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laurelraven ,

Last couple cars I’ve had that’s been a setting you can change… I set mine to lock when the car moves at more than a few mph, the other options seemed like too high a chance to cause an accidental lockout to me

laurelraven ,

Pretty sure it’s just about the shared name

laurelraven ,

I’m legit still pissed off about that one

laurelraven ,

PowerShell, with zsh being a close second

laurelraven ,

Just looking at it briefly it looks a lot like PowerShell, any reason to use it over PowerShell?

laurelraven ,

V1 never actually shipped with any version of Windows

Windows 7 shipped with V2, 8 with V3, 8.1 with v4, and 10 with v5 and later 5.1.

5.1 is the latest (and last) version of Windows PowerShell.

All versions after that are just PowerShell (or PowerShell Core for version 6)

Not sure why they don’t bundle it by default, but starting at v7.2 it can be updated by Windows update

laurelraven ,

I’ll probably give it a spin anyway, might be I find some benefit and it looks like an interesting project. Being Rust based instead of C# .NET based could theoretically make it a lot faster (though I’ve not really had an issue of speed in PowerShell)

laurelraven ,

Yeah, PowerShell does do things that don’t exactly make sense without having some understanding of the underlying dotnet and what the components actually do

laurelraven ,

Not sure what’s extravagant about it… Fully object oriented pipeline in a scripting language built on and with access to the .NET type class system is insanely powerful. Having to manipulate and parse string output to extract data from command results in other shells just feels very cumbersome and antiquated, and relies on the text output to remain consistent to not break

PowerShell, it doesn’t matter if more or less data is returned, as long as the properties you’re using stay the same your script will not break

Filtering is super easy

The Verb-Noun cmdlet naming convention gets a lot of (undeserved) hate, but it makes command discovery way easier. Especially when you learn that there’s a list of approved verbs with defined meanings, and cmdlets with matching nouns tend to work together.

It actually follows the Unix philosophy of each cmdlet doing one thing (though sometimes a cmdlet winds up getting overloaded, but more often than not that’s a community or privately written cmdlet)

It’s easily powerful enough to write programs with (and I have)

And it works well with C#, and if you know some C#, PowerShell’s eccentricities start to make way more sense

Also, I mainly manage Windows servers for work running in an AD domain, so it’s absolutely the language of choice for that, but I’ve been using it for probably close to 14 years now and I can basically write it as easily as English at this point

laurelraven ,

It crossed that border a long, long time ago

laurelraven ,

At a quick glance I’m not seeing anywhere in the article that they think that’s what this is… If you’re responding to them calling it “GenAI”, that’s a shortening of “Generative AI”, not “General AI”

laurelraven ,

Are you suggesting that all computer hardware is going to be branded as such?

laurelraven ,

Because SystemD must do all and will not rest until GNU/Linux becomes SystemD/Linux

laurelraven ,

Honestly, the only reason I’m not using a non-SystemD distro is this is my first time actually going all in and having larger communities to help with issues plus just trying to force myself to learn it since it seems like it’s not going away

But yeah, I’m not a fan.

Working through a networking issue right now and the layers of obfuscation SystemD adds, especially with JournalD, leaves me not really sure where to even look

It is tempting to say screw it and load up Gentoo on my desktop though

laurelraven ,

It seems to be an issue with using a 5.8 gigahertz WiFi endpoint, which has worked fine up until a couple days ago when it started dropping packets going outside my local network: I could watch a continuous ping start failing for a couple minutes while using Synergy to control my laptop that was connected to my work VPN without issue, so it only seemed to be an issue routing outside my network, which is really weird. Switching to the 2.4 gigahertz channels seems to have fixed it entirely.

What I need to do is look up the JournalD commands to be able to read the logs correctly and find what I’m after… Might also spin up a VM to see if that goes out at the same time, would be interesting if the VM can still work while the host is dropping packets…

laurelraven ,

Since my other systems were unaffected, I’m pretty sure it’s something on my PC, possibly an update for the Wi-Fi drivers introduced a bug that affects the 5.8 channels

It’s been stable since switching so it’s more academic at this point, I have no burning need to be connected to the 5ghz channels

laurelraven ,

Yeah, I’d rather have my back panel fingerprint reader back than an even thinner phone, and then there’s the pointlessness of making the phone so thin that to have a remotely decent camera they have to add a huge bulge. Just… Make the whole damned thing that thick and use the extra space for, I dunno, more battery maybe?

laurelraven ,

I don’t know much of anything about Anycubic, but isn’t pretty much everything Creality releases open? How are they withholding from the community?

laurelraven ,

Out of curiosity, what’s the issue with installing a different DE?

laurelraven ,

The problem with that, though, is if they changed the workflow to be like Photoshop, it would leave those of us who know how to use Gimp but not Photoshop high and dry

Gimp is intuitive to me at this point because I have some idea of how it looks at raster image manipulation from using it off and on for years. I have no clue how to do things in Photoshop that I can do easily in Gimp. It may be the better user experience, I don’t know.

If they ever do that, I really hope they leave the option for it to work like classic Gimp in there, because people like me don’t actually do image editing that much overall and relearning would be painful for much longer than someone who can deep immerse themselves until they get it. I’d hate to do it but I think I’d have to stick with an old version if that happened without any way to keep doing things the same way

laurelraven ,

I mean, even if that was what they said, that would make it and things that function like it more intuitive to them, wouldn’t it? And someone who’s used to a different workflow would find it unintuitive.

So yeah… Intuitive is relative

laurelraven ,

Same… I think Photoshop would probably feel difficult to me to get my head around at this point since Gimp’s workflow is the one I’ve known and used for over a decade and a half now

laurelraven ,

I can screenshot too

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/4f743efc-e96d-4f07-bfe5-d2f006d4aed1.png

Note where you said “only ever tried Gimp”, when they said they have, in fact, used Photoshop. Additionally, nowhere in that did they say they’ve not used anything else since then even, just not Photoshop.

But you think you’ve made some credible point here, and likely won’t back down no matter how wrong you are, so go ahead and respond telling me some twisted logic about why you’re right and I’m wrong and I can ignore it so you can walk away thinking you’ve won some useless internet points.

laurelraven ,

Krita is better for some things but I find Gimp’s workflow easier for me in a lot of things

Krita’s Wacom tablet support, though, was way smoother and easier to get working with Krita, which is the main reason I even tried it out

laurelraven ,

Worse, the harder they try to stop it, the shittier the experience gets for their paying customers, but not for the pirates really. At that point, why would anyone want to pay for a crappy experience being treated like a thief when you can save your money and actually be a “thief” (at least in their eyes) while being treated like a paying customer?

Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important (www.techdirt.com)

The key problem is that copyright infringement by a private individual is regarded by the court as something so serious that it negates the right to privacy. It’s a sign of the twisted values that copyright has succeeded on imposing on many legal systems. It equates the mere copying of a digital file with serious crimes that...

laurelraven ,

But just in general, how can you have the right to be forgotten without the right to anonymity? They’re inherently bound together

laurelraven ,

Like, maybe tiered to something like 5 years: pay what it costs now, 10 years: 10 times that cost, and 15 years: 100 times, with a hard cap at 15? I could get behind that.

laurelraven ,

I thought there was a registration fee for copyright, but I think I mixed it up with trademark…

laurelraven ,

I honestly wondered why they haven’t done this yet for years

laurelraven ,

One of the very few things from Florida I actually agree with

laurelraven ,

Sounds like they need better payroll processes to me

Unless you’re suggesting that it would mean the worker wouldn’t get paid? Yeah, no… They still owe for work done

laurelraven ,

At that point, take your kids out of school if you’re that worried about them being able to say goodbye.

During the 99.99999999% of the time the school isn’t being shot up, the goal is for the kids to learn. Even with as many school shootings as we have now, the odds of your kids being in one is still incredibly small. Way higher than it should be, but ensuring the kids are getting quality education is still the top priority on a day to day basis.

laurelraven ,

Ew.

laurelraven , (edited )

Ah hah! But is it more important than X?!

Yes. Nobody gives a shit about X.

Apple is bringing RCS to the iPhone in iOS 18 | The new standard will replace SMS as the default communication protocol between Android and iOS devices (www.theverge.com)

The long-awaited day is here: Apple has announced that its Messages app will support RCS in iOS 18. The move comes after years of taunting, cajoling, and finally, some regulatory scrutiny from the EU....

laurelraven ,

Doubt they would advertise a specific feature only to make it worse.

Not like companies have never done that…

laurelraven ,

No, they’ll aim for minimum interoperability that the EU will let them get away with, and they’ll push that line every chance they get

laurelraven ,

The exact quote was

how about no hardware vendor is allowed to produce software that only runs on their hardware

Why would this theoretical microwave vendor be making software for it in the first place to need to make it interoperate with other microwaves that inexplicably have software of their own?

laurelraven ,

I’m curious, was it beeping because of somewhat harder breaking?

laurelraven ,

Then there’s the ones that actively block Linux and will ban you if you actually manage to get it to work (cough Destiny 2 cough)

laurelraven ,

Oh, believe me, I do

laurelraven ,

I keep expecting them to die like Unity DE

laurelraven ,

I don’t know about you but I will not be taking after hours calls for work without being compensated for being available

laurelraven ,

Yep.

At best, you’re paying extra for RGB lighting.

laurelraven ,

Do you have any recommendations for someone looking to do this? Guides you found useful, videos or YouTube channels, software packages, pitfalls to avoid? I’ve been thinking of doing something like this for years and lately feel like I need to to get a handle on what’s really going on in my network

laurelraven ,

Thanks for the reply!

I’ll probably just start messing around with things and see where they go, worst case I’ll spend some time and learn some things

laurelraven ,

Its physics all the way down

laurelraven ,

Yeah, no. I was very clear that I was not blaming the techs, but you go ahead, keep insisting on that.

I do not blame line workers for failings of management, which is exactly what I said I thought this was.

Maybe I am wrong here, wouldn’t be the first time. If so, sorry for busting your chops like that. I’ve just seen too many businesses cutting corners and compromising safety to save a couple bucks, so maybe I’m overly jaded for this one. But the ire was NEVER directed at the techs.

United is still garbage and was miserable every time I flew with them, so regardless of the truth behind that incident I still stand by my decision to never fly with them again, and if that hadn’t happened on that trip, the rest of the trip was enough to make me want nothing to do with them again.

laurelraven ,

I expected them to have mechanics working on the planes that had proper training for them. This is based on what I was told by the gate attendants, which I’ll admit may not have been accurate.

That expectation is not levied at anyone in the local chain of command; it’s directed at the decision making at he executive level that would lead to maintenance crews working on engines they weren’t certified/trained on.

Part of it I will admit comes down to my frustration with watching the engine become progressively dissembled while waiting for hours and watching the clock run out on my rental, but I never blamed the people there. I’ve worked IT for a long time and know first hand that the people talking to you are usually just doing the best they can and often following policy that they have no flexibility in. Even local management often has their hands tied.

If I came across blaming the techs or the crew or management at the airport, which it sounds like I did at least to you, I’m sorry for that, it really wasn’t ever my intention. At the point the plane needed something fixed, the situation was already way too far gone to salvage, and whether it was because it was more serious than it first appeared or there simply wasn’t the right experience available, the damage was already done and nothing anyone there at that time would have salvaged it.

Waiting on the replacement plane was frustrating, but logistics are logistics and you can’t summon a plane or crew from thin air, crews can only fly so long without a break safely, and keeping additional extremely expensive planes sitting around gathering dust waiting to be needed at every airport just doesn’t make sense.

My expectation (which it sounds increasingly like to me was down to misunderstanding of what’s involved, which you’ve been trying to tell me) was that airlines will have maintenance crews that know the planes they’re working on. You’re saying this was probably outside the scope of what’s a typical maintenance crew is able to tackle in a short time, like a car mechanic checking a seemingly minor leak and ultimately finding out the engine needs to be rebuilt.

But again, never did blame anyone but upper management, who were nowhere near anyone at that airport during that, and I hope that’s now clear

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