The video is segmented into chapters--if you're not interested in the whole thing, the section about the Lincoln animatronic is chapter 4, about an hour into the video.
Linux is a great way to spend more time customizing your computer than using it. I'm sure there are lots of people in this community that just roll with whatever defaults KDE or Gnome has, but there's _also_ lots of people who consider installing and configuring a minimal tiling window manager to be a Friday night well spent. I think PewDiePie kind of proves my point in this video too.
>Linux is a great way to spend more time customizing your computer than using it
I spent a day customizing my current Linux build 1.5 years ago (installed i3, drivers, a bunch of scripts, customized toolbars) and never had to customize anything again. I just use it.
> Linux is a great way to spend more time customizing your computer than using it.
meh, it's a phase for post people.
regarding me... I went through my openbox/fluxbox/i3/ratpoison/stumpwm/etc phase when i was a teenager but nowadays i run a largely stock XFCE desktop (i just have a few more icons in my top bar and a few custom launchers in my right-click menu)... But nowadays i use the computer more than i customize it.
It's kind of strange that this clip is making the rounds again. I highly doubt that Miyazaki would have anything nice to say about generative AI, but it's pretty clear to me that the "insult to life itself" comment is referring to the aesthetics of the AI that was presented to him, was it not?
1000%, which drives me crazy whenever this quote gets trotted out without context. In the same video he basically berates the designers for using disability as the basis of a monster/zombie design, and then tells a story about his disabled friend who's in a wheelchair. It's very clear he's mad at what they made and not how they made it.
“After seeing a brief demo of a grotesque zombie-esquire creature, Miyazaki pauses and says that it reminds him of a friend of his with a disability so severe he can’t even high five. “Thinking of him, I can’t watch this stuff and find [it] interesting. Whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is whatsoever. I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff, you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.”
Near the end of the clip, after hearing that the animators’ goal is to create a machine that “draws pictures like humans do,” Miyazaki’s comments are even more grim. “I feel like we are nearing to the end of the times. We humans are losing faith in ourselves…””
Admittedly there’s an editorial cut in the end of the clip to make it seem more like Miyazaki is directly responding to the animator in criticizing the “machine” process, but I do think it’s apparent from the video that he also has an aversion to how it’s made.
> (and no, I will not switch to Linux as I’m not looking for another hobby).
Respectable. The state of desktop Linux is pretty good but it's very much a 'your-mileage-may-vary' situation. Every 'exotic' thing you introduce into your setup (having a variable-refresh-rate monitor, having an HDR monitor, two monitors of different refresh rates, running Wayland over X11, having a brand new GPU, having an NVIDIA GPU) is another possible, sometimes likely, source of pain.
Some of the multiplayer games I play with my friends can be played on Linux, but I make a point of using my Windows partition for those because I don't want to waste their time on my troubleshooting.
Perhaps you included this in your DRM comment, but I think the biggest issue is anti-cheat. Most online games with a sufficiently large 'competitive' element require a kernel-level anti-cheat which won't work on Linux.
My understanding was that EAC works in userspace mode on Linux, instead of at the kernel level. So, you can enable it, and it'll block the most easily detectable of cheats, but it's not very hard to bypass.
Then again, kernel-level anti-cheat is not that hard to bypass with special hardware, either. I guess someone ran the numbers and decided that blocking some percentage of cheaters at the cost of blocking 100% of Linux users was a worthwhile trade.
It's like Hacktober (where a few YouTube assholes showed a bunch of non-developers how to waste maintainer's time with bogus PRs in order to get free stuff from DigitalOcean) except substantially worse because these issues take longer to dismiss. Horrible.
Also, there are (or were) organizations that give their programmers incentives for finding and filing CVEs.
Naturally that's lead to lots of low-quality CVEs,
and with AI and other automated tools it's become easy for low-information programmers to generate reports on code they have zero understanding of.
It didn't make sense? Are you sure? or are you just being uncharitable on HN?
How do you think alcohol was discovered? How about any fermented food? Do you think someone drank 3 day old juice because they wanted to? Or leftover cabbage from the party this weekend?
Do you know what Kombucha is? What lactobactre, and yeast are? You've never accidentally fermented anything? You don't have kids or your life isn't hectic, you've never imbibed ethanol?
There are indeed formats which work this way (https://canadianhighlander.ca/points-list/), but unfortunately the most-played formats (Commander, Standard, Modern..) don't have any such restrictions which means the investment required for competitive play is prohibitively high.
On the other hand, the ridiculous costs mean it's very easy to find like-minded people to play casually with using bootleg cards.
Even canadian highlander is barely an example. That list is pretty small and for most decks it's only blocking a couple cards from being included. A typical deck is around 60% rares.
Email clients and servers could be configured to support instantaneous transmission, with a client UI that is presented in a thread like format (no, I'm not talking about thunderbird "threads", that's just mozilla wasting more of goggle's money).
This really _should_ replace SMS even before messaging apps. SMS is a seriously bad service-provider-dominated security nightmare.
The video is segmented into chapters--if you're not interested in the whole thing, the section about the Lincoln animatronic is chapter 4, about an hour into the video.