[-] [email protected] 69 points 4 months ago

PSA: Definitely don't do this. It'll fuck you up proper.

[-] [email protected] 183 points 4 months ago

Interesting. Ants communicate by smell (essentially), so much so that a live ant which is coated in the "I'm dead" compound will be repeatedly carried to the dead pile regardless of how many times that ant walks away from it.

So, something in Trix must include a compound that those ants identify as "Dead pile goes here", and everyone thought someone else moved the dead pile lol

[-] [email protected] 160 points 8 months ago

Oh my god, thank you so much for this. I have always had the hardest time finding these exact same requirements, and this is perfect. All metal construction and coexisting with keys has always been a priority for me, but it seems like everyone is inexplicably fine with copping out by just dangling their data on this flimsy little string tied to a brittle plastic case and I cannot understand it.

I'm not currently looking for one at this exact moment, but I will be returning here when I am. You're doing the lord's work out here!

[-] [email protected] 364 points 9 months ago

Some extra fun details from the staff discussions around this: Valve is not interested in control of the distro, but are mainly interested in funding work on projects that are chosen by Arch staff, and are already things that Arch staff wants to implement. The projects chosen are indeed things that Valve also want to be part of the distro's infrastructure, but the process has been totally in the hands of Arch staff.

I gotta say, it's been really cool to see Valve go through the process of considering OSS as not just a useful tool or worthwhile target, but as a robust collaborator.

First, they build and maintain their client on Linux, and build their games to run natively on Linux, learning that things aren't actually as difficult as it's commonly made out to be, and the things that are more difficult than they need to be can be fixed by working with and contributing to the existing community.

Then they consider building their own hardware, but try the half-way approach of building SteamOS on top of Debian, and depending on existing hardware vendors to build machines with SteamOS in mind, learning that there's a lot of unnecessary complexity around both of those approaches to that goal.

Then they learn how to develop and build 1st party hardware with the SteamLink and Steam Controller.

Then they put the lessons from the Steam Machine project into practice by dumping loads of time and effort into Proton, knowing that they won't have the market unless they can get Windows games to run on Linux in a reliable and seamless way.

Then they put all that knowledge and effort together to do the impossible: unite PC gamers of both Windows and Linux flavors under the banner of the SteamDeck, a fully gaming-focused, high-quality, and owner-friendly piece of kit that kicks so much ass that it single-handedly pulls a whole category of PC hardware out of obsurity and into the mainstream.

And what do they do with that success? Literally pay it forward by funding work on the free software that forms the plinth that their success stands upon.

Good on Valve.

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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

In this dream, I quickly poly-saturated myself, then added everyone to the same group chat, and chaos ensued.

The problem was not that I hadn't cleared the whole poly thing with everyone beforehand. Dream me is apparently at least that much of a stand-up dude...

And no, the big problem wasn't that I had done this before I had introduced everyone in person (apparently, this isn't a part of dream me's dynamic, who knew)...

No, the biggest problem was that I did so via some sort of WORK SYSTEM, AND NOW IT'S AN HR PROBLEM OHMYGOD

[-] [email protected] 311 points 10 months ago

Fuck you, pay me.

[-] [email protected] 83 points 10 months ago

As a former rideshare driver: Fuckin' based.

[-] [email protected] 78 points 10 months ago

I think the main concern is that this is a step towards normalizing extremely frequent price changes, a la Uber surge pricing.

[-] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago

Waow. MS can't decide if their users should have control of their hardware or not.

Your linux bootloader and efi config? That belongs to Windows, and it will make changes as much as it wants. A recovery partition that has no usefulness outside their own ecosystem? Yeah, they know it's fucked, and they fucked it, but it's your computer, you fix it!

[-] [email protected] 105 points 1 year ago

They get paid when the least amount of people they insure use their services. They're not incentivized to help those they've insured. The less they have to pay out to providers, the better the executive bonuses. Thus, they are diligent in collecting premiums, but can just sit on their hands when it comes to paying out.

The more the system denies and delays a claim, the fewer insured people are willing or able to put themselves through the bureaucracy gauntlet, the fewer pay outs.

They're not in the business of insurance, they're in the business of making money from the business of insurance. It's over-complicated on purpose.

[-] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago

I'll admit I have zero insight and haven't looked into this, but at first glance, I don't understand why a desktop environment theme engine is unable to provide enough functionality for theme creators to do their thing without resorting to arbitrary command execution...

I trust KDE devs to address this quickly, but this is a pretty major oversight IMO...

[-] [email protected] 75 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Also worth mentioning: if you fuck up the door trying to get into it,

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO FIX A GARAGE DOOR YOURSELF!

Light percussive maintenance to bend a panel back into shape is one thing, but never ever try to take one apart if you aren't qualified. There are dangerous springs under tension that can and will kill you.

Get a professional

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