RiikkaTheIcePrincess

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Revealed: King Charles secretly profiting from the assets of dead citizens in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Hey now...!

Just kidding ;P Real monarchs can piss off.

Good boy in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

[Lie] I'm not crying! Definitely totally dry eyes here. Should get some eye drops, in fact.

😿

A repost from r/linuxmemes - Because I saw the original comic in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

But Mint is better <.<

I guess the thing is "Ubuntu is the friendly distro" but then also "Mint is the friendly distro?" Way back in like 2009 (okay, turns out it's been a little while) Mint was super comfy and Ubuntu already felt like it was in my way without actually being any easier.

short question by an aspiring user in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

She goes by "Debra" now ;P (Do we really both have an Aunt Debbie/Debra?)

Also, for sure I don't mean to pressure anyone nor suggest that you do. I also tried other distros first, even fearing a little that I'd break something. Dual booting (I knew Windows better back then... dunno if I'd know what to do with 11 πŸ˜…) was a help, but also I started with easier distros (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Mint... definitely Mint gets my recommendation as an easy/comfy/friendly distro even though I haven't touched it in over a decade) and found that I wanted them out of my way so I could set up my computer how I wanted it to be. All' the stuff happening "for me" kept doing things I didn't like and changing things I did, so I moved toward the "harder" or "harder-core" distros less because I wanted Linuxy cool-cred (though I did a little bit ;P ) and more because I just wanted to get my OS out of sight and out of mind rather than having to fight the thing over control. Arch mostly does that, Gentoo does it a bit more. These days I don't have the latest high-powered gaming hardware and I myself am starting to feel a little old (2⁡+1 years! Augh!) so the compile waits don't feel so great... but I'll be back πŸ˜…I've been oscillating between Arch and Gentoo (may try Funtoo next time! Could be a fun... or two 😹) for ages so unless something else fits I don't see a reason to quit.

Wait, what was I talking about? Oh yeah, no need to jump right into Gentoo or LFS or something... but also no need to worry if one does! I really want to make one point in particular: everything can be fixed. Everything. Broke the kernel? Fixable. Broke networking? Fixable. Package manager set off a bomb in its own backend? Fixable. There's always a fix, whether it's rolling back a package to an old version, booting another OS or computer, GRUB's recovery console, a fallback kernel, rolling forward a package to a new version, using a newer/patched/forked kernel that doesn't crash your graphics driver on a new laptop. No matter how deep into "I'll just go until I trip on something," you can get back up and you can learn something from it... or you can just reinstall or hop to the next distro.

And maybe the thing you tripped on was a cute kittycat who you can appease them despite their annoyance at you for tripping on them :3

Also no, I don't know why I felt like yapping for ages <.< Sorry about that? πŸ˜…

short question by an aspiring user in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Breaking things is arguably the best way to learn

Hee hee, some may agree with you. jumped into Gentoo very early and hasn't stopped breaking things yet. Sometimes for fun, sometimes 'cause some distro maintainer type did something horrible ^.^

I definitely support "Just try things, see what breaks, then learn to fix it" as a learning method. Not necessarily for everycritter and not necessarily as a sole learning method but certainly it can be many fun and very productive, sometimes in ways that other methods would not be.

For that β€œoutdoor dining” feeling, but more depressing in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

The swimming pool on the roof sometimes springs a leak. ;3 HTP

short question by an aspiring user in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Assuming I'm understanding you correctly (I think I am: "ghost files" would be files of the old filesystem read and kept by the new one?) No, that's unnecessary unless you have data you specifically want unrecoverable, in which case you'll want a 'file shredder' or srm type tool to handle that. Other than that you'll probably not be using any filesystem format Windows offers, so it also won't be recognizing any Windows files even if such a thing would otherwise be possible.

As for your main post, you seem to have the right idea. Steam recognizes that Windows games won't run natively on a Linux system and will either "automatically run with a compatibility tool (Steam Play)" (or something like that) or refuse to launch/install the thing until you configure it to run everything non-native with Proton by default (which is a checkbox in the normal settings menu, not anything weird or buried).

...Also sometimes it just launches Wine? At least for me? That's kinda weird, honestly, but I set up my systems in weird ways so that may just be a me problem πŸ˜…

Simply put: I think you'll be fine just not worrying about anything and going directly to your "boot from install/live media" step and not worrying about anything else unless there's a problem... at which point you come yell at us and we help you fix it ;P

Wine 8.21 brings High-DPI scaling and initial Vulkan support for Wayland in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Yay Vulkan! Yay Yayland! sways cheerily for Sway!

The Pentagon is moving toward letting AI weapons autonomously decide to kill humans in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

LLM "AI" fans thinking "Hey, humans are dumb and AI is smart so let's leave murder to a piece of software hurriedly cobbled together by a human and pushed out before even they thought it was ready!"

I guess while I'm cheering the fiery destruction of humanity I'll be thanking not the wonderful being who pressed the "Yes, I'm sure I want to set off the antimatter bombs that will end all humans" but the people who were like "Let's give the robots a chance! It's not like the thinking they don't do could possibly be worse than that of the humans who put some of their own thoughts into the robots!"

I just woke up, so you're getting snark. makes noises like the snarks from Half-Life You'll eat your snark and you'll like it!

The Pentagon is moving toward letting AI weapons autonomously decide to kill humans in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Hey, I like that game! Oh, wait... πŸ€”

What's everyone playing? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

"A" game? v.v creaky old person noises

OpenAI's reported 'superintelligence' breakthrough is so big it nearly destroyed the company, and ChatGPT in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why do I keep looking at these threads? The way people talk about this stuff on all sides is so asinine. Nearly every good point is accompanied by missing a big one or just ricocheting off the good one, flying off into space and hitting a fully automated luxury gay space commulist. Hopes, dreams, assumptions, and ignorance all just headbutting each other and getting nowhere.

Oh yeah, I wanted to know what "superintelligence" was and whether I should care. Welp.

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I'd just like to gush about Swayland for a sec (kbin.social)
 

Okay, so, Idunno if it's more Sway or Wayland or just getting away from something wrong with my X/herbstluftwm setup but wow everything feels kinda great over here πŸ˜…

It's taken a while to get everything set up how I like but multiple games behave well here and not on X (which is very strange considering I expected more problems with the "new" thingle especially regarding gaming) and also my system feels snappier in general. Nobody told me the switch was gonna be like getting a hardware upgrade but wheee!

Of course, fiddling with things is something I love about Linux so it's kindof a win-win even with the added work of having to switch over because gush gush Swayland is kinda wonderful πŸ˜…

Sorry if this is the wrong place for this. I've just been holding this in for a couple days and can't find anycritter(s) else to gush at πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ

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Geology MOOCs? (kbin.social)
 

Are there geology MOOCs anywhere? Every time I go looking I find at most like three but one's in Chinese (which I don't know nearly well enough to take a course in), one's some advanced thing, and the other... I don't even remember.

Anyway, is there anywhere I could possibly peek into a course like... Rocks an' Whatnot 101 maybe? Dirt Stuff for People with Clean Hands, maybe? :'D I can't promise I won't end up disinterested or get bored or distracted and quit, but I want such courses to be a thing anyway.

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Some thoughts on trust and filtering (kbin.social)
 

So, some part(s) of Freenet has/had (this one has not been there in a while) a "web of trust" system that allowed a user to take part in a sort of graph-based collective filtering framework. It works something like this:

  1. You choose who you trust to produce valid content (not spam or attacks on the network, that sort of thing). Others do the same.
  2. You choose how much you trust others' trust values. This then combines with your own trust values to establish a sort of total trust value. If you don't know Bob but your friend does, you can probably assume Bob isn't going to be a problem with some level of confidence

Seeing the (vastly overblown, considering the nature of federation) controversy involving Beehaw and various comments about moderation tools and users wanting more of less exposure to various kinds of content, this one thought that perhaps a web of trust sort of thing, or some related concepts could be useful. Such a system could possibly be used to allow groups of users with similar preferences to implement their own filtering preferences in a way that moves the effort from moderators making general rules and judgments and users all having to make their own judgments (including vulnerable ones who need to be protected from certain content or they will, at best, leave): Riikka needn't browse m/HatefulPricks (just contriving a mag; maybe that doesn't exist :P ) looking for people to block before they go after her if someone whose judgment she's flagged as trusted has already encountered those people.

[Please pretend there's another interesting idea here. Riikka forgot what else she wanted to say :( ]

Maybe it's useless here, or maybe some components or related ideas could help. Seems like at least it could be worth a try applying to filtering undesirable (or simply harmful, as is/was the intent of Freenet's WoT) content. Even just having a handful of guardians (or maybe some sort of service identity like a "No Bigots" user that some actual user(s) use only to mark bigots, another for cat haters, something like that?) could maybe help. If someone gets hacked or somehow goes bad, just untrust their trust list and bam, fixed. Everything's still there, just hidden. Of course, for it to really reduce mod workload (particularly somewhere like Beehaw) there would have to be some work involved on many sides of the implementation. Maybe some kind of concept of user age or other validating factors, some default configuration (so brand new users aren't exposed to a bunch of garbage no one else sees) or "go subscribe to the 'no garbage' filter list!" as a recommended step in account creation, and of course people would still have to be there to spot and mark unwanted content.

Just an idea (and a crapload of yapping... sorry (sortof)!) Thoughts?

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