I’ll also copy my comment from another thread that defended LLMs as a neutral tool

If nobody lost their job, it didn’t convince people to kill themselves, was environmentally friendly, didn’t guzzle enormous amounts of water and electricity, wasn’t used for mass surveillance and propaganda, didn’t devalue art and destroy human culture, didn’t contribute to the brain rot epidemic, didn’t destroy an entire generation’s education, didn’t hoard computing resources, didn’t hack everyone at any opportunity, then yeah it could have been a pretty cool technology actually

Damn; looks like grandma is going to outlive us all

One time my update by bricked so hard. I just got a black screen then instant reboot loop. Took days to figure out but I eventually had to disassemble my PC and remove the graphics card. I later learnt a warning was accidentally elevated to a boot error which caused the bug; but I had to simply go without graphics card until they fixed it a few weeks later.

BigHard

I tend to find dx11 over dx12 to be a more enjoyable Linux experience in general. My theory is that compatibility is still being worked on or something.

Laptops are still a bit fucky. Manufacturers often put proprietary power savings and performance optimisation functionality that expects Windows install, and Linux can’t emulate properly.

I spent 3 hours getting a laptop to “work”; the quotes meaning it’s very “quirky”. Stuff like, don’t ever close the lid or you’ll have to suffocate restart it, had to turn off all power savings settings, a few things required deep research and sudo nano config files, etc.

It’s ok now and mostly works while plugged in, but be prepared.

Ah yep that makes sense. Forgive the suspicion, we have some “characters” here that repost the same question over and over, and delete their previous ones.

If you do decide to continue using Lemmy, just For Your Information: Downvotes don’t really mean much here. There’s no karma, and since the community is so small, people will still see your post even if it’s “negative”. In fact, some people specifically search for controversial and negative posts using the sort function as they’re considered interesting. Generally we try not to delete posts, as it removes already limited content; some communities even have rules against it. Good luck with finding a solution!

Didn’t you ask this exact same question yesterday? The post is now deleted though.

To Be Fair that’s all 4–6 months ago. Seems more like someone who:

• briefly tried out the Fediverse
• quit
• came back in desperation to “that Linux enthusiast place” for advice on this one game running poorly

Have you installed the drivers for your GPU? If games are lagging it might be using the wrong drivers. I don’t remember how to do that on Kubuntu specifically, but you should be able to find instructions fairly easily online. If that doesn’t work or you’re already using good drivers, try changing from/to Wayland/X11 from the login screen

They still have a good export tool, that’s a reliable canary for enshittification in my experience. See: how Google butchered their export tools to be as annoying as possible for “security” reasons. The harder it is to leave, the more they care about trapping you via friction rather than keeping you via good customer experience

That looks epic… I’m guessing it doesn’t work with Steam games though?

@DevDave@piefed.social

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I only have the energy to game a few times a week, so even weekly or monthly updates can be “every time” for me just due to my schedule

Do you know where this option is?

I still had issues, even with that setting… Damn my terrible memory — why can I only remember that I had problems, not what the problems were? 😂

So basically, depending on the game, it’s mostly fine to skip, but sometimes it’s not, and if you have issues, try letting it compile?

I remember I had problems with that for some reason and turned it off, but I’ve forgotten what those problems were… I think it was lagging games by updating in the background or something

I’m not here to argue, but after a certain point it becomes a game of “hide the data stream”. You’d be amazed at how clever you can be with this, and inspecting the logic of embedded firmware is difficult.

It often looks something like this (in algorithm or nowadays A.I. functionality):

“When an accident occurs, keep a copy of the video file. After a random delay after the accident, during normal driving, when you don’t feel like you’re being observed, upload the video recording to one of these 40 IP addresses in 20–400 byte encrypted chunks over 7 days.”

This isn’t theoretical, I’ve seen it before, software being sneaky like this. Resistant to observation because it can detect an artificial testing environment or network snooping tools. Difficult to prove misbehavior because the data is routed through multiple hops before being stored, and you can’t easily inspect encrypted traffic. It might not even be the car manufacturer, it could be whoever is making the cameras. Basically, if it has a data connection and a recording feature, it’s not secure.

What the other person is trying to convey is the common operating rule of most businesses nowadays. Breaking the law is worth it to them if the profits outweigh the consequences. For example if they only just increase profit by 4% per year, a low chance of a 4% fine after say 5 years is absolutely worth it. The only way to curb this is with completely ruinous fines, like “we will fine you 50% of each year this happened, dissolve your regional organisation, or ban you from doing business in the entire regulatory area (in this case the EU)” kind of consequences. Anything else can be optimised away.

Man I really don’t like Roblox anymore… I used to play it a lot with the kids in extended family. I was the “funcle” so to speak.

I tried to log in one day and found my password and email address has been changed. Clearly it got hacked, dunno how, since it was a very strong password manager password. Probably a data breach or something.

Anyway, I recover the account, and I’m horrified. Some weirdo has been impersonating me and speaking to the young members of our extended family. Nothing serious yet thank God, I caught it early. But really weird stuff like asking what clothes they’re wearing. I contacted Roblox support but they didn’t give a shit. I told the family, but I don’t think they really understood what I was saying or why it’s serious.

I deleted my account to remove that attack vector because that’s just terrifying. Worse than those baby monitors security.