theneverfox

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What isn't illegal but should be? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Conflicts of interest. Sometimes illegal, but not nearly as much as they should be (almost always)

Like congress members being allowed to trade stock, which can then be affected by their vote

Or one of the specifically carved out exceptions to the medical kickbacks laws is for the people who negotiate drug prices for pharmacies

Last book that made you cry. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

How do induction stoves work?

The moviegoer experience these days in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I think that just supports my point, that rather than survivorship bias this is a small group of companies owning the entire industry, and movies are just actually getting worse

Gaming is going through the same thing with Microsoft now owning most of the industry, but 1-5 people can make an indie game without leaving the house. There's also a number of non-shittified stores for distribution, meanwhile media and streaming services are firmly in the stages of enshitification

I don't think indie movies will be able to take over the way indie games seem to be - not without the streaming industry changing first

GOP Rep. Introduces Articles Of Impeachment Against Kamala Harris —Though Political Stunt Is Bound To Fail in c/politics
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

And here I was, pissed at the Democratic party for not having a transition plan after such a big fuss skipping the primary. Good thing the other side was even less prepared

How did we get here?

This explains much. in c/lemmyshitpost
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Nope, apparently you can get screwed by RNG, but you were in control. I don't remember it being particularly hard either

Anon gets confused in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Leafy greens are a real world stamina potion

Anon gets confused in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Leafy greens are a real world stamina potion

Anon gets confused in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Leafy greens are a real world stamina potion

Anon gets confused in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Leafy greens are a real world stamina potion

I swear I check them often enough! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

You guys have numbers? I have the infinity sign on every new device within days

The moviegoer experience these days in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

No, survivorship bias is real, but this is late stage capitalism. Disney owns it all, and the occasional worthwhile film sneaks under their writing by committee bullshit

There's plenty of good movies that future generations would happily watch... But proportionally? The number of movies made a year has exploded, the number that make an impression for even a year has dwindled

Reddit is now blocking major search engines and AI bots — except the ones that pay in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

It's structural - you can be open or locked down, and it's hard to decentralize if you're not open

You can make it easier or harder to work with that data, but ultimately it's obsfucation - you could make it hard to parse and obscure details, but ultimately if you want decentralized federation you can't hide too much

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Looking for distro recommendations (pawb.social)
 

Between wanting to do more with local LLMs, wsl annoyances, and the direction tech companies have been going lately, I think it's time I start exploring a full Linux migration

I'm a software dev, I'm comfortable in the command line, and I used to write the node configuration piece of something similar to chef (flavor/version agnostic setup of cloud environments)

So for me, Linux has always been a "modify the script and rebuild fresh" kind of deal... Even my dev VMs involved a lot of scripts and snapshots. I don't enjoy configuration and I really hate debugging it, but I can muddle through when I have to

Web searches have pushed me towards Ubuntu for LLM work, but I've never been a big fan of the window Managers. I like little flourishes like animation and lots of options I can set graphically, I use multiple desktop multiple monitors

I've tried the one it comes standard with, gnome, and kde (although it's been about 5 years since I've last given them a real shot).

I'm mostly looking for the most reasonable footprint that is "good enough", something that feels polished to at least the Windows XP level - subtle animations instead of instant popups, rounded borders, maybe a bit of transparency here and there.

I'm looking at Ubuntu w/

  • kde w/ plasma (I understand it's very configurable, I don't love the look and it seems to be a bigger footprint

  • budgie (looks nice, never heard of it before today)

  • kylin (looks very Windows 10 which is nice, a bit skeptical about the Chinese focus)

  • mate (I like the look, but it seems a bit dubiously centralized)

  • unity (looks like the standard Ubuntu taken to it's natural conclusion)

  • rhino Linux (something new which makes me skeptical, but pretty and seems more like existing tools packaged together which makes me think the issues might not impact actual workflow)

  • anything the community is big on for this, personally I'd pick opensuze, but I need to maximize compatibility with bleeding edge LLM projects

My hardware and hard requirements are:

  • nvidia 1060ti
  • ryzen 5500u
  • 16g ram
  • 4 drives nearly full, because it's a computer of Theseus running the same (upgraded) vista license that came with the case like 15 years ago
  • multi desktop, multi monitor
  • can handle a lot of browser Windows/tabs
  • ideally the setup is just a package mana ger install script with all my dependencies
  • gaming support would be nice, but I'll be dual booting for VR anyways

I've been out of the game for a while, I'd love to hear what the feeling is in the community these days

(Side note, is pine as cool a company as it seems?)

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