3.5% participation is required for a population to reach a Tipping Point, and start a trend that leads to change.

Do you have a source for this? I was recently wondering about specific numbers and would happily read something on the topic.

You can easily combine this with yt-dlp to quickly get a local library. Obviously not great quality, but it’s a good start.

It doesn’t have to. KDE is a great example here. Out of the box, it’s extremely simple to use, as well as familiar in look and feel to Windows. But if you want to - it gives you a lot of customization options. So it doesn’t seem to lose out on anything due to being simplified by default.

And frankly, a lot of Unix software could use a similar approach. I know it’s not that simple, but it helps the users greatly - particularly new ones, but experienced ones too. Perhaps this wave of Windows refugees will in some way lead to progress in this area.

First of all, I’m not an American. As much as I despise the American Empire, I hold no ill feelings towards the American people. They are as much victims here as the rest of us.

A lot of media outlets worldwide are ignoring these protests or covering them very briefly when nobody’s watching. Most likely due to influence from the US.

I don’t have an issue with having an issue with all existing countries

Fair. I was just unsure whether you really did mean all countries.

Some places are better, some are worse.

And some places are better for some people, while being worse for other people. Not necessarily always, but sometimes it’s a matter of preferences. One person may choose to live in a country with fewer liberties due to preferable climate. For them that would be a good choice, but for you it may not be.

But the argument indicates that we should treat an unknown as better than a known, and that the red flags are just flags.

Personally I didn’t get that impression.

So, are things bad there or good there?

Real life is never so simple as to be either good or bad. Are things good in the country you live in? Are they bad? Can you really pick one or the other, when it highly depends on personal views and priorities? For you it may be good, and for others it may be bad. Especially considering we know so little about countries like DPRK.

I think the main point here is that, whatever it’s currently like inside DPRK, it’s being actively made worse by outside entities, notably the American Empire. And the information we have available is extremely unreliable.

Like, I dunno, man. Any country that does military parades is immediately kind of a red flag for me.

So basically all countries on the planet?

I’m by no means a veteran programmer, but I do study computer science and write automation scripts at work.

We get questions like this one every now and then, and usually the answers coming from experienced developers are: “You’re looking for an engaging project idea.” Not sure if this fits your case, but it seems like it to me.

Basically, pick your interest and then look for something related to it that you could write code for. You like video games? Try making games, cheats for games, mods or some other companion apps. If you’re struggling to find a suitable interest, you can always try writing scripts to automate your everyday computer tasks.

So my question is, since everyone on lemmy is a programmer, what do you guys actually do?

The answer to this question will vary a lot, depending on the specifics of the person’s job or interests. Though there is often a lot of copying and pasting involved.

You’re giving him way too much credit.

Aside from the atrocities, Hitler has also done several good things for the country and the nation. Which of course, by no means excuse the atrocities in any capacity, but I think they’re worth mentioning for additional context.

In thay sense, Trump is way worse as he’s yet to do a single beneficial thing for anyone other than himself and his oligarchs.

This is just wonderful news.

I’ve never used Zorin. It doesn’t seem to match my preferences and needs. Regardless, anyone switching from Windows [and Mac] to any Linux distro is fantastic for all of us, including remaining Windows users (probably not Mac users though).

Let’s hope more keep switching, leading to a surge in Linux, and open source in general, funding. More people becoming interested in Linux development, potentially turning into more and more open source devs. I think we can be quite optimistic about this.

That’s why it’s only ~70k downloads. Probably many more for Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, Manjaro, Bazzite and so on.

More likely a shift rather than expansion. Graphene said they don’t yet know if they’ll support Pixels beyond 10. Looks like they may focus on the new OEM and drop Pixels.

As far as I can tell, Newsom is just a ‘fascist, but not too obvious, so people won’t protest’ kind of candidate. A perfect pick if you want to salvage what remains of the empire and delay its inevitable collapse. But then again, it’s not like Americans have any reasonable candidates. And we’re also going on the assumption that there will be another election, so let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

Would he be an improvement for the American people? And for other countries? At the very least, minorities in the USA would be [mostly] safe for a few years.

That’s why the high price.

Technically it will still be allowed. In reality, it will just be Play Store without a nice UI. Now question is whether or not it’s enough for the European Comission to take action.

The USA with its corporations setting a new, unbeatable WR in any% glitchless turning into a dictatorship with zero human rights or freedoms.

In my opinion, the game is not particularly difficult. That is, if you’ve played through the original Hollow Knight. Which most people haven’t. In fact, it looks to me like a lot of people jumping on the hype don’t have too much experience with metroidvanias and soulslikes.

It’s a sequel, so intended to be played after the original. Why do we care what people who haven’t played the first game think?

Colorblind accessibility is easy to implement and pretty much everybody can do it after reading a wikipedia article on colorblindness.

On the other hand, balancing a game for several difficulties is not easy and takes a lot of time. Plus, it doesn’t always make sense. Part of the game is the struggle. If you’re skipping the struggle, then you’re missing a part of the game.

The main goal of a game is to be whatever the creators and/or you want it to be. Frustrating difficulty can still be fun, just like feeling scared in a horror game is fun. It simply has to be done right.

Keep in mind it’s already very hard to make a good, balanced game. Adding difficulty sliders increases that exponentially. Even if you add a few presets - that’s still a lot more work, which indie studios may not have resources for.