Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: Purple Library Guyat this point the only feature I can think of in Windows that I miss when I'm not at work is the way it's really easy to change file names.

Windows makes it even easier than selecting a file and hitting F2? Or (at least in Thunar [External Link], Xfce's file manager) selecting multiple files and hitting F2 to rename them all using anything from simple replacement to regular expressions and audio tags. If it was any easier, I bet I'd be doing it accidentally all the time. :grin:

In the Windows file manager, if you click on a file and kind of hold the button down, it puts a cursor on the filename and you can change it. So, pretty easy. In Mate I haven't noticed anything except right-click the file and pick rename from a list of actions, which is a bit clunkier. Testing . . . oh, the F2 thing seems to work in Mate's file manager too, I'll have to remember that.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyUhhh . . . I see. Of course. From now on I'll market Linux by being like you and claiming it totally sucks.

Well, I wouldn't recommend it, but negging [External Link] does seem to work for some people.

Ugh.

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Quoting: gbudnyBSD/Solaris with Wine, Linux with Wine/Proton, and macOS with CrossOver won't replace Windows. You turn off the emulator, and you have to deal with the Unix-like operating system.

I'm not totally clear what you're talking about, but you do realize that most Linux distributions use their own graphical desktop environments, right? Like, Gnome and KDE and Cinnamon and Mate and such aren't things that require emulation. I hardly use Proton, don't ever use any other form of emulation, and I pretty much never experience anything about my Linux desktop that is particularly "Unix-like".
You could say that well, yeah, but somewhere under the hood there is something "Unix-like", but that's true of MacOS as well, and in both cases pretty much irrelevant to the user experience.

It's true that there are some issues with hardware/software support, but these days they're minor. Overall, IMO whether you're talking about hardware, general software ecosystem or games, back in the day it was like you would constantly run into problems getting in your way; now you practically have to go looking for problems before you can find any. Unless you're a professional who depends on Adobe stuff.

As to the general user experience . . . Linux is way, way better than Windows now. Really, there's no comparison. Windows is annoying nagware that constantly bitches at you for no particular reason and its interface is neither as cool as KDE, as slick as Gnome, nor as comfortable as Cinnamon or Mate. It lacks various useful features (no tabs in the file manager is a pain in the ass), is crap at updating the OS, doesn't really update the rest of your software at all . . . at this point the only feature I can think of in Windows that I miss when I'm not at work is the way it's really easy to change file names.

Quoting: gbudnyIt's just terrible marketing for Linux, and people shouldn't promote it in this way.

Uhhh . . . I see. Of course. From now on I'll market Linux by being like you and claiming it totally sucks.

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Fun? With a Reef Blower?! [External Link]

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But more importantly than that - survive the longest you can, while shooting anything moving that crosses your path!

I initially misread this as "without shooting anything moving that crosses your path", which would've made it an entirely different game! :shock:

Pacifist Doom: Got My Meds Edition.

Also, I feel that in Pacifist Doom the "DOOMicorn [External Link]" is the default skin for the game. XD

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Quoting: Villianplease don't use X, the name only confuse the article when mentioned

Who on here doesn't know what X is?

I just call it "The social media platform formerly known as Twitter" . . . Ohhh, not that X . . . never mind. :grin:

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Guppyevery new teknologi that comes along encounters this, imagine if farm workers had the internet to voice their dismay on back when tractors first appeared:

"built on the backs of real farm workers!"
"Look at all the nicks and dings in those tractor harvested potatoes!"
etc..

Still the farm workers found other employment, and the world kept turning.

And yeah the "AI" is coming for my job too as a programmer - it will either be a miserable failure or I'll find other employment. The world will keep on spinning. ;)

Believe it or not, the whole mechanized agriculture model is still controversial. Lot of juries are out about the net impact there, which is still creating slums, eroding soil, destroying rural communities and associated with overuse of chemicals to this day.
So that's not necessarily a reassuring analogy.

I'm sure mechanized farming has it's issues, as do cars (personal injuries, environmental impact, ...).

But be that as it may, that's not what I'm talking about - I'm talking about technology displacing workers, and said workers being upset about it.

From my point of view, most use cases currently is for art "AI" is for projects that would never exist if not for the technology. If at any point it stops being horribly bad it may cost some ( or even most ) artists their livelihood, and it will be inconvenient for them to find another income source - but they will.

Again, you're talking as if the net benefit/loss to people overall is undecidable and beyond our ken, and it isn't. Use of a technology is just like any other policy, like say free trade or contrariwise tariffs and import substitution policies--human agency can have an impact on whether or how it happens and humans can decide whether it is on balance a good thing or something else should be done.

And, like with free trade, jobs lost to a technology may or may not be regained elsewhere. There is nothing eternal about the total amount of vaguely useful (or in our society's case, profitable) work per person needed to reproduce society--and while in the abstract I'm fine with a reduction in that figure, unfortunately the people in charge of our society have reasons to like significant unemployment, so such reductions are unlikely to turn up in the form of a shorter work week for all.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Guppyevery new teknologi that comes along encounters this, imagine if farm workers had the internet to voice their dismay on back when tractors first appeared:

"built on the backs of real farm workers!"
"Look at all the nicks and dings in those tractor harvested potatoes!"
etc..

Still the farm workers found other employment, and the world kept turning.

And yeah the "AI" is coming for my job too as a programmer - it will either be a miserable failure or I'll find other employment. The world will keep on spinning. ;)

Believe it or not, the whole mechanized agriculture model is still controversial. Lot of juries are out about the net impact there, which is still creating slums, eroding soil, destroying rural communities and associated with overuse of chemicals to this day.
So that's not necessarily a reassuring analogy.

If you go down this line of argument, lots of juries can be out about the net impact of farming too, and maybe the existence of the human race, and life itself.

Um, no? I think maybe you haven't read anything about the issues I'm talking about. They are real and substantive. It's not just a matter of philosophy. The issues are complicated, but not undecidable.

Wanting to think that every technology that has ever been invented is somehow inevitably going to see widespread use and so there is no point evaluating them, on the other hand, is a philosophical stance (well, at best), and a rather naive one. Many technologies just aren't as useful as they look. Others have unacceptable side effects and have been banned. Most countries had very stringent restrictions on human cloning before it was even possible, just because most of the potential uses are squicky.

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Quoting: CyborgZetaThat said, when I reopened it the third time to remove the 2TB drive from it to put away for the OLED, I did forget to remove my microSD card from the slot before reopening it and it broke in two. Complete boneheaded move on my part.

You're in good company; Liam could have warned you about that. :grin:

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Quoting: kuhpunktDoes anybody have any idea if Valve is still working on a solution to this problem? All this ffmpeg stuff. It's great that GE-Proton exists, but it would be nice if you could just rely on vanilla Proton.

Isn't their solution basically mechanical, going through games one at a time redoing video files as something usable?

Is this one of those things where it matters if the file format is still patented?

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