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  • Steam hardware survey for February 2026. What happened? Why did it lose such a big percentage?

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  • A little bit off-topic, but I don't know if I'm too dumb to understand the survey results' presentation or if there is something wrong.

    1. Why is SteamOS Holo excluded in the Linux list when the table is unfiltered, while in the "Linux only" filtered table it seems to be the most popular OS with 23.83%?
    2. For the Arch-based distros, e.g. Steam OS Holo (+23.83%) or Arch Linux (+9.07%), the "change" is exactly the value of the current "percentage", so the percentage of the compared value is 0. So I guess they have new entries in the data without the history of the old entries? Is there any explanation for that?

    Am I missing something? And does it even say anywhere how many people were asked and participated in the survey?

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  • If you are talking about the people who don't believe you that you were born in 2008, that's just an aspect about the internet society we have to live with. A lot of people here only have a stereotypical idea of how people of a particular age-group (even their own) behave, especially in the internet. It's a little price for our anonymity that strangers won't accept that you behave outside of your stereotype.

    Keep in mind that most of them don't mean you any harm. Predators that lure their victims with a younger age or otherwise problematic scammers are a big problem of the internet and people would rather wrongfully accuse you of that than letting such a scenario play out.

    While personally I didn't feel suspicious of you or have no reason to care, when I think about it, I can see that people get irritated by a person who is often highlighting that they are 18. If you really are 18, you probably didn't even notice that and it's natural. But maybe you can imagine that from another perspective, it may look different.

  • [Solved] What was that amazing job site a user made a while back?

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  • Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too | TechCrunch

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  • We should build a time machine (with the help of AI this should be easy) and plant AI before mankind! We can avoid mankind and prevent that so much energy gets unnecessarily wasted on humans!

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    Do you think that blue collar work should come under the category of skilled work?

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  • It's not about whether or not you require knowledge or abilities to perform the jobs, but whether or not you are expected to already have certain qualifications to even get the job. So unskilled labour just means that it's an entry point - you can learn it on the go.

    I do not disagree that these terms are less important in today's world where everything is overly automated and the entry-level has risen. But these terms did have their purpose. And not the wording "unskilled" has changed our society's discriminating look on these jobs, but it's the other way around.

  • What's the Windows Movie Maker equivalent for Linux?

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  • Ahhh right. Seems like you can only apply the blur filter to the entire video.

  • What's the Windows Movie Maker equivalent for Linux?

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  • You may want to look into Avidemux as it's trying to be a simple video editor. But it may too basic and I'm not certain, if it will be intuitive to you.

    I only used Window Movie Maker in the 2010s, maybe it used to be better before. But in my experience it was much more cumbersome. I think it was intuitive in the sense that it mostly worked like Microsoft (Office) software, but other than that it still did require some learning effort.

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  • As a privacy enhancement even beyond hiding from ISPs, a VPN has value for the private person when they connect to a public Wi-Fi network and need protection from attackers.

    The primary activity of a VPN, extending a private network over a public network, does not only have value for organizations, but for private people like you and me, too. E.g. you need remote access on your NAS with media or in general your devices without making them directly accessible from the internet.

    But overall, it's difficult to give you a definite answer, because it really depends on where you are from. E.g. in most European countries even bypassing geo-blocking won't get you in trouble as they are regulating it within the EU in the first place, while on the other side in China most VPNs are prohibited in general.

  • Lemmy Algorithm

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  • You can hide posts that you've already seen by turning off "Show Read Posts" in the settings.

  • What technologies are constant failures but we can't stop trying to make work?

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  • If you make that argument about the state of software in general, I'd agree to an extent in the sense that it should be more prioritized. But I don't see how that applies to open source in particular?

    In those aspects proprietary software is just as bad, if not even worse. The difference is simply that the default choice of software for most tasks is a proprietary software. They can have a shit ton of unusable and confusing mess, even intentional dark patterns, but users will adapt.

  • What subscription based services are actually worth the money?

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  • Subscription-based services are in general worth the money, if

    1. you can cancel the subscription any time
    2. you use it, because you actually want it
    3. you know exactly what you get out of it

    E.g. it doesn't matter shit how much content on Netflix is terrible, if I use it for one month precisely for that one new show, a new season or a few movies I'm interested - just about anything that makes up an actual reason to starting the subscription.

  • What fictional animal do you think would be the most delicious?

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  • Batista

  • What is something you can't do with 100M dollars but can do with 1B dollars?

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  • Check your PM.

  • What is something you can't do with 100M dollars but can do with 1B dollars?

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  • Nah, I don't like to jab at the USA by normalizing the shit load of money flowing into their politics, especially into some stupid election campaigns.

  • Separate community for AI coding?

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  • Did people at !Aii@programming.dev express that they aren't interested in reading these articles, too? Because an AI-related community on a programming-related instance semantically conveys the same environment as a community dedicated to AI coding specifically in my opinion.

  • Progress

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  • If this had been enforced consistently, it's a different story. But at least at my school I was allowed to cite random blog articles, outdated news and anything else I found, as long as it wasn't Wikipedia.

  • How do you argue against "I have nothing to hide" in relation to privacy and security?

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  • Some reasons for "I have nothing to hide" that I see and that need different reasoning are:

    Naivety: Some people simply have no idea how much data and what kind of sensitive data is collected. How do you convince them? Well, it seems like even a lot of "privacy-aware" people seem to act purely on suspicion and never requested a data collection report from a service or at least looked up other people's results on the internet. They claim that it doesn't matter, because you don't know how much they are actually collecting. But you will definitely convince more people, if they see on paper what data is definitely collected "officially".

    Acceptance, but naivety about life changes: Some people are aware, but they accept it and may even want it, because they enjoy the benefit of personalized content. They don't think their data would ever be used for anything else and they claim to be "not interesting" enough to be looked up. Where is the problem? Well, if they accept it, that's fine, but you should remind them that life and our world can change in unexpected ways. Not everyone who is prosecuted now, knew beforehand they would be and if it comes to that and you were not at least aware of your internet identity, you are carrying a big vulnerability with you.

    Full acceptance: Some people don't even care about that. They'll just let the future happen. What can you say about that? Well, you can raise the point that their decision on their privacy does also also affect the people around them. But, honestly in my opinion it's not their responsibility to handle that problem. At that point, the question is who that person is to you and whether or not you are responsible for them.

  • Why do people who try to convince others to switch to metric focus so much on the conversions?

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  • I see where you are coming from and I agree that the big advantage of the metric system is not specifically conversion or anything in particular, but in general that everything fits together due to the coherent units and ratio.

    How often do y’all convert your measurements? It’s not even a daily thing.

    It's not literally an active daily task, but the effortless conversion benefits your mental image of measurements in general and you don't even have to think about the conversion in the first place. I do not think you are unique in this though. When you live in a place that uses the imperial system (sorry for assuming. Correct me, if I'm wrong), your personal benefit of using the metric system is limited in your daily life.

  • What Happens to Linux After Linus Torvalds? We Finally Have the Answer to This Uncomfortable Question

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  • Yes, vice versa even to a young bird like me 2018 was just yesterday and the acquisition by Microsoft feels even more recent.