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4 days agoGithub and the whole culture that it came out of it used to (it feels sooooo good to say that in the past tense) be globally hinged on Silicon Valley, why would you not expect to see a anomalously high number of US developers on it?
“No, maybe that wasn’t it. Words precede and surpass me, they tempt and alter me, and if I am not careful it will be too late: things will be said without my having said them. Or, at the very least, that wasn’t the only thing. My entanglement comes from how a carpet is made of so many threads that I can’t resign myself to following just one; my ensnarement comes from how one story is made of many stories. And I can’t even tell them all— a more truthful word could from echo to echo cause my highest glaciers to crumble down the precipice.” - Clarice Lispector
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Ok then, you are labelling yourself as a pathetic loser.
Black pill ideology is most deeply rooted in misogynistic online communities heavily populated by incels, or involuntarily celibate men.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/What-does-black-pill-refer-to
Either Universal Healthcare is on the menu or society falls apart, pick one.
But where will the maintainers for these alternatives come from, when barely anybody has stepped up in the 30 years of rsync’s existence?
Universal Healthcare would increase the pool of willing developers by an order of magnitude here.
You most certainly are, use a different metaphor/descriptor.
FOMO doesn’t work on people that know you are selling them a scam…?
No it will not be a net good.
Processing at least for 2d stuff.
Yeah, the current backlash over LLMs in any capacity is a meme.
No, you just don’t want to face the fact that a growing number of people are less gullible than you.
Parrots also don’t just mindlessly repeat shit like an LLM does, parrots are intelligent AI is not.
If it turns out they are wrong and AI can’t reduce the need for humans they will quickly realise.
No, they have not realized that has already happened.
We need unions to prevent humans from the ruling class from abusing you because they have thoroughly convinced you and others like you incorrectly that robots can actually replace entry level versions of yourself.
It might appear that they can in the short term, but that is why we refer to AI as a bubble.
Wake up.
The only thing that will save Linux from AI is when programmers get their heads out of their asses, stop subscribing to scifi slop that AI is about take over and start asserting to everyone else how necessary human input is in their craft by forming unions.
The problem with programmers is they are quick to think their understanding of computers makes them understand everything and it created a massive blindspot of hubris big enough to allow the ruling class to destroy the potential quality of life that used to come from working as a programmer right in front of programmers eyes. I would be tempted to call it sad if programmers didn’t tend to be so condescending about believing their knowledge is a universal shortcut to understanding everything else.
Programming is an industry dominated by pushovers who aren’t willing to fight for anything that cannot be understood in the terms of automation, scaling or endless growth of technology. There is a willing blindness here and the rest of the world is getting really tired of it.
Fight, stop immersing yourself in stories about how AI will become sentient blah blah blah, outside of your bubble very few people actually believe this nonsense and it just blinds you to your own dehumanization that is happening right in front of your eyes for entirely human reasons that have NOTHING to do with technology working or not working and EVERYTHING to do with a failure of humans to organize and preserve the professionalism of their craft because they were convinced of delusions by the people ruling over them.
12·7 days agoJust go play Motor Town: Behind The Wheel.
Trust me the driving physics are second to only maybe BeamNG and the open world GTA sidejob like structure is a blast to chill out and play in multiplayer or singleplayer.
Urgent taxi jobs are awesome point to point races.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1369670/Motor_Town_Behind_The_Wheel/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DqdhBP_U4Y
Fuck Microsoft
I propose when AMD does this we call it an “AMD 1”.
In my opinion there are two major differences between Windows and most Linux distros.
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Capitalization matters to file names and such in Linux whereas in Windows it does not.
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Linux thinks about permissions different programs and users have at a much more explicit level. It is a bit confusing at first why you have to keep interfacing with that part of the operating system, but it makes way more sense for programs to have permission to act in specific places for security and stability reasons.
Some other responses to your questions…
Steam can run windows games for the most part fine, just go into game properties and change the compatability setting to “proton hotfix”. I play Winspww2, an oldddd DOS game on Linux and it runs better than it does on Windows. I have also been able to install mods to Windows games on Linux by adding the mod installer to Steam and running it in Proton and then adjusting where the install folder is located.
You can pretty much have any kind of file system GUI set up you want in Linux. There are many file explorers and ways to do basic stuff like that, frame your questions by asking for Linux equivalents of Windows software you particularly liked and you will get good recommendations.
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Glad they responded so dynamically to Blender users but I really think programmers and tech people need to take a giant step back and look at how they appear when they blindly endorse AI hype.
I think the nature of bubbles like this is “experts” become convinced of something that exists in their field that every day normal people can see is utter bullshit and how bad/destructively the resulting bubble pops depends on how humble and willing the “experts” are to coming around to what everybody else already concluded about the thing they were “experts” about. In this case given the smug hubris of techbros, the bubble is going to pop about as violently as possible…
I speculate that a big reason for this hubris is tech/computer minded people tend to focus on practical problems and solutions and will reflexively “lean in” to examine something confusing or unknown closer and closer until they get it, discarding vague grey areas until a binary, automatable reality emerges.
To people who think like this, thank you for existing and solving so many problems but you must recognize this type of thinking is systematically vulnerable to bullshitting since bullshit pulls its power from a periphery integrated in a fantastical way rather than a lie about the heart of something being different than it is.
In other words in my opinion “tech people” will tend to look for bullshit in the mechanisms, not the people, not the incentives, not the overall motion of the collective sum of individuals “innocently” optimizing their own corner of a wholistically nonsensical, hurtful enterprise. A programmer says “get rid of the fluff, what is it precisely, in a step by step fashion we are trying to do?”. Thank goodness programmers do ask and answers questions in such a fashion for us, but with that kind of thinking comes a blindspot to a massive economic bubble that is hurting and will hurt many more people before it pops and then vastly more people after it pops.
It is not ethical to be connected with scammers and architects of avoidable economic catastrophe and it is not ethical to lend your own credibility as Blender developers to them.
These people should be in jail for lying about what they are selling to a criminal degree. This isn’t even about the specifics of the AI part, rather it is like Blender making a corporate sponsorship with a Subprime Mortgage company right before the 2008 Financial Crash. Not only is the money fake, you don’t want to be associated with the fakeness of those “grand ideas” or they will swallow you whole. Turn around and run away as fast as you can, AI is bullshit and it certainly IS NOT profitable.
The idea Blender would let Anthropic’s name be associated with it is a serious insult to the Blender community.
Honestly I have really enjoyed using Kdenlive and it has a nice browser, clip editor and library building system of edited clips and stuff.
https://docs.kdenlive.org/en/getting_started/quickstart.html#quickstart
The US is continuing to worsen in performance on meaures of small business entrepreneurship in essentially all industries in the US, software and software adjacent industries are no different especially if you don’t get distracted by the AI bubble inflating that value of a bunch of illusions claiming to be businesses.
It is easy to see how the inability of the average person to try a new idea, or risk taking on a project that may not pay off immediately translates directly to a lack of available developers for open source software projects.
The impact of Universal Healthcare would be huge for open source development in the US, the amount of programmers that would be pushed over the line from “just making ends meet while having a work life balance” to “ok maybe I could devote some time to open source development”.
Don’t get me wrong though, I think we need to normalize straight up paying developers for Open Source Development. Just because it is open source doesn’t mean it doesn’t take labor, that is not the argument I am making.
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2018/oct/affordable-care-act-impact-small-business