VinesNFluff

VinesNFluff , 8 days ago

Geez mate I'm a commie too but you sure do spam. T'is getting old.

VinesNFluff , 12 days ago

Does posting exclude texting to group chats?

Cuz I tend to do a lot of that. Don't really do social media (this barely counts), prefer to spend time with a select few gay nerds.

VinesNFluff , 11 days ago

Neoliberalism.webp

VinesNFluff , 20 days ago

XOrg and Wayland are two different programs that serve the same purpose, which is to act as a sort of middleman between the graphics driver, the window manager(s), and the many programs you're running.

XOrg is ancient. Early 80s ancient. It's been added to since those days as need arose, and is therefore full of weird messy legacy stuff and jury-rigs. But it is also what Linux has used for a very, very long time, and is therefore like. Ol' Reliable workhorse, yanno?

Wayland is a new and bold step that rewrites the entire system from the ground up to address the shortcomings of XOrg (don't ask me to specify, I actually don't know), it has, however, been criticised for not having (and devs downright not wanting it to have) certain features that XOrg has. But it can also run applications that expect XOrg with a thing (jargon escapes me) called XWayland.

Personally I've used both. And... Uh...

Wayland was a bit faster and smoother maybe? But it also caused some specific applications to misbehave and get all crashy-buggy. But that was a personal experience and may well have been my fault.

VinesNFluff , 22 days ago

It's a Party in the DnD sense. Gotta have enough pancakes for the Cleric, the Barbarian, the Bard, and the Paladin.

VinesNFluff , 21 days ago

(you can resume being gay after the house is clean)

VinesNFluff , 25 days ago

muscle

It's actually mostly fat and water.

VinesNFluff , 25 days ago

It's not like far right Linux guys are unheard of.

It's just that they tend to be "literally who's" instead of anyone relevant to any project people care about.

VinesNFluff , 25 days ago

The trajectory of the term "PC" will never not amuse me.

It used to be a specific brand of a category of products ("PC" was IBM's "Home Computer". That was the name of the category. "Home computers", computers for the home)

Then because the IBM PC was 99% off-the-shelf parts and 1% a proprietary bios, as soon as a cleanroom clone of that bios was written, every manufacturer under the sun made their own "IBM Compatible", and eventually, as IBM's role in the whole thing became less and less relevant (... And eventually they tried to move to a new, incompatible format with the IBM PS/2, and this failed hard) it became "PC Compatible" -- But what a "PC Compatible" was, even back then, was something that was constantly changing due to the multitude of companies making them. Their unifying factor being... Uhh... x86 architecture and some variation of DOS, which made them run the same programs more or less.

Eventually "PC" and "Computer" became interchangeable to most normies. With the word "Computer" even being considered "Old fashioned" by some.

VinesNFluff , 25 days ago

"for some reason"

Microsoft out-sleazed them by exploiting their pride, that's the reason. IBM was in a huge rush to get SOME Home Computer out before the 80s were over. They had snubbed the very idea of computers in the home and let Apple and Commodore steal a rich market from under their feet.

So they didn't even bother scrutinising the contract: They didn't think that the BIOS could ever be cloned, and if it was, they figured they'd just sue any company that did out of business. So Microsoft having their own version of DOS was "no threat", as without the BIOS, DOS could run on any 8086 processor but that wouldn't make it work with IBM software.

But the court ultimately sided with Compaq (not Eagle, Eagle got into trouble) as their BIOS clone was a cleanroom reverse-engineering project and therefore "fair use", and that was curtains for IBM.

VinesNFluff , 25 days ago

The word console is less fun because it's not a brand that somehow got ship-of-theseused into no longer being a brand. Such things are exceedingly rare. Getting a brand name to become the product name is common, but to have the brand that originated that disappear in the process is not.

Console is just a generic term, it originated in architecture, where it meant "bit that protrudes out of the wall". It took on the meaning of "cabinet" and eventually started being used for the part of a machine that would have its meter readouts and its control bits and bobs. A gaming console is a console because it's... A machine. In an alternate universe we call it a "contraption". Has the same effect.

VinesNFluff , 25 days ago

Idk if common. It does happen tho.

VinesNFluff , 27 days ago

Coati

It's like a Raccoon but it speaks either Spanish or Portuguese (that is to say, native to South America)

VinesNFluff , 27 days ago

GMDX is pretty neat

VinesNFluff , 28 days ago

One of the best video games ever made.

VinesNFluff , 29 days ago

Human beings may not be perfect but a computer program with language synthesis is hardly the answer to the world's problems.

VinesNFluff , 28 days ago

As if long mosquito would ever allow his minions to produce something with even a passing resemblance to public transportation.

VinesNFluff OP , 26 days ago

No it's the main minion of the baddie from Smash Bros. Brawl.

VinesNFluff , 28 days ago

Also me when I have a boner but that's unrelated.

VinesNFluff , 1 month ago

Once I went travelling and left my arch(btw) desktop computer unplugged for just over a full month.

When I came back there were 1 235 packages needing updating, between repo and AUR.

.... It worked fine tho. That install didn't really go to shit until about a month ago, when months of sloppy system management on my end finally caught up to me and left me with a lot of mysterious issues. So I cut my losses and ditched it.

I'm using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed now (btw).

VinesNFluff , 1 month ago

The only "issue" with man pages is that they open in less and less is a bit too -- Vim-y. So you end up needing to read a manual on how to read manuals?

VinesNFluff , 1 month ago

Tldr is awesome.

VinesNFluff , 1 month ago

Man man man man manly men~

VinesNFluff , 1 month ago

Neo?

He was a computer tinkerer in the late 90s. I'm not too familiar with the 90s Linux scene (that was my dad's thing), but like. Mandriva or smth?

VinesNFluff OP , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

As an Amateur Artist (my pfp was drawn by me) -- You are correct. Though in this particular picture I have no trouble telling her shape from the background objects.

Addendum: In cartoon art, generally, black fills are avoided. Instead you use very dark grey for black things, so as to keep the (black) outline distinct. Other artstyles have other ways of doing stuff.

VinesNFluff OP , 1 month ago

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VinesNFluff OP , 1 month ago

NVidia?

VinesNFluff OP , 1 month ago

If there are any car guys in the family, simply tell them it's sorta like that. Tinkering is a totally valid hobby, but older people have an easier time understanding it with cars (because cars have been around longer, mostly :P)

VinesNFluff OP , 1 month ago

The ubuntu logo looks kinda like an abstract drawing of an anus--

VinesNFluff OP , 1 month ago

Proprietary NVidia API for paralell computation.

Very useful for Machine Learning stuff. And for Crypto though that has fallen out of fashion nowadays.

Basically if you're doing a fuck-ton of math and want it to happen very fast, you want to use a GPU to do it (GPUs are literally made for that -- That this helps them draw video games is a happy consequence), and NVidia's CUDA tech makes it... Easier? Faster? Not sure what the proper difference is, but yeah.

VinesNFluff OP , 1 month ago

It is not two concentric circles, but the overlap is gigantic.

Both circles are entirely contained within a larger circle that says "neurodiverse people", though.

VinesNFluff OP , 1 month ago

On my end, like --

I have about as many tech issues with Windows as with Linux -- It comes with me enjoying tinkering as a hobby I think?

BUT, and this is important, when shit breaks on Linux, there is always output on the terminal, or a log file, or something else you can check, and even when I don't know what to do about it, a simple copypaste of the error on internet search usually gets me some answers.

When shit breaks on Windows? HOLY FUCKING SHIT. It just sorta dies and leaves you in the dark with nothing to go on for troubleshooting. Windows wants to make computers into magic boxes that "just werk", but it never really gets there, and instead what you get is something that breaks just as often, but is a lot more opaque.

That BSOD with an emoticon lives rent-free in my head. Like who the fuck thought it was a good idea?

VinesNFluff OP , 1 month ago

The few times I had to use the Windows Event Viewer I left having learned - Uh - Nothing except a newfound hatred for Microsoft. It's weird to navigate, and the logs are close to useless.

VinesNFluff , 1 month ago

Sailor Uranus

Twilight Sparkle.

VinesNFluff OP , 1 month ago

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Itaipu_geral.jpg

"are we a joke to you?"

VinesNFluff OP , 1 month ago

I go outside mostly to acquire necessities. Like the other chap I refuse to use Amazon. Plus I live in an area where most essential shops are within walking distance.

VinesNFluff OP , 1 month ago

It's a joke, mate

I'd be among the people climbing the hill probably.

VinesNFluff OP , 1 month ago

... And perpetual energy is actually impossible and maybe that's the point because the post is a joke.

VinesNFluff OP , 1 month ago

My state's pride and joy, Itaipú. Provides the entire southern region of Brazil (as well as the entire country of Paraguay) with green electricity.

VinesNFluff OP , 1 month ago

I've been a Linux user for 15 years now. I run a small Portuguese language blog about open source software. I'd be ascending the hill myself.

... And the original meme, which I edited, was about Pathfinder players climbing the hill to evangelise to DnD 5 players. And was sent to the group where me and my friends play Pathfinder biweekly.

It seems most people got the joke.

VinesNFluff OP , 1 month ago

"Ugh my old laptop runs so slow now. I'm gonna have to buy one, won't I?"

"Seriously? I can't uninstall candy fucking crush now?"

"Man, why do they always make it so hard to change the most basic of settings?"

VinesNFluff , 1 month ago

I'd rather they rip the bandaid off and not pretend they are my friend. You are firing me. You are removing me from my source of income. Stop trying to be "pleasant" because it just looks like you are enjoying it.

No smiles, no affected happiness, no weasel words about being "let go". Just say "yeah, sorry, you're fired". The more emotionless you can make it on your end, the better.

Heck don't even fire me in person. Send me an e-mail. It's a lot more... Humane. Less cruel.

VinesNFluff , 1 month ago

Oh hey, one of my friends linked me this in video form about a year ago, and I made a video where, as Phobos passes the sun, the Doom Level 1 music fades in and out.

VinesNFluff , 1 month ago

"FLAC? Mate I destroyed my ears when I was 14 and listening to Linkin Park MP3s grabbed off Kazaa in the cheapest chinese earbuds my allowance could buy, at the highest volume my fake iPod could drive. I cannot hear the subtleties in your FLAC if I tried."

Cheek aside I believe the word would be Videophiles to pair with Audiophiles.