sylver_dragon
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- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 1 day ago:
I work for a fairly large company, and we’re hearing about “AI” constantly. CoPilot is available and its use encouraged. Also, in the cybersecurity space, AI is fucking everywhere. Vendors won’t shut up about their “AI Enabled” products. And the new hotness is “Agentic AI”, which is basically automation, but we’re going to let AI hallucinations fire off the automated process which could bring production systems down.
Good times are surely coming. /s - Comment on How will we deal with all the broken images? 1 day ago:
It looks like archive.org is capturing some of lemm.ee. So, it’s possible that most of the images are there and could be referenced.
- Comment on Om nom 1 day ago:
With a long, strong, flexible tongue and a reputation for eating things, one of those collaborations basically writes itself.
I was talking about his mechanics in Brawl Stars, what were you thinking about, sicko?
- Comment on What a mess 2 days ago:
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, they will accept you for your virtue. If the gods are unjust, then they weren’t worth worshiping anyway. And if there are no gods, then at least you lived a good life to be remembered by .
- Comment on New fuel cell could enable electric aviation 3 days ago:
But, we’ll know where the aircraft is. It’s a built in, instant location flare. No more aircraft disappearing and not being found.
- Comment on A two-player Elden Ring Nightreign PC Mod is already available 3 days ago:
It’s rather amazing that this one guy keeps churning out fixes for FromSoft’s complete inability to understand multiplayer.
That said, I do plan to try the vanilla setup first (finishing up Shadow of the Erdtree before we change over). I just worry about my wife and I dropping into a session and having some rando who either wants to faff about; or, we run into the type of toxic behavior which seems to inundate online games. We had pretty good luck with Vermintide 2, back in the day. But, with way too many years of playing WoW, we’ve also run into a lot of assholes. And we just don’t have the patience for that sort of thing anymore.
- Comment on ‘We tried and it didn’t work out’: CDPR co-founder says it shouldn’t stray from AAA open-world RPGs 4 days ago:
Well, the world should have moved on to IPv6 a long time ago.
- Comment on You Can’t Make an Omelette without Exploding Several Billion Dollars’ Worth of Eggs 6 days ago:
Imagine the flight envelope as a graph. Going further to the right means going faster. Going further up means going higher. The goal of test flights is to push against the upper-right hand corner of that envelope. Unfortunately, that’s also where your postage gets stamped.
- Comment on Nvidia debuts a native GeForce NOW app for Steam Deck, supporting games in up to 4K at 60 FPS; in testing, the app extended Steam Deck battery life by up to 50% 1 week ago:
Um yay, I guess. I’m always for more options. And maybe there is a market out there for the “game from the cloud” idea. Personally though, I’d rather just play a game on the Steam Deck directly. Or, if that’s somehow not an option, stream the game from my own PC to my TV via SteamLink. In no world do I want to pay for a subscription to play games on a device where I can just play that game locally.
- Comment on WaaaaAAALLLEEEeee 1 week ago:
Companies taking advantage of Linux to create locked down, proprietary systems is pretty common. For example, Android is Linux. Many smart TVs run some flavor of Linux. E.g. Tizen from Samsung is Linux based. If a company can short cut the software development process and licensing costs by using Linux, that’s often a first choice. So, my bet would be on Wall-E running on a version of Linux.
The dystopian part would be that the company locked it’s drivers behind a closed source model, and only included highly obscured binaries on Wall-E’s OS. Motors and controllers would be non-standard, requiring closed source firmware and the hardware would refuse to work with any software which isn’t signed by an original manufacturer’s digital certificate. Using an unsigned binary would blow a fuse in Wall-E’s CPU, killing him.
- Comment on Ive won a game but I'm not a gamer is there a way of donating it to lemmy somehow? 1 week ago:
it’s steam game which means there’s a key?
Maybe.
If the game is already in your Steam account, no. I can’t seem to run the actual policy down with a quick search, but games in your Steam library are not transferable.
If you have received a key in your email (It’ll be a long, alphanumeric sequence) then you can forward that to someone else, so long as it hasn’t been used by you or anyone else.
If the game was sent as a gift to your Steam account using the Steam gift system. Then no, you cannot transfer it. - Comment on Ive won a game but I'm not a gamer is there a way of donating it to lemmy somehow? 1 week ago:
I would look into three things first:
- Do the terms of the prize dictate transferability? In the rules of the contest in which you won the game, was there anything about not selling or giving away the prize?
- What type of game is it? Video game, board game, card game?
- What is the delivery mechanism for the game? Some things will be easier to transfer than others. A physical copy can likely just be shipped to a new recipient. A digital key for a game might be easy to just send to the recipient. Other delivery mechanisms may or may not have a system to prevent transfer.
- Comment on “How you design the beep is important.” Behind the movement for calmer gadgets. 1 week ago:
While an interesting idea, this sounds like an organization designed to separate some doofus investment manager with a lot of capital before inevitably folding because companies won’t give a damn. Sure, if we were to pass laws allowing us to hunt down anyone responsible for using blue LEDs on devices which did not specifically need blue light, and burn their eyes out with a hot poker. Then, such a certification might make sense. But, so long as there are no repercussions for companies making horrible design decisions, why would any company pay for a certification like this.
- Comment on How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? 2 weeks ago:
As many angels as actually exist.
- Comment on Xreal debuts first glasses to run Google's Android XR operating system to take on Meta and Apple 2 weeks ago:
Oh goodie, I missed my chance to be a glasshole last decade. Now I can miss that chance all over again.
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 2 weeks ago:
Not terribly surprising, Google would often direct me to StackOverflow threads as I was googling for an answer to a question. And as often as not, either the question was closed; or, instead of anyone providing an answer, the commenters would spiral off into questioning everything about the original question asker’s life choices. While I do get the whole XY Problem, this sort of thing seemed to be over-used on SO.
Granted, I don’t know if AI answers are any better. Sure, they can answer a lot of the simple questions, but I’ve not seen them be useful on hard, more obscure questions. Probably because those questions don’t have ready answers on SO.
- Comment on Is there a way to avoid those holes? 2 weeks ago:
If someone asks you if you’re a god, you say YES!
- Comment on Microsoft starts testing ‘Hey, Copilot!’ in Windows 3 weeks ago:
Azure Linux. Because you still want to be beholden to Microsoft, right?
- Comment on guys what the heck theyre putting micro chips in the cheese and using blockchains to track the micro chips 3 weeks ago:
I don’t get why people think putting manifests on a blockchain is a good idea.
Because you can still separate many fools from their money by adding “blockchain” to whatever you are doing.
- Comment on ServiceNow acquires Data.World months after snatching up Moveworks 4 weeks ago:
ServiceNow is very much aimed at the managers. It’s good at reporting metrics like SLAs, ticket counts and anything else management dreams up to track metrics on. The interface for analysts putting data into it is slimy shit on toast. I swear, one of the questions I plan to ask, the next time I’m interviewing for a job is, “what do you use for security case management”. If the answer is “ServiceNow” or “ServiceNow Security Incident Response (SIR)”, that’s going to be a mark against that company. The only thing worse than ServiceNow ITSM is ServiceNow SIR. It’s all the terrible design of ITSM, but with basic security case management features implemented by clueless idiots.
- Comment on Can't believe we have to say this but, don't use your work email for adult content 4 weeks ago:
I feel like I should show up to more meetings with a t-shirt saying “I read your emails”. Granted, this type of thing isn’t at the top of the list of things we’re looking for; but, if we run across it, it’s gonna get reported. Too many people don’t seem to understand that their work computer is not a personal computer.
- Comment on Telepathy will be real once we master brain computer interface 4 weeks ago:
Any sufficiently advanced technology would be indistinguishable from magic.
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 4 weeks ago:
Sorry, just recognized my typo, I meant to say “I wouldn’t be surprised…”., Not sure how I missed that.
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 4 weeks ago:
It’s Yahweh’s laws but the mythology has it provided by Moses in his sermons to the Israelites. As for Christians ignoring bits of it, part of that is based on saying attributed to Jesus in the gospels (e.g. the bit from Mark I quoted above) and also the simple fact that most religions update themselves as society changes. If anything, I think the Catholic church was smart to have a leader who could receive “new revelations from God”. It lets them update canon, while maintaining the illusion that they aren’t just making shit up to stay relevant.
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 4 weeks ago:
I would be surprised if they were borrowing ideas from other cultures in the area (and vice versa). The various peoples in Mesopotamia were interacting regularly; so, some back and forth of ideas is to be expected. Though as a law code, Deuteronomy seems like it would be more home grown.
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 4 weeks ago:
Every sperm is sacred. Every sperm is good. If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate.
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 5 weeks ago:
Deuteronomy is originally from the Hebrew Bible. According to Jewish mythology, the book is from the sermons of Moses. Though, it’s believed to be much more recent (something like a 1000 years) than the time period where the figure of Moses (or the person(s) he was based on) would have existed. But, even taking Jewish and Christian mythologies at their word, Jesus had nothing to do with that rule. Also, Jesus probably meant for this rule to end for adherents of Christianity.
Mark 7:14-23:
14 Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand this.
15 Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.”
17 After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable.
18 “Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them?
19 For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)
20 He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them.
21 For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder,
22 adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.
23 All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”So, feel free to boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. Jesus is A-ok with that.
- Comment on [Opinion] Windows isn't an OS, it's a bad habit that wants to become an addiction 5 weeks ago:
It’s interesting to see something as mainstream as The Register seriously suggest folks start ditching Windows and their preferred alternative seems to be Linux. Perhaps the year of the Linux Desktop won’t forever be “next year”.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
No. Math isn’t just doing sums, or other numeric operations. Math is the application of logic to solve problems. Part of what you should be learning, is how to break complex problems into more manageable steps and then solving those steps to solve the overall problem. And this skill carries well into lots of other areas of life, even those that don’t seem immediately “math-y”.
- Comment on Linux help and actual pros and cons 1 month ago:
I made the jump about a year ago at this point and have been happy with the choice. That said, there is a learning curve and everything isn’t sunshine and roses. I’d still rate it as fully worth it.
I think I need to pick a “distro”, right? Based on the above, which distro may work best for me?
Yes, though this is less of a “gotcha” than it might seem. Different distros will have advantages and disadvantages for different things. However, most distros are going to do most things at a reasonable level. It sounds like you are prioritizing ease of use and gaming; so, you may want to go for one of the more gaming focused distros such as PopOS or SteamOS. But, I would echo what @redlemace said, “take a live-distro, put it on an USB stick and boot from that. Yes, it’s sometimes slow/sluggish but it works and you can get an impression of the distro”. I ran my chosen distro from a USB stick for a bit over a month before committing.
what am I most likely to NOT be able to do, if anything?
Very little. However, you will need to relearn how to do some things. And you’ll probably have to get comfortable with using the terminal for some stuff. This can be a bit jarring for someone who grew up with Windows, as there are some things which just don’t have a GUI to configure. And some applications will need to be replaced. For example, you’re probably not going to be able to use Microsoft Office, but Libre Office is a good replacement. Photoshop will get replaces with Gimp, and so on.
Lastly, there are some games which just don’t work on Linux. A lot of that is around Anti-cheat software. For example, I wasn’t able to join my work team in playing Call of Duty 6. The EA Anti-Cheat is a complete “fuck you” to Linux users. So, check out ProtonDB for games you care about. Most games run just fine; but, there is the odd hole. Anymore, I’m more surprised that a game doesn’t work on Linux than when it does.
I have heard modding in particular can be challenging with Linux.
I’ve not run into this; however, I don’t use any of the mod managers (e.g. Vortex) and so I’m used to moving files around manually. I’ve also not run Skyrim on my Linux setup, and that does seem to require a bit of work to get going. So, this may be an issue, depending on the game. This is yet another reason to give the whole “install on a USB stick” recommendation a go. Spin up Linux, give modding Skyrim a shot. If it’s too heavy a lift, then maybe don’t do it. As much as I think Linux has been a good idea, it may not be right for everyone.
Are there some smaller indy games that don’t have Linux support (thinking back to the early mac days)?
Funny enough, I find the smaller indie stuff usually has better Linux support, but YMMV. For example, my son introduced me to Dome Keeper. It’s a small game, but it just worked and is one of my favorite casual games. Though again, checking ProtonDB is a good thing to do.
I would rate my computer technical ability at like… A 4/10. I haven’t done anything too crazy but can Google most issues and willing to learn. Is this realistically enough to get me up and running with Linux?
I’d think so. There’s lots of good info out there now to help you get up and running. Though this links back to the question about distros. If you don’t want to have to get super technical, pick a distro which is more aimed towards “just working”. And again, the USB “try before you buy” idea is really, really useful.
if the final answer here involves running a windows partition, is it possible to safely still use a windows 10 partition, even after the end of support?
Depending on how you plan to use it, the risk may be reasonable enough. For example, let’s say you have one or two games which just don’t run on Linux and you keep a Windows 10 partition around to run those games. You boot to Windows, play those games and then jump back to Linux for your normal computer use (web browsing, email, etc.). Then ya, that’s probably fine. The real risks start to show up when you use Windows for stuff which exposes it to the internet. If you are downloading and running random applications on it, you’re gonna have a bad time. Over time, even basic web browsing may start to be a risk, as vulnerabilities could be found which allow a malicious web page to run code. You also want to be sure you don’t have the device completely exposed to the internet (this is bad, even with an up to date Windows). Though, most home routers already prevent this; so, this is unlikely to be an issue. Just don’t hook your Windows 10 partition up to public WiFi (e.g. coffee shop, library or conference).
Just having the partition isn’t a risk. So long as Windows isn’t running, it isn’t available for attackers to attack. It’s just data on a disk. It’s only when it’s running and exposed to attackers that it becomes a problem. And you can control that and manage the risk.
anything else I might run into that I’m not expecting? Words of encouragement?
Be patient with it and it can be a worthwhile change. Also, don’t be afraid to come back and ask questions. There’s lot of folks here who can help you along. Getting away from Windows feels good and it’s great to actually own your system, rather than renting it from Microsoft. Best of luck.