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- Comment on Samsung phones can survive twice as many charges as Pixel and iPhone, according to EU data 2 days ago:
Well, maybe I’ll try again in the future but I don’t currently own a Samsung.
- Comment on Samsung phones can survive twice as many charges as Pixel and iPhone, according to EU data 2 days ago:
I guess the answer to at least one of those is no. Last time I tried a battery replacement, I broke the screen either during assembly or disassembly. I build my own desktop PCs, and have fixed laptop monitors and drives, but every time I attempt hardware repair on something phone-ish, I make it worse (even going back to when I owned an OpenMoko).
- Comment on What the fuck 2 weeks ago:
My fave minimalist loss:
:.|:; - Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 3 weeks ago:
Agreed. I tend toward more literal translations for instruction/explanation – it made things stick better for me when learning Spanish. But, yes, in context “harder” is a definitely a more useful translation.
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 3 weeks ago:
“tres bien” is “very good”
“si vous plait” is like “please”
“plus fort” is like “more strength”
I’ve never studied or learned French, but you can pick up some of this stuff from “throwaway” French in other context and the etymology shared with other languages.
So, basically just the stock U.S. porn phrase translated to French.
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 4 weeks ago:
I think the subway stabbing is the main focus of the Cracked video I linked. But, maybe it’s a different subway stabbing.
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 4 weeks ago:
“protect and serve” is copaganda, since SCOTUS ruled on en.wikipedia.org/…/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia in late 1981. “Fun” animated video to describe same: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAfUI_hETy0
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 4 weeks ago:
“you’re just another evil ex waiting to happen”
- Comment on The FDA Is Approving Drugs Without Evidence They Work 4 weeks ago:
Nobel prize-winning anti-parasitic for humans, yes.
Several studies show no statistically significant effect on COVID-19 length or severity.
- Comment on The FDA Is Approving Drugs Without Evidence They Work 4 weeks ago:
You can do single-blind. You do prep, anesthetize, then open the card that decides if the surgery continues, or if the patient is simply awakened at the expected time.
You can also do it for surgeries that use locals, but then the surgical staff has to do a lot of miming/acting instead of actual cutting.
Medlife Crisis did a could of Placebo effect videos, and mentioned that he participated in a single-blind stent study.
I don’t know how you’d do double-blind.
- Comment on I feel attacked 5 weeks ago:
I guess running. About 4 years ago, I started on the treadmill with an exhausting 30min/mi. Earlier this week I completed my first 7min/mi. Along the way, I added a 28min/5k@1.5% and am working on a 60min/10k (today did 62min/10k).
- Comment on Rule 34 rule 1 month ago:
Just FYI: rule34.xxx/index.php?page=icame
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 1 month ago:
I agree, but when you wouldn’t let Aspyr do a Linux port for BL3, I stopped being a “real fan”.
- Comment on Understanding your target audience when marketing 1 month ago:
Make sure and get your colonoscopy this year.
It’s an old meme, sir, but it checks out.
- Comment on Uncultured 1 month ago:
^ This ^ is where I learned the word “aglet” and (looked up) what they were. First time I found them in Terraria, I thought surely it was a typo for “anklet” or something, since that was back in the beta days.
- Comment on Come to say thank you. Time to move from proprietary to Open Source 1 month ago:
When you lose a system. It responds to ping; all services are up, but you can’t find the damn thing.
So, not a number so much as a limit to your organizational skill+effort.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings 1 month ago:
The announcement from MS and the linked article both also mention this, though they recommend the real analogue hole: a separate camera pointed at the screen.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 1 month ago:
Steam has some good options. And, if you can play it on the Steamdeck, it will probably work on a Linux desktop.
But, if you have specific gaming needs, please check those first. Some games just don’t work, and I wouldn’t want your to trade OSes (which all have their own frustrations) and then find yourself unable to game.
Preferably find someone local that already uses Linux and is willing to help you out some. LUGs (Linux User Groups) used to be a thing; maybe there’s one near you. A lot of Linux users like gaming these days, though plenty of them still dual-boot.
- Comment on If it's good enough to keep your house warm, it's good enough to keep your insides warm 1 month ago:
Nihilistic optimism or bust.
I’m still working on the optimism.
- Comment on Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows" 2 months ago:
There was an update today.
I didn’t get an update today. That said, I believe you, but I can’t speak to the stability guarantees of your software provider unless you name (and shame!) them.
I doubt this would be considered a release-critical bug in Debian, so it is certainly possible for breakage like this to occur between releases. If it was a security issue, then … I hope you are assuaged that your old way was a vulnerability that needed to be disabled for you safety. While distributions and developers try to avoid such breakage, sometimes it is inevitable or just the result to trying to minimize the vulnerability window, chronologically speaking.
I do think that MS Windows users got surprised when their Notepad experience changed unexpectedly recently. Maybe you don’t consider that equivalent, but it is instability.
Anyway, my experience is that Debian Stable is more stable than the MS Win 10 laptop issued by my previous employer. And, I don’t know of any rigorous studies comparing the Linux stability with MS Win stability, so I’ll tend to prefer to be guided by my experience. (And, I don’t expect you to abandon your experience in favor of my anecdotes.)
(Honestly, I’d probably still be using Free Software even if it was less stable that Proprietary Software, but I am glad Debian Stable does focus on stability and I do support most of the policies they use to implement it.)
- Comment on Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows" 2 months ago:
Do you get a window? If so, you can xkill (or the Wayland equivalent, if you compositor provides one).
Failing that, yeah, it can be quite difficult to identify the right proc to kill. Sometimes showing the process “tree” and the full “command line” can help.
Beat of luck!
- Comment on Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows" 2 months ago:
That’s not the definition of stable.
My Linux desktop required about a reboot a week, but I think that’s because I was using a kerne and syatemdl from Debian Unstable. When I’m getting both of those from Debian Stable, I only reboot when there’s a security fix in one of those.
I do have a couple of issues I work around on a daily basis, but they aren’t even bad enough for me to open a Debian bug, so I don’t expect them to change/get fixed.
Also, I refuse to blame Linux or Debian when I acquire and use software outside of the Debian repositories.
- Comment on Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows" 2 months ago:
Stable mean unchanging. Stable does not mean free of faults.
I don’t know anything about MS Windows anymore, but I tend to doubt it’s as stable as Debian Stable, since we are constantly getting accused of being “too old” because of our stability policies.
- Comment on Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows" 2 months ago:
I am a programmer, and I can barely put together a latch in redstone. Anyone that programs redstone is a “tech guy” to me (whether they can build a PC or not).
- Comment on The pipeline 2 months ago:
It’s “choosing the easy option” and “being soft”. There’s no deeper meaning that I can discern.
Evidently, “real men” choose “hardship” so they are ready when “hardship” chooses them?
Also I think the pictured “(Alpha Male)” account is intentional satire of the Tates of the world.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 2 months ago:
No, I think more MS users = MS shady shit. So, to discourage MS shady shit, I encourage people to not use MS software. I also think that people who are worried about abuse by priests should tithe or otherwise donate to Catholic churches (belief matters less than action here; and it’s less reasonable to swap out belief system, I guess.)
That’s why your analogy seems backwards to me.
Doesn’t matter anyway. I guess I just don’t get it. Have a nice day.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 2 months ago:
The VM protects somewhat from network attacks and spread. But, I do imagine most vulnerabilities of Win10 would still be exploitable, and you would be sacrificing some performance, yes.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 2 months ago:
I didn’t like the name, but it was a nice option for Nvidia laptops esp. from System76.
I ended up replacing it with Ubuntu; but I can’t remember exactly why. I normally use Debian.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 2 months ago:
I’m not sure I get the analogy here… Do you think there will be less abuse by priests if there are more Catholics?
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 2 months ago:
I’m been using Linux full time since 2004, and while I think it is good to let people know it is there, I don’t recommend it to people I’m not willing to personally support. But, I also let them know I just can’t help with Windows problems either, and they should address their complaints to their OS vendor.
I file Debian bugs if I have a problem with my OS, and have received fixes that way. This is better support that I ever received from MS during my first 2 decades of using MS OSes.