I really want something that’s going to be no-fuss, solid as a rock and that’s simply going to get out of my way.

That would be Debian Stable. I’m using it with KDE Plasma (6.3.6), and am pretty happy with it. (I also applied a few backports for gaming and software development, but that was easy.)

Is there something about newer Plasma versions that you absolutely must have right now, rather than living with 6.3.x until next year?

Guy looks like Run DMC or something.

Run and DMC are two different people.

Because despite its name, ICE is no longer about immigration and customs. The Trump administration (and the people behind Project 2025) have appropriated and expanded it into their own private army, circumventing constitutional law for the purpose of turning the USA into a dictatorship.

This is why you might see people comparing ICE to a modern day Gestapo, and part of why many Americans fear that there will be no more elections.

Did you know that you can list every process running on your system along with their various categories of memory usage?

man ps

Or for a rough idea, just browse them wtih KDE System Monitor.

Yet another ruse for Trump and his cronies to leverage in amassing power by bleeding working-class Americans dry.

The USA doesn’t have laws against collecting people’s personal information. Companies have been quietly taking advantage of this for decades.

See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LexisNexis

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This is a thinly veiled advertisement.

tl;dr: The length of a slice is not a valid index into that slice.

Of course. Because Go uses zero-based indexing, just like many other languages.

How?

This so-called article contains absolutely no information to support the headline. It’s worthless garbage.

is to identify the human. This may not even be a conscious development from the company.

Given the reign of surveillance capitalism and rise of fascism, I think it would be naive to believe it’s anything else.

Thanks. Having to go through lemmy.world also means having to go through cloudflare, which is blocked at my site.

Indeed. It’s linked in the third sentence of the article.

If by “in-game manual” you mean one that’s part of the game world (not necessarily displayed on a computer screen) check out the classic Infocom adventures. For example, Border Zone came with a printed terrain map and tourist guide, and Sherlock and The Witness came with newspapers, among other things.

An argument could be made that the first group is about engineering software, while the second group is about navigating a certain kind of adversity.

I guess one could call the latter a kind of engineering, but not of software.

I think it makes sense in at least one way: The Sword Art Online that so many people have come to love, through the light novels and anime, is a single-player experience: There are a small handful of main characters, relationships, and stories, into which the reader/viewer can project themselves, and that has proven to deliver a lot of fun. That’s what it’s like to read a book or watch a show, and it works here.

Sure, the setting happens to be an MMO world, but it serves mainly as a backdrop, with a few game mechanics chosen not to produce a balanced MMO but instead to support the story. Some of those mechanics are IMHO the real inside joke, since they’re often the same ones that people hate in real multiplayer games because they reward antisocial behavior. Their presence in SAO feels to me like a sympathetic nod to fellow gamers who have suffered through them in actual gameplay.

I don’t think SAO’s strengths would lend well to becoming an MMO. If someone were to try it, I would expect it to be a flop. That is, unless the designers and rights holders were willing to let go of the established rules and characters, and somehow manage to create something inspired, thematic, and fun enough to stand on its own as a multiplayer experience.

I would rather have no SAO MMO than a bad SAO MMO.

For what it’s worth, it’s the first result in a lemmyverse search:

https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=steam+machine

Describing the saboteur as “The developer of Mumble” is misleading, because Mumble is developed by multiple contributors, and Beatrici isn’t even the most prominent one.

The post’s true headline is:

Statement regarding attempted distribution sabotage

Systemd (along with the various add-on services that come with it on most major distros) meddles with and tends to break critical functionality quite often, except on boring systems where the needs being served happen to be handled well by systemd’s happy path(s).

If the computers you maintain fit Lennart Poettering’s idea of how to do things, then you might never notice a problem. On the other hand, if you’re responsible for systems with unusual or complex configurations, or have need of the flexibility that makes unix so very useful in the first place, then you might very well discover that systemd is a pushy, invasive, poorly considered, buggy, and in some ways just pain broken collection of software, maintained with a level of arrogance and carelessness not often matched in the unix community, and you might rightly come to despise working with it.

Sadly, my experience has been the latter. In the years since the systemd suite was adopted by Debian distros, I have been burned more times by it and spent more weeks of my life troubleshooting it than I can count any more. Because of this, I have come to resent systemd. And I know I’m not alone in this.

So, dear readers, when you see people complaining about systemd, please try not to be like the zealots out there who routinely cry “luddite” and demand proof when they encounter folks who dislike it. Try instead to remember that one size does not fit all, that some of systemd’s detractors are very skilled and reasonable people who happen to run systems that are necessarily different from your own, and have encountered problems that you have not. It has been over a decade. Some of us are tired of it, and tired of talking about it.

All in all you ended up at the whole point I was making, but somehow you first had to claim that it’s all nonsense.

No, I pointed out that the problem you described is completely avoidable, which wasn’t apparent in your original comment. This is an important distinction to other readers who are considering a move to Linux, since they otherwise might be put off by your suggestion that doing so is necessarily a hardware lottery.

It was a different perspective, not a personal attack.

Your combative, snarky response is unpleasant, unwarranted, and unnecessary. Goodbye.