I really wish GOG was a stronger supporter of Linux. I would move my business over to GOG where possible if so. Right now I heavily value the work that Valve has put into not only making Linux gaming a reality, but the Linux desktop in general as a side-effect.

You keep using the word “animal”, but anthropomorphic cartoons are not real animals. Attraction to real animals is not what being a furry is. (You already know this, you are using the term in a loaded way in order to say one thing but mean another) (this unfortunately does not convince anyone).

There’s nothing inherent to being a furry that demands a “delusional fantasy” (you would know this if you knew what furries are). You call yourself Deceptichum and have a transformers avatar - you may be at risk of being in a “delusional fantasy” if that’s how you want to classify the people with anonymous names and furry avatars!

So where is the part where the “world is a worse place” because of furries?

It is repeatedly hilarious that you pretend that these arguments are any different than the ones homophobes are using. What is the harm, exactly?

Giving up when facing any opposition seems like you never really intended on improving your worldview. You just want to be hateful of things that you don’t understand. The irony of you thinking that those who oppose the LGBT are any different is not lost on me. It’s easy to punch down on things that you don’t personally like, but those are real people that you’re targeting with your malice. I’m not a furry, but I am gay, and as an LGBT member yourself you should understand the power of being an ally to a minority that often gets painted in a bad light. Doubly so when ~80% of furries are LGBTQIA+ in the first place; it’s an LGBT subculture.

That is again not even close to a correct definition, and it is interesting that you think yourself the best person to judge something that you don’t know the first thing about.

Unhealthy designated by you, the puritan police? Do you know that the anti-LGBT people also consider being gay unhealthy? They’re drawing the line in a different place, but still playing the same role you are. Would you recommend shock therapy for furries, or is that just a cure for being gay? If you’re so concerned with how the furry fandom works you should maybe actually research your bigotry and learn that it’s massive, and no two furries express themselves in the same way. Many do not have overlapping interests at all. You are on the fediverse, so I’d suggest you get comfortable with the idea that people are allowed to exist without your permission.

That’s not really how furries work so you might want to work a little harder if you’re going to designate yourself as the puritan police of what people are allowed to like. Let me know when you’ve moved on to how gay sex is unnatural and trans people aren’t real.

Did you watch the video before disagreeing with it? We’ve had the concept of clickbait titles for quite a while now, so it would be silly if someone still hasn’t realized how they work. It unsurprisingly does not say that furry porn is objectively “hotter”, but moreso that it’s objectively healthier, for both participants and emotional state. There are lessons to learn by comparison and study, instead of sticking our heads in the sand and pretending that there are no problems with the porn industry.

“Escape hatch” specifically refers to the speculation that Valve is positioning themselves in a way that they can’t be forced into paying fees for existing on the Windows platform, and that if push comes to shove they can say they only support Linux now. This hasn’t happened yet, but it’s a strategic stance which will likely prevent it from even beginning to happen. This doesn’t have to do with the Steam Deck specifically; it was also part of their intentions with the Steam Machine and etc.

Maybe it needs to be more obvious that there are many ways to do things in Linux, and give new users a short “learning to learn” primer on how things operate differently in Linux-land, and where/how to look online for help. There are always first-boot popups but I imagine most people are conditioned to click out of them without even reading; forcing people to confirm a couple times that they want to skip “very helpful reading” may cut down on people that play the search engine lottery on what information they use for their first steps.

Also semi-related, I hope that mainstream Linux eventually “un-stupids” computers for regular people again. I get the distinct feeling that Microsoft and Apple have, at least somewhat intentionally, imposed ‘learned helplessness’ onto average computer users. “Oh computers are magic no one knows how they work. We are the only wizards that could possibly understand them and we will sell you the solution.” Windows/OSX/iOS/etc are so locked down that people have rightfully learned over time that if they run into a problem, there really is no solution. I suspect that’s permeating into the new user experience on Linux where people will encounter one problem and throw their hands up and say “fucking computers” instead of using basic problem solving to try another approach.

Their rough new user experience is concerning though. From what they described I suspect many of their “problems” are not actually “real”, but it doesn’t really matter because they still ended up in a scenario where they thought there were problems. How did they end up thinking that everything must be done with terminal while using Ubuntu? I know in the last ~10 years there’s been a big focus on the new user experience, so what more can be done to prevent this? My gut says there are too many online resources that are confusing new users when they try to onboard themselves - especially resources that are old, written for other distros, or written for people who just want to find the command they can copy-paste to do something.

Gaming has been the only pathway to mainstream desktop since forever. I’ve been around for a hot minute and I remember that consistently, the “real Linux users” for years repeated “we don’t need gaming this is an adult OS go back to Windows and play with your toys” and then turned around and whined that no one wanted to use desktop Linux. Valve stepped in and casually created the year of the Linux desktop as a side-effect of just wanting an escape hatch for their business model. Now the casuals and elitists alike will have a better experience via the magic of Marketshare, and all it really took is not listening to people that don’t know what’s good for them.

There’s an unnerving lack of substance over on reddit. Recently I decided to look at reddit for the first time since last June, and every post’s comments had 1k people saying absolutely nothing worth reading. It feels like I’m reading AI-written posts that are in the uncanny valley of almost making sense and almost being on-topic. News articles have people that literally only talk about the exact words that were in the headline. Every single post’s top comments must be lame “jokes” or one-liners, and those must have several replies that riff off the joke in decreasingly-funny ways.

I’ve picked up a strong habit of immediately looking in comment sections for good discussion and TL;DR’s on Lemmy posts and it took me a while to realize that I wasn’t actually reading anything in reddit comment sections. The words pass through my brain and nothing of value is absorbed, over and over. It feels like low-hanging fruit to say “reddit is all bots now” but there’s something seriously wrong about how it feels over there. You only really need ~10-20 top-level replies on a post to get a broad spectrum of answers, and Lemmy comment sections feel solid for the content that’s here. I wish there were more communities here (especially niche ones), but I’m grateful for what we have.

This is a contender for one of the worst things I’ve ever read. I’m sure this happens more often than we realize but that is just brutal. Someone’s making money off this and it makes me sick. RIP Dragoneer. I’ve not visited FA much but it’s always felt like “Old Internet” to me and I appreciate that.

Maybe Amdahl’s Law is in consideration at this point? Either way, for most consumers there’s no need for more cores, and CPUs are made to be sold. I’m guessing at this point gaming performance is one of the most important metrics to differentiate a consumer CPU, so it makes sense that adding more cores is not a priority in that regard.

On a related note, I’ve found Dockge to be powerful enough for my usecases. Worth a try if you don’t like the adversarial relationship of Portainer.

This video (series) is so cathartic. Love when people reach that moment of frustration with a company and break it off completely, instead of just eternally bending.

In the UK, 66% of those surveyed stated their support for same-sex relationships

Isn’t this a really terrible statistic? 34% of people don’t show the bare minimum level of support for letting other people live their lives? I would have expected this to be a lot higher.

I recommend a dead man’s switch like Healthchecks.io, which can be selfhosted for free. Whenever you have something that’s regularly occurring, add an extra callout to your unique Healthchecks callout UUID as part of the automation, and Healthchecks will send you a notification if something misses its callout schedule. You can also attach whatever data (e.g. a log) to the callout so you can look back through the run history. IIRC Borg will give you a non-zero return code if it detects problems, so you can send e.g. https://hc-ping.com/your-uuid-here/$? and a non-zero code will signal a notification as well (more examples here).

Also, Borgmatic is really easy to use for managing Borg repos. There’s a lot of configuration options (including Healthchecks.io integration) but you can delete like 90% of it for normal usecases.

For me personally, this is just the straw that broke the camel’s back. I’m not a fan of the languages it’s written in, its license, its immaturity, and that it’s mostly being developed by one person. Additional minor strike for communicating through discord. Now we learn that the most influential person on the project has some real bad vibes and it’s probably best to give this a pass as a whole.

In my eyes the whole selling point of the browser is being an independent underdog with a clean slate, but what’s the point if we’re starting with a list of IOUs for things that are already bad out of the gate.