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- Comment on Mount an ISO in Linux? 14 hours ago:
Windows 95 ran on top of an MS-DOS foundation.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 23 hours ago:
And this elitist approach and tone is what turns a lot of folks away from even trying linux. Also, sure CLI might be great for a lot of devs, but regular users do need a GUI. And that is not fully there yet.
Regular users who “need a GUI” would be completely unable to install Windows at all, because the setup including activation (or workarounds) is way too complex for them. They might be able to install Linux from scratch though, because various distributions have good GUI installers and/or live images.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 23 hours ago:
It appears you have not installed any Windows from scratch in a long time, or tried to harden it, or solve a driver problem there. That’s why you get confused. I was not saying Linux is always easy, I was saying it has overtaken Windows in almost every aspect, also because on Windows things have become more complex.
- Comment on RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives 1 day ago:
s/generous/desperate
- Comment on Mount an ISO in Linux? 1 day ago:
MS-DOS is 90s into early 2000s. But yeah, you can just say you have no clue what you are talking about.
- Comment on Mount an ISO in Linux? 1 day ago:
And Linux has a manual built into the console.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 2 days ago:
At this point, the remaining voluntary (as in: not forced by work) windows users are one giant ass Stockholm syndrome victim group/
Almost everything in Linux is easier to set up than on Windows, and thanks to the command line and basic architecture not changing, 10-15 year old tips are still valid today more often than not. Unlike Windows.
And Windows users who would fail to set up Linux from scratch & read online references to fill their knowledge gaps have most definitely never set up a Windows machine themselves, and are instead using preinstalled OSes, and buy a new computer when they need to upgrade to a newer OS version, as well as take their computer to an IT service person when something breaks.
- Comment on Mount an ISO in Linux? 2 days ago:
Ah right, in the times of MS-DOS, every computer user was a programmer… /s
- Comment on Wokeness ended, check mate leftists 2 days ago:
Haha! I had no idea who she was but I guessed right!
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 5 days ago:
Well - to be fair, if you “cook your system”, you have a boiled system. It would be haphazardous to rely on the system booting for restoring a backup. It could be an option, I guess, as long as the system still boots.
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 6 days ago:
Having had to fix a friend’s installation because timeshift filled up the system drive, I would say one of the biggest problems of mint is that it comes with timeshift enabled by default (and with shitty settings). I recommend keeping manual backups, and not trying to restore a system, as opposed to setting it up from scratch.
I use [not arch, but] debian, btw - haven’t had the system break on me in > 10 years. At worst, some driver gets messed up temporarily, but nothing that ever rendered my system unusable.
- Comment on F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email 1 week ago:
This is not the gotcha that you think it is. Now stop wasting my time.
- Comment on F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email 1 week ago:
That’s leaving out vital information however. Certain types of brains (e.g. mammal brains) can derive abstract understanding of relationships from reinforcement learning. A LLM that is trained on “letting go of a stone makes it fall to the ground” will not be able to predict what “letting go of a stick” will result in. Unless it is trained on thousands of other non-stick objects also falling to the ground, in which case it will also tell you that letting go of a gas balloon will make it fall to the ground.
- Comment on F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email 1 week ago:
As has been pointed out to you, thereisl no thinking involved in an LLM. No context comprehension. Please don’t spread this misconception.
- Comment on Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparison 1 week ago:
I believe that once the OS reaches a user login, that still counts as the OS as booted up.
This is exactly the kind of gullibility for which the login is displayed before the OS is done booting / starting all background processes. Don’t be gullible.
- Comment on Day 536 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
If you enjoyed this as much as I did, I strongly recommend looking into the “The Last Door” series.
- Comment on Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet 2 weeks ago:
Why censor? This is not reddit. Fuck Microsoft, and fuck Satya Nadella in particular.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 2 weeks ago:
I see - I was wondering if it might be something like that. Thank you - I’ll try to think of that - but since I clear my cookies every now and then and do not ever use an account, it might not be quite as needed for me.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 2 weeks ago:
ah - that makes some sense.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 2 weeks ago:
shouldn’t that be before:2025 ?
- Comment on Today in “Google Broke Email” 2 weeks ago:
Well - it is entirely opportunistic, which makes it evil by design, even if they were backing good people.
- Comment on Today in “Google Broke Email” 2 weeks ago:
People using gmail in 2025 have no one to blame but themselves. Google backs a fascist and pedo-criminal administration.
- Comment on I feel like half the neighbourhood is on fire and everyone is carrying on like everything is normal 3 weeks ago:
You are not exaggerating, except that what you point out is not certain to happen, and way too many people think it’s a great strategy to stick their head in the sand, thereby making it more likely to end up catastrophic.
- Comment on get out of my head 3 weeks ago:
This one isn’t so bad. From 2g1c I too stayed well clear of…
- Comment on Disconnect wire to close a switch with a simple circuit 3 weeks ago:
Sorry, I clearly misunderstood - so the problem isn’t the tripwire implementation but rather the high current that you need to switch. My first thought was (as someone else suggested) to use a relay, and a quick web search brought me to this mention of “Darlington” transistors: itp.nyu.edu/…/transistors-relays-and-controlling-…
- Comment on AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output 3 weeks ago:
I had a traumatic brain injury so I can’t work.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 3 weeks ago:
Well, I can’t condemn you, I have only partially made the move myself for lack of options :(
- Comment on Disconnect wire to close a switch with a simple circuit 3 weeks ago:
I couldn’t imagine the transistor flipping when it’s base is actually grounded. Did you try an NPN transistor? I am not familiar with FETs, maybe they behave weirdly here?
- Comment on Disconnect wire to close a switch with a simple circuit 3 weeks ago:
I was never excellent at analogue electronics but your very first diagram looks perfectly fine, with the tripwire connecting the transistor base to ground. Preferably with a large resistor to avoid draining the battery quickly. A grounded base should effectively close the collector-emitter path.
- Comment on xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers 3 weeks ago:
true I misspelled that :/