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waspentalive , (edited ) to technology in HP CEO: Blocking third-party ink from printers fights viruses

The mad rush to sell the sizzle, not the steak.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have one company create a simple printer that just prints. It does not have a local webpage. It does not monitor your ink supplies. It does not phone home. It uses ink from bottles sold inexpensivly.

waspentalive , to startrek in If the kids didn't mutiny, would Picard have been killed when the turbolift fell?

The way gravity plating works is not given as far as I know, Perhaps the gravity generators simply alter the number of gravitons in an area of plating. Once that value is set it remains until changed again. A sudden power spike can cause the generators to withdraw the extra gravitons, as a result sometimes certain kinds of emergency can “turn off” gravity in an area of the ship.

waspentalive , to technology in Oops! We Automated Bullshit. | Department of Computer Science and Technology

I use chatgpt to make up stuff, imagine things that don’t exist for fun - like a ‘pitch’ for the next new Star Trek series, or to reword my much too succinct prose for a manual for a program I am writing (‘Calcula’ in gitlab) or ideas for a new kind of restaurant (The chef teaches you how to cook the meal you are about to eat) - but never have it code or ask it about facts, it makes them up just as easily as the stuff I just described.

waspentalive , to linux in What's the difference between package manager and why are there so many?

In before the XKCD reference!

waspentalive , to startrek in I've seen it said that TNG was centered around Picard, Riker, and Data like TOS was centered around Kirk, Spock, and McCoy. But I've always thought of TNG as an ensemble cast. Thoughts?

Worf may be a badass, but there are many that are just badder than he is. But as the Jem Hadar guy said “I cannot defeat this man, I can only kill him”.

waspentalive , to linux in Dotfiles matter! Please stop dumping files in users’ $HOME directories.

I also had to (under KDE)

  • Edit the settings for each of the folders in Dolphin (The file manager)
  • Edit the location of the desktop folder in the settings found by right-clicking the desktop and going into “Configure Desktop and Wallpaper” Location.
  • Edit the show item by choosing Custom Location, and adding the XDG directory for the desktop. This setting may not stick.
waspentalive , to linux in Dotfiles matter! Please stop dumping files in users’ $HOME directories.

Why aren’t all of these just normal directories under either .local (for data files) or .config (for configuration)???

Actually, I think the XDG directories should be under a single XDG directory either dotted or not (a better name would be OK with me) ~/xdg/Documents, ~/xdg/Music, ~/xdg/Pictures etc.

waspentalive , to technology in Elon Musk’s Neuralink begins accepting human patients for trials of its brain implant

Always mount a scratch test subject before testing or reconfiguring.

www.catb.org/jargon/html/S/scratch-monkey.html

waspentalive , to startrek in What's Your Favorite, Not at All Epic, Star Trek Quote

But that was just Q’s ad hominem response to an even better exchange: Q: What must I do to convince you people (that he is mortal and without powers) Worf: die.

Sorry I know you said “not epic” but most things Worf says are epic.

waspentalive , to technology in US scientists achieve net energy gain for second time in a fusion reaction

Fission too. I personally have both mass (more than I want) and energy (Not as much as I would like).

waspentalive , to technology in Maybe later... how about never, you fucks?

Dark Pattern

waspentalive , to startrek in "Star Trek Strange New Worlds Season 2 - Subspace Rhapsody (Original Series Soundtrack) Star Trek Strange New Worlds Season 2 - Subspace Rhapsody (Original Series Soundtrack) by Various Artists

Perhaps I just refuse to click thru things that look to me like I might be signing up for something. No worries.

waspentalive , to startrek in "Star Trek Strange New Worlds Season 2 - Subspace Rhapsody (Original Series Soundtrack) Star Trek Strange New Worlds Season 2 - Subspace Rhapsody (Original Series Soundtrack) by Various Artists

Not all of us have Apple Music Accounts.

waspentalive , to linux in Why does Nvidia hate linux?

Of course you do. Nvidia wants you to buy the expensive card instead. Since they are almost the same card in some instances the only difference is knowing that you can change values in certain registers to make cheapcard act like expensivecard. I personally use Intel graphics and won’t have nvidea.

waspentalive , to linux in Why does Nvidia hate linux?

Nvidia does not ‘hate’ Linux, Nvidia simply never thinks about Linux. They need to keep secrets so people can’t buy the cheap card and with a little programming turn it into the expensive card.

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