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The discourse goes to the same fucking place every time Felix is mentioned. People don't deserve the benefit of doubt.
hosting their videos on their own website
I love that entrepreneurial attitude. If an online service is unsatisfactory, just develop your own software from the ground up and provision the infrastructure from your pocket. Car industry sucks? Just build your own car! GPU prices high? Grab a soldering iron and a handful of sand, how hard could it be?
Things are always more complex than they appear. The whole point of services like Youtube and Patreon is to offload that complexity onto the provider in exchange for a fee (or some other form of compensation) from the user. Just look at how many early Lemmy instances have gone offline because of the overwhelming financial or administrative burden. Hate the companies all you like, and by all means look for independent solutions, but don't pretend they offer no value whatsoever.
What is missed is not necessary or available.
For some people, the differences can be deal breakers. Nix is interesting, but I won't likely move away from Arch because access to the AUR is more valuable to me.
Mint also doesn't install snap when you want to install an apt package, nor put Amazon ads in your search box. GNOME is also just a horrid experience for someone who's transitioning from Windows.
The lead maintainer is an anti-vaxxer, conspiracy theorist, historical revisionist, and general nutjob. Links in the comments: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/38376251
The entire "non-ideological" thing is just him not wanting to be challenged for being a shitter.
I already know a couple of mine:
- Wireless fucking sucks
- Bring back the headphone jack
- Apps suck
- E-mail is superior to every single communication method
One day the Year of the Linux Desktop will arrive.
And some people will want to pound the ecosystem back into the 80s because their obsolete, bug-ridden pile of technical debt isn't the most popular (insert system component here) in the world, and the best alternative has some issues.
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Glass nuggets
(files.catbox.moe)
Original: https://files.catbox.moe/ouf9k7.png Alt tonemapping: https://files.catbox.moe/g7mg0q.png
Made in Blender.
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You can't shunt there, mate
(feddit.org)
Original (full story in German): https://feddit.org/post/5322260
Derailment during a shunting operation, caused by the driver's negligence.
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The Scrombler: breaking up large tiled textures
(lemmy.world)
This is a simple shader node group that breaks up the visual repetition of tiled textures. It uses a Voronoi texture's cell colors to apply a random translation and/or rotation to an image texture's vector input to produce an irregular pattern.
I primarily made it for landscape materials. The cells' borders are still sharp, so certain materials, like bricks, wood, or fabric, will not look good.
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Explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_(moon)#Name
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It's a poor imitation. A mockery of the name. A GUI addict's idea of a CLI tool.
Our business-critical internal software suite was written in Pascal as a temporary solution and has been unmaintained for almost 20 years. It transmits cleartext usernames and passwords as the URI components of GET requests. They also use a single decade-old Excel file to store vital statistics. A key part of the workflow involves an Excel file with a macro that processes an HTML document from the clipboard.
I offered them a better solution, which was rejected because the downtime and the minimal training would be more costly than working around the current issues.
Extrapolate from the context. I'm tired of explaining obvious things to unreceptive people.