A lot of communities have rules that posts need to be titled the same as the source article, which, while it prevents editorializing, it also brings all those ragebait headlines here. Plus I’d like to see Lemmy users’ opinions moreso than an article I could just read myself.

If half our content is just reposted mainstream media, why would one expect our comment sections to look any different than the comment sections of those mainstream sites?

I agree with the sentiment but disagree with the prognosis.

In my experience, the ragebait articles around here are largely from the same sites. Rawstory, mediaite, dailybeast, some of The Guardian’s more indulgent pieces. I won’t presume to know why the posters post them, but they’re ragebait to start.

I don’t even see “Big Media” like Reuters or local news or whatever get upvoted much. And as longs as the news sections aren’t mixed up with the opinion ones, IMO they’re more professional.

The accurate title rule is great as long as posters pick more journalistic articles instead of opinion pieces or reposts. And if they don’t there’s no fixing that anyway.

I’d probably prefer more of the political post to be thoughts/feelings and then discussion is backed up by decent articles

And I straight up I disagree with this.

There are tons of talking heads with opinions. But journalism rooted in sourcing is much harder. That should come first, or at least come with an opinion in the OP, and then the discussion can be built around facts.

Yeah, this is generally my philosophy. I have exactly 1 user blocked, as well as a pure bot community or two.

But the problem for me is magnitude. With its sheer number of upvotes, /c/politics is blotting out my sun, reducing diversity; it does no good leaving it in my feed.

I like Lemmy as a “zoo”

I like seeing nuts and weirdos and niches and stuff when I scroll by. It feels like the old internet. And I also find that lemmy.ml has good discussions outside tankie politics, so I don’t want to block that out.

Problem with the main political subs is that they’re so big they flood post sorted by Active, Rising, or New Comments. Their tabloid garbage crowds everything else out.

It’s addictive. It’s not like I haven’t steeped in it either.

This is what I keep hammering; people can’t help themselves, especially under stress. Perverse engagement incentives need to be fixed structurally to give us a fighting chance, otherwise Lemmy/Piefed will end up like Voat and all the other Reddit clones.

On the contrary, I’ve made a few (not a ton) of what I thought were interesting news posts, but they don’t seem to gain traction.

I think the deeper issue is ragebait works, very well. The community seems to be content with that, and Lemmy/Piefed devs aren’t structuring the site the counter it.

I have some posts/interests that I think would get some visibility. In my case, it really is executive dysfunction, heh.

Not that you’re wrong. And, unfortunately, its a ludicrously profitable highway outside of the Fediverse.

Lemmy doesn’t assume anything. Sorting is done by votes or activity from all communities; the intent is for the user to subscribe to communities to curate their feed. But blocking works too.

I don’t know precisely how Reddit works now, but it used to be like that as well. There was no interest algorithm, no suggestions, other than a bit of vote count nonlinearity. It just had the quirk of defaulting to a few select subs in “hot,” instead of “all” like most Lemmy/Piefed instances do.

Yeah. The .world news community mods don’t seem to care about clickbait, misinformation, calls for violence or doxxing or rape, as long as they’re the “correct” politics. Calling for Ivanka Trump to get shot? Serious deepfake meme? Perfectly acceptable, apparently, in spite of the admins’ pushback.

But make a comment like yours, and the moderation is… that.

I haven’t even blocked the tankie communities or anything, but I had to block /c/politics, as they’re so active they pollute my feed.

I’m fine with leaving that part of Lemmy permanently blocked though.

Yeah. We have monkey brains, and overcoming intertia is hard.

I think the site could be better structured to address this, specifically by organizing communities into a “taxonomy,” so posts from niche interest automatically filter up into bigger subs. Thus, participation would feel easier/more enaging, and folks would have more focused and active niches to participate in.

Making that suggestion on the Lemmy/Piefed repos is on my messy todo list.

…I am drifting away from Lemmy myself.

Political communities are echo chambers like Reddit, in a different color. Discussing tech or helping others is better, but still feels like talking in circles.

Wholesome subs like /c/SuperBowl are sublime, but I mostly lurk there.

Information hygiene is awful. Big subs upvote tabloids and Tweets to the sky, as long as they align with their beliefs. I just saw a discussion on a not-obviously AI generated photo with the community sentiment of “misinformation? Who cares. It’s a pro-lefty meme, so spread it.”

Anyway, all this scrolling and impulse commenting eats time. I get the same feeling of shouting into a black hole that I get on corporate social media.

Much of this is my fault, though.

I have several niches I intend to make original posts for, but never do.

It’s somewhere in the giant pile of my IRL executive dysfunction :’(

I used to write a few things for HardOCP, and we always made fun of Tom’s for clickbait, chum, and straight up groveling to Nvidia. We straight up weren’t allowed to cite them, and had no desire to.

That was like a decade ago.

…Maybe they were alright when Tom was still with them, but that was a loooong time ago. Too long for me to even know.

I’d do CachyOS. It’s a very new GPU. They even have packages specifically optimized for that CPU, and fixing stuff (other than simply rolling back) isn’t such a pain.

But I’m biased, as I like CachyOS.

Fedora if he’s not gaming.

Bazzite if he’s gaming. Or CachyOS.

I’ll give you the secret to easy linux: stick with defaults! Stick with distros aimed at whatever you’re tying to do, and you get a whole army of very experienced developers preconfiguring it all for you, for free. Instead of having to maintain breakage youself.

For example, do you want to learn all about debugging AMD drivers? Do you want to get into the intricacies of performant Proton setups, and environment variables, and kernels stuff?

You could just not, and get all that prepackaged!

Here’s just a sampling of some pre-configured stuff in my distro:

cachyos/protonplus 0.5.14-1
    A simple Wine and Proton-based compatiblity tools manager for GNOME
cachyos/protontricks 1.13.1-1
    Run Winetricks commands for Steam Play/Proton games among other common Wine features
cachyos/protonup-qt 2.14.0-1
    Install and manage Proton-GE and Luxtorpeda for Steam and Wine-GE for Lutris
cachyos/umu-launcher 1.3.0-2
    This is the Unified Launcher for Windows Games on Linux, to run Proton with fixes outside of Steam
cachyos/vkd3d-proton-mingw-git 3.0.r0.g6d97b022-1
    Fork of VKD3D. Development branches for Protons Direct3D 12 implementation

cachyos-znver4/mesa-git 26.0.0_devel.216300.02cfc61cc93-1
    an open-source implementation of the OpenGL specification, git version

Do I know a thing about how Proton works? Nope. Do I know anything about maintaining an upstream AMD driver for some kind of bug fix? Absolutely not. And I don’t have to! It’s just there, in sync with the rest of my system through some maintainer’s magic.

Mmmmm. Pure “prompt engineering” feels soulless to me. And you have zero control over the endpoint, so changes on their end can break your prompt at any time.

Messing with logprobs and raw completion syntax was fun, but the US proprietary models took that away. Even sampling is kind of restricted now, and primitive compared to what’s been developed in open source.

If you think of LLMs as an extra teammate, there’s no fun in managing them either. Nurturing the personal growth of an LLM is an obvious waste of time. Micromanaging them, watching to preempt slop and derailment, is frustrating and rage-inducing.

Finetuning LLMs for niche tasks is fun. It’s explorative, creative, cumulitive, and scratches a ‘must optimize’ part of my brain. It feels like you’re actually building and personalizing something, and teaches you how they work and where they fail, like making any good program or tool. It feels you’re part of a niche ‘old internet’ hacking community, not in the maw of Big Tech.

Using proprietary LLMs over APIs is indeed soul crushing. IMO this is why devs who have to use LLMs should strive to run finetunable, open weights models where they work, even if they aren’t as good as Claude Code.

But I think most don’t know they exist. Or had a terrible experience with terrible ollama defaults, hence assume that must be what the open model ecosystem is like.

Ah yeah Fedora does not support Nvidia. But third party repos should have a dkms version of the driver you should install instead.

On distros that do support Nvidia, the Nvidia driver is always paired to the kernel they provide, updating together.

Otherwise you literally do have to rebuild it every time. That’s what dkms automates, heh.

Heh. Sounds like you basically invented dkms?

If your distro doesn’t ship Nvidia drivers in sync with (and built against) your kernel, you’re supposed to install dkms versions that rebuild the driver automatically after every kernel/driver update. Not that this is obvious or anything, it took me a while to figure it out.

What distro are you using?

Yes, you dodged a bullet for sure, and the 7800 should age well.

That being said, I think the RTX 2060 is new enough to have fewer Linux issues, and simply having DLSS means it would have aged quite well too.

A 1 gram rock would be “almost nuclear,” yeah, but not planet killing, and most micrometeoroids/cosmic dust is fortunately much smaller than that.

The void drives in OA are a bit crazy in that they’re almost like little pocket dimensions: sub microscopic, maneuverable, “bigger on the inside” like a Tardis, and requiring further nested void bubbles to enter/exit them without destabilizing. They’re more like something Q would use in their civil war. The description may sound closest to ST’s “ship inside warp bubbles,” but mechanically the displacment/halo drives are closer and their attempt at “more physically consistent” ST warp drives, while void ships are at the absolute edge of what’s possibly plausible in physics, assuming all engineering issues go away.

A giant ship at 1/4c is still quite high, yes… it’s also at the point where, under normal physics, you’d have to worry about things like the exhaust plume vaporizing whatever’s behind it.