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blind3rdeye

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  • What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows

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  • You may not like a feature, which is fine, but a lot of people do.

    Sure. I agree with that. But I think you're seeing this in reverse of the point I was trying to make. My point is that you might think this feature is mission critical, but a lot of people do not. The purpose of my previous post was to imply that you are over-emphasising its importance.

  • What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows

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  • I understand that you personally want a fancy clipboard with lots of features; but for me, I actually explicitly deliberately only want a single item clipboard. I want the predictable simple certainty of what is and what is not stored in the clipboard. And if I ever had a multi-item clipboard with a UI interface, I'd be calling that confusing bloatware and looking for how to delete it.

    So I don't think we should rank each OS by how fancy its clipboard is.

  • What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows

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  • In which case average Joe needs people like us to push back against coercive bullshit so that it doesn't become entrenched.

  • Ancient traditions

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  • I'm never really sure if I should be using /mnt, or /media, or neither, or both.

    That's just one of many things that I find a bit confusing about the main linux directories. Windows has many directory oddities too though. I guess that tends to happen when an old OS walks the fine line of maintaining backwards compatibility and conventions while expectations, needs, and best-practices gradually change over time.

  • Stardew Valley Creator Says 1.7 Update Will Contain 'More Character/Social Stuff' and a New Farm Type

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  • In this particular update, they've said that it will not be the last. But yeah, January is highly likely.

    It feels so bad how long it has been delayed. As you say, its been years now. But that's not because it keeps getting delayed over and over. It's only really been postponed once. The original release date was dropped because they decided to increase the scope, and then their feature-creep seemed to get out of hand. But I think that by far the biggest reason for the delay is the death of one of their team members. In that small tight-knit team it has caused a lasting malaise and loss of focus; understandably so, I think.

    In any case, I'm looking forward to that update. Terraria is a great game.

  • Greens Preferences Flow to Labor – 2010 and 2025 Compared | Antony Green

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  • That's a pretty interesting analysis.

    Antony Green is a clear thinker, rigorous data dissector, and a good communicator.

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    I support this

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  • This doesn't make a lot of sense. Amanda is talking about a "woman in Tesco", but somehow knows the reason she took the divider back. Did the woman announce this or something? Or is it just guesswork? Or is it a bullshit made-up story? You decide!

    More to the point though, putting the divider would help her more than it helps the man. Because without the divider she risks the mans stuff being confused with her stuff, such that she might pay for items that aren't hers, or just wait her own time. So why should the dude be thanking her if she's actually just looking after her own interests? (And all that is aside from the fact that it is such a low-effort ordinary interaction that a person might not notice or care that it happened.)

  • Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"

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  • I did yes. But I figure either could work!

  • Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"

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  • Maybe you should write to Valve about it, rather than giving slippery-slope arguments to people who have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

    You've said your piece. Arguing about it further is not helping anyone. It's fermenting hostility for no benefit.

  • Is anyone else's friends getting really distant?

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  • Perhaps you should discuss this with the people you are talking about. No one is this thread is demanding increases in asset values or anything like that.

  • WeRide: Cycling community celebrates reinstatement of e-bike standard

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  • I see such a large number of these electric motorbikes that I'd started to doubt my understanding of the law. Like, maybe there had been a change that I just didn't know about. But it turns out that the change I didn't know about was Morrison undermining the law by messing with the import regulations.

    It's good to have some clarity on that.

  • Well, hello waterfox and librewolf

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  • Firefox is a commercial product. Is it not?

    Well, it's partially a matter of semantics. Perhaps different people have different understandings of the word 'commercial'. For me, I'd say that Firefox is not something a user pays for. It's existence is not about making a profit, or strengthening a business, or anything to do with money at all - and therefore it is not a commercial product.

    I agree that the engineers should be paid, and that browser development is very difficult. But nevertheless, Firefox historically has not been about maximising a profit - or even making any kind of profit at all. (Although it does seem Mozilla leadership are looking to change that.)

  • Well, hello waterfox and librewolf

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  • The text you quoted sounds like a reasonable and normal definition of a sale to me. i.e. transferring to another business in exchange for something else of value.

    So yeah, Firefox previously promised not to do this, "not ever", and now they say they need to do sell your personal data "in order to make Firefox commercially viable".

    But hang on a second... Firefox is not a commercial product. So making it 'commercially viable' is highly questionable in itself.

    It's a shame that Mozilla's current leadership is more interested in self-enrichment than in the past. But Firefox is still the very best option by far. I hope that the Ladybird project becomes strong the future, if for no other reason than pressure Firefox into staying good.

  • China's military build-up demands response, Australia defence minister says

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  • I'm no expert, but it seems to me that global politics is growing more and more unstable. China has gradually been becoming more assertive and provocative as they grow in power. The USA has become unreliable and somewhat unpredictable. And I'd say this makes other wars and tensions around the world a more volatile, and it makes it harder for Australia to maintain good relationships.

  • Terrible idea

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  • Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows

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  • Meh. Lemmy is a fairly small community of people who know at least enough about computer and software that they're willing to push away from main-stream sites like Reddit. It seems kind of obvious that those same people would also be inclined to push away from Windows.

    I wouldn't call it a 'hard-on'. It's just a kind of obvious correlation of people's interests. And no, it's nothing like 1/3 of the posts. It's just that you only think about linux when you're reading one of those posts, and so you only think to mentally tally the posts when you're actually reading one. It's a kind of cognitive bias. You could easily check this by just looking at the first few pages of 'all' right now. There's almost no posts about linux there at all.

  • Probably a good idea to go see how much storage will be necessary...

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  • Well we are talking about the greatest repository of human knowledge ever created. So we can afford to spend a little on it at least.

  • jprule

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  • Google is an enormous beast. It doesn't care about you, or me, or the good of anyone. Sometimes its goals happen to align with a common good for awhile - and so good stuff can come from that. But often their goal do not, and they cause harm while crushing any possible alternative path. And as time goes on, less and less of what google does is for the common good.

    For that reason, I think it is unwise to support google. Supporting them further entrenches their power, preventing others from contributing.

    The smart engineers you spoke of would still be smart engineers with or without google. Google didn't create them. They can still contribute with or without Google. But Google did direct their efforts to suit Google's own needs. - Sometimes that's also good for other people, but often it is not.

  • Bottles: how can I repair / debug a bottle?

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  • When you switch Wine to a newer version, if the Wine developers have updated Mono or Gecko, Wine will show a popup asking if you want to download them. That happens when your version is outdated or missing.

    Hmm. But I'm not manually installing Wine. As far as I'm aware, the only implementations of Wine I have have been installed via Bottles (and via Steam, I guess). So for me, getting a new version of Wine basically means going to the 'runners' tab in the Bottles preferences menu, and clicking download on a newer version of something. And that has never shown any kind of popup. It just downloads it, and then I later select that new version in a menu for to choose to use it. So I guess I don't really know when or if mono and gecko ever get updated. If it is integrated into the runner, I suppose they are upgraded like that - but I suspect they are not, because I manually installed wine mono to resolve that first error message.

    I reckon somewhere in this business is where the problem is.

    I don’t know how familiar you are with Wine, but for the future remember: dxvk is not the default Wine implementation for DirectX 9–11. By default Wine uses wined3d, which is slower but often more robust. So if something doesn’t work, just try disabling dxvk.

    However, in Bottles there’s currently a bug (I think) where to switch properly you first need to change the Wine version to an older one, and then back to the version you actually want to use.

    I didn't know either of those things. And that's good info for testing purposes. Thank you again.