[-] Octorine@midwest.social 3 points 1 day ago

You can friend me for a code if you don't have one yet. My username is Octorine.

[-] Octorine@midwest.social 55 points 2 months ago

I finally watched the talk today and that wasn't what I thought he meant. What I thought he was getting at was that the rust parts of the kernel interact with lots of other modules written by people who don't know rust. When those C modules change their semantics in ways that break the rust code, they can't go fix it because they don't know rust. In fact, whenever they make a change, they don't even know if they broke some rust module, because they don't understand the rust code well enough. And this is something that everyone is going to have to live with for the foreseeable future, because you can't force all those other kernel hackers to learn rust.

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[-] Octorine@midwest.social 8 points 7 months ago

You can charge for FOSS, but you can't prevent the first person who buys your software from sharing it with everyone else for free.

[-] Octorine@midwest.social 7 points 7 months ago

Sometimes I'll start up ConnectBot, which is an android ssh client, on my meta quest. Then I connect to my laptop and attach to a running tmux session so I can use the laptop keyboard but see the text in a virtual window.

My actual laptop setup is pretty boring though

[-] Octorine@midwest.social 24 points 7 months ago

I remember getting into political arguments that went nowhere at the time but resulted in me changing my mind years later. The people I argued with never knew about my change of heart. As far as they knew I was one of those people who get more entrenched in their beliefs.

What I'm getting at is that your arguments can hit home without looking like it. What you're seeing as getting defensive could just be the early stages for them changing their minds.

This can be especially true if someone's political beliefs are part of their identity. You don't make those kind of changes all at once.

So I'd say just argue in good faith, don't try to score points, provide food for thought if you can, and hope for the other person to eventually find their way to the truth.

[-] Octorine@midwest.social 25 points 10 months ago

Soon we'll be able to emacs the way the developers intended.

[-] Octorine@midwest.social 11 points 1 year ago

Drm on Steam is optional. It's up to the dev whether to include any or not.

However, if the game uses any steam features, like achievements, voice chat, leaderboards, etc., then those won't work without steam.

[-] Octorine@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago

I really like the disk usage analyzer in gnome. The ui/visualization is really intuitive and useful, and I often wish for something similar on windows.

[-] Octorine@midwest.social 15 points 1 year ago

It doesn't. All the time you spent reading manuals and tweaking configs to get it to boot quicker does.

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Happy Dave Matthews day (midwest.social)

to all who celebrate

[-] Octorine@midwest.social 15 points 1 year ago

That's what I don't understand. China isn't a Communist state, not since the 90s. They gutted their social safety net, lowered taxes on the rich, privatized most of their economy and then sold all their industry to multinational corporations. They're farther from communism than the average EU country now, and about on par with the US.

Same with Russia. Russia is basically Galt's Gulch now, which is why a segment of the GOP love it so much. It's like he lemmygraders stopped paying attention around 1990 and think nothing has changed since then.

[-] Octorine@midwest.social 16 points 1 year ago

Which is weird, because far left communists are the absolute last people I would expect to support Russia or China.

[-] Octorine@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago

I hate FPS games. They're probably my least favorite genre. I really enjoyed HL2.

Although, I was playing through the series to get ready for Alyx, so that may have colored my perception.

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