ragepaw
@ragepaw@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 1 week ago:
So many things wrong with this.
I am not a programmer by trade, and even though I learned programming in school, it’s not a thing I want to spend a lot of time doing, so I do use AI when I need to generate code.
But I have a few HARD rules.
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I execute all code and commands. Nothing gets to run on my system without me.
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Anything which can be even remotely destructive, must be flagged and not even shown to me, until I agree to the risk.
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All information and commands must be verifiable by sourcing documentary links, or providing context links that I can peruse. If documentary evidence is not available, it must provide a rationale why I should execute what it generates.
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Every command must be accompanied by a description of what the command will do, what each flag means, and what the expected outcome is.
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I am the final authority on all matters. It is allowed to make suggestions, but never changes without my approval.
Without these constraints, I won’t trust it. Even then, I read all of the code it generates and verify it myself, so in the end, if it blows something up, I bear sole responsibility.
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- Comment on Preloading File Explorer in Windows 11 Doubles RAM Usage, Offers Minimal Speed Boost 1 week ago:
That is entirely a shit at managing memory problem.
If you have 1 MB of RAM left, firstly, your OS has not properly managed it’s resources. It should have reserved system RAM. Secondly, a good memory manager will have swapped out unused, or low priority pages.
And that’s not just a system issue. A well developed piece of software will unload (or never load) parts of the software that are not needed at runtime.
I’m going to give you a great example I just read about today, about bad programming practices. The install of Helldivers 2 has been reduced from 154GB to 23 GB. That’s a reduction of 85%. This was driven by de-duplication of code. So, while this is a storay about storage space, ask how many modules and functions were duplicated, and how many of those were loaded independently into RAM.
Bad programming in one area, means bad programming in all areas.
With your 1 MB example, I would ask if all of the devs who created all of the other programs on the system had written better and more efficient code, would you still need more RAM? The answer is no.
- Comment on Preloading File Explorer in Windows 11 Doubles RAM Usage, Offers Minimal Speed Boost 1 week ago:
Because it wasn’t. After SP1, and moreso after SP2 it was perfectly fine.
- Comment on Preloading File Explorer in Windows 11 Doubles RAM Usage, Offers Minimal Speed Boost 1 week ago:
This is my point.
- Comment on Preloading File Explorer in Windows 11 Doubles RAM Usage, Offers Minimal Speed Boost 1 week ago:
Right, but that’s not a high memory problem, that’s a Windows is shit at managing memory problem.
If MS fixed that, you could easily run memory hot at >90% without issue.
It’s also a software developers are making poor products problem. Even back when I was on Windows, I swapped out MS Office for Libre Office and then OnlyOffice. In both cases, my system performed better just by not running MS Office. That’s not a memory usage problem.
On my work laptop. which runs Windows, I removed the entire Adobe suite, which I don’t use for anything, and my overall system responsiveness increased. Again, not a memory issue, an poor programming issue.
Devs (the companies, not the individual programmers) know that users will throw more RAM at a problem, so it absolves them of the need to write better code. If Windows had a better memory manager, and Office and Adobe were more efficient, you wouldn’t need more RAM.
Also, just to clarify a point. Right now, web browsers, the worst abuser of memory, are taking up 24GB of ram on my system.
Because I have no memory swapping issues, I keep many open web browsers, which most people can’t if they are on Windows because it’s crap at memory management.
So our list grows to, crappy memory management on Windows, crappy development of web browsers, crappy development of applications, and crappy web pages (as you say).
None of that is a low memory problem, it’s all poor software development. When RAM was super expensive, developers (again companies, not individuals) got lazy and stopped caring about efficiency.
We don’t need more RAM, we need better code. There is no reason anyone running normal usage should need that much RAM.
To make my point, I just SSHed into my wife’s Linux PC, which she never closes anything, and this is her memory usage with a bunch of browsers doing all the normal things she does, and multiple spreadsheets open in OnlyOffice.
Memory: Total: 16278284 Used: 6254884 Available 10023400
- Comment on Preloading File Explorer in Windows 11 Doubles RAM Usage, Offers Minimal Speed Boost 1 week ago:
Unpopular opinion here, but Windows Vista was perfectly fine after SP1 was released. I migrated from XP-64 Bit to Vista and all around, it worked just as well (after SP1).
The after SP1 thing is the important bit. Unfortunately, even though a lot of issues were fixed then, it already had it’s reputation as dogshit.
The other thing is, the NT6 kernel was really strong. MS needs to decouple their UI from the kernel. The Window 11 kernel is actually pretty good. It’s the diabolically awful Windows 11 Interface that is the source of so much Windows evil.
- Comment on Preloading File Explorer in Windows 11 Doubles RAM Usage, Offers Minimal Speed Boost 1 week ago:
High memory usage isn’t a problem by itself. Empty RAM is not being used. How the system performs when something needs RAM is more important.
My system has 96GB of ram, 24 of which is dedicated to a Windows VM. Rigght now, I have only 3.5Gb free because of everything I’m running.
The important thing is, if I run a new task that requires more RAM, my system will cleanly reallocate the RAM to where it’s needed with no latency or performance hits, or stuttering.
In the meantime, it’s not sitting there, unused and useless.
- Comment on Why a new Steam Machine when the first ones flopped? Because this time, Valve say, it'll actually have games 4 weeks ago:
It’s not too late!
- Comment on MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On 4 weeks ago:
I have a buddy who won’t switch his streaming box because he thinks his in-laws will be too confused by a different button layout on the remote.
- Comment on MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On 4 weeks ago:
I front-end mpv with smplayer.
It’s enough for my purposes.
- Comment on "The hope is to have a fresh 'Star Trek' movie, though [Paramount] has moved on from the idea of bringing back Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and the rest of the ensemble from the J.J. Abrams reboot." 5 weeks ago:
The title of the article you posted is clearly not the same article given that it’s not the same headline or the fact it’s not even about Star Trek.
You’re clearly a troll, and I’m done wasting time with you.
- Comment on "The hope is to have a fresh 'Star Trek' movie, though [Paramount] has moved on from the idea of bringing back Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and the rest of the ensemble from the J.J. Abrams reboot." 5 weeks ago:
I’m not sure why you’re arguing. YOU linked to the article I responded to. Did you actually read it? And did you notice that the article now redirects to a different article than the one you linked to?
It really wasn’t hard to find a different source that for the same article you ooriginally posted. Many other sites reposted.
I’m not sure why you’re arguing. YOU linked to the article I responded to. Did you actually read it?
sffgazette.com/…/star-trek-4-has-finally-been-scr… Note: “SOURCE: VARIETY”
- Comment on "The hope is to have a fresh 'Star Trek' movie, though [Paramount] has moved on from the idea of bringing back Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and the rest of the ensemble from the J.J. Abrams reboot." 5 weeks ago:
It’s previously been reported that Haynes and Grahame-Smith’s movie, produced by Simon Kinberg, "will serve as an origin story of sorts for the main timeline of the entire franchise
Literal prequel
- Comment on "The hope is to have a fresh 'Star Trek' movie, though [Paramount] has moved on from the idea of bringing back Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and the rest of the ensemble from the J.J. Abrams reboot." 5 weeks ago:
I am all for new Trek, but they need to fuck right off with the prequels.
Every studio: “What if we instead just go back and write ourselves into a corner and risk pissing people off by breaking continuity.”
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 1 month ago:
I have terrible sight, and on my TV in my living room, I can tell the difference. But I also don’t cheap out.
- Comment on How did Luke Skywalker learn to communicate with Astromech droids? How did he learn the language whilst living on Tatooine? 2 months ago:
Luke is reading a translation on a screen
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 3 months ago:
I switched to OnlyOffice for my work files. I have had no compatibility issues with my coworkers
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 5 months ago:
MS did a shift like that already. The shift from MS-DOS to NT was transparent to the vast majority of people to the point that most people didn’t realize they were two different OSes.
I don’t see why they couldn’t do it again. NTVDM was similar in concept to what wine does. Imagine if MS actively contributed to wine, or a wine like project.
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 6 months ago:
Let’s give them credit. Maybe their first experience was installing Gentoo, which is when Windows is better.
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 7 months ago:
Just to further your point. It’s like Cirque du Soleil, scripted, but they are really doing those moves.
- Comment on A mechanic that ain't cursing is a mechanic that ain't working. 7 months ago:
I worked on computers for years and I can confirm that fixing software and I can confirm many vulgar epithets coming out of my mouth.
- Comment on Washington BANS Britain from sharing US intelligence with Ukraine 9 months ago:
Were i in British intelligence, i would tell Trump to eat my puckering asshole.
- Comment on Microsoft is struggling to get Windows Recall out the door — delays releasing first public preview. 1 year ago:
It was the straw that broke the camels back to get me to switch to Linux.
- Comment on Having $270 billion dollars and spending the bulk of your time trying to make more money is like weighing 900 pounds and thinking "ooh, I bet I can get to 1000". 1 year ago:
Because one of the few things he actually understands is he is not immortal, so he’s trying to make a legacy. Hence, literally offering his sperm to anyone who wants it, and not caring about anything other than making sure his name is at the top of everything he is even mildly interested in.
- Comment on YSK about Darkpatterns.games, a website that rates mobile games on their "Dark patterns" 1 year ago:
It’s not sad, there is a direct connection.
They are the top games because of the psychological manipulation being successful.
- Comment on How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/ 1 year ago:
Because it’s never been about anything other than control. The right to choose anything is abhorrent to them. The only rights they want you to have are the right to be dictated to and the right to be like them.
