100% agree, without it, the decentralization aspect is severely weakened

Yeah honestly hearing it describes as being full of neo Nazis is wild lol, it’s almost more left leaning than Lemmy

Poor people don’t really want things - you need a certain level of cash flow to qualify as a proper person with dreams and feelings, haven’t you heard?

As evidenced most plainly by Elon, who claims to work 16 hour days, while tweeting 100 times a day lol

Blame Hollywood - every movie programmer is just a natural savant (probably on the spectrum) who operates a computer in more or less the exact same way a wizard operates a wand

Definitely more work to set things up the first time, though

This is ultimately my point - looking through protondb, it looks like all the games I play today work, but a good few require some workarounds, hacks, or just have crashes reported while playing

Gaming is my escape from my day job of working on software, fiddling with configs and whatnot is really the last thing I want to do when I have free time to play.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m stoked that gaming on Linux is improving so much, and I deeply look forward to the day that I can ditch Windows for good on my gaming PC, but for now its just the best tool for my requirements

I’m not the guy you asked but I can answer for myself - it’s still not nearly as effortless to use for gaming as windows. I work with computers all day, so when I sit down to game at night I absolutely refuse to debug shit. For Starfield as an example, it works via proton, but the protondb page is full of “to get around X issue use the following workaround”, and I just can’t be bothered.

I use Linux for work and hobby software development, but for me to switch my gaming pc over would require it to not just be “viable”, but effortless

That’s awesome, but the real question is - will we be able to buy one for MSRP?

Yup, wrappers for everything you didn’t build yourself. That way when you inevitably have to switch vendors, you can simply write a new wrapper using the same interface, minimal changes necessary

Yeah - unfortunately the days of Android phones being totally customizable down to the root level are more-or-less gone unless you specifically buy the few models of phone that still allow this sort of thing.

That sounds less like you learned the language to a high standard, and more that you were already a good programmer in general terms and everyone else on your team barely knew what they were doing.

Ultimately if you can write good code in one language, you can probably also do it in another (especially with access to cheat sheets), but I still wouldn’t call using a cheat sheet having “learned” a language.

Of course it’s all relative and subjective - which is the whole point , one person may consider just being able to write syntactically correct statements as having “learned” a language. Where others might expect a deep knowledge of the language features, standard libraries, and best design practices (this is the side that I personally lean, which I maintain can’t be done in 2 days)

Tbf, “learned a language” is a hard thing to pin down in any case.

I’ve been building enterprise software with python for almost a decade now. I still occasionally find stuff in the stdlibs that I didn’t know about, or even sometimes some subtle feature of the language that I never had reason to explore until now.

If someone asks me if I “learned” python, id say hell yeah - but there’s always still plenty to learn

That being said, no reasonable definition of learned includes what you could do in 2 days, even as an experienced dev lol

Upper right reminds me of this absolute classic

https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code/blob/master/README.md

I don’t think 3 monitors qualifies necessarily as “too many” under what I was saying before - I also have 3 monitors, one ultrawide and two portrait monitors on either side. I can see everything I need with only miniscule head movements, and I make a point of keeping my main focus work on the center display, to avoid neck strain.

My point there was directed mainly at the people who want VR workspaces so they can be surrounded in a sphere of monitors

we’ll see, I’m skeptical out of the gate until reviewers get their hands on some models to play with as to whether or not it can fulfill it’s many quite optimistic promises.

Even if it does everything it says on the tin (which frankly, I’m pretty doubtful about), my other concerns are still valid here. I just don’t see what virtual screens add that physical screens don’t give you. The only real advantage to something like that is that you can work anywhere I suppose - but for comfortable computer work, you’re still going to want an ergonomic KBM setup, a comfortable ergonomic chair, and a decent desk - so even if this solves the monitor problem, it’s not likely to lure many professionals away from their desks anyways.

If others really want to work in VR, more power to 'em, but I’ve yet to see anything (even super optimistic upcoming stuff like the Visor) that makes me seriously consider ditching my Physical monitors

Yeah fail2ban has worked great for me

Yeah I have to imagine that most people who think working in VR is a no brainer have never actually tried it.

VR is awesome, and using a VR desktop is cool as a novelty, but even the best modern headsets get uncomfortable after more than an hour or two of use and vr pass through has its own problems in terms of accuracy and comfort

If for whatever reason your working situation was such that you physically couldn’t have a traditional setup, then yeah it might be the next best alternative, but I’ll take monitors and a standing desk any day of the week over a VR workspace.

Also, past a certain point, adding more screen real estate isn’t actually helpful. You can only actually look at so much info at a time, and having too many monitors means you’re going to be craning your neck to see the ones that aren’t in front of you. At a point, you’re much better off using workspaces with good keybindings to handle more windows

As long as you have the ability to NOT interact with them, via blocking or simply ignoring them, what’s the problem?

Because it lets people advocating genocide further their agenda of actual genocide? There’s a saying in germany “If 10 people sit at a table, and they allow a Nazi to join them, you have 11 Nazis at the table”. Making room for genocidal rhetoric is supporting that genocidal rhetoric. We’re not talking about “bad opinions” here, we’re talking about actual, literal genocide.

And here is a big problem - currently any and all questioning of trans and gender ideology is shouted down as “transphobic” and “wanting to eradicate trans people” by the far left. Should that all be banned?

If by “questioning of trans and gender ideology” you mean “advocating that trans people should not be allowed to exist, by denying them the therapies and procedures they need to transition”, then yes - because that is advocating for the eradication of trans people - not by murder - sure, but by ideological suppression. If instead you mean things like “I have no desire to change my own gender” or “I don’t really understand why someone would want to transition”, then no - of course not.

And because I’ve interacted with enough concern-trolls like you to know what you’re going to say next, yes - the exact line can absolutely be fuzzy and subjective - I’ve already said that, and I don’t pretend to have a nice neat solution to the issue, but you don’t need to have a solution in hand to point out a problem. That’s why the point of my comment was centered around the fact that we should (though clearly you disagree) at least be able to agree that literal, unambiguous genocidal rhetoric, such as that professed by Nazis is something that shouldn’t be tolerated.

The fact that you disagree with that point so strongly tells me all I need to know about you, really - and because this is - in fact a free platform, where we’re all free to engage or not engage with whoever we want - I’m going to go ahead and disengage with you - because, like the lady who originally brought up this point - I really don’t want to waste time talking to Nazi Sympathizers (or people who spend an embarrassing amount of time on this site arguing about what gender other people prefer to identify as, and whether or not that identity should be strongly linked to what’s in their pants)

I don’t understand how one can advocate for censorship, yet be incapable of defining what speech should be restricted.

I feel like Sarah defined pretty thoroughly the type of speech that should be restricted when she said “If you are advocating for the literal eradication of people because they are part of your “out group”, then into the bin with you.”.

That feels like a line that we should all be able to agree upon, and yet there are still many who bafflingly say that we should respect Nazi’s ability to spout Nazi propaganda and recruit online.

You’re 100% right that the exact threshold at which speech verges from the “unpleasant but tolerable” to the “dangerous and requiring censorship” is fuzzy and subjective. But I think it’s entirely safe to say that when what you’re discussing is the eradication of groups or even “just” individuals, you’re on the wrong side of that threshold, plain and simple.

We can talk about where exactly that line falls relative to other issues, but that’s always going to vary from person to person in the fine details, but anyone who thinks that literal Nazis should have a safe space to discuss actual Nazi propaganda frankly isn’t someone whose opinion I’m going to take seriously, in the same way I wouldn’t take seriously someone who argues the Earth is flat (though - being harmless - I’d certainly support their ability to talk about Flat Earth online without censorship).

I don’t necessarily agree with the use of the term in this context, but I took it to mean that it’s gaslighting in the sense that when you call it out as a dog whistle meaning “you can now be a POS on our platform”, people can respond with stuff like “Wow, so you’re anti-free speech? Do you hate America? Why do you want to censor people?” And shit like that, which is gaslighting IMO