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Master of Applied Cuntery, Level 7 Misanthrope, and Social Injustice Warrior

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Yes.

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I open the browser, I go to amazon.de, I select a movie. If I have to buy it, amazon gives this funny popup two or three times that informs me that high resolution streaming is not supported on my platform (can’t remember the exact text) which I confirm “yes, I still want to buy it”, and then the player happily streams in full hd (1080p) which is my native resolution. I guess that prompt just checks the user agent string, but the player is happy if it has libwidewine.

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Cheers.

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I live close to the Alps in Bavaria. I’ll be skiing soon ;-)

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For what it’s worth, you got my upvote. And I’m happy you’re happy in Montana. But, it’s not Vermont. Just saying.

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Boost for Lemmy (evolved from Boost for reddit) just continues to call it karma: https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/599f1a28-9c93-4b6a-9f2e-18f5686f5de0.png

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No.

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I’m still learning to read through and interpret documentation and it often get way too over my head that I need to ask the community for help; […]

And there’s nothing wrong with that. And if you just ask, not even nicely, you’ll usually get productive help. I know I’ve provided help many times, no matter how “noobish” the question.

[…] and honestly, I don’t like to because of reactions like yours.

If you don’t act like a massive asshole, you don’t get such reactions.

It’s really disheartening to come to the community, try to ask for help and to be told that I should just do it right, or to catch flak for not asking the rifht question, or to have someone share a chunk of code and say, “just use this,” which doesn’t help me learn.

He didn’t come and asked. He ranted and shat on everything and everybody. He even received some help despite that. His reaction was offensive and more verbal diarrhea.

To be clear, my previous comment was a pre-coffee and just irked me in the wrong way; I do owe you an apology for that so, sorry.

Don’t sweat it. My skin is thicker than that.

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Not sure if you are serious or your comment is a meta meme …

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I have no experience with Darktable. But, really any and every distro should do it. Every distro comes with a learning curve. My personal advice would be not to go with distro derivatives. In the early days, Ubuntu was quite good, for making Debian “more accessible” to a larger audience and people unfamiliar with linux. I still like it for being an African success story. But, I can’t recommend it anymore for a slew of reasons. So, I’d say, go with debian, fedora, or even Arch. If you want to go with debian, you should know about non-free. If you go with fedora, you should know about rpmfusion. If you want to go with Arch, you should be comfortable with a more bare-bones and hands-on experience and reading the Arch-wiki (which is one of the most extensive and best wikis out there, and even useful if you use another distro). If you want something stable that just works and don’t need the newest of the new software, use debian. If you want the bleeding edge, that mostly just works, go with fedora. If you want the bleeding edge, want maximum control, and are not afraid to stay on top of it, go with Arch. Of course, many other distros could be a good pick for you. They all have pros and cons.

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I’m curious to hear how that works out. I’m a big fan of C#; not so much the Microsoft ecosystem. I’d say for maximum scalability you’d want languages which compile to small binaries. So, Go, Rust, C++, C, and theoretically some others. The approach with Java and C# to bundle the framework, JIT, etc, and then try to shave off as much as you can get away with feels kind of backwards. And I get the excitement of the Java folks when they manage to create a self-contained binary with GraalVM and co of 12mb. Like, that’s impressive, but had you developed the same thing with Go it would be .5mb. Curious to see how .NET fares in that comparison to Java.

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If your fedora experience is that terrible, you’ve clearly not figured out how it’s done.

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You often (if not most of the time) need some infrastructure in OCI containers (while we’re at it, let’s get rid of the misnomer Docker image). And that’s going to be some subset of a distribution hand-crafted for that purpose. Most of the time, that should be Alpine, because they provide the slimmest base image.

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Shall I also explain how to walk, breathe, and drink?

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I had tremendous fun here.

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https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2023/05/26/honest-work-meme-cb0f0fb2227fb84b77b3c9a851ac09b095ab74d8-s1200-c85.webp

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Yeah but how many knew that?

I did.

Context helps,

Context is for simple minded people.

I initially thought you were commenting on “if you tell everyone you’re vegan, you’re probably also the type to talk up arch”.

Yes.

Is this comic a useful contribution?

It entertained a lot of people.

It seems more divisive,

Welcome to the linux community: united, yet splintered.

made by someone who really concerns themselves with being part of an ingroup, vs anything meaningful.

Meh. As a fedora user I’m on the right side.

Dunno man, it’s a little… Mean spirited.

That’s an interesting way to express your tears of anger.

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shakes fist at heaven

Damned thou shalt be, Atheros gigabit ethernet chip!

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Void Linux supreme light and efficient distro.

You are going to love my next contribution.

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https://i.imgflip.com/85r8us.jpg

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    TL;DR: yes, no, wrong

    TL:

    Do they still teach that?

    As far as I know, singular they (/them) as a personal pronoun, not for when the gender is unknown, is only common in two places: the UK and the internet. It’s only formally taught in the UK.

    Nobody talks like that […]

    I’d claim that the ‘nobody’ is categorically incorrect here. Most people who learned English as a first or second language outside the UK and/or more than ~30 years ago were tought about gender neutral ‘he’ and not ‘they’. I know that I only learned about ‘they’ as a personal pronoun in the last decade or so on the internet.

    and they(singular) has been common since the 1300s.

    It’s been a while since I read about it because I was so baffled that the young ones on the internet were unable to distinguish singular and plural pronouns, until it dawned on me that there was a pattern and that I needed to do some research and learning. So, from the top of my head, hence the numbers could be off:

    The first verifiable use of singular they for when the gender is unknown was in a novel some 100 years ago. The concept of ‘they’ as a personal pronoun was only developed in the latter half of the last century in the UK and has only been formally taught there for about three decades.

    As far as I know, all guides to formal writing outside the UK discourage the use of singular they even for when the gender is unknown (not to mention the much younger use as a personal pronoun).

    Now, I’m not a native speaker and my information might not be up to date. I’m curious to hear from people from the US, Australia, NZ, India, … (wherever English is the first or a formal language) if and when they were taught about ‘they’ as a singular pronoun for when the gender is unknown and ‘they’ as a personal pronoun.

    As a side note/some personal opinion:

    As a non-native-speaker who was taught about gender neutral ‘he’, seeing people use ‘they’ as a singular pronoun was hell of confusing at first. I mostly got used to it, but I don’t really like it. Sometimes I still find texts where I find it very confusing. A recipe for disaster is writing about a group and one individual of that group by referring to them (the individual) as ‘they’. Such constructs will have me constantly go back and reread sentences wondering whether something refers to the group or the individual.

    I think I would prefer two new sets of pronouns: one for when the gender is unknown, and another as personal pronouns other than he/she. It would make things much less ambiguous and easier (at least for me, I think).

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    While I get your sentiment, I’m always baffled how people fail to just memorize some basic formulas/equations and then just to plug and play:

    1÷kⁿ = k⁻ⁿ

    % = 1÷100 = 10⁻²

    k×10ⁿ equals k with its floating point shifted by n to the right for positive n, or to the left for negative n

    That’s really all one needs to know for the “problem” at hand. For your concrete example of “40% of 59” that would just be

    59×40×10⁻²

    Just solve that whatever way is easiest. I don’t get why people get panic-stricken when they see the % sign.

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    Innovation or regression? Gnome used to have optional desktop icons. They removed them. Let’s settle on gnome is progressing, while keeping in mind, that progress is neither necessarily nor inherently good.

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    So often do I see people starting their comment with some variation of that or “you’re wrong!”

    Proof? Pictures or it didn’t happen.

    But then they basically agree […]

    I still disagree.

    […] with that the other was saying.

    Yah, I’m certainly not saying what you’re saying, buddy.

    People just want to shout […]

    Who’s shouting? Lots of unfounded claims here …

    […] and be angry […]

    Well, you’re starting to make me angry.

    […] and dominant […]

    I am. And I’m not sorry.

    Is this your first internet argument, kid?

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