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NotSteve_

@ NotSteve_ @lemmy.ca

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  • Fan of Flatpaks ...or Not?

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  • For sure and I agree that should be enough but the average person is not good with computers and they don’t want to learn. They won’t understand the nuances of different distributions of Linux. Like try explaining the difference between a .deb, a .tar.gz, and a .rpm to a person who’s already hésitent about using Linux. Flatpak solves that by just having one download that any Linux install can use

  • Fan of Flatpaks ...or Not?

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  • Oh 100% but have you tried to explain how to use one to a computer novice? Like yes, the answer is usually “they should just…” but novice users will never. With flatpak, they get an experience similar to how MacOS works and a bit like how .exes work and it Just Works™️

    Edit: like I’ve had trouble showing people how to use the GNOME App Store which could not be any more simple. Anyone who has been convinced to install Linux already feels way out of their element so making everything feel as natural as possible is essential (and I mean, flatpaks are awesome anyway)

  • Fan of Flatpaks ...or Not?

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  • I love installing things from the CLI and prefer to only do it that way but Linux needs a single click install method for applications if it’s ever going to become a mainstream OS. The average person just wants to Google a program, hit download and install. If not that then they want to use a mobile-like App Store.

    Flatpak is kind of perfect at achieving both those things

  • Who is your favourite Anti Hero?

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  • Assuming he didn’t do it (he didn’t), he’s taking the fall for a saint so that’s saintly on its own imo

  • Independence Day

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  • IE was really bad for web compatibility in that it really did not properly support the specs.

    Ignoring that, I’ve found any browser you don’t normally use is a lot snappier only because you don’t have any extensions installed

  • When was your house built?

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  • 1906 or earlier from what I can see from historical rental listings in our local newspaper

  • I use Arch btw

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  • It’s been a while since I installed arch manually, but wouldn’t that only help you understand a bit on disk partitioning and some basic commands like copying files/chrooting? You generally learn that stuff the first time your install breaks on any distro

  • Are you learning another language? How far along are you?

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  • Yeah… I wasn’t actually learning a whole lot. I live right across the river from Quebec though so I’m hoping to move over there to immerse myself in French a lot more.

    I’ve always been bitter because my whole Dad’s side of the family is Francophone but never bothered to speak the language with me :(

  • Types of development illustrated

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  • I can assure you, the APIs I work on are not that put together looking. Maybe if you lit the food truck on fire, that’d be a good analogy

  • Are you learning another language? How far along are you?

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  • I just gave up Duolingo at 1770 days for French which hurt to do. I was mostly just maintaining a streak at this point and with the news of them using AI to replace their employees (even if they retracted it), I decided to quit.

    I’ve switched to Babbel now which has been really good so far

  • Microsoft is moving antivirus providers out of the Windows kernel. Hopefully anti-cheat will be next

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  • I think people can vote to kick people but that’s it really

  • Coding chess

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  • I grew up mostly with the PS2 and above and I thought the same thing 😅. I did think there had to be a better way though

  • PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google

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  • I’ve never watched him (I hated him when he would just scream at video games) but he seems to be a lot more mature these days. He even posted a video on why you should switch to Linux recently

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  • There are some EU countries who are way too fond of Israel but even still, people have more freedom of speech there than those in the US

  • Why make it complicated?

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  • I guess it’s less the response itself but the response objects in the codebase. The main code base I work on is fully typed Python/FastAPI but we depend on an API from another team that was, up until recently, untyped entirely. The responses were just dictionaries that were dynamically generated randomly in 10 layer deep functions. There was absolutely no way to tell what they would actually return, let alone what types they would be. It’s like, if you see a function that’s just called get_big_fat_entity_findings() with no typing, how would you handle that without spending an hour reading through the code line by line? Typing is important for any project that’s bigger than a quick script

  • Why make it complicated?

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  • Are you the person who’s writing these APIs that just return dynamically generated untyped JSON that I need to deal with on my team at work? Typing absolutely matters and I will die on this hill

  • Types of development but more realistic

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  • we’ll just launch the login feature this month and put out signup next cycle

  • Apple will end support for Intel Macs next year, macOS 27 will require Apple Silicon

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  • I have an m3 pro MBP but I’m still sad about the end of Intel support just for what it means about Hackintosh

  • Voyager users, how many up/downvotes do you have recorded on me?

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  • Oh wow that’s creepy

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    NotSteve_ @lemmy.ca

    Voyager users, how many up/downvotes do you have recorded on me?

  • Lemmy @lemmy.ml
    NotSteve_ @lemmy.ca

    35 subscribers within minutes of community creation?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    NotSteve_ @lemmy.ca

    Do tarrifs affect cross border employment?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
    NotSteve_ @lemmy.ca

    What do you think of Social Credit (the economic system)

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Social_credit
  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    NotSteve_ @lemmy.ca

    Is anyone here not from reddit?