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“the Nintendo 64 homebrew scene has written multiple 3D APIs with different performance/usability tradeoffs”

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“the Nintendo 64 homebrew scene has forked GCC to add a new ABI that benefits performance given its 64-bit CPU core and 32-bit pointers”

at this point I am about 60% certain AGI will be achieved not with venture capital money but with a libdragon fork, for the sole purpose of unlocking additional performance in Super Mario 64 or whatever

@ebooksyearn @ifixcoinops https://usablelearning.com/2009/04/06/why-your-brain-is-a-closet/

I just gave my mate a laptop with Mint on it, this lappy's like ten years old and it's replacing a two-year-old one with win11 on it (and the linux one is faster, natch, another reason why this actually might be important, given that I've gotta live on a planet with a bunch of e-waste on it) and this is what happened: nothing

Like it was a complete non-event, I installed Mint, gave it to them, they had a quick look at the first-run thing, set up light or dark mode, chose favourite colour, did some updates, and then the very first Actual Using Computer thing they did was look to see how to install Firefox and well firefox was already installed, it came with it, so... done?

They said they'd sometimes have to use Apple computers and Mint was way more familiar than a Mac

and that was kinda... It. They just carried on with their normal computer tasks and everything was normal.

I see quite a few posts about people moving to Mint specifically who say it was kind of anticlimactic, like they were expecting some kinda Issue or they'd have to do some l33t haxxing and they ended up... not disappointed, exactly, but feeling somehow let down that Nothing Happened, the computer kinda became transparent

And I know my mate isn't gonna fall in love with Linux, and that's fine, you shouldn't fall in love with machines anyway it's not healthy

but

I think for months this is just gonna feel like Normal Computering, UNTIL this friend of mine has some cause to use a windows machine again, with all its nags and pokes and ads and trying to pester or force you into doing stuff that you don't want to do, and THAT will be The Moment

Because you forget, so easily, how normal you thought it was. Because it WAS normal, to you. You don't remember normal, normal isn't memorable even when it's a horrible sort of normal. You need to have the bad normal taken away for a while in order to see through it and notice how abnormal the normal got

When I started on linux it was Windows XP days and windows was unreliable and slow but Basically Alright, now windows is so so different, so much more malicious and creepy. Fifteen years ago linux felt like Freedom To stuff, now it feels more like Freedom From, y'know

trying to type “Iterable”

itertable. iteraratable. iterarable!

Akkoma admins! Are you willing to host a Cassandra instance alongside your current software?

@mori and I were thinking of ways to improve performance, and one of the ways we thought of was to store the posts and related information in a Cassandra database.

Would this be something you’re okay with and willing to do?

Linux Mint has passed that certain point, that Threshold, where a bad thing is slowly getting good, where you stop being glad when it works and start getting pissed off when it doesn't.

Like imagine drinking wine out of a glass full of sawdust, the wine guy keeps giving you new straws so you can work around the sawdust and you're actually glad of the straws, you thank him for them, you're glad there's less sawdust in your wine

And then when it's like 10% sawdust you go "Why the hell does this wine have sawdust in it" and that's where Linux is at now

It's finally good enough to be bad

I use the terminal all the time 'cause I'm a massive nerd who's always messing around with servers and shit, the difference between me and half the guys scratching their heads wondering why Linux isn't more popular is that I KNOW I'm a massive nerd

the way I, a massive nerd, use a computer, should never be considered a default

50% operating system market share looks like a banner across the Linux Mint support forums saying "Replies encouraging non-sysadmins to open the terminal will be removed"

@smolcasm I deeply relate to this

remembering that i exist in physical space is cringe. video game escapism here i come

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@foxysen this looks amazing! I love the little bit of purple at the bottom of her lips

#SalvationArmy #christmas #holidays

@vivi I respect this so much to be honest, and I can relate to wanting this too

@vivi honestly, to back this up, when i moderated [redacted server], there were two admins + me. the first admin had a moderation style very much like me and the community was good, welcoming, and friendly. we tolerated zero bullshit from players. we were very very protective of everyone who invested their time, and there was definitely a clear sense of trust between long-time players and the mods. new players were always on probation until we learned who you are

when that admin passed it on to his friend (the aforementioned second admin), that one was much more the “lets listen to what they have to say” type people. a lot of bad actors made it into the server and it was much harder to get rid of them. the community quickly felt like every other minecraft server – chat didn’t flood constantly from different conversations, new players weren’t welcomed, and everything was met with passive or even open hostility.

so yeah fuck that ill be the terrible mod

@rowan @vivi I actually think that this is one of the better approaches because like, some people are just kinda awful on the internet. I’m not talking about the ones who are doing something clearly wrong like being intolerant or harassing people, but the ones who are just unnecessarily condescending or aggressive towards people. the reddit approach is to let people like that stay because “they’re not doing anything wrong”, which leads to… reddit. and also this lets fashy types cause a lot of harm while still staying just on the right side of the rules

I much prefer vibes-based moderation because it’s a great way to deliberately cultivate a good community. the community becoming an echo chamber is definitely a risk, but I think there’s an important distinction between {a community that exists to discuss important topics where a wide variety of tolerant viewpoints need to be expressed} and {a community that exists to have fun playing Minecraft}

even for the former type of community, I think someone getting heated or acting condescending should still be given a warning at least because that can quickly lead to… reddit

also I’ve been thinking about the fact that moderation, in the current way that we conceptualize it, is hierarchical: the mods have power that other users don’t. and I’ve been wondering if maybe there’s a way to create the moderation equivalent of a representational democracy or something like that, with as much transparency as possible. since obviously Mod Problems™ are a thing that happens and there needs to be a way for ordinary users to know that it’s happening and do something about it