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elshandra ,

It’s only a hop step from there to something less invasive thankfully.

Intravascular neural interfaces are already reducing the invasiveness, but hopefully that is just a short step.

elshandra ,

I think that there are a lot of 8 billion people who would disagree with comfortably well. That number needs to be closer to two, to be sustainable with earth’s resources. At least that’s my understanding, not disappointed if wrong.

elshandra ,

Your ebike is also spying, probably.

Microsoft is once again injecting pop-up ads into Google Chrome on Windows in a bid to get people to switch to Bing (www.theverge.com)

The software giant first introduced malware-like pop-up ads last year with a prompt that appeared over the top of other apps and windows. After pausing that notification to address “unintended behavior,” the pop-ups have returned again on Windows 10 and 11....

elshandra , (edited )

Community support is a thing, it’s not the lack of support that’s to blame here - have you ever used Microsoft support? Linux support is much more accessible even.

A lot of the blame here, is Microsoft’s clever marketing campaign providing windows to educational institutions - with support - for far below cost, in the early days when pc adoption was on the rise.

Distribution saturation is a barrier to entry and focused support, and it is sometimes more complicated to install and repair. Sometimes it’s easier to repair, because windows is too busy trying to hide its internals from you.

It’s usually easier to support a remote IT-illiterate person using Linux, by comparison to windows, today.

e: I guess to be fair, if you factored in community support for windows, your options open up quite a lot. I was more thinking about my own interactions with their support. But enterprise support/problems are not the same as personal ones.

elshandra ,

It really depends on what kind of applications you’re talking about. There are still a number of things it can’t run (or well, probably without a lot of meddling around to get there) in the professional space, like CAD. Hopefully this will change over time.

For a lot of these products there are free alternatives available, but they often don’t cut the mustard and/or aren’t worth retraining for.

Another thing you should consider before choosing Linux is hardware support. This is often lacking in Linux. For example, your fancy tablet might work fine as a tablet, but if you want to configure anything about it you might need windows depending on the device.

The good news is, you can try it without worrying about harming your windows install by doing it say on a usb stick or hdd. It’ll only cost you time and effort.

elshandra ,

I don’t need steam to install your app on my pc, unless you choose it to be that way.

elshandra ,

They’ve already used the name, might as well go all in at this point.

elshandra ,

How did that work out? We used sles in the past (moved to rhel6). Management of larger environments has been easier with rhel, but we’ve slowly been decoupling from redhat-isms. Satellite is just doing drm -the only thing that gives us grief- and repos now.

"A dream. It's perfect": Helium discovery in northern Minnesota may be biggest ever in North America (www.cbsnews.com)

“A dream. It’s perfect”: Helium discovery in northern Minnesota may be biggest ever in North America::For a century, the U.S. Government-owned the largest helium reserve in the country, but the biggest exporters now are in Russia, Qatar and Tanzania. With this new discovery, Minnesota could be joining that list.

elshandra ,

Capitalists care about their own capital, not future society generations from now.

Can’t we sensationalise the same way they would…

Capitalists care about their own capital, not their children.

Jensen Huang says kids shouldn't learn to code — they should leave it up to AI. (www.tomshardware.com)

Jensen Huang says kids shouldn’t learn to code — they should leave it up to AI.::At the recent World Government Summit in Dubai, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made a counterintuitive break with tech leader wisdom by saying that programming is no longer a vital skill due to the AI revolution.

elshandra ,

Does that mean they can’t be copyright anymore? I’ll take it.

elshandra ,

Making kids dum so they don’t know they’re being exploited and can’t fight back has been going on a lot longer than either of us have been alive…

elshandra ,

So they can put AI in everything and slurp all your data. Well at least, they don’t say they aren’t doing that.

elshandra ,

If I was a hiring manager and saw a video like this from a prospective employee I would just throw their application straight in the garbage.

You probably wouldn’t be a hiring manager very long with that attitude. I don’t get the appeal either, but I don’t do tiktok so. Just from the linked piece, it sounds like it’s becoming increasingly common.

Quite a leap to posting private company details online. Where are those stored by the way? Office 365? SharePoint? The cloud?..

elshandra ,

I think Windows has been shit since it was an app that sat on top of dos. It’s gotten a lot better now in countless ways, but overall, it’s gotten worse than better. There was a time where I couldn’t/wouldn’t consider an alternative as a daily driver from 95 through to the end of 7 support really.

The enshitification of windows got worse with 10 (11 is another order of magnitude) and the oncoming eos, drove me off again about 18 months ago and I’ve been happier for it.

elshandra ,

One of the best things the govt here in aus did in my lifetime, was tighten gun laws and buy back as many guns as they could. While we’re by no means free of gun violence and homicides, we very rarely have incidents like mass/school shootings.

Malaysia’s top court invalidates state’s Islam-based laws on incest, sodomy and other offenses (apnews.com)

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s top court on Friday struck down Shariah-based criminal laws in an opposition-run state, saying they encroached on federal authority. Islamists denounced the decision and said it could undermine religious courts across the Muslim-majority nation....

elshandra ,

Going by the poll 1:9 people actually feel this way, probably should have added a /s.

elshandra ,

Oh, ty. This will replace a few extensions for me.

elshandra ,

Malware is bad. X state trying to hack me bothers me less than mY state.

elshandra ,

I got the rest from this guy named Ralph in an alley–stupid asshole didn’t even charge me, he just told me to close my eyes and suck it out of a hose!

elshandra ,

Think that’s dystopian? At a local here in aus, if the self service checkouts think someone is about to walk out without paying, they lock off the entire self service area, and all the trolleys in the store freeze and refuse to move - Even if you’ve been through the manned register, and already paid for your groceries… You have to wait for them to unlock all the shit. Idk how people shop there.

elshandra ,

If this was an economically scalable proven thing today, phones wouldn’t be sold with batteries in 5 years.

elshandra ,

Yeah so you’ll just move your battery from your i17 to your i18.

elshandra ,

How many of us have to spam links to piratebay in comments on website-x, to have Google delist website-x in those countries?

X runs ‘timeline takeover’ ad promoting anti-trans film (techcrunch.com)

Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the “What’s happening?” sidebar. As part of a “timeline takeover” — which gives advertisers “priority access to logged-in users’ first impression of the day” — conservative media nonprofit PragerU is promoting the hashtag “#DETRANS” to...

elshandra ,

It cleanly didn’t block this post.

elshandra ,

I thought that’s more what the original comment was asking for, maybe I misinterpreted. Ps. Sorry for wasting your time explaining things I already know by not clarifying my sarcasm, but you helped someone else so it worked out alright.

elshandra ,

Build house out of glass, no windows necessary.

elshandra ,

What non-gaming revenue do both EA and Valve have?

If their gaming revenue is 6.5 their total revenue is about 6.5 no?

elshandra ,

I’ll grant that a looot of valve’s revenue is from marketplace & steam store, and sure they sell other products but it’s a drop in the bucket vs gaming. It’s effectively a service for gamers. It’s probably not considered gaming revenue for accounting/internal politics reasons.

I would wager that if it were possible to, you’d be able to link a vast majority of valve’s revenue to the purpose of gaming. Reality vs financial reality?

Microsoft documents leak new Bethesda games, including an Oblivion remaster (www.theverge.com)

Remember that these were estimates from more than three years ago and before Microsoft completed its acquisition of ZeniMax in March 2021, so there’s always the chance that some of these plans have changed dramatically or been scrapped entirely. But they may provide an early look at some of the games we can look forward to...

elshandra ,

For me, I don’t mind that they re-release tesv on whatever potato they can fit it on, it’s that they keep doing this for over 10 years, but where tesvi? Maybe they got grrm writing it.

elshandra ,

Aix? Hp-ux?

elshandra ,

What a great way too summarize all the garbage I was thinking to spew. This is really it. Freedom and control. Or “whatever I want it to”.

elshandra ,

I’ve just doubled down on not using Microsoft tbh. I shouldn’t have to spend so much time and effort cleaning a clean install of an OS. And have updates change things so they don’t work the same or at all any more, or you just can’t find them. Fuck that.

elshandra ,

Also, stop using windows.

elshandra ,

You can only extend at the end. You would need to move it first.

elshandra ,

Just add a h to trust.

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