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Zangoose

@ Zangoose @lemmy.world

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  • Haha, arch bad

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  • To be fair, Linux isn't developed on GitHub (it's developed on the Linux Kernel Mailing List and kernel.org) and most of the spammers knew that going into it. The PRs on that repo were mostly just people trolling any bystanders that took it seriously until the internet did what they do best and took the joke too far.

    In this specific example they didn't waste anyone's time or resources because it was never being used or monitored in the first place.

    Edit for more additional context: Linus (who created git in the first place) mentioned not liking centralized git servers so he's specifically said for multiple years that he never considered actually moving development over to something like GitHub

  • Why is bicycle riding so controversial in America?

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  • I think the problem is that roads not designed for bikes in Europe are also old enough to have not been originally designed for cars, so things usually end up working out to some degree.

    In the US (especially for infrastructure built from scratch in the 1900s onward, i.e. most of the US except for some parts of the east coast) most roads and town layouts were designed specifically around cars and travelling at car speeds, and are explicitly hostile to anyone who isn't travelling in the biggest truck you've ever seen in your life. Blame oil/motor companies for bribing politicians throughout the 1900s (and honestly still today)

  • With just a microSD card, you’ll be able to easily bring your games across the Steam Deck, Steam Machine, and Steam Frame.

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  • Because if you are on a steam deck and just install it on the SD card to begin with I guarantee you it's faster to pop out the SD card and insert it into the other device than it is to copy the files over a network, especially if one of those devices is a VR headset.

    Besides, more options to do the same thing isn't necessarily a bad thing. People can pick whichever they like best. If someone has games already installed on an SD card in their steam deck and want to quickly move them over to a steam machine or steam frame then this would be super convenient for them.

    This is also specifically an article about the steam deck, steam frame, and steam machine so all of the devices would be using SteamOS and not Windows anyway. Not really sure why you're bringing up Windows.

  • With just a microSD card, you’ll be able to easily bring your games across the Steam Deck, Steam Machine, and Steam Frame.

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  • Instead of redownloading the game twice on a steam deck and steam machine (or steam frame) you could just take the same micro SD card out and insert it into the other device and play from there

    Edit: You could also copy a game's install files over to the SD card and move them directly if you really don't want to run the game directly off the SD card

  • With just a microSD card, you’ll be able to easily bring your games across the Steam Deck, Steam Machine, and Steam Frame.

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  • This is pretty useful for people with bad internet (or data-capped, because that exists for some reason), especially with some games taking up 100+ gb

  • Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller

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  • FeX is userland only though, I'm wondering how they're getting it booting arch in the first place since arch doesn't support ARM officially (Arch Linux ARM/alarm is a separate project that has had serious maintainership issues with their packages to the point where a lot of core packages break due to being partially out of date)

  • Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller

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  • I know they said they're using fex for x86 emulation but how far down does that go? AFAIK arch Linux doesn't have official arm support yet (alarm exists but they've had a lot of problems keeping packages up to date) so I wonder if Valve is planning on helping with upstream arm support

  • Facing problems using Bazzite for software development

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  • To be clear this was not a recommendation lol I completely agree with you

  • Facing problems using Bazzite for software development

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  • If you want to do both at the same time without knowing which side any given task will fall under use NixOS

  • You have $10,000 to make your town/city a better place to live. What do you do with the money?

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  • My town has $20 million of debt in our education department alone that we didn't know about until this year after a board of education administration change 😭 so I think 10,000 might not make too much of a difference to them. That being said I'd probably donate to a local foodbank

  • another "snap bad" post

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  • nixpkgs is still kicking off their build pipeline, they'll be here in 4 days

  • Has anyone tried WinBoat with mod loaders, or system monitors like FPSVR?

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  • Does winboat have GPU support? Could be wrong but I was under the assumption that it works similarly to WinApps and can't have GPU passthrough to the virtualized windows install under the hood

  • Who cares about time complexity

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  • They forgot "CM" so this doesn't work for any number that ends in 900s

  • Switching the gf to Linux

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  • That's the thing though. If I'm going to need to be on-call tech support then Linux isn't actually a better option then Windows. Sure it would be more private and less sucky but if the computer doesn't actually work then that doesn't mean anything. I'm willing to make ad-hoc workarounds to my own problems because I'm a software developer and don't mind falling down a rabbit hole to get something like push-to-talk working with a custom pipewire script. My friends who want to play games and relax when they get home from work are understandably not willing to go through that hassle.

    I'd love for Linux to be ready for daily driving but for most people I know it just isn't. Maybe when Wayland desktops are more mature but I'm not going to make people choose between functioning shortcuts (X11) and functioning monitors (Wayland).

  • Switching the gf to Linux

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  • I could never get any of my friends on Linux (maybe I'll be able to now that Windows 10 is dying) but I was able to get everyone on prism instantly because it's just a better launcher than the official one in every possible way (it's also on Windows and MacOS)

  • It's that time again

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  • If it's only for them then they shouldn't mind getting their Wayland protocol veto privilege taken away 🤷

  • TTC is alruledy 0xA

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  • I think there is more evidence pointing to it being the runner's cartridge or N64 having a hardware fault that caused it to happen. If I'm remembering correctly the runner said they had to frequently reset their runs because their game would crash for no specific reason, and they would reinsert or adjust the cartridge to get it working again.

  • Does anyone actually take into account "IP Rating"/"Water Resistance" when they buy phones?

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  • Folds have water ratings but no (or worse) dust ratings. So you can use them in the rain but be careful in a beach, wood shop, etc.

    The first number in the rating is dust resistance, and the second is water resistance. So an IP 48 phone (new Samsung folds) has the same water resistance but worse dust resistance than an IP 68 phone (e.g. S25). IP X8 means there is no dust resistance but it is water resistant. IP 6X would be the other way around.

  • Why is open source software assumed to be secure?

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  • You don't need to have access to the source code (reverse engineered or not) to find security holes. However, people need to audit the source code to prove it's secure.

    So, closed source software is maybe slightly harder to find flaws in for a malicious actor, but significantly harder for users to audit (because you have to rely on the word of the company publishing the software, or a 3rd party security auditing company, or reverse engineer the code yourself)

    Additionally, it's harder for malicious actors to hide the existence of vulnerabilities they find. They can't just not tell anyone what they find because the code is all public anyway. If people are looking at it frequently enough (i.e. if the project is still active), someone else will probably notice it as well.

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    Zangoose @lemmy.world

    celeste rule

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
    Zangoose @lemmy.world

    Only 5 years out of date now 🙃

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
    Zangoose @lemmy.world

    C++ try not to add footguns challenge (impossible)

  • linuxmemes @lemmy.world
    Zangoose @lemmy.world

    Yes, yes we can

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
    Zangoose @lemmy.world

    Good luck web devs

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    Zangoose @lemmy.world

    Reminder to clear your ~/.cache folder every now and then

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
    Zangoose @lemmy.world

    the myth of type safety