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I'm not even nearly as anti-LLM as most other leftists but part of approaching new technology is "hey let's think real critically about the application and scope of this so we can use it in ways that are worth it and don't cause mass scale societal damage" but the fact that it's being injected into fucking EVERYTHING makes any stance more cautious than "USE LLMS FOR EVERYTHING NOW AND FOREVER" so much more anti than the status quo that I don't even fucking want to add nuance
there should be a competitive digital trading card game where as you rank up, you start to unlock cards that attack your opponent on a meta level.
eventually winning stops being your number 1 priority when your opponent can play cards with effects like "steal 5,000 units of in-game currency from your opponent " or "decrease your opponent's ELO by 250" or "destroy an opponent's target creature permanently. your opponent can never use that card again"
then it gets even more meta with cards like "when you play this card, you may type in a guess as to what volume level your opponent's device is currently set to. if you guess correctly, the opponent takes 15 damage." or "view a random image on your opponent's computer." you can play cards to fiddle with obscure settings on your opponent's computer.
the world champion gets a card that deletes system32 from their opponent's computer
the system32 one only works on windows but there are other ones for each operating system
And unlike Deletying System32 one will Actually Woek
So far, so good.
I figured building my own fetch utility would be a good place to start learning C on Linux, and it was.
If only I could find more uninterrupted time.
ok this looks ultra mega based, are you kidding me? can you imagine the bullshit i could get up to with this bad boy? fuck yes i want ten
Wait are iPhone bros coping because Apple has to be more universal? Lol.
Boo hoo i'll be able to add more physical storage to my phone and be able to change out batteries if they degrade as well as all these other optional features I won't have to touch
Continuing in the trend of political cartoons depicting milquetoast moderate positions seem so much cooler and more badass than they are
I love how they add totally absurd things no one is asking for to make the idea look crazy. And still, I must emphasize, failing to make this look like a bad idea.
"Is this what you want? Is this ugly stupid bullcrap what you want??" the biggest loudest idiot in the room asks, holding up a picture of the hottest looking shit I've ever seen
J'ai voulu tester CachyOS sur un de Mes Portables. Il faut une partition boot UEFI de 512Mo.
J'ai installé Hyprland, Sway et XFCE.
Now I have have your IP address!!! Wait, why do you live in my house??
I'm reading the NixOS branding guide
I love this it's so funny
also the fact that they have Rainbow versions of the logo makes me happy
Funfact: they did put the NixOS logo on such a cake at NixCon.
hahahaha I love that
nobuddy feels like they have a sharp attention span these days, right? and we all just click “agree on terms of service” because its hard to love yourself sometimes, well
enter Terms of Service, Didn’t Read: a website and a browser addon that streamlines the terms of service of many popular web services to be read by the tech sunday drivers.
It’s graded from A (great) to E (awful) and if you have the addon you have access to the info about the website on your bar
this post came back to me like a dear son from war, hello ol boy
It's actually a bit surprising to me that we haven't seen contemporary meta brainfuck indie games do more than they have with 1990s point and click adventure games' penchant for developer-intended softlocks. That feels like something you could very easily spin as Saying Something.
Honestly, having grown up with this bullshit is probably a big part of the reason I'm fascinated with player-hostile game design. Giving a puzzle three different solutions with fully voiced and animated reactions to each, except two of those solutions render the game unwinnable in ways that won't become apparent until hours later is a level of "fuck you" that most modern games with pretensions of player-hostility can only dream of!
@lunchm34t replied:
what adventure games softlock you like that?
I'm usually loathe to suggest TV Tropes as a resource, but given that only a person who's entirely unacquainted with the genre would be asking that question, a primer is probably warranted. Check out the Unwinnable By Design article and read the preamble for context on the types of softlocks we're discussing, then hit either the "Sierra" or "Infocom" links (yes, those two publishers each have their own dedicated sections!), pop open the "Cruel" tab, and get ready to read some stuff that makes you mad.
There really is only one correct way to play some of these games huh.
A critical piece of context that a lot of modern gamers completely miss is that Douglas Adams' adventure games are works of parody not only in terms of their narratives, but also in the sense that they're rather vicious parodies of adventure games as a genre. Each of their absurdly obtuse puzzles is lampooning some puzzle design trope or set of tropes that was legitimately commonplace at the time they were made, and many of the really nasty bits are crafted specifically to piss off experienced adventure game fans who otherwise wouldn't get caught out by that sort of thing. They're outliers in the genre only in the sense that they're putting forth extra effort to be annoying about it – most games of the type pull the exact same shit entirely without remark!
(Honestly, the player-hostility of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy tends to be tremendously overstated owing to a combination of effective marketing and the fact that it's the only adventure game from that era that any significant number of current-gen gamers have ever actually played. In terms of sheer fuckery it's considerably friendlier than stuff like, say, Codename: ICEMAN.)
were these like, rented out blockbuster-style and the devs got a cut out of said rent, or
It helps to understand that point and click adventure games are one of the first genres the Git Gud crowd really fixated on, and a lot of these early design trends revolved around catering to that crowd. It only got reframed as a genre for filthy casuals in the wake of a demographic shift in the mid 1990s that saw the genre's player base skewing strongly female; it's practically the only example of a video game genre's reputation flipping directly from "hardcore" to "casual", and one of the most striking illustrations of the fact that which kinds of games are considered "real" games is more about identity politics than mechanics.
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STAY SAFE!! [ID: the Gilbert Baker pride flag with the words “Happy pride to all those who are unable to celebrate openly and safely. You are loved and seen!” in all-caps black text over it. /end ID]
okay im genuinely disappointed the nvidia announcement is such a fucking joke!
I'm so smart, my prediction was right. (It was pretty obvious, I'd already heard others come to the same conclusion.) I imagine these will be a nightmare to run Linux on, given Nvidia's driver history.
Question for people who know more about linux as a whole than me (which for the record is most people). Why do people online say not to use Ubuntu? Ive seen people in youtube comments and on the post I made last year when I was trying to muster up the courage to switch to linux say stuff like "whatever you do just dont use ubuntu" and I have no idea why.
Here's some reasons I've heard. Tl;dr, install Ubuntu if you want.
1. Snap. Ubuntu has snap, which is a way to distribute packages (like apt or flatpak). Ubuntu is kind of forceful about snaps, and a few packages, like Firefox, will be installed using snap by default. There might be some disadvantage I don't know about, but I get the sense people mostly don't like how Ubuntu tries to force you to use snaps, and how a lot of the same advantages can be achieved with flatpak (sandboxing, security, etc.). I've also heard the Ubuntu CEO imagines moving towards a system completely using snaps in the future.
2. The Ubuntu Pro ad(s?). Ubuntu Pro is a service that provides extra updates, and updates for old LTS versions of Ubuntu. With the free tier, you can connect up to 5 machines in a 24-hour period (i.e., you can have infinite connected machines, but only 5 active in one 24-hour period). If you don't connect Ubuntu Pro, some command line things (apt I think) will nag you to connect Ubuntu Pro to get those updates.
3. Amazon. Ubuntu previously partnered with Amazon, adding Amazon searches to the desktop. They faced heavy backlash, and eventually removed the feature. There were some privacy concerns associated with this as well.
4. Canonical. Ubuntu is developed by a private company, Canonical, who mostly makes money by selling support for Ubuntu Server to corporations. Some people just don't like a corporation controlling their FOSS OS. Some worry about Canonical collecting their data. I haven't looked into this much, but I haven't seen anything that suggests Ubuntu collects very important data.
Tiny addition, they also try to trick you into signing up for their newsletter thing when you download an ISO, but you don't have to in order to download, they just delay the download start by a second or two.
Some people may disagree, but I think you should install Ubuntu if you want to.
My biggest issues is with snaps, but if you're new and don't care as much about the inner workings of your system, this might not matter much.
Canonical has done some stupid things, but they are nowhere near the level of Microslop. If they do cross the line for you in the future, migrating to another OS isn't really that hard once you understand Linux.
That said, I personally prefer Mint over Ubuntu, so staying with Mint is also a good option. If you do try Ubuntu, Kubuntu (Ubuntu with KDE) also has a Windows-like interface, or Ubuntu Cinnamon.
Happy prime donth :)
Pride month doesn't start until *tomorrow*. Stupid Aussie.
Ah, yes, the two places on earth: America & Australia
The fourth of July is to celebrate America's liberation from the Australians
CachyOS: Hey, can I...
Me: Yeah sure whatever
Windows: I would like too...
Me: No, no, NO, NEVERRR!!!
Installing Tiny11 in a VM so I can remove the virus that is Windows 11 permanently from my PC.
numb hands
The fact that one of these moves is significantly more difficult for me than the other two at least tells me which nerve is probably the most fucked up
the kde lizard dragon mascot thing has lore????
what the hell
