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- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 12 hours ago:
Thanks, but that’s the same one that I found. It removes the power button from the start menu and disables the
shutdowncommand, but the computer still responds to ACPI and even the keyboard’s power-off button. - Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard releases today, and players are celebrating the famous ‘Bioware Turn’ 14 hours ago:
If I see Captain Anderson’s “NEED to KNOW BAsis” knife-hand animation, I’m going to shit.
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 1 day ago:
It makes sense if you represent complex numbers as
(a, b)pairs, whereais the real part andbis the imaginary part (just like the populara + birepresentation). AB’s length is(1, 0), AC’s length is(0, 1), and BC’s length will also be a complex number. - Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 1 day ago:
There are use-cases where a computer should not be turned off by its user for the purpose of remote management. I’m dealing with one just as I’m writing this comment.
There’s an exam in a classroom. In 20 minutes I’ll have to run an ansible script to remove this group’s work, clean up the project directory, and rollback two VMs to the prepared snapshot to get ready for the next group. I’ve put a big-ass banner on the wallpaper telling the students not to shut down the computer, and already half of them are off.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 1 day ago:
Mainly because our students are idiots and will complain if the computer doesn’t turn off. Or worse, hold the power button, or actually yank the power cable. Maybe I should just lean into it and convince them that the monitor is the computer.
Jokes aside, how could I implement such a policy? I’ve only found one that hides the power buttons from the start menu, but Windows still responds to ACPI.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 1 day ago:
As another IT guy at a university, having to manually turn on 30 computers in a classroom for updates or whatever is already a pain in the ass. Wake on LAN is not a reliable solution. Havin to manually flip over every box, then putting them down, and then fixing the cables that got yanked… I’d throw those fuckers in the trash.
- Comment on Why are laptop adapters so much larger than phone adapters of same power rating? 2 days ago:
USB Power Delivery over a regular USB-C-compliant cable delivers a variable current of up to 3A, using discrete voltages of 5V for up to 15W of power, 9V for up to 27W, 12V for up to 48W, and 20V for up to 60W.
Higher powers require dedicated USB PD-compliant cables that can handle up to 240W at a voltage of 48V.
- Comment on Why are laptop adapters so much larger than phone adapters of same power rating? 2 days ago:
My uneducated guess is money.
Manufacturers likely have factories (either theirs or a contracted company’s) where they can mass produce the power bricks for a low cost. Upgrading to a USB power supply doesn’t offer significant benefits compared to the power brick of similar wattage, and the up-front cost of setting up a new supplier is financially unjustified. The old technology works just as well, so why change?
High power USB is still a relatively new technology. I’m sure it will proliferate, but the consumer market has a fuckton of inertia.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 3 days ago:
That says more about your ignorance than anything about AI or Linux.
- Comment on Is china as bad as america makes it out to be? 4 days ago:
Not me. Thankfully I live an ocean away from that hellhole.
- Comment on Is china as bad as america makes it out to be? 4 days ago:
What a way to put on the appearance of an enlightened neutral observer while completely ignoring the complex socio-political situation by reducing it to a simple, sweeping statement. Couldn’t have done it better myself.
- Comment on Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus. 1 week ago:
www.phoronix.com/…/Linus-Torvalds-Russian-Devs
The Linux project removed maintainers who were Russian or were using Russian e-mail addresses, probably to comply with sanctions. Linus hasn’t talked about the legal details because he doesn’t know if he can (and because Daddy Vladdy’s Dick Warmers are out in full force).
- Comment on Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus. 1 week ago:
Most likely coincidence. The sanctions came into effect and their respective lawyers took about the same time to come up with a policy that complies with them. There’s nothing more to the story that would make it weird.
- Comment on San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks 1 week ago:
“That’s why we’ve got a bucket under the wire’s end. Token spillage is a pain in the ass to sweep up, so at the end of the day we collect the bucket and put all the tokens back in the first machine.”
- Comment on Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus. 1 week ago:
Yeah… weird how sanctions work…
- Comment on San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks 1 week ago:
So they’re upgrading to 3.5" and token ring?
- Comment on You fuckin monsters 1 week ago:
The borzoi is what happens when you describe a dog to someone who’s only ever seen horses and ask them to draw it.
- Comment on "Times Heals All Wounds" and "This Too Shall Pass" may be true, but the time window doesn't have to happen during your lifetime. 1 week ago:
It is what it is.
- Comment on "Times Heals All Wounds" and "This Too Shall Pass" may be true, but the time window doesn't have to happen during your lifetime. 1 week ago:
Yeast crawls
- Comment on Fruit Flies 2 weeks ago:
Awesome, this daemon infestation on my computer (Gentoo of course) is really starting to annoy me.
- Comment on Fruit Flies 2 weeks ago:
Emperor penguins and king penguins are not descendants of any royal bloodline and do not have an understanding of monarchical governments.
- Comment on Cool People Doing Cool Things 2 weeks ago:
Dude in the back is looking at the result with the same intensity as a teenager seeing boobs for the first time.
- Comment on No idea at all... 2 weeks ago:
I enjoy the occasional irredeemable, evil for evil’s sake villain who nevertheless has a goal and the competence to carry it out. It was also cool when he
did a thing
came back from death just to scold Hermes for… let me check my notes… not being evil enough.
Valens on the other hand? Dude can burn for all I care. He was sadistic for no reason, he only wanted power at any cost, and relied on the technology and experience of others that he ultimately couldn’t control. The only good thing he did was
the reason it's the best raid series.
giving Gaius a redemption arc.
- Comment on No idea at all... 2 weeks ago:
FFXIV: untreated depression.
And Asahi.
Fuck Asahi.
- Comment on Former Disco Elysium devs are working on a spiritual successor at new studio Longdue, though Robert Kurvitz and Aleksander Rostov aren't involved 2 weeks ago:
Then you are not the target audience. Disco Elysium didn’t need to be anything more than what it was: an interactive novel where the narrative reveals itself through your actions. Other gameplay systems, like crafting or combat, would have detracted from the experience.
What about the skill dialogues? Having the world revealed through the colored, polarized, conradictory, and often misleading perspectives of two dozen parts of your own fragmented psyche, instead of a single narrator, is genius.
- Comment on Former Disco Elysium devs are working on a spiritual successor at new studio Longdue, though Robert Kurvitz and Aleksander Rostov aren't involved 2 weeks ago:
Kurvitz created the entire Elysium universe. He wrote Sacred and Terrible Air and fleshed out the world through pen-and-paper RPGs. He and Rostov were fired following a hostile takeover of the development studio.
Disco Elysium is dead.
- Comment on Bethesda Believes Starfield Now Has "Its Own Fanbase" 3 weeks ago:
Just like Morbius.
- Comment on The website for Loops.video now has a countdown timer, indicating three days until... something. Either Skynet awakening, or the opening for registration of the new federated TikTok style app. 3 weeks ago:
I choose Skynet. Can I choose Skynet?
- Comment on I hope we get another update on the cuckstoel soon 3 weeks ago:
You mean… De Cuckstoel is free?
- Comment on I found a weird IP address on my network that had transmitted an insanely small amount of data. I put the address in my browser and got this. what the heck am I looking at? 4 weeks ago:
The default home page for Microsoft IIS, the web server built into Windows Server (and probably some desktop builds too).