Who played on linux before proton?
Thrashy @ Thrashy @lemmy.world Posts 3Comments 406Joined 2 yr. ago
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Frankly, given the conflicting priorities and attitudes of the two primary Lemmy devs compared to the needs of instance admins, I'd rather the better-funded instances pooled some of their excess and funded an independent contributor to work on mod tools, GDPR issues, and other things that operators are concerned about that have been backburnered by the current devs.
Similarly, my grandma had a set of electric carving knives that would wash out the game on TV every time she started cutting the Thanksgiving turkey.
Had to do that with our 68k Mac with an external drive, yeah! 700MB CDs were amazing compared to the piddling 80MB internal hard disc. Being able to put so much stuff on one piece of removable media relative to what would fit in onboard storage had a big impact on how developers approached the platform.
If optical disc tech had kept up that differential until today we'd have 100-terabyte BluRays. Funny to think how that sort of capacity might change the way we use computers...
I think they see Trump, and say well, he’s an asshole, but he’s not one of those weird plastic people who’ve been stealing from my pension fund and making sure my health insurance doesn’t work, and he seems to hate them too and not afraid to get violent with them. Hey, that sounds pretty fuckin’ good from where I’m standing. He’s got my vote.
Rural Americans by and large don't have pensions anymore if in fact they ever did, and they've been thoroughly brainwashed to believe that their insurance worked better back when you could be kicked off your plan for costing too much and be blacklisted from getting any in the first place if you had a pre-existing condition. No, the thing that they liked about Trump was that he said he hated all the people they hated too, and he gave them license to speak their hate aloud after decades of being told that they were bad people if they hated somebody because of some indelible feature of their origin or identity.
To your last point, compare and contrast with Obama, whose speech patterns were chock-full of long pauses where you could just tell he was doing higher-order political math on the next phrase. To an extent that's because that's what Obama had to do or else the Hannities and Carlsons of the world would find some minute quibble they could build out into an elaborate conspiracy with which to fan the right-wing outrage machines for another week... but for all the other problems I have with the man I do appreciate the no-fucks-given mindset Biden's brought to the job. The right wing media hate machine has become fully decoupled from reality at this point; there's no reason to soft-shoe around things that might set them off anymore.
In addition to what's been mentioned below, in Fellowship Bilbo sings the first verse of The Road Goes Ever On and On as he departs the Shire for Rivendell, and in the extended edition Sam and Frodo encounter a party of elves on their way to the Grey Havens who are singing A Elbereth Gilthoniel as they travel.
Pad thai? Panang curry? Larb? Lumpia? Adobong manok?
The Shrieking White-Hot Sphere of Rage ended up being flabby and orange, but otherwise they were spot-on.
I remember some of these discussions around the time of the Twitter and Reddit exodii and the mindset of many of these folks was essentially that they'd used this social media protocol to create a nice, quiet safe space for like-minded tech-savvy queer leftists, and felt that the explosion in interest threatened to expose their posts to people outside of the community that they had come to know and trust -- which is a point of view I can understand, but as a counterargument, you're on a public social media platform, and specifically one that is designed to spread content broadly and indiscriminately to servers outside of your control. If you wanted to keep things out of the view of the larger Internet there were other, better solutions for a community platform that you probably should have picked instead.
I told my wife that from a genetic standpoint starfish are disembodied heads crawling across the seafloor on their mouth, and she was so squicked out that she left the room... Which was, in fairness, my intent, so, uh... mission accomplished?
What's a little Third Reich here or Reign of Terror there between friends, eh? Besides , it's not like a little bit of anti-intellectual purging or nationwide famine isn't worth enduring to get to a better world for the people left afterwards!
I used to know a poli-sci researcher who was trying to take a big-data look at the success and failure of revolutions, taking in variables like "how many demonstrators rallied against the government?" "How many dissidents were disappeared by internal security forces?" and even things like "how many bullet holes are there on the buildings around the main protest venue in the capital?"
I asked him once if he'd discovered the secret to a successful revolution, and he just grimaced at me.
Good good, it is an Altima, isn't it? I didn't dare to assume but after a bit of Googling the interior is a dead ringer for an 07-12 Altima -- objectively the hooptiest of all Altimas. This guy really is a walking stereotype.
- No trigger discipline
- No hands on the wheel
- Open container of alcoholic beverage
- Speeding egregiously
- Driving a Nissan
All checks out.
During the Great Recession I spent a few months at a temp IT job for an environmental services contractor, helping their solo sysadmin keep up with a huge hiring boom as they got hired to work the Deepwater Horizon cleanup. Over the course of my employment, I gradually worked out that my boss wasn't supposed to be a one man shop, but the other guy was the CEO's adult son... and he literally never showed up in the office except to pick up his paycheck, like the scene from Arrested Development.
As it turns out, the paycheck wasn't the only thing Failson Junior was getting from the company. His house? It was a "branch office," so the company paid the mortgage and all the utilities. His car was a company car, for all the business-critical IT emergencies he never responded to, and his phone provided by the company so that he could ignore support calls. With all those company perks, Junior spent all his time fishing and coaching Little League, while his supposed boss slowly went insane as he struggled to support the IT needs of 500 people instead of the usual 50.
As you might guess, Junior's nepobaby lifestyle wasn't the only fucky thing about that company. The corporate accountant complained the the CEO and her husband treated the company's accounts like their private piggy bank, putting everything from iPads to RVs in the company's name. They'd very nearly pushed the company to insolvency before using some very suspect MBE/WBE creds to snag a piece of the Deepwater Horizon cleanup operation. When I joined up, they pitched themselves as a tight-knit, family-owned business. After the wellhead got capped, the cleanup wound down, and I was laid off, I vowed to never again work for another family-owned business.
This is called the "Johnson Treatment," ironically.
Ukraine claims north of 400k, which is undoubtedly optimistic, but allied intelligence agencies have previously floated numbers around 1/2 to 2/3rds of Ukraine's public claims, which is still an utterly appalling number of dead Russian men. Russia's tactical approach from the start has been more or less to treat their mobilized conscripts as expendable. For politically-important objectives their commanders have been perfectly happy to dump fresh meat into the metaphorical meat grinder until the gears jam, and then claim victory.
Banned from Lemmygrad Lite? What a terrible loss!
It's a damn shame, too, because the commercial software in the sector is abusively overpriced, and there's just nothing to be done about it (unless somebody can get antitrust regulators to pay attention, which hasn't happened yet, and I'm not holding my breath for it).
It's not like the FOSS options out there aren't fundamentally capable of doing the job, either -- it's just that they almost universally seem to have been designed by people who think of GUIs as a concession to the normies, and don't understand typical or expected design workflows. I'd love to be able to use FreeCAD instead of Fusion for hobby projects, but just creating a sketch in the former is like fighting through molasses compared to the process in Fusion. A bit of focus on UI instead of under the hood features would go along way towards making these programs viable competitors -- look at how Blender's perception changed amongst professionals after it ditched its idiosyncratic pre-2.7 UI, for instance.
Don't even get me started on BIM software... Ridiculous subscription pricing, barely a bug fix to be found, and feature requests ignored for a decade or more! The last release of Revit's headline new feature was (drumroll, please...) A dark UI mode. Good to see Autodesk put my employer's seven-figure subscription payments to good use. 😑
My first attempt to switch to Linux for my primary desktop was in 2007, and ended when my attempt to run WoW via WINE mostly worked, but had a weird an completely unfixable audio delay.
Proton (and Valve's efforts on SteamOS and the Steam Deck more generally) have been an absolute godsend for Linux as a usable daily-driver.