans, but AMD. Nvidia does better cards, but AMD works with less bugs on Linux. I just switched and I’m quite happy with the results.

For distro, Mint is a safe bet.

arthur, (edited )

I think there’s a fighter further* problem, it may be true and we just don’t know the easy way to do it.

I know that naming variables is one of the biggest unsolved problems of Computer Science but how would you name a boolean flag to be self explanatory?

What I mean is: some boolean flags are perfect for the real world phenomenon they are representing e.g. is_light_on makes you understand perfectly that when it is true the light is on and when it is false the light is off....

arthur,

I would use an Enum if available in the language:

  • More meaningful
  • Extendable
  • Lower chance of misuse
  • No naming problem
arthur,

“Don’t be a protagonist in someone else’s story” You shouldn’t make decisions for someone else, nor prevent the results for their actions. You can help, advice, but should not intervene without permission.

(Except if the someone in question is a kid, then you probably should intervine)

Integration Tests - What's New?

Nearly a decade back I wrote a lot of browser CI tests with headless chrome as well as browser stack. I loved the idea, but they just didn’t handle things being a bit outside of perfect IRL, like taking a moment longer to load etc. They ended up having a lot of waits in them, taking a long time to write and were prone to being...

arthur,

I think the situation has improved, but still far from perfect. Last time I used robocop and Python to build some tests. But that’s not something I use often, so there may be better options available.

arthur, (edited )

Magicka was an amazing game, but man, what a trash software. Even in a state of the art PC it could not run smoothly at the time.

Linux mint or zorin OS for layman beginners who just want everything to work and focuses on stability , privacy , security ? Also what to do if I switched to mint and WiFi stopped working ?

Hey, so I just put this part up first because this is the one I urgently and importantly need answered even tho I wrote that hideous text block first (sorry English isn’t my first language )....

arthur,

Man, you will have some pain as any change will cause. But I think you will like it. Have a second USB to be safe.

arthur,

Totally agree.

arthur,

If both mostly don’t care and don’t engage in politics, I agree with you or take (and usually that’s true for the majority); but in times of crisis, politics impose itself to people and that can be a major issue in a relationship. And in this century we will have a lot of crisis to deal with.

arthur,

“What are your values and political views?” Compatibility on that subject is quite important IMHO.

arthur,

That’s also a political requirement.

arthur,

Someone racist and someone else antiracist?

arthur,

The capitalism system is design to maximize and prioritize profit above everything else, and will do it if there’s no resistance.

If put ads inside peoples’ ass increases profits, companies would try for sure.

arthur, (edited )

My problems with this text:

  • it equates state and business, they are not the same and business should not be treated as a viable substitute for a state.
  • it make it look like all places have the same set of problems when it’s more like same places have same of the problems and probably nowhere have all of them.

In an ideal world…

We don’t live in an ideal world.

Jerboa can't resolve so many comments or posts linked and I have to use Lemmy in browser to see those .

lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/20017025 This post for example has so many posts and comments linked in it for other Lemmy comments and posts and jerboa show “couldn’t find comment or post or user” or it just simply goes to homescree. . This is a regular behavior and I’d appreciate if the devs solved it once and for all if they...

arthur,

The cost to maintain “native” ports is too high to make sense for most developers.

PS: Proton also makes it easier to preserve games since an “native” port would become incompatible overtime without work to adapt the software to changes in the system it’s running.

arthur,

Inform yourself what Steam Linux Runtime is before making such comments. You are 100% wrong.

If a game depends on an API and this API gets discontinued, without adaptation it will have problems. That’s true for any software and any system. As a compatibility layer, Proton can keep old games compatible despite the system changes when it translates the API calls that the games depend on to what the base system has to offer. (I’m not talking necessarily of a game running on Steam in this case)

So, enlighten me, where am I wrong?

arthur,

If that was the case, no console ports would exist, except maybe Xbox because Xbox uses modified Windows internally.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18845205

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/2c844d56-ed98-47d5-a4e0-59e802109f65.webp

arthur,

I think you are lost in the language. There are no absolute rights, in any legal systems. So any “law” necessarily restricts someone’s “rights”.

Therefore, you need to think about what “authoritarian decision” means, because if all law restricts someone’s rights, all laws are authoritarian by your definition.

Also: terrible example to begin with.

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