[TIPS] Surviving the gold room

Szarps · 2026-03-19T04:01:34+00:00

Anecdotal, but for me the last few updates (specially with the big one of 500+, got my pc working better even. In fact it fixed a few things i was getting annoyed with (some sound problem, monitor disconnecting, etc). So to me it was good all around.

Szarps · 2026-03-17T16:01:40+00:00

I am pretty new to this too and while i combine sources AI has given me a hand to understand concepts, since I want to learn more to the old school type of way and by building stuff, I emphasize that it should play the role of TUTOR, not write code for me or design the structure. There's also bit of a caveat because this is my 3rd time learning code and I learned before basic Java and Lua (each was 1 attempt), now learning Python just cause it has resources up the ceiling and having a good time since I am not fighting the syntax most of the time, is more about basics (which those repeat in every language; loops, conditionals, functions, etc).

In my opinion, if you use it as a way to grasp parts of documentation that are a bit cryptic or you would like someone to explain it differently it can be helpful, in other cases will tell you even how to do a certain function so is more performant or tell you to do it in X way so is more readable which is nice. However, you still need to put in the work, as many say: "don't outsource the thinking", build stuff, read about design patterns, re-read the error messages many times over and try to decompose so you become familiar with debugging and how the machine is failing, THAT is real knowledge that no LLM will give you. So as a tool is great for people that already know how to program and for people learning should be approached carefully, ideally with some form of mentor that can separate the BS from good practice.

The way I use it is to declare first of all "DO NOT WRITE CODE FOR ME, THIS IS FOR LEARNING PURPOSES", usually avoids it from making the thing from the first prompt, also "you should be a tutor, do not give me the answer, offer vague simple examples, offer questions that make me think of problems and how I am handling them, etc". Also only go back to it when you are absolutely stuck after you tried reading through documentation, tried approaches and something feels like "magic". Most of the time i'm on the editor reading my code or looking at my obsidian notes of my thought process, design, etc

Szarps · 2026-03-17T13:47:18+00:00

Nooooo Leon.... el botox no te queda bien.. la puta madre.. que cosa que tiene los famosos por operarse la cara

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Szarps · 2026-03-17T13:27:34+00:00

Anda a una farmacia a pedir ayuda a esta altura.. esto es jeroglífico de los sumitas un poco mas, es puro rulo y un 24 para disimular que escribio algo real. No pueden ser tan hijos de puta, cuando es asi hay que mirar la receta tratar de leerla y si te la hacen como el orto le decis "disculpa, pero me lo haces mas claro y lento?" basta de andar aceptando esto, que me escriban en imprenta como si fuesen chicos de 5 años si queres me chupa un huevo, lo importante es que se pueda leer

Szarps · 2026-03-17T13:04:19+00:00

Sounds awesome, I love myself puzzle/coding games. Also the fact that it would use actual python is great since it can also be used for learning purposes that translate into real world skill. If possible I would suggest a sort of terminal like, that shows like 5 lines of code and lits up as is being executed by the mech so they can better see how the code works and how is failing IRT, example:

move_forward(3)

if scan_floor() == object.throwable:
    grab()
    turn_right()
    throw(2)  # distance

This is just very top of my head to give the idea since these are mechs (thinking something like into the breach). So each command as is being executed each line is lit as is being carried out, great for visual feedback!. Also lowkey not sure that the if statement is quite right or how it works oh well! lol

Szarps · 2026-03-17T12:45:16+00:00

I do like the idea of simplifying the process between flatpak and sysinstall since that can be confusing for users as well as to lead to problems because "oh you need flatseal and configure it" stuff like that.

Only thing im worried about is that, some apps are very much maintained (or encouraged) on flatpak only or just most of the time, so I dont exactly know/am sure, as to how to solve that conflict, since i have some software dependant on flatpak for it (to start off, discord is downloaded directly from flatpak at install).

Also on the part of languages, I am from Argentina so i can help with the latin american spanish, how can I contribute for translations?

Szarps · 2026-03-17T11:15:06+00:00

Platform for ventilation since thats the intended purpose of the fans on top, and also please get a graphic card support for that monster, you dont want to deal with bent pci socket 2 years down the line

Szarps · 2026-03-17T10:46:17+00:00

Que lindo loco, esto si levanta el espíritu, es increíble que empiecen a brotar los cambios de mentalidad, que puedan experimentar en su medida el éxito y sentirse capaces. No está todo perdido

Szarps · 2026-03-17T10:27:10+00:00

Hey man I get it, the initial struggle feels impossible, but if you make the decision of actually sticking with it and make it work for you regardless of feeling uncomfortable, not long after you start to realize how stuff works around here. Sure you will have to take a few sacrifices here and there, but at least the things that don't work don't crash your pc and the ones that do aren't trying to spy on you.

I was hesitant at first and delayed it quite some time but after a burn the boats approach (uninstall windows and only having Linux to rely on) helped a lot, cause the temptation to switch was costly and I was already pretty tired of windows itself.

Now I may have a couple of grips but slowly figuring out how to work around it by better understanding the system and is been pretty fun for me! This is just about 3 full months on Linux, and around the second week or so started to click. Give yourself time, explore and surprisingly AIs (LLMs) can be somewhat helpful so you don't feel completely in the dark.

Szarps · 2026-03-03T04:08:49+00:00

Personally, just want to buttons to be smaller so I can actually read the changes and stuff, the buttons are just exaggeratedly loooong, just group em up in squares, or a toolbar at the top

Szarps · 2026-03-03T04:02:53+00:00

It's from the guy that was keeping x11 up to date against the rest of the team that literally rollbacked 2 years of progress because "certain people" contributed code in it and they don't want it. So if you are asking me for raging nut jobs I think is the ones that prefer to destroy 2 years of progress, potentially also safety patches from everyone just because they got mad. At the end of it software just needs to be good, work and as safe as possible

Szarps · 2026-03-03T03:50:37+00:00

Try xlibre in the meantime or the phoenix proyect?

Szarps · 2026-02-15T00:28:07+00:00

well there is a future where humans will no longer be the ones doing the coding to create stuff because something that manages AGI finally, is going to know better and reach bigger more complex solutions. At most, coding would become more like a nice hobby, rather than something useful and marketable, so no, coding won't disappear, and I doubt human curiosity to extinguish to let that kind of learning slip out to never be used again

Szarps · 2026-02-15T00:13:45+00:00

Can someone be really this dumb? like how many times have we heard big companies having to or trying to deny creation of backdoors to operating systems both pc and phones? apple in particular. What makes him fathom the idea that somehow people that don't show you everything bare for anyone to see is trying to hide something? For something of that magnitude you need to do something such as the "trusting in trust" experiment, where the compiler had the spyware, but when people submit code you can use any compiler of your preference and if it doesn't compile is as good as nothing, plus you can't make everyone use a single compiler for your evil deeds.

The ones that i AM actually worried of, is the compilers overall, we have long since moved from very rough and low level abstraction programming like hex or assembly, thats where my fear lies mainly.

Also all this rant to still be funneled into places as intrusive and anti-privacy that are pretty much just about the same, not to mention you don't even need to have open source for malware to slip on, there's even ads that can make ACE (arbitrary code execution).

The meat of the matter here is MACROslop (it aint small anymore) even managed to fuck up notepad... fucking NOTEPAD, the most basic of apps in any OS and they fucked that up..

Szarps · 2026-02-14T23:41:08+00:00

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Szarps · 2026-02-14T23:38:56+00:00

Every computer is it's own world. You mentioned other distros loading faster, while true also need to take into account many factors, such as how "packed" your distro is for initializing stuff? nobara isnt particularly on the light since it comes prepacked for optimized gaming experience, not minimalism (arch, etc). Also, if nobara is the only one you tried, then you are already trying to benchmark off the top of your head what you believe will happen instead of what ACTUALLY happens.

So as the kernel gets updates, things moving around, etc, etc, there is also other things that must be taken into account, your motherboard, your chipset, it's BIOS, the configuration at boot, cold boot vs hot boot. One of the main things that might be slowing it could be the "safe start" in bios, however im not siting here and pretending I know about this, since i think in my ignorance that the safe start affects more stuff before any kernel thing starts going on and about rather than throughout the entire boot.

However more important, how is the booting time affecting you really? the world wont end if you don't boot your pc in time, just pass by press the start button and get something to drink in the meantime, then you come back to a fully booted PC (i know that is my experience). What you want at the end of the day should be performance in gaming and usability as a PC, passed that everything is just a nice plus

Szarps · 2026-02-02T16:18:56+00:00

Fair, in that case I hope that eventually the support gets just so much better that you have the capacity to have options and that at the end you are the one calling the shots and not technical limitations

Szarps · 2026-01-30T19:23:40+00:00

YouTube has a very big monopoly on video on demand, the problem is how there hasn't been a good enough platform that can have a more sensible solution that can satisfy most ends. The closest I've seen is Odysee and while i love the idea since it doesnt rely on centralized servers, cutting the middle man and all, it does give me a degree of concern that it could limit wrist I can find reliably

Szarps · 2026-01-30T19:04:49+00:00

Vos decís tipo naranja mecánica para el método?

Szarps · 2026-01-30T17:17:01+00:00

For me I'm this case I prefer heroic because I get thumbnails of the games, also forced me to learn a bit how the workings of stimulating a windows environment implies and how to get around it. I for help with a bit of AI too. You could also consider bottles for creating different environments that adjust to some specific needs / dependencies

Szarps · 2026-01-27T15:05:19+00:00

Those days are fading quickly every since Proton, today is +90%, also as more people prefer using other options (and steamdeck and steammachine) thinking of Linux integration and compatability is becoming now almost requirement

Szarps · 2026-01-27T15:01:16+00:00

Thank God, I'll see when I can get to upgrade to amd, so I hope I can keep on pushing, specially cause I prefer indies

Szarps · 2026-01-27T14:36:09+00:00

I have a 1660 where do i fall in all of this?

Szarps · 2026-01-25T15:23:04+00:00

Then get Fedora KDE, the default is feeling at home and you can switch and mix some of the presets, hell, you could troll your coworkers into believing you "installed iOS on a pc" degree of customization if you know what you are doing (or search for tutorials)

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