rodneylives

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rodneylives,

My response to that is Flatpak. 16MB of software requiring 700MB to download and consuming 2.8GB of disk space. Linux absolutely can be bad, due to cultural issues.

(My example software above is Handbrake. I’m sure someone’s going to “well actually” me about this, and I don’t even care. I don’t see how it can be justified, and I’m kind of curious to see if someone can do it.)

rodneylives,

What the heck is Dexerto?

Google Search is getting even worse for independent sites (www.theverge.com)

In February, HouseFresh managing editor Gisele Navarro called out publishers like BuzzFeed and Rolling Stone as some of the culprits that publish content about air purifiers despite a lack of expertise — but Google rewards these sites with high rankings all the same. The result is a search results page filled with SEO-first...

rodneylives,

Ed Zitron has a scathing piece about that (in the podcast version he’s seething) entitled “The Man Who Killed Google Search.” Worth checking out, it contains some quality righteous anger.

rodneylives,

It’s still easily possible that it’s just a coincidence.

B-U-T

The fact that people are going to be very suspicious if whistleblowers die, even if it is purely accidental, is yet another reason not to do terrible corporate things. People will always wonder, and Boeing’s management deserves the dark cloud that will now hang over their heads.

rodneylives,

Once, I was asked if I wanted a special offer on Microsoft Office on boot up. Explorer freezes so often for me when I right-click a file and select Open With that it’s made me twitchy. Frequently image icons stop displaying. For a long while, every time I’ve installed Windows on a computer, I’ve had to go through and disable all the awful misfeatures Windows tries to put in the taskbar. I also always have to set OneDrive so it doesn’t redirect folders like Desktop and Documents into its cloud storage area. Now Windows 11 is threatening to put CoPilot on my desktop, and I’ll have to disable it too.

I’m positively longing for Linux now.

rodneylives,

This isn’t the worst timeline. It was always destined to end up this way. Corporations consider themselves ethically mandated to squeeze as much profit out of customers as they can, to find the exactly monetary line where the number of customers they drive off is balanced by the money they can gain by the things that drove them off. They actually believe that, and that basically means any profit-seeking corporation is going to ruin their user experience in the long run.

rodneylives,

It has. For the first time, it’s risen to over 4% of market share of desktops: arstechnica.com/…/linux-continues-growing-market-…

Of course this doesn’t count Android or Chromebooks, both of which run Linux on some level.

rodneylives,

I use and appreciate it!

rodneylives,

Article puts a modal subscription box over the text.

rodneylives,

Why is Microsoft even deciding what programs I can run on my computer in the first place? They’re not malware, they shouldn’t be doing this at all.

rodneylives,

I contribute $5 a month to Metafilter, and I use a paid VPN.

rodneylives,

Note: article puts a rectangle in front of the article when you’ve read half of it.

rodneylives,

When I saw her name was Maryanne I was worried that she was “the good Trump,” Mary, who has been very outspoken about her disdain for Donald. It appears that it wasn’t.

rodneylives,

CLOCK 2.0, coming soon, free with ads!

rodneylives,

Where you start is largely a matter of preference, it’s true, but beginning at the start of a subseries makes sense.

Rincewind is a great protagonist. He stars in The Colour of Magic, but several other books also have him. The Color of Magic and The Light Fantastic are a pair, the first two books and one story told in two parts. They’re fun but a bit slight. They do introduce Rincewind, Twoflower, The Luggage, Lord Vetinari, The Librarian, Ankh Morpork, Unseen University and a few other things.

The Witches have been my least favorite Discworld books, but I’m much in the minority there. They do have some great characters.

The Death books are uniformly great. Although Death is a main character in all of them, I think it’s only Reaper Man in which he’s the main character. Other characters are Mort, Ysabelle, Albert and later Susan.

The Watch books center around the watchpeople, but especially Capt Vimes. Other characters include Carrot, Angua, Cotton, Nobby, CMOT Dibbler, Gaspode, Detritus, and Vetinari also usually plays a role.

Many, but not all, of the Discworld novels are focused around the biggest city on the Discworld, Ankh Morpork. The Wizards, Watch and Industrial Revolution series are mostly set there. The Witches novels are mostly set in the country of Lancre, and so are a bit more rural. A few books are what you might call one-offs, set in a place that’s never returned to, and that makes them good stand-alone books. I think maybe Small Gods is the best of these.

rodneylives,

We even learned this objectively during the pandemic. Even though it wasn’t really that much money, poverty rates declined due to the stimulus payments.

rodneylives,

I unironically love that fmhy.net’s site would work well in Gopher.

There's still room for improvement, but Linux gaming has come a long way in a short time. (lemmy.world)

I remember when Proton launched it was like magic playing games like Doom and Nier Automata straight from the Linux Steam client with excellent performance. I do not miss the days of having the Windows version of Steam installed separately.

rodneylives,

I think this may well be the thing that, at long last, eventually leads to the end of the Windows hegemony on PC. Linux compatibility being a prerequisite for running on the default configuration of the Steam Deck. Gaming is the Microsoft OS’s last real stronghold.

rodneylives,

Named as an inspiration for the classic board game Twilight Struggle!

rodneylives,

I think we’re starting to see the beginning of the end of the Windows hegemony, for one reason: the success of the Steam Deck has made gaming on Linux mainstream. The two things that have always kept power users tied to Windows have been games and office, but GAMES were the big one. Suddenly, it starts to look like it might be possible to do without Windows for gaming, if not now, then soon.

rodneylives,

VLADIMIR: “Okay, I’m really going to leave now. I’m going. I’m going now. I am. I’m going.” ESTRAGON: “I’m going to punch Godot right in their damn mouth.”

Are American tv shows stuck in Act 2 for their entire runtime between season 1 and final season?

Season 1s are great, setup, some payoff, a bit of lead into the overarching story. Then season 2 to X. The heroes win and then lose in the final episode, cliffhanger to next season. People get bored. Final season is announced and they wrap up the show.

rodneylives,

Showrunnners are never absolutely sure how many more seasons they’ll get. If a show is popular, they could end up having to continue it after a conclusion. Or the show could be popular but corporate priority could be elsewhere, and they’ll be forced to wrap up promising storylines quickly. Even for shows that announce they have plans for a beginning, middle and end, it’s possible that they’ll be cancelled before end planned ending, or else have to stretch after the ending has been reached. Safer is to try to just coast along, being non-committal about major plot elements, until something happens that pushes the show to resolve things.

rodneylives,

Roguelike.

rodneylives,

There has always been a market for telling people what they want to hear.

rodneylives,

Not to be a downer or anything, but I feel like the person who challenged the story wasn’t really in the wrong here?

It’s not that the story isn’t true or the person who reported it isn’t who they said it was. It’s that, they didn’t mention their credentials right off. Now that we’re living in an era when misinformation is rife, especially now that some people appear poised to flood us with a sea of LLM-generated shit, citations and backing up your information up front are becoming more important.

People make confident and bold assertions all the time. Some of them will know what they’re talking about, but some of them won’t, and many times they’ll look the same until someone challenges them.

Well, that’s how I see it anyway.

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