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[-] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 hours ago

The "generative" AI debate.

Most of the criticisms are misleading and hyperbolic (if not straight up counter-productive), and it has zero real use cases other than making the internet useless by filling it with thousands of scam websites. I guess it could also be used to give you a TLDR of things. Either way though nothing we do or say is going to change things since the technology is already out there.

[-] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 4 points 12 hours ago

Gnome vs KDE, just use whichever one suits your flow. Or not, grab Cinnamon or Hyprland if that floats your boat. Options are good!

[-] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

If it comes to using the DE of your choice, I totally agree. But there have been numerous instances where Gnome developers act like entitled bitches, because the rest of the open-source community doesn't want to adhere to their standards.

When the Gnome devs say we don't need a system tray, it's law! (even though an extension for it has been downloaded over 700.000 times so far. Fuck the actual users, I guess.)

[-] scytale@piefed.zip 17 points 17 hours ago

Hard synths vs soft synths. Hard synth purists scoff at soft synths because they are not "authentic" and merely simulations. Soft synth snobs scoff at hard synth users because they are old timers who can't move on to the future. Both are fine, do what you want. At the end of the day, what matters is if the music you produce is actually good.

[-] scintilla@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 15 hours ago

systemd but now that the "debate" is effectively iver it seems like Wayland will be the next big one.

[-] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 9 hours ago

The debate is already over. xorg is on life support, the XLibre fork is run by a guy with weird political views (so a lot of people don't want to work with him) and Nvidia also said they will not support it.

Wayland still lacks some features (e.g. good RDP support), but it will mature and get adopted even more.

[-] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 2 points 12 hours ago

I don't think it's over. Some distros are reluctant to ship it by default because its user base also strongly thinks so. Gentoo, Void, Alpine, and Devuan, to name a few. It's pointless to "persuade" other people to do the same, so we just use what we feel right.

[-] ultranaut@lemmy.world 18 points 18 hours ago
[-] scintilla@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 15 hours ago

truly pointless would be vim vs neovim. I'm sure they are different somehow and that it really matters to someone though.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 8 points 17 hours ago

emacs is a great os, lacking only a decent editor. lol

[-] borokov@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago

You can use vi in emacs, so it makes emacs a pretty good os actually.

[-] filtoid@lemmy.ml 1 points 12 hours ago

One thing that made me laugh was that "Emacs is a great OS lacking only a decent text-editor", but from your comment it seems that's been fixed!

[-] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago
[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 12 hours ago

Now that it has a file explorer I'm decided to give it a fair go. It was one of the things I missed the most.

[-] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

I was a kak user for several years and am giving hx an honest try this year. So far, I'm quite happy.

(and yes, I've been both an emacs and vim user.)

[-] plyth@feddit.org 4 points 13 hours ago

messenger services

No way to communicate between them.

[-] xenomor@lemmy.world 15 points 18 hours ago
[-] AstroLightz@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago

You wrote the same word twice

/j

[-] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 14 hours ago

Don't you mean /g?

[-] Nemo@slrpnk.net 3 points 14 hours ago

I think you mean GIF vs. ghiff

[-] AstroLightz@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Arch vs Nix.

[-] acron@lemmy.ml 4 points 18 hours ago
[-] ByteMe@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

Actually, 1 tab < 4 spaces xd

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

Operating Systems.
But that is an easy jab

[-] Toastmaster2000@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

Mobile phones

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