Notices by karolherbst 🐧 🦀 (karolherbst@chaos.social), page 2

@a1ba whatever systemd uses

@a1ba @lanodan

they said "Gamers™ (as in the self-titled ones to a point of nearly defining it as personality trait, not like players) are a special kind of toxic though."

but what does that even mean...

as I said, I do play games a significant amount of time and would call myself one.

But then assuming everybody else uses "gamers" as in "those toxic ones" doesn't get you anywhere, as you _will_ be misunderstood and only irritate the non toxic ones.

@lanodan Who is a "gamer" then and how many people are "gamers" according to this definition?

How many Linux users do we have?

How much higher are the chances to find a toxic person in all of the Linux users, and in all of the gamers?

The point I'm trying to make is, that there are a lot of people who would call themselves "gamer" without being toxic. And I don't think we can do that collateral at all.

I myself would me a "gamer" because I do play games a lot.

@lanodan my point is you can't just make such general statements.

There are certainly toxic gaming sub communities out there. But saying "gaming community" being toxic is the same as saying "sport community" are being toxic.

Sure, there are toxic sports fan out there, but I wouldn't dare to say that sports communities are all toxic.

Unless you say all of humanity is being toxic, but then the label "toxic" means nothing anymore.

@lanodan gaming is part of human culture, and maybe at this point it's not "toxic gamers" but just "toxic" people in general who are the problem.

It's not some niche interest. It's human culture.

@lanodan well.. then there is no point in faulting gamers for anything at all.

So your choices are either to insult half the population or to give up talking about it? I kinda don't see it.

I honestly don't understand the hostility some FOSS developers have towards gamers in general.

Sure, there are toxic gamers, but there are also toxic users of your random FOSS app.

If it wouldn't be for wine/proton, the Linux desktop would probably be dead already. I certainly wouldn't have become a linux developer if playing random windows games on Linux wouldn't have been possible.

And I'd wish that toxicity against gamers and gaming related companies to stop.

we should have `humanrights` as a default build option in every build system, so distributions who want to advocate for it have a global option to opt-in into projects expressing it more vocally via build time flags.

My personal opinion is, that it shouldn't be an option, but sadly we live in a world where some of it is controversial and we should force the controversy.

The most interesting part of Linus interaction with a bigot is, that those bigots "want to have the old Linus back", but they fail to see that it's "the old Linus":

Insulting people who should know better, just instead of kernel contributors and maintainers, it's bigots on the receiving end and they don't like it 🙃

Maybe they'll figure it out if they think about it for a second...

Sometimes when the mesa GPU driver for your GPU refuses to load on your GPU (for valid reasons, like not supporting the chipset) gdm refuses to start.

But this can also mean that you are stuck in a boot loop, because systemd will auto restart your display manager, which is normally what you want to happen after it crashed.

If you are stuck like this and can't access a tty there is always:

`systemd.unit=multi-user.target`

you can add when booting your kernel so you drop into a login shell.

Please go and follow @gfxstrand !!!

Jason is doing a lot of fun and cool #vulkan stuff, like working on the new #vulkan driver for #nouveau and the blog posts are always interesting! I will never be as good as Jason on writing long texts!

He also looks into using #rustlang for the new #nvidia awesome kompiler NAK! So you can also expect a lot of #rustlang content!

? ? ?

Submitted a Talk to the #rust devroom at #fosdem :)

I'd like to talk with @lina and @gfxstrand about our experience with #rustlang inside the Linux graphics world :)

(It's unclear who is going to present tho, so worst case it's going to be me alone)

@lina we could look at each other code and make suggestions to make it even worse!

I wished somebody knowing #rust would look over #rusticl and tell me about all the terrible code I've written ???

Also thinking about giving a "Rust within the Linux graphics stack" talk on the Rust track at FOSDEM.. could be fun. Maybe @lina or @gfxstrand would like to chime in?