

Lemmy doesn’t have karma


Lemmy doesn’t have karma


That’s probably the direct opposite of my experience and an experience of everyone I know.
With Windows problems you do get a lot of very, very long youtube videos that says a lot of things, but unless your problem is trivial, the shit wouldn’t work, and random bat files aren’t working for unexpected problems, or are just viruses. More often then not though, you get a question on Microsoft forum, with one answer asking you to run that windows repair bullshit that never actually solves anything. And then you just accept that it’s not something you can do and move on with your life, thinking that ignoring the problem is actually solving it. Alternatively there is for some reason very expensive program that does what you wanted badly, while using 20% of your machine’s resources, but you’re so exhausted at this point, that you pretend it’s normal.
With Linux you will get snarky answers telling you that you’re an idiot for not reading the error message on your screan (which is, yeah, you are), or that you’re an idiot for not reading the first page of man (which is, yeah, see above), or the most detailed explanation of inner workings of this specific thing that is giving you troubles, and you pretend to understand all of it while just copying and pasting all the random commands from the answer like an idiot that you are. But if you actually want to learn, you just do that, and then your problem is solved and you’re a bit more knowledgeable in the end.
Every time people talk about how Linux community is unhelpful, I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. How can I always find help and support no matter how weird and obscure or banal and trivial my problem is, am I special or do people don’t know how to google? I mean, snarky and condescending? Yeah, that happens. But unhelpful? Never in my experience.


Unihertz is not handling those issues well
The post messed up with my delivery and it returned back to them, and Unihertz asked me for additional 20 bucks so they resend it. I am pretty sure, if they handle this in this manner, the other issues are not better.


Linux isn’t especially complicated on a daily basis, but you have to be willing to solve your own problems
Who was solving your problems before then?


The Titan 2 Elite seems to be a less gimmicky version of the Titan 2
They just had to announce it after I ordered the one with all the “bizarre” gimmicks.


You can change remapping, and it’s basically next best thing


It’s either that, or companies are incredibly scared of not getting as much money as they predicted, so they don’t do products that aren’t copies of another, already existing products.


Oh, I also ordered one in December, waiting for arrival still. Glad you liked it, it gives me hopes. Are you finding it’s squareness to be an issue?
It’s unlikely I will use your “accessible” GUI tools, but I applaud you for making them, even if they’re shit. It’s like art, the more art there is, the better the world is, even if I personally can’t appreciate some of it, I acknowledge the greatness of it’s existence.
ɪt kæn ˈɔːlweɪz biː wɜːs
A lot of people are afraid of text. Like, they see text on a screen and get visibly scared. Weirdest shit ever.
Weirdly enough, I never tried Gentoo. What it will do to my autism that Arch doesn’t do already?
Just use Arch like a normal well adjusted person
Which is also isn’t POSIX compliant I think


I use Arch by the way
The situation when people go on stackoverflow and just grab some shit from the top answer and just copy paste in their console is surprisingly normal. Not me, obviously, but like other people do it all the time.
Fish is for people who like it when sometimes scripts don’t work


I wouldn’t have any problem with this kind of metaphors, I use it myself about everything all the time, if there wasn’t a substantial portion of population that actually did the jump to the “it’s saying something coherent therefore it’s a person that wants to help me and I exclusively talk to him now, his name is mekahitler by the way”.
I am afraid that by normalizing metaphors here we’re doing some damage, because as it turns out, so many people don’t get metaphors.


The golden standard for me, about anything really, is a number of published research from relevant experts that are not affiliated with the entities invested in the outcome of the study, forming some kind of scientific consensus. The question of sentience is a bit of a murky water, so I, as a random programmer, can’t tell you what the exact composition of those experts and their research should be, I suspect it itself is a subject for a study or twelve.
Right now, based on my understanding of the topic, there is a binary sentience/non sentience switch, but there is a gradient after that. I’m not sure we know enough about the topic to understand the gradient before this point, I’m sure it should exist, but since we never actually made one or even confirmed that it’s possible to make one, we don’t know much about it.
The unified number of combined points (what is refereed as Karma) doesn’t exist on Lemmy. There is some point system comment-by-comment, but it’s not unified. You can’t farm what doesn’t exist.
A bit more than a semantics, isn’t it?