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- Comment on Germany has just made the standard Open Document Format (ODF) mandatory 1 day ago:
Hell yes. I wonder how many man-hours of strategy meetings MS had on their calendars to fend that decision off.
- Comment on how is lemmy funded? 1 day ago:
Viewers like you.
- Comment on I hear Quarry Junction is lovely this time of year! 2 days ago:
It’s been over a decade but I remember fondly taking that route and getting murdered by a Cazador almost immediately.
I may be on my deathbed not able to remember the names and faces of my loved ones while screaming at the recurring nightmare of seeing one of those homing in on me from a distance.
- Comment on Luck is not a Disaster Recovery Plan 2 days ago:
Sounds like you’re missing an on-site copy on different storage and an offsite copy.
- Comment on WHO officials admit they are preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran 2 days ago:
There’s always a way out. Iran could pull a crazy and offer to let oil through if the US stops supporting Israel, builds as much power generation as they want, and enters a defense agreement to protect Iran from unprovoked foreign attacks.
There is always room for diplomacy.
- Comment on ReFS is better than NTFS, but Microsoft refuses to let regular users have it 3 days ago:
Maybe “it’s not needed yet” is more accurate.
- Comment on ReFS is better than NTFS, but Microsoft refuses to let regular users have it 3 days ago:
It’s not ready yet. It’s good for some specific use cases but it’s not anything the typical end user needs.
- Comment on A Fallout 4 QA tester nuked the RPG so hard that Zenimax executives got emails about it: "I was running around super-nuking the entire wasteland and found 4 crashes in a single morning" 6 days ago:
I was a QA tester for a mobile game company back when feature phones had games. Some of the shit was silly like jumping against the left wall 300 times would crash the game, or rapidly putting the phone into and out of a faraday cage would crash the game.
Any time we crashed the phone things got spicy, and we had special instructions to follow if we found a way to disrupt the micro cell in the office.
- Comment on Remote KVM recommendations 1 week ago:
Nope, bad idea.
- Comment on Would it be possible to have a successful career as a lawyer and never lie? 1 week ago:
Lawyers don’t lie. They massage the truth.
- Comment on Barack Obama is the youngest living former or active president 1 week ago:
It’s not like Trump is some mastermind coming up with all these ideas on his own, and Miller isn’t likable enough to get elected.
- Comment on Need deck stair tread help! 2 weeks ago:
This looks like something any machine shop could make in 45 mins.
- Comment on Barack Obama is the youngest living former or active president 2 weeks ago:
I would gladly embrace shitty young ones over old ones. At least the younger ones are thinking about the future.
- Comment on The Helldivers 2 Community needs to get a fucking grip on itself 2 weeks ago:
Is the original dev team even working on the game? Most projects go into maintenance mode after release and DLCv1. The talented folks move on to new things and you’re left with regular folks if you’re lucky and outsourced high turnover cube farms if you’re not. Of course the current devs are out of touch, it’s just a 9-5 for them.
- Comment on We messed up with the Windows 12 article. What we got wrong and how it happened 2 weeks ago:
They basically retracted the article. There’s no windows 12.
- Comment on We messed up with the Windows 12 article. What we got wrong and how it happened 2 weeks ago:
It could happen to you.
- Comment on We messed up with the Windows 12 article. What we got wrong and how it happened 2 weeks ago:
This wasn’t even an AI issue nor even a translation issue. They published an article that lacked sources, and still wasn’t good enough once sources were added.
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- Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops 2 weeks ago:
Lmao
- Comment on How would I improve Wifi consistency within my house? 2 weeks ago:
Instead of chaining them together, try to put the “router” in a central location and do what’s needed to limit your repeaters to a single hop away from the router. Chaining them together will lead to problems.
A proper mesh system will work better than repeaters. Some systems can use powerline networking to use your existing power outlets as a network, but it’s not always that great.
Some locations such as apartments/condos have really bad interfering neighbors on 2.4ghz. If that’s your situation then using 5ghz exclusively might help.
- Comment on We only have Security. 2 weeks ago:
Shower stroke thoughts.
- Comment on What's going to happen to gas stations as cars electrify? 2 weeks ago:
They will close. If you look at how many gas stations there are you’ll see that they are everywhere. I was driving through Iowa and saw an intersection that had 6 gas stations.
- Comment on W10 EoL and possibly switching to Linux (various tech questions) 2 weeks ago:
You can easily search for news on Linux malware. Most recently npm was affected.
Npm is used by a lot of software, so updating your software from valid sources could easily infect your machine.
It’s also dead simple to misconfigure something on Linux, like your firewall, leaving your machine exposed to the internet. Linux doesn’t bother you nearly as much as windows does when it comes to updating and restarting. Windows used to be that way too but had to adapt to the changing threat landscape.
With VMs you can try as many at once as your system can support, with less risk than booting up on a livecd, and the ability to switch between them without having to reboot.
Moving files manually is fine.
- Comment on W10 EoL and possibly switching to Linux (various tech questions) 2 weeks ago:
Don’t use an EoL/EoS OS, full stop.
Start up virtualbox or any virtual machine on your windows machine and test drive a few different distributions until you find one you like.
Use windows built in backup services or something like the Veeam free backup agent before blowing up your system.
I would also move my files to a cloud services, even if it’s temporary.
Install the distribution your choice.
Spin up virtual box again and restore your machine into it. You may have license activation issues but you’ll have access your data. Move your data out of the VM and onto your home folder.
Also note that win11 isn’t nearly as bad as people here say.
Linux has malware. It’s just different. Linux supports nvidia, a usb boot would help you determine how well your hardware is supported.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 2 weeks ago:
I find PS pretty great. Probably the best improvement to Windows since going 32-bit.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 2 weeks ago:
MS would be wild to expect people to buy a new machine before 2036. Consumer prices aren’t going to magically fall.
Either this is incorrect info, a huge flop, or MS really doesn’t care if home users switch to Linux from all the cash flowing in from businesses.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 2 weeks ago:
This line of thought goes all the way back to NT, and even then IBM would have some comments.
DOS was the last one they built, and they made a really decent GUI for it before they switched to NT.
- Comment on Teams’ invasive Wi‑Fi tracking sparks backlash as users say Microsoft crossed a line — “There must be a team at Microsoft tasked with making Teams worse” 2 weeks ago:
So many other apps do this already, including the OS. This is changing your Teams status for you, so coworkers can see if you’re in the office or not.
If your hybrid wfh office has any sort of reservation system then this is likely already happening.
- Comment on Converser.eu is being flooded 2 weeks ago:
Once an OS boots there’s not really a lot of need for ssd. Save ssd for the apps.
- Comment on How do you effectively backup your high (20+ TB) local NAS? 3 weeks ago:
It offers some other features like hybrid access to data,If my nas isn’t available I can access it from their cloud. There’s also some identity services.