Skimmed your history to see if there was any indication of what your hardware/setup was. Slim on details beyond “Linux mint with an old/underpowered CPU”, but I happen to have a Linux Mint machine with an astonishingly bad CPU (Pentium Gold 4425Y, 2 cores, 1.7GHz) and only 4GB of RAM, so I decided to give it a spin.

Downloaded the demo from steam, changed nothing, hit play, game launched just fine and got to the main menu, but crashed to desktop trying to actually start the game. Tried a bit of tinkering, no dice.

Did run just fine with no tinkering on two other more powerful machines though.

The key is arbitrarily large timescales. It doesn’t really matter how small the chance of spontaneous self-organisation of a state of maximum entropy is because the timescales involved are effectively infinite.

most people want connected cars, my gf loves preheating our BYD when she heads off on an early morning start before she hops in, seats and cabin have been prewarmed etc. she likes the 360 birdseye cameras and I must admit they are very good

Neither of these things require the vehicle be “connected”. The cameras are entirely local to the car, naturally, and remote starters worked just fine for decades without being online.

…how does 36KB RAM and 72KB ROM give you a total of 64KB?

This is basically the case with any community that isn’t one of the broad topic/mass appeal subreddits. If you’re looking for discussion on anything even slightly specific Lemmy and other alternatives just completely fall on their face. Whether that’s support for a specific addiction or even just conversation about one particular video game series, your options are Reddit, discord, Twitter, or nothing.

Docker?

The comment you replied to doesn’t list any maintenance tasks or annoyances. I genuinely have no idea what you’re referring to with the opening line.

…all what things they listed?

Here’s a music news site: https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/gaming-giant-steam-faces-legal-action-from-the-uks-prs-over-alleged-unlicensed-use-of-music-in-games/

It sounds every bit as stupid there, if not more so because it’s apparently a normal aspect of distribution licensing in the UK.

Game developers and publishers typically secure sync licences to cover the embedding of music in their titles.
However, in the UK, those sync deals do not extend to the making available of that music when games are subsequently distributed via download or streaming platforms.
The ‘communication to the public’ right — i.e. the making available right — sits with PRS, not individual music publishers, meaning Valve requires its own separate licence as the platform operator distributing games that contain PRS members’ works.

Aside from every other stupid aspect of such a stupid idea, I’m curious where he thought people were going to be able to get hydrazine to refuel the thruster.

What is this insane rambling?

The alternative is that the only thing with access to make changes in your production environment is the CI pipeline that deploys your production environment.

Neither the AI, nor anything else on the developers machine, should have access to make production changes.

I can’t see the name “anthropic” without thinking about furries.

Anthro pic.

Now you can’t either. You’re welcome.

Also exists in C#, where it allows you to use pointers.

Likewise I’m a “safe third party adult” for my niece but the prospect of ever actually needing to act in that capacity is terrifying.

Matrix does have a bot API, but there is not even close to as robust an ecosystem of bots to choose from. Whatever you want is probably possible, but depending on your needs you may have to write it yourself.

Old hardware is certainly possible. I salvaged it from my parents who were going to throw it out. It’s got an A10-8700P and is limping along with a single 4GB DIMM. The thing doesn’t even have a second memory slot.

I do like the dedication to Mint! To be honest it’s generally my default pick if I need to slap Linux onto something. I actually tried putting it on the gaming table machine but for reasons I didn’t feel like digging into it just did not cooperate, and Debian did.

CachyOS on the luggable gaming machine is mostly just because I hadn’t used it before and wanted to give it a spin. So far so good.

As for the Windows machine, it’s a gaming rig and at the time it was built, pre-steam deck, Linux wasn’t quite yet in as good a position for that as it is now. I just can’t be bothered to switch it mid-stream as it were. It’s almost certainly going to be the last Windows machine I ever own though.

• Luggable gaming rig: CachyOS
• Surface Go 2: Mint
• Old laptop strapped to the underside of the gaming table: Debian
• NUC home server: Ubuntu Server
• Steam Deck: SteamOS

Non-linux:

• Gaming tower: Windows
• Previous gaming tower repurposed as NAS: TrueNAS

I don’t really disagree, at least in principle. You’re absolutely correct that workflows should be clear and developers often do not make good UI/UX. You just didn’t really qualify your original statement with any of that and made it an absolute, but you’ve clarified now and I’m pretty sure we agree.

a UI should offer everything a user can do in a given moment, readily available, nothing hidden behind more than a single menu.

That would be a nightmare for any sufficiently complex software. Can you imagine how dense the UI would need to be for something like Blender or even Excel if literally every possible option of “things available to do right now” had to be at most two clicks away?