SabinStargem
@SabinStargem@lemmy.today
- Comment on Trump’s Social Media Surveillance: Social Scoring by Another Name 2 days ago:
The people with negative scores are the ones you can trust to be a decent person.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
There IS reason for preinstallation, there are many people out there who lack the passion to research Linux, and would gravitate towards the familiar - Steam, in the case of gamers. The point is to make a switch away from Windows as unproblematic for as many people as possible. Also, Valve is developing a desktop version of Arch SteamOS.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Making an OS easy to use in everyday life is the key to mass adoption. If the EU wants to get away from Microsoft’s garden, that means advertising valid options to people who aren’t attuned to Linux.
Money isn’t the issue for SteamOS, it is awareness and making it available as an pre-installed option on consumer PCs. The EU could create standardized pamphlets about Fedora, Red Hat, and SteamOS, mandating stores to present that digestable information to consumers so that they know what flavor is best for their usecase.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Ideally, that would be part of their initiative. There are multiple angles that can be taken to encourage Linux adoption. Standards for formal documentation and technical support options are two prongs on the same trident.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Linux isn’t very good for the casual person at this time, due to conflicting, dated, or missing documentation. If people are to be encouraged to adopt Linux, it should be toward distributions that have official technical support.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Hopefully the French will also endorse Fedora, Red Hat, and Valve’s SteamOS. Microsoft is a huge security issue, since it isn’t clear whether MS would bend to DOGE’s whims. The NLRB and other aspects of the US government had DOGE set up accounts, which were accessed within 15 minutes by Russia.
- Comment on Did you know you can track elons jet from mastodon? 5 days ago:
Yeah. There was a time I merely thought the other side was misguided, but would see reason if we talk. That isn’t how it works. Bullies only recognize power, and one should know when to talk their language.
- Comment on Did you know you can track elons jet from mastodon? 5 days ago:
Hell no. You want us to surrender to evil people.
- Comment on Doom (2016) now DRM free on GOG 5 days ago:
Bought. I want to encourage companies to ditch DRM. It will be a major cockblock if America suffers a civil war, since internet and companies will be in disarray. If I end up becoming a soldier, being able to play games without compromising security would be much appreciated, in all the ways.
- Comment on Okay, who had Trump loyalty pins for Apocalyptic-Bingo this Sunday? Games just getting started, stay tuned! 1 week ago:
I suspect an upsized version would be very popular range and skeet targets.
- Comment on Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems 1 week ago:
I hope to someday have a Coupon AI. It creates throwaway accounts and tracks the pricing of stuff that I actually like. In my case, 2-liter diet soda. Those things can cost $1-4 dollars depending on circumstances. Buying 36 bottles for more than $2 would be a ripoff.
A KFC feast used to be cheaper back when I got coupons. Now I have to sign up if I want to afford delicious birds and biscuits. I want to be free from being harvested and spammed. I just want to spend my money in a way that doesn’t ruin me. 😥
- Comment on Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE 1 week ago:
I won’t buy any American car newer than 2024.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 weeks ago:
The EU, UK, Canada, Mexico + Cartels, Taiwan, Japan…and Ukraine. There are a lot of people endangered by the Trump Regime, and would like this ride to stop.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 weeks ago:
Hitler, unlike Trump, fought in an actual war. If nothing else, that goes a long way towards respecting the power of violence - both to give and receive it.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 weeks ago:
Considering how the Trump Regime consistently fires anyone who is competent but DEI or not glazing Trump’s asshole, I think an assassin would have an easier time than usual.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 weeks ago:
That is why Luigi is my favorite character when playing Mario Golf.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 weeks ago:
President Garfield also got merked. Mostly the fault of an RFK-grade doctor than the actual shooter, though. I hope we get that for Trump - he deserves to die at the paws of his own incompetent administration.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 weeks ago:
My hypothesis: narcissistic people live longer, because they apply the placebo effect at all times to themselves.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 weeks ago:
Considering how badly he is fucking up corporate and international interests, I think the parade being a JFK moment is likely. If so, I will buy a bottle of Martinelli’s and some takeout.
- Comment on Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke tells employees to prove AI can’t do the job before asking for resources. 2 weeks ago:
I like AI, but we are still in the biplane era of development. It will take a long time before it can handle most things, let alone unsupervised.
If Shopify goes follows through with imitating Musk’s stupidity, I expect the company to end up as a case study.
- Comment on I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre 2 weeks ago:
Trump doesn’t care about law, be it domestic or foreign. He will just grab you by the nethers and say that your visa is dead because he thought it should be.
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 2 weeks ago:
I think AI will be useful, but like any nascent technology, it will have to be accessible for the public before the everyman would adopt it. IMO, we are currently at the 2nd or 3rd stage in the picture below.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
If the EU is allowed to employ guards in MS’s buildings and to roll their own secured version of Windows, I wouldn’t mind sticking to Windows 11 EU. On the other paw, if DOGE is given access to Microsoft, I shall flee to Linux. Hopefully, SteamOS Desktop will be a thing if the latter happens.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, any app that needs a GPU would be difficult to work with in a VM. You have to manually set up GPU-passthru, which requires figuring out the PCI addresses and whatnot of your card, along with using a terminal. As I understand it, this process also prevents you from using that GPU outside of the VM, which is cruddy.
I was hoping to have a Linux Mint + Windows 11 VM back in January, but that didn’t work out. I am hoping that the upcoming SteamOS Desktop would make Linux friendly enough for games that aren’t native to Steam, such as my GOG collection, Window 3.1 stuff like Stars!, and assorted Japanese locale games.
- Comment on GOG seems to be considering paid membership option 3 weeks ago:
I think if they need an extra income stream, it should be physical manuals, discs/disks, boxes, and feelies. Say that GOG has System Shock, Ultima VII, Thief Gold, and TIE Fighter planned for a limited edition boxed edition, but needs pre-orders. Plonk down $20-40, get those things when the funding goal is reached.
- Comment on Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can now hide details of their private jets/// Private aircraft owners can now ask the FAA to keep their registration information out of the public eye. 3 weeks ago:
I hope a traffic controller guides Elon’s jet into the tarmac.
- Comment on Bernard 4 weeks ago:
I guess Sanders and DeVito used a fusion dance to achieve this form.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I was raised in a rural area. The amount of friends I made in life after forty years is…zero. Aside from a sibling, I don’t have anyone to count on. I am also too poor to afford visiting bars or other social things, so I can’t learn how to be around people, let alone establish ties. It is my belief that America’s shitty economy is the source of these issues, because a person can’t blossom if they don’t have the fiscal agency to escape a tiny bubble.
The internet let me develop as a person, but that can only go so far. I can’t afford risks, such as trying beer, an escort to lose my virginity, or travel. Poverty is a prison without walls.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I think it is because the wealthy have constantly reduced the wealth of the average American. Each individual has to spend more time working, for less pay. This deteriorates their mental and physical health, prevents socialization, saps energy, limits the amount of money, time, and travel they can spend on politics.
IMO, the “lazy” European gets about 95% of an American’s work efficiency for the time spent, but are not nearly as damaged by their work/life ratio. This lets them have far greater agency in the politics of their land. If this continues, I think the assorted cultures of Europe will be far more documented in history than their American peer. The corrosion from beating the good life out of American workers, means that there is little incentive for Americans to want their culture to survive nor spread.
Current politics are partially driven by apathy, one born from the learned helplessness that life won’t get any better. We will need French cutlery to be deployed, so that the blood of tyrants can water the tree of liberty. Just as with the French, I think America can recover from a dead end. Whether that happens…well, we will see within a decade.
Here’s hoping the good guys destroy Dogey America, and replace it something that people can take pride in.
- Comment on Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? 4 weeks ago:
Progressives should support a boar hunting program, along with offering assistance for moving, dismantling, and inspecting game. People who learn how to hunt, know how to shoot. That might be a very valuable skill in the times ahead.
We kill two boars with one bullet.
