Lettuce eat lettuce

Always eat your greens!

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Joined 3 years ago
Cake day: July 12th, 2023
  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.mltoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk AwayEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Pay for your FOSS! I’ve paid far more for my FOSS than for any proprietary software.

    If you believe in subscriptions, then subscribe only to FOSS software like Bitwarden, Tailscale/Netbird, etc.

    Find your favorite FOSS projects on Open Collective and support them there.

    And above all else, treat FOSS devs and maintainers with the utmost respect! They are the unsung heros who are building the only alternatives to the corpo-distopian hellscape of proprietary enshitified slop software.

    Send a message to a dev today, just saying thank you to them for everything, and asking if you can send them a tip if possible.

    Folks, let’s treat each other lovingly please, FOSS has freed us, give back what you can, and never take it for granted.

    To all the devs, maintainers, tinkerers, supporters, FOSS educators, and helpful community members across the FOSS world, thank you so much, and much love. ♥️

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.world•Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be.English
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    2 months ago

    A new Steam Deck OLED is $650 right now. Y’all are absolutely delusional if you think Valve is gunna sell the new Steam Machine with 6x the power of a Deck for $600.

    Personally, I think $800 is the absolute lowest these things will go for, and that is a stretch. Unless they are planning on cutting the price on Decks by 20-30% which would be ludicrous considering they are already selling them at a loss and making up the difference on the game sales.

    Valve has already said they are pricing the Steam Machines as entry level gaming PCs. And Idk what world some people are living in, but this ain’t 2010 anymore. Entry level PCs are $750+ nowadays, unless you are buying some parts used.

    I’m not happy about this. I remember back in highschool building some nice entry level gaming rigs for $500, but those days are long past. I probs won’t be getting a Steam Machine, but that’s because I am a tinkerer and I’ll just jank one together for my own use, but for somebody who wants a solid entry-level gaming PC that has a really great ecosystem around it and is no muss no fuss, the Steam Machine is a pretty good option.

    My prediction: 512GB Steam Machine will be $800-$900, the 2TB one will be $1,000-$1,200.

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•Saved my parents 2015 MBA
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    2 months ago

    Love to see it! I got my parents onto Linux Mint about a year ago and it’s been great for them.

    Their home PC is way too old to upgrade to Windows 11, plus I didn’t want them subjected to Microsoft’s trash software and spying, so Linux it was.

    Themed it similar to Windows 10, even changed the “Start” menu icon to the Windows 10 logo so my parents felt safe using it lol.

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•What are some bare minimum concepts beginner Linux users should understand?
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    3 months ago

    True, it still does vary even chipset to chipset. Some Nvidia and Intel cards do just work depending on the distro, others require more work.

    It also depends on how “techie” the user is. My parents are 0% techie, so I have to do anything and everything for them if they have questions or issues.

    But a Windows power user can handle some terminal use and other basic system modifications. And honestly now days, most of that stuff is super easy. Like Linux mint has a dedicated driver app that allows you to use a simple GUI to install Nvidia drivers, it’s super easy.

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•What are some bare minimum concepts beginner Linux users should understand?
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    3 months ago

    Hard to summarize, because it differs so much from person to person.

    I installed Linux on my parent’s computer. They don’t need to know anything about Linux, because everything they use is identical to their old Windows PC. They click the icon for Chrome to open the browser. They Click the icon for LibreOffice to type up a “Word” doc and print it by clicking “file > print”

    As far as they’re concerned, they are still using Windows.

    For a gamer, they will need to know a little about Proton, possibly Lutris and the Hero launcher. They might need to know about installing nVidia drivers or tweaking a few things in the Steam launch options to get games to run better.

    It’s tough to know exactly what a new Linux user will “need” to know in order to use Linux.

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.world•Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coalEnglish
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    3 months ago

    The earth can easily sustain our current population at a 1st world standard of living, but only if we are orders of magnitude more efficient. That means things like no mass car usage, eco-urbanisn, no more single family homes with quarter acre empty lawns, widespread plant-based foods as the norm, and repairable technology that actually lasts decades instead of planned obsolescence and cheap plastic junk that fills up landfills.

    You don’t need to be some anarcho-primitivist/Ted Kaczynski wannabe living in a wooden shack with one set of clothes.

    Now is that viable in the current societal climate? No, people, especially Americans generally hate much of those eco-urbanist ideas. As long as Capitalism is the default economic system and neo-liberal politics is the default political approach to democracy, we will continue marching towards a consumerist doom.

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