xycu

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[–] xycu@programming.dev -4 points 3 months ago

60 percent is also the portion of Gen-Z that chose not to vote in the last US election. If you don't vote, you don't count!

[–] xycu@programming.dev 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Republicans and conservatives, historically, have been the biggest opponents of a national ID because they don't want the federal government tracking them or asserting any control over anything.

Until trump, anyway...

[–] xycu@programming.dev 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Theoretically they are supposed to have an adversarial relationship with the Congress and the president, but...

[–] xycu@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

I've had the 1980's awk book seemingly "forever", but use awk so infrequently I always need to look things up.

[–] xycu@programming.dev 5 points 6 months ago

Probably gets off on telling those "suckers and losers" what to do.

[–] xycu@programming.dev 4 points 6 months ago

Gentoo is a little easier nowadays. It has binary packages and you can use any old Linux live CD you prefer to do the install :)

[–] xycu@programming.dev 15 points 8 months ago

They were in Wisconsin and he was pandering to the locals by wearing a cheese hat and giving away millions of dollars to bribe voters. It didn't work - the candidate he was supporting lost.

[–] xycu@programming.dev 8 points 10 months ago

It makes more sense when you realize he's negotiating not on behalf of the best interests of Ukraine or the USA but on behalf of Putin.

[–] xycu@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

Jammie Thomas had to pay over $9000 per song she shared on Kazaa and that was like 15 years ago. Inflation + millions of shares should mean billions of dollars owed to the publishers... Plus obviously deleting or forfeiting ownership of all the models trained on that data, naturally.

[–] xycu@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I once fully updated a Gentoo system that hadn't been touched in 4 years. That was an adventure in troubleshooting.

[–] xycu@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

Despite all that i said, the OLED special editions were very tempting!

[–] xycu@programming.dev 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I had a fairly opposite experience. I bought a Steam Deck when it first came out and had to return it during the refund period because of a software bug making it basically unusable with my account.

A year later, the bug was finally fixed and I rebought. And... I like the fact that it runs Linux and the efforts done to make windows games playable in Linux in general. But I've found that i actually don't enjoy the form factor of the Steam Deck at all.

I find it to be too big and heavy to hold comfortably without resting it on something. The buttons are tiny and too close to the edge. The d-pad sucks, at least on mine. Staring at the little screen gives me a headache and text/icons are too small in a lot of games. The Wi-Fi is really slow (at least in the original LCD model) and downloading/installing takes absolutely forever. I've literally spent more time installing games and downloading updates than actually playing games in it.

It has been months since I last turned mine on. In hindsight, it was a poor purchase for me.

I do still like it as a concept and an happy to see it is successful. I welcome the new Linux users. I follow the steam deck communities and read the news.

... But it's just not for me, apparently.

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