The person reading this is cute
How dare u
This is why I didn’t read it.
Awww, found it!
Wait, that’s meee! :3
No
Yuh uh!
I can’t believe you’ve done this
No U!
. >w<
I’ve read Xenia’s rant and agree with it 100%.The only thing missing is something about media servers and self-hosting.
You cannot fix me, for I am not broken.
literally
Yeah, that’s where I stopped. Learn another adverb!
literally this
Xenia! My beloved
NGL I bought a new MacBook (m1) as that arm processor is just killer. Still mis Linux on that machine though.
(I know about Asahi, but I haven’t heard about it’s current state in the last few years since it’s initial debut)
Asahi’s pretty decent now, so far as I’m concerned. They’ve still not cracked having more than one display, but otherwise I can’t think of anything I’ve not been able to do with it.
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noooo why is the text in the background i wanted to read that
I read the part where it called me cute :)
You can read all of it as alt text on the original post.
I’m using a new M3 MBP at work and it literally brought my compile time from 20+ minutes on a pretty beefy Windows machine down to about 6 minutes. Based on that alone, it’s hard to imagine using anything else for serious dev work at this point.
Having said that, there’s a lot of goofy Apple fuckery going on too. Multi-monitor support is limited to two displays, so if you want more than that you’re stuck with an expensive third-party dock and DisplayLink drivers, which cause color artifacting in high motion like you’d expect from a heavily compressed video, which leads to eye strain. Mouse support is terrible without a third party app to fix the goofy scroll wheel acceleration curve they’ve built in, and even buying first-party peripherals doesn’t solve it. I need a third party app just to prevent Mac OS from opening iTunes every time I connect a Bluetooth headset… So many little dumb things to deal with.
I need a third party app just to prevent Mac OS from opening iTunes every time I connect a Bluetooth headset
I have Macs for 10+ years and I never had them open iTunes when connecting a bluetooth headset.
I couldn’t tell you when it started, but it’s definitely a thing now, which is why projects like noTunes exist
Final Cut Pro. There isn’t anything else that compares.
Logic pro…
I can do indie grade game development on an M1 MacBook air. It’s wild how tech has progressed.
But I do my day job work on a Linux mint laptop and have a windows gaming pc until such time as I can fuck that useless piece of shit software into the fucking ether where it belongs.
What game keeps you on windows?
Right now none specifically, but I haven’t really done an audit. I understand it’s pretty good nowadays with proton.
What I don’t want is to accidentally play an unsupported game and get vac banned or something.
If stellaris, total war and a handful of others worked I could probably convince myself to look into dual booting to try it out. I imagine OBS is fine. Streamdeck works on Mac so might be ok.
For all I remember, VAC bans only work with Valve games, and those in turn natively support Linux
Can confirm at least Stellaris works
Stellaris has a native linux build 🥰 Edit: all paradox games have native linux builds
Basically every game runs fine on Linux, just not those games with strict anti cheat.
FFXI for me. It’s a lot better post Steam Deck, but last time I set it up on Linux (maybe a year ago) a lot of the visual mods that are registry-based weren’t working properly, the font rendering was awful, and certain addons and plugins just didn’t work (guildwork in particular since it launches a background exe, others related to showing/hiding certain UI elements.) It runs, but it’s far from comfortable. Might be good enough in a VM and I’ll probably try again next time I resubscribe.
Resubscribe? Is FFXI paid by subscription?! 🤯
But yea, that game seems a bit messy for my taste as how it programmed 🤭 not experienced coder here, but what you describe sounds like it is as windows: programmed like a patchwork rug.
Hot?
They don’t think it be like that, but it do.
You could also just put it on the old MacBook…
the smell of mint
Christ, this image is like a 50-post long thread on Mastodon, etc: the worst possible choice of format/platform for that type of content.
“I have an essay to share, and I’m going to send it in snippets of a few hundred characters!” Why?
(Looking at you, Doctorow… 👀)
What ?
Author-activist Cory Doctorow does a daily thread on Mastodon (on stuff like tech policy) but because each post doesn’t have much text the threads get long. He also posts it on his blog, but I think Brewchin finds the thread annoying. His account: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic
What?
