What do you think of niri? I think i'm of a similar mind. I switched to i3 10ish years ago, and could never go back to a floating WM. Now on sway and am perfectly content with my workflow. I'm curious to try out niri, but haven't really been that motivated to try it.

Windows has also done wonders for Linux gaming.

Top one is incorrect. Z needs to point outwards.

I've been on Lemmy for over a year, where I learned that there's some difference between liberals and leftists, though what those are, I don't know.  I also had never heard the term tankie before Lemmy.  I've never cared to look any of these terms up though.  Probably makes me one of them... 

Sway...

I guess it's boring but it's never broken on me in the 5ish years I've been using it since switching from i3.

I read all this hype about hyprland but sway does what I want and need as a tiling window manager, and simply see no need to even try hyprland.

Chatgpt output isn't crap anymore. I teach introductory physics at a university and require fully written out homework, showing math steps, to problems that I've written. I wrote my own homework many years ago when chegg blew up and all major textbook problems were on chegg.

Just two years ago, chatgpt wasn't so great at intro physics and math. It's pretty good now, and shows all the necessary steps to get the correct answer.

I do not grade my homework on correctness. Students only need to show me effort that they honestly attempted each problem for full credit. But it's way quicker for students to simply upload my homework pdf to chatgpt and copy down the output than give it their own attempt.

Of course, doing this results in poor exam performance. Anecdotally, my exams from my recent fall semester were the lowest they've ever been. I put two problems on my final that directly came from from my homework, one of them being the problem that made me realize roughly 75% of my class was chatgpt'ing all the homework as chatgpt isn't super great at reading angles from figures, and it's like these students had never even seen a problem like it before.

I'm not completely against the use of AI for my homework. It could be like a tutor that students ask questions to when stuck. But unfortunately that takes more effort than simply typing "solve problems 1 through 5, showing all steps, from this document" into chatgpt.

Escape in some email clients cancels a new email. I had to retype many emails before email clients began auto-saving drafts.

I read most of these when I was young and don't really remember them being overly violent. What I do remember are long descriptions of food.

I run Debian and have done nothing special to game on it. All native games I've installed run fine. Only non native game I play is WoW, and it runs fine. Though requires a GE proton update every now and then.

I have an AMD 6600 gpu.

Cataclysm DDA. It's a roguelike zombie survival game with an extensive crafting system. Not sure exactly if this meets your criteria, it has no new spawning zombies. You can kill all the zombies, but the city doesnt get repopulated with people.

In my current game i've nearly completely cleared the nearest city and have reclaimed a farmstead on the outskirts and installed solar panels and have livestock and vegetables planted.

Dwarf Fortress

I stopped using discover years ago after it changed from google now, or whatever it was called, when it was actually kind of useful and not filled with ads. I can't even imagine how bad it is now and how much worse it's going to become.

Check standardebooks.org

They curate some of Gutenberg's collection to make a better user experience with a single nice version.

Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness.

Do these count as a counterexample?

Ehh... Im not sure it was a gamble in this case. Valheim was pretty complete in its early access form when I bought it like nearly 5 years ago. It also has overwhelmingly positive reviews. I think it's also delivered more than its original roadmap, which wasn't much past mistlands.

They stated it will still receive bug fixes, just perhaps no new content.

I think I paid $20 for it and I feel I got my money for it, even though I haven't even played it since before the mistlands update released. I plan on firing it up again after the deep north 1.0 releases and imagine having a lot of fun with it.

My perspective as a physics professor at a public university who has spent most of my adult life in academia. While there's some true points here, it's annoying to read such overgeneralized statement. I'm not going to generalize my perspective as truth for all universities, but I doubt my experience is far from ordinary. I doubt the OP is in academia.

• As someone else stated, funding is an issue. Many programs, departments, and support offices are underfunded and understaffed.
• While I hate microsoft products, it is simply less expensive to pay microsoft then all the additional required IT staff to self-host servers and email. Salary and benefits to faculty and staff is the majority of a university's expenses.
• My IT staff at my current institution helped me access our file system on my linux machine, even though they don't officially support linux. But this was simply extra work for one of the staff who has a thousand other fires going on.
• 2FA is available to those without smartphones via USB dongles. And as much as I hate Edge, stupid microsoft Edge allows access to services without 2FA.
• At my grad school university, we had an IT member dedicated to managing unix/linux system for the physics faculty and grad students.
• How is it the fault of a University that the majority of the public uses social media? Yes, my institution uses social media, though I don't think they use facebook anymore... Besides Lemmy, I have zero social media, and yet I am aware of all events going on campus. Everything is notified via university email, not just social media.
• The majority of math and physics students here learn LaTeX. As someone that has sat on numerous search committees hiring additional physics faculty, latex is prevalent in physics area of academia.
• Campus PC labs exist all over our campus. Yes, they are window machines.
• It would be awesome to have local faculty and student created research tools. Who's going to do it? Between my teaching, committee, and advising responsibilities, I have zero free time. I can't create these tools. What specific tools are you referring to? Our campus library website is pretty darn good at accessing peer-review literature for faculty and students, with no ads.

ChatGPT and AI is a giant problem right now in academia. Nothing I do seems to convince students that using AI to do their homework harms their education. If someone knows a solution to this, I'm all ears. I'm tired of people blaming me, or the university, for things we're trying to find solutions to.

You're forgetting the response from the theist.

Theist: God exists.

Atheist: I don't believe you.

Theist: How can you not believe me? You have no evidence, therefore my God exists.

Atheist: ...

Anyone have some favorites available here? Been getting back into reading and looking for some recommendations that aren't the same top 100 books of all time lists that are all over the internet. Many of those books killed my interest in reading for a bit...

I doubt debian is what you want if you want to stay up to date. It's newish now, but won't get updates for another 2 years.

I've never run into issues updating to all short term Ubuntu releases between LTS versions when I used Ubuntu. Though I've now switched to Debian as I don't care about latest updates and some snaps consistently gave me issues.

Maybe Fedora is what you would prefer though?

KDE is available on any distro. Just need to install it if it's not the default desktop.

I remember a friend telling me how Prince could absolutely shred on guitar. As someone who didn't really listen to Prince, I was skeptical. My friend showed me this performance.