BassTurd

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are the obvious options that can’t work due to the general mode anti cheat software, but over the past 1.5 years, I’ve only had a couple of steam games where I had to tweak something because it didn’t work out the gate. Every major title I’ve played worked first try.

  I tried Linux a couple times over the bast 20+ years and it was still too raw for me. Now, it just works for me. I’m by no means a Linux guru but I am a computer smart guy. I setup a laptop with Mint for my brother who knows the bare minimum about computers, and he’s had no issues using it. The progress made over the past decade has been wildly positive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This makes Linux desktop a viable option for millions of users where it wasn’t before. It’s absolutely a battle between Linux and Windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's the best material for wiping out a cast iron skillet?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We have a plastic scraper that gets anything off with a bit of water. Then I hit it with a rough sponge and water, towel dry, then stovetop dry. While still hot, I like to put a thin layer of Crisco on all surfaces with a paper towel and wipe any excess off. Having a well seasoned pan, warming up before cooking, and using enough fat or oil makes cleaning and maintaining a lot easier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My mom once left her Amazon account logged in and open on her computer. My sibling and I searched for a bunch of sex toys to mess with the ad suggestions. That was funny, but I’d never buy my mother a dildo and it would be really weird if she bought me a Fleshlight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not at all. I would have had it done at 18 in hindsight, but did it in my later 20s. It was bar none the best $50 I’ve ever spent. I’ve known my entire life that I didn’t want to be a parent, and for me that feeling only compounded as I got older. Couple that with the current world situation and local political climate and uncertainty, and it reaffirms my choice.

  Technically it is reversible, but I would consider a permanent fix. Regardless, wrap your dick because vasectomies don’t block STDs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re too daft to understand context. I’m done debating with a wall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The argument saying there are peer reviewed studies was not the argument I made. You’re strawman game is weak dude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That wasn’t my argument, that was someone else. I’m just shitting on your response to them instead of doing the bare amount of research.

  My whole point is, kids are coming out with less computer knowledge as a whole. Maybe they know more on mobile devices than older generations, but I’d argue that’s not even true compared to millennials who were also in the prime of smart phones and tablets hitting the market. The difference is millennials also know how to use workstations, making them more tech literate. Having skills on just mobile devices is very sandboxed and remedial. It’s not noteworthy in the slightest. Being able to work with a desktop OS, understanding a file system, and troubleshooting are tech skills that you get generations don’t have, making them less tech literate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not knowing how to use a mouse is hyperbole for not knowing how to use a computer, but also, if you can’t use a mouse, you can’t use a workstation computer. Knowing how to navigate a mobile device does not make someone tech literate. In general it stunts computer skills, because there’s minimal tech knowledge required to download an app from a curated store or watching tik tok.

  You’re proving our point in the second paragraph. Yea, kids aren’t being taught computer skills. Not knowing the fundamentals of how to use a workstation is a problem and it is causing a regression in technological literacy in society.

  Young people tend to be more interested in phone and tablets than ever before. Some for sure are into workstations, but that is not the norm. Id argue less kids percentage wise are spending time on computers daily than 15-20 years ago. Everything is done on iPads or phones in schools, until college. Even if you didn’t want to, back in the day you had to know how to navigate a complex operating system, save files to removable storage, download files and install them, and a plethora of other seemingly simple skills, and that’s not happening now.

  If you work in IT or around youth entering the workforce, it’s extremely clear that tech literacy is worse now than it was a decade ago, or at least it is as a millennial that bridged that gap and can clearly see the difference. I can see if someone is younger than millennials why they wouldn’t be able to see that difference, because they are in that demographic.

  It would take 5 seconds to do a Google search for millennials and technology and find a couple studies on the topic. It isn’t some secret that’s being hidden and it’s easily accessible. Perhaps your inability to find these studies is the proof that tech literacy has degraded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most people, regardless of age, have never been able to rebuild a transmission. That has never been a generation defining skill. It was only car enthusiasts, and more specifically motorheads, that has those skills. Did more older folks know how to work on their cars then today’s youths? Likely. At the same time modern cars are vastly more complex that cars of old. Almost none of those old hats would know the first thing about rebuilding a modern transmission, and the ones that do probably don’t have all of the special equipment needed to do it. If we include gender to this equation, what percentage of women in the general population do you think knew anything about working on cars? There were some, but I’d wager that is a really low percentage.

  Your much older brother is an anomaly. There are exactly 0 people that I know that are 50+ years old that would know anything about fixing a TV. That is not a skill that a relatively large amount of people ever learned. I know many people that could identify a blown cap, and maybe with the advent of YouTube, could maybe figure out how to desolder and replace that component. Like with the cars, having skills in electrical engineering was never a generation defining trait.

  Computers from the early 90’s+ have always been more complicated than old cars and TVs. Being able to do basic things on early PCs required more skills to the end user than knowing how to drive a car or use a TV. It was all new and nothing like anything before them. Cars were preceded by other ground transportation and TVs by radios for many years and knowing how to operate them at a basic level has always been relatively simple. Computers continued to evolve at an exponential rate in capabilities and complexity and if you grew up with them in your prime years, you had to be able to keep up.

  Driving cars and using (dumb) TVs is very similar to how it was 70+ years ago. The invention and roll out of these to the masses took place over decades from when they first became available and during that time they were basically the same devices to the end user. Turn a switch and the TV powers on and you turn a knob to change the channel. With a car, you put in the key, put it in gear, gas in the right break on the left, maybe clutch on the far left. That is all most people needed to know, with specialist knowing more. That is very different from computers. Just turning on a computer didn’t do anything useful. It wasn’t intuitive to figure out and required reading a troubleshooting. That’s what every user had to experience, not just the specialists. The 90’s through 00’s brought with it significant changes in computers. It was a true technological renaissance and it took place over about 10-15 years which is when millennials grew up. That short amount of time and that much change isn’t remotely comparable to the slow and simple changes of past technologies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t host Bitwarden and use the extension, it pretty much is that easy out of the box. Some pages are ass and Bitwarden won’t detect a login form, but in my experience, 9/10 times it works fine. You can and should harden the security settings for it, but for most people, vanilla settings are better than their current solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Once you work at a place doing lvl 1 tech support, like say a Geek Squad, the perspective smacks you in the face everyday until you’re broken.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Admittedly, I do almost all of my messaging from my phone, and 100% of Lemmy. Most of the time if I have something on my computer to share, it’s easiest to just take a picture. If fidelity matters, I can take a screen grab and share it to my phone via KDE connect. It’s not a matter of knowing how, it’s the effort required for a slightly clearer image.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea, young STEM university students are obviously going to be more technologically literate than their counter parts. That isn’t a new thing and was true for the older generations too.

  What questionable decisions are you talking about that the US made that you’re insinuating set them back compared to the rest of the world? The US does have more tech classes now than when I was in school in the early 2000’s. The problem is a vast majority of these kids coming up don’t know how to use computers effectively. It’s not just “using a mouse” that makes someone tech literate. Knowing how to navigate a mobile device, which is designed for ease of use to accommodate even the dumbest people, does not make someone tech literate. Some are power users, but most have nothing more than a surface level knowledge of how to use it. There’s little to no troubleshooting skills.

  All of those mobile devices are programmed by actual tech literate people that understand coding, the network stack, security, and the general inner workings of how computers work. This generation coming out now doesn’t know any of that because they never use computers.

  And lastly, holy fuck what’s wrong with you? Jesus fucking Christ you just came out shooting in that second half. The person you replied to made a valid, factual point, and you apparently took that as a personal attack. What the fuck do trans people have to do with this? What a fucked up transition to make and shit to take. You need help, dude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Code readability is important, but in this case I find it less. In every language I’ve studied, it’s always taught to imply the previous condition, and often times I hear or read that explicitly stated. When someone writes code that does things differently than the expectation, it can make it more confusing to read. It took me longer to interpret what was happening because what is written breaks from the norm.

  Past readability, this code is now more difficult to maintain. If you want to change one of the dates ranges, the code has to be updated in two places rather than one. The changes are difficult, but it would be easy to miss since this isn’t how elif should be written.

  Lastly, this block of code is now half as efficient. It takes twice as many compares to evaluate the condition. This isn’t a complicated block of code, so it’s negligible, but if this same practice were used in something like a game engine where that block loops continuously, the small inefficiencies can compound

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drugs are candy for adults, and comedy entertainment marketed towards adults is the equivalent of making funny faces/sounds/peekaboos at a baby.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Edibles? Yes and a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Apart from the bias, that’s just bad code. Since else if executes in order and only continues if the previous block is false, the double compare on ages is unnecessary. If age <= 18 is false, then the next line can just be, else if age <= 30. No need to check if it’s also higher than 18.

  This is first semester of coding and any junior dev worth a damn would write this better.

  But also, it’s racist, which is more important, but I can’t pass up an opportunity to highlight how shitty AI is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MILLIPEDE FACTS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Take that metric users!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Listening to stuff on your phone with bluetooth headphones has a fringe benefit of letting you know when you forgot your phone somewhere⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unrelated to this OG topic, but I was going on a snowboarding trip a few years ago and got a rental car via Turo, which is basically air bnb for vehicles. I met the owner at the airport and I took off after everything was loaded. 30 some minutes late I get to resort, turn off the vehicle and start getting dressed to hit the slopes. I realized I didn’t have the key, so we called the guy and he still had it. Since the vehicle was running, we were able to leave with no issue. He met us at the mountain to drop off the key.

  I had a similar experience another time on a snowboard trip, where I went down to the vehicle in the morning to warm it up and scrape the windows. I went back in inside grabbed my stuff and stopped at the gas station about a mile down the road. I noticed a light that said no key fob on the dash and thankfully without turning the car off, went back to the hotel and found it in the room. That one would have been tough because I went another hour out and didn’t have someone to call since it was a rental.

  I guess my point is, you shouldn’t be allowed to put a car in drive or reverse if the key fob isn’t detected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Listening to stuff on your phone with bluetooth headphones has a fringe benefit of letting you know when you forgot your phone somewhere⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a very similar thing happen where my buddy left his wallet and phone on the roof and we took off. The phone slipped down into the gap between the trunk and rear window if his Charger, so it connected just fine. We got about 5 miles down the road and stopped at a gas station before we went out on a 5 hour road trip. We found the phone stuck but had to go back and fortunately found his black wallet at night in a grass section before we had left our neighborhood. There were a couple dollar bills had flipped out and those were bright enough with light that we spotted it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How active is too active while being on lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve blocked a couple bots that post seemingly every article from specific sites. It’s too bad because some of those articles were worth reading, but it was too much in my home feed, so they’re gone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Name and shame. Who’s the link aggregator?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel they may have been something of a catalyst that got other providers to start upping the speed. At this point, a lot of service providers offer at least 1 gig download speeds, with fiber being synchronous often. Some places offer up to 10 gigs to residential.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it called eating ass if you don't actually eat it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wherever you are, if you punch too hard, the fart box always punches back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it called eating ass if you don't actually eat it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t eat ass. I tongue punch the fart box.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 will soon be able to describe images on your screen using AI — and it'll all be done locally⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you aren’t playing a game that has kernel mode anti cheat, like League of Legends, then your gaming experience will probably be the same if not better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: If you set up a Lemmy instance, and follow the Docker setup instructions to the letter, it will send lemmy.ml your admin password during the setup process⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You could do it to. Be the change you want to see, or be a dick. Your choice I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: If you set up a Lemmy instance, and follow the Docker setup instructions to the letter, it will send lemmy.ml your admin password during the setup process⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or OP is spreading the word to get it out there. Now it’s got eyes on it thanks to OPs work.

  Jesus. Some of you people just want to shit on someone for doing a good thing for no reason. Have you put in a pull request yet or are you just showing your dark side on top of being a dick to OP who did something good?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My world is so much better because of immigrants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For sure, it is. But, if they do have one, they are likely paying taxes. They could be filing exempt, but I do feel that may be even riskier. Obviously if they are cash under the table, then it’s only on purchases, not income.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Do you have documents to prove you are a US citizen? If not, here's how⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, I see we have an Alantian in our midst.