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DaPorkchop_ ,

Based on anecdotal evidence, “I refuse” may be more common than you think. I live in Switzerland, and out of all the expats I know who have been here a long time (20+ years), a large percentage (over half) of them still can’t speak German. At all. Like, they can maybe say “thank you” but that’s about the extent of their vocabulary, and many of them actually seem to be quite proud of the fact that they’ve made absolutely zero attempt to integrate into the local community or culture.

Now, although I’m fully aware that there are a hell of a lot of differences between Switzerland and the US, it still wouldn’t be at all surprising to me if there were large groups of immigrants in the US who similarly resist learning English.

DaPorkchop_ ,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999…

DaPorkchop_ ,

I can assure you that before I set up Cloudflare, I was getting hit by SYN floods filling up the entire bandwidth of my home DSL2 connection multiple times a week.

DaPorkchop_ ,

I find it hard to believe that the environmental impact of having a paper tag per shelf which gets replaced maybe once a week is worse than the impact of manufacturing, installing and powering one digital screen per shelf.

DaPorkchop_ ,

As long as it continues being one of the top games on steam by online player count, and/or it continues to make them boatloads of cash?

DaPorkchop_ ,

But… these people are dead.

DaPorkchop_ ,

Why does everyone always complain about Nvidia support on Linux? I’ve been using Nvidia GPUs on Ubuntu and Debian for years and it has never required any more effort than ‘sudo apt install nvidia-driver’.

DaPorkchop_ ,

It’s a crontab entry which, once a minute, uses the gnome-screenshot program to take a screenshot of your monitor and save it to /Microsoft/yourPrivacy.

DaPorkchop_ ,

I wouldn’t be so sure about the lifetime - spinning up and spinning down put far more stress on the drive components than simply spinning at a constant rate.

DaPorkchop_ ,

In what way is that advertising? And what is the product?

fathermcgruder , to asklemmy
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What is it about the text messages and emails sent by older people that make me feel like I'm having a stroke?

Maybe they're used to various shortcuts in their writing that they picked up before autocorrect became common, but these habits are too idiosyncratic for autocorrect to handle properly. However, that doesn't explain the emails I've had to decipher that were typed on desktop keyboards. Has anyone else younger than 45 or so felt similarly frustrated with geriatrics' messages?

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DaPorkchop_ ,

RSI?

DaPorkchop_ ,

Sure, but the impact would be less bad if you have the same amount spread over a longer time.

DaPorkchop_ ,

How the hell is one supposed to avoid getting any erections? Morning wood isn’t exactly something people have any degree of control over…

DaPorkchop_ ,

…how is smoking supposed to be connected to race? In any way?

DaPorkchop_ ,

Keep in mind that the “nm” in the different company’s lithography process names are basically just marketing at this point, and don’t reflect anything meaningful about the actual size of transistors. As far as I know, we don’t really know much about China’s latest “5nm” process and how it actually compares to others.

DaPorkchop_ ,

Aside from letting you cram more circuitry onto the same size chip, smaller transistors means you can get better power efficiency and reduce heat output.

Basically, even if you just take an existing design and use it to make chips at a smaller node size, you get chips which run cooler and with less power. Those chips can then get you the same performance with better efficiency (e.g. same speed but better battery life), or you can crank up the speed so that you get more speed for the same amount of power as the original.

And as mentioned above, because the transistors are smaller, you can fit more stuff onto the chip. So you can make even more complex chips which also still run more efficiently than their predecessors (both because of the direct power savings from using smaller transistors, and because designs become more efficient).

DaPorkchop_ ,

I would say the vast majority of people (across all generations) either don’t know, or don’t really understand how extensive it (the monitoring) is and what the consequences of that are.

DaPorkchop_ ,

…are you trying to imply that all neurodivergent people are LGBT+?

DaPorkchop_ ,

+1 for Debian, if you just want a stable, reliable system and don’t care about the latest and greatest features there is no better choice

DaPorkchop_ ,

I think we’re still a very long way away from the point where the hardware for a life-size realistic sex robot is cheap enough for anyone other than a few rich dudes to afford, let alone one which can offer a better experience than a prostitute

DaPorkchop_ ,

I’ve never understood why so many manufacturers do that (laptops with 1 slot soldered and 1 slot replaceable) it seems like the worst of both worlds:

  • since one slot is soldered only half the RAM can be upgraded
  • since one slot is replaceable the laptop can’t be made thinner since they still have to include the latching mechanism for the one replaceable DIMM
DaPorkchop_ ,

Yeah, I know it can be mismatched sizes, the laptop i’m typing this on has 4gb soldered + a 16gb DIMM. My question was more trying to understand why manufacturers seem to prefer using one of each rather than just making both replaceable, since the hybrid approach makes it only partly upgradeable while taking up as much physical space as if both slots used removable DIMMs. Since it seems like this combines all of the disadvantages of fully replaceable and fully soldered RAM with only half of an advantage, why are there so many laptops which do it?

DaPorkchop_ ,

This could be easily resolved by attaching more drones to the fiber at regular intervals to keep it supported.

DaPorkchop_ ,

F.L.U.D.D.

that’s an obscure reference, i never see anyone talking about that game

DaPorkchop_ ,

You can, but it’ll be a pretty one-sided conversation

DaPorkchop_ ,

ArrayList isn’t thread-safe, though…

DaPorkchop_ ,

Only if one thread modifies it while another one is iterating over it, if two threads try to modify the list at once there isn’t any kind of synchronization and it really could break your list.

DaPorkchop_ ,

no that just sounds like a bug

DaPorkchop_ ,

why are you using the internet archive as an image host?!?

DaPorkchop_ ,

I mean, I get what you’re saying, but the Internet Archive has limited resources as it is and doesn’t appreciate being used as a CDN. They’ve said as much themselves on various occasions

DaPorkchop_ ,

The nice part about prion diseases is that the only thing those people will achieve is killing themselves off, unless you decide to start eating their corpses

DaPorkchop_ ,

sorry, i shower twice a day and wear deodorant but i just sweat so damn much that i end up smelling within a few hours no matter what :(

DaPorkchop_ ,

I use a PowerEdge T620 as my daily driver, let me assure you the CPU fans at full speed can be heard clearly through 3 closed doors :P

DaPorkchop_ ,

Anecdotal evidence, but I’ve seen many old windows laptops with 8GB RAM use around 3-4GB on the desktop with no programs or background apps running.

DaPorkchop_ ,

An artifact of the Great Internet Meme Reposting industry

DaPorkchop_ ,

Displaying raw HTML? Sure a fair number of people can pull that off. Actually rendering HTML+CSS with all their many features and a performant JS engine is many orders of magnitude more complex though, which is why there are basically only three browser engines (two if you count Chromium as a WebKit fork)

DaPorkchop_ ,

Of course, but the original commentor’s claim was that writing a web browser is trivial, not that compiling an existing web browser with some minimal changes is trivial.

DaPorkchop_ ,

Virtually all modern x86 chips work that way

DaPorkchop_ ,

Personally I’d be somewhat nervous using dd to edit parts of a text file, but you do you :)

For all the doubters that Linux gaming is smoother and faster. (video.hardlimit.com)

A video for any doubters that Linux gaming is better than Windows in which it DESTROYS Windows by 25% in AC Odyssey. To put it in perspective, 25% improvement is like getting a new GPU. You can save $600 and instead use something like OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for free....

DaPorkchop_ ,

Not sure why you’re getting downvoted, as a graphics programmer AMD’s proprietary drivers are unquestionably the buggiest which I have to work with on a regular basis. Seemingly innocent stuff which works perfectly fine on every other vendor (and on the same GPU using the open-source drivers) will cause the proprietary drivers to break horribly or run slower by multiple orders of magnitude.

DaPorkchop_ ,

Did you mean “… see is Microsoft take on Android”? It doesn’t really make sense as it is now, Google already owns Android

DaPorkchop_ ,

Sure, but unless they can get the engines started back up in time it’s unlikely to be a pretty landing unless there’s a convenient runway within gliding distance.

DaPorkchop_ ,

they’re still pretty RISC, using fixed-width instructions and fairly simple encoding. certainly a hell of a lot simpler than the mess that is x86-64

DaPorkchop_ ,

That said, there are “active” USB extension cables which draw current from the power lines and use it to boost the signal along the data lines

Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish (infosec.pub)

Youtube let the other shoe drop in their end-stage enshittification this week. Last month, they required you to turn on Youtube History to view the feed of youtube videos recommendations. That seems reasonable, so I did it. But I delete my history every 1 week instead of every 3 months. So they don’t get much from my choices....

DaPorkchop_ ,

Wait until they hear about DNS root servers

DaPorkchop_ ,

Michelangelo’s David is a well-known marble statue which was carved using a chisel.

DaPorkchop_ ,

In fairness, there has to be some survivorship bias here: if the members of a conspiracy don’t double-cross each other and are competent enough not to expose themselves, it’s a lot less likely they’d ever get brought into court in the first place.

DaPorkchop_ ,

My point was more that the SSD will likely have lower latency than an Ethernet link in any case, as you’ve got the extra delay of data having to traverse both the local and remote network stack, as well as any switches that may be in the way. Additionally, in order to deal with that bandwidth you’ll need to kit out not only the local machine, but also the remote one with expensive 400GbE hardware+transceivers, plus switches, and in order to actually store something the remote machine will also have to have either a ludicrous amount of RAM (resulting in a setup which is vastly more complex and expensive than the original RAIDed SSDs while offering presumably similar performance) or RAIDed SSD storage (which would put us right back at square one, but with extra latency). Maybe there’s something I’m missing here, but I fail to see how this could possibly be set up in a way which outperforms locally attached swap space.

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