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- Comment on They need to bring you in to feel their power over you 5 days ago:
Hotel cubes? You mean non-adjustable shared desks with 10 cm high felt partitions which do absolutely nothing to keep you from hearing the espresso machine with perfect clarity no matter where you sit. Also, every team contains at least one consultant who remotes in from another country so all meetings have to be on Teams.
- Comment on Any advice for me a guy turning 18 yo old?? 2 weeks ago:
And everyone is trying to muddle through, including your heroes. I think it’s good to keep this in mind; both to avoid feeling inferior for not having your shit figured out (because nobody has) and to be tolerant of people making mistakes – nobody’s perfect and everyone has issues besides getting your order exactly right.
Be chill with yourself and with other people.
- Comment on thank goodness 3 weeks ago:
I just love how you just assert that your information is properly sourced while providing no sources at all. Beautiful.
- Comment on 1919 (correctly) 4 weeks ago:
The start of old comics, characterized by being a violent choleric who deals with annoying people. Check out !truecomics@midwest.social.
- Comment on Before modern-day authoritarian regimes, did people living under abosolute monarchies talk criticize the monarchs? Or did they just stay silent in fear of persecution? 4 weeks ago:
More specifically, “absolute” refers to being above the law or other oversight. An absolute ruler is not bound by the laws that govern everyone else; being able to rule by decree is a consequence of that as there can be no laws that prevent this.
- Comment on oh cool 4 weeks ago:
They’re not all that afraid of what’s out there. They spend most of their time trying to make friends and messing things up by acting like American tourists.
In fact, most of the reason for why humanity is so powerful towards the end of the show is that several of the powerful species have befriended humanity and have given their tech to them.
It’s still milprop but milprop that places a surprisingly large emphasis on diplomacy and dealing with people in good faith. You know, what the USA typically don’t do.
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 5 weeks ago:
The Marathon AIs weren’t all bad.
Leela meant well but was completely outclassed.
Durandal had been rampant since before the first game and only reached some degree of stability once he stole that Pfhor ship. He was basically designed to be unstable. While he was certainly an asshole with rather loose morals, he also made sure that Leela could warm humanity about the Pfhor and that his S’pht allies got what they wanted. He’s on the verge of being an antihero.
Tycho… Well, we only saw him after the Pfhor rebuilt him and that version of him is pretty clearly a villain.
Thoth was barely conscious until he merged with Durandal. I can’t say much about him. He is possibly involved with altering the timeline after the W’rkncacnter was released so I’d book him as a good guy.
(I am mad at the new Marathon but for different reasons than the AIs.)
- Comment on Vi undrar, är ni redo att vara med? 5 weeks ago:
Mind you, the anime part came from some guys on the Internet combining a sped-up version of the original song with some dancing from the opening of a hentai show. (Or game? I don’t remember.)
Then it went viral and the label marketed the hell out of it.
The original song is just another piece of generic dance music: Four on the floor beat; lyrics that vaguely describe dance steps; catchy because Swedish producers can’t produce non-catchy songs.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 5 weeks ago:
I think major factors in people bitching about the Windows 10 EOL is that a) Windows 10 was explicitly marketed as the final version of Windows and b) Windows 11 is so unappealing that even companies are reluctant to upgrade.
Normally, that wouldn’t be a big problem. We had dud releases before. Windows Vista had few friends due to compatibility issues but was workable. Besides, 7 was launched shortly after Vista’s EOL. Likewise, Windows 8’s absurd UI choices made it deeply unpopular but it was quickly followed by 8.1, which fixed that. And Windows 10 again followed shortly after 8’s EOL (and well before 8.1’s).
Windows 11, however, combines a hard to justify spec hike with a complete absence of appealing new features. The notable new features that are there are raising concerns about data safety. In certain industries (e.g. medical, legal, and finance), Recall/Copilot Vision is seen as dangerous as it might access protected information and is not under the same control that the company has over its document stores. That increases the vector for a data breach that could lead to severe legal and reputational penalties.
Microsoft failed to satisfyingly address these concerns. And there’s not even hope of a new version of Windows releasing a few months after 10’s EOL; Windows 12 hasn’t even been announced yet.
It’s no wonder that companies are now complaining about Windows 10’s support window being too short.
- Comment on arriving 1 month ago:
In stereotypical winter you can’t add enough layers since if you do add layers so your face doesn’t hurt you get accosted by the police because going to public places in a balaclava hasn’t been legal since the late 50s.
In winter as it actually happens you need fewer layers but they need to be waterproof because winter means rain at +2 °C.
- Comment on Fanless fridge, no damper, but 3 wires go from thermostat to a loop of tube. WTF is that mystery component? 1 month ago:
One thing to note is that only some fridges don’t have vents. Ones advertising “no frost” or “low frost” as a feature do have vents that serve to keep the air circulating and remove moisture from the air. They might still follow a different approach from American fridges, though.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 1 month ago:
Yeah, and in the 70s they estimated they’d need about twice that to make significant progress in a reasonable timeframe. Fusion research is underfunded – especially when you look at how the USA dunno money into players like the NIF, which research inertial confinement fusion.
Inertial confinement fusion is great for developing better thermonuclear weapons but an unlikely candidate for practical power generation. So from that one billion bucks a year, a significant amount is pissed away on weapons research instead of power generation candidates like tokamaks and stellarators.
I’m glad that China is funding fusion research, especially since they’re in a consortium with many Western nations. When they make progress, so do we (and vice versa).
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 1 month ago:
At least the fusion guys are making actual progress and can point to being wildly underfunded – and they predicted this pace of development with respect to funding back in the late 70s.
Meanwhile, the AI guys have all the funding in the world, keep telling about how everything will change in the next few months, actually trigger layoffs with that rhetoric, and deliver very little.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
That doesn’t sound entirely unfamiliar but I can’t remember if that was actually something that happened in an earlier version of the game. All I know is that enough familiarity with those guys plus hazenite handling will also get you there.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
Normally, I think. I haven’t built it yet but it has unlocked. Not sure what triggered it, though.
Honestly, I’m not going to be using it – I’ve been showered with unique red chainsaws so my stealth consists of cutting down all potential witnesses.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
Can’t. I’m too busy building fusion reactors in bulk to power my wall of gatling laser towers.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
I’m replaying Riftbreaker. They just dropped the extended endgame (plus a bunch of other new features) and it’s a good reason to play through it again.
The combination of base building, tower defense, and action gameplay just works for me.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
The Shantae series are some great metroidvanias with a lot of sass. Definite recommendation.
That said, Pirate’s Curse is my favorite of the bunch; the gameplay is just so satisfyingly smooth.
- Comment on when ur higher than sagan 2 months ago:
I saw the term “bio resonance” and immediately knew that this ostensible medical practitioner couldn’t get in touch with reality if they used a special reality-seeking pole constructed from a thousand dousing rods.
I used to work adjacent to the medical field, close enough to have to deal with a certain kind of medical practitioner a lot. For some reason, that part of medicine attracts people who believe in the supernatural so I’m familiar with bullshit from anthroposophy to quantum healing.
That shit gets real wild real fast. Bio resonance is already terrible (it’s basically the same kind of bullshit Scientology’s “E-meters” pretend to do but now as a “therapeutic” device with thirty buttons). But the worst must be quantum healing.
In quantum healing, actually seeing the patient in person is not necessary. Neither is knowing a lot about the patient. In fact, the less the practitioner knows, the better. Just give them a picture and a really vague description of the symptoms and the person (or pet; it “works” for those, to), and the practitioner will do something at some point in the future that will have some positive effect on either the person or the universe as a whole, even if it’s not obvious. Source: Trust me, bro.
And they charge real money for that shit. Real medical practitioners who went to real university and have a real degree in human medicine.
Absolutely incredible.
- Comment on Just built different 2 months ago:
He means it was 50 kcal. His cooking is 99% fiber.
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 2 months ago:
That’s literally how many German private houses are built: Autoclaved aerated concrete with a brick cladding. Looks nice and provides a lot of thermal insulation.
- Comment on stay weird fedi: in defense of the eccentric, eclectic, and erratic 2 months ago:
Of course it’s more normie. As more people from more diverse communities join, the average becomes more, well, average.
For instance, not everyone who moved over from Reddit is a communist trans furry cybersecurity expert in a chastity belt – some people even somehow manage to be none of those things.
I think there is room for them and there’s even room for them thinking the original crowd is weird. We need to maintain that “weird” is good, though, and that people can just look away if a topic makes then uncomfortable.
It works with .ml and friends – they can spend all day living their understanding of communism and everyone who doesn’t share that understanding can just block them and move on with their lives.
- Comment on Tried naming the states from memory as a European 2 months ago:
Four colors. Deserts are colorless; you’d need forest racists as well.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 3 months ago:
In addition to what Wolf told you, here’s a few little extra tidbits:
Some games have native Linux versions. If they don’t, you typically play them through Proton, a gaming-ready version of the Wine compatibility layer. Steam directly supports this through compatibility settings (Steam -> Settings -> Compatibility for default settings or Game properties -> Compatibility for per-game settings). Sometimes specific Proton versions will be better for specific games but usually you don’t need to worry about it much.
Proton is damn good. Expect performance for most games to be within ± 5% of the performance you’d get on Windows. Yes, some games run better on Proton than on native DirectX.
Valve recently decided to enable Proton by default for games that don’t have a Linux version. You can enable it yourself in the settings if it isn’t enabled yet.
You can even force games with a native Linux version to use Proton by setting it in the game’s compatibility settings. In that case Steam will download the Windows version.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 3 months ago:
Seconded, with caveats. Garuda is basically a gaming-ready Arch with a few of the rough edges filed off (and a 1337 G4M3R desktop theme preinstalled). I quite like their convenience stuff but in the end it’s still Arch.
Pros: It’s easy to set up and conveniently comes with everything you need to start gaming. It defaults to the KDE desktop, which will feel fairly familiar to Windows expats. It allows you to do whatever you want to do, in true Linux fashion. Cons: It’s still Arch-based so you will be living at the bleeding edge. A certain amount of occasional instability is to be expected. The default theme might put you off if you’re not into the whole gamer aesthetic but it’s easy to change.
I also see people recommending Bazzite and similar immutable distros and honestly, I can see the appeal. They’re harder to break and Discover (or whichever Flathub frontend you use) is very welcoming and convenient for managing your installed apps.
Pros: You’re less involved with the OS’s technical underpinnings than with an Arch-based distro. Immutables are designed to be robust. The Flatpak-centric workflow feels slicker than a traditional package manager. Cons: The design restricts your freedom to a certain degree. Flatpak has a few caveats compared to native software packages.
In the end I’d say that Garuda is great if you’re interested in learning more about how Linux works and want to be able to tinker with the system. There’s a ton of resources on technical stuff in Arch and all of them apply to Garuda as well. On the other hand, an immutable like Bazzite is great if you’Re not interested in Linux internals and just want something that works and is hard to break.
- Comment on I would still download a car if I could. 🚗 3 months ago:
Piracy isn’t piracy. Piracy is copyright infringement. Real piracy involves boats.
So if you want to be a proper pirate, run your BitTorrent client on a boat.
- Comment on I think my server might nit be a fan of the upcoming heatwave 3 months ago:
To quote that same document:
Figure 5 looks at the average temperatures for different age groups. The distributions are in sync with Figure 4 showing a mostly flat failure rate at mid-range temperatures and a modest increase at the low end of the temperature distribution. What stands out are the 3 and 4-year old drives, where the trend for higher failures with higher temperature is much more constant and also more pronounced.
That’s what I referred to. I don’t see a total age distribution for their HDDs so I have no idea if they simply didn’t have many HDDs in the three-to-four-years range, which would explain how they didn’t see a correlation in the total population. However, they do show a correlation between high temperatures and AFR for drives after more than three years of usage.
My best guess is that HDDs wear out slightly faster at temperatures above 35-40 °C so if your HDD is going to die of an age-related problem it’s going to die a bit sooner if it’s hot. (Also notice that we’re talking average temperature so the peak temperatures might have been much higher).
In a home server where the HDDs spend most of their time idling (probably even below Google’s “low” usage bracket) you probably won’t see a difference within the expected lifespan of the HDD. Still, a correlation does exist and it might be prudent to have some HDD cooling if temps exceed 40 °C regularly.
- Comment on I think my server might nit be a fan of the upcoming heatwave 3 months ago:
Hard drives don’t really like high temperatures for extended periods of time. Google did some research on this way back when. Failure rates start going up at an average temperature of 35 °C and become significantly higher if the HDD is operated beyond 40°C for much of its life. That’s HDD temperature, not ambient.
The same applies to low temperatures. The ideal temperature range seems to be between 20 °C and 35 °C.
Mind you, we’re talking “going from a 5% AFR to a 15% AFR for drives that saw constant heavy use in a datacenter for three years”. Your regular home server with a modest I/O load is probably going to see much less in terms of HDD wear. Still, heat amplifies that wear.
I’m not too concerned myself despite the fact that my server’s HDD temps are all somewhere between 41 and 44. At 30 °C ambient there’s not much better I can do and the HDDs spend most of their time idling anyway.
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 3 months ago:
Entry isn’t Azure. Entra ID is what they renamed Azure Active Directory to. But not always; there’s also Azure Active Directory B2C (yes, that’s the fully expanded name). And various other Azure-branded things that may or may not belong together.
Microsoft are spectacularly bad at naming things.
It’s a miracle they haven’t renamed Windows 11 to “360 365” or “Live 6.5” or “Active-DOS Series X” or something.
- Comment on You got it, buddy 3 months ago:
It’s an old term for the sexual organs that’s only used as part of terms these days. I tried to kinda match that. My translation wasn’t great, though.