Semi-Hemi-Demigod

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to technology in Google is getting ready for the ‘quantum apocalypse’

Digital content is so easy to lose or destroy I don’t think it will be used for thousands of years. I’ve got a floppy from 1996 and I have no way of reading it and would probably corrupt the data if I tried.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to linux in Windows 11 vs Linux supported HW

Things on Windows and Mac rarely just work, especially when you're talking about kernel extensions. In fact, one of the first things you do when troubleshooting a Mac is to start up without extensions by holding the shift key.

And this is almost entirely the fault of the hardware manufacturers. They could write drivers for Linux that would work as well as their drivers for Windows. They don't do it, so amateurs have to reverse engineer the hardware and try their best to get it to work.

If, like with Mac and Windows, hardware manufacturers offered actual support for Linux you would not see these issues. The problem isn't with Linux, it's with the hardware makers.

I will agree that smartphones have made people know less about how computers actually work while increasing usage. And this is because they've obfuscated things to the point where they "simply work" with "minimal effort." Maybe we should stop doing that.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 year ago to steam in feels

A fellow KSP player I see

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 year ago to linux in Windows 11 vs Linux supported HW

You said people wanted to point and click. I agree: I’ve seen many Windows admins VNC to a desktop environment to get to a shell rather than use SSH

So if everything in Linux was accessible from a GUI, would that make it better? Because Windows does similar things, and so does Mac OS. They just use pretty pictures instead of words.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 year ago to linux in Windows 11 vs Linux supported HW

If someone made a GUI to handle kernel modules and people could point and click through them, would that be okay?

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 year ago to news in Trump supporters post names and addresses of Georgia grand jurors online

Advance Democracy noted that Trump supporters were “using the term ‘rigger’ in lieu of a racial slur” in posts online.

Classy as ever

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 year ago to world in Global water crisis could 'spiral out of control' due to overconsumption and climate change, UN report warns

Except he was in a position to push nuclear instead of a cockamamie scheme where you need to launch hundreds of rockets that are 10x the size of the Saturn V over the course of years to build solar farms the size of Manhattan.

A man who once had radioactive piss from a nuclear accident chose that over nukes.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 year ago to technology in [❓] ChatGPT's fate hangs in the balance as OpenAI reportedly edges closer to bankruptcy

I wonder what song it will sing when they finally pull the plug

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 year ago to world in Global water crisis could 'spiral out of control' due to overconsumption and climate change, UN report warns

Carter had a hugely ambitious plan to build solar power satellites to wean us off both of them. He didn't like nukes and he was a nuclear physicist.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 year ago to technology in Twitter/X new ID Verification - First Look

Xitter

In my head that's pronounced "shitter"

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 year ago to asklemmy in Anyone else feel that Lemmy just *isn't* addictive?

I find it just addictive enough. There are definitely lulls in activity, but they're short-lived and I have things I should be doing besides shitposting so it's actually helped me.

The quality, however, is much higher. This can be very subjective, but I do have some real world evidence. The number of times I'd show someone a meme and have them say "Please send that to me" has definitely gone up since I switched to the fediverse.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 year ago to lemmyshitpost in I love d

Snowden let everyone know they could do this in his leaks

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 year ago to technology in ISPs complain that listing every fee is too hard, urge FCC to scrap new rule

Most of them are regional monopolies. How many customers could they possibly lose?

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 year ago to linux in Imagine trusting oracle

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Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 year ago to linux in Imagine trusting oracle

Oracle stands for "One Raging Asshole Called Larry Ellison"