If coding is the means to an end they want, they will learn it.

I started learning how to program because I wanted to mod Halo 20y ago. Gaming is often a motivator. I had a co-worker who started in the 80s, whose only option to play games on his C64 was to type up a bunch of BASIC from a magazine. He had to take care not to make any typos, then play the game, and then didn’t have any persistent tape to save it to, so he just lost it all on a reboot. Turns out, if you’re “forced” to type code in all the time, you start to figure out which bits do what, and you start changing it to behave how you want.

“Hacking” could probably work as a motivator, though with great power comes great responsibility.

But yeah, a kid won’t be interested in programming unless they see it as their only option to do what they want to do. PICO8 might be a good entry. Or something like Minecraft modding.

Reddit also has a bunch of similar communities with overlapping topics. That’s not a Lemmy thing.

I prefer the Fediverse to grow organically. If that means everyone reads this thread and suddenly unanimously decides that we need to change how we organize topics across instances, so be it. But I don’t think that’ll happen, and that’s fine too.

If it can’t survive organically, then it can’t survive.

Isn’t Overwolf’s business model literally monetizing and profiting from modding communities? Curseforge and Overwolf are the epitome of enshittification.

The problem is that they kept propping things up and mitigating losses from those with wealth, i.e. protecting boomers.

Recessions hurt, but they are historically a natural method of wealth redistribution. In a recession, people with stuff lose much more than the people without stuff, and then on the way back out the people without stuff now have a better chance to capture some of that wealth.

Same for war. Historically speaking.

Covid wasn’t a “bubble”.

Or if it was, it was all the over investment in entertainment and productivity tools. In which case, that popped around 2023 when everything got cancelled and RTO layoffs started.

Probably not the “biggest”, but remember Gus Johnson? Looked like a promising up-and-comer in the Internet comedy space, and then he got cancelled and effectively disappeared over night.

People. Social engineering is orders of magnitude easier than most default security configs.

That said, dumb security mistakes still happen regularly. Remember a few years ago when Missouri had a bunch of teachers’ personal data just in the HTML sent to every person visiting their site? When a journalist notified them, the govt tried to say he was hacker.

Watch the movie Hackers, it’s basically a documentary. Roller blades, hacker dive bars, extreme fashion, custom boot screens, swirly 3D effects around you when you’re typing fast. It was rad…

Spontaneous

For some unknown reason, teenagers in a small town keep randomly exploding in a mess of blood and guts. The rest of the plot is a coming of age black comedy around that premise. I thought it was quite good.

They use OpenVPN for some reason. Wireguard is superior in every way. In case you set up a VPN.

But! If they outlaw man-boobs in public, we’re still one step closer to equality!

I was going to say you’ll probably be fine, but if you’re considering Mint you’ll definitely be fine.

Terminology you don’t need to know: Mint is still using x11, which Nvidia works fine with. I assume mint won’t switch to Wayland until it works smoothly on Nvidia too.

My partner is using mint on a 3080. I think she had one graphical bug in one game one time after an update. Mint has a program specifically used to roll back to a past Nvidia driver. She chose the driver from before the update, rebooted, and the bug was gone. Just gotta remember to switch back to using latest later when a new driver comes out.

What part are you struggling with? Not enough content? I get it, but also that’s a feature. If you dislike centralized platforms more than you want to rot your brain, it takes zero effort.

Lol I definitely read the same thing twice. Assumed they were just repeating for emphasis. You’re right, my bad.

EoP, not PoE. Two different things.

Windows is constantly doing things I didn’t ask it to. I wanted something that didn’t do anything I didn’t ask it to.

And now you’re trying to deny it to us too! Come on OP!

But seriously, that’s so fucked on so many levels (going through your phone is fucked by itself). I’ll not assume your gender, but I’ll assume the people around you inventing Russell were heteronormative, and that this is yet another unique way in which women can be harassed that is hard for men to even wrap their head around. I’m sorry you had to deal with this, that is truly unacceptable behavior on their part.

A large obsidian slab standing perfectly vertically.

I don’t know the state of it these days, but there was a shim layer for android called Magisk that had a plugin that would allow you to spoof permissions to apps. So the app thinks it has access to your location and contacts, but what they actually have is a random GPS coord and an empty list.

I want this to be how permissions control works, but apple and google have no incentive to give it to us.

He wouldn’t be a billionaire if he were a good person.

But…to his credit, he did publicly say recently that he wants to have given away 99% of his wealth over the next 20y, and says he doesn’t want to die rich. I am ok with making that the bar for being remembered. Provided it’s not to his own foundation.