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snowe

@ snowe @programming.dev

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I'm a staff software engineer at Sunrun, the USA's largest residential solar installer.

I mostly work with kotlin, but also java, python, ruby, javascript, typescript. My hobby is picking up new hobbies. Currently bird photography and camping.

  • How is Photoshop performance on WinApps?

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  • I struggled with WinApps as well. wasn't ever able to get gpu passthrough working either, and trying to do so really destabilized my computer. I pretty much gave up. That's not to say that WinApps doesn't work. It does, it's just not near native for me. There's definitely slowness, at least with Lightroom, I haven't tested with PS yet, though I have installed it.

  • Linux is now 34 years old. Happy Birthday!

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  • Yeah defining an announcement of something as its birthday is weird. I’m also biased on this, cause it came out on my birthday.

  • Wages are stagnant and cost of living is ridiculous. Are we headed for a crash?

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  • Really weird reading an article that interviews someone you’ve worked for (who is a billionaire themselves).

  • Your feedback on changes to private voting, please

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  • When I was working on adding voting to lemmy (I never finished it) one of my features I wanted was exactly this. Essentially locking down votes to your instance, meaning you have to have an account in the instance to vote and the votes won’t federate. This would make it so that users of the instance could make decisions without brigading from other instances.

    One thing I do beg you to add: 3-2-1 voting and STAR voting. We really need to stop using plurality voting for things.

  • Open Source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries

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  • about 50% of traffic to programming.dev is bots who have marked their user-agents as such. I'm pretty confident the actual number is higher, but haven't spent time validating.

  • An unknown illness kills over 50 people in part of Congo with hours between symptoms and death

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  • man what part of america are you in lol. I've never seen either of those as an everyday occurrence, though you will find them if you go to a southern fried chicken joint.

  • Decentralised social media offers an alternative to big tech platforms like X and Meta. How does it work? Podcast

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  • as an instance admin I will let you know that lemmy (the software) runs very very poorly.

  • Linux is not ready

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  • then why is every linux advocate stating that all that matters is picking your distro? If the system needs to have the OS preinstalled then the distro doesn't matter at all. Yet that still really isn't the problem. Installing an OS from a flash drive (distros are just as easy to install as windows is and people have been installing windows fine from hard media for decades) is a different realm of troubleshooting than driver issues. Either linux is ready for people to start installing any distro on their gaming rig to migrate off of Windows or it's not. And it clearly isn't.

  • Linux is not ready

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  • yes, yes it could. You went into no detail at all, so it's literally up to the reader's imagination. photo touch up could mean literally filling in freckles, well use the eyedropper tool and draw over them. Color science could mean checking the color profile of your monitor, the colors in paint are HSL. Retro pixel art is literally just drawing, you just don't get the help of pixel by pixel drawing, you'll have to manage that yourself. Your response indicated nothing about how you use GIMP, and honestly, I doubt you have used any really in depth features that Photoshop provides.

  • Linux is not ready

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  • sure, but then you're alienating an entire userbase that can install an OS (which is just a flash drive and hitting a few keys during startup), but absolutely does not have the willpower to sit and figure out configuration on their new OS that absolutely does not work out of the box. Shit, I have enough to deal with in my daily life, I don't want to be debugging driver issues. I haven't had driver issues in windows or mac for over a decade, yet it's the very first thing you encounter on a new distro install.

  • Linux is not ready

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  • i read the dang wiki and got everything running smoothly in an afternoon

    that means it's not ready...

  • Linux is not ready

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  • also they didn't mention anything that couldn't be done in MS Paint lol. something Gimp still doesn't have - Content Aware Delete which was added in 2010...literally 15 years ago.

  • Linux is not ready

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  • anyone that wants to use their computer for basic things like netflix or watching any content at all will notice the difference. They won't be able to tell you it's HDR, but they will think "why does this look worse than it did on windows"?

  • Linux is not ready

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  • they're very correct. Last month I tried out Zorin (which was recommended by one of the linux communities here) and sound didn't even work properly. I plan on writing up a full doc for the linux community on the problems a staff software engineer had with a basic no-frills install (I'm trying to find a distro for my wife), but Linux is absolutely not ready for the general populace.

  • Linux is not ready

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  • that is most definitely not the process. You have to explicitly go into Steam's settings > Compatibility > "Enable Steam Play for all other titles" (what in the world, it's called Steam Play, not Proton?) and then additionally select which Proton version you want. If you don't know this, or don't google it with the right keywords, you won't understand why literally 90% of your library isn't available (in my case it was 99% of my library, I think I only had 3 games available on linux natively). Also if you select the wrong Proton version some games won't run, so you have to know that and switch it for those games only.

  • Nonstick Cookware Industry Furious at Suggestion They Should Stop Causing Cancer

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  • buying a pan increases demand for that item, which then gets built in those factories that then pollute the water you drink and the air you breathe. So yeah, they're directly correlated.

  • Nonstick Cookware Industry Furious at Suggestion They Should Stop Causing Cancer

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  • Nonstick Cookware Industry Furious at Suggestion They Should Stop Causing Cancer

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  • recent studies have stated that the pans offgas from manufacturing for weeks after you've bought them, no heating needed, so no, that's not correct. and it was known that they offgas at only 325ºF years ago. https://www.ewg.org/research/canaries-kitchen

    so no, teflon pans are bad no matter how you use them, they're bad for the environment, they're bad for your health, they're bad for animals, they're bad for babies that haven't been born yet.

  • Nonstick Cookware Industry Furious at Suggestion They Should Stop Causing Cancer

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  • using a pan means you have to construct that pan, in a factory that pollutes massive amount of PFAS directly into the soil and water table.

  • I Don't See a Reason to Switch to Windows from Linux Anymore in 2025

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  • wait... are you arguing that gems are a bad thing???