SavvyWolf @ savvywolf @pawb.social

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I mean pretty much any distro that isn't locked down will be good for programming. All you really need is a package manager with a selection of at least somewhat modern dev tools, which almost all of them have.

I was taking to my sister, who is an artist, about setting up Linux and warned them about poor Adobe support. Their response was "⭐ 𝒻𝓊𝒸𝓀 𝒶𝒹𝑜𝒷𝑒 ⭐" due to their AI shenanigans and high costs.

So thanks modern Adobe for making it easier for people to switch to Linux.

For most people, the only security they really need is against people either stealing devices or accessing them without permission. In those cases, biometrics (if implemented properly) and passwords are roughly equivalent.

I mean, I can kinda see it being useful for people wanting to sell a wee box that does nothing but launch a game on steam.

Ignoring the obvious bait in the title, I think it's mostly a numbers thing. On Reddit you can follow only communities that you vibe with, and the voting system works to keep low quality posts down. I'd be surprised if there wasn't the same proportion of people on Reddit that you find objectionable, but they're stuck in the bowels of downvote hell.

Or maybe you're just surrounded by people with different views or life experiences and don't know how to process it. Idk.

"Wait, you all aren't American?"

So I've thought about this a bit more. Games like this flash the screen black with a white square on the target, and then detects whether the lightgun is pointing at white or black. I guess they could take a picture of the TV and combine that with sensor data, put it into an AI and then figure out where on the screen the gun is pointed at? I guess that would count as "AI"?

I'm sure the diehard lightgun fans won't find it accurate enough though.

... Does anyone know what the AI actually does?

Honestly, the fact that the article writer is shilling an AI product without actually explaining what the AI does is kinda making me doubt their journalistic integrity.

Because people outside are scary and confusing.

Also, I have a fwb and it would be awkward to bring up.

AI GM be like: "Yep. Seems legit."

Honestly, IMO Mint is just Ubuntu without all the scetchy stuff. The only real major difference (besides the packaging debate) is the default graphical shell.

If you like gnome shell, I wonder if it's worth installing Mint and then gnome-shell...

I like to think that people, on the whole, are becoming more accepting of those that are different.

I don't know how true that is, and there's certainly loud arseholes out there, but maybe the common non-chronically-online person is more welcoming than 10 years ago.

Just as an fyi: If you want people to read huge blocks of text like this, please break it into paragraphs.

Worth noting that if you're trying to block telemetery or ads or things like that, using an adblocking dns is probably the better option. Either through a pihole on your network or some online adblocking dns.

Other than that, if you're looking for one because you think you "need" one, don't worry too much if it's just a personal computer connected to a router. Most distros ship with sensible defaults for security.

If you actually want to use a firewall, block all incoming and allow all outgoing is a reasonable rule of thumb if you aren't running a server. Note that "block incoming" doesn't block connections that the system itself started.

Wonder if we'll have another good ol' browser war when/if Ladybird releases.

Yeah, was more poking fun of people who cling to the while Unix Philosophy stuff like it's some unwritten rule that must be followed.

I honestly think there's tons of Linux software that could be broadly defined as "multiple things".

Even looking at the links other responders have posted, I even think a lot of linux software is made up of components which are tightly coupled together.

Praise be the Unix Philosophy. May all your projects do precisely one thing, and let they not be tempted by forbidden fruit and do two things.

I used to use Super to open the application selector menu thing (similar to the start menu on my system). But I recently tweaked my keyboard shortcuts to add a bunch of ones using Super for application switching and stuff, so rebound it to Super+w.

Pure stubborness and a fear of death.

"I hate systemd, it's bloated and overengineered" people stay, perched precariously on their huge tower of shell scripts and cron jobs.