Linux’s “security through obscurity”

I lost braincells reading this. The entire point of open source software is to have it visible and auditable, aka the exact opposite of security through obscurity.

If you want to bash OS’s for relying on STO, go after iOS and Windows. Those OS’s, being closed source, are the ones relying on it

Keep in mind that the rate of errors caught by AI will not be consistent. It will drop off over time.

While I’m no fan of AI, that has nothing to do with it. Adding AI to error detection suites is (mostly) fine so long as you don’t remove more tradional methods like code review, manually set up unit tests, and properly reviewing each failed test instead of just letting the AI slop in a patch.

My point is that any test you add to an existing codebase is going to catch a decent number of issues at first, then over time it will drop off as pre-existing issues get resolved. Then you’ll be left with the lower rate of new issues from updates.

AI isn’t a silver bullet. It (sometimes) is another tool in the toolbox.

Ah, yes, of course a single isolated example is indicative of an endemic issue /s

Covic said the tweet that started all of this was something of a misstatement: The 20% refund rate on Paddle Paddle Paddle is actually pretty normal for a “rage game”

So the dev is just whining on social media then because they’re an entitled prick.

Here’s my main questions:

• What brand of graphics card do you have?
• Do you primarily want to play games?
• Do you want to tinker?
• Do you prefer the look/feel of Windows or MacOS?

While most distros support Nvidia cards, manually updating the drivers via CLI is a pain, especially the first time when things randomly break and it takes you 4 hours going through Ubuntu forums to find the answer because you don’t know what to ask. For new Linux users, always direct them to a distro with Nvidia drivers baked in.

If they want to primarily game, I’d recommend pointing them to a distro with gaming optimizations and pre-installed gaming packages. This narrows it down to CachyOS, SteamOS, Bazzite, or Nobara. If they mainly want a PC to do work, I’d recommend Mint or Fedora.

If they don’t want to tinker, I’d recommend Mint, Bazzite, or SteamOS, depending on what their previous choices are. If they are fine with tinkering, or at least have the option open for a particular edge case they have, then I’d recommend the other Distros.

Look and feel would determine which desktop environment to go with. Many of the above distros have multiple options, and thankfully CachyOS supports all common DE’s.

While not every combination of choices is supported, you can get close enough to prioritize one factor over another to get a happy compromise.

PS, I personally wouldn’t recommend Nobara, but I’d still include it in a list with a precaution. It works, it’s my current distro. There’s a couple minor annoyances than can be mostly avoided, such as the default “Nobara” theme having global menus enabled by default. If someone was really interested in Nobara I’d try to nudge them towards CachyOS with KDE, but it’s best not to push people too hard if their heart is set

That sounds like the PieFed admins are just going to make it worse. Now there’s going to be first user advantage, with the first comments on a thread getting preferrential treatment

I guess they didn’t expect people to be such freeloading assholes to play their game in full and then take back their money.

Have they even given evidence that their game is significantly more refunded than any other game? Or did they see X amount of people refunding the game and declaring that they must have done it because they’re evil?

“More sells” is a giant leap past “make your game longer tham 2 hours”.

Especially when there’s no real proof out there that this game is getting refunded significantly more.

Remember, some people love to just complain, especially if it suggests that the people that don’t like them are evil

“Pokemon baiter”? Wtf kind of clickbait headline is this?

Edit: Here’s an Archive link for those who don’t want to reward clickbait: https://web.archive.org/web/20260710162937/https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/after-years-of-nintendo-lawsuits-and-many-millions-of-sales-pokemon-baiter-palworld-is-out-in-10-today

The ones who aren’t were already lost causes, meaning they were already fascists.

The series isn’t sarcastic like Starship Troopers or Helldivers. And yes, sarcasm is problematic because it’s supposed to be subtle enough that psome people don’t get the joke.

Instead, this show is really in your face about how Tanya is the villain. You won’t have the same problem

So you have nothing to add to the conversation besides negativity and contrarianism? You can be safely ignored then.

So 720p streaming and a lot of maintenance.

Video frontends like GrayJay and Revanced let you pick streaming resolution and it actually gets followed. Plus they work for multiple services like Youtube, Patreon, Nebula.

If you’re not happy about getting 720p from Netflix in a browser, that’s from Netflix being cunts. You’re better off voting with your wallet and dropping them.

Also, maintenance? It’s minimal. You get an update popup in the video frontend maybe once per week and wait 30 seconds after hitting “yes”. And you can add an extension on Deckyloader to autoupdate all of your software in the background each day without needing to do anything

Good writeup, I’m definitely saving this for reference

I want to preface this by saying it’s perfectly fine for anyone to not enjoy this series. I just want to mention this in case anyone is silently judging viewers:

It’s fine to enjoy shows with flawed/evil protagonists so long as both the creators and viewers recognize that fact. That style of protagonist can make for some brilliant writing.

Seeing as the title refers to Tanya as evil, and the fact she repeatedly horrifies and scares everyone else, I think it’s pretty hard for a viewer to see her as anything but a villain.

They tend to be cheaper or have more features. The income from data harvesting subsidizes the price.

Plus, in a lot of places you can’t get dumb TVs without them being commercial displays, which have different priorities. Businesses don’t really care about having 60hz, HDR, OLED, or low latency. Sometimes they don’t even care about having 4K resolution.

A docked Steam Deck works for this. It even has HDMI-CEC

I hope you stop being a passive aggressive shit

user is from lemmy.ml

Yeah, that tracks

Except not. There’s currently a resurgence of people buying and using Blu-Ray movies, just like vinyl records

Tbf, the series started off being mainly based in WWI. That being said, they’ve slowly been bringing in more tech and figures from WWII.