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frozen , 2 months ago

Oh nice! I just use Lutris, but options are always good.

frozen , 2 months ago

Helldivers 2 works almost perfectly on Linux. I had to nest it in a gamescope session to fix some weird mouse issues, but that was it. I dual-boot Windows and I've never even launched it there.

frozen , 2 months ago

Cool, me too.

frozen , 2 months ago

No, I literally had to add one change to the game launch properties one time. It took me probably 3 minutes of googling and following instructions. I wouldn't call that "a bunch of fucking shit".

frozen , 2 months ago

Cool, you're lazy, gotcha.

frozen , 2 months ago

I disagree, it's a statement of fact. There's nothing inherently wrong with that fact that you're lazy about fiddling with computers. I'm lazy about certain things in my own life.

But it's pointless trying to convert lazy people to Linux when it requires an effort level above 0 and they don't want to put in anymore than that.

frozen , 2 months ago

I mean. I can't because I defederated from Threads. But neat, I guess.

frozen , 3 months ago

I could go in-depth, but really, the best way I can describe my docker usage is as a simple and agnostic service manager. Let me explain.

Docker is a container system. A container is essentially an operating system installation in a box. It's not really a full installation, but it's close enough that understanding it like that is fine.

So what the service devs do is build a container (operating system image) with their service and all the required dependencies - and essentially nothing else (in order to keep the image as small as possible). A user can then use Docker to run this image on their system and have a running service in just a few terminal commands. It works the same across all distributions. So I can install whatever distro I need on the server for whatever purpose and not have to worry that it won't run my Docker services. This also means I can test services locally on my desktop without messing with my server environment. If it works on my local Docker, it will work on my server Docker.

There are a lot of other uses for it, like isolated development environments and testing applications using other Linux distro libraries, to name a couple, but again, I personally mostly just use it as a simple service manager.

tldr + eli5 - App devs said "works on my machine", so Docker lets them ship their machine.

frozen , 3 months ago

That work has already started with Fediseer. It's not automatic, but it's really easy, which is probably the best we'll get for a while.

frozen , 3 months ago

I run an instance. I promise, I have literally 0 care about who you are. I have much more productive things to do with my time.

frozen , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

I'm sorry I didn't call out every exception to the rule. Obviously, if you do illegal things on my instance, I will care. I kind of thought that was a given, to be honest.

frozen , 3 months ago

I haven't had a deletion request come around yet, but I've had the pict-rs documentation in my back pocket just in case. My instance allows NSFW, so I made sure I knew how to do this before deploying.

I agree with the author, though, it definitely shouldn't be so hard to delete images. Hopefully the Lemmy devs tackle these issues quickly.

frozen , 4 months ago

Yeah, it's a hate-train for AI, I definitely get it, but Mozilla seems to be using it for actually useful things. Offline translation and fake reviewing checking for Amazon are pretty cool, in my opinion. Don't get me wrong, I'm not brand loyal, and I'm ready to jump ship to a FLOSS alternative as soon as they do something stupid. I'll just keep using Firefox until they do.

frozen , 4 months ago

I've been using gsudo for that for a while, but it's nice to have native options.

frozen , 4 months ago

My ISP says my IP is technically dynamic, but it hasn't changed once in the 6 years I've had their service. But that's for the best, since they're the only choice for symmetrical gigabit and their only option for static IPs is for business accounts.

So I continue to trust that they won't change it. Fingers crossed.