All good, and I respect your perspective!

I know you were like “flame me!” Lol, But hope I wasn’t sounding too judgy. I think it’s hard not to have strong opinions on the topic either way these days. (And I’m already prone to soapboxing haha.)

Wishing you the best out there. :)

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That’s… Disgusting. I’m so sorry.

The network connection is probably to let the vendor know what they need to refill

…and waste perfectly good user telemetry and that whole screen devoid of ads?! In <current year>???

:p

“…enabled me to deliver value in a fraction of the time I expected.”

I don’t wanna flame you for it.

This is kinda where I see vibe coding taking off the most: The same phenomenon as using LLMs to summarize and reply to pithy business emails.

Business gets so unbearably businessy, people are using machines to bypass the inherently un-human “professionalism performance” for them.

It might not be work anybody can claim to be proud of, but right now success for the professional-managerial class runs on looking busy and circling back to synergizing the workflow with best practices for optimal returns regarding key performance metrics 🤢 or whatnot.

I don’t blame people for it, in a work context. Looking impressive with AI tools is now a survival tactic when working under normies holding the purse strings and investing stupid amounts of money into the bubble. They’ve forced people to be part of a circular, self-reinforcing imaginary reality they’re profiting from.

So, I don’t wanna flame you. I just hope you’re doing something fundamentally human to keep your soul alive on the side, at least. Something you as a unique human being on this earth can be proud of. <3

@nieceandtows@programming.dev

I like this suggestion. You can block adult content through just switching the router’s DNS to a certain cloudflare address, and I THINK some routers allow blocking a connection from a certain MAC address from X to Y time.

There’s also huge blacklists for PiHole to block that stuff, if you’re open to self-host stuff.

But those lists, by nature of the vast Internet, won’t cover everything, so I think computer use out in the open (like the family area) with set internet-open times would be best.

(A bit more advanced but I’m sure you can, say, permanently whitelist stuff like your distro’s update domains, for example.)

And the best thing: Really just have open conversations about the dangers of this stuff on the Internet, and how things will try to hijack your brain. Kids are smart.

I’m about to be an any-day-now dad, so I’ve been trying to get ahead of this too! :)

I’ll admit, I expected a LOT more griftiness before opening your link buuuut…I dunno, it doesn’t seem worse than other projects that make a specific little “custom distro machine.”

I agree it’s a really niche action but, I like to be optimistic and I like the idealism.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

Someone else commented something about them being a “slop peddler” though, but haven’t had a chance to look into that. (Obviously don’t wanna support/ share slop peddling lol)

Well… crap! Where’d you find that out? Admittedly I posted this because I thought it was cool, like, before my morning coffee so I didn’t read the page 100%. >_<

I’ll admit I’m not versed enough as a developer to grasp this so I’ll take your word for it.

… I’mma just build my cross platform programs in Godot and nobody can stop me. >:)

the amount of ire CPU cycles / frames / watts it draws is overboard. Lol

(Trying to be funny not aggressive lol)

For real though, I think it’s just because it epitomizes that “Hardware is fast now so throw sluggishly interpreted high-level code at it and don’t even bother with optimization” mentality.

Like I remember when people would bash Python over this, but Electron apps make that feel way overblown now.

(Also Python did nothing wrong :( lol)

Funny how people barely scraping by with peanut wages is “Well we all have to just suck it up for the sake of the economy.” (Thatcher/Reagan types love to use this ‘take your medicine’ analogy.)

…but burning down a corporate warehouse is also “Oh no. Now those workers can’t work for peanuts. :(”

Almost like the power dynamic here is ridiculously askew and the company never feels the hurt.

At least one direction here has a chance of actually shifting the balance, and that direction surely isn’t

“Clock in day after day, say ‘yes, boss’, and hope for the best.”

Holy crap, granted I haven’t deep researched them or anything but I always thought of REI as the granola-munching fun hiking kids cooperative kind of environment…

…friggin’ branding…bamboozled again.

how much the job sucks and how good your country’s unemployment benefits are

(* Laughs, then ugly-sobs in stars-and-stripes *)

I’ve never seriously used Ubuntu but I’ve always been drawn to its aesthetic and coloring. All those pleasing purples and oranges are like a vibrant hug in color theory LOL. (And the font too!)

Anyway, I really like what you did here! You nailed all that!

I’m not a Blender expert, was just fooling around and though this looked okay-ish, so thought of sharing it here.

This is what made the Internet a good place to begin with. We need more of this exact thing in the world. Thank you for sharing your work with us and I sincerely hope you enjoyed creating it. :D

“Astro” which has no gender, also, no ethnicity, wears several costumes on top of each other AND has no mouth.

… And it must scream … Because it’s involved with Salesforce.

Pew pew!!!

OMG if you like that you’ll probably also love Burn My Windows (https://github.com/Schneegans/Burn-My-Windows)

Those effects are ported to Plasma too! You can get 'em through the KDE Store / get new stuff system. :D

(Sad forgotten Endeavour OS noises.)

I hear a lot of love for Fedora.

Even though I happily run OpenSUSE Tumbleweed myself, I have run into the occasional “What the ever-loving heck” issue that I’ve had to stubbornly troubleshoot, and I worry that’d make some people run away crying.

I have a family member with a really old laptop enjoying Mint, but my wife’s and my best buddy’s gaming PCs might be worth giving Fedora a shot on.

Like me, they need those updated Nvidia drivers and Wayland, and honestly most importantly for familiarity + cool-new-thing factor: KDE plasma 6! ;)

It was Oblivion they re-released recently. :)

TIL you can run Longest Journey with SCUMMVM! That’s so cool. I remember the retail release on disc being quite fickle to run properly.