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dosse91

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  • what questions do you have but don't feel you can ask trans people?

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  • Why are there virtually no FTM sex workers?

  • All the troubles with Debian upgrade

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  • Personally I had zero issues with upgrading my server to Debian 13; it's an installation dating back to Debian 9 or 10 with a lot of services installed.

    The only inconvenience I had was that somehow Transmission 4.1.0 beta made it into debian stable, and beta clients are usually not allowed by private trackers. I switched to deluge and called it a day.

  • what's your ringtone?

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  • The default ringtone in LineageOS, but I use talk.wav from Quake (1996) for notifications, I love that sound

  • What movie did you see too young that still haunts you to this day?

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  • The ring, when I was 11. I was scared for years

  • I'm building a Tux-based Game Studio

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  • I'd love to see more studios make puzzle-adventure games, like the ones by Cyan

  • Will kernel-level anti-cheat ever work on linux?

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  • It would need to be open source, distributing proprietary kernel modules is a nightmare that can cause the OS to fail to boot after every kernel update. An open source anticheat kernel module would probably be useless and easy to bypass.

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    What are some of the viable {political,governance} {structures,ideologies} out there?

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  • Your bot is malfunctioning

  • Game on Steam started giving D3D11 compatibility error when using Proton Experimental

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  • I just tested it on my PC with Proton 10 and it works (at least on my AMD GPU). My guess is the NVIDIA driver is broken.

  • What is personally your favorite insult or what is the best comeback you've heard that destroyed someone?

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  • "You can't make a circle with a round glass"

  • Atomic Linux Distros: What Barriers Stand Between You and Making the Switch?

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  • It actually happened to me today on Arch.

    I updated the system, including the kernel, everything went smoothly with no errors or warnings, I rebooted, and it said the ZSTD image created by mkinitcpio was corrupt and it failed to boot.

    I booted the arch install iso, chrooted into my installation and reinstalled the linux package, rebooted, and it worked again.

    I have no explanation, this is on a perfectly working laptop with a high end SSD, no errors in memtest, not overclocked, and I've been using this Arch install for over a year.

    The chances of the package being corrupt when I downloaded it and the hash still being correct are astronomically low, the chances of a cosmic ray hitting the RAM at just the right time are probably just as low, the fact that mkinitcpio doesn't verify the images that it creates is shocking, the whole thing would have been avoided on an immutable distro with A/B partitions.

  • What do you guys use LLMs for, that is proven to work well with them?

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  • As a developer, I use LLMs as sort of a search engine, I ask things like how to use a certain function, or how to fix a build error. I try to avoid asking for code because often the generated code doesn't work or uses made up or deprecated functions.

    As a teacher, I use it to generate data for exercises, they're especially useful for populating databases and generating text files in a certain format that need to be parsed. I tried asking for ideas for new exercises but they always suck.

  • What's your stress response?

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  • I eat too much then feel guilty about it, including stuff I shouldn't eat that will make me sick.

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    What happened to make you finally accept that it's not worth it to be an altruistic person?

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  • I realized that people didn't really give a shit about me and just used me for my skills. I was always there for them when they needed me, but when I asked them for anything they were always busy or had some excuse. I started using the same excuses on them and they all disappeared almost immediately.

    I still help people of course: some close friends, some colleagues, my students, but I no longer show myself to be competent in certain things so I can avoid parasites.

  • Which areas of Linux would benefit most from further standardization?

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  • Generally speaking, Linux needs better binary compatibility.

    Currently, if you compile something, it's usually dynamically linked against dozens of libraries that are present on your system, but if you give the executable to someone else with a different distro, they may not have those libraries or their version may be too old or incompatible.

    Statically linking programs is often impossible and generally discouraged, making software distribution a nightmare. Flatpak and similar systems made things easier, but it's such a crap solution and basically involves having an entire separate OS installed in parallel, with its own problems like having a version of Mesa that's too old for a new GPU and stuff like that. Applications must be able to be packaged with everything they need with them, there is no reason for dynamic linking to be so important in Linux these days.

    I'm not in favor of proprietary software, but better binary compatibility is a necessity for Linux to succeed, and I'm saying this as someone who's been using Linux for over a decade and who refuses to install any proprietary software. Sometimes I find myself using apps and games in Wine even when a native version is available just to avoid the hassle of having to find and probably compile libobsoletecrap-5.so

  • PC Gaming @lemmy.world
    dosse91 @lemmy.trippy.pizza

    Games that I can play with one hand

  • What is the smallest city in your country that everyone can still instantly recognise the name of? What is it famous for?

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  • Corleone, Sicily, for obvious reasons. Population around 10k.

  • NixOS: How does daily driving fare for time-strapped users?

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  • I'd say I'm a "time-strapped" user since I have a full time job and I'd rather spend my free time gaming rather than fixing a broken OS, nevertheless... I have 2 PCs with Arch Linux (one for personal stuff and one for work) and a server with NixOS.

    When things break on Arch (which is rare these days but it can happen, especially if you play around with things from the AUR), I just rollback with timeshift (it takes just a few seconds with btrfs) and try that update again in a few days. Minor issues I can just ignore or work around them and take care of them when I feel like it, but they usually get fixed with updates within a few days. The only time I felt that it was actively wasting my time was when Plasma 6 came out a few months ago and a lot of little things broke, especially on wayland, but they were fixed rather quickly with 6.1 so I can't complain too much.

    NixOS on the other end has been nothing but trouble and a waste of time ever since I installed it. It took me a week to configure it, some packages are kinda old, most have incomplete declarative config, I had to manually write some units myself, and when things break it drives me crazy because even basic troubleshooting of services can be a pain in the ass because I have to find out where stuff is, know which config files are going to be overwritten, launch the correct nix-shell, ... it's all so tiresome... so I just revert to an older config and hope for the best. To make things worse, major updates often require manual changes to the config or even to application files themselves (looking at you, nextcloud) and you will excuse me if I can't be bothered to do that on a DECLARATIVE DISTRO. Even debian doesn't need that, come on! I don't care what people say on NixOS, this OS is not ready yet, I don't have time for this shit when I'm working and that server will be going back to debian next summer.

  • What is the first graphics card you got?

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  • The first one I got was some integrated cirrus logics chip that didn't even have 3d acceleration. The first one I bought with my own money was a GeForce 7800GT in late 2005

  • What is the worst thing your parents ever did to you?

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  • I do have hobbies and enjoy them, but I tend to hide everything from them, even meaningless things.

    What pisses me off mostly is how much I missed out on when I was younger for her stupid ideas, things like "you want a wife from your city", "but she's black!" (yes, I'm into black women), "he's gay, if you go out with him everyone will think you're gay", "the trip is too long", shit like that...

  • What is the worst thing your parents ever did to you?

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  • I'm a guy but I had a very similar experience with my mother basically making it an embarassment to talk or let alone date anyone. I missed out on a lot of things before I realized that what was going on wasn't normal.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    dosse91 @lemmy.trippy.pizza

    How do I use the kde-unstable repo on Arch?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    dosse91 @lemmy.trippy.pizza

    Recommendation for an UPS

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    dosse91 @lemmy.trippy.pizza

    Communities similar to crackwatch?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    dosse91 @lemmy.trippy.pizza

    APC UPS switches to battery 50 times a day