Are you just going to get a rapier around with you everywhere you go and fight with one arm behind your back? The only skills you’re traveling are the fitness you’ve gained from training, which is less than that if a runner.

I’m not a particularly tall guy, around 6’. I wrestled during my youth and completed against guys that were 5’ tall and others that were 6’5"+. Both heights had advantages and flaws, but universally, if they were well trained, their height was irrelevant to how skilled they were. Agility is something that can be learned and isn’t a unique trait that only you possess and that tall guys don’t.

I can say with absolute certainty that if a guy, tall or short, wanted to attack you, they could close the gap in the amount of time it would take you to get out, open, and ready yourself with a knife. Maybe if they were 100 yards away and yelled that they were going to attack you you’d have a chance.

Also, what does being sneaky mean in a fight? If you’re actively in a fight, you aren’t sneaking around. I think one mistake your making is that there are rules in a fight. There aren’t. Let’s say you have a knife with a 3" blade out and ready to go. If I bullrush you and at the last moment jump up and aim a double leg drop kick at your chest, your just hoping to make contact because the fight is over if you don’t end me right there.

Probably that too, but specifically the ability to spin up a private space to communicate with people for things like video games. Anyone that’s using it as their means of customer service is an idiot.

Apparently I struck a chord with my post, so I’m curious what is better than discord, and free that made my statement controversial?

Also, I don’t see locking data from search engines as a bad thing. The fediverse isn’t search engine searchable either and Google, bing, etc, don’t natively have the right to index private data.

It’s the best at what it does, but had been getting shitty in the way you described. However, it’s free and they have to support it somehow. I’ll put up with the nitro pushing and understand that’s my cost of doing business. If they go public, I’ll probably actively start looking for an alternative, because that always kills a product and it will for sure mean “AI” will be forced into it.

As a dev that recently transitioned from a decade of sys admin experience, to two years of ServiceNow admin/developer/et all, to now full stack development, I have found AI useful for somethings. I asked it how to do a thing, and it regurgitated a bunch of code that didn’t do what I was looking for, however, it did give me a framework for what files I needed to modify. I then put nose to the grindstone and write all of the rest of the code myself, researching the docs when needed, and I got it done.

For me, if I use AI to assist in something code, I always type everything out myself whether it’s right or not, because like taking notes, typing it out does help learn what I’m doing, not just finding a solution and running with it. I’ve disabled most of the auto complete copilot garbage in Visual Studio because it would generate huge blocks of code that may or may not be correct, and the accept button is the tab key, which I use frequently. I still have some degree of auto complete for single lines, but that’s it.

My advice would be to use AI as a prompt to get ideas or steer direction, but if you want to get better at coding and problem solving, I would suggest trying to find solutions yourself because digging through docs will be far more beneficial to your growth. AI does a good job of helping fill the gaps in packages or frameworks when your ignorant to all of the functions and stuff, but striving to understand them instead of relying on unreliable tools will make you a much better developer long term

I want to reenforce the other response you got with yes to all of you questions. I use steam and discord daily on my Linux install. I don’t use blender, but as mentioned is was developed for Linux, so should have no issues. If you have an old laptop or something around, try flashing on a distro and give it a whirl. Otherwise you may be able to get something dirt cheap on Craigslist if you want to have a lengthy try without configuring a dual boot, running off the install drive, or nuking your current setup.

I went all in on mine fairly blind and it’s one of the best decisions I’ve made in a couple of years. Go with something more stable if you’re hesitant or not well versed in computers and terminal. I went Arch because I wanted to force myself to learn more about how Linux is built and operates. It took me a full day to get loaded to a desktop mostly reading the wiki and deciding what items I wanted and how I wanted them configured. Linux 10 years ago is so different from the current versions, so if you’ve tried it before with issue, forget that experience and treat it as a first time experience.

I think blaming it on gullibility or ignorance is wrong. These people aren’t that stupid, they’re just hatefully people that didn’t think they would be targets. I feel bad for this dude’s wife being kidnapped, but he can rot in Hell with every other Trump voter.

6-7 doesn’t hold a candle to YOLO. It’s not even one of the better generational memes and will not have a lasting impression. It’s dumb and fun and will fizzle out soon.

Are you suggesting fruit snacks aren’t also fruit?

Oof yea. I can see how that’s missed. Knowing it’s there, I kind of like the minimalist design. Not ideal for a new user.

That’s weird, and sucks you had that experience. I should take a step back and say that I haven’t used a lot of different districts, including Debian. What I have experienced though, was either a star menu like button either in the bottom left, to left, or a floating dock.

I went full in on Arch when I made my permanent switch a couple of years back to make myself really learn more rather than just plug and play. That may be skewing my perspective some. However, I did throw mint on an old laptop that I have to my brother, and I was shocked that everything was exactly ready to go after install. Libre office, browser, other useful tools, updates, etc. I spent more time verifying things than configuring them and just passed it off.

I know that at least when I install kde in Arch, there are a few different build options from fully loaded to no extra apps. Perhaps with Debian there is a similar selection and you grabbed something stripped down rather than fully loaded? I’m not sure, but it’s good to hear this stuff to check my ignorance when discussing this with people.

There are definitely use cases where something like C is still the best option because it’s faster. For the most part consumer software it’s unnecessary, but it’s not obsolete for all applications.

I don’t truly understand things like this. Most DE’s are similar enough to Windows that anyone who’s spent a minute on a computer should be able to intuitively get to a web browser to surf the web. That’s what most people do. Word processing and the likes is tough since most are ingrained in Office, but something like (pukes in mouth) Google sheets is decently popular and good enough for most people.

If you give most someone a computer with a browser and auto updates, they’ll be able to do almost everything they are already doing on Windows with minimal thought.

There are exceptions, but those people suck at Windows already, so it’s a moot point. If you can’t find the start menu in Windows, it doesn’t matter what OS you’re using.

Really showing why you got banned elsewhere and why you shouldn’t be allowed here.

It’s funny that almost every time I see a person complaining about mods abusing their powers, it’s because that user has broken rules and usually a bigoted, slur slinging, hateful person. You are the exact case for this.

Also, I’m not really interested in dick and recently had dinner, so I’ll pass on having your dick. Thanks for the proposition though.

Not having seen the OG post and going solely off what you’ve said, that post to me falls in the grey area of someone who is misguided but maybe could get various opinions in a post, and someone who is abusing a conversational platform to spread hate. I do think at least a minimal amount of review on the comments should be a part in deciding if a topic is inappropriate for the forum, but sometimes it doesn’t matter and the topic doesn’t belong in this community.

If someone came in and claimed that the Nazi party should be in power because all Jews are evil, that should be removed. There is no positive conversation that can come from that, and a user will just use it to talk hate speech. There’s a line between bad unpopular opinion and hate speech, and usually the latter is what gets removed.

Reported for civility. You think moderators are bad but can’t follow literally the most basic rules. You don’t have to go to the instances with moderation you disagree with.

But you think other people that decided to be moderators, that do the work, and don’t get paid should have extra requirements on top of their free labour? Hypocrite much?

It’s Grindr, almost everything is in the back end.

Wow, you’re a pleasant person. Just a big bowl of rainbows and sunshine.

You didn’t have to write this comment but you did and you look stupid. All you had to do was nothing. Even a monkey can do that.

Blaming AI is in general criticising everything encompassing it, which includes how bad data centers are for the environment. It’s like also recognizing that the crack the crackhead smoked before robbing your house is also bad.

Bad code is bad code. We’ll see more of this as rust is implemented into core software.