Cyberpunk fiction isn’t about a hypothetical speculative future. It’s an critical allegory for the issues of the present. Of course reality aligns with it when left unchanged.

Very promising! Thank you, I’ll look into this. Hopefully it’s what I need!

Yes, I am a design professional. Although I use Affinity rather than Adobe wherever I can, since i own the licence in perpetuity; but that isn’t Linux compatible either. The only AI tool I use is content-aware selection for masking. I don’t use genAI at all.

Since design software can include metadata in exported files, it’s also wise to use legally registered software so that my clients aren’t exposed to legal issues.

I’ve been looking at Linux for several years now, and this is the sole reason why I can’t leave Windows behind yet, because as you say: random issues with compatibility and troubleshooting.

So it bothers me whenever I investigate this and people suggest clearly inadequate ‘alternatives’ like GIMP or tell me I should just switch anyway. Anybody that implies I could do my job with GIMP clearly isn’t informed enough to actually answer my question.

Thank you very much for the nuanced and good faith explanation.

What about software outside of browsers of gaming? Lemmy talks about gaming a lot but it remains to be seen if working professionals are able to leave W11 behind

Lol, well I probably would because I don’t know what that is. And it sounds like an artificial sweetener.

But I get your point. Humans aren’t good at feeling out chronic ‘mundane risk’ and significantly deemphasise it in favour if acute, ‘dramatic risk’.

Much as how 9/11s death toll permanently transformed America politically and culturally on multiple levels, whereas the severity of far greater numbers of vehicular (or firearm) deaths are accepted as unavoidable facts of life.

Tbf she made zero effort to converse with OOP either

At this point the files are irrelevant. The connection is obvious, and nobody is fucking doing anything except saying “somebody [else] DO something!” while looking vaguely aghast.

The files only document the past; meanwhile the present is being actively fucked up both nationally and globally.

So please, let’s stop treating heinous global-reaching decisions as if they’re just a petty distraction from an open secret Americans have already decided not to do anything about.

Must be the title of their new book, they’re on a press tour

First we have to convince them exists XD they keep leaving us off maps

I’m not good at linking communities on mobile but. MapsWithoutNZ on lemmy.nz (or Reddit, for far far far more examples, because IT KEEPS HAPPENING)

Trying to get other cartographers to take the hint

Hmm, I’m not sure my gut’s microbiome would recognise the sawdust as digestible food and trigger actual satiation hormones. Nor would my brain recognise any protein chains associated with nutrition while my mouth broke it down. Digestive systems detect so much complicated information, you have to work at it to trick them. There’s something nutritious in the walnuts that my system really likes and is noticeably glad to eat.

If your system doesn’t need whatever walnuts would provide, perhaps your own baking needs a different alternative… Would you prefer some Omega-3 rich fish oil instead, make those brownies extra fudgy? :P

I am also pro walnuts. They’ve not much flavour on their own, but when I make the exact same recipe without them, it’s sweeter, too rich, but also unsatisfying. I end up eating more of them despite enjoying them less.

With walnuts though, they’re satisfying. I enjoy them more, and then I’m satisfied after a couple pieces. I think the fibre and fats in the nuts actually helps my body to ‘see’ the brownie as food in a way that hyper-processed flour and sugar can’t be.

Tbf, that was true of the Germans and the Nazi party too. People talk about Nazis and Hitler as if Hitler himself was the main guy who did everything, a monster cut from whole cloth… but they were democratically elected because they spoke to the fears, anxieties, and antisemitism of voting Germans at the time.

Oh I thought this was gonna be like… the bride’s ‘Brother… in Christ’

My point is they dont work together. I can believe Nvidia ‘started’ it, but it doesnt matter or help me solve my problem. I’ve decided I want to try Linux but I can’t afford another card so I’m doing what I can.

This is an uncharitable interpretation of what I said.

Nvidia doesn’t tell me it doesn’t work. Linux users do. When I first used Linux for coding all those years ago, my GPU wasn’t relevant, nobody mentioned it during my code bootcamp or computer science certification several years ago, and ubuntu and Kubuntu both booted fine.

When I upgraded my GPU, I got Nvidia. It was available and I knew what to expect. Simple as.

Then as W10 (and W11) got increasingly intolerable, I came to Linux communities to learn about using Linux as a Windows replcement, looking into distros like Mint and Garuda, and behold: I come across users saying Linux has compatibility issues with Nvidia. Perhaps because it is ‘so well known’ most don’t think to mention it, I learned about it from a random comment on a meme about gaming.

I also looked into tutorials on getting Affinity design software to work on which distros, and the best I could find was shit like, I finally got it to run so long as I don’t [do these three basic functions].

I don’t care who started it, I can already believe it’s the for-profit company sucking up to genAI. But right now that doesn’t help me. I care that it’s true and that’s the card I have, and I’m still searching for distros that will let me switch and meets work needs and not just browsing or games.

I’m here now, aware that they don’t work, still looking for the best solution I can afford, because I did look up Linux.

Damn, sorry you’ve had these experiences. That sounds exhausting. I’ve decided to never even try Tinder for similar reasons, it has such a bad reputation… though I may look at Hinge and Bumble in the future.

I think a lot of people just swipe/like broadly without really reading or considering profiles, and then only look at profiles after getting a match to decide if they’re actually interested. Especially true on apps that have your photos front and centre, like Tinder dies.

I suppose if you’re choosing to swipe/like multiple times a day, you conclude it saves time/effort to only read profiles on the actual matches you make every month or so.

In reality, those people end up being deprioritised by algorithms because you’re assessed as ‘undiscerning’/‘low match rate’ and are mostly shown people doing the same thing. You save time on the matching experience but you’re far less likely to make matches that mean anything if you’re matching people you’ve nothing in common with.

From what Ive heard of Hinge, it’s the only modern large-scale app that’s actually trying to describe who people are and not just what they look like, so it has a better reputation for meaningful matches.

Similar for me. All the talk about what software Linux couldn’t handle, I didn’t learn that Linux is incompatible with Nvidia until AFTER I updated my GPU. I don’t want to buy another GPU after less than a year, but Windows makes me want to do a sudoku in protest… but also my work and design software wont run properly on Linux and all anybody can talk about is browsers and games.

I’m damned whether I switch or not.

Damn this dude already looks like a political caricature of himself

Tried one for the first time about a year ago, but only for a few days. Bi poly woman, looking for any poly individuals of any gender. (Not interested in being a unicorn for bicurious couples.)

I figured Feeld would be a good choice since its kink/queer-friendly.

• within one day I had over 70 likes. Despite living in a small town and setting <20km range. Almost every single one was from a (gender declared as) man that hadn’t bothered to fill out their profiles with anything at all. Maybe a third didn’t even have a picture (not that it would’ve mattered, because I want to meet people not bodies, but who do they think is going to swipe right on a sunset, or on Wrath of the Lich King box art?)

• Plenty of couples looking for unicorns that listed themselves as one person to be on my feed anyway. Always with vague filler that tells me nothing about them or what they’re looking for, stuff like ‘connect and see where it goes’.

• plenty of (hypothetical) women that were theoretically looking, but actually the profile was their male partner, whom you had to talk to first, despite saying nothing about her. No photos, no hobbies, nothing about her as a person. Idk if he was standing guard to feel in control and soothe his relationship insecurities, or if she wanted him to protect her from all the risk/effort, but either way: nope. They’re almost never looking for a mutual experience, theyre looking for a volunteer to perform her fantasies for free

• I had every permutation of individual switched on: trans men, women (cis or trans), enbies etc included… but 99% of what I saw was cis men. I don’t know if they were promoted by the app or they really are almost all of the users, but the app would literally start looping through the same empty profiles of cis men without ever showing me a queer woman (that wasn’t a couple pretending)

• Once I stopped including cis men (which i felt very conflicted about but i was so fucking overwhelmed), I finally started seeing queer women (and more unicorn hunters ofc). Almost all of them had fully filled out profiles but the amount of likes dropped to like… 2 over the remaining 3 days I had the app installed.

• one pan man put a ‘super like’ on me which let me see him directly, he’d actually filled put his profile which was great because it gave me something to open with. We had a great conversation but I slowed down on meeting up in person right away because I needed to attend to some real-life needs and invited him to connect outside the app while that happened, which he agreed with but then kinda disappeared without doing so. Maybe he assumed I wasn’t actually interested or I would take too long, idk. A shame because I did like him

I have a (mostly) straight male partner and he showed me his app experience: most of the straight women didn’t bother filling out their profiles at all either, nor did gay men. It seemed only queer women filled it out almost every time? We theorised that the queer dating pool is really small so it’s understood you have to represent yourself to be seen, and women want to have an idea of who you are before they reach out.

Meeting other women is hard so I’d probably need to get back on apps at some point, but damn. Really do feel sorry for everybody out there. All of the people I’ve actually dated have been met in-person.