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Buddahriffic

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  • As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity

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  • Yeah, to clarify I didn't mean Blender as an alternative but that there are decent options for another kind of 3d work in addition to CAD stuff. FreeCAD for design stuff, Blender for making pretty things (or ugly things if that's what you're into), Vulkan/gcc for real time 3d stuff if you like working close to the metal, Godot for real time 3d stuff if you want to do it from a higher level.

  • As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity

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  • Makes me wonder if anyone actually likes the windows experience. The main resistances I see to moving away from it are about familiarity and compatibility, plus some people tired of linux's popularity here.

    I'm thinking that the company is only surviving based on large org buyin, including the main PC system makers who make windows the default option.

  • As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity

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  • I'm not too into 3d modelling stuff myself, but I understand Blender is pretty good, too.

  • As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity

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  • Just note that (unless they've changed the default), you need to enable a setting in Steam to make it always use proton, or it will look like reality matches up with your previous expectations. I believe the setting is under compatability in the steam global settings.

    Also be aware that the steam deck compatability icon cares about two things that might not apply to a linux desktop: it loses points for keyboard/mouse centric games (which work fine if you actually use a kb/m instead of controller), and it also cares about how that game will perform on steam deck hardware, though if your gaming PC isn't very strong, that one might be useful for you.

    Protondb has the more accurate compatability info, though it's crowd sourced, so might not have up to date info on more obscure titles (though it does seem kinda like every single game has at least a small community obsessed with it that consider it the greatest game).

  • As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity

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  • I mean, switching to Linux was nice even from win 10 that doesn't even have a bunch of the BS from win 11. Using windows already sucks and has for a while.

    And why are you posting about what 95% of people care about? The people posting here about it care. Do you walk up to random people on the street to tell them most people don't care about what they are talking about?

    Plus this commenter was even specifically asking for advice about how to get away from windows, so you're whining about a common circle jerk in a thread that isn't even that circle jerk.

  • Conversation trees

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  • Now I'm wondering if they ever did any full episodes like that, just a disjointed series of references and videos of said reference and no overall episode plot.

  • Conversation trees

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  • Oh you mean unwinding your conversation stack to get back to the original point each tangent was intended to make to their parent topic?

    Though my stack is usually corrupted by the time I try to swing back, so it turns into a "now why the fuck was I talking about this again?"

  • Demolition company tearing down White House flooded with negative reviews

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  • I don't know if liberaldom could recover from being owned so completely!

  • Demolition company tearing down White House flooded with negative reviews

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  • I don't know why anyone treats that as a defense of companies. Sounds more like a problem statement than acceptable reasoning.

    Even shareholders are hurt by the mindless drive to maximize profit because they still have to live in a world where everyone is trying to make the most for the least.

  • Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch ever"

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  • When I was in school, I wanted a Linux machine (since my school stuff was mostly linux and I wanted to be able to work locally instead of having to ssh in to school machines) but wasn't comfortable doing it on my main PC, so I bought a cheap laptop and inatalled linux on that. Had the extra bonus of being smaller and lighter than my gaming laptop that was my main PC at the time, too.

    Your options will probably be a bit more expensive (and apologies for suggesting a solution that involves throwing money at it if you aren't in a position to get even a relatively cheap one) since it's running windows and needs the hardware for that, including TPM if your school stuff requires win 11 (though if you can get away with win 10 or 7, you could probably get a cheaper machine). Though on the other hand, your tasks might not require a GPU, which can save a lot right there.

    Then you can truly isolate your personal stuff from winsows, especially if you set your LAN up to never let the windows machine know that the linux machine even exists.

    I also use this with consoles to play games I'd like to try but they have DRM or anticheat that I don't want on my PC. Also kinda doing it with work, though the laptop belongs to them.

  • Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch ever"

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  • I didn't have the patience to try out a few, but luckily Fedora has met my needs without annoying me as much as windows did. Though I am feeling a bit of an itch to try out some of the others, but am currently just chilling in this local minimum of effort and not regretting going from windows to Fedora one bit.

  • You'll be fine

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  • It's kinda funny with anime and manga. They use Japanese names for a bunch of stuff like special martial arts techniques or special moves. Not knowing Japanese, the names sound cool and mysterious.

    Learning the actual translations, Treebeard is pretty par for the course.

    Like from Naruto, Sasuke uses the Copy Wheel Eye (sharingan), Hinyata uses the White Eye (byakugon), and Naruto's big move is Spiral Sphere (rasengan). Copy Wheel Eye's upgraded version is called Kalidoscope Copy Wheel Eye.

    They aren't horrible names, but they feel less cool.

    Though it would be funny if Saitama has special moves that are just other languages saying "normal punch" or "serious punch". "Hip bump with moderate vigor" or something.

    Edit: fixed spelling of byakugon

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  • There are a bunch of obvious ones for last names. Smith, Tailor, Carpenter, Fletcher, etc from when urban families tended to keep the same profession.

    Also, last names that end in "son" like Johnson, Thompson, Ragnarson. It's just shorthand for "son of John". Not sure if Ragnarson is a name that has survived to today, but it was the name that made me realize that connection when reading a fiction based on the execution of Ragnar and the subsequent Viking invasion of England by his sons. They were Ragnarsons but he was Ragnar Lodbrok (which just means he was hairy, if he even was a single person and not an amalgramation of a bunch of big Viking names).

  • If websites are slow for you, this is why, AWS is breaking everything

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  • I don't always downvote posts that use /s, but I do always downvote posts that complain about someone not using it.

    Sarcasm is ok but deadpan is where it's at.

  • If websites are slow for you, this is why, AWS is breaking everything

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  • For some context, the issue was affecting AWS or Amazon Web Services, which is hosting for those other services (or parts of them), not an amazon app issue cascading to other services.

    And I don't think an open source amazon app would work. Amazon is a lot more than just a webstore. They've got a massive logistics network plus warehouses and packing plants. I feel like an open source version of amazon's store would end up avoiding the corporate shit but would have all the negatives of amazon store without many of the positives.

  • Yesterday Be Like

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  • Maybe it's from people suddenly realizing how many clients they have but not realizing that was already priced in and reflected in earnings because those clients didn't all show up by surprise this quarter.

    Or maybe the downage revealed some new clients that hadn't been priced in.

    Though when a tiny portion of the population owns such a large share of the wealth, stock prices are going to do pretty much whatever they want them to do.

  • This just happened to me, and I did waste 1-2h because of it

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  • Fyi, it wouldn't necessarily be better with a binary if you are missing dependencies, since it might have dynamically linked libraries (I'd say it probably does but tbh I'm not sure whether dynamic or static linked libraries are more common with Linux programs shared on the internet as my experience there is more with building them for work stuff rather than downloading and installing).

  • This just happened to me, and I did waste 1-2h because of it

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  • Times like this are an argument for why it's OK to occasionally reinvent the wheel.

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  • I wish we had infrastructure to do that at a mass level and reduce the waste. And I don't just mean goodwill and donation shops, but a whole system to accept discarded things or consignments, clean and repair everything, eliminates any infestations and infections (or destroy it if impossible), filter out the junk (or send it to another station to be disassembled into parts if anything is salvageable, or into scrap materials if not).

    Also ban disposable plastic that can't be usefully recycled, as well as ones that are intended for longer terms but degrade (some get sticky, some "sweat" who knows what liquid), and make all parts (plastic or otherwise) open source and public IP if the producer no longer wishes to produce them.