As someone who’s built his own PCs for years, I’ve never really bothered with a BIOS update.
Then again, one of the main reasons to update BIOS is to gain support for new CPUs, but I’ve been using Intel which switches to a new socket or chipset every other generation anyway. I’ve almost always had to buy a new motherboard alongside a new CPU.
My understanding is that Flatpak was never designed to be a secure environment. It’s all about convenience.
Running software you know you can’t trust is idiotic no matter how well you sandbox it.
That quote actually links to a really good article: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-Merging-NTSYNC
Seconded. Having an awesome Fish setup doesn’t help at all when you’re constantly having to shell into other machines unless you somehow keep your dotfiles synced, and that sounds like a total hassle.
I’d rather my muscle memory be optimized for the standard setup.
Wanting to and actually doing it are two different things.
The problem is that open source devs also have to be their own project managers, but those two jobs have very different skillsets.
In regular software development, it’s the PM’s job to deal with the drama, filter the idiocy out and collect concise and actionable user stories, and let the developers just write code.
In open source, you tend to deal with a lot of entitlement. All kinds of people, who never gave you a dime, come out out of the woodwork to yell at you over every little change. The bigger and farther reaching a project is, the more this happens, and it wears you down. I can only imagine what it’s like working on a huge project like GNOME.
And the toxicity feeds into itself. Be kurt with one person, and suddenly it gets out that you’re an asshole to users. Then people come in expecting hostility and react defensively to every little comment. And that puts you in the same mindset.
At the end of the day, you can’t satisfy everyone. Sometimes you gotta figure out how to tell someone their feature request is stupid and you’re not gonna work on it, especially not for free. And a lot of people need to learn to try to fix problems themselves before opening an issue. That’s kind of the whole point of open source.
https://lemmy.zip/comment/11156711
It doesn’t excuse the behavior, but I get where it’s coming from.
At this point, no. But it’s still incredibly annoying and a little spooky when I’m laying in bed and I see my computer screen light up in the next room when it’s not supposed to.
It’ll even wake itself from sleep when it wants to update, but it won’t start it automatically, I think because it hits the lock screen.
I’ll probably try Linux on ir when Windows 10 hits EOL.
Someone should force this guy to read about the principle of least astonishment.
Doesn’t surprise me that a developer from Microsoft doesn’t understand this. To this day, when I select “Update and Shut Down” in Windows, it only actually shuts the computer down about half the time.
Beggars can’t be choosers.
Wouldn’t it be eat your cake and still have it?
The idiom is generally phrased “have your cake and eat it too” but yeah that’s rather confusing. The way you said it is how I actually understand it in my head.
I think the way English Common has evolved doesn’t help either, because “to have” is now synonymous with “to eat” in the context of food, but I don’t think it was that way when the idiom was coined. It’s actually about 500 years old according to Wikipedia.
I am a big filthy goblin pretty much. A hobgoblin, if you will.
I appreciate the heartfelt advice but I’m mostly just riffing.
My real problem is that staying home and playing video games is less work and more immediately gratifying than getting out and trying to meet someone, but I recognize that complaining about that just means I’m trying to have my cake and eat it too.
Hey, that’s not fair to the goblin.
Bro, the genre’s called fantasy for a reason.
Why you gotta ruin my dream of finding someone who loves me for myself? Unrealistic though it might be…
If a cute goblin woman wanted to claim me as her husband, I probably wouldn’t say no.
I had Scratch out once. I got into a fight and tried to use his abilities, got him killed with an AOE, reloaded the save, and never left camp with him again.
I don’t care what buried treasure I’m missing, Scratch is far too precious to risk his safety like that.
Hey, ping matters when you’re trying to buy a domain before someone snipes it from you
Android has its own media player APIs, you just have to tell it what to play and give it a place in the UI for the player canvas. You can even design your own controls for it.
When you open a webpage in Sync, that’s an embedded web browser also provided by Android.
It’s unlikely that Sync links to libwebp directly.
The Sync for Reddit app isn’t usable anymore as it can no longer access the Reddit API. All you get are errors when you try to use it now.
This is the whole idea behind Turing-completeness, isn’t it? Any Turing-complete architecture can simulate any other.
Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/505/