Between the recent breach and the clear sentiment behind their staff, I really don't know why anyone chooses CircleCI over GitHub / GitLab Actions.

Man, just the "normies" user experience in general.

I've had so many issues from the start, even on "beginner friendly" distros. Hell, I'm a software engineer by trade - I literally use WSL2 every day for my job - but there are some things the OS should just do.

Prime example: wifi connectivity (er, just connectivity in general - Bluetooth included). It seems like every distro neglects this part to some degree. I've tried Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Linux Mint, Kinoite, countless others - but it seems like every one either has some form of Bluetooth connectivity issue (a la Kinoite not detecting my Bluetooth headphones) or a straight up wifi issue (like Ubuntu, Lubuntu and Linux Mint ALL not connecting to Panera WiFi on a wiped 2012 MacBook Pro - it was because Panera has a popup to accept wifi terms, btw, which is extremely common. Starbucks was broken too).

It's that sort of stuff that prevents people from staying on Linux. People DO go to internet cafes to hang out and surf the web. It's a helluva deal breaker that I need to turn on my phone's hotspot just to connect to some Internet and then deal with LTE speeds. And as for the argument of "well that's super old hardware" - it's prime hardware that people will try Linux on and get pissed off.

Also, Nvidia support. It's one of the most popular graphics card options - it's a deal breaker that it doesn't work out of the box on a lot of distros. Never ran into this myself, but just scroll here for a bit to see how prevalent it is.

I REALLY want to daily Linux but man, these issues prevent it (even now that I've moved on from the MacBook). If you really wanna help Linux grow, fix these problems and / or work on improving the "non-technical" user experience. You shouldn't need to know what KDE is to use your desktop, nor should you need to Google like 15 things to get thru the installer with certainty.

I know this will get a lot of hate, and I really really want to love Linux, but I've been burned often so I'm skeptical.

I don't know how they don't see the overlap between Gog users and people who use Linux

Basic, but Ubuntu. It's got snaps which are slow and generally suck, plus Canonical

This is cool, but there appears to be no issues tab in GitHub which is a bit of a red flag.

Disclaimer: I use kbin 99% of the time.

That said, I love using Connect when I use Lemmy

It's also very nice not having random downvotes for literally no reason. Some comments on Reddit would just end up getting a random downvote first, preventing it from getting any form of meaningful traction. No idea why, my takes weren't exactly spicy there, but here that doesn't seem to happen!

Fantastic article, 10/10 read. The roasts are on-point

Who bundles up in 68F? It's literally room temperature

Also it's useful in cooking because it's an actual, useful scale. You know when it's 90C it's about to be boiling, just makes no sense why you gotta memorize 212F. Random number and all

Welcome over (from kbin, I can see and comment on your comment because kbin and Lemmy are federated with each other and can talk!)

Screw a week, we should have gone indefinite from the start. Spez would have pissed himself

I learned Gimp alongside Photoshop ~10 years ago and it's my preferred image editor. It does have some silliness sometimes, but overall I adore it.

One of the best things they ever did was making it one-window by default.

Same here, on Android Firefox

In the US, public transit is almost universally unavailable. If it is available, it's a massive luxury (or strictly necessary, like NYC).

For anything lower-spec (like, <4Gb of RAM), Ubuntu absolutely CHUGS because of Snaps. Flatpak has no such issue.

Ironically, Lubuntu (a lightweight Ubuntu fork) worked the best for me while I was using it. No slowness, but I installed pretty much everything using Apt (didn't know about Flatpak back then).

I ended up having it lock up and freeze on the sign-in page though, so I moved on to the slightly heavier Linux Mint.

If you're looking for a free site hosting service, fly.io might be what you're looking for. I've been using them a little while and their service is pretty great (though the monitoring kinda sucks)

Thank you Ernest

As a long-time Tenchu fan, I feel this was about Sekiro to be honest. It started life as Tenchu 5, then got turned mid-development into Sekiro. I just wish it had a bigger emphasis on stealth, rather than just swordfighting...

Trump's presidency was the best thing that ever happened to this nation

Bill O'Reilly had a lot of great points

Programming isn't hard at all, it's just \<\this> and anyone who is not able to grasp that is immediately stupid

Basically anything creationist in nature stating it as fact

Get rid of greed

Code is open-source but it isn't quite fully open-source. It has some proprietary stuff in it. For it to be fully open-source, check out VS Codium

Is kbin.social still going to federate?

I think I'm in the minority, but PS3. It was the most powerful console of its time, it released The Last of Us, Uncharted, Gran Turismo and a ton of other classics and the PSN was free to use.

It also had my favorite game of all time on it - Littlebigplanet 2. The custom levels people made were insane.

When I had a miserable case of Covid (the variant that gives extreme nausea) the only way I was able to eat anything at all was saltine crackers. The only way I could drink anything was ice cubes (sucking on them slowly)

Try those out! If they don't work, definitely call a doctor. Have someone check up on you, last thing you want is to black out and die (which is very easy to have happen)

Same. In my experience as well, almost all alternatives to Google Maps either:

• don't have Android Auto support (a must for me)

• don't have local coffee shops (you'd be surprised how often these apps fail to find 7-Brew coffee shops...)

• don't actually give you enough time to turn (Waze... Which is also owned by Google btw)

Waze is the closest of these but man it's annoying with that third bullet point. It's also not FOSS.

I can only imagine Magic Maps falls into one of those three categories too.

That's not my connotation for Nightwish, but only because I learned of them by playing Littlebigplanet 2 haha (Whoever Owns the Night)

They slap though!

I know it's seriously uncommon here, but I'm one of the people who vehemently believes in ghosts

I've had about 5-too-many times where myself and multiple friends both see the same person disappear in front of us to not believe, among other things 😅 Real estate signs like this would absolutely be a deal breaker for me haha

That being said, I completely get and respect that some people don't believe. Honestly, I kinda consider non-believers lucky, ghosts are very creepy

I thought it only dived three times total?

Ditto on a Pixel 6 Pro. There were a ton of people with issues when this thing came out, but I was lucky enough to dodge all the issues.

If you're very bothered by the ads, instead of an adblocker you can try out an Ad-blocking DNS. Personally, I use noads.libredns.gr

This will allow them to see all your data though, so I recommend using this method with a reputable VPN.

Thank you so much for the detailed answer 🙏

Why not? As long as you run a reputable VPN it's perfectly safe (and most places let you use a VPN - the ones that don't, I just roll LTE lol)

I believe Batocera itself covers all the consoles you mentioned.

It's also got a pretty nice little UI (very customizable) and it has a really nifty feature where you can pair Bluetooth remotes super easy (basically just put the controller into pairing mode and click "pair Bluetooth controller" and it'll instantly pair).

It also runs like absolute lightning - I'm running my Batocera on a 2012 MacBook Pro and it still runs everything up to PS1 decent frames (which is an achievement for this laptop lol).

To top it off, adding the games is super easy. I just used a flash drive and put the ROMs into their respective folders in the file explorer and it just added the console's icon to the home screen.

Do Revanced or Piped allow you to easily cast now? That was my main issue with them a while ago (I'm on a Pixel 6 Pro, maybe it was my phone?)

Squad is definitely one of them! Also the Battlefield Collection is on 89% sale (only includes the ones since 2011 tho)

Sorry for the spam, I kept hitting "Create Thread" and it never loaded until after a minute or so and then there were 4 threads 😅 Kinda illustrates my point...

The truck sims are so good

Late to the party, but probably playing Battlefield 1942 for actual HOURS. Such a great game

He also called them "pleasures" in the initial post. That's a really weird way to phrase it 🤔

I used Joey for about a year but since the blackout it's been uninstalled