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[–] snowe 0 points 2 months ago

sure, but then you're alienating an entire userbase that can install an OS (which is just a flash drive and hitting a few keys during startup), but absolutely does not have the willpower to sit and figure out configuration on their new OS that absolutely does not work out of the box. Shit, I have enough to deal with in my daily life, I don't want to be debugging driver issues. I haven't had driver issues in windows or mac for over a decade, yet it's the very first thing you encounter on a new distro install.

[–] snowe 1 points 2 months ago

i read the dang wiki and got everything running smoothly in an afternoon

that means it's not ready...

[–] snowe 3 points 2 months ago (18 children)

also they didn't mention anything that couldn't be done in MS Paint lol. something Gimp still doesn't have - Content Aware Delete which was added in 2010...literally 15 years ago.

[–] snowe 2 points 2 months ago

anyone that wants to use their computer for basic things like netflix or watching any content at all will notice the difference. They won't be able to tell you it's HDR, but they will think "why does this look worse than it did on windows"?

[–] snowe 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

they're very correct. Last month I tried out Zorin (which was recommended by one of the linux communities here) and sound didn't even work properly. I plan on writing up a full doc for the linux community on the problems a staff software engineer had with a basic no-frills install (I'm trying to find a distro for my wife), but Linux is absolutely not ready for the general populace.

[–] snowe 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

that is most definitely not the process. You have to explicitly go into Steam's settings > Compatibility > "Enable Steam Play for all other titles" (what in the world, it's called Steam Play, not Proton?) and then additionally select which Proton version you want. If you don't know this, or don't google it with the right keywords, you won't understand why literally 90% of your library isn't available (in my case it was 99% of my library, I think I only had 3 games available on linux natively). Also if you select the wrong Proton version some games won't run, so you have to know that and switch it for those games only.

[–] snowe 3 points 2 months ago

This community is a meta community for the programming.dev Lemmy instance. We do not run a mastodon server. This is also not a programming help community, it’s for discussing issues with the Lemmy instance. From what you’ve written it seems like you’re having trouble with a mastodon API and it would probably be better to ask for help in a community geared toward that.

[–] snowe 0 points 3 months ago

buying a pan increases demand for that item, which then gets built in those factories that then pollute the water you drink and the air you breathe. So yeah, they're directly correlated.

[–] snowe 0 points 3 months ago

recent studies have stated that the pans offgas from manufacturing for weeks after you've bought them, no heating needed, so no, that's not correct. and it was known that they offgas at only 325ºF years ago. https://www.ewg.org/research/canaries-kitchen

so no, teflon pans are bad no matter how you use them, they're bad for the environment, they're bad for your health, they're bad for animals, they're bad for babies that haven't been born yet.

[–] snowe 2 points 3 months ago

using a pan means you have to construct that pan, in a factory that pollutes massive amount of PFAS directly into the soil and water table.

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Rewriting the Ruby parser (railsatscale.com)
submitted 2 years ago by snowe to c/ruby
 

Shopify wrote a new hand-written recursive descent parser. This looks like it will be a great improvement to the Ruby ecosystem!

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submitted 2 years ago by snowe to c/kotlin
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DNS Outage (self.meta)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by snowe to c/meta
 

At 6:49 Denver/America time today I migrated the DNS nameservers to Cloudflare. This propogated quickly, but inadvertently I had set the SSL/TLS Encryption mode to Flexible, which resulted in Cloudflare attempting to encrypt traffic between itself and the server. But programming.dev already has its own certificate. Cloudflare expects http traffic to come from the origin server, not https, so when it received https it simply tried over and over again, resulting in failure to connect.

Switching the SSL/TLS setting to Full (Strict) fixed the issue. Sorry about that everyone! I'll try to not break stuff that badly in the future.

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submitted 2 years ago by snowe to c/meta
 

I will be taking the server offline for an upgrade in 35 minutes at 4:00 UTC

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submitted 2 years ago by snowe to c/meta
 

Hi all,

Thank you for joining me here! It's great to see that we have a community that wants to grow in such a new and exciting manner.

As it is, I thought it would be a lot easier to do this by myself than it has been. So I'm asking for some help!

I have several things I need assistance with:

  • setting up and moderating a chat community, for those times when users are having issues with the website. I think it's up to the community what software we use, but I would probably prefer Discord. Since this is all federation though I completely understand if others want to use something like Zulip or Matrix! So let's just use what everyone wants. If you have an opinion please post below.
  • database stuff. I'm absolutely terrible at database stuff, and that is not an exaggeration. If anyone is willing to help it would be much appreciated. Currently I have a need to set up pgbouncer, or we should modify the lemmy source to allow for setting up a bouncer. I also want to set up read replicas so that we can distribute the load a bit more evenly. As it currently is, the site was simply set up with the lemmy-ansible script, so everything is running on a single box 😬. If you know Rust and want to help modify the Lemmy source code for this, or you are a Database Admin and want to help, I'd very much appreciate it.
  • instance admins. I cannot be online constantly and I do have a day job. I'm getting messages and applications to join the instance along with needing to set up new communities, create and update rules, moderate, etc. I cannot handle this all alone.
  • I also need some general help.
    • email admin
    • migration of server to larger VPS (will have to bring the entire site down for this, unless someone wants to help set up a load balancer, a brand new box, and have some sort of migration strategy.)

If you want to help out on the server side of things I will want to know your real life persona, but for instance admins, chat mods, etc. I would just like to see some sort of comment history from you elsewhere.

And thank you once again, for helping create an inclusive community.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by snowe to c/kotlin
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submitted 2 years ago by snowe to c/meta
 

I'm trying to get the instance to run better, so I just adjusted the database pooling to hopefully make things run more stable. Let me know if it made stuff worse 😂

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by snowe to c/meta
 

Please comment with what communities you would like to be added here.

For mod creation I need both the url style name (experienced_devs) and the Display name (Experienced Devs)

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Kotlin goes WebAssembly! (www.youtube.com)
submitted 2 years ago by snowe to c/kotlin
 

Has anyone used WASM with Kotlin yet? I still haven't had a chance to check out Multiplatform at all (haven't really had a need).

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submitted 2 years ago by snowe to c/meta
 

Welcome to the community!

My name is Tyler Thrailkill (@snowe or @snowe2010 on almost every site). I am currently the main mod at r/experiencedDevs on Reddit, and am starting this site up in the hopes that we can make a collective developer community free from VC influence. This is partially because of the recent API changes Reddit has declared, but also because developers are the ones that can most likely make a community like this succeed.

It will probably not go well, I understand that. It will probably be crazy expensive. I understand that. I do hope that the community is able to work together to actually make this a success though.

I've started by creating 3 communities:

meta is for discussions about programming.dev itself. I think this is one of Stack Overflows best ideas (was it their idea?), because it allows for incremental improvement as a collective group. Please use this to discuss things you think need to change about the site.

Programming is for general purpose programming discussions. This is an analogue to /r/programming on reddit.

Finally, Experienced Devs is an analogue to the /r/experiencedDevs sub that I currently moderate on Reddit. I hope to pull some of my mods over from there, but we're still talking about it because we don't even know if lemmy is built to handle the traffic that this site could generate.

I will be creating several more meta posts in the coming days, so be on the lookout for those. Thank you for reading!

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