Brkdncr
@Brkdncr@lemmy.world
- Comment on Recommend some games for PCem 8 hours ago:
Crusader: No Remorse and No Regret are great.
- Comment on Recommend some games for PCem 16 hours ago:
- Comment on Recommend some games for PCem 16 hours ago:
Mechwarrior 2
- Comment on RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives 1 day ago:
I’m expecting software development to begin focusing on optimization in about 3 years as businesses begin to complain about feature updates slowing things down on the machines that they are keeping longer than before.
CTOs/CIOs that were holding off on purchasing new hardware because of the upcoming improved CPUs from AMD and Intel lost a horrible gamble.
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 2 days ago:
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 2 days ago:
Disagree when it comes to security patches.
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 2 days ago:
Getting into the command line isn’t the problem. It’s the lack of consistency in how things are configured and the random command names that you have to remember or look up.
Windows might be tied to an online account, but Linux is tied to online communities to figure out nearly anything.
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 2 days ago:
Fair, but why not enable updates by default? Not doing so seems like a disservice to the internet community.
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 2 days ago:
Stock rpi released in December.
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 2 days ago:
I just set up a raspberry pi and i couldn’t figure out if it would automatically update, there wasn’t any gui option for it.
I found a few websites all with different methods to set up auto update. One of the most accepted was some cli that was encouraged to copy/paste. It installed something, but it then needed additional config to work on rpi.
30 mins from the time I powered on it was ready. In windows, it’s enabled out of the box and searching for “updates” on the task bar finds it for you.
Which of these OS’s was easier?
- Comment on Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud 4 days ago:
Desktop streaming isn’t the same as web apps.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud 4 days ago:
Modern desktop streaming is quite impressive. 100ms, 5% loss is no problem for most tasks. You don’t even notice it, and as a result your experience can sometimes be better.
Additionally you can offload some tasks to the local machine where appropriate.
You dont need to fit every users needs into a thin client setup, but you could fit probably 50% of all users onto one and they wouldn’t know any different. Think of the energy savings. Think of all that plastic that goes into a desktop or laptop that isn’t needed in a virtualized blade chassis. Think of the rolling performance upgrades. Think of never having your hardware go End of Support. Think of the old equipment that ends up properly e-wasted instead of shoved into a dump. Think of the batteries that no longer need to get produced.
I might play around with this idea and host my own non-profit Desktop as a Service.
- Comment on I wonder what would've happened if Lego bought Minecraft 4 days ago:
They’d hire Bloc Party to be the entertainment at the announcement party.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud 4 days ago:
I’ll repeat what I said elsewhere:
Renting PCs is probably overall cheaper and a lot better for the environment. Most people don’t need a machine, they just need a thin client and something to access a few apps maybe 30 mins a day.
Even “power users” don’t need a machine.
If there were a non-profit or not-for-profit that was selling maybe an rpi we’d be saving a lot of money and reducing climate harm.
I just don’t trust bezos to not be greedy.
- Comment on Wine 11 Officially Released with NTSync Support, Vulkan H.264 Decoding, and More 5 days ago:
Impressive
- Comment on CrowdStrike shareholders lose battle to recoup losses from 2024 outage 5 days ago:
The issue was that they werent letting customers change or decline a component that updates regularly and they weren’t testing it hemselves.
I was forced to switch to CS and there are better products and managed edr out there.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
From a different perspective, renting a pc and having a thin client would be a lot better for the environment and cheaper for the consumer.
Sadly I don’t think that’s the goal of these companies
- Comment on Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First 1 week ago:
Meshtastic is just as susceptible to listening and isn’t perfect at encryption or anonymity but should be another tool to consider when cellphone towers are down or otherwise unusable.
- Comment on Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First 1 week ago:
Yes. You can get them cheap online and they have a built in “encryption” function that isn’t well protected but might prevent people from listening in realtime.
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 1 week ago:
Shouldn’t know how to cancel/disable onedrive either then and doesn’t need to worry about this fear mongering article.
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 1 week ago:
During user profile creation she accepted that option.
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 1 week ago:
As the admin you should fix onedrive seamless sso so th yr don’t need to worry about signin.
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 1 week ago:
That data isn’t the problem. It’s the backed up folders that’s the problem.
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 1 week ago:
Last time I set up a user account onedrive was not forced. It’s suggested and you had to click a few buttons to turn it on.
I wonder if other apps that do cloud offload work in the same way: disable service and you lose cloud-sync’d content unless you downloaded it ahead of time.
I’m also curious if onedrive prompts you to save/downlod your data first.
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 1 week ago:
Garbage article, but I think what they are saying is if you don’t restore your files from backup before you disable your onedrive backup, then you lose your files.
This sounds like user error.
- Comment on How do you "process" hundreds of tabs you haven't gotten a chance to look through? 1 week ago:
Close them. Hoarding tabs is still hoarding.
- Comment on Hotel review sites should include a section where reviewers can share the internet speed 1 week ago:
It’s just a normal review on google or yelp.
- Comment on NAS build guidance - choice paralysis 1 week ago:
This plugged into a raspberry pi would be a cheap alternative to a true kvm appliance.
openterface.com/product/minikvm/
You don’t need a kvm for 5 systems, just one for the machine that doesn’t have vpro.
- Comment on NAS build guidance - choice paralysis 1 week ago:
Vpro is really only needed to get you into your bios or fix an issue where you disabled network somehow.
You could buy a standalone kvm. I think there’s one that uses a raspberry pi.
Or you could set up vnc or something similar on your host if you need a gui.
I would put vpro as a nice to have but not essential component option.
Non-vpro with amt will still get you to the pre-os screen I think.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You posted this into the /c/fediverse community. It should be in /c/news or somewhere else.
