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  • utopiah@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlPlug-and-play development environment
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    7 days ago

    Well I (a developer) collaborated with an artist (3D modeler) recently and… I did not ask them to install anything.

    Instead what I did is a develop a Web drag&drop page. They’d visit it, drag&drop their model and… see if it worked (e.g. visually or running animations) as they expected. That was it.

    IMHO finding the boundaries that are important, and thus how to collaborate, is more important than a unique reproducible environment when roles are quite different.

    TL;DR: IMHO no, you don’t, instead find how to actually collaborate.

    set up by non-programmers (such as artists) […] requires users to learn i3wm and possibly use the command line




  • When during your life where you at peak learning rate?

    Was it as school? Uni? If so, what did you do differently then? Can you still do it now?

    I’ll give few examples that honestly in retrospect are absolutely obvious and yet, few people seem to still do it :

    • have a trusted teacher/mentor who can pinpoint your flaw
    • do exercises that test your knowledge rather than read and assume you know
    • repeat said exercises in with varying context and in increasing difficulty
    • take notes (IMHO the biggest) that you gradually structure and index
    • use said notes when exercises (which are safe spaces to challenge your understanding) gets tough
    • have structured goals, namely you don’t learn about a topic, move on randomly, but rather have 6 months over a topic
    • learn regularly, e.g. weekly occurrence on a very specific topic, again and again for months on end
    • last but not least, do it as a group, build, grow and sustain a network of helpful peers whom you are learning from but also helping

    So… yeah, none of that is secret nor even complex yet most adults seems to leave THE place to learn and somehow forget EVERYTHING they actually learned. It’s nuts.

    Also most of that is free. Getting a notepad or a wiki or using documents in a directory on your computer is practically cheaper than a coffee in most places. There is no excuse to note take notes then organize them. Same for regularity and exercises, get a calendar then drill, again.

    FWIW that works for pretty much everything, from an abstract field of knowledge, e.g. math, to a physical skill, e.g. welding or ice skating.



  • utopiah@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlAMD vs Nvidia
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    10 days ago

    ROCm

    I’m curious. Say you are getting a new computer, put Debian on, want to run e.g. DeepSeek via ollama via a container (e.g. Docker or podman) and also play, how easy or difficult is it?

    I know that for NVIDIA you install the (closed official) drivers, setup the container insuring you get GPU passthrough, and thanks to CUDA from the driver, you’re pretty much good to go. Is it the same for AMD? Do you “just” need to install another package or is there more tinkering involved?




  • Why wouldn’t Debian run?

    Debian is the OS, with its package manager and some applications suggested by default. You can install Debian with X, without X, with a certain window manager or another, etc. So… Debian WILL 100% run, the question rather is WHICH software should you pick that gives the best compromise between ease of use (specific to that person) AND performance (specific to that computer).

    PS: to be clear, that’s the same for other distributions. There are distributions that specifically target older hardware and that in turn might facilitate the process but usually if you do check how such distributions are done, they are basically Debian (or NixOS or Alpine or whatever) with a specific package selection. It’s rare (if ever? counter-example) to have anything special that would somehow “boost” performance for hardware, especially here when it’s rather common hardware.


  • utopiah@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlWorth using distrobox?
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    19 days ago

    Sure, or containers, e.g. Docker/Podman, especially if there is a Web API available.

    That being said, whatever you do, in fine it’s about trust. What you are installing can cause damage so IMHO it’s more about keeping things manageable while having your actually important data (not programs, downloaded content, etc but rather things you did yourself, e.g. written documents, sketches, configuration files, prototypes, photos, etc) safe even when the system itself is broken regardless of how and why.








  • No.

    I spend a significant amount of time on other things, e.g. NOT using BigTech, no Facebook, Insta, Google, etc where I would “volunteer” private information for a discount. I do lock the physical door of my house (most of the time, not always) and have a password … but if somebody is eager and skilled enough to break in my home to get my disks, honestly they “deserve” the content.

    It’s a bit like if somebody where to break in and stole my stuff at home, my gadgets or jewelry. Of course I do not welcome it, nor help with it hence the lock on the front door or closed windows, but at some point I also don’t have cameras, alarms, etc. Honestly I don’t think I have enough stuff worth risking breaking in for, both physical and digital. The “stuff” I mostly cherish is relationship with people, skills I learned, arguably stuff I built through those skills … but even that can be built again. So in truth I don’t care much.

    I’d argue security is always a compromise, a trade of between convenience and access. Once you have few things in place, e.g. password, 2nd step auth, physical token e.g. YubiKeyBio, the rest becomes marginally “safer” for significant more hassle.