I don’t know you, but I’ll give you an example of someone I do know

• Didn’t give a crap about computers throughout highschool. Didn’t really know what he wanted to do in general

• Picks computer science last minute because it supposedly makes a lot of money

• Cruised through shitty community college doing the bare minimum, no side projects or any sign he’s even interested

• At graduation time, he barely knows how to code. Has a github profile with some homework assignments he was forced to do

• Is part of the job market now, competing against you and me.

I don’t know if he’s employed as a software engineer right now, but I’ve worked with people who obviously fit the same profile. People who expect real work to be as simple as submitting a homework assignment last minute using shit you copy pasted from SO (or I guess ChatGPT now), and then fucking off to enjoy life while your coworkers are burdened by your incompetence.

This is a field where actually giving a shit is a requirement.

Wrong. If that were true, it wouldn’t have suddenly gone up 22% this past year.

…I wonder, did something happen recently that might have led to an influx of incels/cucks/betas into the chad Linux community?

Not being the language for programming beginners and data scientists, probably aides that impression, though…

I think it was that back when it was relevant (but replace data scientists with web devs)

I never got interested in the ecosystem myself, but I’ve run into it every now and then. I feel like it’s in the same place as PHP today: still used a lot for legacy reasons, but you’ll get weird looks if you start a new project with it and you’re under the age of 40

A BBC journalist ran the image through an AI chatbot which identified key spots that may have been manipulated.

This is terrifying. Does the BBC not have anyone on the team that understands why this does not, and will never work?

Just use a throwaway email. The point of the account is to sync your watch history and (most importantly), your plugins/configs, which are what do the piracy stuff for you.

Wireguard, or even just jellyfin with a password

Mint us absolutely perfect for folks like me. I want to use my computer, not work on it.

I know you’re not going to believe me, because you sound like the type of person who is “set in their ways”, but the only thing that makes Mint better for you than some other distro is that it happens to already be installed on your computer. That’s it. Mint is not the perfect choice for anyone, because it’s not particularly good at anything.

Keep using it. If it works for you, great. I don’t care what you use. But we shouldn’t be misleading people new to Linux into installing a distro that might not work for them.

How much VRAM does alacritty use? On my machine, nvidia-smi reports 6MiB for konsole, which I’m seems to be some default reserved by Qt apps (eg dolphin reports the same amount)

Is buying a smartphone with a properietary OS from an EU company really a smart decision after chat control?

I think I’m going to be sticking with Graphene

I think people are too polite to call shitty programmers out on being shitty. It’s probably not a fair assumption, but whenever I see someone admit they use some AI coding tool, I immediately assume they’re either a junior, or one of those people who just were never intelligent enough to be a good developer, and ended up getting filtered into some low skill web dev job. Those are the kinds of people who probably feel threatened by AI, and I feel are more likely to use it.

We need to make elitism and public shaming cool again.

You can, but you can only take one byte

Both. I’m strongly of the opinion that monopolies should not exist, and if they do it’s the result of illegal and/or unethical activity, and should be fixed immediately. They break the free market and end up hurting everyone in the long run.

In addition to what @Asterisk@lemmy.world said, they also include a forced arbitration clause in their terms of service to prevent class action lawsuits from customers.

Tbh, they’re very low on my personal list of monopolies to hate, so I don’t really have that many arguments ready to go. I’m sure others have made a good case against Steam somewhere on the internet already.

I think what’s important in this drama is that, despite their evil monopoly shit they’re guilty of, Valve really does do the right thing sometimes to win consumers. Gamers want AI disclosures, even if devs don’t.

That’s why it’s not surprising to see that statement from Sweeny, and why it’s not surprising that people still hate the Epic Games Store.

Don’t use Mint or Ubuntu, use Bazzite. It actually is “just works” with the added benefit of “you can’t break it”. It’s perfect for both beginners and experienced users who are looking to do work rather than tinker with their OS.

And if you have a graphics card (which you probably do since you mentioned gaming), Bazzite comes with Nvidia or AMD drivers preinstalled, so you don’t have to do anything extra to get it to work.

But if you really want to follow the YT influencer Linux memes, at least go with Ubuntu instead of Mint. Mint is just Ubuntu with a different default desktop, but worse in every other way less reliable (edit: toned down the exaggeration)

You dont need to yse the terminal/command line for this. Just open the settings app and look for the Bluetooth section. Pairing your keyboard is pretty much the same process as on a phone ir tablet.

Btw, Bazzite has different versions. Which did you install?

There’s no “simple fundamental flaw” in AI that people don’t know about. It bothers me when people who have never thought about x in their life think about x once, make an obvious observation, and then go off acting like nobody else is smart enough to have made that observation. It’s narcissism. It’s annoying.

Please prove me wrong though. I would love to see this grift come crashing down all because you saw something that nobody else saw.

If you already know cron and are too lazy to learn something new, then use cron with the knowledge that it’s a personal failure and not a real technical decision… Otherwise, use systemd timers.

I know nothing about what it takes to develop a laptop. Are these issues (BIOS updates, virtualization support, USB4 support, etc) something the laptop manufacturer needs to develop solutions for in-house? Wouldn’t that be the job of Qualcomm? Or are Tuxedo saying that these things aren’t supported on the Linux side yet? Qualcomm claimed to be contributing to the kernel last year, so idk if that just hasn’t happened yet or if they just lied.

Either way this is disappointing, but understandable. There’s no sense in working to release a laptop with previous-gen hardware that’s not going to be competitive.

uses Facebook

Boomer, or Gen X?

You can’t spell “INCEL” without “C”