supersquirrel

Texas is a death cult desperately trying to convince everyone it is just another shithole.

It isn't but because time moves at the speed of light and we are viewing it from a slow as fuck perspective it appears wiggly to us because we couldn't see it if it was straight, it would be too fast.

We walk by non-squiggly time arrows all the time in life we just don't see them because they are too smooth for how quick they are.

The United Dumpsterfires Of America?

I am fairly confident I will lose access to my ADHD medication under RFK and I am completely unconfident centrist corporate Democrats like Gavin Newsom will give a shit about actually addressing fixing it if one of them wins power after Trump. They will completely accept the narrative we are "overdiagnosing" ADHD put out by Republicans and keep helping Republicans move the goalposts until I am dead.

Why do memes about video games always assume it is men that play the video games and women that don't understand? I don't care if you can show that is the "status quo", that doesn't mean memes should relentlessly lean into and confirm gendering video games as specifically for men.

I am not specifically calling out this meme, it is harmless and fun by itself, it is the larger pattern I am talking about.

For the record I am a man who is guilty of doing this exact thing in video games, so yeah not throwing shade lol I just notice the pattern.

In my opinion there are two major differences between Windows and most Linux distros.

Capitalization matters to file names and such in Linux whereas in Windows it does not.
Linux thinks about permissions different programs and users have at a much more explicit level. It is a bit confusing at first why you have to keep interfacing with that part of the operating system, but it makes way more sense for programs to have permission to act in specific places for security and stability reasons.

Some other responses to your questions...

Steam can run windows games for the most part fine, just go into game properties and change the compatability setting to "proton hotfix". I play Winspww2, an oldddd DOS game on Linux and it runs better than it does on Windows. I have also been able to install mods to Windows games on Linux by adding the mod installer to Steam and running it in Proton and then adjusting where the install folder is located.

You can pretty much have any kind of file system GUI set up you want in Linux. There are many file explorers and ways to do basic stuff like that, frame your questions by asking for Linux equivalents of Windows software you particularly liked and you will get good recommendations.

Yes but the question goes much deeper from there ending up at chimeras.

Reminds me of when President Vic Michaelis asked Hank about who has the most DNA.

https://youtu.be/SocSaQ-0IbI?t=931

The problems go as deep as you are willing to zoom in.

I haven't found a way to directly add an outline frame to the text but you can go to tools->shapes and set it to outline no fill and manually do frame the text

The interface is a bit strange at first but it is a genuine multiple layer image editor it is great.

A tip, make sure to confirm/complete a tool's action before you switch to a different one, it is easy to switch off a tool while it is still "previewing" something.

looks over from still making shitty memes in GIMP

"Huh?"

I support this, go one step further and get a pair of dino themed handcuffs so when you citizen arrest the home invader after they trip and get tangled confusedly into an improbable amount of plastic dinos distributed around the periphery of your basement it is maximally embarassing for them and maximally badass for you.

Why do rightwing idiots get to buy a "toy" ar15 with a drum magazine and bump stock and claim with a straight face it is "for home defense"?

I think you can claim all your dinosaur toys are for home defense more credibly, just say at night you spread them all over the floor near your windows and doors so if someone broke in they would painfully step on the sharp dino bits and trip.

There now your dino collecting is SERIOUS business and you are forced to do it to protect your family.

WE ARE WAVE, RESISTANCE IS FUTILE (unless you measure us), your biological distinctiveness will receive energy and transmit it in a periodic fashion

"Herd immunity" is the result of the worst possible failure state, it is by definition a description of maximum damage. It makes no sense to portray it as a good outcome.

Glad they responded so dynamically to Blender users but I really think programmers and tech people need to take a giant step back and look at how they appear when they blindly endorse AI hype.

I think the nature of bubbles like this is "experts" become convinced of something that exists in their field that every day normal people can see is utter bullshit and how bad/destructively the resulting bubble pops depends on how humble and willing the "experts" are to coming around to what everybody else already concluded about the thing they were "experts" about. In this case given the smug hubris of techbros, the bubble is going to pop about as violently as possible....

I speculate that a big reason for this hubris is tech/computer minded people tend to focus on practical problems and solutions and will reflexively "lean in" to examine something confusing or unknown closer and closer until they get it, discarding vague grey areas until a binary, automatable reality emerges.

To people who think like this, thank you for existing and solving so many problems but you must recognize this type of thinking is systematically vulnerable to bullshitting since bullshit pulls its power from a periphery integrated in a fantastical way rather than a lie about the heart of something being different than it is.

In other words in my opinion "tech people" will tend to look for bullshit in the mechanisms, not the people, not the incentives, not the overall motion of the collective sum of individuals "innocently" optimizing their own corner of a wholistically nonsensical, hurtful enterprise. A programmer says "get rid of the fluff, what is it precisely, in a step by step fashion we are trying to do?". Thank goodness programmers do ask and answers questions in such a fashion for us, but with that kind of thinking comes a blindspot to a massive economic bubble that is hurting and will hurt many more people before it pops and then vastly more people after it pops.

It is not ethical to be connected with scammers and architects of avoidable economic catastrophe and it is not ethical to lend your own credibility as Blender developers to them.

These people should be in jail for lying about what they are selling to a criminal degree. This isn't even about the specifics of the AI part, rather it is like Blender making a corporate sponsorship with a Subprime Mortgage company right before the 2008 Financial Crash. Not only is the money fake, you don't want to be associated with the fakeness of those "grand ideas" or they will swallow you whole. Turn around and run away as fast as you can, AI is bullshit and it certainly IS NOT profitable.

The idea Blender would let Anthropic's name be associated with it is a serious insult to the Blender community.

Then the people who want to own and strangle things will shift their focus to other centralized chokepoints like Bluesky and Lemmy.World.

Honestly I have really enjoyed using Kdenlive and it has a nice browser, clip editor and library building system of edited clips and stuff.

https://kdenlive.org/

https://docs.kdenlive.org/en/getting_started/quickstart.html#quickstart

6I really wish people actually listened to the crazy architect Christopher Alexander when he shat on the entire programming industry in 1996 for not having a value system around the basis for beginning to build architecture and systems in software. He pointed out all the way back then how much power programmers had and now have lost culturally to relinquishing the narrative to AI so heavily around software and programming. He was trying to say "THINK about what your industry is doing, organize, use your power while you have it.". Well, it is mostly too late now, still necessary to do but programming will never be seen as a highly skilled and respected profession again the same way it used to because of how thoroughly programmers did not organize to resist the fundamental capitalist narratives being imposed upon them that have now been set in stone culturally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_QzdKci6OY

The methods that you have at your fingertips and deal with every day in the normal course of events are perfectly designed to do this so that if you have the interest, you have the capacity and you have the means. I heard a rumor at breakfast that some of the people in this room begin to worry about their jobs. I have no idea if that's true, but I was told there's a sort of undercurrent of unease of where is all this going? There's this huge expanding phenomenon, programming and so forth, and yet an uneasiness about well, where is it all headed? What is it going to do?

Please forgive me. I'm going to be very directly blunt for a horrible second. But it could be viewed that the technical way in which you look at programming at the moment is almost like guns for hire. In other words, you're the technicians. You know how to make the programs work. Tell us what to do, Daddy, and we'll do it. And what I'm proposing here is something a little bit different from that which is a view of programming as the natural genetic infrastructure of a living world which you are capable of creating, managing, making available and which could then have the result that a living structure ructure in our towns, houses, workplaces, cities is an attainable thing which it has not been for the last 50 to 100 years. That is an incredible vision of the future. I realize that you probably think I'm nuts because this is not what I'm supposed to be talking about to you and you may say, "Well, gosh, great idea, but we're not interested." But I do think you are capable of that and I don't think anybody else is going to do this job. I've enjoyed uh talking to you very much. Thank you. Wow.

If programmers and computer culture had actually organized and treated leftist ideas without an air of superior condescension as if understanding computers and factorio made the need to unionize obsolete... we would be in an entirely different world right now. People believed in the power of computers and programming in a way that gave computer culture the possibility to positively transform the world, but that trust has been irrevocably broken and computers will never have that same transformative potential again because people will never trust the profession of programmers the same way again.

The public trusts engineers to build bridges because even though the public doesn't understand how to build a huge bridge they know at some level engineers would throw a collective massive fit if people started demanding they build bridges in a dangerous way. On the other hand that trust is PERMANENTLY gone in how people look at software engineers and honestly the industry deserves it for being so obsessed about only focusing on the details and never thinking about the broader impact of the architecture being created.

Software engineering has culminated in optimizing software for Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza and it is stain on the entire industry of programming and software engineering.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/26/microsoft-cuts-israeli-militarys-access-to-some-cloud-computing-ai