Feyd

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Feyd , (edited )

I’m watching people in my industry (software development) who’ve bought into this crap forget how to code in real-time while they’re producing the shittiest garbage I’ve laid eyes on as a developer.

Yes. Then I come on Lemmy and see a dedicated pack of heralds constantly professing that they do the work of 10 devs while eating bon bons and everyone that isn't using it is stupid. So annoying

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Small sample but everyone i know dropped it on the increase to 30 bucks. One of them had been primarily playing PlayStation and xbox for the last decade but has gotten and primarily plays steam deck now.

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I epic hasn't done anything but the bare minimum plus trying to buy their way into the market. Additionally, I don't trust them a single bit. If they actually managed to get market share they should enshittify before you could blink.

I have even less nice things to say about all the other publisher run marketplaces.

GoG is cool because of their DRM policy and preservation. Steam provides labels for anticonsumer practices so consumers can be informed and does the cool stuff for Linux compatibility.

What exactly are you wanting regulators to do that you think will make people want to use EGS?

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Or, you could just answer by question directly

Feyd ,

If you already have an answer then copy paste it. If you already have an answer then why do this weasel dance? You clearly don't have an answer.

Feyd ,

Thank you. I'm not against any of that, except maybe some definition needs to be applied to what is infra and what is store. For instance, a big part of what people like about steam is that they have reliable reviews. That would need to remain true with this split. I think there is a fine line to walk between enforcing interoperability and compromising or letting other companies leech on steam for no reason. You also seem to be implying that regardless of what store you purchase something on, you can access it from any other store because steam manages the licenses? Seems strange to me.

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not leeching, Valve mostly lucked into this monopoly because of how grossly incompetent competition was at the time.

Just to be clear, the majority of the current competition is not only incompetent but actively malicious. The ones that don't suck already have a toehold and I would like to see flourish because competition is good for everyone, but this picture you paint of steam is honestly ridiculous.

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They're trying to leverage their windows platform to seek rent (sell premium cloud services like LLM access) for shit people don't even want because they aren't satisfied making very respectable money on licenses.

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NPU neural processing unit

Advice for a Mac user switching to Linux?

I’m on board that we need to become independent from big tech. As someone who is fond of the Mac user experience, from choosing hardware to how you navigate through apps, I need a guide to make the switch, so if you know of any great guides for Mac users, I’d greatly appreciate it!...

Feyd ,

Many distros you don't even have to do anything but install packages to switch desktop environments, which are really what people are recommending when they're trying to say what is similar to mac

Feyd ,

Yeah the DE is your desktop, launcher, window manager, setting manager etc. So Gnome, KDE Plasma, mutter, etc. It is what most people will notice.

The distro is basically a package manager and assembly of packages. So if you were to use ubuntu for instance, there is a default DE, but you'll notice there are a bunch of "flavors" available. These are mostly different desktop environments and default applications, but all of the stuff in any of them are in the package lists and available to install regardless of flavor.

The main differences between distros are

  • release cadence
    • fixed. They release a major update on a regular schedule and only backport bug fixes and security patches
    • rolling. One package set that every installation always updates to latest
  • package management
    • some are able to manage packages purely by GUI and some you must use the command line (or if you can use GUI at some point you might have to fall back because it doesn't have first class support)
Feyd ,

When I finish a game naturally I look at the list of stuff I didn't do yet, and think "how much time will this take? Will I even remember doing completionist stuff in 5 years or would it be better to start a new game?"

Feyd , (edited )

You're right about Linux but you're wrong about windows. It is sent to the event loop in windows https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winmsg/window-notifications. It's been a long time since it was my job, but you actually had to pass a certification that your application exited gracefully in response to these messages as part of the partner program back in the day.

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Long running headless processes on windows generally still have an event loop and a window handle via which they process those messages.

Feyd ,

Service (daemon) lifecycles are managed via the system services api.

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The latency from using steam link or moonlight in my house drives me insane. I don't know how anybody doesn't hate cloud gaming solutions

Feyd ,

The problem with surveillance tech is that even if it was initially implemented with the best intentions by good people that aren't seeking to abuse it, it can change hands.

Feyd , (edited )

Just FYI, using the term luddite derogatorily may not be as cool as you think it is. They were essentially an instance of organized labor flexing their power and not really "against technological advancement" like the term gets bandied about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

Feyd ,

You can and should make your point without denigrating labor movements.

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It's just to give away taxpayer money to their fascist buddy.

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I've never liked this joke. I guess it's supposed to be that the husband does the literal action as described, but instead it's just that they interpreted ambiguity opposite than expected? It just really doesn't work very well :/

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People having seen the exact same joke that isn't even good for a decade or more....

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That's cute, but you're complaining about people expressing their opinions on a platform where the entire point is to comment on posts...

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"Distroless"

looks inside

Distro

Feyd ,

Followed the link. Two blurbs that are plenty to turn me off it:

Homebrew on-tap by default, same tools as your Mac

No thanks. I don't need anything from Mac. I actually hate using Mac including the headaches that homebrew brings. I only use it for work and only because I hate it less than windows and Linux isn't a choice.

For professionals and AI/ML engineers

So it's catering to AI. No thanks.

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The end of the world narrative pushers are actually the "AI safety" people that work at the big AI companies, and people like Huang himself that like to boost completely made up narratives like "the AI threatened us when we said we'd turn it off!" (Invariably if that happened it's because they... prompted it to...)

Linus Torvalds' Latest Open-Source Project Is AudioNoise - Made With The Help Of Vibe Coding ( www.phoronix.com )

In addition to Linus Torvalds' recent comments around AI tooling documentation, it turns out in fact that Linus Torvalds has been using vibe coding himself. Over the holidays Linus Torvalds has been working on a new open-source project called AudioNoise that was started with the help of AI vibe coding....

Feyd ,

Its also generally stupid for any well respecting practitioner of a trade to just disregard a new tool because its new and different.

But it's perfectly reasonable to disregard a tool for ethical reasons, of which there are many

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That is a major improvement but it doesn't alleviate concerns of being trained on copyleft code, which I take seriously.

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Did you yourself make a request to it or just set it up and not check it? My horrifying guess it that if you use SNI in a request every server in the middle could read the subdomain and some system in the internet routing is untrustworthy.

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Unexpected???

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  • Konosuba
  • Serial Experiments Lain
  • Haibane Renmei
  • Slayers
  • Samurai Champloo

What do you think of people who CONSTANTLY talk about religion?

As a Christian who doesn't follow much of the super religious "rules", I think it's kind of a red flag but sometimes it's not. Red flag because my girlfriend's ex-friend was super devout and put it all over her bio and was very ableist and homophobic. My friend, for example, is agnostic, so he's not sure if spirituality exists....

Feyd , (edited )

A little stronger wording than I'd normally use, but fundamentally my opinion. Any religious person either is incapable of or does not care to base their actions and opinions on reality, and that proclivity will manifest in other aspects of their life.

Feyd ,

The fun thing about agnostics and atheists that exhibit "zealotry and hubris" is they're almost always victims of extreme religious environments that got out and want to help others, only to have people like you group them with their previous oppressors.

Feyd ,

No, you're an asshole because you're grouping people with their oppressors. Cloaking yourself in a faux civility and saying all opinions are equal is not cool.

Feyd ,

5 to 6 is probably going to be the biggest leap in reliability for a long time

Feyd ,

If they want more players they could stop using denuvo. I bought almost every atlus game for 20 years but I pretty much only game on PC these days and refuse to buy a single player game with always online drm.

Feyd ,

The goal is to make everything work in the latest version. When an older version works better that means there was a regression in the newer version. Unfortunately, development doesn't always go in a straight line. Hotfix or experimental may have fixes or temporary hacks to make programs work that haven't made it into the mainline yet.

Is an old raspberry pi useful for anything based on Linux?

I don't expect much but I found an old pi I bought probably 2016(may of been 2017). It was supposed to be a pi-hole but was never able to get the dns forwarding to work on my modem. It still works but wanted to somehow convert it to a regular distro(it's based on a micro-SD and I don't have any more microsd readers). I wanted to...

Feyd ,

maybe not like a bleeding edge KDE with all the visuals turned on,

Wobbly windows or gtfo

GNU ddrescue 1.30 "Orders of Magnitude" Better In Recovery From Drives With A Dead Head ( www.phoronix.com )

GNU ddrescue as the free software data recovery tool from files or block devices is out today with a big feature release. The new GNU ddrescue 1.30 is improved by "orders of magnitude" for the automatic recovery from drives with a dead head.

Feyd ,

How does it know if you've been listening to grateful dead, though

Feyd ,

likely You'll be supporting them, so whatever you're more comfortable trouble shooting

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Oh hell yeah. I think wanting you use refind might've been the last thing keeping me doing manual setup

Feyd ,

It's just always a full moon in DOOM

Feyd ,

Even the benign psychological manipulation away from just starting a game and enjoying it that is achievements is annoying

Before becoming the rulers, boomers were known for counterculture, anti-war movements, sexual revolution, etc, but their legacy is atrocious corporate greed surpassing previous gens. What about Gen X?

I remember once reading a Frank Miller rant in one of the Sin City comics, where he was describing boomers as being overly liberal, like "social justice warriors", referencing what boomers represented in American universities. I was reading it some 20 years after the comic was released, and it was quite funny because by then...

Feyd ,

It's almost like all the hand wringing about generations, immigration, race, sexuality is a distraction from rich people fucking everyone else over

Feyd ,

Silly that it has to use hedge language like not ready "yet" and "premature". These executives fucked up and deserve to be roasted. They didn't make an innocent mistake. They were grossly incompetent and should be losing their jobs for not doing even the most basic due diligence before making decisions that were not only bad for the affected employees but for their customers and the company itself.

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The CEO is the face. The board is involved in decisions of this magnitude.

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Do they have free pizza at your cult meetings?

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Floppy disk save symbol

You mean the vending machine?