Lemmy account of natanox@chaos.social
My dopamine-defficient corners of the brain would like to have a word with you. And everyone else reading this. Oh look, a butterfly! I'm tired. Like a tire. Weeeh! dozes off 😴
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This might be the most awful Linuxbro take I've read this year, congratulations. Linux has to lack a stable ABI to keep the capitalists away and make apps constantly require maintenance to filter out bad behaviour? Just wow.
I really hope for way more people to come over so nonsense like this finally stops.
Fortunately we do have a steady influx of new people incl. those who demand shit to god damn work, finally shifting this notion.
For the time being we still have to resort to using the Windows version and Wine for old software though… But I already had the situation where the (unmaintained but working) app also had a Flatpak which was last updated many years ago and it just worked, which made me incredibly happy and hopeful. ❤️
Good thing there's a battle-proven response if people don't like this because it's "not what Linux is supposed to be" or some other nonsense: If you don't like it just fork it yourself. 😚
This shit is the exact reason Linux doesn't just have ridiculously bad backwards compatibility but has also alienated literally everyone who isn't a developer, and why the most stable ABI on Linux is god damn Win32 through Wine. Hell, for the same reason fundamentally important things like accessibility tools keep breaking, something where the only correct answer to is this blogpost. FOSS is awesome and all, but not if it demands from you to become a developer and continuesly invest hundreds of hours just so things won't break. We should be able to habe both, free software AND good compatibility.
What you describe is in no way a strength, it's Linux' core problem. Something we have to overcome ASAP.
Puritans on Linux are a real menace. Every time someone calls an OS install image of 3-4gb "bloated" I want to scream uncontrollably. Not statically linking stuff is part of this cultural issue.
Flatpak might solves these issues in the long run. Of course the same people therefore hate it, because it's "bloated" and "convoluted".
<rant> How dare we have different versions of the same lib! Where will we end up, like MS Windows? Where I can boot up apps as old as myself? Outrageous! Not my precious mibibytes!). </rant>
Good advice. I always wait until below 50°C hotend temp before I shutdown the machines. The issues I currently have also happen mid-print (after perhaps 5-10 minutes).
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Look at the kind of comics coming from those accounts in particular. They're all political. Same currently happens when you browse #meme on the Fedi in general, endless agitprop accounts freshly created who do nothing but post political memes with a few normal ones sprinkled in for plausible deniability.
Yeah, it's really appaling… I see this around my hackerspace and on events all the time as well. I don't get how people can look at history and be like "oh damn, that symbol shows exactly what I like: worker's unionizing!". Discussions usually won't lead anywhere though, way too often they'll either tangle you up in never-ending theories and hypotheticals from the last century (which never worked) until you resign and they feel victorious or excuse even the most abhorrent individuals, let it be Guevara or even Mao.
At least online you're able to quickly block people…
I chose the Fairphone for the repairability and increased openness, but it's also 2 to 3 times the price of a more common brand cellphone
Only outside of Europe or their free-trade partners, in Europe I can get a Gen 5 for 400€ and Gen 6 for about 550€. It's extremely annoying for most countries, but regarding the US it's 100% their regime's fault for not having any comparable company (they get immediately smushed by Google, Apple & Co by any means necessary) or at least low / no tariffs with the EU zone (Trump literally killed a done deal in this regard one week before ratification with his threats of invading Greenland).
For instance, my laptop is a MNT Reform: it's a very good laptop, but it's literally 6 times the price of a comparatively-specced laptop from a big-box store.
Now that's really special. :D There are a lot of "normal" (x86) devices on the market that are way more affordable as well. For a while Slimbook offered a modern native Linux laptop for <500€, and there are also companies like System76 (US), NovaCustom (NL) or Star Labs (UK) with laptops running on open firmware that come with less restrictions and powerful hardware.
For people who aren't (yet) poor it's mostly a problem of discoverability and lack of knowledge not to go with the more sane products. We get bombarded with ads promising the best experience on the usual platforms (that are as manipulative as possible). BambuLab also plays this game perfectly, their influencer marketing paired with VC-funded undercutting prices are top notch in getting people locked into their garbage.
People who can't imagine that should try buying a non-smart TV. It's fucking impossible, unless 24-32 inch are enough for you (PC monitor size).
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Funny how they don't even have faces and one still assumes they look sleep deprived (because it's usually true).
At this point it might not be the worst idea to bet against Nvidia or OpenAI, if you can do it at the perfect moment.
I've read somewhere that they, indeed, force developers to use Copilot now. So in fact you're right, it's slop.
On a positive note: You become the person to ask if anything problematic happens. Like, the moment someone feels sick it's always me who got the travel-amount of medicine ready (Ibuprofen, Talcid, Vomex and such).
Don't challenge the one thing I excel at! procrastinates very important things even harder