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  • That's how politics work in the US.

    Not really, unfortunately. All these "if you don't vote for A you're voting for B" arguments would be a little more applicable if the US presidential election was a simple majority vote, but anyone with the most basic of US politics knowledge has heard of the Electoral College. Hillary Clinton wasn't elected president in 2016, but not because more people voted for Trump.

    And that's without taking into the account voting suppression. Would you tell someone who can't vote because of racist laws that they are "voting for Trump"?

  • Is there something better than SQL?
  • I like the ideas behind PRQL, although I've never used it in an actual project. It compiles down to SQL but has a clearer model based on pipeline and a much better suntax.

    Malloy is a similar project but I haven't look into it yet.

  • What are your programming hot takes?
  • My hot take: Vi, make and C would have gone the way of COBOL a long time ago if it wasn't for a lot of programmers thinking "my tools are more difficult to use, hence I'm a better programmer".

  • Playing Baldur's Gate 3 With A Controller On The PC - A BG3 Guide
  • Yes, you can manually assign each wheel slot, but when you have a few dozen spells and actions it's really long and boring. I'd like it more if it behaved like the hotbar, with things sorted automatically and space for personal favorites.

  • Playing Baldur's Gate 3 With A Controller On The PC - A BG3 Guide
  • I love playing from my couch with a controller! I work in front of my computer all day and afterwards I really don't want to spend more time there.

    The only problem I've found (besides minor bugs) is that after you go up a few levels the action wheels are a complete unorganized mess. I hope Larian adds some way of auto-arranging them into actions, bonus actions, spells, etc. like the hotbar does.

  • Have they changed how ritual casting works?
  • You can cast a spell tagged as Ritual and it won't use a slot if out of combat, but you need to prepare the spell before. You can change prepared spells at any time outside of combat too.

  • [advice] Hosting Matrix Server & Bridges
  • I run my own Synapse server with bridges to WhatsApp and Telegram, along with a few other services, using Yunohost. I haven't observed any huge resource usage, and I like the centralized management/update. One possible downside is that you won't get the latest versions immediately, the Yunohost maintainers take time to test those. I prefer the stability that gives me but if you want to be on the edge a docker setup will be better.

  • Russia spreads disinformation in Spanish-speaking world – DW
  • This is terrible, and Russia should be punished for it.

    The correct way of influencing Spanish-speaking countries is to install fascist puppet dictatorships. Arming and bank-rolling right-wing militias is also accepted, you won't be getting DW articles about that.

  • QUIT VIM Because Modern IDES are magic
  • Do you all seriously edit text files directly

    I use hexedit for all my programming, that way I can see my text's source code. It allows things that are impossible with lesser editors, like differentiate l and 1. Newer versions even provide a "live view" that shows your text's output right beside its source, updated almost instantly. I don't personally use it as it consumes a lot of resources but it's a great help if you're just starting out.

  • Finally a nice Twitter alternative..
  • I seriously doubt you'll be able to see Instagram content from any other app. At most, they'll federate Threads content. But more probably they'll only federate inwards: Threads users will be able to follow anyone on the Fediverse, no one outside will get to see anything from inside.

  • Running Lemmy on Yunohost
  • Yes, that's the plan. The update from 9 to 10 was really easy, the only problem I got was some Python apps which needed a manual pip refresh, but the instructions were all there.

    AFAIK, Yunohost on bookworm is already in testing but it'll be released when the devs feel the update is working correctly.

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