In the Lord of the Rings fandom there’s a persistent debate whether balrogs, or Durin’s Bane specifically, have wings. The text in Fellowship is ambiguous whether what it is describing are literal wings or something else wing-like.

  • Drusas@fedia.io
    62·
    7 days ago

    Cooking:

    Aioli is made with oil and no egg. If it includes egg, it is a mayonnaise.

    Many people just call everything “aioli” these days, even if it’s technically a mayonnaise.

      • fartographer@lemmy.world
        2·
        5 days ago

        It is absolutely an aioli. You just have to de-emulsify it, separate out the egg, and then emulsify the non-mayonnaise ingredients. It’s not like it’s chemistry or entropy or whatever.

    • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
      7·
      6 days ago

      I don’t think that’s an internal debate, I think everyone who understands about the topic knows the difference between aioli and garlic mayo. It’s people from outside that use the wrong term, so not really an internal debate.

      • Drusas@fedia.io
        8·
        6 days ago

        That’s not been my experience. I think a lot of people feel like it’s lesser to call their dip a mayonnaise, so they call it an aioli. Especially at restaurants.

          • fartographer@lemmy.world
            4·
            5 days ago

            I’m pretty sure you’re being sarcastic, but I’d passionately back this stance. Emulsions are a goddamn art, and need to be respected for their insane range and joy.

        • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
          1·
          6 days ago

          Sure, but that’s just the restaurant trying to sound fancier than they are, they know it’s not aioli. It’s like when they say they have wasabi but bring you a paste, there’s no debate that wasabi is a root but that most restaurants will serve you a green paste that has 0% wasabi in it. Which is why places that serve real wasabi or aioli usually have it listed as “real wasabi” or “real aioli”, both to clarify they’re using the correct term and not the popular one and to warn people as both aioli and wasabi taste different from the mass produced garlic mayo and mustard paste restaurants usually serve.

        • Drusas@fedia.io
          5·
          5 days ago

          Yep, this.

          Anyone who hasn’t should give it a try. Takes a bit of mixing to get it emulsified (you could probably do it in a food processor), but aoili is so delicious and underappreciated, at least here in the US. Add some salt and a touch of lemon. Dip some roasted veggies in there. Yum.

      • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
        4·
        5 days ago

        Garlic is an emulsifier, less potent than egg, but still an emulsifier. Which means true aioli is EXTREMELY garlicky (as it is almost 50% garlic), it loses some potency over time like most garlic things, but freshly made aioli is something you don’t put a lot of (and may be part of the reason most restaurants don’t serve it)

  • TotallyNotSpez@lemmy.world
    86·
    7 days ago

    Star Trek (Voyager): Was it murder to split Tuvix back into Tuvok and Neelix?

    I’ve got a long and complex possible solution to offer regarding this ethical clusterfuck, and I’m willing to elaborate if someone’s interested to hear it.

    Edit (possible solution): Voyager’s database should include the Enterprise D’s information regarding Riker’s duplication incident. While Voyager’s crew already found a way to separate Tuvix, they could’ve searched for a possibility to repeat that process and then split back the copy Tuvix a few milliseconds into the original Tuvok and Neelix before said copy became self-aware.

    • SSTF@lemmy.world
      5·
      6 days ago

      They should have just kept replicating Tuvix with the transporter and using him as fuel.

    • ZMoney@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 days ago

      So I was under the assumption that every time they beamed someone up or down they murdered them and an exact copy appeared elsewhere.

    • LoveRainbow@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 days ago

      The Riker split depended on a plant on that one particular planet. Maybe it cannot be replicated.

      Fully embracing that technology would have loads of chaotic outcomes…maybe they forbade it or something? Ripe for abuse…the ability to make infinite free clones or people…

    • leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      6 days ago

      They used a transporter, so yes.

      Every use of a transporter where someone is disassembled is murder, or possibly suicide.

      • starik@lemmy.zip
        3·
        5 days ago

        Yes, they could have just printed out a new copy of Tuvok and Neelix, and left Tuvix alone. The restriction that you can’t just make copies never made sense. Are there souls in Star Trek? Is the soul the thing that is actually being “transported” into a new body substrate?

      • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        Alternatively we’re just data (as muteable as a save file) so neither of them died at any point as Tuvix was a valid continuation of both their continuities, similary when Tuvix was split again Tuvok and Nelix also constituted valid continuations of Tuvix’s continuity.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
      31·
      6 days ago

      they did it again LTD. anyways, janeway practically groomed 7 of 9, not in a sexual way but trying to mold her into a daughter she never had.

  • THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    6 days ago

    In the world of Game Collecting, the guy with potentially the largest single collection on the planet is getting rid of his collection.

    The ideal plan was for it to all go to a singular museum, which was in the works and then unfortunately fell through. Problem is the next two backups also fell through. So plan D involves the collection being split up and some of it going to the Embrace Group, and some into private collections, which was seemingly both never the plan. People who donated items, thinking that they would eventually be publicly displayed, are rightfully upset. And then the rest of his fans, such as myself, are somewhat bewildered that this is how it will end after decades of amassing a collection, and then years of saying it’ll all be going to a museum.

  • RobotToaster@mander.xyz
    67·
    7 days ago

    I collect coins, and there’s always debates about what a coin is.

    For those who don’t know, a coin is usually defined as an object with legal tender status somewhere; as opposed to a token that has a face value but is issued by a non-state actor; and a medal, which is anything that looks like a coin but doesn’t have any face value.

    Now, aside from the expected debate over what is and isn’t a state, there’s also the issue of NIFC (not intended for circulation) coins. Many mints sell coins that are legal tender, but are never put into circulation, some people (often those that could be characterised as “old school”) take the position that as these aren’t intended to be used as legal tender, they aren’t really coins.

    It doesn’t help that there are tiny island nations like Niue and Samoa that will basically let companies make anything legal tender if they pay them. This leads to the rather silly situation where a batarang, and a literal statue of hogwarts, are technically “coins”. (I’ve been told this is done as a import tariff dodge as the USA doesn’t charge import taxes on coins)

    • Dasus@lemmy.world
      19·
      6 days ago

      Imagine being a Samoan shopkeeper and some tourist showing up and trying to pay with a friggin statue of Hogwarts.

      • thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        6·
        6 days ago

        id accept it as payment, record a video of myself melting it down and making it into a small blahaj figurine, and make the video public to spite and annoy jk rowling and the harry potter fanbase

    • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
      41·
      6 days ago

      What the fuck is wrong with Samoa? Like, I can speculate but my speculations are unkind. I don’t want to go there.

      • starik@lemmy.zip
        6·
        6 days ago

        It has the same size population as Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Weird stuff happens on islands.

        • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
          3·
          5 days ago

          Weird stuff happens on islands.

          my dude, that’s a thought stopping phrase. weird shit happens everywhere. there’s this toilet in boston

              • fartographer@lemmy.world
                2·
                5 days ago

                I don’t know if I’d go so far as to say “racist,” but I can see how someone might think you sound xenophobic. If I didn’t enjoy interacting with your posts so often, I could see how someone would see your tone as trying to “other” and shame an entire culture. But I know that’s usually not where you’re coming from.

              • starik@lemmy.zip
                1·
                5 days ago

                What were the “unkind speculations” you wanted to hint at but not articulate?

      • naught101@lemmy.world
        211·
        7 days ago

        I’m a spaces guy, but agree on the 4. A coder told me decades ago that 4 is better than 2 because if your code starts wrapping due to too many indents you should be refactoring it into functions anyway.

      • early_riser@lemmy.worldOP
        4·
        7 days ago

        Tabs are one space *quickly runs away*

        I use a single space to indent when writing Python in a SecureCRT command window that gets sent to an interactive Python shell on the server.

        • Ænima@lemmy.zip
          1·
          6 days ago

          Tabs are one space *quickly runs away*

          Run all you want, but we will find you!!! 😉

    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
      16·
      7 days ago

      I might have the solution: Elastic Tabs. They di what tabs were always meant to do from the start, whilst also fixing the shortcomings that spaces are currently used to fill.

    • kbal@fedia.io
      14·
      7 days ago

      I’ve heard of 8, 4, and even 3 which is pretty crazy… how could it possibly be 2!?

      • JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca
        10·
        7 days ago

        2 spaces is pretty common in JavaScript… And I think I remember it being pretty standard in HTML way back when. Screens used to be smaller, with low resolution. 4 spaces was a luxury.

        Isn’t 2 spaces the standard in Ruby? I don’t use it, but I’ve heard such things.

    • kamen@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 days ago

      However many I feel like that day. Sometimes depends on the language and use case - if it tends to be deeply indented, I’d gravitate towards 2.

      If using actual tabs, you can change how they appear just for yourself without touching the actual code; the same can’t be said about spaces.

      • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
        2·
        6 days ago

        I was trying to stay out of the fray but this one I feel I have to respond to:

        tabs, you can change how they appear just for yourself without touching the actual code; the same can’t be said about spaces.

        This is why I use spaces. A space is a space everywhere, a tab depends too strongly on the editor. I’ve had too many times where I had to edit on a different machine and it transmogrified my tabs into a different non-character entity in a way that didn’t reveal itself until later.

        • kamen@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          6 days ago

          I can kind of see your point if you’re speaking from a devops/sysadmin’s point of view (i.e. something that would require you to use default editors on the go on systems that you don’t necessarily have control over).

          Other than that, a tab’s principal purpose is indentation. One tab is one level of indentation regardless of how it appears. If a tab gets transformed into something else, it sounds like a text encoding problem and indentation would then be just one of (and possibly the smallest of) several possible issues.

          I’m speaking from a web dev’s point of view - I’m assuming that I’ll always have my own configured editor on hand and I’ll be able to tell it that one tab is N spaces, sometimes even differently for different file types in the same project. Worst that could happen is that I don’t have a specific configuration and the editor just falls back to the default until I set otherwise. Since I’m working in a team, using spaces for a source controlled project would mean that everyone has to use the same. Having tabs means that everyone can configure it for themselves (assuming editor configs don’t go in the repo).

  • ZMoney@lemmy.world
    8·
    5 days ago

    I’m a planetary scientist so technically this is a field, you can also be into meteorites as a hobby.

    Chondrule formation. These are spherical balls of formerly molten rock that solidified and clumped together to form chondrites, some of the oldest rocks in the Solar System that predate planet formation. Essentially these are nebular dust grains that formed when the Solar System was still an accretionary disk.

    Except, do chondrules predate planet formation? What causes them to melt while they’re floating around? How do they overcome the kinetic barriers to agglomeration? Are the terrestrial planets, whose bulk composition is thought to be chondritic, actually composed of chondrites?

    If you want to see one of the most simultaneously esoteric and bitter scientific debates, attend a chondrule formation session at a meteorite or planetary science conference. MetSoc is a great one in August, and officially I go to present my work but actually I just love the fireworks. As an achondrite person, I don’t touch this topic with a ten foot pole, but I love to watch when someone introduces a new wacky idea (space lightning? Shine from a molten Io? Extrasolar?) and you see 15 eminent greybeards rush the mic to yell their objections.

  • the_artic_one@piefed.socialEnglish
    41·
    7 days ago

    Mycology is full of them which are mostly the result of genetic sequencing and the good old “where do you draw the line between species” question but a recent and high visibility one is the Collybia shift.

    Before genetic testing, Collybia was a genus characterized by smallish pale-spored mushrooms with convex caps, no ring, and gills which are broadly attached to the stem (the simplest shape the average person would imagine for a mushroom), this became one of the classic “statures” of mushrooms “Collybioid”. As we sequenced Collybia species, they were slowly moved into other Collybioid genera like Collybiopsis and Gymnopus. Eventually this resulted in most of the Collybioid mushrooms being moved out of Collybia, leaving only the earliest-discovered mushrooms in the genus which were tiny parasitic mushrooms that weren’t really Collybioid at all.

    Here’s an average “Collybioid” mushroom Gymnopus sp.

    Then things got worse, a recent paper did a study on genus Clitocybe which is another genus which has a classic stature named after it, “Clitocyboid” which refers to smallish pale-spored, funnel-shaped, mushrooms with gills that run down the stem. This paper discovered that nearly everything we had been calling “Clitocybe” actually belonged in Collybia meaning that most mushrooms in Collybia are now Clitocyboid instead of Collybioid. This has resulted utter chaos which has some mycologists considering invoking the “common usage” rules in taxonomy to put the new Collybias back into Clitocybe to make things less confusing. This chaos has been compounded by the fact that iNaturalist has already accepted this name change, but only for the mushrooms explicitly studied in the paper and not their known relatives which has resulted in the Blewits being split between Collybia and Lepista (which itself was a recent name change from Clitocybe that everyone was still adjusting too).

    Average nondescript Clitocyboid (no ID because these are nearly impossible):

    A Blewit, AKA Clitocybe/Lepista/Collybia nuda:

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
      7·
      6 days ago

      alot of plants phylogeny is like this, they looked similar enough they are the same species, after doing enough testing, mostly mitochondria, choloroplast they actually are combined into one genus or move into another one. my favorite is mycoheterotrophs(plants that are entirely dependant fungi rather than photosynthesis), thismiaciae was originally though to have evolved in burmannia family,and then thier own family and then back again.

      finally in the 2020s they realized even thismiacae is polyphyletic. so now south americans thismia’s are likely belonged to another genus entirely(they havnt done significant phylogenetic studies in the SA ones)(seperate from the ones in south east asia, australia, and 1 extinct one in usa which makes it very unusual for it to appear in america), thismiacae is now a full family, and afrothismia was originally included in thismia, until they genetic testing, its entirely “new family” interdependently evolved but related to the ancestors of thismia. trying to trace lineage of mycoheterotrophic plants is difficult because they lose thier cholorplast genes quite easily.

      its only because they all looked very similar to each other, they were all combined into one family.

      • Pipster@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        My friend is a palaeobotanist and recently tried to see if I (a microbiologist) could understand her presentation on taxonomy for ancient plants. I found it very weird to find out that the different parts of the plant retain the names they were described as even when integrated into the plant as a whole.

        Like if you find a dino skull and call it ‘skullosaurus’ then somebody finds a femur and calls it ‘femurdon’ then later finds both in the same fossil, ‘femurdon’ gets retired and the whole thing is ‘skullosaurus’.

        But with plants you can separately describe a female organ as ‘femonia’, a male organ as ‘maleonanthus’ and a leaf as ‘leafopteris’. Then somebody finds they belong to the same plant and not only do you just get to pick what to call the plant somewhat arbitrarily based on the organ prevelance, age, leaf or even an entirely new name but the original parts still keep their old names as separate taxa. I still can’t get my head around this ‘whole plant hypothesis’ thing…

        • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
          1·
          5 days ago

          oh yea i noticed the nomenclature/naming is very wierd for some plants. like in thismia, they have 5 different lineages, so they name it "section thismia, or another name based on thier morphology and later phylogenetic data. eventhough they have an established genus name,SECT geomitra, labiothismia,etc, which isnt a genus but it was originally named because thats the first specimen they found of a specific species. they call alot species phyllocladus, because the “leaf” is actually the stem, but its also the genus name. im guessing plants are complicated/ or look similar enough to each other you cant tell the difference until you do genetic testing, which they dont do on alot of plant lineages, like the mycoheterotrophs i mentioned, they are tricky to resolve.

          and the genus is sometimes generic named like phyllocladus, xerophyta(an actual genus). oh yea paleontology is probably easier to resolve, if you can find extant or extinct animals that are similar, and just name it in the same genus.

          orchids are also a fun family of plants , especially if you notice they are all mycoheterotrophs to begin with, its just the ones we see switch to full photosynthesis, but some are mixotrophs, and some loss thier chlorophyll entirely.

          • Pipster@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            1·
            5 days ago

            Its so confusing. My friend gave me permission to share her slides on it, its just a few but I think it helped me understand.

            • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
              2·
              4 days ago

              it is confusing, so it seems the name is based off the researchers description of the first and the last one who finds the new species, and feminize/masculinize the name too. it also seems theres not consensus as a standard for it, and can change at any time with new research. like with some plants like dracaena and sansierva, the latter absorbed into the former it gets more confusing.

  • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
    16·
    6 days ago

    Doctor Who has a bunch of them!

    One of the big recent ones was the Timeless Child plotline. For people unfamiliar with the show, the basic premise is that the main character, the Doctor, is an alien who’s species can regenerate themselves when they’re about to die which saves them but they become a physically different person. This was invented back in the 60s so they could change out the lead actor, William Hartnell, when he got too old to continue in the role and it’s become a core part of the show. We’re now on about the 15-16th Doctor, although that number is a bit contentious too for reasons I won’t go into here because that’s a whole other thing.

    A few years back there was a plotline where it was revealed that the Doctor isn’t just a regular alien, they’re something called the Timeless Child that just appeared in our universe from somewhere unknown, and was the one that gave their whole species the ability to regenerate themselves. This was widely hated, as it not only changed the Doctor from a sort of wandering hobo into a Super Special Chosen One, but it also directly showed that William Hartnell wasn’t the first Doctor, there had been probably dozens of other ones before him that had just never been mentioned until now.

    The internal debates that I’ve seen usually aren’t people debating whether this was a good idea or not, they’re mostly about the best way to retcon it away and never speak of it again lol.

  • Fribbizz@feddit.org
    8·
    5 days ago

    Some would argue it misses the topic, but I’ll offer the Unix text editor wars. Vi vs. Emacs is pretty much the epitome of a pointless religious war in people’s favourite activity, though for some that’s obviously their job.

    Why do I mention it? Because most would just look at it and say: obviously none of the above, what are you even talking about? But those in the know have been heatedly debating the topic since at least the 80s… (I’m team vi for what it’s worth)

  • Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works
    30·
    6 days ago

    Synthesizers: digital vs analog.

    Common opinion holds that analog (specifically oscillators, but also filters and even VCAs [voltage controlled amplifiers]) are warmer and more natural sounding while digital are cold and harsh.

    The thing is, digital emulation of analog hardware has become virtually indistinguishable from the real thing, but there is a certain segment that refuses to believe their $5000 Minimoog can be so easily replicated by software (realistically I doubt Bob Moog could tell the difference anymore).

    Of course some also choose to argue which is better, which is just ridiculous because they both have their uses depending on what kinds of music you’re composing or just what sounds you’re trying to make.

      • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world
        3·
        5 days ago

        Well yeah, they can’t afford to buy music. They spent all their money on the high density crystal core gold connector 1 meter headphone cable.

    • luciferofastora@feddit.org
      11·
      6 days ago

      Of course some also choose to argue which is better, which is just ridiculous because they both have their uses depending on what kinds of music you’re composing or just what sounds you’re trying to make.

      See, the point you’re missing is that my kind of music is just better. If you prefer <option I dislike>, it’s just because your taste sucks. Try making good music, like <whatever music fits>. Then you’ll see that <option I prefer> is clearly superior.

      (I have no idea about synthesisers, but I heard similar discussions among e-guitar / amp enthusiasts. I’m just guessing the above parody fits your case too.)

    • Jackie's Fridge@lemmy.world
      4·
      5 days ago

      Yeah by the time you add effects, throw that synth into a full mix with other instruments, THEIR effects, and all the compression and EQing in a finished track, the only thing that matters is whether that single instrument adds what it needs to add to the whole.

      Objectively, digital oscillators are better - they don’t drift unless you want them to, they stay in tune, and they can always be run through analogue filters to add imperfections (sorry, “warmth”).

      But it still boils down to my first point: it’s a single part of a multi-part song. As long as it gets the job done, who cares whether it’s fluctuating voltage or zeroes & ones. It’ll be analogue on its way into the listener’s ear canal either way.

      • Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        5 days ago

        Absolutely. So much nuance is lost in a mix. Not that it’s a bad thing, it’s just dumb to think a $3000 synthesizer is going to sound better than a $10 plugin when you’ve got it buried amongst guitar, bass, drums, and vocals.

    • nightlily@leminal.spaceEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      You can extend that further to the cranks in the DAW community who swear that their rebranded standard compressor algorithm is somehow different and worth spending hundreds of dollars on. Generally you‘re paying for a different UI and maybe a hardcoded EQ.

      • Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        5 days ago

        Ugh, compression is a nightmare in general. One person will tell you unless you’re using some fancy multi-band compressor on every single track, you’re doing it wrong, and another will tell you you should do your best to not use any at all. Add to that many, many people don’t even know what it does, and more can’t even hear what it does.

        • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world
          5·
          5 days ago

          Send them this guide

          And here’s a secret they don’t tell you - at the end of the day it’s art. There’s a bazillion “right” ways to do the same thing and if the result is enjoyed be someone, mission accomplished.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    29·
    6 days ago

    Woodworking: I have mentioned this a couple times in my lectures on this platform. Festool has a tool called the Domino. It’s the shape of a biscuit joiner but it’s got a router bit that it wags like a dog’s tail. It cuts a deep, narrow, short mortise that pre-made loose biscuits fit into.

    This tool is protected under patent so only Festool makes them. They sell two models, a small and a large. The small cost a thousand petrodollars.

    It’s very easy to use, it makes strong joints quickly, it’s impossible to afford.

    You’ll find there’s a crowd of purists who will spend that much on a chisel and won’t hear anything about it because it’s not “traditional joinery.” Floating tenons are thousands of years old, but okay. You’ve got beginners or hobbyists who can put together the basic tools and are upset when Youtubers use Dominos in projects. Most domino joints can be replaced with dowel joints, but okay. And you get the actual cabinet makers who go “I manufacture cabinets, this lets me do it faster, and time is money.” Which…fair enough.

    If you don’t own a plunge router, you don’t care.

  • AstroLightz@lemmy.world
    43·
    7 days ago

    Programming and Linux. Oh boy, what to pick…

    Terminal text editors: VIM vs Emacs is the main debate there. (There are others but these are ones people argue the most about)

    Linux Distros: Arch, Debian, Mint, CachyOS, …

    Init Systems: Systemd vs OpenRC. Honestly, probably the most toxic debate on this list.

    Programming Languages: Python, Shell, but the heated one is C vs Rust

    A non-exhaustive list of ones I couldn’t think of a category for:

    • Tiling vs Floating Window Managers
    • Chromium vs Gecko-based browsers
    • Bash vs Zsh vs Fish

    I love computers and Linux, but man, the amount of toxic in-fighting and gatekeeping is a real turnoff. Just use what you want. At the end of the day, we are all nerds doing what we love.

    • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      6 days ago

      I am team…

      • Nano

      • Arch

      • Systemd, I don’t see what the fuss is about that TBH

      • I don’t wanna even touch that one lol

      • I like the carousel kind of things like Karousel or Niri

      • Gecko (Librewolf, Floorp etc.)

      • Zsh

      But yeah I agree, everyone should just do what they want. Having lots of options is one of my favourite things about Linux.

      • dreugeworst@lemmy.ml
        2·
        5 days ago

        heretic! the only dogmatically correct setup is

        • helix
        • fedora
        • systemd
        • rust
        • whatever fits your workflow
        • gecko
        • nushell
      • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        31·
        6 days ago

        actually prefer Windows

        I don’t understand. I recognize the words, but in that order, they make no sense.

        • early_riser@lemmy.worldOP
          84·
          6 days ago

          Nobodymost people on Lemmy don’t prefers Windows. FTFY

          Linux users need to stop assuming everyone is wrong for needing things that Linux can’t do at all or doesn’t do well. I need accessibility. Linux doesn’t do it well. Over a decade and a half of trying to make it work has proven that. Some people need Adobe or MS Office (even though many may not like it), and Linux doesn’t do that at all. They’re not wrong, their needs differ from yours.

          And it doesn’t matter whose “fault” it is. Apple fanboys do this, too. If an OS doesn’t offer something you need, that’s where the conversation ends. They don’t care what internal politics at the vendor or lack of community interest by Linux devs or whatever lead to the thing they need not working. All they care about is that it doesn’t work.

          And no, they’re not going to take night classes to get a comp-sci degree so they can code the drivers that their peripheral needs.

          “What’s that, you need a claw hammer but I gave you a ball peen hammer? Pfffft, just become a blacksmith and forge your own hammerhead, it’s not THAT hard.” --Every Linux user

        • hoch@lemmy.world
          32·
          6 days ago

          I prefer Windows. Every experience I’ve had with Linux has been a nightmare.

    • thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      neovim, opensuse tumbleweed, idk, idk, floating, gecko, bash

      my experience is limited tho, and im not strongly opinionated

      i like the vi/vim/neovim editor control scheme, not tried much else, nano seems ok too from my occasional use of it

      i use opensuse tumbleweed because its rolling release but still pretty stable and installation is easy but allows a lot of customizing, many other distros are good for many other things too, fedora popos and mint are great easy desktops, debian and nixos are great for servers, arch gentoo void nixos and artix are great desktops for nerds, etc. the bad ones are ubuntu (canonical is weird and corporate and makes bad decisions), manjaro (the devs are incompetent), and omarchy (it preinstalls nonfree software (including nordvpn (ew)), ai, and more nonfree software (including chatgpt (even more ai ew) and twitter))(as you might be able to tell i really hate it, its just an installer for some moron’s desktop setup, thats what nixos is for you fucking twat, and its crappily opinionated with crappy opinions)

      ive only used systemd distros (opensuse, ubuntu, fedora, debian, raspbian) so idk whether systemd alternatives are better, i just know that systemd is pretty bad in many ways

      and im not that much of a programmer, but pretty much all languages are good and useful (except that javascript is useful but not good)

      i like floating wms (i use kde plasma) because tiling is a bit annoying (sometimes i want a window to be a particular shape) and because tiling is usually in wms that are not des, ive tried sway and hyprland and the mostly keyboard based control was nice but it not being a de that provides all of that useful stuff was annoying

      gecko is better because its more libre, the corporation behind it is dedicated to libre rather than being one of the world’s biggest and evilest megacorps, and it incorporates more pro privacy design. i use librewolf. gecko is poorly separated from firefox tho so im quite hopeful for servo engine now that ladybird is vibe coded slop being rewritten in rust by the cult

      i like bash because its the typical well known linux shell that many online resources are about

  • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I’m into metal crafting and you have no idea how competitive it can get, currently the divide is between whether Bessemer or Cathode steel are superior for bintwork, it’s a form of ring chained gavel produced by different metallurgical processes and it is WILD how heated discussions get, it’s ridiculous considering that most practitioners are in their early teens and create the WORST drama, while us who have been at it since the 1960’s have to accept the sudden influx of kids into the mold because of the success of films such as “Steel Piston” and “Hot Rod”, and frankly I’m done with it and have decided to get into Wicca.