So many you didn’t list one.

Also OP didn’t talk about AI broadly, just vibe coding.

Hopefully it was a symbolic downvote. They say they did only to provoke but in reality they did upvote.

Good analogy as most people don’t understand how a microwave is working either.

That being said, at least microwaving isn’t on fast track to pollute our entire ecosystem so…

Moore’s law is kinda still in effect, depending on your definition of Moore’s law.

Sounds like the goal post is moving faster than the number of transistors in an integrated circuit.

LOL… you did make me chuckle.

Aren’t we 18months until developers get replaced by AI… for like few years now?

Of course “AI” even loosely defined progressed a lot and it is genuinely impressive (even though the actual use case for most hype, i.e. LLM and GenAI, is mostly lazier search, more efficient spam&scam personalized text or impersonation) but exponential is not sustainable. It’s a marketing term to keep on fueling the hype.

That’s despite so much resources, namely R&D and data centers, being poured in… and yet there is not “GPT5” or anything that most people use on a daily basis for anything “productive” except unreliable summarization or STT (which both had plenty of tools for decades).

So… yeah, it’s a slow take off, as expected. shrug

Well even a PWA still has to be developer and maintained.

Please explain what you believe are the core constituent of SteamOS if they are not Steam, Proton and KDE Plasma?

steamOS isn’t the same as steam

That’s precisely why I said " Steam work on these? Doesn’t Proton work on these? Doesn’t KDE Plasma work" rather than just Steam.

IMHO the biggest component of the whole setup isn’t Steam itself (which is convenient to get games, manages saves, etc) or KDE Plasma (which is a nice UI) but rather Proton. None of that would work without the compatibility layer and it goes beyond Wine including thanks to all the community feedback from e.g. ProtonDB.

So I agree, SteamOS isn’t Steam but that’s anyway not what I suggested.

How does SteamOS do on my AMD 7950X3D with my 4090? Oh it doesn’t support those?

Hmmm maybe I’m missing something but doesn’t Steam work on these? Doesn’t Proton work on these? Doesn’t KDE Plasma work too? Basically what’s missing for you to consider it working if arguably the most important do work on it?

Asking as I use those 3 daily on my Debian desktop and… it just works. Anyway, back to play Clair Obscur, thanks a lot to Valve.

At least you are an adult so you have the tools, cognitive and cultural, helping you see the problem. Imagine a very young kid, say 5 years old, watching exciting video content. They do not yet possess such ways to protect themselves from for-profit manipulation.

Just few days ago I finished the IMHO excellent “Buy The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence” by Henry A Giroux and Grace Pollock so you can already understand where I’m going with this.

Yes, advertisers are terrible, they make money by manipulating our thoughts, probing our deepest desire, toying with our emotions in order to sell us whatever is made by whomever pay them the most. But… you and I are fully formed human beings in the sense that we are adults. We spend years navigating through the world, getting scamming, learning how to spot lies and marketing pitches. The problem is, as showcased by Disney in that example (a very important example!), the process is not random. It is a very thoughtful and strategical one, namely how to transform a human being to a consumer from the youngest age.

Anyway I won’t dig into the obvious but the book ends with a couple of practical links e.g. commercial free childhood (what a name, how can how even imagine that would be needed?) which since then became https://fairplayforkids.org/

If you prefer a video on the topic the 2001 yes still relevant 2001 documentary (52 min) “Mickey Mouse Monopoly - Disney, Childhood & Corporate Power” https://films.mediaed.org/Film/Mickey_Mouse_Monopoly/f56fd530-8724-460b-b2bc-6eba9868f0e7

I personally pulled that thread also thanks to the more recent 2016 article “Teaching Disney Critically in the Age of Perpetual Consumption” https://www.jstor.org/stable/45157190 but, again, the point is that it’s systemic.

Congrats, you missed the whole point about Amazon.

As others already replied, the business model of Amazon (and any marketplace that sells its own products within it while being part of an oligopoly) is precisely to prevent unbiased comparison. Amazon gets data on all the products being sold on its website, its warehouses occupancy … then make Amazon Basics and replace them. They did that before also with diapers among many other examples e.g. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/07/emails-detail-amazons-plan-to-crush-a-startup-rival-with-price-cuts/ but they also do the same with software products, e.g. AWS.

So no, clearly Amazon is not about having fair comparisons and a shopping cart. Amazon is about being the ONLY shopping cart one can have fill it with Amazon products.

PS: to clarify also something very obvious but just in case it’s not so, Amazon by the simple fact of controlling the order of search results control what customers can, or can not, see and thus compare and in fine buy. Even if it did not sell it’s own products (which again, it does) it would still be able to manipulate what customers buy.

especially for professionals, most hardware requires special software for it to function properly and they don’t bother making it available for Linux.

That’s entirely use case specific. CUDA is actually used more on Linux than on Windows (I don’t have data, but even Azure by Microsoft runs on Linux…) so for e.g. NVIDIA hardware for professionals the support is better there.

I haven’t tried VR in Linux

Valve Index, SteamVR, install, setup, play, no tinkering.

Now… if one does want to buy hardware from Meta (… which sadly I understand, it’s so damn cheap) and Meta refuses to support Linux, well, it’s kind of a decision on the buyer. Still, if one still want to tinker, because they have the hardware now, plenty of good solutions listed on https://lvra.gitlab.io e.g. ALVR (very convenient nowadays) or WiVRn and more.

beneath some surface level shit I’m probably one of the dumbest motherfuckers here when it comes to not setting my devices on fire.

Well… if you actually want to learn, as we ALL did, get yourself a device you can literally set on fire. By that I mean a RPi 3 (probably going for 10 EUR nowadays) or a 2nd hand laptop. If you can’t find that easily, try a virtual machine, if you don’t want to bother give a whirl (with a ad blocker…) to https://distrosea.com and come back, risk free.

It’s honestly empowering to learn and it has been relevant for decades (basically since the UNIX days) and STILL is relevant today in the time of the “cloud” where all such commands are still used.

if steamOS gains enough traction more large game studios may start to specifically support it.

Do they have to though? Isn’t “just” running on Linux (mostly done by avoiding weird tricks, say a Windows build from Unity often works) enough?

more market share for Linux increases the likelihood that devs will support Linux directly.

I’m starting to wonder if that’s true. I thought so do but now I’m wondering, especially with compatibility layers like Proton, and even Wine before that, and plenty of tools like Electron, Unity, etc helping to be cross-platform, if the lack of support is rather due to bad habits instilled by years of Microsoft partnership with manufacturers (and thus driver support) implying that drivers must be kept secret and thus Linux support is “bad for business” and that then cascades down to developers then users.

So headscale?

Firefox

You mean you self-host your profile?

See also suggestion on hardware and commercialization https://lemmy.world/comment/12248508

no business in the capitalist world where selling ads is a billion dollar industry is going to make this available

How about an open-hardware open-source project on e.g CrowdSupply (something like https://www.crowdsupply.com/jie-zou/rggber but dedicated) where everything is setup to do so efficiently, e.g an HDMI/HDMI box where you put the signal in, get the signal out, and on its own does nothing but cool looking visual filters, e.g from color to black&white, yet when the user reconfigure it, with community made filter, it removes ads?