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- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 5 hours ago:
Yup.
Well… it’s still plausible that a senior developer could still be vibe coding. We’d hope they not though.
And the other way too… can use an LLM and not be doing vibe coding. Like me (not considered a “senior developer”), making fin, with extensive consultations with several LLM, I insist is not vibe coded. lemmy.wtf/post/26550037
Takes a lot of discipline to not succumb to just blindly letting the machine do it, not reviewing nor learning the code; Takes discipline to keep using it as a tool to expedite your learning. Too easy a lure to fall for, the illusion of its competence and convenience.
“We believe when you let a machine do the work of a man, you take something away from the man.” (or words to that effect), from one of the Star Trek TNG movies.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 5 hours ago:
Good stuff.
Though, I don’t think “headless” is the correct term there.
I asked Mistral LLM to check…
define headless, in terms of computing
In computing, “headless” refers to a system, device, or software that operates without a graphical user interface (GUI) or direct user interaction via a monitor, keyboard, or mouse. Instead, it is controlled remotely or through command-line interfaces (CLIs), APIs, or network protocols. Key Aspects of Headless Computing:
No Local Display: The system lacks a physical screen or input devices attached directly to it. Remote Management: Users interact with the system over a network (e.g., SSH, RDP, or web interfaces). Common Use Cases:
Servers: Headless servers are standard in data centers, where administrators manage them remotely. Embedded Systems: Devices like Raspberry Pi or IoT gadgets often run headless to save resources. Virtualization: Headless virtual machines or containers are managed via hypervisors or orchestration tools. Automation: Headless browsers (e.g., Puppeteer, Selenium) automate web tasks without rendering a GUI.
Example: A headless Raspberry Pi might run a home automation script, accessible only via SSH or a web dashboard, with no monitor or keyboard connected. Would you like examples of headless software or tools?
Some do use their GNU+Linux (or BSD or others), running in just TTY, just the terminal, without X11 or wayland, but even then that does not necessarily mean no GUI, with some graphical tools (like “mpv” is a good example) able to run without a graphical server (and certainly at least TUI… the web browser “browsh” is a good example). And not necessarily not headless either, with either direct use, or perhaps ssh’ing in through a network, or just running things configured to automate (as per the example the LLM gave). “Dumb terminals” are another related thing, where the “head” is separate.
- Comment on Racism restaurant 5 hours ago:
Poe’s law has struck again.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 8 hours ago:
It’s frightening to me that I seem like an expert.
I also don’t think I have “strong opinions”. Just ever evolving preferences as I continue to explore.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 15 hours ago:
Maybe, idk.
I (and the podcasters) meant also re-licensed under a Free Software license, like GNU GPL.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 15 hours ago:
Heard some podcasters recently promote the idea/wish that M$ release the source code for Windows3.1.
Could be how Windows starts to get fixed.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 15 hours ago:
A-ha! So that’s where the development resources go. To where the money’s made.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 15 hours ago:
Maybe all the dependable beta testers who would report bugs had already left to Linux or BSD.
Or like the other commenter replied here suggests,
Maybe dependable beta testers who would report bugs had too steep a workload they gave up and moved to Linux or BSD.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 15 hours ago:
Trinity’s more stable and dependable.
Or openbox, declared feature complete something like a decade ago.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 15 hours ago:
Or could take a look at the code, find what’s broken, and see if you can find how to mend it, and either offer a pull request or fork it…
… ohhhh but wait.
It’s broken at that level too. Denied the right to repair.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 15 hours ago:
What it boots into is broken.
The more it works, the more it’s broken.
It’s broken that much, at such a deep level.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 15 hours ago:
Vibe coding!?
Oh yes. That’ll make windows even better. Doh!
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 15 hours ago:
Does it have to be a DE?
Preferred WM is Xmonad (with my tabular boonad config, the grandpa version).
But much love also for herbstluftwm.
And dwm, openbox, icewm, i3, and others.
I have all these window managers in my wmrotate scripts in my wminizer script, so I can kill one and move to the next, without losing all running gui programs, keeping my X11 session going.
But if it has to be strictly DE…
I guess LXDE’s still my fave.
Respect to XFCE and Trinity too. And Mate.
KDE’s awesome. Big love to it again, after it got settled in after the KDE4 debacle.
LXQt’s fine too (though I prefer LXDE).
I’ve not tried Cosmic.
I dont know my way around cinnamon and the various other similar. Only briefly experienced.
GNOME have utterly lost the plot.
Why’d you ask?
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 17 hours ago:
So they’ve taken a leaf out of KDE’s development book.
Is windows11 Microsoft’s KDE4 moment?
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 17 hours ago:
Yep, for sure there’s room for improvement here. Perhaps someone can provide some configurations, pull requests, forks, or even entirely new shells, that do prioritise upfront documentation for new users who wont go out of their way to find the documentation to learn.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 day ago:
KDE4. Plasma. The fattiest FOSS has to offer.
Worth looking at Trinity (KDE3 fork/continuation).
XFCE looks like it’s trying to go from lightweight to fattiest some upgrades too. Still, very elegant, and you wont notice that on new beefy hardware. But on ancientware, … best stick to LXDE, or even just openbox, or any other window manager, pretty much.
IceWM, calls itself a window manager, but it seems to cover all the main basics for a desktop environment feel.
There still be places to go to get the light, fast and shiny in FOSS, even if KDE went nuts around 15 years ago (whenever KDE4 was).
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 day ago:
If you’ve never used the terminal before, how do you know what to type?
Start pushing buttons. Start typing things, try pressing tab variously. Look up guides, introductions, help. Yes it’s not like the discovery of gui where you get to discover whatever the developer of the gui made available to you. It’s a deeper kind of discovery of what more you can do with command line that you cant do with gui. The gui lets you point at pictures provided. The command line lets you string commands together, like stringing words together to form sentences, to have a more nuanced conversation of your own making. So yes, there’s a different initial hurdle and learning curve. Well worth getting over through. Understandable how this is missed by those coming from where the command line is really limited and the gui tries to be all (even if that all is limited). The good stuff’s over the hurdle, and keeps getting better as you progress along the learning curve, deep into the wide delta of potential, where we each become each others teachers.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 day ago:
So close and so far.
I’m the sort of person who has had wacom tablets since the 90s, and many a penabled and/or multitouch thinkpad nearly multiple decades, and has not had a mobile phone since the Snowden confirmation in 2013. And before that, yes, my phones had full physical keyboards (nokia e90, & n900).
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 day ago:
stuff like
xset s off xset -dpms xset s noblank
and/or there may be other ways in guis to do so too.
can put that in some startup shell bobbins, or wherever its supposed to go in configs. but i tend to just run it in terminal (from fish history) once it bothers me enough to switch it off. … am not on my usual computer just now, so i had to look that up. plucked that from 2nd result of a websearch for “x11 noblank off”.
- Comment on Radon 1 day ago:
I make art.
^ real job.
I get disability benefit trapping me in dependence on the system under threat of impoverishment, destitution, starvation, freezing, if i dare ever attempt to do anything productive, or even look like it, or even not. Paid to do nothing.
^ real bullshit job.
Oh what a great system you have there. >:[
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 day ago:
FYI to new users… Do not run any command without knowing what it does. Especially that one. Not even if they say “don’t worry, rm prevents you from deleting your hard drive’s contents now”, … like I fell for, 21 years ago. Doh!
FYI to old users… Stop telling people to do that. It’s not funny. Getting new users to delete their root directory… not cool.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 day ago:
Cant rush these things. ;)
Especially if wanting to make sure there’s no data loss or unnecessarily extended disruption to productivity.
… But yeah. Does seem one can rush an article out before the story’s complete.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 day ago:
Lots of good suggestions there.
I’ll also add AntiX. (I, non-techie, started with SuSe (over 2 decades ago.))
Or if you’re a bit wacky like my uncle, Puppy (~ boy I really did not expect him to pick puppy as his distro, when I showed him several, but he’s been on it over a decade now, utterly loves it.)
You may not initially be techie, but I have heard some users started with arch (or artix or other non-systemd forks of arch), gentoo, GuixSD, or NixOS, and learn, just by following the documentation, becoming more techie. I think some even went as far as starting with LFS. O_O
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 day ago:
Alas, argumentum populum is no valid vindication nor excuse.
“Anybody here work in advertising or marketing?” [–Bill Hicks, and the rest of that bit] hints at the reason though.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 day ago:
I felt late to the party in 2003. Been quite the ride watching others suffer windows this long yet.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 day ago:
Depends how you interpret it.
Linux has been easy that long. Contrary to the message that goes around that it’s hard. This indeed is very encouraging.
Windows is abusing you. Contrary to the message that goes around that it’s your only salvation. This is indeed very encouraging.
If interpreting that instead as “I’m so great, you’re all slow” self aggrandising put down of others, it’ll be a turn-off to many. But that’s not the case. It’s more like, “even I! you can too!” in all humility and positive encouragement.
Interpretation’s a bitch.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 day ago:
I use a distro that does not encourage promoting itself.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 day ago:
Heh, could play that game all day.
The biggie, can you fork it, can you mend it, etc. Free Software ftw.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 day ago:
in 2 decades of using KDE from time to time, the biggest flaw (besides how they released KDE4 way too early and distros picked it up), is how it’s never perfect. fix one bug, add another. add a new feature, break an old feature. always feels like there’s just one little irk hiding somewhere.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 day ago:
Yus!
That was so my take too, in 2003.
I switched because of WinXP, that insane bloater chewing up resources I could have been using for my art tools if not for their squander on pointless shiny.
So then, in SuSe, with KDE, it had even better shiny, useful shiny, not pointless, and it didnt run 10x slower than 95/98/NT/2000, like XP did, but instead ran 10x faster!
There was no going back to being abused by M$ after seeing that.