I mean, we came from banging rocks together to making those rocks think for us. Our entire modern world is so far divorced from ancient humanity it’s hard to list all the individual accomplishments. Recently though has been the electrical grid, global logistics chains and the internet. In these times of medical doomerism, it’s also important to remember that we banded together killed smallpox.

Sending memes back and forth is a love language.

It was working in Firefox and I happened to have a VPN running in it, so that might be messing with my DNS such that the cache was different. Hopefully all fixed now though.

Compared to other platforms, they have a lot of good features and generally act in the public interest.

In regards to their DRM system, honestly some people are going to add DRM to their games no matter what. I’d much rather they use Valve’s system than some insecure third party spyware.

People have also mentioned their 30% cut which honestly seems pretty normal for an online storefront. It’s especially fair when you consider the fact that they provide marketing, hosting and payment processing for you. Not to mention things like achievements, matchmaking and workshop support if you want it.

There’s also the fact that a lot of the anti-monopoly folks tend to be Linux and/or foss advocates, and Valve has been pumping a lot of resources into open source projects.

Honestly, in the Linux space, the only reason Valve has a monopoly is because the other players just aren’t making any effort to compete.

Tl;dr Valve uses their market position for good (in general) and Steam is a good product.

Trying to get a clean home directory by trying to get apps to follow xdg and put config files in .config.

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/ Is working for me, and they seem to have a post from 2 hours ago. Maybe just a temporary hiccup.

EDIT: Tried it in another browser, and it doesn’t seem to work. DNS seems to resolve to 825610.parkingcrew.net. so maybe something happened with their DNS records.

All three are web based frontends for git repositories; you use git to send and receive code to/from them for storage and sharing. They all also provide other things useful to developers such as issue tracking, wikis and such. They are different products that fulfill the same role.

what software does github.com use?

It’s all proprietary software (presumably) written in-house. We don’t have access to it.

whats the difference between them (pros/cons)?

Github:
Pro: Wider reach, everyone knows about Github.
Con: Proprietary; your code is hosted based on the whims of Microsoft.

Forgejo:
Pro: Open source, selfhostable. There’s a big instance on https://codeberg.org/ which a lot of open source projects are starting to move to.
Con: It’s smaller and not as well known as Github. In theory it may also lack features, but I’ve not seen any that have gotten in my way.

Gitlab:
Pro: It’s… I guess in second place in terms of popularity? It’s also selfhostable.
Con: It’s one of those open source projects with paid closed source features, so not really appealing to either group. It’s also had questionable management decisions recently.

what about self-hosting? Possibilities/Preferences?

If you want to selfhost a git server, I’d recommend Forgejo; it seems to be the most friendly towards the open source and selfhosting communities.

I know people have been investing a lot of work into getting Nvidia into a state where it Just Works, but if you don’t need any fancy Nvidia features and are starting from scratch I’d honestly just recommend getting an AMD card just so you don’t have to worry about it.

What games are you thinking of running and what resolution/frequency monitor do you have/want?

Daily backups here. Storage is cheap. Losing data is not.

Mint explicitly goes out of its way to disable snap in favour of flatpaks.

https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/snap.html

Here everyone under 22 gets a free bus pass as well. I think it’s a great idea.

I’m in the UK and that bill has caused me so much stress and anxiety. ;_;

Nobody seems to be putting the effort into making ATProto federated apps, sadly. The main people who would do it are also the type to stubbornly stick with ActivityPub.

I like to see companies design their software such that their main financial incentives are tied to the quality of their product. This usually involves being open source; if someone can fork it, your paywalled version better have extra features that open source people can’t make easily. I also like to see them trying to avoid vendor lockin; if it’s easy for you to switch, then they need to actively work on not letting that happen.

For example, Bluesky. They have an open protocol and (I think) you can easily transfer data between instances. If they start fucking people around, you can just jump to another ATProto app.

For Kagi, the only thing you’re paying for is search… So if they fuck that up, you can just crawl back to DuckDuckGo.

Obsidian is an interesting case. It’s not open source, but the files it works on are just markdown. If they go totally wild, I can just easily switch to VSCodium to edit my files.

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So much for the tolerant left. (/s)

I’m lucky that my sister already went through the “which drug works?” song and dance. Went to my GP, he prescribed me the same one (sertaline) and a few weeks later started feeling much better (with therapy also playing a part).

As a general rule, AI can only really perform easy monotonous tasks. Anything that requires creativity or intuition is generally not doable with AI.

The most a GPT AI could do is steal some instructions from some blog somewhere on how to configure a kernel or install some distro, then generate a list of packages.

Engineer probably wanted to work on the Dispair Pit.

I broadly agree with the message in this comic but… Isn’t the 664 billionaires thing a bit misleading? It ignores all the inflation and population growth that has happened in the past 30 years.