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jj4211 , 18 days ago to technology in HP bricks ProBook laptops with bad BIOS delivered via automatic updates — many users face black screen after Windows pushes new firmware

Fedora pulls fwupd by default. If you use one of the ‘check for updates’ UIs, fwupd, dnf, and flatpak sources are all polled.

jj4211 , 18 days ago to technology in HP bricks ProBook laptops with bad BIOS delivered via automatic updates — many users face black screen after Windows pushes new firmware

Some Linux distros probably did push the bad HP firmware. Vendors push updates via fwupd.

jj4211 , 18 days ago to technology in HP bricks ProBook laptops with bad BIOS delivered via automatic updates — many users face black screen after Windows pushes new firmware

fwupd under Linux also pushes firmware updates, if you let it.

jj4211 , 18 days ago to technology in EVs Could Last Nearly Forever—If Car Companies Let Them

Yeah, options open up for some massively popular models or otherwise very well loved models. I got replacement gears for headlight motors for a 90s car with pop-up headlights, because people got tired of the OEM design wearing out so easily. I suspect someone trying to keep a Pontiac Aztek going might have a harder time finding enthusiasts keeping things alive.

jj4211 , 18 days ago to technology in EVs Could Last Nearly Forever—If Car Companies Let Them

I think we will see that car manufacturers will start to

They started to do this decades ago. Generally any given part in a car might be left unchanged for 5 or 6 model years before it gets changed, often for completely arbitrary reasons. For many cars, if it’s over ten years old your only hope for a replacement part is the junkyard.

jj4211 , 18 days ago to news in L.A. County wants to cap rent hikes at 3%. Landlords say that would push them to sell

In LA County, looks like the median home price is $1M. The proceeds of such a sell, combined with presumed other typical sources of retirement income and social security should provide for an above-average retirement lifestyle.

jj4211 , 18 days ago to news in Gov. Kristi Noem says Trump should pick a woman VP to show that he supports women’s health

Last time it was at odds with the presidential candidate. This time they both would fit right in with each other.

jj4211 , 18 days ago to news in Gov. Kristi Noem says Trump should pick a woman VP to show that he supports women’s health

Actually, is there such a requirement for VP? You don’t have to meet the requirements to be in the chain of succession, you just get skipped.

jj4211 , 18 days ago to news in Gov. Kristi Noem says Trump should pick a woman VP to show that he supports women’s health

I mean, he’s trying. You’ve seen his diet…

jj4211 , 18 days ago to lemmyshitpost in Additional citations

I like this edit: en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chevrolet_Ci…

jj4211 , 19 days ago to nostupidquestions in Why don't electric car manufacurers put solar panels on the car roofs?

Well now the question is why they don’t put an extra AA battery in the glove box.

jj4211 , 20 days ago to news in Mystery as Russian judge dies after falling from window

That nails it exactly. “Complex and multifaceted” is the mantra of high schoolers everywhere.

jj4211 , 20 days ago to news in Crowd boos Rob Schneider off the stage when he started telling anti-trans & anti-vaxx jokes

What’s up with all these washed up celebrities coming back to the spotlight just to make an ass of themselves?

jj4211 , 20 days ago to news in Crowd boos Rob Schneider off the stage when he started telling anti-trans & anti-vaxx jokes

Yeah, that was particularly bad habit of SNL back then. They hit upon a mildly amusing joke and then just beat it to death by doing it over and over when it was barely a little funny the first time.

It’s a wonder they didn’t create a “making copies” movie with how they were back then.

jj4211 , 20 days ago to technology in Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects

Any team that calls itself an Agile team that doesn’t actually follow the processes properly is doing it wrong and will fail.

I mean, this statement is also weird, to imply that not following Agile implies failure. I’d say it’s quite possible for a team to “falsely” execute on Agile and still pull off success. However, if that story is prominent and successful, no one is going to make a peep about it not being “true Agile”, they’ll only do that when it’s a failure.

But really this detail is beside the point, that people want to use ‘Agile’ as shorthand for good methodology, but it’s the way of the world that any shorthand that is popular will get co-opted and corrupted to the point of uselessness. You end up with various “interpretations” and so the meaning is diluted.

Now at a glance, this may seem an innocuous scenario, ok, Agile doesn’t “mean” anything specific in practice because of people abusing it to their objectives, but it still carries the weight of “authority”. So if you have a criticism like “there’s way too many stupid pointless required fields in our Jira implementation, and there’s a super convoluted workflow involving too many stakeholders to walk a simple ticket to completion”, then you get chastised because “our workflow is anchored in Agile, and you can easily see online that Agile makes success, so you obviously don’t understand success”. You can try to declare “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools”, but then they’ll say “oh, but the stuff on the right is valuable, and it’s used to facilitate the interactions between people”. Thanks to Atlassian marketing, for a lot of the corporate world if you implement it in Jira, then it is, by definition, “Agile” and your peons can shut up because you are right.

Basically, things get ruined by trying to abbreviate. You may be able to cite the Agile manifesto as something specific enough yet still short, though it’s still wishy washy enough to not be able to really “win” an argument with someone when deciding how you are going to move forward.