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  • Despite being an ECE major, I didn’t really bother doing anything with Linux until two things happened at the same time:

    1. I started having to work in several different build environments that were just easier to set up in Linux
    2. I started running Minecraft servers/doing server modding (starting back in the days of Hey0’s server mod and carrying up through Bukkit).

    I wouldn’t call myself an evangelist at all. If you’re doing something that I think will be specifically easier to do in Linux (mostly servers and specific kinds of software development), I’ll point out how… but I find that a lot of people’s advice on “use Linux and X FOSS tool” ends up being akin to giving someone bike shopping advice on which welding torch to use to construct their bicycle frame.








  • I always sort of read those jokes as illustrative as GLaDOS being a bad person fielding weak material more than like, an earnest expression of the game writer’s values. Like, the game itself doesn’t present the remarks themselves as funny so much as GLaDOS being rude, snippy, and actively incorrect given that Chell is mega-fit.





  • Reil@beehaw.orgtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlWhere do you get your video content nowadays?
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    1 year ago

    A good number of those subreddits became breeding grounds for not-so-subtle racist dogwhistling, so I don’t really miss them.

    A lot of the others sort of ran through the actually good, viable content before expanding to being less good (/r/YoutubeHaiku basically dropping the ‘unscripted’ requirement and becoming essentially, short-form skits and streamer clips). I tend to follow people with content I like directly on TikTok and Youtube these days. Aggregators of content tend to go either generic or toxic, I find.









  • Been on Reddit since 2010. I’m hoping that Lemmy and other Fediverse apps sort of grow out of the meta-talk and comparisons to their centralized counterparts.

    Otherwise, the communities themselves seem pleasant (or swiftly defederated from by the good ones). We don’t quite the critical mass to get active niche communities, or hyper-specialized ones yet, which I kind of miss. Stuff like “here’s a subreddit for each of these very specific habits that cats can have”, or “talk about a particular species of parrot”, y’know?