If you

• need discoverability, or
• don’t need anything composable

then sure GUIs are great.

That’s actually a great question, safer to ask your LLM directly! So helpful. /s

Eh… don’t want to be mean but that’s what’s called an “IP address” for Internet Protocol Address… but this one is for your LAN, aka Local Area Network.

So that won’t work, people outside your LAN can’t reach it. What you need instead is a domain. What most people don’t know though is that there is a special domain name anybody can use for free! Check this out, assuming your LLM did the right setup do all that step, making website, starting Web server then try :

https://localhost/ and voila, free domain from your newly generated websites!

… /s

Damn… money laundering though LIVE with its “gifts” I never thought about this. Everything else is wrong, at scale, but this surprised me.

OK you can hate HOMEwork and instead do everything at school or work, namely study there, but what genuinely matters for studying is that you DO do the work. You have to do the exercises, over and over again, more and more challenging, otherwise nothing gets through. You only get the “feeling” of understanding without getting the practice.

Learning without practice is like being a theoretical athlete. Hate homework all you want but learn to love studying by doing.

And rightfully so. They might not know much about Linux itself BUT they did dare try and for that they deserve recognition.

Classic GenAI marketing BS :

• show a superficial demo (literally it’s JUST the surface of the things you claim you can “generate”)
• imply that we are on the “brink” of radical change so we “just” have to wait then the “rest” will be generated
• move on to the next grandiose claim to make sure nobody goes beyond the surface

It’s so obvious it’s painful. Sure it’s not random, sure there is “progress” but it’s NEVER tackling the hard problem. What makes a game fun or exciting isn’t the generated world, only a non gamer would claim that.

Back to LFS.

Thanks for the clarification but is it for non-local DMs only or even local DMs and if so why?

Admins of most services where data aren’t encrypted can read data that is not public so I’d assume that by default.

Now my question specifically is about “Joe public”.

Yep, I guess the way you said it was more diplomatic than mine because with (I believe at least) the same message I’m getting downvoted for asking for more open source but you don’t. I’m clearly missing something.

Edit: my bet is that you mentioned Playnite thus demonstrating legit alternatives do exist, whereas I didn’t so maybe people imagined I just complained asking for something impossible because they didn’t not it already existed. I should have mentioned Lutris.

I didn’t say it was the only motivation, but even if I did, can you please give examples and address the question I did ask?

The lesson here is that your assumption about how the system works is wrong.

That means can mean 1 important thing :

• it was not explained clearly enough for you during your onboarding.

Consequently I suggest you recall when you started using Lemmy, how you heard about it, how you then understood how it work and thus potentially update the documentation (or whatever you relied on then) accordingly so that others don’t make the same mistake.

everything you do on here is fully public.

Even DMs?

Steam isn’t open source either

…and? I wish Steam also was open source but I don’t see how that’s relevant here.

We’re discussing about a position for someone who probably likes, or at least understand, open source because that’s the motivation for most people when they consider Linux. It’s important to highlight what it is and what it is not, unfortunately.

There are open source games too, just to give a random examples GCompris is quite amazing and it keeps on growing. Countless examples on https://itch.io/games/tag-open-source

What is the point of this very community? Is it “just” to play (and if so, one can “just” launch Steam on desktop or their SteamDeck, BTW AFAIK Steam does not suggest DRMs, it’s up to the game dev) or rather is it to play better, whatever that might mean? I personally do not believe promoting proprietary software (especially when working ones already exist) helps go further but you might disagree. Can you please explain then WHY more proprietary launchers and games is good?

No mention of open source though.

FWIW I do have 2 Linux phones and… they work. The problem IMHO is that non-software companies believe THEY can lock or profit their customers via an “app”. If they only provided a Web page instead rather than a mandatory mobile application then it wouldn’t matter so much.

So, despite have working Linux phones (albeit far from perfect) I’m still relying on a deGoogled Android phone so that I can run mobile “apps” for only a couple of, quite important to me, services.

To summarize, I don’t think it’s the OS themselves that fuel lock-in but rather apps that require those locked down OSes.

So… I’m definitely cheering up for the lady in red.

Why? Am I an elitist asshole doing his best to sound smart?

Well yes, definitely BUT I also appreciate the power of the command line. The CLI isn’t “cool” because of the cryptic command, no the CLI is cool because :

• ls (list files)
• ls *.txt (list all files ending with the .txt extension)
• ls *.txt | wc -l (count how of them are)
• etc

and the “etc” is the FUNDAMENTAL part! Namely that no matter how smart the GUI developer is, they can’t predict how it is going to be used when done with OTHER tools. That’s the true power of the CLI. So yes if you stick to a single command, the CLI is unnecessarily cryptic but as soon as you start to combine commands, nothing comes close to it.

TBH I don’t think he’s wrong, especially in HIS position.

Namely I think having the flexibility of the cloud is amazing… but NOT at the cost of losing sovereignty.

So when Bezos uses AWS he is actually smart because he remains sovereign. When anybody else though does rely on another system that they do not own for critical tasks then then lose sovereignty and thus agency.

TL;DR: cloud or not, maintain your agency.

Neat, my current setup is :

• stream from FIP.fr via cvlc
• when I absolutely love a tune, buy on Bandcamp
• if it’s not available or I bought it elsewhere, e.g. old CD, then get from Soulseek
• scp my ~/Music directory on my mobile phone

I tried LMS for few weeks but honestly just plain VLC is enough for me.

Anyway, point is, this decision makes me want to buy from Bandcamp even more.