I used to think I was a 5/10, but then I tried to pirate a game on SteamDeck and I felt like I lost a lot of braincells. Spend like 6 hours trying to fix things and I accidentally bugged the internal speakers.
I think I’m at 3/10, linux (SteamOS) is so fucking hard to use.
I might be the most technologically illiterate Lemmy user ever.
Linux piracy can honestly be a pain in the ass. I wouldn’t beat yourself up too much over it if it wasn’t working properly.
There’s someone called “johncena” then some numbers who supposedly uploads some kind of Linux-ready release of games.
I’m a Linux pirate so I’ve been going through the trials and tribulations to get games to work. For the best results, I typical need to install the game in a Windows VM then copy it over to my main OS. It’s a hassle and takes up a lot of storage in the process, but it’s nice when it works.
It sucks when it doesn’t work and can feel like a waste of time. That’s something I’ve just gotten used to with computers.
how the fuck do you “bug” the internal speakers while attempting to pirate a game? that’s like saying you broke the sink while trying to change a light bulb.
They used the sink as a stepstool obviously
Idk, its actually a common problem according to SteamDeck users on reddit, so like its not just me. Must’ve accidentally messed with a setting.
EDIT: sorry, that was mean and uncalled for, but I’ll leave it here for people to downvote if they want.
trying to fix things… bugged the internal speakers
sounds to me like the problem is located somewhere between the user and the trackpads.
Welcome to linux!
Dependency… magic. Currently I am having to wait for Firefox not loading websites due to a slower DVD drive I am uploading from to cloud in another tab.
Maybe some internal QoS thingy where it thinks the network connection is slow.And recently I had issues with laptop taking a very long time to resume from sleep or turning screen back on due to iio-sensor-proxy, a program responsible for… at least determining physical screen orientation.
First one sounds like a RAM issue, or maybe bandwidth. Uploading directly from a disc sounds incredibly resource hungry.
Neither. Network-wise everything would work, but other Firefox tabs. Especially when I tried uploading multiple files at once, which caused too much seeking.
I was still able to stream from VLC, while the same stream would time out in Firefox.Anyway, I just had to reboot due to a certain runaway situation. Something happened with UDF-fs that caused 100% CPU through excessive logging.
Compared to people who work on cryptography and AI magic? Like 2/10. Compared to Boomers? 9/10.
The number of computer scientists I’ve known that couldn’t set up a VPN, or alter a firewall rule, or change the layout on a web page slightly, or set their out of office replies…
Basically the experience I’ve had is that those people you imagine are gods of tech are frequently terrible at tech beyond their very narrow niche.
But boomers, yeah. Even my mom who was a programmer and mostly stayed current on tech. But when Facebook stopped using a chronological news feed, she couldn’t handle it.
I have an English Master’s and my wife has a PhD in Comp Sci. Guess who sets up all the techie stuff. That’ll be meeeee.
PS fuck Facebook’s feed. I found out about a friend’s death 2 weeks after she died (her parents couldn’t get at her address book so they posted with her account on Facebook instead). I had to tell her other friends because NOBODY had seen the post.
In case you didn’t figure it out (I don’t have a Deck, but Linux Desktop), exit Big Picture mode, install Heroic Launcher, click “add new game”, (optional: type in the name and set the image if you want), select that it’s a Windows version, (optional: select a specific Proton version in the dropdown), select the executable you downloaded, and you’re done.
If the download was an installer instead, do the same steps except before you select the executable click “run executable” or whatever it says first and run the imstaller, then select the executable that the installer creates (it’ll be in the prefix for the game, which should open when you click “select executable.”)
I mean I think its the crack being intended for windows. Non RE4 cracked games do works, its just RE4’s crack is not working in linux.
I can pirate games, movies and books, can use SciHub to download articles behind paywalls, and have installed ReVanced on my phone. 🤷
Depends on if I care of not.
Phone: 3/10. I don’t really care other than googling “how to turn off annoying feature”.
Writing Software: 7/10. It’s not beautiful, but it does one thing reasonably well and I finished it in an afternoon. Just don’t ask me to write a GUI.
Writing Software for industrial machinery: I’ve done it for a living for more than a decade. Still rather skip the GUI part.
Entirely dependent on the field of technology. On average, like a 6 or 7? But i do regularly find myself to be a dumbass who doesn’t know shit about fuck.
If my brain worked on command that’d probably bump me up to an 8 or 9 though.
5?
I’ve installed custom ROMs on Android when I used Android. I have a hacked 3DS, PSP, Vita. I have a PiHole, and a little Pi server. I use windows for my games, I’ve built maybe seven machines for myself, my partner, and friends. I know very little Linux, but a little. I use an iPhone now, for as long as I can remember, because I don’t wanna have to fuck around with my phone, but I don’t touch Google anymore. I’m heavy into private trackers, but those seems so easy now. I think a solid five is where I’m at.
5/10, i customize my linux desktop, i know how to setup a basic linux server, etc.
Hard to put this on an absolute scale with no frame of reference, but maybe like 7-8? I’ve got a CS degree and I run Linux at home. I know enough to know how much I don’t know, but I know how to Google the things I don’t know and figure it out. Which is the skill that really matters, right?
1 out of 10
Retired I.T.
Told my family that if they ask me to help with an I.T. related issue, I’ll bring my hammer.
Fuck printers.
9.9/10
If I’m not interested then you can get 5/10 advice for free just to be polite.
Skill is not knowledge, it’s the ability and hardheadedness to acquire knowledge kicking and screaming to make the world bend to your will so that the printer will actually print.
Yup, getting skills is just worthwhile pain. It’s been hard trying to convince some of the younger tech interested people I know to put in the effort instead of going down the AI route, but I know exactly where that’ll lead them. You didn’t get good at this stuff by succeeding, it’s the endless failure.
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8/10 maybe more, maybe less. Software developer, don’t really have issues with tech, but put me in front of a quantum computer and I sure as shit would be lost, but fine with consumer products.
Same just about.
Like I know some truely brilliant people. I’m just happy riding the coattails.
Whatever score you give to youself, will be a demonstration of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
So what you are saying is my estimate of 8/10 is too low, right? Right…?
I laughed way too hard at this
I think the opposite—seems like many of you on Lemmy don’t realize how bad the general population is with technology and are selling yourselves short. Even knowing what linux is puts you at a 6/10 imo, especially when compared to most folks (half of whom don’t know how gmail works).
Like the fact that we’re on Lemmy—a site that most americans probably couldn’t access if they tried—shows we’re all at least a 5/10 on the technology scale.
Can confirm: I rate myself a 7/10. I know a lot about a few things and a moderate amount about many more, but there’s always more to learn…
The tech field is so vast, most people can’t even list the industries within tech, let alone being competent in just a small part of it.
