Takapapatapaka

@Takapapatapaka@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux help and actual pros and cons⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
  1. Distros : as others said, Mint is a solid choice. I personally use ZorinOS because it’s very close to the Windows interface and I really enjoy it, i installed it on every computer in the house x). I saw Pop_OS recommended for gaming too.
  2. Hard incompatibilities : as others said, some big games with kernel level anti cheat might not work (Fortnite, Apex Legends, Valorant, Rust, etc.). Along ProtonDB, a great site to keep track of that is https://areweanticheatyet.com/. Other than that, I ended up being able to run approximately anything, from old indies to modern big games without major problems, though it may involve tinkering.
  3. Tinkering with linux : if you are used in googling issues and browsing a bit through old forums posts, in my experience you’re good to go. I found a solution to every of my problems but one : it’s caused by Nvidia drivers. As you asked in another comments, AMDs and Intel’s drivers are open source, and so it’s easier for linux devs to adapt to them. Nvidia are proprietary, though they are going half-open-source and there is an attempt at building an open source driver from scratch, but their basic drivers options may clash with linux sometimes (in my case, the driver wont let linux turn off the screen when i’m inactive for too long, so not that a big issue).
  4. Windows compatibility : On 2 of the 3 computers i tried, having a windows 10 partition on the side is easy to setup and does not generate much trouble. My main computer is ZorinOS/Windows 11, and this one had more issues : each time i switch, i have to go in BIOS to set a setting that is made for Windows off, otherwise i can’t have multiple screens in linux. I also experienced some troubles which are probably linked to the partitioning process (i had to defrag data to create partitions) : if you can, i’d recommend making a clean multi partition drive, installing windows from scratch first, then installing Linux.
  5. Good luck in your process ! I was a bit reluctant at first, but now i’m really glad i did it. If you have access to another device, maybe try to install linux there first, so you can try it out and go through the installation process a first time.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are Nickel and Cobalt considered ferrous?⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely no expertise guy, but here is a possible explanation : ferrous is a word use in common speaking, where it is useful to distinguish things based on practical properties. Being magnetic is one of those practical properties, and iron being the most common magnetic metal, it was designed as ‘ferrous’. Adding metals that contain no iron to the list makes it scientifically/technically incoherent but that does not matter much from a common sense practical point of view.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could I render the computer-generated graphics from Toy Story (1995) in real time using a single modern home computer?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say you could render something close in real time. I’m not entirely aware of all techniques used in this film, but seeing what we can render at 60fps in terms of games, I think you could find a way of achieving a Toy Story look at 24fps. You may need a lot of tweaking though, depending on what you use (i was thinking about EEVEE, the Blender ‘real-time’ engine, and I know there are a bunch of settings and workarounds to use to get good results, and i think they may tend to make the render not real-time (like 0.5s, 1s, 2s per frame, so quite fast but not real time)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len()⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You may want to beneficiate from little performance boost even though you mostly don’t need it and still need python’s advantages. Being interested in performance isnt always looking for the very best performance there is out of any language, it can also be using little tips to go a tiny bit faster when you can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you sure they are aware of this? If yes, maybe they disagree but don’t have words or take action for some reason. Or maybe they know or think they know the man very well and trust him? Just hypothesis, i’m not really convinced.

  But i’m even unable to conceive how someone that young would be attracted to someone that older, outside of any authority figure or idealisation kind of scheme. So I guess she must have a specific reason, and she’s doing this out of the blue, and this reason, whatever it is, may make it difficult for her parents to convince her or force her out of the relation.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people here left-wing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah, right wing libertarian (based on private property) seems a bad thing for forest, without specific system. I was talking about left wing libertarianism (without private property).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people here left-wing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Apart from the Tankie Triad, i’d doubt right wing opinions would get you banned (i’m not against believe it if i saw some examples though).

  Hate speech and promotion of oppressions that right wingers tend to consider as simple ‘opinions’ might though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people here left-wing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not entirely sure about what are the reasoning behind your comment, but i see it as : llibertarian implies no state + parks and forest require state = incompatibility. I’d disagree on the parks and forest require state, i thinl they only need organization, meaning one or more NGO could handle it. Accepting this, not that much incompatibility between libertarian and forest remains (accepting libertarian as left wing meaning that does not imply private property)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I observe this too. My generation of friends met in school at first, but as we got older and went to work, meeting someone new became more rare. I saw a lot of my friends starting dating each other in our high-school group of friends years after we left highschool, probably because it was easier than to meet random people. It’s a bit weird though, and most relationships ended rapidly or badly.

  So when work and old school friends are no option, and you have no place to make new friends, it does feel logical to turn to online dating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well it depends. Technically speaking, it’s around twice as fast as standard speed on highway (at least in France, so 130kmh). In terms of feelings, it’s probably not that faster? I never went above 140 or so but from my experience, your brain adapts to the speed, so if you got to 300 not that suddenly it probably does not feel like twice as fast than the usual. In terms of safety, it may be more than twice the danger. I’m no expert, but depending on the vehicle and how many other vehicles there are on the highway, it could be very dangerous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We refer to jeans as "a pair of jeans", but the only thing that there are two of is the legs, it's still only one item of clothing.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Im not 100% sure what rant means, I didnt want to imply negativity, sorry for that. This really felt like a legitimate remark to me!

  Yup, for the glasses, it’s definitely an explanation of why we used to call them that way, the justification does not have much sense nowadays.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We refer to jeans as "a pair of jeans", but the only thing that there are two of is the legs, it's still only one item of clothing.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My two cents, from a french perspectice : we say “a pair of scissors” and “a pair of glasses” but never “a pair of jeans”. For the glasses, it kinda make sense since you can wear only one glass at a time though it’s highly unpractical. For the scissors it make sense if you consider one scissor to be one blade with a handle. I perfectly understand your rant on the jeans point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FediForum Has Been Canceled⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was a bit confused too, but OPs answer to your comment clarified it quite well.

  And after thinking a bit on it, and from my very basic knowledge of lgbt movment, here’s what i think they advocate for (pls correct me if i say bs) : sex and gender are indeed different, they aee not necessarily connected and both are spectrums rather than binary options. This means you could have a lot of options between what sex you are (male/female/intersex), what gender you are (a lot of options) and what gender you were assigned at birth (generally either male or female). Some trans people need their “physical” sex identity to match their gender, other don’t.

  The problem in this case seems to me that she advocates for a strict binary conception of sex identity and that she pushed for it to be more important than gender in social situations such as sport. Part of the confusion also comes from the fact that she acknowledges parts of what the lgbt movment fights for but she fights against the rest, which happens frequently in TERF rethorics afaik

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft accidentally removed Copilot in the latest Windows 11 update.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Update KB5053598 is a very simple update that includes “miscellaneous security improvements to internal OS functionality” as well as a servicing stack update. It’s rather basic then but it seemingly introduced a bug that saw Copilot being removed from the operating system.

  Is it possible that somehow some component in the update or some dev at Microsoft found Copilot to be too intrusive security-wise and decided to uninstall it ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there so much separation in the USA between people who identify as "black" or "white" compared to other regions like South America?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, i live in France, and here the use of the term is more rare, I do not know anyone using it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there so much separation in the USA between people who identify as "black" or "white" compared to other regions like South America?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it is mostly used by AfroAmerican people, and i believe it is relatively common thing to see groups of people calling themselves with a pejorative word used by other groups (i think punk and queer evolved this way too, though the n-word is a much stronger instance, i see the same pattern)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Europe and the rest of the worlds response it to make weapons of war, someone will eventually insure they are all used.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know for the “all used” part, but yeah, responsibility of wars to come will partly lay on weapons makers, both enterprises and countries. They can say “I admit that I increase risk of wars and war casualties, but I think it’s the best bet for country/nation”., it’s not necessarily exclusive, but weapons are made to be used (especially dissuasion weapons, they only work if it’s well known they are ready to use).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take a seat. Don't you know caveman 234 beat caveman 211 with a rock.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think i get your point, but if we extend governments to nations, then nations are places in the sense that they are a geographical object. Claiming that nation can be / are evil is another debate, but supposing it is possible, it would then be only imprecise and not wrong to claim that places are evil, for certain types of places could then be (and it’s probably this type of place which is a nation/country that is targeted here)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DeepSeek Proves It: Open Source is the Secret to Dominating Tech Markets (and Wall Street has it wrong).⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s actually a typo, i wrote “relies or bullshit” instead of " on bullshit"

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DeepSeek Proves It: Open Source is the Secret to Dominating Tech Markets (and Wall Street has it wrong).⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree with you, links are not that long to share. It is a bit more time consuming obviously, but everyone can choose whether to read quickly or really dive in the sources. I see a lot of people doing it today on internet. I see a lot of people doing it in casual conversation (opening a book or internet to check smthg). It’s not evidence, it’s hints to avoid launching a whole discussion that entirely lies or bullshit (or not).

  Here are some links I found about smuggled chips.

  • Reuters : Deepseek said they used legally imported old and new nvidia chips (H800 and H20s). There are suspicions and investigations about illegal smuggling of banned from export nvidia chips, targeting directly Deepseek. One CEO of an american AI startup said it is likely Deepseek used smuggled chips.
  • The Diplomat : exactly the same, citing directly Reuters. Adds that H800 (now banned from export) and H20s were designed by Nvidia specially for the chinese market. Adds that smuggling could go through Singapore, which leaped from 9% to 22% of Nvidia revenues in 2 years. Nvidia and Singapore representatives deny.
  • Foxbusiness : same.

  So it is likely there are smuggled chips in china if we believe this. Now to say they have been used by Deepseek and even more, that they have been decisive is still very unclear.