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semperverus , 6 months ago

Waypipe could probably be used as a reference or incorporated as a library to make it work

semperverus , 6 months ago

I play AAA titles all the time on linux. Just not ones that come bundled with viruses and rootkitskernel-level invasive anticheat.

semperverus , 6 months ago

Lol, nvidia…

semperverus , 6 months ago

Cool, so since you left linux why are you posting this here?

We all know windows is more compatible by design of the capitalism machine, we left it by choice for a reason.

semperverus , 6 months ago

I thought json at first too but json does not use brackets around its keys like that or semicolons to end a key value pair, it uses commas. It also doesnt use equal signs for the value assignments, it uses colons.

semperverus , 6 months ago

Bro the AI neural networks have been shown to be building internal world models to be able to do what they do. How is that not thinking?

I am so sick of this anthrocentrism, as if we are special because we are humans. The computers are now doing the same mathematical processes our brains are doing. The LLMs can be compared to a small subsection of our brains. String enough neural network based AIs together with different tasks and youll get sentience.

Sentience isnt required for “thinking” to happen, thinking is one of the building blocks for sentience.

semperverus , 6 months ago

I love how war-driven John Green is against tuberculosis

semperverus , 6 months ago

Patent troll murdered them

semperverus , 6 months ago

OpenRGB can handle a ton of stuff like this if I recall. I dont know if its hue extension is any good as i havent used it, but ive seen videos.

semperverus , 6 months ago

Which SCP is this again?

semperverus , 6 months ago

The new owners OR f-droid, depending on whether they want to start adding badware or close-sourcing it.

semperverus , 6 months ago

Keep sayin’ it!

semperverus , 6 months ago

KDE is very receptive to community help! I can only think of one specific example in KDE history where a developer dragged their feet in the mud about a change the community wanted/submitted pull requests for, and thats the vertical HTML indicator bar in kmail.

Gnome on the other hand…

semperverus , 6 months ago

Hai yaaaa, cousin Steven, what you thinkinngggg?? Now your social credit score in toilet, like your cooking 😏

semperverus , 6 months ago

SSH is the correct way. After 15 years of using linux, ive never heard of remmina

semperverus , 7 months ago

For me, I use the office suite at work, and one of the simplest things that makes me wish i could use it at home is that damn search bar in the top.

After that, I appreciate that libreoffice introduced the ribbon UI. I grew up with word 2003, so i know what it was like, but after they introduced the ribbon ui, it immediately felt more easy to use. Especially the style picker.

semperverus , 7 months ago

Sad to see that it’s GTK-based. Cool concept overall though, I may give it a shot at some point to compare to CoreCTRL

semperverus , 7 months ago

Please tell me you all read the change notes instead of hoping someone else would do it for you

semperverus , 7 months ago

Now do Kwin/Breeze!

semperverus , 7 months ago

Peak YandereDev energy.

semperverus , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

What if the DE you’re using is on x11

If that’s the case, now you have to do what us wayland users have had to suffer through this whole time and set an environment variable to tell it to run in X11 mode :)

If an application only ships with Wayland, then… well, I guess you’re using Wayland now.

Wayland is X12 - this is a “get onboard or get left behind” proposition. Nobody’s forcing you to switch to Wayland, but life is going to really start sucking for you soon.

As with all Open Source, it requires someone who wants to continue to support it to do so. If nobody wants to support X11 anymore, then it’s either your responsibility to pick up where they left off and code the X11 stuff yourself, or pay someone else a lot of money to do it. You don’t get to complain about something being given to you for free suddenly not being maintained otherwise.

semperverus , 7 months ago

That’s understandable, and I did technically answer your question, but 99 times out of 100, when someone asks the question you did, it’s out of spite and anger at Wayland becoming default and then the conversation devolves into massive bickering. I was stopping that before it started. I’m not going to reply nicely in case it’s the 1 out of 100 chance it was just technical ignorance.

Cheers and I hope your day goes well.

semperverus , 7 months ago

Erupted a supernova

semperverus , 7 months ago

pine64.com/product-category/pinephone/

pine64.com/product-category/…/pinephone-pro/

There is already something in the works (that you can technically buy right now if you wanted), and it actively respects your freedom. Granted, as with everything in this ecosystem, its a very slow burn, so it’ll be a while before the software is actually good, but it’s already made massive strides from where it started.

I would say wait a bit and take a look at this later, but i do have one friend daily driving one now to some success (this wasn’t possible a year ago).

semperverus , 7 months ago

Sure, but calling them out for not being a $20 burner phone doesnt make sense when you’re comparing that to a developer/development device. This phone specifically isnt meant for everyday consumers. What it is, however, is a signal that there is now a third competitor in the works, and it’s real and tangible.

semperverus , 7 months ago

If you want to kill x86, you need to do what Valve and the Wine foundation did with Proton/WINE (mostly proton at this point though), but for x86 to ARM and maybe other architectures like RISCV (especially because the milkV pioneer is a thing).

There is too much legacy software that will never be converted that people still use to this day. Once you make it easy to transition, it will slowly but steadily start to happen.

Box86/Box64 are promising, but need help from contributors like you. If you want it to happen, go make it happen, or continue to live in the world you have now.

semperverus , 7 months ago

Check out the milkV Pioneer.

semperverus , 7 months ago

Can you elaborate on how exactly we would hold them accountable? What mechanisms precisely would you use without violating reasonable expectations of privacy (and no, posting online doesn’t mean you should have your real identity tracked or exposed just because the post is publicly facing like on Twitter, YouTube comments, reddit, and especially Lemmy.)

semperverus , 7 months ago

I made a bit of a logical fast-forward in my statement. By holding the platforms accountable, you’re asking them to take action against their userbases. There is no other way for them to “take accountability.”

semperverus , 7 months ago

This is already being done by most. You mistake the inability to keep up with the sheer volume with a platform taking inaction. Even with a paid full-time team of 10 people (about what a team size is at any corporation) doing nothing but content moderation, user reports, and even automated bans, you cannot keep up with the raw volume of bad actors. What you can do is keep trudging through it and keep it cut back so it doesn’t go wild.

perhaps maybe ip banning them if they continue to try doing this.

Ask 4chan how well IP bans work.

semperverus , 7 months ago

The lemmy.today owner may have modified their copy of Lemmy to include appbrain for site statistics.

semperverus , 7 months ago

It also helps that Valve is bankrolling it.

semperverus , 8 months ago

KDE’s “Discover Store” (gui package manager) also does as well, which is awesome. While I don’t like the idea of packaging system libraries with software due to the fact that they can and will sit out of date and hold on to vulnerabilities, I do like what flatpak is trying to achieve and the fact that we have a very solid leader in the area, putting the closed-source proprietary Snaps system firmly in second place.

semperverus , 8 months ago

They are talking about the code sitting inside the flatpak I think. If a developer fails to continue updating the system libraries a flatpak contains, you retain old vulnerabilities you could have otherwise fixed with a sudo apt update && apt upgrade or a sudo pacman -Syu

semperverus , 8 months ago

I’m surprised they didn’t go with an openfpga chiplet setup where multiple fpga chips work in concert with each other like how real hardware does.

semperverus , 8 months ago

You can put your own keys in on many motherboards using some of the command line EFI tools, but you would have to basically recompile everything from scratch using your keys to get them to run. I.e. might as well switch to gentoo at that point.

On the other hand, Microsoft’s keys are a common target and if the distro is partners with MS, they can have their packages signed with the MS keys. This is technically less secure as the key is widely shared and if it gets cracked somehow, anyone using it is compromised. But it’s a “good enough” solution for many who care to use secureboot at all.

Personally I just turn it off, and I haven’t experienced any attacks on my machines over the last decade that would take advantage of something that low level. Then again, I’m very careful with what I download and who I open emails from, etc.

semperverus , 8 months ago

Green goose babba juice ice skates CHOCOLATE SHAKE!

semperverus , 8 months ago

It’s not even that, it’s a data-harvesting engine disguised as a gamidied tool.

semperverus , 8 months ago

As a multimonitor user with mixed properties, and an AMD user, Wayland has been nothing but a massive gain for me and continues to get better in equally massive strides on KDE (been using kwin-wayland for almost a full year as a daily driver now). It even improved the user experience on my surface pro that I’m running the surface-linux kernel on.

semperverus , 8 months ago

For now, they’re also slowly weaning off of it.

semperverus , 8 months ago

Unironically this is the entire purpose of VRChat, and the devs have made sure it runs on SteamOS (and therefore Linux as a whole).

You do not need a vr headset to play. If you don’t have one already though, this game may convince you to get one eventually. SteamVR does work on Linux, and headsets like the Vive, Index, and BigScreen do/should also work (anything that is steamVR-native tends to “just work” on Linux).

semperverus , 8 months ago

I second this, and guild wars 2.

semperverus , 8 months ago

Blaming others for your own shortcomings in being able to pick up a language is the same kind of behavior as some kid on League blaming everyone else on his team except himself for failing a match.

Stop letting a community dictate your use of effective tools, whether it be C++, rust, python, or air fryers.

semperverus , 8 months ago

Documentation is not a community though.

semperverus , 8 months ago

One thing I’ve always wondered is why people keep parroting “eat the rich” and say they actually mean it when you ask, but not a single story about someone actually doing it comes up. When is someone going to actually follow through?

semperverus , 9 months ago

It would help if we started explaining that an “observer” in quantum mechanics is another singular quantum particle like an electron or a photon. To “observe” means to collide or entangle.

semperverus , 9 months ago

This is absolutely huge.

semperverus , 9 months ago

XDG is a massively important component of any and almost every modern Linux desktop.