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forestbeasts

@ forestbeasts @pawb.social

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  • Hot take: Linux should standardize on JSON or TOML for its config files

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  • Counterpoint: Choice is good. Let's not try to impose some Single Standard™ on everything, thanks.

    Just like programs not written in Rust are okay, good, and important to exist.

    Just like non-systemd init systems are good.

    And having multiple options for DEs.

    Choice is why a lot of us are even here.

    -- Frost

  • I have to use AutoCAD in school. What should I do?

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  • You can actually dual boot just fine on a single drive. We used to TRIPLE boot Mac/Linux/Windows!

    It was way more of a hassle back in the non-EFI days where you could only have one bootloader per disk. These days they don't clobber each other.

    -- Frost

  • Recommend a simple local FLOSS database for beginners?

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  • I mean, they're not THAT complicated. Don't be dissuaded from learning if you wanna learn! But more complicated than a spreadsheet for sure... at least for basic stuff. Advanced stuff, maybe not so much, just different.

  • Using AI for image transcripts, yay or nay?

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  • Eh? There's plenty of non-"AI"-powered OCR, isn't there? Like, that's been a thing since long before "AI" slop generators.

    (Like, mayyyybe there's some kind of machine learning component, but even IF there is, surely you don't have to run it through a slop generator to get a transcription?)

  • Using AI for image transcripts, yay or nay?

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  • Do not.

    Please just don't.

    People (hi I'm people) need what the image IS, what's important about it, why you included it. Not just what some slop generator shat out about it.

    Better to have nothing, which is at least honest, than to have something that PURPORTS to have meaning but then just, doesn't.

    -- Frost

  • let's get controversial with the holiday question's.

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  • Difference between art and porn? Plenty of art IS porn, and plenty of porn is art!

    Anyway, yeah, that's kind of off-topic from the definition of a sandwich.

  • Desensitization to guns

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  • Whenever we park (in an automatic), we set the parking brake, because we do Not like feeling that small jolt.

    A surprising number of new cars these days just... don't seem to have a parking brake control? at all?? anywhere???

    And the rest have it as a button instead of a manual thing you can pull if the computer goes haywire. What is the state of cars coming to.

    -- Frost

  • How are you using your laptop (with internet) that still runs Windows10?

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  • I don't know if this helps at all, but you actually don't need to buy a new drive! You can install Linux next to Windows on the same drive, it works perfectly fine.

    (You will need something to put the installer on though, and USB sticks do cost money, so.)

    -- Frost

  • Can we possibly create our personal email ?

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  • Honestly, not all that bad. A lot of the spam is just the stuff from companies we gave our email, y'know, the usual.

    There's the occasional spam/scam email, every few days at most, but it's pretty ignorable.

    (we did set up rspamd purely for DKIM signing, and it might be filtering our inbound email, I don't know.)

  • lore accurate siblings

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  • Oh! Makes sense (it's been aaages since we've seen star trek of any sort).

  • Have you encountered VHS or Cassette piracy in the 80s?

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  • They could have totally made a VCR without inputs, though. There are audio tape players like that.

  • Have you encountered VHS or Cassette piracy in the 80s?

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  • Wanna feel old?

    We weren't even born in the 80s! Or the 90s!

    -- Frost

  • lore accurate siblings

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  • I mean it's entirely possible he CAN and just doesn't WANT to. Gotta have the things that make you unique, after all!

  • Systemd v261-rc1 is out with the 'birth date field'

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  • For now...

  • What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ?

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  • The annual releases thing might be specific to Car Mechanic Simulator? We play Truck Simulator (American Truck Sim/Euro Truck Sim 2) and it's definitely not "release the same game every year for more money". They do have a shitton of map expansion DLCs though (and that's where they make their money).

  • What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ?

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  • They're digital crack to a very specific subset of people, haha!

    They're definitely not digital crack for everyone. :3

    (Personally I bounced off Satisfactory mostly because of the specifics of early game power generation; I really wanted to like it, and might have gotten really into it if it weren't for that.)

    -- Frost

  • What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ?

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  • Hey, simulator games have value outside of that, too. At the very least. Like, Truck Simulator? Yeah we play that and it's not because of streamers. It's just a very chill game where you get to drive all over the country. (I like Elite Dangerous for a lot of the same reasons. Slow-paced and chill and lots of buttons to push that actually do something meaningful.)

    -- Frost

  • Any SIMPLE note taking app (available for web too) that syncs with cloud?

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  • How 'bout Nextcloud Notes?

    You'd need a Nextcloud server though (either one you run, or someone else's that you have an account on). That gives you a web UI too, in addition to the Android app.

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  • Or non-humanoid animal, thankyouverymuch!

    (I'm not human in any way, shape or form)

    -- Frost

  • No Man's Sky @lemmy.world
    forestbeasts @pawb.social

    NMS added pokemon and it's pretty fun!

  • No Man's Sky @lemmy.world
    forestbeasts @pawb.social

    Space dump trucking is really fun.

  • No Man's Sky @lemmy.world
    forestbeasts @pawb.social

    There's an even faster speed glitch than the punch boost??

  • Godot @programming.dev
    forestbeasts @pawb.social

    uh,

  • Unixporn @lemmy.ml
    forestbeasts @pawb.social

    Pretty basic KDE!