MystikIncarnate
@MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
Some IT guy, IDK.
- Comment on Later, losers 2 days ago:
Must be so nice to know girls in real life.
By the way, I use Arch.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 3 days ago:
I have some land prepared for a garden. It was pretty well laid out by the previous owner of the property. I’ll have some costs in getting it going, since the last guy used it mainly for flowers, so I want to put in some raised beds and something to keep the animals away from my food, beyond that, it’s all planting and waiting. It rains sufficiently here so no need for irrigation, and there’s plenty of sun. The soil is pretty decent too.
Direct financial costs will be minimal, year over year, and then it’s just the indirect cost of my time to tend to it as it grows.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 3 days ago:
Sure, but I don’t have to pay for the food they produce, just some seeds. Seeds are way cheaper than whatever is available from the local grocery.
It might yield a relatively small amount but I’m not feeding a city. I only need enough for me and my family.
If I can save a couple hundred bucks over the year, not buying produce at the shop, I’ll fucking do it.
The economy isn’t doing me any favors.
- Comment on The second matchup of the tournament 3 days ago:
I’m going Wolf personally. I might have a chance with a wolf, gorillas are stupid strong. No thanks.
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 5 days ago:
As stupid as it is, it doesn’t stop a creator from simply demonstrating issues, without commentary. Just show people the issues and don’t remark on them.
That being said, nobody should sign this. Trying to forbid people from making satirical remarks? What the crap?
- Comment on Using Ubuntu may give off a hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. 5 days ago:
I haven’t noticed anything yet, but I don’t spend too much time looking at mount points.
- Comment on Using Ubuntu may give off a hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. 6 days ago:
I honestly don’t pay that much attention to what packages are installed. As long as system loads are acceptable when nothing is running, leaving sufficient resources for whatever needs doing.
- Comment on Using Ubuntu may give off a hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. 6 days ago:
I use Ubuntu for all my home lab servers unless there’s a specific requirement for something else.
I never install the desktop version except when experimenting, and in those cases, I’d be just as happy using any other distro, since those use cases are fairly limited both in scope and duration.
Ubuntu is just the os I put on virtual servers.
Judge me if you want. I really could not possibly care less. I also use Windows on my daily driver desktop.
I’m considering going canonical MAAS for a new deployment of open stack servers which will be replacing my current hypervisors (which are VMware), pushing Ubuntu and OpenStack onto systems for use and probably also using MAAS to roll out future virtual machines in OpenStack.
I like the canonical Kool aid.
- Comment on Rip Striker 2000-2024 😭 1 week ago:
You were born in 2000?
I’m old now.
- Comment on rollin' coal 1 week ago:
The model I’m looking at is ~45 miles (70km) of EV-only range. Electricity where I am drops under 10c/kWh overnight, and the model I’m looking at is a PHEV.
I work from home and only rarely do I have to commute to a job site, 90% of my driving right now is around town and much less than 45 miles total per day. Having the EV charging start when rates drop and stop when they rise again, would be something I would be doing. Since I don’t have to drive every day for work, several nights of fairly slow charging would fill the ~ 17 kWh battery, even at 10A on 120V.
So every time I go out, I’d likely be starting with a to full charge, and my first 45 ish miles are basically free.
- Comment on rollin' coal 1 week ago:
Arguing that coal ash is less bad than the very rare nuclear disasters is also a bad take IMO.
Both have issues. It doesn’t mean that we should abandon nuclear for coal, nor the other way around.
Personally I’m a fan of nuclear, and I’m against coal, but realistically, there’s too many data points to argue, and bluntly, I don’t have sufficient information at this time, to competently and fully argue either way.
Fact is, green energy, like solar and wind (among others) are better than both nuclear and coal (and even gas and whatnot). I just don’t want to pretend that either nuclear or coal is a better ecological choice than renewables.
- Comment on rollin' coal 1 week ago:
I agree with this. I’m looking at a plug in hybrid for my next car. It’s a bit more costly up front, but day to day, it should save me so much. Hybrids are better, sure, but plugin hybrids can charge overnight, when we have remarkably low electricity costs where I live, especially overnight, so charging it up is trivial in costs, and it can run a good distance on the battery alone.
If I want to go fast, and have fun, ICE cars and race tracks are things still, I can go do that. In the meantime, there’s still a speed limit on the freeway, so while your fuel burning monstrosity can go 200mph+… You can’t.
For commuting/daily chores/errands, a plug in hybrid is easily one of the cheapest options available, especially for me, per mile driven (or kilometer, if you’re not American).
I still want a weekend/fun car, but for daily driving, plug in hybrid is going to get me there for a lot less.
With the prices of everything going up, it’s the only logical choice.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 1 week ago:
Yeah, they’re still behind most other “first world” countries in every metric stated.
Comparing the USA to a country in the middle East or Africa or something? Yeah, the USA is a cakewalk by comparison to many. Compared to any country that’s similarly regarded, it’s dog shit for living conditions.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 1 week ago:
I’m in Canada, and I want to get those stickers that are cut in the shape of new Zealand, so I can add it to every public map I see.
… New Zealand as a service.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 1 week ago:
I mean, neither was new Zealand.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 1 week ago:
American armed forces enters the chat
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 1 week ago:
Bud, have you met a moose?
They’re the size of three deer and they have the personality of a Canadian Goose.
- Comment on HELLDIVERS 2 sees over 130K bad reviews on Steam as Sony double down 1 week ago:
As a long term PC gamer, two things.
Almost every game out there, made in recent years has had some login component with a publisher type service. Ubisoft, rockstar, Microsoft, etc. So this behaviour isn’t entirely unprecedented.
On the other hand:
Pretty much every single one of those PC versions that have publisher logins, will let you play without logging in. You will sometimes be feature limited, or you will be unable to obtain certain rewards or something… Some only allow you to unlock DLC after you’ve signed in… Stuff like that. The game can still be played, at some diminished capacity, but it can be played.
Making it a hard requirement, crosses a line for many. If it’s optional, sure, those who can’t or won’t get an account are still able to play, most will likely get an account to ensure they have the full experience.
I might be wrong, but I can’t recall any game that would refuse to launch the game without an account. You’ll get bugged about it a bit, but it still runs. The only exception I can give to this is any MMO which requires a subscription to the game in order to play; the most notable example of this is WoW. In those cases, you need an account to subscribe to the game in order to play. Almost always, the subscription fee is the cost of the game, so you don’t buy the game, and then pay a subscription to play online… Unless it’s a Nintendo game, I suppose.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 2 weeks ago:
This is the business equivalent of throwing a tantrum.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 2 weeks ago:
Well that’s horrific.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 2 weeks ago:
Oh. I have one for this. I support people from several timezones, so to help myself, I set up a couple of additional clocks in Windows, so I could keep track of what time it is for the user, since most people are bad at thinking outside of their local timezone.
Well, I’m in a timezone that uses DST, and when it started for my timezone this year, all of my clocks changed. Every last one of them are now wrong, since the actual timezones they are for don’t do DST.
Gg windows.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 2 weeks ago:
I agree, there’s pretty limited usefulness to keep it enabled on a desktop. Unless you’re at risk of someone walking off with it, like your desktop is in a fairly public area, or you live in an area where robberies/burglaries are not rare, I don’t know that there’s much value in it. You also have to think about what data you’re realistically keeping on your PC. Is it something that if that were to become public information, would that be a problem?
Like, if you have pictures of yourself in blackface or nudes or something, maybe think about it… But if you’re just using your PC to play games and browse the web, it’s probably not very important to encrypt it. Even if someone takes it and looks through all your data, they probably won’t find anything of value (to someone else) beyond whatever money they can get for the hardware.
It’s a very personal choice, and with higher risk devices like laptops, I would say, just turn on the FDE, back up the recovery keys and forget about it. Desktops, meh. Up to you.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 2 weeks ago:
I try to speak the gospel of backing up your bitlocker recovery key to anyone who will listen without their eyes glazing over.
You can turn it off, if you’re okay with going without encryption; if it’s a mobile computer, like a laptop or something, encryption is a good idea, so just back up the key in a safe place, even just emailing it to yourself and you’re all set.
The bullshit is that the bitlocker dialog won’t save a file that contains your recovery key, to the drive that’s encrypted; my recommendation is to “print” it to a PDF, which you can save anywhere you want. Once you have it, attach it to an email and send it to yourself, or toss it in your Google drive or whatever.
Full disk encryption is, IMO, a great thing to have, but to rugpull people by just enabling it and not giving them the information to secure access to their data, or even really inform them that it’s on, is complete fucking horse shit.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 2 weeks ago:
I usually do that anyways. As soon as it’s like, “which partition do you want to install to?” I’m like, nope! And delete all the partitions. Just install to the drive.
The windows installer is so retarded with this kind of thing that I make it basically impossible to do wrong. If I have another drive in the system, I unplug it before I install windows, then plug it back in after windows is installed. I want it to see one drive and only one drive and I want it to install to that drive and nothing else. Not a partition, not a specific location, just the drive.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 2 weeks ago:
The only improvement I can find with the windows 11 settings is account administration. Linking to a Microsoft account or adding authentication methods or something, is pretty decent. Everything else, just makes me want to tear my head off of my body and throw it across the room.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 2 weeks ago:
Agreed.
I could not give any fucks if they want to cram this shit into the crap home version. I don’t use it and anyone who does, probably would rather have a more inexpensive version that’s been subsidized by all the crap they’ve piled into the OS. Sure. Whatever.
But this crap is present in the professional, and enterprise versions, this shit still persists. Like, these are versions that are twice or three times as expensive and still, full of shit; just as bad as the cheap home version.
Unacceptable.
The constant stupid UI changes are just icing on this shit filled cake. Why are we moving everything around? Sure, you want to create a less “ugly” control panel, ok that’s fine, but why the fuck did you make it borderline impossible to do something as simple as change your network IP address? I don’t even try anymore, I just go find the og control panel and load up network and sharing center or something. If you’re going to change it, at least make it as functional as the old one, or don’t fucking do it at all.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 2 weeks ago:
I appreciate that. I don’t think my users would tolerate Linux. Maybe MacOS, but I would quit if that happened.
Windows has some very terrible traits, but it’s something I’ve worked with and on for the last ~20 years. I see all the warts. I have no delusions about it, but it’s something I know extremely well as a result.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 2 weeks ago:
I work with Windows as a requirement of my job, I’m in IT and I’m constantly in and out of the bowels of the operating system. I have a lot of thoughts on this stuff.
My first thought is, stop moving everything around. Even in Windows 10, if you’re using an older version, say 1804, and you switch to a newer version, say 22H2, stuff is moved all over the place. It makes it super hard to direct someone blindly to the control they need to click to get something done. You’re making my job much harder than it needs to be. Stop it. There’s no reason to move this crap around.
To bring out my grumpy old man routine: back in my day, if you wanted to do anything, you went to the control panel. Everything you needed was there. Now it’s in settings, no wait, clicking on this settings option for that thing now launches an appx thing that, surprisingly (/s) is broken.
Too many damn times have I tried to open their damned settings app or the new defender security appx dialog simply crashes. The solution is almost always dkim online repair. Well, if it needs repair so damn much, how about you just repair it for me as part of system maintenance? The fuck.
Windows 11 is a special form of suffering. Right clicking on a file and… What the fuck is this? I basically click on “more settings” every time I right click. And the changes to the settings application… Don’t get me started.
Also, why in the fuck do we have copilot installed by default now? You’re an operating system, stay in your goddamned lane.
The only good thing I can say about Windows 11 is that it has really good security. So good that I frequently have trouble doing routine things. Today, I was trying to run a PowerShell script and it told me some bullshit error, which is pretty common for PowerShell. After googling the error, the recommendation was to change the execution policy. I went to do that at an administrative PowerShell prompt and it told me that I didn’t have access to change it. While running as the administrator. Yay. Shit is broken again. Fuck me I guess. I’m off to unfuck my less than five month old new work system because Microsoft can’t get their shit straight.
Customization options do not and cannot help me. 90% of the time I’m working on someone else’s computer, so I have to fucking deal with the default behavior because I’m not going to change it for 500+ users whom I support. I’m pretty sure I’d get more than a few complaints. So I have to fucking deal with whatever hairbrained decision Microsoft made about what should be default.
Windows 10 had its own share of bullshit. One of my most common annoyances was the way the OS decided to install fucking candy crush, every fucking time a new user logged into the goddamned computer. It’s like playing whack-a-mole, but not fun and filled with uninstalls. I hope Microsoft made some good money on that brand deal, because I sure paid for it with my frustration.
After all of this, I keep finding myself in the fucking registry, and thank God that’s one thing that hasn’t been fucked over by their new UI team. I keep having to fix dumb issues by injecting registry keys so I can not deal with the stupid UI all the goddamned time. It’s hacky, and I’m happier for it.
I could keep going. Pretty much every decision they’ve made in the past 5 years has been some measure of bad. The only thing I’ve agreed with them doing is finally ending internet explorer. Begrudgingly, edge is better, but not by a lot, IMO.
The last thing I’ll say is that the tpm bullshit is going to give me an aneurysm. Having a TPM at Windows install usually prompts the system to activate bitlocker. Bitlocker itself isn’t bad, but it’s fucking terrible when windows does this shit and doesn’t really inform the user about it. Nobody knows that they need to back up their goddamned bitlocker recovery keys, so inevitably, when something goes wrong (we’re talking about Windows here, something will go wrong) and the system stops booting, you need the fucking bitlocker recovery key to do anything. Your option, if you can call it that, if you can’t get the recovery key, is to format all of your shit, and reinstall from scratch. I know several people who have lost a lot of work and irreplaceable files, like pictures, because bitlocker fucked them over and they had no idea it was even running.
Sorry about your loss, but all those family photos you saved that don’t exist anywhere else are locked behind basically uncrackable encryption, get fucked, I guess.
I’m going to cut this rant off. Needless to say I’m pretty tired of Microsoft’s bullshit. Make an operating system. That’s what people want. That’s it. We shouldn’t need “debloat” scripts to fix your nonsense. Gah.
- Comment on I finally got access to the catholic AI 2 weeks ago:
This concept of Jesus praying to God never made sense to me. Like, if he’s supposed to be the same person, he would know what his heavenly counterpart would agree to and what he wouldn’t. Conversely, the heavenly counterpart would know what his earthly counterpart would want, and provide it to him without needing to be asked.
The whole idea of him praying is silly. It’s a lot like having a conversation with yourself to try to convince yourself to do a thing that you want you to do. A pointless exercise. You don’t have to convince yourself to do something that you already want to do. You just do it.
Unless the Holy Trinity is a lie, made up by the church to instill a sense of unity between three distinct individuals… Like marriage.
Thus, the church endorses gay God marriage.
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 2 weeks ago:
And just like Edison, Elon swooped in and bought up all their IP and took all the credit for their inventions/work.
Edison did it with Nikolas ideas when he was working for him, and now Elon did it with something that was named to honor the man.
Tesla gets shafted yet again.
I can’t help but wonder what he could have accomplished if someone, literally anyone had continued to fund him, and help him continue his efforts for the remainder of his natural life. Maybe we would be flying around in wirelessly powered personal vehicles. Who knows? But the ideas he had led to some of the most significant advances in technology for years. Pretty much our entire modern life is thanks to Tesla’s inventions, either directly or indirectly.
Even something as simple as AC electricity delivery… What a genius. Easily on the top of my list of best inventors.
His personal life and some of his opinions there may have been a bit problematic, but it would be difficult to deny that he was a brilliant inventor.