I assume it has to do with it kind of directly competing with steamos and eating into the user share?

discord alternative

Fluxer or stoat are where things seems to be going

Telegram alternative

Matrix is the best one for privacy specifically.

Made for privacy

Matrix is pretty spot on, fluxer and stoat are either more trusted (different developers, open source, different communities, …)., or you can also self hosted. Then half of the privacy just depends on you. Will be hard to do if you’re not experienced though.

Social Media usage

I mean Matrix isn’t but so isn’t Telegram. In case of fluxer & stoat, they’re in their initial stages, communities are small and bugs are prevalent. You will find a community size probably around half of what you are accustomed to on here. But if they still got tailwind, so you have perfect timing for starting your own on there.

Which I can just use a Proton mail on

I assume you mean register with a Proton mail. I don’t think they are blocked. Just try I guess, worst case it just doesn’t work. But I don’t think any emails are purposely banned (except maybe trash mail).

Either way good luck.

Ngl I don’t get the downvotes.

I have no opinion on pro or contra rust in the Linux Kernel. I have no dog in the fight and I do not understand it well enough.

Or did I get something wrong? The email chains are there. The core developers did argue. Linus did chime in. That one dev stopped working on it. what am I missing?

I’m so confused.

Interesting, that’s a real change to the last discussion in the email chains where they kind pushed rust out of the core development and said they would need to fork the kernel / make their own smaller modules to bs adopted.

I still remember one of the maintainers leaving over concerns about multiple languages in the kernel and Linus Torvalds having to chime in personally to set the new direction.

Used to carry a tactical pen disguised as a ballpoint pen.

Like people said, the best answers are the boring ones.

Best defense is being deescalating and avoiding dangerous situations, second is fast legs, third best is going to the gym, fourth best is probably pepper spray, and I would say the fifth best is a knife if legal. But most fights are over in under a second and there are no winners but only survivors with less severe injuries, and then it’s almost always weapon > muscles > luck > technique > stamina.

Oh yeah and don’t forget fighting is never cool. Everyone looks dumb, everything hurts and you will almost always regret it if you are sane.

Am I the only one who thinks the steam machine’s price is very reasonable relative to the current PC component prices?

What about

https://pairdrop.net/

Be worried about why he had to hide it, and be genuinely curious about how he became rich. I dunno if I’d be confident enough to ask about it though, I’d probably just tell him that I’m sorry he had to hide it and I hope he knows it doesn’t change how I see him.

Literally have a few friends who are rich, but it doesn’t change anything. I’m still a little brokey and we still alternate between me and them paying for dinner.

It really depends on if you think this is a genuine exploit or not. If it is, look up Microsoft’s track record on complying with disclosure and make yourself familiar with responsible disclosure guidelines.

If it’s not then you just need to look into the EULA of the specific windows parts affected, so they don’t pull your repository. Because that’s usually the biggest thing they do if you don’t specifically start fights with these companies.

Generally, you’re probably fine. If you want me to look over it I can give you my discord or fluxer or whatever. Not an expert, just a Cybersecurity enthusiast.

I didn’t know it was about that Nvidia presentation. I just didn’t connect this article to it, but I know of the Nvidia presentation. That explains why this alternative interpretation didn’t cross your mind.

Yeah I’m 100% sure they are doing this A) for good PR (blender is a beloved app and funding them is awesome) b) to retain communication with the team for easier agent integration later c) to lobby for their AI.

I can totally understand that it doesn’t look great if blender accepts the money.

I am sure though that blender could probably need the money; open source software is criminally underfunded and those devs need money to survive at the end of the day.

To me the title suggests the dev made the DLSS design intentionally worse, to generate controversy and now he is happy with the result.

The text actually explains that the devs just heard about the DLSS 5 alterations and were happy people loved the old design so much. Nothing controversial from him, not even intentional new designs.

Sounds like you got it right at first glance and I didn’t. However, often these titles are intentionally misleading as to generate more outrage “you should be mad at the developer for creating controversies and being smug about the outcry”. Not a fan of those manipulative tactics in modern journalism or whatever it calls itself currently.

And then you add the clickbait back in: ‘we got the design right’, Resident Evil Requiem Dev backs fans in their backlash against DLSS redesigns

Yeah that’s not even misleading, this is insinuating the opposite of what the dev means. That’s manipulative af. Whoever decided to use this title is a massive dick.

Looks like not only the type of sabotage is genuinely smart, but also dropping those papers means the government is now entrenched in distrust and that’s an uncomfortable position to be in.

Very good analogy, only would say there’s a wide range of creative people who are stuck with windows/mac because of compatibility in their field. They can be quite highly skilled but you can’t escape the industry standards.

I think that’s awesome that you’re trying to learn.

Linux only indirectly has to do with programming. Linux is an operating system, like MacOS or Windows. An operating system is basically everything on your PC that’s not the apps, so the desktop, task bar, start menu, settings menu, … are all part of it. And of course a lot of stuff you cannot see because apps need a lot of ground work to function properly.

First let me say, you should bother. No matter if it clicks for you or it doesn’t, trying something new is always a good idea.

If you want to get into Linux, you can install it instead of windows / MacOS on one of your devices. Make sure to backup all your files beforehand of course. Then you download an ISO from a Linux distribution (the flavour of Linux you want). if you just want something that works, Linux mint is one of the most straightforward ones. You download a “.iso” for that. Then you use a tool like “Rufus” and a USB stick, and put your iso file on that USB stick. After that, you plug that into the PC you wanna put Linux on, reboot, and look for the USB stick in the boot menu (different on every PC). And then you will be guided through the installation of Linux mint. After that you should be done and when the PC shows your new Linux mint desktop, you are done and you can unplug your USB stick. So much for Linux.

Getting into programming is a little bit less of a process, and more logic puzzles to understand how code works. I would recommend you look at an easier language, for example python, learn the basics of that and then set your sails on an intermediate project. For example a Webserver can be a cool one.

I know Lemmy hates AIs but I also gotta mention every time you wanna learn something, ask AI all the small questions. I personally like the free Claude AI; especially when you start out with a new hobby an AI will be helpful 99% of the time.

But most of all, do it for fun, stop when it’s too frustrating, just keep going and stick to it for a while, everything else comes with time. You’ll quickly see if this is interesting to you or not, and I hope it is :)

Don’t follow the game competitively really, but I still know that name, so yeah.

I rendered a 5min 4k60 video in blender / octane for a month, which suggests modern cards should easily do more chill tasks. And if you genuinely need the setup I did, you have 10x the work just taking care of modelling,particles, vfx afterfx, composition cut, …

Either you reached that level or you didn’t

I was gonna say, I used to render pretty sick Videos on a 1070, I think you’ll be fine unless you work at Pixar.