aphlamingphoenix

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[–] aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 4 points 17 hours ago

You could try gconf

[–] aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's gonna be a hot fucking summer.

[–] aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm not adopting the conspiracy here, but if they can't find the shooter with the whole country getting behind him, then they would want the optics of finding the shooter. Which could backfire, of course. It would be very telling, for example, if the cops got real confident about it and then the real shooter made some kind of public display with the false shooter in custody.

[–] aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I don't know what you're currently accustomed to or what the feature/workflow differences would be, but I've had some music folks I know be successful with Ardour and Reaper. Have you checked to see if those would let you do your thing? The other problem I've had is audio interface support in Linux, but that seems to have improved a lot. I've got an old Axe I/O Solo that didn't work at all a few years ago but now seems to have full support.

[–] aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago

Really, the media finally realized millennials don't care if we killed Applebee's or whatever, and they've moved on to the next thing to scare boomers with. "They hate us because we buy bags of paper napkins" becomes "They hate us because we can use old style keyboards." Generations are not a monolith. You can compare them, but it's stupid to pass judgment in that way.

[–] aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago
[–] aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

It's very, very costly, both but the hardware and the electricity it takes to run it. There may be a bit of sunk cost fallacy at play for some, especially the execs who are calling for AI Everything, but in the end, in AI doesn't generate enough increase in revenue to offset its operational costs, even those execs will bow out. I think the economics of AI will cause the bubble to burst because end users aren't going to pay money for a service that does a mediocre job at most things but costs more.

[–] aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't want thinner. I want more functionality. Don't expect me to pay 2 grand for a laptop with no external USB or HDMI ports, for which privileges I can pay an additional $100 or so. I'm frustrated enough by the lack of Ethernet jacks on my Lenovo. The last time I had a Mac (work shipped me one), I was even more frustrated by how bad the built in trackpad and keyboard were and the fact that using an external device to replace them came at a premium price.

[–] aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The article quotes extensively from the study about this and gives examples regarding what kinds of tasks qualify for those levels.

[–] aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

There was a post here a while back about how younger generations often don't understand concepts like file system structures because concepts like that (which are still relevant in a lot of contexts) have been largely stripped out of modern user interfaces. If your primary computing device is a cell phone, a task like "make a nested directory structure and move this file to the deepest part of it" is a foreign concept.

I guess my point here is that I agree with yours about this being cyclical in a sense. I feel crippled on a cell phone, but I'm also in my comfort zone on a Linux terminal. Using web apps like MS Teams is often difficult for me because their UIs are not things I'm comfortable with. I don't tend to like default layouts and also tend to use advanced features which are usually hidden away behind a few menus. Tools built to meet my needs specifically would largely not meet the needs of most users. A Level 1 user would probably have a better experience there than a Level 3 like me. It's hard (maybe impossible) to do UX design that satisfies everyone.

[–] aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago

Vampire Survivors is so much better than it has any right to be. It's a great way to kill time if I have my Steam Deck around.

[–] aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

Been getting my Elden Ring game into position for the DLC.

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