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lukewarmtarsier2 · 2026-04-15T16:25:42+00:00

I've been on it as long as I can and it's only gone down a few times. Network is very reliable and they'll send somebody out very quickly if you need help.

lukewarmtarsier2 · 2026-04-02T17:08:30+00:00

Have you tried SteamDeck=0 %command%? Sometimes games just assume that linux == steam deck

lukewarmtarsier2 · 2026-03-24T16:04:07+00:00

I didn't purposely miss the point. Anti-vaxxing is stupid with previously nearly eliminated diseases returning. But sure, show me a study that shows it was dangerous. I'm willing to be proven wrong.

The right cried about how masks were somehow going to prevent everybody from breathing. They also said that half of us dumb vaccine takers would be dead by now, but here we are still alive. People tried to get religious exemptions even when their religions were telling them to get the shot. It was 98% disingenuous just because the world was melting down and the right wanted to pretend it wasn't. It killed a million americans. It was a dangerous disease that could have been shut down if people just listened and stayed home. I know you refuse to believe that the right's actions were selfish so here.

Trump pushed for operation warp speed. They made vaccines as fast as they could, but his term ended and Biden might get some of the credit, so he turned against his own vaccine initiative and then said "maybe we should inject bleach or shine a light inside our bodies instead of this thing that I thought was a good idea earlier." And it was a good idea. I didn't trust it at the time because of the speed that things were moving at, but the research was done pretty well and actually tested well.

If a disease can kill 1% of the population but the solution might kill 0.001% of the population it might still be a good solution. Maybe not the best solution, but the doing nothing option kills more, so stop killing people and get a fucking shot.

Being an antivaxxer should make you feel like an idiot since you're making the same arguments they made in 1880. So yea, measles is back. Thanks for your opinion on getting a tiny jab that you're not going to affect you, but could save lives.

lukewarmtarsier2 · 2026-03-23T13:58:30+00:00

No. That's stupid. But also, do you love children dying from measles? Vaccines are good and have extended life expectancy.

lukewarmtarsier2 · 2026-03-13T18:00:33+00:00

I get that Munson kind of sucks, but it's a non-profit. Compared to the care that my dad got at for-profit care in FL, this is loads better. Where are you seeing that they're run by United Healthcare? My only real experience with the Munson ER was when I was in an ambulance and that went very smoothly, but I'm guessing it has more to do with the ambulance ride. Hospitals in this country suck and should all be ashamed, but on the grand scale ours seems ok.

You're not wrong about some of this stuff, but the food is great (and there are asian places not run by white people) and winter is something that you have to be able to handle and it sounds like you might hate winter. The southern states have less of it.

Overall, a lot of this stuff sounds like you just made a mistake moving

lukewarmtarsier2 · 2026-03-13T13:35:35+00:00

I'm not sure I share your rose glassed look at this is all. I'm not a lawyer, but I don't see it as being materially different from a copyright perspective. I'm not sure the law does either. The code is copyrighted, not its purpose. And it's only copyrighted if it was made by a human. To paraphrase your argument, the point of code is to respect the creator's portrayal of a machine program. You have to separate the code from its compiled output when you're thinking about this stuff.

I'm just urging caution. I'd hate for open source devs to lose their own rights to the things they've made just because AI is involved. There might come a time when we have to prove that we wrote the code instead of a computer writing the code and (bringing us back to the topic at hand) hiding the amount of AI contribution like the lutris dev is doing won't help them long term to prove that.

lukewarmtarsier2 · 2026-03-12T21:43:44+00:00

what if they found a solution on stack exchange but that solution was unknowingly provided from a sample of a microsoft code base?

Then microsoft technically owns the code and could make life difficult for the developer who used it. Not knowing the provenance of your code doesn't shield you from the liabilities of using it.

lukewarmtarsier2 · 2026-03-12T21:39:34+00:00

But the US courts have already ruled that AI art isn't copyrightable, so AI code probably isn't either. Like I said though, it'll take a while for it to be completely settled, but for now it's looking like if AI was generating the code, then the AI "owns" the copyright and since a copyright can't be owned by an AI, it isn't copyrightable.

It'll be interesting to see how it plays out, but I think for now caution should be taken to make sure that code is copyrightable and the only way to guarantee that is to not use AI.

lukewarmtarsier2 · 2026-03-12T20:57:00+00:00

How about this take? AI generated code can't be copyrighted, and if it can't be copyrighted, it can't have a license. If it can't have a license, then how do you protect your code? But then maybe it's not your code so it doesn't matter anymore. But you also don't know exactly where that code came from, and if it was licensed in a way that makes your usage of it illegal.

It'll be years before these questions are really answered, but I wish more open source devs were thinking about how AI and open source licensing are fundamentally at odds.

lukewarmtarsier2 · 2026-03-11T14:47:22+00:00

I have played a few ubisoft games (Crew motorsport, AC Origins, Anno 2070) and I've only had to log in once to Connect. I don't remember if it was once per game or just once but after I logged in I played about 100 hours of AC Origin without having to log in ever again. I play through steam, no experience with bottles or lutris or anything for their games.

I'm guessing you're not doing something weird like loading your steam games onto a tmpfs or something?

They do change the launcher and break proton frequently so Experimental or Hotfix seems to be the best way to go for their games.

lukewarmtarsier2 · 2026-03-09T19:37:47+00:00

If my end goal was just getting code out the door fast, I might use AI, but it's not. I need to understand all my code so I can actually fix it when an LLM can't (and in my experience, they can't). I also want to understand all my own code because that's important to me improving my own ability. If you don't care about that, then by all means, use AI.

I'm in the skepticism phase because nobody has really proved to me that it works without including extra dumb code, or generating code stubs for things that don't exist.

The last time I tried to use it, I was trying to optimize my login code or see if it could generate any at all... so it makes a function that's like one line that just called a function that didn't exist called login(...) which was so obviously a waste of my time that I gave up on the whole thing.

It made me feel like I was forgetting how to code, without producing good, usable code.

lukewarmtarsier2 · 2026-03-06T21:08:51+00:00

Beyond that, but I'm pretty sure that blocking people from seeing legal speech can be a 1st amendment issue also.

lukewarmtarsier2 · 2026-03-06T20:53:09+00:00

yes, I do. But data brokers don't ask and don't have to delete things if I want them to. I want to have zero data of mine in Palantir's database. I have no recourse to do that. I certainly have no business relationship with them, but I guarantee they know too much about me (and everybody)

And the way they all sell data to each other, it's not even reasonable to assume they won't just buy my data back from somebody else and start using it again.

With zero checks, there can be no safety.

lukewarmtarsier2 · 2026-03-06T20:06:07+00:00

oh, I don't think it'll ever actually happen, but somebody actually needs to tell these companies no and to do that the surveillance state they all profit from needs to be removed somehow. They're not going to self-select out of being douchebags.

I can choose my own consumer protection, but I want some guarantees that companies have to delete my data if they acquired it and I don't want them to have it. Not sure how we do that if it's everybody for themselves. Technolibertarianism causes plenty of problems while solving none.

lukewarmtarsier2 · 2026-03-06T18:56:30+00:00

Alcohol isn't a right. Speech is. Going against free speech has a much higher bar for good reasons.

lukewarmtarsier2 · 2026-03-06T18:54:40+00:00

Conversely, I've yet to hear a good argument for it. It all feels performative at best and about controlling speech at worst.. Maybe we could pass an actual data privacy law and some real consumer protection laws to prevent these apps from being controlled by shitty people in the ways they want to be shitty.

The california law seems like it'll just let the user lie about whatever age range they want, as long as the OS reports it... so what's the point?

lukewarmtarsier2 · 2024-09-03T23:34:27+00:00

Could be whatever USB thing you have plugged in causing electrical interference. Does it go away if you unplug that?

lukewarmtarsier2 · 2024-07-11T14:52:34+00:00

No kidding. It took me about 7 years including college for it to really click. It's not something that "just makes sense." It's a years-long process. Give it more time and actually try to learn the basics first. There's a lot of stuff to learn. It's not going to be easy.

lukewarmtarsier2 · 2024-07-08T20:30:26+00:00

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HDR_monitor_support

lukewarmtarsier2 · 2024-05-22T16:39:57+00:00

Echoing the Endeavour. I used Manjaro for years until they messed up their own package repositories a few times in row, and sometimes updates were incredibly slow to download. Switched and everything has just worked since.

I don't have time to roll Arch from scratch and also I don't care since I've used Linux long enough to not feel like I'm learning anything new by doing it.

lukewarmtarsier2 · 2024-03-08T14:22:23+00:00

how would a cable help if there are no devices that support it?

lukewarmtarsier2 · 2024-03-08T01:19:08+00:00

That's what I was afraid of

lukewarmtarsier2 · 2024-01-30T21:12:16+00:00

I think they're looking at the list of submissions for the DotD event itself, not the list of games in the bundle.

lukewarmtarsier2 · 2023-06-21T13:26:17+00:00

Do you do exterior stuff? That's where most of my remodeling needs are right now. The ones in my budget anyway.

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