That’s putting it a bit abrasively, but there’s a nugget of truth there.

An anecdote: I saw some (drug?) commercial where the wife orders pizza because the Dad’s a bumbling idiot for even attempting to use the kitchen. Everything about the way it was presented just screamed… ‘50s sexism,’ basically?

I answered elsewhere.

But a friendly warning, OP: you will get downvotes for using too many emojiis on Lemmy, heh.

Minecraft is gorgeous with a few mods. Or, more practically, a good modpack.

It’s also quite complex (with a good modpack).

And building requires a lot of mouse precision. And other kids their age are probably playing it. TBH among all these answers, it’s the obvious choice, if you ask me.

Aimlabs is quite literally a mouse precision training game. It has different ‘tests’ and courses for different skills.

Very effective in short bursts, but your kids might find it boring after awhile.

That’s basically all large fandom/hobby subs now, in my experience.

And yeah, don’t forget the shallow memes or fear of arbitrary banning.

…Actually I largely agree, and I’m a CachyOS Linux acolyte.

I have my Windows partition stripped down to the bone. Not even Defender’s active, but once it’s like that it does just work for games, media and such. The partition is ancient.

…It would be hellishly inconvenient for dev stuff though. You are massively overselling Windows there.

Same with Firefox. I’ve had some weird issues with it on Linux and Windows, especially with hardware/graphics acceleration.

It might have UX problems at this point? Maybe that’s why they’re hesitant.

I know “who is this for?” and “what would Steve Jobs say?” are tired memes, but… still. An even thinner body? Really?

Yeah…

Oh that’s it. There’s the veneer of Southern Hospitality (and a lot of it is legitimate) but folks keep the nastiness behind the curtain. Like, I have family that looks back on some relatives and had no idea they were racist until they thought a lot about some incidents, or caught something weird.

It went both ways, 100%…. Reconstruction failed. There’s a lot of resentment.

Btw idk if u r confusing south asia with southeast asia but trust me when I say its not pleasant here lmao

Fair. I’m a bit ignorant of how it is there, heh.

honestly its much better than any other form of such platform rn tbh

Yeah… Outside of a few more niche focused places, anyway.

The ‘brainpower’ here on Lemmy is higher too. Like, when I lurk in my old niche Reddit subs (which I can’t post in since I’m inexplicably shadowbanned?) I see no academic discussion, mostly memes. No decent help on question posts, but hostile responses or probable bots, even when I know the exact answer OP needs and can’t give it.

conservative southasian society

Friend, you ain’t seen nothing. I’ve seen stuff in the US South that you wouldn’t even see in Reddit. Stuff you wouldn’t believe, and I’m afraid to type out, stuff way worse than “If that n***** steps foot here again he’s getting lead in his belly.”

Personal beliefs (and drama) can be pretty extreme.

…That being said…

Lemmy’s extreme too?

I see dead serious “we should bludgeon X and his family to death” posts that make me very uncomfortable. Mods don’t care. When .world admins step in, the community cries censorship and ‘extremist right wing.’ I’ve almost left Lemmy over it.

Maybe sh.itjust.works is better about that, though.

That could be versioning?

For example, Arch Linux (CachyOS) sticks to one Python version systemwide, and doesn’t upgrade it until the whole Arch repo is ready to transition, while in Ubuntu many Python version exist in parallel. The Phoronix bench presumably uses the latest one. Perhaps Python 3.14 (and associated libraries) have some dramatic performance gains in certain benchmarks?

I know there are some Python ‘hacks’ as well. Clear Linux, for instance, used to ship Python with some custom build flags and code patches that forced AVX2 and some other stuff, but I think Cachy pulled these in?

Yeah.

Its so disparate (and so different from all the OpenGL results) it must be some config thing. What Vulkan switch is openSUSE flipping that all other other distros missed?

There’s also lot of manual patching, environment variables and idiosyncracies for specific packages like (say) python and ruby.

play movie.mkv isn’t rocket science.

The odds of most of my family ever touching CLI is literally zero.

And all the prerequisite concepts below that. You’re assuming everyone knows, say, the concept of a filesystem or URL.

Not that MPV isn’t awesome though; it’s super awesome.

You are likely right about that. Even in 2010 it was not a destination for happy relationships.

And it does make me ponder relationship culture shifts over the last 15 years.

Why would the bias change over time, though? That would exist in 2010 and 2025.

Not sure I understand you but I think I get it?

Like, most of what AI bad is the cultism and corporate shit. Like literally shaving 2% off costs to drain a town’s water or something, or proselytizing scaling up transformers while ignoring the efficiency/scaling papers that keep coming out (because that would break the Tech Bro grift).

…At the same time, the absolute energy cost is ridiculously overstated compared to, say, global aluminum or steel production.

And then you have the ridiculous politicization. An example I often cite is a TV series that was ‘fan remastered’ and (as one component in a long chain) upscaled with an oldschool GAN that cost peanuts to train. Beloved years ago, but all of a sudden the fandom hates it because it has something to do with ‘AI’.

…At the same, you can’t ignore how irresponsibly its presented, where these companies are making pennies from spam/slop literally destroying everything. It’s quite reasonable to say “The idiots making this put no effort into it” or “I just don’t like it, yuck” when 99.99% of user-visible AI generation is slop/spam.

See this comment for math and specifics: https://lemmy.world/post/38090104/20233592

But the TL;DR version:

• Launching anything into space is heinously expensive. And CO2 emissive.

• With very generous math, you’d need a radiator like a mile across to cool a space data center, but practically? Larger.

• Datacenter hardware is unreliable and goes obsolete quickly, and any kind of maintenance in space is basically cost prohibitive.

• There are other smaller yet still crippling engineering challenges, like bit flips from radiation (which gets move severe as lithography shrinks; look up Nvidia’s research on this), assembling large structures in space reliably, cooling loops for such gigantic structures, and extremely difficult/expensive networking (with distinct issues in LEO or geosynchronous).

And most of all… Solar is dirt cheap on Earth, compared to that.

So is just sticking a pipe in the ground for a geothermal loop, or ambient radiative cooling. We literally have tons of mass to dissipate heat into for free, instead of having to radiate it thermally, yet that’s too expensive for ground data centers, apparently.

That’s the joke.

It’s like saying “air conditioning is difficult” and proposing “I know! Let’s live under the Antarctic ice sheet!” That’s not hyperbole. It might be more practical, actually, as getting mass there is waaaay cheaper…