dfyx

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[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 2 points 20 hours ago

This is your chance to make one. After all, today you learned that.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 17 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Falls jemanden interessiert, was da so an Komponenten drin steckt, schaut mal im git Repository der Community Edition, da gibt es zu den wichtigsten Komponenten jeweils eine Readme.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 58 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

There is one thing the article omits which is very important: the time frame. At first it looks like this is based on 2024 numbers alone but seeing 52 million for the USA (about 15% of total population) and 16 million for Germany (20%) made me check the linked source. The data was aggregated over the last 35 years.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 48 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

It's mostly a "well, technically" kind of thing. First prototypes were around since the 1840s but the first commercial telefax service was introduced in February 1865, a little under two months before Lincoln was killed. Samurai were around until the late 1860s or early 1870s. I can't quite find when the first telefax machine was operated in Japan but 1928 shows up on some lists.

So yeah, Lincoln could have sent a fax to a samurai if they both had traveled to France just a few weeks before Lincoln's death.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 5 points 1 day ago

Don't forget elementary school, first pet and favorite sports team.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Collections might have been inherited over generations. For some of them, the current owners may not have much interest in what they have and therefore not be aware of some rare copies.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

In proper libraries, we probably have the author and title in a database somewhere but not the content. In private collections, all bets are off.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 49 points 4 days ago (11 children)

I would assume that almost any old library or private collection that includes old handwritten books has at least a couple of manuscripts that nobody has read in decades if not centuries.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think that one baffles me the most. They make an argument for Shenmue and even if I don't agree with it being on one, I can somewhat see why it's on the list. But KCD2 has no right to be on the list at all. As they state themselves, the game is not even two months old. We can't even remotely say what its long-term influence on the gaming industry will be. Though my money is on "none at all."

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 0 points 5 days ago

HALF-LIFE 2

Okay that’s a little weird. We’re getting up into the real high-water heights here and I mean HL2 is good but…

This list is not about good, it's about influential. HL2 was the first major game that based its core gameplay to its physics engine, the first to have HDR rendering and the game that Source engine was developed for. Without HL2, a lot of video games in the decade that followed it, would have looked a lot different.

SHENMUE

THE FUCK WHY WHAT

The article claims that Shenmue was the first to have a "living world" where characters follow their daily routines and so on. But yeah, I have my doubts if all the other games that do that were influenced by it.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Big university in Germany that's well-known for their computer science department. Started in 2008 and took way longer than planned. As stated in my other comment, being openly trans was rare when I started but had become more common by the time I got my degree, especially among new students who took the chance to make new friends who never knew their pre-outing personas.

 

So first of all, this is not a "help me like linux" post but desktop linux specifically and it's not a "linux is shit" post either.

I run a whole bunch of linux servers (including the one that hosts the instance I'm posting from), the first thing I install on a Windows machine is WSL and I've compiled my first kernel about 20 years ago so that's not the problem we're facing here. I understand how linux works and considering the end of support for Windows 10 this is as good an opportunity as ever to fully make the switch.

My problem is more that specifically linux on a desktop still feels more like an unfinished prototype than like something I'd want to use as a daily driver. About once a year I challenge myself to try it for a while and see how it feels. I look around for a distro that seems promising, put it on a spare SSD, put it either into my Framework laptop or my gaming machine and see where the journey takes me, only booting Windows in an emergency.

And each time, I get fed up after a few days:

  • Navigating a combination of the distro's native package manager (apt, pacman, rpm, whatever), snap, flatpack and still having to set up the maintainers' custom repositories to get stuff that's even remotely up-to-date somehow feels even messier than the Windows approach of downloading binaries manually.
  • The different UI toolkits, desktop environment, window manager and compositor seem to be fighting each other. I feel like even for something simple as changing a theme or the UI scaling, I have to change settings in three different places just to notice that half the applications still ignore them and my login screen renders in the top left corner of the screen but the mouse cursor acts as if the whole screen was used.
  • All of that seems to be getting worse when fractional scaling is involved which is a must for the 2256x1504 screen in my Framework 13.
  • The general advice seems to be "just wait until you run into a problem, then research how to solve it". For my server stuff, this works really well. But for desktop linux, it feels like for every problem I find five different solutions where each of them assumes an entirely different technology stack and if mine is even slightly different I eventually run into a step where a config file is not where it should be or a package is not available for what I'm using.
  • I do a lot of .NET programming and photo editing. I could probably replace VS with VScode or Ryder but it's an additional hurdle. For photo editing, I haven't found a single thing that fits my workflow the way Bridge, Camera Raw and Photoshop do. I've tried Gimp, Krita, Darktable, RawTherapee and probably a couple more and they all felt like they were missing half the features or suffer from the same unintuitive UI/UX that Blender had before they completely overhauled it with 2.8.

Sooo... where do I go from this? I really want this to work out.

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