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Ooh, a PeerTube embed… nice to see Fediverse services getting used

Most of my games work right out of the box, and the ones that have problems are ones that I’d also have to fiddle with for more than a 1-minute check to ProtonDB are ones I’d have to fiddle with on Windows. However I also do not touch anything with online multiplayer or anticheat, and I know games with kernel-level anticheat tend to not handle Linux well on anything but a Steam Deck.

I swapped a PC I had mostly for gaming over to Linux. I’m having a pretty nice time.

As for piracy, I know pirated games that need to be emulated because they are originally Nintendo Switch games or something work well. No idea for pirated PC games.

For what it’s worth, if you didn’t tell me English wasn’t your first language, I would not have known from this comment.

I shoot for this but am detectable by constantly making edits to make my point more understandable, adding something relevant that I thought of later (literally editing this post right now to include “adding something relevant that I thought of later”) or to correct typos.

Stenberg, saying that he’s “had it” and is “putting my foot down on this craziness,” suggested that every suspected AI-generated HackerOne report will have its reporter asked to verify if they used AI to find the problem or generate the submission. If a report is deemed “AI slop,” the reporter will be banned. “We still have not seen a single valid security report done with AI help,” Stenberg wrote.

I appreciate this because I’d hate to get my issue removed as AI slop because I wasn’t enough of an asshole and didn’t make enough English mistakes. All for rejecting AI slop but it’d feel bad being the false positive deemed “not human enough” and getting my efforts tossed out too.

I may or may not be one of those autistic people who tried to compensate for my social deficiencies and inability to read the room by doing my best to be polite, nice, and inoffensive. (It helps that those qualities do not conflict with who I want to be at all.) And “nice and inoffensive” helps you easily subclass/multiclass into corpo dialect…

Seeing a lot of posts like this did help push me to actually make the switch instead of just talking about doing it someday.

I’m probably part of the problem because I got the survey on my Mac and not my Linux machine…

Am local village idiot curious as to why this would be controversial.

First guess: advising change from familiar workflow

Second guess: gotta download a lot of these

Thanks for explaining, I didn’t think you were insinuating that they were lying at all! I may have been overly influenced by another comment

+1. I do believe the user you are replying to but I believe you too. People can have different experiences without lying or being disingenuous. I’m probably more tech-savvy than the average user but far below average for programming.dev or a Linux community. For me, Linux Just Works out of the box, but I admit I’m on a gaming-specific distro (Nobara, a Fedora derivative) and I’m only using it to be a gaming computer. Sometimes it opens a web browser. Art, music, programming, printing all happen somewhere else (my Mac).

My UI could be prettier but it is not distractingly bad or ugly. Just changed my wallpaper and that’s probably the only visual customization I’ll do.

for people out of the loop, unironically this

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/someone-ported-doom-to-run-inside-a-pdf/1100-6528790/

https://github.com/ading2210/doompdf

I saw someone saying AI “Apparently AI goes hand in hand with wokeism.”

Meanwhile, I’ve seen quite a few complaints from the types this person dismisses as “woke” about AI. Is there more left-leaning approval from AI than I think there is, and more right-leaning disdain for it than I think there is?

Usually people who explain “woke” in such a manner seem to be the types who are actively hostile to LGBTQ+. There are a few LGBTQ+ people who do make it their entire identity instead of one facet of themselves and I understand how annoying that can be, but at this point I’m a lot less likely to believe “this is someone who turns ‘How is the weather today?’ with a stranger into a trans rights discussion” and more likely to believe “this person just hates trans people and is trying to frame the trans person poorly so I resent the trans person and not them.”

Getting certain programs to work on my Linux machine does take extra time as opposed to if it were Windows, but it’s counterbalanced by all those times I’d have to look up how to get the WiFi option back and try every single thing on the list because it was never just one simple solution that worked each time… also I don’t get hit by unwanted forced updates, and now I update voluntarily without fear of even more unwanted telemetry being stuffed in there.

But if I just wanted to browse the web, check my email, shop, and do my banking, Linux would work out of the box better than Windows 11.

My computer would often have trouble connecting to WiFi on Windows 11, literally to the point that the WiFi option wasn’t showing up at all. I switched that computer to Linux late December and I have not had that problem yet.

Yes, it’s a German word we just took and now it’s in English dictionaries. I am speaking of German words that will not show up in English dictionaries, even if they do look a lot like kind-of-English in the case of “antibabypillen”.

I still can’t believe antibabypillen is a real German word for exactly what you think it is—birth control pills.

I wonder if English has any words that people who have it as a second language find hilarious for similar reasons, and if so what they are…

:) I’m lucky enough to have bought my Windows computer and switched to Linux before the Copilot key. But if I got it now, it would feel really good switching to Linux to make the “fuck you I don’t want to use this and you wasted my keyboard space with it anyways” key useful again.

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