That's most likely due to low rankings. Lemmy doesn't prevent it.
ono
joined 2 years ago
- Terrible format for archiving knowledge
- Terrible tool for retrieving knowledge
- Locks community access behind a corporate license agreement
- Hands control of community-created content to a corporation
- Prevents indexing by web search engines
- Antithetical to interoperability
- Privacy-hostile
A web forum is far better in most cases. If you can't manage to run your own, there are plenty of lemmy servers that will do it for you. Even an email list (with searchable archives) would be better than Discord.
If you have collaborative documents that outgrow the forum format, use a wiki.
If real-time chat is needed, irc or matrix.
A project hosting its community on Discord is a project that won't get my contributions.
Any reason why I shouldn’t just go with Debian + KDE and install Steam?
No reason to avoid Debian unless you have hardware so very new that it requires the very latest kernel to operate.
If you go with Debian Stable, you can enable Backports for a fairly recent kernel, currently 6.5.10. You could go with Testing or even Unstable if you're addicted to upgrading as often as possible, but chances are you won't need to.
I'm gaming on Debian Stable with Steam in a flatpak. It works great, and is blissfully low maintenance.
At some point, you'll probably run into people claiming that Debian is bad for gaming performance because of "outdated" packages. In most cases, those people don't know what they're talking about. I suggest ignoring them unless they identify a specific performance issue that actually affects you.
is exactly like saying “why don’t you just buy a house?” to someone complaining about their landlord.
What an idiotic comparison.
Buying a house costs so much money and time that most people cannot afford to, and those who can generally must go into debt for most of their remaining lives in order to do so. Suggesting FOSS to replace "whatever commercial software they use" is the polar opposite, in that it's literally free (usually in both senses of the word). It's more like suggesting that someone consider a new route to commute from home to work.
Also, this opening...
Okay, all you open source evangelist people: your knee-jerk reaction to come at people
...is incredibly reductive and combative. The world needs less of that, not more.
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AMD RX 7000-series' high idle power draw finally appears to be fixed with the latest 23.12.1 drivers
(www.tomshardware.com)
Thanks for making me aware of this project. Maybe I'll get to play the original game after all. :)
reverse engineering of the said port
BTW, that should be either "the" or "said". Not both.
To be fair, one doesn't have to be an automotive engineer to deduce something is wrong with a new car that struggles to reach 30km/h while most of the others exceed 100km/h with ease.
(This is the first I've heard of anyone blaming teeth, though. That's a bit strange.)
Whichever one you enjoy using.
Unless you have some special hardware need, all the desktop distros perform about the same. (Even long-term support releases, which offer newer kernels in case you need them.)
Programmer time is more expensive than computer time.
That might excuse inefficiency if all of these things were true:
- The programmers (or their employers) were buying new computers for all their users
- The new computers were fast enough to keep slow software from wasting users' time
- The electricity to run them was free and without pollution
- The resources consumed and waste produced by that upgrade cycle had no impact on the environment
What's really happening here is that producers of software are making things cheaper and easier for themselves by shifting and multiplying costs onto the users and the environment.
The amount of waste is staggering. It's part of why I haven't enjoyed professional software development in years.
That leaked email conveniently assumes the owner of Valve would sell it. I can't think of a reason for Gabe to do that.
I do my gaming on Bookworm with a handful of extras, and it works very well.
There is a certain group of people who insist that only the distros with the latest packages are good for gaming. Those people are wrong in most cases.
Unless you have a very new GPU (released less than a year ago), your games are not likely to get any benefit from the latest kernel.
Unless your games require the very latest Vulkan features and you run them without Steam, Flatpak, or any other platform that provides its own Mesa, you’re not likely to get any benefit from a distro providing the latest version of it.
Practically everything else that games need is comparable across all the major distros, so choose one that makes you happy, not one that some shill claims is best for gaming. Even Debian Stable, contrary to the undeserved bashing it often gets by a certain kind of gamer, is generally excellent for gaming.
YSK: When making posts on Lemmy/Kbin always put at the end some hashtags related to your post topic.
Please don't ever do that.
It bombards everyone with noise and wastes everyone's screen space. (Much like abusing a username field by adding your life story to it.)
If people currently on a primitive platform want to participate in this one, they should learn to use the tools, or at least respect the local conventions.
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The interface is the best I know of, a lot like pre-Microsoft github. Especially important to me is that It doesn't intercept my browser's built-in shortcuts like github now does, or require javascript or bury things under submenus like gitlab does.
The promise of federation is appealing, too.
I plan to use it for new public projects, and might even move my old ones over.