utopiah @ utopiah @lemmy.world

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If I were the dad I'd get tricked once... then keep the evil one and use it as weight comparison point for all others. I don't need to unwrap any. The light ones, if there are any, are the good ones. I'd do that while looking in her eyes grinning knowing how long this little ordeal took for her to make.

How about an Immich integration, e.g. a button that says "Share via my PixedFed account" or even just the icon that would then post it on your behalf?

So... actually (put on fedora hat) it's a GREAT way to learn!

What I do NOT recommend though is distro hopping with your data and your daily life setup. Namely the safest to learn is main system is stable, easy to setup and fix, you're comfortable with even if you are not "proud" to claim it on Lemmy BUT the weird stuff you do on the side, it's on a dedicate harddrive (ideally not even partition, just so that you can even mess that up) and you go LinuxFromScratch of whatever rock your boat knowing your data is safe and if you fuck up you can still go on with your day.

Neat, is there a way to share from Immich to Pixelfed?

Care to explain how it does in a way that other distributions don't?

That I understand, and I'm also on that boat. That's what I tried to express separating the system, i.e. parts with dependencies, vs "just" applications and giving an example like Blender.

I understand for that aspect but for anything that is lower down the stack IMHO what are actual features needed and people can't wait on are very very few and the trade off is probably for most people not worth it.

Obviously not everybody has the same taste for risk and some people might find it thrilling to install a system back at a random moment if it brings them 1 FPS extra or a very obscure feature that nobody else needs so I find it great that alternative exist. What I'm arguing for though is that people who do take a higher risk do so knowingly.

Edit: as an example of bleeding edge, there are some applications I download from the repository, build and run so they are basically as new as they can be. Again this is extremely precious to me, but it's not part of the "system", they are "leafs" on the dependency tree thus never leading to any catastrophic effect.

I'm gaming pretty much daily, VR and flat, and... I don't even know what those abbreviations mean. I'm not saying these aren't important to you and other gamers but also want to suggest that a lot of "features" pushed by the industry are for other casual yet frequent gamers like me totally unimportant.

I bet it's hard not be bourgeois while commenting on Lemmy.

As you seem curious about the opinion of others I suggest reading research literature on the topic as it is probably better structured than a list of anecdotes from complete strangers. That being said in here at least you can dig deeper by asking questions back.

Anyway there is a field called the science of happiness that aggregates research in psychology, cognitive science, behavior science, economy, political economy, etc on what makes most people happy. Within this there are papers on relationships, family and raising kids. I warmly suggest reading on the topic. Last time I did read on it, which was a bit more than 5 years ago, one could roughly summarize that raising children brings for most people higher highs and lower lows. If your kid brings you a beautiful drawing from school, no matter how "ugly" it might look, you will be so proud it will brighten your day. On the other hand if they break their leg while cycling, you will feel even worst that if you broke your own leg. So... on average people feel about as happy with and without kids BUT the way they feel can be more intense.

I warmly recommend https://ggsc.berkeley.edu/ and https://www.drlauriesantos.com/happiness-lab-with-dr-laurie-santos-podcast to discover more on the topic. Specifically in your case https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/parenting_family

Debian stable. I don't understand why people would want an unstable system.

I get wanting the latest applications, and by that I mean end-user tools one uses frequently, e.g. Blender or Steam, but for anything that those rely on, very very rarely does one genuinely need anything "new" urgently. I'd argue pretty much never but I'd be curious to discover counter examples. Just fa couple of days ago https://lemmy.ml/post/24882836/16154377 arguing about the topic too. Even for drivers for gaming, which are supposedly changing relatively "fast" there is rarely an actual need for it. Quite often it's a desire to get the latest but the actual impact is not that significant.

TL;DR: IMHO stable system with security updates running few bleeding edge apps isolated is the best compromise.

industry

FWIW IMHO there lies the problem.

Most produces done by an artisan, nearly regardless of the focus itself, often shows both love for the process, the final product, and nearly all link of the chain leading to it. Now... scaling that up seems to inexorably remove any beauty and humanity from it all. The end goal becomes gradually abstracted away. The steps are only there to be optimized, if not ideally removed entirely. Shortcuts are found, optimizations rely on dumping costs on the environment (negative externalities) and justifications are put forward, e.g. it's "the market" that demands it, it's for the shareholders, etc. In practice one is left with an extremely efficient "machine" that cheats it way out of every responsibility possible, that can be copy/pasted anywhere else without any regarding for the local ecosystem, being nature, culture, politics, etc. The relentless growth of such machines create powerful "industry" with lobby groups, ties to power bribing their ways for even more lenience.

Scale and greed leave us with cheap products that are seemingly copies of the original yet devoid all humanity that made them beautiful in the first place.

especially for professionals, most hardware requires special software for it to function properly and they don’t bother making it available for Linux.

That's entirely use case specific. CUDA is actually used more on Linux than on Windows (I don't have data, but even Azure by Microsoft runs on Linux...) so for e.g. NVIDIA hardware for professionals the support is better there.

I haven’t tried VR in Linux

Valve Index, SteamVR, install, setup, play, no tinkering.

Now... if one does want to buy hardware from Meta (... which sadly I understand, it's so damn cheap) and Meta refuses to support Linux, well, it's kind of a decision on the buyer. Still, if one still want to tinker, because they have the hardware now, plenty of good solutions listed on https://lvra.gitlab.io/ e.g. ALVR (very convenient nowadays) or WiVRn and more.

beneath some surface level shit I’m probably one of the dumbest motherfuckers here when it comes to not setting my devices on fire.

Well... if you actually want to learn, as we ALL did, get yourself a device you can literally set on fire. By that I mean a RPi 3 (probably going for 10 EUR nowadays) or a 2nd hand laptop. If you can't find that easily, try a virtual machine, if you don't want to bother give a whirl (with a ad blocker...) to https://distrosea.com/ and come back, risk free.

It's honestly empowering to learn and it has been relevant for decades (basically since the UNIX days) and STILL is relevant today in the time of the "cloud" where all such commands are still used.

if steamOS gains enough traction more large game studios may start to specifically support it.

Do they have to though? Isn't "just" running on Linux (mostly done by avoiding weird tricks, say a Windows build from Unity often works) enough?

more market share for Linux increases the likelihood that devs will support Linux directly.

I'm starting to wonder if that's true. I thought so do but now I'm wondering, especially with compatibility layers like Proton, and even Wine before that, and plenty of tools like Electron, Unity, etc helping to be cross-platform, if the lack of support is rather due to bad habits instilled by years of Microsoft partnership with manufacturers (and thus driver support) implying that drivers must be kept secret and thus Linux support is "bad for business" and that then cascades down to developers then users.

Indeed, but I bet he isn't used to hide things in the public. This is a federal budget, not yet another of his corporations. I bet he knows the very best accountants but that's just different.

Thanks for the in depth clarification. I had in mind how quick re-installing a system was after a failure but indeed security itself is fundamental.

So to try to better gauge the risk here when you say

container escapes and VM escapes are not impossible.

what level of efforts are you talking about here? State level 0-day required with team of actual humans trying to hack? Script kiddy downloading Kali and playing for 1h? Something totally automated perpetually scanning the Internet in minutes and owning you without even caring for who you are?

I did read about blue pilling years ago (damn just checked, nearly 20 years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Pill_(software) ) but it seems that since it's the 1 thing solutions like Docker, Podman, etc and VM propers (and then the underlying hardware) have to worry about, it feels like it would be like trying to break-in by focus on a lock rather than breaking a window, namely the "hard" part of the setup.

upgrades when you’ve neglected a server

In times of containers, does it even matter?

Edit: to clarify, yes you MUST keep your server up to date (and have backups) but what I'm questioning is... if the OS a server actually matters much when most of the actual "serving" is done by containers, which might themselves get updates, or not, but are isolated.

KDE Plasma and Debian is where it’s at.

Yep, in fact sadly I move away from Ubuntu after years of using because of the slow yet seemingly inexorable trend toward bloatware. Going back to the "basics" with Debian, and keeping KDE, made the transition very easy. As you also highlight, Steam works perfectly. Anyway, time to go back to Elden Ring ;)