eveninghere

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eveninghere,

I think one has to gather more proof before concluding that the gap is due to LLMs. It can also be that the engagement was lost due to third party app drop. We don’t have stats to distinguish them.

Any suggestions for cheap but decent laptops for coding?

I’m currently learning how to code (currently Python, then maybe JavaScript), but I’m not always around my desktop, and learning on my phone is not always an option (also, it can be quite cumbersome at times). Therefore, I’m looking into purchasing a laptop just for learning how to code and stuff....

eveninghere,

Well, just for learning coding on Linux OP wouldn’t need 16GB.

eveninghere,

DELL sold Ubuntu models and they abandoned them I believe.

eveninghere,

If Linux ever becomes used by my friends that movement will be driven by big techs or governments. Our voices aren’t a big factor and we should admit that so that we spend time better.

eveninghere,

Maybe, but logically speaking, I don’t have evidence to tell whether that’s a proper or false equivalence.

eveninghere,

Acting I thought they dropped snap in favor of fkatpak finally.

eveninghere,

This caused me PTSD going back 20 years.

eveninghere,

The moment of a historic hand shake

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...

eveninghere,

The problem with alternatives is that every step towards another alternative loses a huge number of distro users, leading to insufficient manpower. If I were you I’d stick with recommending Manjaro. But if Manjaro’s untrustworthy then maybe something even more mainstream.

eveninghere,

Anything you pick, make sure to first do a web search on how well your games work on Linux.

eveninghere,

Something like “proton your_game_here”.

Beware that on the Linux land you’re on your own. People say “things just work except [something]”. I don’t say that because it feels like moving the goal post every time something gets fixed just to face the next problem for a niche person like me.

The reality is, you never know. My favorite title apparently worked in 10fps. Nobody could figure out why. Then some update on something suddenly fixed it and that’s when people finally confirmed it was a software bug all along.

Even people saying Linux can play any game admits “if you can’t spend good efforts, you’re not for Linux.”

eveninghere,

It’s a sad phenomenon.

eveninghere,

In beta stage yet, but Cosmic might become the most stable in a few years. I’ve never seen an open source general purpose Linux DE with that level of seriousness from a business company.

eveninghere,

Given the nature of fediverse, this specific category of people might indeed throw away Windows for their private machines.

eveninghere, (edited )

So, I checked how my fav game is doing on proton, and it’s Linux as usual. Mostly fine with recent efforts. Someone patched proton to resolve many remaining issues, but some people still experience issues.

As a tech geek who fucks around with my set up, I’m usually going to be an idiot belonging to that category of some people who face problems.

And if I use Windows the game dev will do the work. Sad reality.

eveninghere, (edited )

I wonder if atomic desktops would change manufacturers’ mind. We have to admit LTSes like from Ubuntu failed to make pre-installed Linux popular.

Silverblue contains too much cutting-edge software to be pre-installed as of now, but if Red Hat decides to provide a mechanism for manufacturers to better stabilize Silverblue I’d take it seriously. Automatic updates with cleanly split customization mechanisms, and the source is available. If the PC is just supposed to do web browsing with couple peripherals like a fucking printer (don’t ask me why), it might be preferable over Windows. And my relatives can’t configure Windows on their own anyway.

At the same time I don’t know why Chromebook isn’t more popular cus it’s probably good enough for 90% of use cases. (The rest is basically elderly people who want 10GB photos in their 2TB SSDs, only to lose them “accidentally”. Maybe Chromebook can do that, too, but I just can’t recommend it due to corner cases I’m not aware of. I mean, I don’t want to test Chromebooks for my relatives.)

eveninghere,

Yup, the megarich owns, what, 99% of the wealth? 99% of people are just negligible errors in statistics, depending on how you measure the economy.

eveninghere,

The governments are abusing researchers. How do institutions even help them?

eveninghere,

I don’t get the last frame

eveninghere,

Yeah, people have been saying btrfs to be untested for more than a decade by now.

eveninghere,

This is great, I can show all my 4k porn collection to my managers doing Teams screen sharing!

eveninghere,

Well, so, you use password generator, the password screenshot is saved.

This makes most password generators useless because they show the password for user feedback. You can turn this MS AI off, but I will have no idea if there was a bug.

eveninghere,

Technically, being open source or free ala GPL isn’t enough. Protocols aren’t enough.

You need a guarantee that you own your data.

eveninghere,

Corporations are bad and yet still follow laws (in the west). The bigger issue is state actors. Especially the non-democratic ones.

eveninghere,

Yet, it runs on massively parallel hardware like GPUs, with near-linear speedup

What a bold claim…

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