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Cake day: June 9th, 2023
  • dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizzatoLinux@lemmy.ml•NixOS: How does daily driving fare for time-strapped users?
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    2 months ago

    I’d say I’m a “time-strapped” user since I have a full time job and I’d rather spend my free time gaming rather than fixing a broken OS, nevertheless… I have 2 PCs with Arch Linux (one for personal stuff and one for work) and a server with NixOS.

    When things break on Arch (which is rare these days but it can happen, especially if you play around with things from the AUR), I just rollback with timeshift (it takes just a few seconds with btrfs) and try that update again in a few days. Minor issues I can just ignore or work around them and take care of them when I feel like it, but they usually get fixed with updates within a few days. The only time I felt that it was actively wasting my time was when Plasma 6 came out a few months ago and a lot of little things broke, especially on wayland, but they were fixed rather quickly with 6.1 so I can’t complain too much.

    NixOS on the other end has been nothing but trouble and a waste of time ever since I installed it. It took me a week to configure it, some packages are kinda old, most have incomplete declarative config, I had to manually write some units myself, and when things break it drives me crazy because even basic troubleshooting of services can be a pain in the ass because I have to find out where stuff is, know which config files are going to be overwritten, launch the correct nix-shell, … it’s all so tiresome… so I just revert to an older config and hope for the best. To make things worse, major updates often require manual changes to the config or even to application files themselves (looking at you, nextcloud) and you will excuse me if I can’t be bothered to do that on a DECLARATIVE DISTRO. Even debian doesn’t need that, come on! I don’t care what people say on NixOS, this OS is not ready yet, I don’t have time for this shit when I’m working and that server will be going back to debian next summer.

  • dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizzatoLinux@lemmy.ml•What Linux distro surprised you the most?
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    3 months ago

    Arch Linux. Everyone said it was hard to use, unstable, etc. but my experience with it has been the exact opposite.

    Yes, the install process is needlessly complicated (although it got a lot simpler now that we have archinstall), but the OS itself is rock solid and rarely has any issues that require more than a reboot or a package reinstall to solve. The AUR is a godsend too if you don’t want or don’t know how to compile stuff from source.

  • dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizzatoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml•question, When were programmers supposed to be obsolete?
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    4 months ago

    The first time I heard about programming being obsolete was when I was taught UML in university. That was over almost 15 years ago and it didn’t happen, if anything programmers now also had to know UML, which isn’t all that bad but it definitely didn’t replace anything, it’s just useful for designing and documenting projects.

    I also heard from colleagues that in the 80s and 90s people said that SQL was supposed to be used by users directly, making (some) programming obsolete.

    Now AI bullshit claims to be making programming obsolete. I won’t hold my breath.

  • dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizzatoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's the most expensive thing you broke as a kid and what's the story behind it?
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    8 months ago

    When I was around 12, I was learning about overclocking, and accidentally killed my dad’s graphic card, an Nvidia FX 5900.

    I vividly remember launching The Sims 2 to test my overclock, when suddenly the screen started turning on and off (the video driver was probably crashing and restarting), and after I reset the PC, there were 2 green lines on the screen and XP was stuck in 640x480 16 colors because not even the basic display driver was able to load.

    My dad was mad obviously because it was an expensive card, the damage wasn’t covered by the warranty, and he was into gaming too at the time. I was stuck with integrated graphics for about a month while we waited for the geforce 6000 series to come out.

    I was so scared of overclocking after this happened, I didn’t try it again until a few years later years later when I had my own computer (and killed another card, a 9800GX2).

  • dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizzatoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Signs you're getting old?
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    8 months ago
    • Can’t use my phone for more than 10 minutes because it makes my eyes hurt
    • Understanding the mechanics of new games feels harder than it used to be
    • Can’t easily remember the names of characters in a game/movie I’m watching
    • Can’t remember the names of functions for programming languages I’ve learned recently, always need to keep the documentation handy
    • I find it absolutely counterintuitive to use “modern” functions in programming like lambdas (and functional programming in general can’t get into my head)
    • I almost always HATE changes in the OS and programs I use, while I used to love beta-testing stuff
    • Can’t get into new hobbies and interests
    • Still listen to the same genres I used to listen to 10 years ago
    • 2019 feels like a few months ago, not half a decade ago
    • Getting worse and worse at rhythm games

    I’m 33.

  • dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizzatoTechnology@beehaw.org•Steam is a ticking time bomb
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    9 months ago

    That has to be one of the dumbest articles I’ve read in a while.

    While I personally use Steam very rarely (I prefer to use DRM-free versions of games), Steam has done very little to be considered on its way towards enshittification.

    The macos situation is completely irrelevant because at this point its market share on steam is lower than linux and it makes no sense for them to invest only to be constantly screwed over by apple changing things on their platforms. My guess is it will be dropped within the next 3-5 years.

    The author points out the deprecation of Steam on older platforms, but fails to mention the fact that this wasn’t always their choice, for instance the recent drop of Windows 7 support was caused by the fact that there’s an embedded chromium browser in it and google dropped support for Windows 7 around that time. A similar situation happened for Windows XP, which was dropped in 2019, a full FIVE years after Microsoft dropped support for it, and at this time Steam on XP was only used for retrogaming, it made no sense to keep supporting it, there are better ways to get old games on XP.

    There’s barely a mention of all the good things that Valve has done for Linux gaming, but the article complains about Steam being 32 bit (which is still a requirement for wine to run, at least until the new wow64 mode becomes stable, and steam comes with its steam runtime specifically to avoid distro compatibility issues); they could have made proton only work with steam, they could have made their dxvk and vkd3d forks proprietary like nvidia did, but instead it’s all open source and very easy to build on all platforms and I use my own fork every day to play games without steam. Heck, there are even competitors for the steam deck that run proton.

    Also, can we mention the fact that Steam has not turned into yet another subscription service like some of its competitors?

    If I had to point at something that Steam absolutely did wrong, I’d say it’s allowing third party DRMs on the store, it’s a consistent source of issues, especially for old games. I understand that when they made the choice we didn’t have cancer like kernel level anticheat and denuvo, but still, Steam launching a launcher launching another launcher that launches the game is a trashy gaming experience and adds points of failure as we’ve already seen several times when big titles launch and their DRM servers go down, or when games get old and the DRM servers are shut down permanently.

    While I’m sure Steam will eventually become enshittified, I don’t see that happening any time soon, maybe after Gabe retires, and that’s why you should keep a collection of DRM free games on your drives and not rely solely on Steam and other stores.

    Just my opinion of course, feel free to disagree.

  • dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizzatoLinux@lemmy.ml•Do you daily drive Wayland, if so since when, if not when will you?
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    9 months ago

    I’ve been using it since Plasma 6 came out so about 3-4 weeks.

    Overall, it’s been a very negative experience for me. The main problems have been:

    • Random scaling issues in apps: some apps show a slightly smaller cursor, other show a poorly upscaled one, others have random rendering issues like lines remaining on the screen after an option is no longer highlighted (gimp, libreoffice, many others), some apps have random flickering of parts of the UI, some apps no longer scale at all or are scaled twice. Plasmashell itself has blurry icons on the desktop but all other KDE apps don’t. I know fractional scaling has always been problematic, but it has gotten worse to the point of being almost unusable
    • Random crashes of GTK apps when using the wayland backend. Some GTK apps don’t even start and segfault immediately with a wayland error in the terminal
    • Some apps like okular and libreoffice lag like crazy or outright freeze when scrolling
    • Some games not capturing the cursor properly (Proton)
    • Inconsistent font rendering, some fonts look fine in some apps and atrocious in others
    • Issues when resizing or moving windows, some times they “jerk” off the screen or resize to a very tiny window and I’m forced to use key combinations to resize them again
    • Random issues with window decoration not appearing in some apps but randomy appearing for things like context menus

    This is on a full AMD system with Arch Linux, the latest kernel and mesa-git. I hope for KDE’s sake that there’s something broken in my installation because I can’t believe the KDE team released Plasma 6 in this sorry state.