Leeroy Jenkins was good, but the Hakkar debuff that you could take out of ZG (by dismissing a Warlock pet that was infected) and infect the entire world with was a much more hilarious event.

Unfortunately, it didn’t have a good sound byte so hardly anyone knows about it.

At least Duke Nukem Forever eventually launched a complete game, and it didn’t cost $20,000.

A lot of very talented people have donated decades of work in order to get us to this point. It’s nice to see it come together.

Just don’t expect it will make you faster or more efficient.

It will, but it requires you spend a lot of time dealing with being slow and wanting to give up and reach for the mouse.

I swapped keyboard layouts (to a 52 key split layout) and it took me around 2-3 weeks of typing slow, hitting the wrong keys, and keeping several printed sheets (for all of the keyboard layers) on my desk in order to learn the layout. It was frustrating and it would have been a lot easier to just grab a standard keyboard but, in the end, it was worth it.

Learning vimkeys/application hotkeys does take a while and it is much easier to avoid it for any given task. Just grab the mouse and avoid the frustration of having to try to remember the hotkey (or, even worse, look it up). But if you can avoid that and force yourself through the uncomfortable frustration. You’ll find that the time investment is worth it.

If you couldn’t copy someone else’s art style, 99% of Deviant Art wouldn’t even exist. Ffs, painting and sculpture are broken into various periods based on how everything was a certain vibe. Where do you think Surrealism, realism, cubism and other terms come from?

Ironically, if you look at today’s top ‘memes’ in this community you’ll see that they’re all essentially a picture on a white background with text added to the top. Zero effort, zero creativity. Just find a picture, copy paste it into ms paint and put text above it (not even on the picture itself).

you’re over here defending copyright. The most capitalistic, corporate position you can take.

100%

A lot of people on Lemmy will self identify as being left of center and then run around promoting the idea that people can own ideas in perpetuity. Which is very much a right wing authoritarian idea.

The best way I’ve heard it described is that learning all of the motions, shortcuts, commands, etc is the best way to remove all of the possible friction between you having a thought and you putting that thought into text.

It’s like using Word and learning that CTRL+B toggles Bold. You don’t NEED to know that, you can click the bold icon. The extra 2 seconds that it took to grab the mouse and click the icon and then move your hand back to the keyboard seems trivial, but if you’re doing a lot of writing that can add up to a lot.

In addition, having to stop your train of thought in order to fiddle with a GUI can cause lapses in concentration. Constantly having to stop typing in order to fiddle with a GUI is annoying and requires you to switch context from what you were typing to looking for the icon or menu that you need to click.

Multiply that by everything else you need to do in editing text (moving the cursor to different places, selecting text, finding text, opening and saving documents, etc. That’s a lot of time that you’re spending messing around with a mouse and GUI annoyances.

Also, if you’re using Linux, a lot of tools use vim keys as their interface. So learning the basics (mostly hjkl for moving, / for searching, etc) can help you in a lot of programs.

For example, I’m using vimium in Firefox, so I can operate the entire browser without using the mouse. Press f and all of the links and form fields on the page are tagged with a 2 letter combination, pressing those two letters is like clicking the link/field. I can access shortcuts, open bookmarks, etc all without needing my mouse. In addition, the browser has hotkeys for tab manipulation (ctrl t for new tab, ctrl f4 to close tab, ctrl shift t to re-open/undo last closed tab, etcetc).

I try to have all of my programs be keyboard driven (and use a lot of terminal applications where possible). Vim keys and motions, in all of the various programs that use them, along with the shortcuts from the window manager (everyone knows alt + tab, but there are many more) and even individual applications make that possible (except for Freetube, which requires the mouse :/).

Overall, I would say that it’s not a requirement, but if you’re willing to spend a week or two learning (and moving very slow as you force yourself to learn and use the keys) then I think you’ll have a better time in Linux.

Also, it feels pretty ‘90s hacker movie hacker’ to just flail on the keyboard and have things happen on your PC.

I have a git repo of a bunch of stowed configs and scripts, and use Arch, btw

Mike’s Used Appliances is not trying to fingerprint you.

Mike’s Used Appliances might use Google Analytics though.

More like, people say thing for a lot of reasons:

It’s copying the artistic style of a popular 4chan artist. Those are generated jpeg artifacts, which are worse than the regular jpeg artifacts.

Exactly, this has nothing to do with MIT being anti-AI.

A student made up a research paper and was kicked out. The fact that the topic of the research paper was AI is largely irrelevant.

Here’s a story of a behavioral science professor (who, ironically, studies dishonesty) at Harvard who was caught making up results: https://www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1184289296/harvard-professor-dishonesty-francesca-gino

You wouldn’t look at that article and come to the conclusion that “Harvard is standing up to the pro-Behavioral Science momentum”, because fake research has always been against the rules.

Should be easy to fix, just edit your configuration.nix file…

I AI generated it, enjoy your moral quandary

Oh yeah, most people see AI as ‘the thing that has made search completely unusable’ and not ‘The thing that has solved protein folding’.

It’s like the Internet is full of cavemen who are screaming and throwing rocks at a fire while, elsewhere, others are building jet turbines and combustion engines.

The average anti-ai zealot only know about Diffusion and Large Language models because they once used ChatGPT for 15 minutes, read some memes and are now an expert on how AI is ruining society.

over 9000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux-libre

It’s essentially a kernel with only open source code. OP would need to research all of the hardware in their machine to ensure that there are open source drivers. I think there are some laptop manufacturers that sell units which are compatible, if you’re ordering from one of the major manufacturers then you’ll likely have some hardware (like wifi) that requires proprietary binaries.

The hardest part is usually finding a machine that has open source drivers for every component. You may have to do some kernel compiling and other low level tasks to get your specific setup to work. OP says they’re not a power user, but after this they will be

OLED black is so good, especially with HDR content.

Burn-in is what you constantly hear online but, anecdotally, I’ve had an OLED TV (LG C1) as my primary display for 3 years now and have never had anything more than some temporary image retention (which was fixed by running a pixel cleaning cycle) after leaving it on over the weekend with a paused movie on the screen.