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by Zhyl 2y ago
I'll 'get started for free' with jq thanks. Flippant HN comment aside, the syntax for trivial manipulations in jq is pretty straightforward, very similar to defining a dictionary in python. Non-trivial transformations are goi
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by Zhyl 2y ago
I found these two videos on combinators and lambda calculus recently. They're only tangentially related to Haskell, but they are the most approachable videos on the topic I have ever seen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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by Zhyl 2y ago
I will, thank you
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by Zhyl 2y ago
Can you download apps and use the app store without a Google account? That's probably the biggest analogue to TFA here.
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by Zhyl 2y ago
You can also dual boot and/or swap out hard drives. It took me a goodly while to get immersed and comfortable with Linux, so I'd definitely plan a discovery and/or transition phase before hard switching over.
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by Zhyl 2y ago
So literally just now I opened the Google photos app and it came up with a nag screen to turn on auto-backup which I had already explicitly turned off. The message was worded to make it sound like they were doing me a favour and it was diff
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by Zhyl 2y ago
I love how you leapt on 'audience' there and didn't want to refute use cases. Also leaning on that '30 year' figure. Funny. The Steam Deck has sold millions of units (increase in audience) and now supports 89% of th
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by Zhyl 2y ago
So pirate it
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by Zhyl 2y ago
Proton DB says that 89% of the top 1000 games, 89% of the top 100 and 6 of the top 10 games on steam are rated Silver or above (a 7th is rated Bronze and 3 are broken). AreWeAntiCheat yet says: 161 games are Supported (42%) 46 games are Run
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by Zhyl 2y ago
HDR is coming. The OLED steam deck supports it, for example.
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by Zhyl 2y ago
But hang on, your original comment was slating Linux for people saying that it was an escape for the past 30 years. It is now an escape for an ever increasing audience and set of use cases, and you're saying that these new people who h
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by Zhyl 2y ago
To be perfectly honest, anyone approaching Linux from Windows needs caveats so that they can make their mind up for themselves and pick what's best for them. Every distro (and Linux as a whole) has trade offs and things that will need
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by Zhyl 2y ago
I don't really understand the issue. I click on 'play' on Steam and the game works. That's all that matters to me.
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by Zhyl 2y ago
Are there trade-offs with this?
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by Zhyl 2y ago
Proton has massively changed the game. I'd say the time since 2018 has had more advances in usability than the 25 years before it (for "normal" people), effectively making any "you've been saying this for X years&qu
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by Zhyl 2y ago
I'd love to cross reference this against all the Eggcorns from the Adam and Joe show (and subsequently the Adam Buxton Podcast).
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by Zhyl 2y ago
I think my broader point is that whatever technology has been adopted hasn't had a noticeable effect and that's due to the usage, attitude and hence supporting infrastructure to adopt them. GP asked what use a smartphone would
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by Zhyl 2y ago
What useful things could a smartphone do during school hours. You have a literal internet connected computer with any function you could care to name, interactive touch screen display, full sound with headphones being provided by the stu
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by Zhyl 2y ago
But it still retains some meaning. Using a glob pattern to wildcard files with the same name vs. running an image entity classifier across 1 to n images in potentially recursive directories. In a command line utility for displaying files.
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by Zhyl 2y ago
https://xkcd.com/1425/
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by Zhyl 2y ago
What would you do if you had several billion devices that you had root access to, used directly by humans and isn't making you any money in sales these days? The 2024 answer is to use it to capture data to train AI. Microsoft could los
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by Zhyl 2y ago
You need an analogue of Linux distributions (Python distribution? Making choosing a repo a separate and deliberate step?). That way you could pick a repo based on your risk appetite rather than needing to trust PyPI. Debian style python for
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by Zhyl 2y ago
Tiling window managers are a different way of thinking about how one uses a computer, similar to how different touch interfaces are, but in the other more keyboardly direction. I find I reach for a tiling WM (or tmux) when I have a lot of t
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by Zhyl 2y ago
El Reg doing the decent thing with the health warning, but sad that this is a) necessary and b) starting to have consequences for those wanting security updates after having decluttered.
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by Zhyl 2y ago
What are you talking about, fam? Exchange support for Thunderbird is the entire second half of the article.
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by Zhyl 2y ago
At the moment there don't appear to be ads on the chat page. Is this something that will be coming so that chat can be monetised?
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by Zhyl 2y ago
I really like the way this has been added to the UI. It's off to the side so I can just use DDG as God intended if I want to, but also is distinct enough that I discovered it prior to seeing it on HN. It makes it clear this is done in
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by Zhyl 2y ago
We can probably cut this back and forth short just by linking to ProtonDB [0] and AreWeAntiCheatYet [1]. [0] https://ProtonDB.com [1] https://AreWeAntiCheatYet.com The Steam top 1000 games: Rating System: ProtonDB Me
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by Zhyl 3y ago
The Primeagen feels like he's bringing Linux, neovim, programming et al to a new audience, in the same way that Low Level Learning [0] brings rust, assembly and reverse engineering to a younger audience. I don't think his style is
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by Zhyl 3y ago
A lot can happen in 20 years.

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