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MXX53

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  • Does it ever bother some of you that "I'm switching to Linux!" is just more of a way to appear rebellious than actually committing to the choice?

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  • No. I do not care what operating system people use, how they use it, if they dual boot, etc. If someone reaches out to me for help with Linux, I will help out and provide suggestions and guidance. If someone wants to dual boot and mostly use windows, cool. If they want to go back to windows or MacOS after using Linux, cool.

    I use what I use, the way I use it, because it works for me. Because I enjoy it. Because I find value in it.

    What other people decide to do or not do with their operating system choice has no effect on my life, or my thoughts, whatsoever.

    If I was feeling as described in this post, I would take some time away from the internet.

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    Can kids under 10 be possibly taught coding, without even mentioning the word syntax to them ??

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  • I am using this to teach my 4 year old programming and general understanding of how computers process information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDR_paper_computer

    We are still working on understanding more complex math concepts, but she understands general addition, multiplication and subtraction. Division has been a little harder.

    But, I would say she generally understands how to process “code” written for the computer and write some of her own, really simple applications (with some heavy help from dad).

    I’m thinking of sticking with this for a couple years, and then we are going to move to a small LMC that I wrote in C some time ago.

    I’ve also thought about using FORTH, but I am probably getting ahead of myself a bit.

  • Employment contract that allows for open source projects, advice needed

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  • I wish I could help. The only thing I can say is my work agreement just says that anything I make using resources provided by the company (computers, servers, software, internet access) can be claimed by the company. However, if I use my own computer, software license, my own internet, outside of work hours and not on work premises, then it is mine.

    I think the biggest difference might be that although I make software for my employer, my employer is not a software company. So the stuff I make is not sold or intended to ever be sold by the company for profit, but used by the company in their industry to make the work easier and more efficient.

    The company I work for is also a part of a larger consortium with promises to share software between all of the organizations and companies to elevate the industry in which we work as a whole.

    Hope some of that helps a bit, but I understand if it doesn’t.

  • Gran Turismo 2 Beige Edition: Teaser Trailer

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  • This is the perfect mod for me! When I play these games I love to get real cars that I would have driven or ridden in either as a kid or adult, and push them to their absolute limits. I will be getting this mod asap.

  • What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific.

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  • We all suck at piloting lol. I have crashed into the sun, planets, etc over and over again. You get better at it with time though.

    Best thing I did when playing that game was to stop trying to figure it out, and just start letting my curiosity drive me. Things intrigued me, and that drove me to go try and figure it out. Eventually the pieces start to come together. When I felt stuck or confused, I just went somewhere else and poked around for a bit elsewhere.

  • What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific.

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  • I did. Loved it. Echoes of the eye is a really good addition to the based game and honestly other than the base game, the only game I have very been choked up at.

  • What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific.

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  • I have a few from childhood, but the gaming high I am chasing now is whatever Outer wilds was. A beautiful story told through exploration and discovery. I just want to go back and experience for the first time again.

  • Why?

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  • Back when I was a freshman in college, I had a regular laptop (Sony Vaio) and at the time netbooks were popular and my girlfriend (now wife) had got me one for Christmas.

    Win 7 starter was garbage, XP was fine, but not ideal. I ended up trying out Ubuntu netbook remix since it was supposed to be lighter on resources. At the time I was a pre med student and wanted something for knocking out documents, and reading papers with enough battery to get me until I had to go to work. The iPad wasn’t out yet so that wasn’t an option.

    I had a ton of fun getting it working, even the Broadcom chip was a fun challenge. Once it was working, I just really liked the look and feel. I preferred the Unix file structure to windows as well as the terminal experience, using bash vs powershell.

    I ended up writing a few programs and apps for myself specifically for that netbook, and it quickly became my primary way of interacting with a computer. I eventually ported my Sony over which had the challenge of writing a couple drivers to get some things working with minimal compatibility.

    Following this, I switched from pre med to software engineering and eventually graduated with a degree and I have now been working with software and using Linux ever since. Even now, I am the sole Linux system administrator in the company I work for and manage a handful of servers and deployments.

  • Full Circle / EA confirm again that skate. will not support Linux, Steam Deck or macOS

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  • This is the only thing EA has released in years I was interested in. Wasn’t going to buy it anyways, and now I can’t play it even if I wanted to. I’ll just stick to session and skater XL if I want the skate experience.

  • Choosing a distro for a technophobe's computer

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  • I would go for mint.

    I want to suggest something immutable, but even when I use it, I have just had some issues occasionally or when trying to get the one off software here and there.

    Of all the people in my family, even elderly, mint has been the easiest transition and I have very rarely needed to perform any additional maintenance outside of doing updates for them here and there.

  • Rant: I hate the Gnome onscreen keyboard

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  • just for anyone curious, this does work, but it does seem to also remove some of the accuracy of the touch keyboard. Funny enough, the resizing jittery keyboard with suggestions is substantially more accurate and easier to type on than the stationary one. Grass is always greener I suppose. I reinstalled for now in hopes in the future I can have all of the features, without the keyboard resizing on its own.

  • Rant: I hate the Gnome onscreen keyboard

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  • I appreciate the lead. I struggled to find things that worked (admittedly didn’t look very hard). I’ll check it out tonight.

  • Rant: I hate the Gnome onscreen keyboard

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  • I’ve been using gnome fedora on my surface. What drives me nuts is the keyboard resize when it starts putting suggested words above the keyboard. Makes typing a pain in the ass. I can live with everything else, I just want to turn off the word suggestions. I cannot find a setting to disable it.

  • What Should I Use Instead of Github? - Codeberg Gitlab and BitBucket

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  • I selfhost gitea. That, plus Tailscale, has been really good.

  • Ignoring lemmyhate, are programmers really using AI to be more efficient?

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  • I like using it. Mostly for quick ideation, and also for getting rid of some of the tedious shit I do.

    Sometimes it suggests a module or library I have never heard of, then I go and look it up to make sure it is real, not malicious and well documented.

    I also like using my self hosted AI to document my code base in a readme following a template I provide. It gets it pretty good and usually is like 60-80% accurate and to the form I like. I just edit up the remaining and correct mistakes. Saves me a ton of time.

    I think the best way to use AI is to use it like a tool. Don’t have it write code for you, but use it to enhance your own ability.

  • Liberating my Surface with Linux Mint

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  • I run fedora 42 gnome on a surface pro 7+ that needed a new home. Great tablet. I do not like the touch screen keyboard resizing when I type to suggest words, but I haven’t found a way to address that.

    Other than that, it has been great.

  • Any tool to visualize Traefik access logs?

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  • I use alloy to scrape my traefik logs and pass them to Loki. Then I use logQL to parse out the info and regexp to format so I can use it in a visualization. I don’t have my configs handy at the moment but I can try and get them at some point to share something close to what I do as a starting point.

  • Gaming on Linux hasn't been great so far...

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  • All I know is I finally migrated my gaming desktop to Linux 3 years ago as my last hold out system and the only windows machine I’ve had since 2009. I haven’t noticed anything in terms of reduction in performance. Not to mention the ease of use when compared to getting Debian running on my laptop in 2009.

    But more importantly to me, when I click shutdown, my machine shuts down within 5 seconds. When I start up I’m not spammed a million times over with ads and bullshit. And when I update and reboot, my updates are done, no more update, reboot, update some more, reboot, etc.

    Let’s say Linux performance is worse than windows (has not been my experience), I would take that and not have all the other bullshit.

  • Why A.I. Should Make Parents Rethink Posting Photos of Their Children Online

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  • I’m a parent. Never post photos of my kids online and was able to get my wife to avoid it as well.

    Had to have some discussions with the grandparents though about posting photos of the kids online. Thankfully once I explained why they were understanding and now we just keep photos of the kids to shared signal groups between the grandparents, great-grandparents, uncles and aunts.