nottheengineer 10 months ago • 50%
Maybe they fixed that part, but that isn't a good thing. Now you can't feel whether something is installed as snap and will probably run into snap issues without a clue what could be causing them.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 40%
CRTs don't have pixels so the resolution of the signal isn't that important. It's about the inherent softness you get from the technology. It's better than any anti-aliasing we have today.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 80%
Copied from another comment I wrote about that:
Because snaps are terrible. They constantly break parts of apps for no reason. If you have container issues with a flatpak, just use flatseal to punch a hole through the container. With snaps, people will tell you to install the non-snap version because that's easier than beating snap into submission. I learned that the hard way when I had a university project with kubernetes and docker was installed as a snap. I spent way too much time trying to make it work at all before giving up and switching to a VM on my work laptop where it went surprisingly smooth without snaps.
Flatpaks are better in every way and since this isn't about money, we should all just move on and use the best tool for the job.
But what does canonical think should happen when you run sudo apt install firefox
and press Y
?
That's right, you now have firefox as a snap. Have fun waiting for 5 seconds every time you start it.
Shit like that scares new users away from linux as a whole
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 24%
Have you compared NES games on a CRT with the same games on a modern screen?
CRTs just look miles better.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 100%
Something like mint or fedora is just as easy to install and has less issues than ubuntu (snaps)
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 72%
Use something other than gnome and, while you're at it, you might as well use something other than ubuntu.
KDE is very hard to break, you can go wild with customization there.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 100%
Unfortunately you need something with long firmware and software support. Qualcomm is your enemy, they stop updating the firmware of their chips after about two years and that's why android phones often stop getting updates less than 2 years after you buy them.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 100%
That's mostly politics as well.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 100%
The boost app has a karma counter, maybe people want to see the funny number go up.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 91%
Installing arch is a great way to learn. Also don't be scared of daily driving it, it's not like it breaks twice a week. More like once a year, which is better than ubuntu in my experience.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 100%
Meine elektrischen Außenspiegel sind Gold wert, wenn mal wieder ein Passat dicht auffährt und ich meinen eigenen Schatten auf Straßenschildern sehe.
Hier zwischen Karlsruhe und Heidelberg fährt jeder dritte VW (inklusive Audi, Skoda, Seat und dem Rest des Konzerns) mit komplett verstellten Scheinwerfern rum. Ich glaube es gibt in der Gegend die eine oder andere Werkstatt, die Glühbirnen austauscht und dann die Scheinwerfer einfach wieder irgendwie zusammenbaut.
Bei den LED-Scheinwerfern passiert das mit VW aber auch extrem oft, als würden sie ab Werk einfach gar nichts einstellen und die Verantwortung an die Händler abgeben. Die Händler stellen nämlich mit Sicherheit nichts ein.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 100%
Hilft das Chiptuning auch beim Getriebe? Ab Werk soll das ja grausam sein.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 100%
Over here in germany, tipping is synonymous with cash and using the tip feature of apps is frowned upon because it adds an unnecessary middleman.
Not sure how transferrable that is to other countries, us germans really like cash.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 71%
Gorilla Glass Victus is just a marketing term. It's still glass, and glass breaks (and gets scratched). Always use a screen protector. If your phone has curved edges on the front, a case is also mandatory because curved screens are very easy to break.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 100%
90hz screen with 180hz polling is what my phone uses as well, it's nice that the deck has now caught up to that.
Also remember to leave your original deck on when downloading games on the new one so it can transfer them locally, which should be faster. There's a setting for that, but I think it's on by default.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 100%
But you still need to remember the port of the service you're trying to reach, which isn't great.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 100%
I know a lot of people my age (early 20s) who use tiktok and have no idea what tracking or privacy mean.
Kids might be smart, but if this is all they've known and it works well enough they don't pay attention and don't use their critical thinking.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 100%
But the deck can also be used for gaming with zero tinkering, so kids will do that.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 100%
KDEs wobbly windows will convert almost any child to linux.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 100%
Which distro and GPU? I've had a terrible experience with my 1070 Ti across Windows, kubuntu and arch and I didn't even try Wayland.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 100%
Because snaps are terrible. They constantly break parts of apps for no reason. If you have container issues with a flatpak, just use flatseal to punch a hole through the container. With snaps, people will tell you to install the non-snap version because that's easier than beating snap into submission. I learned that the hard way when I had a university project with kubernetes and docker was installed as a snap. I spent way too much time trying to make it work at all before giving up and switching to a VM on my work laptop where it went surprisingly smooth without snaps.
Flatpaks are better in every way and since this isn't about money, we should all just move on and use the best tool for the job.
But what does canonical think should happen when you run sudo apt install firefox
and press Y
?
That's right, you now have firefox as a snap. Have fun waiting for 5 seconds every time you start it.
Shit like that scares new users away from linux as a whole.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 94%
Nvidia driver updates break things all the time. Just rollback and wait a few weeks before you try updating again.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 100%
Try Smarttube, it's a joy to use.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 100%
It's just like with programming: The people who are scared of AI taking their jobs are usually bad at them.
AI is incredibly good at regurgitating information and translation, but not at understanding. Programming can be viewed as translation, so they are good at it. LLMs on their own won't become much better in terms of understanding, we're at a point where they are already trained on all the good data from the internet. Now we're starting to let AIs collect data directly from the world (chatGPT being public is just a play to collect more data), but that's much slower.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 100%
I use SmartTube on my android TV and it's great. If you can find an android TV box that doesn't come with malware preinstalled or get android running on the pi, I highly recommend it.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 100%
It's maybe very radical in worldview, but not in action. I still use stuff like netflix, spotify and youtube instead of downloading everything and share files through cloud storage, I just view it as something I can enjoy/use now that might not be around in the future. If I really want to keep something, the only things I can trust are myself and FOSS.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 100%
I had to reinstall Onedrive at work. Doing that screwed up so much I spent a total of about 8 hours to get everything working again and 2 more to redo the work that was lost before reinstalling. Now I view anything that I don't control directly as ephemeral.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 93%
A linux PC would involve some amount of tinkering.
The steam deck is foolproof, a 6 year old can play games on it with no issues, so it's a console. The PC mode is just a nice extra.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 100%
Also remember to check protondb before you buy a game in case you have a steam deck because the verification is often wrong. I refunded Horizon Zero Dawn because it runs terribly on the steam deck (frequent dips below 30fps) and had ridiculous input lag (like 250ms more than other games). That was when I learned about protondb. Also definitely read the texts instead of just looking at the rating, a lot of people seem to be fine with performance that's like PS4 cyberpunk.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 76%
It was already discovered that that was a big and game devs need to fix it manually for now.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 100%
If you work in security, you will almost certainly have something to do with web servers, so you need to know how they work.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 97%
Because the good mods left and reddit is now run by idiots.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 100%
The reader doesn't store the fingerprint, just an embedding that lets it verfiy whether or not your finger matches.
And that's stored in the secure enclave, so the OS can't read it.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 95%
We're lucky to have valve. They actually managed to make a console without the downsides of a console.
My OLED deck has arrived today, can't wait to use it.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 37%
If you're bad at a multiplayer game, you'll die a lot. That's just part of it. Any good game will give new players a way to fight good players (TF2 has the anti titan weapons for example).
Poorly designed games will punish bad players for being bad (like unavoidable COD killstreaks for example).
SBMM is just a band-aid for a problem that lies much deeper.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 87%
The solution is simple: Create lobbies by ping and then split the teams by skill. I think titanfall 2 does that, I've been playing for a long time and if I meet another veteran, they are usually on the other team.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 85%
Excel is a problem since it changes constantly and relies so much on the mouse. I'm a developer and struggle every time I'm forced to use it.
Search engines have also gotten terrible over the last few years so it's a pretty bad time to learn how to use a computer. Old videos from the 90s and 2000s are great to learn the basics, but unfortunately you can't really follow along.
Paid courses for the basics of MS office exist, maybe you'll be able to find one that starts from zero and teaches the basics of using a computer at all.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 66%
Ich finde die Überwachung durch Konzerne noch schlimmer als die durch den Staat. Der Staat ist immerhin in der Regel unfähig und träge, bei Konzernen wirst du á la Cambridge Analytica vollautomatisch durchmanipuliert.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 100%
My personal machines are all on linux already. But unfortunately my work laptop isn't and won't be unless I find a different job.
nottheengineer 10 months ago • 95%
Mint gets rid of snaps, distros that don't are just bad imo.
My phone is no longer getting updates, so it's time to buy a new one. The hardware could easily last 1-2 more years but I'd have to replace the battery, which is a pain on my phone. I'm looking for something that has long firmware support and some good privacy roms while not being worse than my current Oneplus 8 in any way. I don't care about cameras at all and I'm still mad about the missing headphone jacks, but unfortunately those don't seem to be coming back and I can survive without one. So, the options are Fairphone 5 and Pixel 8 from what I found out. The Pixel 8 is a little small for my taste and with 256GB storage it's more expensive, but it does have grapheneOS, which I'd prefer because the app sandboxing would allow me to have peace of mind even if I have tracking apps sitting on my phone. I could use the proper play store and do IAPs without fiddling with aurora store. I use it already and it isn't great. With the Fairphone, I'd get a replacable battery so I can buy a spare and swap instead of charging my phone. I used to do that with the good old S3 and it was great. MicroSD slot is also nice. But the ROM options are CalyxOS and /e/OS. I know Calyx has a nice firewall to keep tracking at bay and /e/OS is an LOS fork mainly focused on getting rid of google from what I know, but neither has as much protection as grapheneOS. My main goal is to become less dependant on google while still being able to use google maps for my way to work. The traffic aware routing saves me 10 minutes every day so letting google know when I go to work is a fair deal. So, any opinions or experiences with either? TIA
The spotify app keeps getting worse by the week. At this point it won't load my saved song list at all when I'm offline. While writing this, it just crashed in the background. So I've finally had enough and started looking for a ripper to use a different player app. But try and google for one and you'll be surprised, the only reasonable results are github repos from 5 years ago and before you find one of those, you get a bunch of AI generated trash and some paid services whose websites also look very AI-generated. Are there any proper ways to do this? Alternative spotify apps exist (though they don't seem to be very usable yet) so I'm sure there's a way to get something from the API, even if it means I need to register for API access.
I tried tapping the link in the body of this post: https://lemmy.ml/post/7227071 and got a toast saying "Error opening link". Long pressing the text and copying the link works, so I guess there's some kind of parsing issue. The link was https://www.kcsoftwares.com/?sumo and the post has it formatted as [https://www.kcsoftwares.com/?sumo](url) Boost version shows 1.0.1 (4) in the app info.
As the title says, posts like this: https://lemmy.world/post/6836351 with many good quality pictures embedded into the text cause boost to become very laggy.
I recently started playing Dyson sphere program on my PC again and I get that lovely feeling of being drawn into the game for hours. But since it's a very mouse-centric game, I don't want to play it on a steam deck. And because I sit at a desk all day for work, I'd rather lay down on the couch and use my deck instead. Are there any games like DSP that work well with a controller? I find that if I use the trackpad too much, my right wrist starts to hurt.
Hi, my Android dev experience consists of a single school project back in the day before android studio existed, it populated a few menus dynamically from text files and displayed text/images. I am a developer, but I write business software in a field that's usually 10 years or so behind the bleeding edge. I'd consider myself a power user of android, flashing roms or kernels isn't new to me, but development is. Jerboa is great already, but I see a lot of things that could be improved and many of them seem rather easy. How much time would it take to get to a point where I could implement simple stuff, like adding an entry to the context menu of comments that lets me view the raw text?
Hi, I recently built myself a Type 10 to sit in a low RES and hunt bounties without me. The [current build](https://edsy.org/s/vKem1Md) was already destroyed twice, one time I respawned on the closest station and one time I spawned in a detention facility. Not entirely sure what happened either time, but whenever I was watching it, it seemed to do just fine with 4 pips to shields. One thing I should probably mention is that I bring collector limpets to scoop up the manufactured mats and I have it set up so that one is launched every 5 minutes or so. That of course leads to stolen cargo and stolen cargo in combination with enemy hatchbreakers leads to fines for jettisoning stolen cargo. I'm not entirely sure, but I think one of my deaths can be explained by the fact that fines eventually turn into bounties. Is there a way to place my point defenses so that they properly protect against hatchbreakers or another way be safe? Or do I need to stop using limpets when I'm not there and go back to dav's hope for manufactured mats?