This is usually the case, people make it a monster in their heads but it’s not bad as long as you’re willing to accept it’s a different OS to be used differently.

Let me guess, you might have tried Linux on n the past but only really started using Linux full time around 2021/2022, because every time I see someone saying “Linux only became user friendly around year X” is always around a 1 year mark after they started using it daily, because it’s a lot more a matter of being used to than actual usability. I have been using KDE since 2004, and while things have changed it wasn’t all that much, I don’t remember any big usability refactor or anything of the sort happening, I’m fairly confident that if I were to put you to use a KDE 3.5 UI you would feel right at home.

This AI trend trying to replace coders with LLMS is very stupid. A coder is already writing in human friendly terms what they want from the machine, if you communicate it with less clarity there are edge cases you’re not covering, so either the LLM is allowed to add edge cases scenarios on its own (so it can decide to filter all entries that contain the letter A just because) or it isn’t and won’t cover any of them (so it can for example crash and burn when retrieving something empty from the db and happily allow it to be put there). What I think most AI pushers don’t understand is that we’re already writing as close to English as possible while still being very structured about what we’re saying.

I’m more scared of this one, “it should work but doesn’t” means there’s something I’m missing, usually small, maybe I forgot to change one function call or an import. “it shouldn’t work but does” means there’s a huge misconception in how the thing actually works.

First thing that comes to mind is the video game Tunic, where the objective of the game is to decipher the language.

Secondly, Stargate (the movie) while not entirely or majorly in a fictional language, the alien characters speak their own language consistently, and part of the plot involves how they communicate. In the TV show they forego of that because it would be a pain to have new languages every episode, so you do have to suspend your disbelief for that, but the movie is golden in that regard.

Then there’s other stuff like Sims or Shadow of the Colossus where everything is in made up languages but it has no impact in the plot or mechanics.

A little over 24 hours. Nothing fancy, I had started a keto diet and at one point I realized that my previous meal had been lunch the day before, hadn’t had dinner nor breakfast since and it was lunch time again.

As others have explained, this is covered, the Stargate creates a minuscule wormhole, all matter is disintegrated transported and then reintegrated. But the Stargate acts in continuous chuncks of matter, so the camera won’t rematerializes until the entire stick crosses the event horizon, so you would need to attach the camera to a remotely controlled car, and you’re back to the robot.

While YUNO is a great way to get started, I strongly encourage you to understand basic concepts, like docker, and maybe try to run something outside of it for fun. While not even remotely the same thing since YUNO is just the OS and “app store”, you would be very similarly tied to that ecosystem the same way you are to Google now. Not to mean that YUNO would have any control over your stuff, but you would be dependent on them for what you can self host.

Cyrillic also has cursive, although I seriously doubt anyone can comprehend it.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2008-11-24

When I was very young I stuck my index finger in fire, it burnt a chunk of it, so now I only have about half a fingerprint on that finger.

I pay for Spotify, price hasn’t raised in years. I pay for a family plan so mother people from my family (that live in different countries) can use it too.

I work on my computer, so I’m usually listening to music all day long, I have multiple playlists I alter depending on my mood, plus several albums as well. So, yeah, I think it’s worth it for me. That being said if they removed the family sharing or increased their price drastically I would definitely consider alternatives.

Controllers I’ve had (all of which should work on Linux easily, some with minor adjustments needed) in the order I think you should consider them:

• 8BitDo Ultimate 2 Wireless
• PS5 Controller
• Xbox One controller
• PS4 controller
• PS3 controller
• Xbox 360 controller (only connects through dongle)
• Steam Controller (doesn’t have d-pad)

Most controllers should work wired, but I haven’t tested any of them like that because I like my controllers wireless.

I can, and have in the past, it’s not that big of a deal, but it’s not something I do regularly. Here’s the thing, 4km takes about 1h walking, 30min by bus/tram, 20min by car (then another 10min finding a place to park), or 15min by bike. This is why bikes are so ubiquitous in European cities, you can get to places usually much faster than by public transport, and sometimes even faster than cars since they have to do weird paths and skip entire neighborhoods.

I normally would take public transport for such distances, mostly because I don’t own a bike and sweat more than I’m comfortable with when I ride one, and don’t mind the extra 15min of listening to music.

In a world where I am limited by hours in a day and how many engineers I have on staff? A bug that nobody knows about is not a bug.

But people know about it, so much that they are reporting it, you don’t know about it, but everyone else does.

That is obviously playing with fire

Exactly, without the report you wouldn’t know what type of bug it is that affects people.

“linux users are smarter and make better bug reports and also have bigger dicks”

No one claimed any such thing, have you actually read the article? He claims Linux users are just more used to making bug reports, so they keep doing that on games the same way they would on any other piece of software. It’s about the mentality than intelligence, most people experience a bug, curse/laugh and carry on. Let me ask you, have you ever reported a bug in a game you played? I’m sure you’ve experienced many, but have you ever actually reported one?

But I think it DOES ignore the reality that adding actual support for a new platform does drastically increase the testing and build/deployment overheads which are usually the realest of costs anyway.

That is true, which is why the majority of games released for Linux are indie, since only indie developers have the necessary funds to carry such big overhead… But being serious, yes, there’s some overhead in setting a Linux build, but it’s usually one of the easiest to make, most games are already doing Windows/Xbox/Playstation/Switch adding an extra pipeline there should be much simpler than you’d expect.

Fix things as they come up" really is the best of both worlds.

How would you know things came up without bug reports?

Its not burying your head in the sand.

It is, just because people haven’t reported it doesn’t mean they haven’t experienced it. Maybe 90% of the people experienced that bug, but only the ones on Linux reported it. It had to be a very big number so that statistically less than 6% of the population experienced it enough to report it. Think about it, what are the chances someone specifically would get a generalized bug? If it’s 1% the chance that that 1% happens to be within the 6% of Linux users is very slim, for that to happen 400 times it’s inconceivable, those bugs were widespread, just not reported.

If it is isolated or people just don’t care? Then… it kind of doesn’t actually matter.

Again, you’re making an assumption, the bugs were probably not isolated, and we don’t know what they were so maybe they were big deals, just unreported big deals.

You scan the forums and optimally have community managers/PR people to do the same to keep an eye out for “This was weird?” style comments but you mostly focus on the stuff that naturally rises to the top or that you identify as an issue.

So you’re saying getting a bug with reproducible steps is worse than having to hire people to search the internet for posts and then pay engineers money to try to reproduce, so that you can finally have the same thing you would have gotten for free? Dude, sometimes people say “the game crashed, piece of shit” and that’s all the info you get in a forum, whereas a bug report is more akin to “When talking to NPC X the game crashed, here’s the stack trace, here’s my save file right before, I’ve confirmed that going and talking to X immediately triggers the issue”, but you do you, hire a community manager full time to read posts in case someone says the “the game crashed”, then pay a QA to sit on their hands until such report comes and then spend months to try to reproduce the issue, to finally get the same bug report that some random person would have given you for free.

The more bug reports you have? That is engineer time spent assessing what is and isn’t a priority.

No, engineers fix the bugs, project managers asses whether a bug is or isn’t a priority, or you thought their job was just to guide you through scrum practices?

And the sad reality is that it is a LOT easier to say “we have our five thousandth number one priority” rather than to say something doesn’t matter.

All you have to say is “your bug has been reported, we will look into it”.

I disagree sort of. I find it hard to believe a new distro is easier to set up than mint or Ubuntu

Mint is easier to setup than Ubuntu, and not only it’s newer, it’s based on Ubuntu. Ubuntu also is easier to setup than Debian even though it’s newer and based on it. Being a new distro has nothing to do with being easy to setup.

Bazzite is special because it’s an immutable distro, so it’s highly unlikely you’ll break stuff by poking around.

NixOS would be ideal for a purely testing, if I were setting a test bench I would definitely use Nix. BUT they also need to use something that people watching might be willing/able to use, and Nix has a very steep learning curve.

I use a CRKBD and have a layer where I have a numpad.

How is a password protected zip file different from an encrypted blob? And a quick Google will show you dozens of devs asking how to do this in different engines, because it’s a very simple way to delay access to something, it won’t be permanent, but it can allow you to do stuff like pre-loading that game/DLC and activate them remotely.