PeterPoopshit

The thing is that Boost was a really good 3rd party reddit app. It was very stable and had a lot of attention to detail and quality of life things you don't notice until it's gone.

If Boost really is going to come to Lemmy and be in the same or similar level of quality as it was on reddit, it's going to be awesome.

Jeroba was pretty bad in the beginning but other apps like liftoff and thunder just haven't been keeping up with the rate at which jeroba is improving so I'm back to using that. I'm still looking forward to boost and all it's attention to detail qol stuff.

The 1 trick Big Screen doesn't want you to know. Instead of buying multiple monitors, just print out the window before minimizing it.

I doubt my experience was the same as everyone else but I tried to install Debian on my gaming pc a week ago and I could not get Nvidia drivers to work for anything, there were no relevant search results and no one on any message board had any ideas. I gave up and installed Arch and Nvidia drivers without making any hardware changes and it was so unexpectedly easy I still can't believe it.

I use Debian on my server so I was shocked that it was basically impossible to get Nvidia drivers working, at least on my chipset.

The "dead" platforms still exist it just that they've undergone unacceptable amounts of corporate enshitification.

I normally use C++ for making new games or misc projects from scratch but I think I could save myself some work using C#. I've done a lot of Rimworld modding and I like the way C# works. I really like how versatile C++ is though. If I want to make my program work on an old Athlon, I can compile with 32 bit and sse1. I would be surprised if it were possible to do that with any C# compiler but I also haven't researched to find out.

How can we use C# in a responsible and FOSS way? A huge advantage of C# is that it can't run into include order problems like C++ can. This makes it easier to make better object oriented games because the object structure can be more useful and you can get better results even if your object structure planning wasn't as well thought-out.

Thats why they support modding so much, they basically outsource testing and bugfixing to their community of eager modders.

Good point. It could be a lot worse. They could not do mod support and still release broken buggy games like many other publishers do.

Yeah why the fuck is that? VSCode has no business being as good as it is. It's developed by Microsoft, after all. Are they planning to take it away from us and charge money for it in a few years? Why does it work on Linux so easily? Is it a government conspiracy to fill our brains with subliminal messages somehow? Wtf is the catch?

My best educated guess is that's it's a ploy of some kind. If Microsoft makes a free code editor that's really good, maybe no one will make a free open source one that's as good so that they will have control over the 1 most viable code editor? There are other things similar to VSCode but they cost money and are too big a pain to pirate because VSCode is better than them anyway.

Actually, I thought it was a Microsoft product for some reason. Turns out I'm wrong and it actually is open source.

I use gitea to self host my own git projects internally. I only post the really good and well-refined stuff to my actual github.

I've been dual booting Windows and Linux since the 00s. At some point around 2015-2016 I just stopped installing and maintaining Windows altogether and now I have a virtual machine image I just transfer around my network if I ever have to use Windows for something.

I think the real turning point for me was when they introduced UAC and ever-increasing restrictions on unsigned drivers starting with Vista. Wine was already a thing and I could run most games I cared about even back then although I still had to boot into Windows for gaming sometimes. Once steam Proton starting getting really good which was around 2015, there just wasn't a reason to be using Windows anymore. As the enshittification of Windows continued getting worse it became more tedious and time consuming to get anything done in Windows to the point you might as well use Gentoo. I do programming and game modding for fun and there's no way I could use modern Windows for this it's so bad and slows everything down with it's utter bullshit.