So good. Now let’s eat Grandma.

That’s interesting. Always good to be able to make informed choices

You know, I’m okay if an indie dev wants to use an LLM to generate lore text to save time, effort, and/or sanity. I sometimes feel bad skipping that stuff, because I know a small team of people worked really hard to write multiple pages of a “book” in some hard-to-reach corner of their game.

On the other hand, these giant corpos have the resources to pay for writers and artists, and I think they have an ethical duty to society to provide jobs.

I’m not sure how you’d solve the problem of big corpos becoming cheap content farms while avoiding harming the people who use these tools to make something rich and beautiful, but I have to believe there’s a way to thread that needle.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Plus, presidents regularly create carve-out exceptions to tariffs, anyway. This is likely overblown fearmongering.

Not in particular, but at least I could ostensibly set up a filter (or automod) that hid or removed low-quality comments like that. Removing downvotes is kinda the same effect.

I’m not saying voting should go away entirely. This instance still has upvotes, after all, but Lemmy will just turn into the cynical, pessimistic, self-fallating shithole that Reddit has become if we don’t do anything differently as a community.

(And yes, it was just an open invitation—a reminder, if you will, that The Fediverse is a cool place where you have choices regarding how you experience it.)

I’ma have to look up some recipes

Wait, mustard? I always thought mayo was just egg, oil, and vinegar (the egg being the emulsifier). Is there a whole world of mayo I’m missing‽

This instance actually drops downvotes before they hit the database, so unless another instance tracks users on different instances, they simply disappear for people on this instance.

Because downvotes are lazy commentary. I’d rather judge for myself what constitutes a bad take and use words to encourage or debate. I don’t need a bunch of angry keyboard warriors poisoning the discourse with voluntary polling.

Plus, seeing a bunch of negative numbers doesn’t make anyone feel good. I would rather Lemmy be a better place than Reddit.

There’s an election coming up, and there’s state and local seats up for grabs. We can’t flip Texas in a single cycle, but these goons didn’t get where they are all at once, either.

Kind of ironic, that. I do not apologize. 😆

Join my instance, and you’ll never see another downvote again.

And that’s exactly my point. You aren’t going to get a basic feel by booting a live USB. Better for him to try out the update mechanisms, install a few programs, and maybe test some theming from within a VM.

Plus, some of the ones I listed don’t have live environments but would be great choices for gaming distros and better than some of the ones that do have live environments. You’d be limiting your options by having this unnecessary requirement.

I have. I have it on a laptop and will probably put it on my desktop (waffling between Bazzite and Arch). It’s great, and it’s one of the easiest setups I’ve had to get going with gaming. I recommend joining their Discord, too.

The only thing that is currently a problem, that may be a non-issue when bootc has a full release, is installing certain VPN clients. If it exists as a flatpak, RPM, or in fedora repos, should be fine. If it installs by copying various files around and making system changes on demand at runtime (like Private Internet Access), doesn’t currently work.

Thanks. Stats are hard.

I agree, and also, the Arch distros I recommended have varying levels of preset configurations. Garuda is about as opinionated and complete as any green user could want, whereas Endeavor and Cachy are blank slates but not as bare as starting from scratch.

Arch also has the biggest community and the hands-down-best wiki out there, so when something happens, there’s a lot of people who can help.

Cool. My first thought was how this would differ from blendOS, which is also immutable Arch. Seems like the main difference is the use of systemd-sysupdate to handle unprivileged updates.

Not sure how rollbacks are handled, but I only glanced at it.

I think a better option than live boot is VM. Live boot doesn’t always save settings, and you may not get a full-install experience, since certain things are set up after install.

For gaming try:

• Bazzite (Atomic Fedora)
• Nobara (Fedora)
• Garuda Dragonized Edition (Arch)
• Linux Mint (Ubuntu)
• EndeavorOS (Arch)
• CachyOS (Arch)

It involves a lot of self-setup and management. A lot of the benefits of Valve working on Arch will find their way to upstream and then to other distros, so that benefit is likely very small.

The BT/Network thing is a really important one. Sometimes you can replace them with a more compatible one (like an Intel AX201 vs AX210), but sometimes companies will cut deals and get some weird Broadcom module that only works on Windows for one specific board version.