I’d also add this reason (in addition to embarrasement): I don’t open source my stuff because I know microsoft will “steal it” to train copilot.
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Technology@beehaw.org•My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones.
0·10 months agoA) This. We should stop making this a EV thing. It’s a modern car thing. Electric drivetrain in its essence, is a simple and reliable technology. Its everything else surrounding it thats the issue.
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Linux@programming.dev•Rust For Linux Kernel Co-Maintainer Formally Steps Down
0·10 months agoIf you’re trying to write C code in Rust for a few hours you haven’t really given it a proper go. You’re just fighting the compiler. Believe me, I’ve been there. It was just the learning curve before I put aside my pride and adjusted how I wrote code.
I think/hope this will change in the future. There’s been a lot of backlash against touch screens, touch buttons, subscriptions for basic functionality, etc. The car industry is struggling right now. At some point I think they will have to make simpler EVs, because normies don’t want ipads on wheels. They want something reliable and familiar that won’t break the bank.
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Linux@programming.dev•5 reasons you should ditch Windows for Linux today
0·11 months agoI’m usually playing steam games, and I often will find a solution to make it work on protondb if I have issues. Most of my games I can just install and run though. But I understand it being frustrating if your favourite games don’t work or require lots of tinkering. I have played a few older games outside steam as well. I usually use Bottles for that, as it creates a wine prefix for me that’s set up with DXVK, etc out of the box.
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Linux@programming.dev•5 reasons you should ditch Windows for Linux today
0·11 months agoWhat games? Because a lot of games do work fine, maybe even most of them. The problem is that the outliers are often games that a lot of people are playing (see https://areweanticheatyet.com/). Those games are usually not my cup of tea anyways.
Aschhually the most used JS engine is made in C++ (v8)
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Technology@beehaw.org•'You can now jailbreak your AMD CPU' — Google researchers release kit to exploit microcode vulnerability in Ryzen Zen 1 to Zen 4 chips
0·2 years agoPerhaps this could be used to jailbreak the PS5 🤔
Yeah I have an xperia 5 iii. It’s not compact, it’s just narrow (seriously hate the ultra wide phone displays). Also heavy as a brick.
I’ve played all sims games and all work on linux with wine. Sims 1 is the hardest to get to work because you need a CD crack to get it to run. Sims 2 and newer works great in my experience. I’d recommend using Bottles to install Sims 2. You can install it from CD and play it like normal. Need some tweaks to get widescreen though (but you have that issue on windows as well).
Sims 3 I’ve played in bottles through the EA app (I own a digital copy there). Worked out of the box (bottles has a way to install the ea store app easily). Sims 4 I’ve played on steam (using proton).
I’ll continue to call it forge joe. It’s more cute. It’s like “where do I put these files?” “Just give them to Joe, he’ll know where to store them”.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•I'm thinking of buying a Lenovo Duet 3 for running linux. Which device would have better compatibility?
0·2 years agoYeah linux support for ARM SOCs is not ideal. There might be some fork of the kernel working with specific proprietary driver blobs. But in a few years its basically abandonware.
RISC-V is what we should try to make happen as a replacement for x86, instead of yet another proprietary IP.
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Programming Horror@programming.dev•God I wish there was an easier way to do this
0·3 years agoI know an even better way. We can make it run in O(1) by using a lookup table. We only need to store 2^64 booleans in an array first.
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Programming Horror@programming.dev•God I wish there was an easier way to do this
0·3 years agoI know how to fix this!
bool IsEven(int number) { bool even = true; for (int i = 0; i < number; ++i) { if (even == true) { even = false; } else if (even == false) { even = true; } else { throw RuntimeException("Could not determine whether even is true or false."); } } if (even == true) { return even ? true : false; } else if (even == false) { return (!even) ? false : true; } else { throw RuntimeException("Could not determine whether even is true or false."); } }


I know github would probably steal it (I have my own forgejo server). Didn’t know about VS code doing that. You have any source for that? I guess proprietary MS plugins might do so, but surely there would be backlash if the open source version did so. So I hope using Code OSS would be fine. Might switch to vscodium though, which shouldn’t phone home at all.