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That’s a way better community! Thanks for the recommendation!

This is it.

The games community in lemmy.world is a bunch of folks advertising their indie game or YouTube stream. Usually a few comments here and there.

The games community on lemmy.ml is a bunch of folks sharing gaming journalism. Pretty active.

Linux is roughly at 3.88% market share. You don’t think we can bump Linux adoption to 99.9% in the next six months?

We just have to keep writing these “Year of the Linux” posts every year.

Stupid question:

What is the commercial comparison? Like vine/Instagram video/YouTube shorts?

I’m old and I don’t understand how those social media platforms above work but I’m willing to figure it out to add content to the fediverse.

Those gaming Chromebooks are so wild. I saw them for $1000!

The ones I saw a year ago was bragging about playing mobile games and Google Stadia.

But like… Why! Why spend that much when the alternatives are so much better?

When web apps took off a decade ago, I was secretly rooting for this.

OSes shouldnt matter anymore. Everything should funnel through a browser. WASM is already bringing traditional desktop apps to the web. Microsoft and Apple can die in a fire.

But with the migration, now the fight is to stop Google from owning browsers.

In corporations, we call that job security.

Just rewriting the same thing in different ways for little gain except to say we did it

I laughed waay too hard at this.

A PM said something similar earlier this week during a performance meeting: “I heard rust was fast. Maybe we should rewrite the software in that?”

In the words of the devs in that security email, and I’m paraphrasing -

“Lots of people giving next steps, not a lot people lending a hand.”

I say this as a person not lending a hand. This stuff over my head and outside my industry knowledge and experience, even after I spent the whole weekend piecing everything together.

Can’t confirm but unlikely.

Via https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdoor

They found this particularly interesting as Cheong is new information. I’ve now learned from another source that Cheong isn’t Mandarin, it’s Cantonese. This source theorizes that Cheong is a variant of the 張 surname, as “eong” matches Jyutping (a Cantonese romanisation standard) and “Cheung” is pretty common in Hong Kong as an official surname romanisation. A third source has alerted me that “Jia” is Mandarin (as Cantonese rarely uses J and especially not Ji). The Tan last name is possible in Mandarin, but is most common for the Hokkien Chinese dialect pronunciation of the character 陳 (Cantonese: Chan, Mandarin: Chen). It’s most likely our actor simply mashed plausible sounding Chinese names together.

My brain can’t comprehend this. A MacBook Pro 2011 is twelve years old. But in my brain, I still see it as a high powered fancy laptop, running Photoshop cs4 and just being a beast for multimedia projects. Ugh being old…

So start your own instance, with Blackjack and hookers?

As expected that’s the power of Lemmy!

You know the meme where Bender goes, “I’ll do my own thing, with Blackjack and hookers!”

Lemme provides that. Servers are managed by different groups and you can absolutely make your own, with blackjacks and hookers.

Never understood people who don’t get this.

As a person who is part of open source communities, on various chairs and donates, the money is extremely slim, and the people involved just want to build cool things.

We are busy trying to keep the lights on for hundreds of thousands of people can enjoy this service. And if a small group of troublemakers force us to get a strong legal threat, we aren’t risking the the project’s survival for them.

Especially when we don’t know the troublemakers, don’t have any connection with them, they don’t contribute to the platform, etc.

The problem with going for alternatives is support.

Imagine picking a random Linux flavor, then trying to figure out how to change settings, only to get either hundreds of different answers.

It was pretty clickbaity but damn I did laugh

What’s the bad news?

There’s a guy who has one at my coding hangouts. It looks really slick and definitely my next laptop!