Semi-Hemi-Demigod

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to linux in [Rant] I swear to fucking god. Windows is harder to use than Linux. Have any of you ever USED Windows lately? Holy fuck.

Then why has every Windows admin I’ve ever had to deal with use the GUI?

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to linux in [Rant] I swear to fucking god. Windows is harder to use than Linux. Have any of you ever USED Windows lately? Holy fuck.

I still have to log in via fucking RDP to set it up. Why do they even have a desktop environment on a goddamn server?

Also, Windows Event Viewer still blows

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to technology in The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won.

They didn’t beat me. I overwrote and deleted all my posts and haven’t been there since the end of June.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to linux in [Rant] I swear to fucking god. Windows is harder to use than Linux. Have any of you ever USED Windows lately? Holy fuck.

When you get it working it's just so cumbersome to use. I do most of my work on servers and doing anything with a Windows server is a pain in the ass. Want to restart something? Open an RDP session, wait for it to load, open the Services, wait for it to load, filter through thousands of services to find the one you want, fucking right-click on it and pick restart.

Compare this to Linux where you get a snappy SSH shell and restart it with one command.

And then there's the goddamn Windows Event Viewer. Can't have log files being, ya know, files right? No, gotta put them in this application on the server, that you have to view in the GUI, and show it alongside all the other logs so you have to filter by service. Most of the time I just export them to text files just because it's easier to process them on a sane OS.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to technology in “AI” Hurts Consumers and Workers -- and Isn’t Intelligent

AI won't replace jobs in that way. What it will do is make people who use it more productive, which will mean fewer people needed to do the work, which means fewer people doing that job. The speed at which it does this is what will determine the impact on how people are affected by it.

Like OP I find AI to be incredibly useful in my job. I was able to learn Ansible in less than a week by asking it how to do things and trying the result. It saves me time by doing grunt work for me that would otherwise be too fiddly or cumbersome to figure out.

We're not going to wake up one day and have AI lawyers/programmers/writers, with all the humans on the dole. What will happen is people who can effectively utilize AI will have an advantage over those who don't, just like people who can use a computer have an advantage over those who don't.

But we also need worker owned cooperatives and a universal standard of living or it's just going to make technofuedalism worse.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to asklemmy in What singer just blows your mind when they sing?

Brody Dalle gives me chills every time

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to moviesandtv in Mark Margolis, Actor on ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Better Call Saul,’ Dies at 83

He'll always be that old guy in TNG who died and Riker got put on trial for his murder

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to technology in The world's first colour e-ink monitor is essentially a 25-inch Kindle

That meme takes me back

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to nottheonion in Google is offering an on-campus hotel 'special' to help lure workers back to the office

It's good for companies that rent office space, but not for companies that own those offices. This is corporate landlords throwing a shitfit, and they have a lot more money and own more news outlets than companies who rent.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to memes in The rocket dutch man

He who controls the spice controls the stroopwaffel

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to nostupidquestions in Why so many people get triggered about ads nowadays?

If I told you that you could see a movie for free, but every 20 minutes or so we'd pause the movie and slap you with a fish, would that be okay?

Would it be better if we analyzed your website usage to choose the specific kind of fish that you'd prefer to be slapped with, would that be okay?

That's what ads feel like. I hate them, and I've almost entirely eliminated them from my life.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to moviesandtv in Emily Blunt Says She Is “So Ready” for an ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ Sequel With Tom Cruise

Why does everything need a sequel? That movie was great all on its own, one of the few standalone sci fi movies made in recent years. Why do we need another? Is advertising a new movie that expensive that the marketing team needs to ride some else's coattails to get results?

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to explainlikeimfive in Why do SSDs have a more limited number of times data can be written to them, but RAM memory can handle loads of re-writes?

The reason SSDs have limited rewrites is because there's a physical membrane that electrons tunnel through to store bits. This membrane will break down over time as writes are made.

For a more visual representation: Imagine you have a bowl covered with plastic wrap that's upside-down, and you push some BBs through the saran wrap from underneath. At first the BBs will stay in the bowl pretty well, but the more holes you poke in the plastic wrap the more likely they are to fall out. Eventually there's so many holes it can't hold anything.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to lemmyshitpost in PLEAAASSEE PLEASE COME BACK TO THE OFFICE PLS

Promoting hybrid is actually a smart move for them. Lower usage means less maintenance with the same rent.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to mensliberation in Women in China are telling each other to bring their boyfriends to see 'Barbie' — and to use it as a litmus test for their thoughts on feminism and patriarchy

Guys who have a problem with this would probably fail anyway.