DiabolicalBird

joined 1 year ago
[–] DiabolicalBird@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Sorry for the delayed, haven't checked Lemmy in a bit. This is a topic I very much want other perspectives on.

It's not distro specific, more so when I'm looking for help with specific issues that are often not distro specific. I don't really post to ask, I look for solutions first and then ask after exhausting all other options.

Doesn't really matter where I end up; some distro's forum, Reddit, Stack Overflow, Lemmy, etc. I always end up finding dickheads telling the OP to learn how to use search or berating them for not understanding the issue enough to provide the exact information they want (yes, they can't help without the right info but they don't have to be dicks about it). Or they're just super condescending when giving an answer. I tune them out and scroll past for the actual answers, but they're there in a good chunk of posts I find.

I can see how it would be incredibly discouraging for someone making the leap for the first time. Tech communities often forget how little the average user knows about computers.

[–] DiabolicalBird@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

100% this. The Linux community seems very hostile to people trying to learn. The amount of times I've looked something up just to find a thread answered with "learn how to use search" or people just being outright mean to someone who is just figuring the basics out...

The year of the Linux desktop is never until the community gets its toxic shithead problem under control.

[–] DiabolicalBird@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

They're the assistant manager, it's literally their job to help manage the team. Don't do stupid shit in front of management and you won't get in shit, it's not rocket science.

[–] DiabolicalBird@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's a very quick way to end up in an echo chamber, Lemmy is a very niche platform. I try to keep up with Reddit, Lemmy and Mastodon. Not a huge amount better, but it's a bit more variety than one tiny service.

[–] DiabolicalBird@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The shit in these comments is why Lemmy is doomed to be a minor platform that will inevitably fizzle out.

Seriously people, there are other interests besides Linux and politics. If we bully out other interests from starting communities on Lemmy it'll never grow out of obscurity... some may like that but I'd personally like to see it grow into something that can actually compete with Reddit.

I say this as someone who doesn't like sports at all, but we have these magical things called filters for people like me!

[–] DiabolicalBird@lemmy.ca 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm in the same boat, I'm not migrating again unless shit really goes downhill.

Lemmy gives the vibe of "it's all or nothing, be ready to change at a moment's notice if something iffy gets said"

[–] DiabolicalBird@lemmy.ca 26 points 6 months ago

Matrix needs more time in the oven before it's ready for widespread adoption.

I really did try to make it work (for months) but it's a buggy and unpolished experience, everyone that tried it with me ended up going back to Discord and Signal for communication.

[–] DiabolicalBird@lemmy.ca 16 points 6 months ago

The biggest lie I was ever told was "these are the best years of your life" growing up, and frankly that made me want to end it all. Things have ONLY been uphill since the end of high school.

Kids and teenagers especially are all awful creatures. School showed me that, then six years in the pet industry watching how they behave around animals solidified it for me.

[–] DiabolicalBird@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Bla bla Arch bla the way, bla bla bla... Bla bla bla bla!

[–] DiabolicalBird@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm running Gnome on Nobara, switching between Wayland and Xorg there's a noticable difference in the vibrancy of the colors. Xorg and Windows both look fine, it's specifically under Wayland that everything dulls out. Multiple displays, displayport/hdmi makes no difference.

That said, this problem doesn't affect everyone. Makes it much harder to troubleshoot. Color profiles don't alter anything, I don't have an HDR display and most of the forums I've found regarding this are having issues with HDR.

I have no idea at this point and limited free time to work on it when Xorg has been working fine. That said, I figured I'd throw it out there in a thread where people are praising Wayland to see if someone knows something I've missed. XD

[–] DiabolicalBird@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The vast majority of digital purchases are licenses, this isn't something new or unique to Steam. Digital purchases where you actually own the product are more the exception than the rule.

[–] DiabolicalBird@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Wayland seems to have problems showing colors properly. I was trying to fix this issue myself a couple weeks ago.

Colors in Xorg and Windows(gross) show properly, Wayland always looks dull and muted in comparison. Switching color profiles didn't change anything.

But hey, maybe there's a fix I haven't tried yet that works... I sure would hate to be proven wrong! No seriously, if someone has a fix for the dull colors I would likely start using Wayland again.

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