audaxdreik

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I cannot upvote this enough. "Just migrate to X, it's every bit as good!" when end users know it's not is a disingenuous argument and even if they don't have the technical know-how to explain exactly why they feel this way, they'll feel the deception. It only reinforces a growing distrust in tech.

The argument has to be made honestly. It's not quite as good, but almost. Those few things you'll miss will require an adjustment, but the overall value (a lot of times just literally, it costs less!) will become evident.

I know we're all Linux nerds here and enthused to get people onboard, but the battle right now we're facing is one of trust and security and must be grounded in those notions because while great strides have been made in convenience and accessibility, big corps will always be able to bankroll themselves over those points.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

As someone who has worked in the tech industry near Seattle, I don't know how well known it is to the wider populace or people in Europe, but open source is absolutely anathema here. It's seen as insecure, unstable, and unreliable.

I work in IT so I've tangentially worked across a number of sectors supporting their stacks and it's pervasive within the American culture. There is a major de-prioritization of in-house IT knowledge and sysadmins in favor of enterprise support contracts. When shit hits the fan, it's less important to have a knowledgeable team and more important to have a foot to stamp down on until the issue is resolved. Often that foot has another foot that stamps down, onward and onward until someone manages to engage the MSP or cloud provider that set the service up initially with their scant documentation.

It's a nightmare both for tech workers and from a cyber security perspective. A lot of this contains my own personal bias and perspective on the matters, but let me say, I have stared into the void and I can't stop screaming.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 months ago

I think one of my favorite examples was using simple salt to trap them within the confines of white lines that they didn't think they could cross over. I really appreciate the imagery of using salt circles to entrap the robotic demons ...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No, I get it. There's this unspoken understanding that barcodes are strictly utilitarian and unobserved as their nature. In stylizing them, there's an acknowledgement of being unexpectedly seen by the human consumer and not the intended digital scanning device.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, sometimes I'm just standing in the shower in the morning planning out my day and I think to myself, "I should attack Ukraine." /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not quite, but this did lead me to my answer, thank you.

Very confusingly, EmulationStation and ES-DE are more distinct now than you might suspect, this is a problem I keep running up against. I found my answer in the ES-DE documentation for Steam Deck/SteamOS, https://emudeck.github.io/tools/steamos/es-de/#es-de-folder-locations (note that EmulationStation uses .cfg in the format of XML I guess whereas ES-DE uses .xml files directly)

The solution was to take my currently working /usr/share/es-de/resources/systems/linux/es_systems.xml file and copy it to ~/ES-DE/custom_systems and now it looks like the AppImage has fully picked up all my systems and configurations from the AUR install so I can safely switch over. I'd still like to resolve the AUR issues, but we'll treat that separately, I'm just happy to have a working solution right now 😊

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Sorry, to clarify, the AppImage resolves the original audio/video stuttering and crashing issue. However I'm unable to modify the es_systems.xml configuration file to point to my pre-configured ROM directories.

It appears as if the original issue is present with the AUR package when using both X11 and Wayland, though I primarily use Wayland.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Good call, AppImage works (https://www.es-de.org/) although I have a few reservations before switching over to this solution. I've updated the post with more information.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

I have an ultrawide so I like splitting the panels WAY up. It's just so much wasted space, otherwise. Lumping it all together in the center makes it intrusive again, but pushing everything out to the side and along the bottom are the areas that are most out of focus but still at-a-glance.

The App Launcher is set to autohide. In order to get this to work, make sure you set the Visibility for the floating panels to "Windows go below", otherwise it stacks them out on separate rows and looks awful.

Split panel example

[–] [email protected] 53 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It is unclear, however, if the federal employee violated any laws by refusing entry. While members of Congress do have an oversight role over federal agencies, that power is typically exercised through hearings and enforcement of policies.

And while the Constitution grants Congress the power to establish federal government offices, it is unclear whether individual members are granted unfettered access to those buildings.

NYT got that boot ALL the way down their gullet.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Let's see what's up on the site now ... https://www.kohney.com/comic/rat-problem-pt2/

I stand by my statement.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 6 months ago (7 children)

The Other End has been becoming one of my favorite webcomics for awhile now. Every time I start reading a strip I have no idea where it's going and it's usually terrifying. A+

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