Sure, they’re quite repairable. If it’s used I’d certainly test it extensively as the previous owner could’ve overclocked it or could’ve done other things to “mod” it in a negative way.

There’s also other handhelds which have similar features. The Asus ROG Ally comes to mind.

I like to play cheap games (compared to other consoles) and it works well. I have more than 750 games on Steam. Nearly all of them are proprietary software anyway. It’s okay, as they’ll work for years to come. More than what I could expect from Windows.

Which bloat and spyware are you talking about?

The “former Microsoft employees” have worked at Microsoft when they were still known for decent software, albeit bad business practices. which is why they left.

Steam Deck is repairable, uses FOSS components, contributes back to Linux due to some Valve devs submitting patches upstream…

It’s just a company selling their proprietary blend of Linux on their hardware. Bootloader is unlocked. Why should I have an issue with that? The hardware is mine, when they decide to make SteamOS shit I can just install Bazzite.

Please realise Open Source doesn’t mean it needs to come from people. Linux is made by lots and lots of corporations, and that is a good thing. Valve won’t take over KDE or Wayland or whatever components they sell, because there is no need to.

HML

Hold My Lard?

😱😬🤣😐🙃🙈💩

And what does it mean for those people?

Which country is this?

Everyone has a price. If your price is the love of your life and an eternity to live with her, where everything you want is procured – would you work at Lockheed Martin if they could provide that?

I would. I’d just make sure to sabotage them as much as I could without them taking this away from me.

“Demonstrating my point of view: I am confused”

Yeah but it used to mean “piss over vulvas”. Pornhub changed the meaning to “point of view” and everyone just went with it.

What I wanted to say is: I’m pretty sure we can trust the community and moderators to recognise the difference between slop and AI assistance.

I still think it’s disingenuous. Because this is not significant assistance by an LLM, but rather the human did some assistance where the LLM coded everything.

You can’t even read and understand 10kLOC a day. I have worked as a DevOps engineer where one of my responsibilities was ensuring code quality and I could review maybe 100-1000LOC a day but the days where I read more than about 300 I noticed a significant rise in errors slipping through, and it physically and mentally exhausted me.

I read somewhere professional software devs usually write 17LOC per day on average, while deleting 40-50 and adding 60-70, while reading about 200-300. That’s still a few multiples away from the 11kLOC/d (every day! Including weekends!) in this example.

Yeah. I really think AI coding is part of our future and LLMs are great tools, but vibe-coding is a sin which shouldn’t be committed.

Bro one million lines of code in three months is slop, without me having even read the code.

I made the report and I’m definitely pro AI when it’s used responsibly. Sadly about 95% of AI usage nowadays is irresponsible, unmaintainable, vibe-coded bullshit not even the prompters understand.

I’d like the 95% to be banned and the other 5% to be tagged.

Aaaand of course one guy did 1,055,658 lines of code in three months. If you do 1000 lines of code a day you’d have 90,000 lines of code.

I label thee “AI slopware”, thank you very much :)

Which one?

Draw.io is pretty good. It has a desktop version you can download as Flatpak. I even use it at work and got the IT dept. to install it by default. They’re saving hundreds a month due to this.

Yes, but does it really hurt you to make your software more accessible?

What good arguments do you have for the term blacklist?

“Denylist” is easier to understand and doesn’t spark discussions. Nobody will be offended, whether it’s technically correct to be offended or not.

I’m not a person of colour but your answer still insults me, because it’s so tone deaf.

Don’t worry, Linux will be taken over by fascists and capitalists before you know it 😇

… Yet. Game, OS and hardware manufacturers are doing their worst.

It’s called “allowlist” and “denylist” nowadays as it’s easier to understand for non-native speakers and not racist.

I feel like there’s an easier and faster way to match IP addresses than regex, e.g. the search tree apparia suggested. At least use bytes to match 😄