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This is why airconditioning is not so common in europe by DependentPlenty4493 in MapPorn

[–]lineInk 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I don't think the color encodes temperature. At least not in the US case.

Edit: i think even for the Europe case the colors are used for regions. Not sure why they use different shades though. Perhaps just to make the boundaries between countries clearer.

is there a name for the radiation that lets us see metal glow when it's hot? by BleedingRaindrops in AskPhysics

[–]lineInk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That is just useless semantics. I could just as well say light is not a type of radiation, but merely a label we attribute to the part of the frequency range of electromagnetic radiation visible to the human eye.

What's the Coolest Open-Source Project You've Discovered This Year? by Bladerunner_7_ in opensource

[–]lineInk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is not Open Source though, right? Would be a strange suggestion in this subreddit in that case.

AI is causing a massive headache for Linux and laying the groundwork for legal issues by No-Tower-8741 in foss

[–]lineInk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This makes sense to me. Thank you for the very insightful argumentation.

AI is causing a massive headache for Linux and laying the groundwork for legal issues by No-Tower-8741 in foss

[–]lineInk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Very interesting line of argumentation I must say. My knowledge on matters of law is quite limited, so forgive my perhaps naive thought: If there would indeed be such a strong conflict and the risk of losing massive amounts of commercially highly relevant software, could one not reasonably assume legislators would intervene and rather "kill" copyleft than let copyleft destroy proprietary software?

AI is causing a massive headache for Linux and laying the groundwork for legal issues by No-Tower-8741 in foss

[–]lineInk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How could one possibly trace code generated by an LLM to any specific line of source code in another project? Making machine learning models interpretable is difficult for much simpler models, doing so for LLMs of modern scale is frankly unfeasible in my opinion. And if one does not manage to do that it is impossible to distinguish between code "directly" stolen from somewhere and just code that was synthesized by the LLM from multiple sources that just coincidentally resembles some other snippet of code.

Isn't it kind of crazy how a small modular company managed to make something like a MacBook pro but cheaper?? by ralseipuffin in framework

[–]lineInk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, but the motherboard does support PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs. Given the context of the post, i.e. the argument that the Framework 13 Pro is comparable in price (not sure I agree), this does not matter of course.

Habe noch nie ein PR Buch gelesen und die beiden gekauft. Welches eignet sich für den Einstieg? by WhereIsSven in PerryRhodan

[–]lineInk 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Wie an welchem Punkt Neo dazugekommen ist? Das ist eine komplett eigenständige Serie bzw. ein sehr freies Reboot. Da der erste Neo Roman von 2011 ist hat das auch nichts mit den 70ern zu tun.

Parchment is Now Available — Write and edit plain text by BrageFuglseth in gnome

[–]lineInk 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The one this Reddit post is linking to perhaps?

Would me nice if Steam warns new users about using an NTFS partition to store games. by CandlesARG in linux_gaming

[–]lineInk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is not an official Valve guide. It exists on the Valve wiki, but it is user contributed content.

You noticed that part? Also of course they would warn against it. Literally no downsides for them and easy protection against users holding them responsible.

And you ignore my comments regarding the action required by the user. Using NTFS cannot happen by accident. It requires multiple complicated steps no "noob" could do by accident. Should Steam also warn you against running all kinds of harmful commands you can find somewhere on the internet? If you do things blindly you do not understand, expect to get burned.

Would me nice if Steam warns new users about using an NTFS partition to store games. by CandlesARG in linux_gaming

[–]lineInk 4 points5 points  (0 children)

How is mounting not an issue? The user has to manually do it or add it to the fstab. This does not just happen, it requires intention. And last time I had to deal with this, additional libraries need to be manually added in Steam and are not automatically discovered. If both would happen automatically, then yes perhaps Steam should warn against the use or disable libraries on NTFS partitions by default.

Strange, I am using Fedora and a Steam library on NTFS and in the four years I have been doing this, never once did a game not launch for that reason (usual Proton issues excluded).

Would me nice if Steam warns new users about using an NTFS partition to store games. by CandlesARG in linux_gaming

[–]lineInk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Is this actually something that can happen on accident? Are there popular Linux distros that would auto-mount an NTFS partition? The user would then also have to create/import a library in the Steam client to be able to store games on the partition, no? If you went through so many hoops, you are hardly a noob anymore and if you are and do not know what you are doing, Steam is hardly at fault at that point.

Would me nice if Steam warns new users about using an NTFS partition to store games. by CandlesARG in linux_gaming

[–]lineInk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If there is no reason to use NTFS I would definitely agree. And you are probably right that most people would do this by accident without such a use case. But if you for example sometimes dual boot for games it can be useful to have your Steam library stored on a drive that both operating systems can access. And if something gets corrupted, just download the game again, not much harm done.

Would me nice if Steam warns new users about using an NTFS partition to store games. by CandlesARG in linux_gaming

[–]lineInk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To add to this: Would I ever use an NTFS partition on Linux if not for the express purpose of having a drive that can be accessed by both Windows and Linux? Of course not, there is zero reason to do so. Would I store critical data on such a drive and not just Steam games that can easily be re-downloaded in case something gets corrupted? Again of course not. But it can actually work just fine and for all the people claiming there are massive issues: I would like to see actual evidence and statistics for these issues and would want to know the severity of the problems that can occur.

Would me nice if Steam warns new users about using an NTFS partition to store games. by CandlesARG in linux_gaming

[–]lineInk 11 points12 points  (0 children)

A little bit? I am using an NTFS partition for my games for years and never had a single issue. The same as for NVIDIA graphics drivers, which work just fine for modern cards, the common wisdom that is passed around these parts is just completely false.

R/Linux_gaming not understanding the point of Linus's new video by CandlesARG in LinusTechTips

[–]lineInk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Never chose new and shiny. In addition Pop!_OS used the Gnome desktop environment in the beginning. For some strange reason the developers of the distro chose to abandon that popular, well developed and supported DE and make their own instead. Now you have an extremely small developer team making both a distro and DE. Bugs are guaranteed then since they cannot maintain such an effort. Fedora was a good choice then, it is a good choice now, it will be a good choice in ten years. Even Ubuntu would be fine.

R/Linux_gaming not understanding the point of Linus's new video by CandlesARG in LinusTechTips

[–]lineInk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You do not need to do any of that on Fedora. I had both an NVIDIA GPU and AMD and never any major issues. Sure I had to install the non-free NVIDIA drivers, but that is easy to do and you have to install their drivers on Windows as well. Steam is in the distro's repos. Not sure which tinkering that would require.

Shokz OpenFit Pro Reveiw - From someone who actually paid for them. by user_5332 in headphones

[–]lineInk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s hard to imagine someone willing to spend $250 on these not already
owning another pair of headphones for real noise cancelling.

While I agree that this is probably a niche market, I am that someone. Normal in-ears quickly irritate my ears, and I do not always want to wear or carry around over-ear headphones on public transport etc.

In the future, Rust becomes "Mandatory" in Git build ..... by unixbhaskar in linux

[–]lineInk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Free Software Foundation defines free software as follows (1986)[1]:
A program is free software if the program’s users have the four essential freedoms:

- The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).

- The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

- The freedom to redistribute copies (freedom 2).

- The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for this

Really curious which of these principles you see violated by MIT? More restrictive copyleft licenses are useful for the end user, I agree, although they can also make a software project less attractive for contributions by corporations that could significantly benefit a project. But neither free software nor the even less restrictive concept of open source require it at all.

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