We’d all like Steam to be open source, but that’s not going to happen for a number of reasons. So I guess you could say that a core part of the OS is proprietary, if you wanted.
We like Valve because they are actually contributing to open source projects, unlike Microsoft who say they love open source but don’t do anything to support it.
Also, the Steam Deck is really nice, and less locked down than “Windows” hardware.
Firstly, I don’t think Docker is intended to be used as a security layer. I could be wrong, but I think it’s relatively easy to escape the sandbox. Although that might be different nowadays.
Anyway, I recently switched from Debian to NixOS for my server and it’s so much nicer. Being able to use a single language for configuring everything all in one place is so nice. If I want to try something new, I can just throw maybe 30 lines in a config and it’s there. If I don’t like it, then I can remove that config and it’s gone. Most services you’d want to run on a server are available in the package manager, and many have rather sensible defaults.
The only headache for me was the lack of documentation (especially with flakes). There’s also a learning curve with the Nix language itself.
Have tried it several times, but like most things it works for a few days then just becomes an “upkeep cost” which doesn’t benefit me anymore, and I drop it.
I noticed that I only had 5 GiB of free space left today. After quickly deleting some cached files, I tried to figure out what was causing this, but a lot was missing. Every tool gives a different amount of remaining storage space. System Monitor says I’m using 892.2 GiB/2.8 TiB (I don’t even have 2.8 TiB of storage...
That view feels overly romanticised to me, tbh; the idea that the way to stop racism is to just not acknowledge it. That not drawing attention to things will just make it go away.
There’s a lot of institutionalised racism in many countries, either due to racism itself or as a knock on effect from other failed systems.
And, of course, there’s just plain bigotry that is passed patent to child and from social group to social group. That’s not going to stop by just censoring media.
The message of this comic is, basically, “here’s some unconscious biases you could be making”. Reading it as “this is how you’re supposed to talk to black people” is… Well, if that’s the reading you make, then whether the comic exists or not isn’t going to change anything.
It feels like this sort of thing makes people feel uncomfortable and they try to justify the removal of the media rather than grappling with the concept of privilege (which, tbf, is hard for people to do).
I’m on a Jerboa version which displays the number of upvotes and number of downvotes separately, and I think that’s the best way of doing it. We’re not Reddit; we don’t need to do smoke and mirrors to obscure data.
Okay, so I originally was going to go in a long rant about how they’re still doing it, but decided that it didn’t really add much to the comment, so removed it.
Afaik they’ve, for now at least, shelved it in browsers, but are still going ahead in Android webviews (as part of their war on Youtube Vanced).
I would like to set up an online platform for users, within my niche hobby of interest, to blog about their activities. (notice the hosting company only has FTP access and databases - no SSH)...
I can understand the desire to get as many downvotes as possible on reddit. I don’t sympathize, but I can at least see where people are coming from. Because Reddit gives you that total and shows it to you....
Trolls are just bullies, I guess. For some of them, getting a rise out of people strikes then as funny, probably because of superiority issues. The psychology is interesting, but those people likely aren’t leading very happy lives. Karma probably isn’t top of their priority beyond it being funny how many people have gotten a rise.
There’s also toxic people who hang around with trolls and other toxic people. They form social groups where some minority group becomes the butt of a joke, which then becomes an “in joke”. This historically has been against lgbt folks, certain nationalities, furries, disabled people and neurodivergent people, among others.
Then those people internalise those feelings, and spread them to other social groups, where they either land or the person gets confused as to why people hate them. If you run a community, you need to keep an eye out for this sort of thing and stop it before it takes hold.
Trolls attack people to get a reaction. Toxic people attack people out of indifference to their feelings.
There’s also a group of people that feel they have a moral imperative to help people. That is, they should actively spread their own moral views and opinions so that other people may learn from them. This may or may not be a problem depending on the views of you and the platform.
Anyway, that’s just me rambling a bit, sorry if it’s all nonsense.
I guess for some people there’s no “good” or “bad” way to be. There’s just the real world, and that’s it.
If people have been through abuse and trauma, they’ve been surrounded by people who think that power is the most important thing. And I guess that gets internalised to the extent that “strong” and “weak” becomes their axis instead of “right” and “wrong”.
I think it’s rather telling that the narrative that these people lay out usually revolves around the idea that people should get a thicker skin or learn to deal with it.
And sadly, I don’t think people that have gone through those things are able to find and maintain a good social group of positive people.
Valve fans be like (sh.itjust.works)
what will be my next server operating system (Fedora Server, Fedora CoreOS, NixOS), your experience and opinion
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14160134...
Have you ever devoted a significant amount of time to something only to later feel it was pointless?
SuiPlay0x1 is a upcoming handheld that is going to run Playtron OS a Linux based (NOTE handheld is being made by blockchain company and with a potential price around $500) (blockonomi.com)
https://blockonomi.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/suiplay-1200x800.jpghttps://blockonomi.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/1.webphttps://blockonomi.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2.webp
You can ask one question from a person from the year 3024. What are you asking?
Lemmings, why do you think Lemmy is better than Reddit?
Do any of you meditate? (sh.itjust.works)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/17394234...
Friday Facts #405 - Whole belt reader, New logistics GUI | Factorio (www.factorio.com)
non-Euclidean filesystem
I noticed that I only had 5 GiB of free space left today. After quickly deleting some cached files, I tried to figure out what was causing this, but a lot was missing. Every tool gives a different amount of remaining storage space. System Monitor says I’m using 892.2 GiB/2.8 TiB (I don’t even have 2.8 TiB of storage...
Game Mechanic Idea: Peripheral Hallucinations
Have a bunch old game ideas collecting dust. I’ll never get to them, so I Thought I’d post some here for anyone to use however they wish....
If you could be any age for the rest of your life, which would you choose?
Questions (lemmy.world)
[Poll] What should be Lemmy's default way of displaying votes? (take.quiz-maker.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/14068273...
Why don't banks like root on Android? (lemmy.world)
What does 'eat the rich' mean to you?
Linux share on Steam bounces back to nearly 2% for March 2024 (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Do you have advice for hosting public or maybe even federated blogging?
I would like to set up an online platform for users, within my niche hobby of interest, to blog about their activities. (notice the hosting company only has FTP access and databases - no SSH)...
Mozilla released a Firefox Nightly test build with vertical tabs - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net)
Trolls of Lemmy, what is up with that?
I can understand the desire to get as many downvotes as possible on reddit. I don’t sympathize, but I can at least see where people are coming from. Because Reddit gives you that total and shows it to you....