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  • Exactly! I rant about this a lot, but I know at least couple of people who run with laptops that have broken audio. As it turns out, installing sound card drivers is not really an option as the janky-ass drivers that the manufacturers put out nowadays can irreparably brick your entire system. It is beyond my understanding why recovery, restore, and even safe mode would even try to load them in the first place, but, apparently they do, and then crash before you could even do anything, leaving re-install as the only option.

    Meanwhile, I rm -rf-ed my /boot directory the other day, and then df-ed a couple gigs of /dev/zero straight into /dev/sda. Got it back up running in just a few hours… of kicking myself for why would I do such a stupid thing.



  • drathvedro@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.worldPrivacy tool
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    This is by far the worst take I’ve seen on the topic. Sorry for being rude, but it sounds like you haven’t touched a computer since that last time in 1990.

    Power management is a joke

    Surprise, it’s 2024 and windows will obliterate the battery even after you turn off the machine.

    There no way even possible via the GUI to config power management for things like low/critical battery conditions /actions.

    There is, though it’s via dconf, but it’s justified as it’s a thing few people would want to tweak.

    Open an Excel spreadsheet with tables in any app other than excel

    Sounds like an excel problem to me

    Tables are something that’s just a given in excel, takes 10 seconds to setup, and you get automatic sorting and filtering, with near-zero effort

    I don’t use either, but I’m pretty sure filter views are available in libreoffice calc. Open source DB’s and Access? What are you talking about, exactly?

    Now there’s that print monitor that’s on by default

    The what now? Are you talking about CUPS daemon? systemctl stop cups && systemctl disable cups. Enjoy your 2.5megs of ram back at a cost of not being able to print anything. Now try and do that on windows without bricking your system.

    and can only be shut up by using a command line. Wtf? In the 21st century?

    If you insist on needing a GUI, go ham. But don’t you diss the command line. Being able to do things without GUI is anything but a con.

    Yea, samba works, but how do you clear creds you used one time to connect to a share, even though you didn’t say “save creds”?

    That’s notoriously a windows problem, not a linux one. You must be misremembering it

    Oh, you have a wireless Logitech mouse? Linux won’t even recognize it

    Not recognize it like, not being picked up by xinput, or not even listed in lsusb? I haven’t ever heard of non-class-compliant mouse. Is that something to do with the G-Hub thingamajig? If so, that’s on logitech, not linux.

    My brand new wireless mouse works on any version of windows since 2000, at the least, and would probably work on Win95

    No, it won’t. If linux didn’t pick it up without a driver, then win95 won’t either. And it’s even worse in reverse. I have a bunch of old hardware that won’t ever work on modern windows because the last drivers released are for WinXP, which are not compatible nor even portable to subsequent versions. All of them are plug-n-play on linux, though.

    Linux doesn’t even use a common shell

    Huh? You mean the desktop environments? The shell is a thing very few people ever care about.

    If it were 40 years ago, maybe Linux would’ve had a chance to beat MS, even then it would’ve required settling on a single GUI (which is arguably half of why Windows became a standard, the other half being a common API), a common build (so the same tools/utilities are always available), and a commitment to put usability for the inexperienced user first.

    The overwhelming majority of systems are either in GNOME/GTK or KDE/Qt ecosystem, unless you really know what you’re doing and want to go with something completely different. But even then, there’s a lot of re-use or re-implementation of components from one or the other. It’s great to have this choice. Sure, it can be a hassle if components from one don’t play nice with another. But then, you’re comparing it to windows, that uses components from 3 distinct eras, that don’t really work together either.


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    Both of course, but if I had to choose, Cloudflare. Definitely Cloudflare. That company must be purged by fire and magnets. Sure, casinos are evil, but they mostly stay in their lane doing their thing of preying on the vulnerable. When Cloudflare just straight up breaks half the internet for lunch and there’s, by design, no way around it.


  • The key here I think is the NAND. I know you can do practically anything with only NAND gates. But without it, and with just control structures, I don’t think there’s a way to perform computation unless there is some theoretical voodoo withcraft possible, something like nop-padded cellular automata given the infinite memory. But I don’t have any qualification to talk about this, I’m just some random dude who flunked out of the university but finished all Zachtronics games.



  • My 2c:

    Crypto, however, has no such backing. If Bitcoin goes away for some reason, all you’re left with is essentially digital trash

    It’s crypto’s weakness and it’s power is that it’s not and cannot be regulated. It acts as a protection against malicious regulations. Of course, it does bear numerous risks and should be approached with extreme caution. But I can literally remember the seed phrase and go through dozen of checkpoints and criminal neighborhoods without any risk of losing any of it, even if they rob me completely naked. It is safe as long as I’m alive and of sound mind, and probably wouldn’t really care anymore if I’m not. As far as I know, there’s nothing else in the world that could offer such a security level.

    The content behind the NFT, whether it’s artwork or whatever, isn’t locked. It’s actually the opposite of locked, it’s publically available on the blockchain, by design

    There’s not even a guarantee that the content stays up. The receipt just points to some content on some server. Or to ipfs, but ipfs isn’t magic, if there isn’t anyone on there hosting said content then it is gone. Same problem, but a lot less probable, is that if all nodes on the blockchain go offline, then the NFT itself, along with all currency, is gone.

    Pump and dump, for those unaware, is where you artificially inflate the value of something making it seem like a really good deal so everyone buys it, raising demand and prices, then the people who generated the hype dump their investment, cashing out when the value is high, and making off with the money while the value of the investment tanks

    Ideally, in a perfect world without hype and idiots, this would be a guaranteed losing scheme. Because to “dump”, you’d have to have someone who is ready to buy. If people don’t buy, then the perpetrators would have no option but to take the hit themselves. I heard this was the case when somebody managed to short logan paul’s shitcoin immediately after the pump. There should be less hype and more of that, and more frequently.