wtf AI in your mouse driver?

Oh yeah, totally not logging your every mouse movement, no sir, not at all!

Haha yeah the wording is rather … malleable, in that way.

Much like your-

You get it lol.

Wait you haven’t seen this?

Hold on…

https://youtube.com/watch?v=yPW0VaTYhN4

Watch those knees just go fucking limp and askew… real KOs lol.

Its likely not viral because this is all bootleg, PPV footage, you’d get copyright takedown’d / sued into oblivion by all the various fight organizations.

I think most of his record is in relatively minor leagues, only a few fights in relatively bigger deal organizations… not sure.

Huh, I may have it wrong… but that would mean wikipedia has it wrong.

Says June Carter and Merle Kilgore wrote the original version, sung originally by June’s sister Anita.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Fire_(song)

Maybe Johnny edited it a bit?

I… struggle to say this pun but uh:

This is some real Folk-Lore.

Love… is a burnin’ thing…

And it makes… a fiery ring.

Bound… by wild desire…

I fell into a ring of fire.

…

The taste… of love is sweet…

When hearts… like ours meet.

I fell for you like a child…

Ooooh, but the fire went wild.

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https://www.biography.com/musicians/johnny-cash-june-carter-love-story-relationship

Johnny Cash and June Carter:

Two fucked up, rough and tumble assholes who… married and remained together, totally devoted to and thankful for each other for 35 years, died within 4 months of each other.

Burnin’ Ring of Fire is one of the most famous songs of all time… June wrote it, Johnny sang the most famous version.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1WaV2x8GXj0

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Andrew Tate:

Self described drug dealer, rapist, sex trafficker, failed MMA fighter… openly states he is disgusted by nearly all women, and only fucks them because it makes other men envious of him, also he claims to only fuck 18 and 19 yos … apparently he married someone a few months ago.

I’m sure that’ll work out well.

Oh right, uh, no notable discography, nor chin.

(why do you think he has the beard)

lol welp, I tried, but at least you had a backup. =P

I wish you luck in your distro hopping adventures, do yourself a favor and try things out in a VM before going baremetal on everything, haha!

So, Bazzite does have a KDE 6 variant, and works very, very well, especially on a handheld PC.

It takes the approach of sandboxing off the core OS, but giving you a bunch of tools for running flatpaks and other things, set up DistroBox to semi-sort of have multiple linux os’s simultaneously if you want to say, compile something from source that only has proper dependencies figured out in… not Arch, what SteamOS is based on…

I run it on my SteamDeck because it offers more ability to use it as an actual PC, while still being rock solid in gaming mode.

But uh… for more discussion… I’m going to kind of not answer your question and suggest something else:

Check out PikaOS.

https://wiki.pika-os.com/en/home

Basically, much like Nobara is a ‘gaming-tuned’, optimized, cutting/bleeding-edge version of Fedora…

PikaOS basically is that, but for Debian.

If you’re used to using PopOS!, well, that’s ultimately Debian based, so there may be less of a learning curve now that you’re broadly familiar with the Debian environment.

PikaOS works with GNOME, KDE, Hyprland if you want an even lighter weight DE.

They are also working on a Handheld PC capable out of the box distro, but its not ready yet.

From what I’ve seen from various youtubers… PikaOS is trading blows with Cachy and Nobara for getting the highest frame rate out of a game, on a same hardware / same setting FPS comparison… sometimes it is actually beating them.

Uh also, yeah, look into CachyOS, it seems to be the latest hotness for an Arch based, gaming optimized, but widely functional for ‘whatever’ OS, if you’re curious about trying out Arch, and of course thus being able to constantly let every one know you use Arch, actually.

Mamdani’s ideological approach may terrify some employers… the ones that are currently massively dodging taxes, paying way, way lower taxes, getting all kinds of tax exemptions and deductions, getting all kinds of no strings attached subsidies… from actual taxpayers.

The idiot capital class is obviously propogandizing in overdrive mode, but they also seem to be largely legitimately delusional about realizing how astonishingly subsidized they are by public financing, so that they can concentrate private profits.

‘But it would be impossible to run my business without training wheels and floaties and a helmet all provided to me by the government!!!’

Ok fuckstick, don’t care, sounds like a skill issue to me if you can’t main as a capitalist without a bunch of handicaps on, either get gud or stop pretending you deserve your spot on the ‘free market’ league leaderboard.

I mean, yes, hair is genetic… but genetics also include epigenetics.

If you take two identical twins, both prone to alopecia, give one of them 45 years of nothing but unending stress, and the other a calm and relaxing life, I’m pretty confident your stressed out twin is gonna be more bald more quickly than the other.

But, to go back to general agreement: Yeah basically every common hairloss prevention whatever is a almost entirely a scam.

We’re talking like… twice daily usage for months results in… 15 to 8 new hairs per sq centimeter, for rogaine/minoxidil.

Sure, technically, it does work… but just barely, and you’d have to keep using it forever, and even if you did, if you’re prone to hairloss, you’ll hit a follicle loss rate that exceeds the regrowth rate at some point.

Ah, this one was fairly recent, and I have more recently been diagnosed with ©PTSD from… how often insane shit like that has happened to me.

But, typing it out is… better than just stuffing it down… 6 months ago, typing out a similar story would have filled me with rage, all muscles clenching… this time I only grit my teeth once.

Progress.

… I appreciate the condolences though.

… Spent a long, long time being gaslit, its … helpful for me to type it out, and not be blamed for it.

You know, I hadn’t seen that sketch before…

… but another thing that my idiot brother did, which was actually the final straw between me and my entire family:

My doctors, over the year prior, with me seeing them fairly frequently, running a good deal of blood work tests on me … well they decided to change up my medication somewhat, take me off of one drug, replace it with another…

… because that drug they were taking me off of was causing me to … not quite develop actual diabetes, but develop many signs of pre-diabetes… and they had figured out a way to switch me over to a set of drugs where that would not be a problem.

My brother interpreted this as me making up all of what I just said whole cloth, as if i was delusional and insane, despite me literally showing him the blood test results, annotated by the metabolic expert, and the new medication plan from other doctors.

So we got into an argument, the next day my entire immediate family has decided that I need to be institutionalized, in a mental asylum in the middle of fucking nowhere, fuck my career I guess? I was making almost twice as much as my brother and probably more than my dad at the time.

I just moved out while my brother was at work, never looked back.

He has an extremely thin skin, a massive inferiority complex, somehow has worse social skills than myself, despite me being autistic and him not… I could go on, but I already added more in an edit to my above post.

So anyway I went no contact with my entire dysfunctional family (they’re all this magnitude of nuts but in their own special ways) years ago rofl, my mental health has never been better.

My idiot brother, who fancies himself a tech guru… because he reads the news marketing around the tech specs of new console releases every couple of years…

Legitimately thought I was hacking into our own ISP when I opened a terminal infront of him to configure a VPN setting that didn’t yet have an option to do so in the GUI.

Lile he tried to have an ‘intervention’ with me over it.

For … running a few commands to check my existing and active network interfaces, then glancing at a webpage and starting the vpn process with an extra flag or two.

I was completely unable to convince him that I hadn’t done anything even remotely close to like pen-testing the local DNS server… which is what he… seemed? to think I was doing?

Gotta love incredibly overconfident + incompetent people.

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I have also had people at cellphone shops either get angry at me for mentioning outloud, or try to hide the fact that you can plug a phone with a broken screen into a usb hub, and then their own keyboard, monitor and mouse, in certain situations, and be able to log in to the phone to do inane parts of their recovery or migration processes … when your screen is borked, but the phone itself is still functional.

I had employee guy laugh at the notion this would work, another guy say sure you can try it, and then got angry that it worked, and another act like I was performing some kind of dark magic that the other customers in the store could not be allowed to know about.

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EDIT: Oh I forgot to mention the abominable absurdity of my brother trying to give me an ‘intervention’ over anything, at all, ever.

See, while I was studying the blade getting two simultaneous bachelors degrees from the best Uni in the state, he was going to raves, giving himself serotonin shock syndrome, all while functionally being homeless.

Multiple times in my life I have had to drop everything I was doing and prevent him from carrying out a very credible suicide threat, or save him from ODing.

Myself on the other hand, … uh, no nothing like that, and I’d not even given him an ‘intervention’ after saving him from an OD or two.

Anyway, I’m fairly sure I could drive him back to drug use if I somehow forced him to learn how some of the R code I used and wrote for statistical analysis actually works, or the same for any of the insane spider webs of 200, 300 line custom, one-off SQL queries I often had to write in various data analyst positions before they let me restructure their DBs a bit into something less insane.

Ah, I used ‘compiled to C’ as a clumsy phrase, that was incorrect to say, lol.

Whats actually going on… its a bit complicated.

On the one hand, you can directly write C code and call C functions in a Lua script, basically encapsulated inside the Foreign Function Call Interface… and that would mean you are writing Lua code, that has C code in it… thus arguably, you are passing Lua to C, runtime compiling that C, and then running that compiled bit of C code is running as machine code, but the rest of the Lua code is running as Lua, which is compiled into machine code.

On the other hand, LuaJIT basically does a series of analysis passes on your Lua code, and if it finds functions or chains of functions that are called very frequently, or functions that are computationally costly, slow, it will compile those bits directly into machine code… but the actual code that directs that process is itself written in C.

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The point I am trying to get at here is that sometimes it makes more sense to write code that needs to be more highly performant via the use of a more performant, compiled language…

LuaJIT handles that by just doing it for you ‘automagically’…

But you may be able to get even better runtime performance if you rearchitect a bit by taking all that stuff that LuaJIT is highlighting for optimization, and just actually permanently writing that stuff in C, C++ or Rust.

Or, maybe LuaJIT is ‘good enough’, and makes for less workload, simplifies development.

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I threw Rust in there because it seems to generally be almost, but not quite as fast as C++ / C in runtime… but is also much less daunting and confusing for a less experienced coder to learn how to use.

Lua is extremely human readable, C and C++, a good deal more complicated… Rust is more human readable and easier to learn than C/C++, and also essentially has training wheels on for memory management problems that would be extremely frustrating for someone like a novice game coder that is trying to transition from say Lua or Python, into a lower level, compiled language.

It was so, so, so much worse back in the early days when the FacePunch forums still… existed.

Probably a majority of forum posts, for years, were people screaming at Garry for making posts that just said something like ‘its obvious how this function works, I don’t need to explain it’, and then oops turns out he did it wrong, new gamebreaking bug / exploit exists for 3 weeks, the first week of which was random forum people telling Garry he did it wrong and him temp or perma banning them.

That or he would very often just rewrite entire core function libraries, make a tiny 8 word bullet point about it in an avalanche of a changelog, and then say something like, ‘shouldn’t break existing code’, and then well, it would completely break existing game mode code, and then 80% of the most played custom game modes would be broken for a month or more while Garry just either ignored everyone, or told them he didn’t care.

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Also, Roblox just is Gmod in many ways, but with a highly manipulative monetization model built in.

All the Gmod RP servers would paygate player roles and content and such offsite, outside of the game, setup a webpage or forum that worked as an ecommerce site, run a dedi db and then API connect that into Gmod… Roblox is all of that, but self contained, and with a lot more lawyers on hand to prevent monetization outside of the game itself.

It is great for scripting things that do not need to run exceedingly fast, or are not exceptionally complex.

2D games? UI? Absolutely.

Even many subsystems of 3D games can be handled decently well. Procedurally populate a map with items, or generate some NPC populations or weapons or items based on mixxing and matching a bunch of preset components, throw some kind of event tracking and event driven system on top of already existing systems to give your world more depth and breadth.

But by the time you get to… trying to do an entire 3d render pipeline for graphics more complicated than roughly an N64 or PS1, all of your netcode in a conplex and fast paced game, an entire dynamic 3D physics engine with many active objects… try to to that in Lua, you’re probably not gonna have a good time.

At that point, as the Open MW devs have shown… you can technically stilluse Lua to do this, but you’ve gotta be running your Lua through LuaJIT, that essentially compiles the parts of the Lua code that need that speed into C, and then run it in C.

At that point, it arguably makes more sense to just… take those parts of the code and just actually, always, run them in C or C++ or Rust or something.

… But after saying all that, I do not mean to take away from what you are saying, which is that Lua is extremely flexble and absolutely does have a wealth of legitimate uses cases.

I don’t know whose fault this is, but my suspicion is that it’s seg('s)fault.

(meme image)

I don’t disagree with you that they could have better publicized it.

I think the project got massively more popular more rapidly than the devs expected… and coder type people are rarely also PR type people at the same time.