Jesus_666

@Jesus_666@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Traffic Lights⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Traffic circles are. Roundabouts are okay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In addition to what has been mentioned already, Garuda is an Arch derivative where convenience is the whole point. No install scripts, just your usual live ISO with a Calamares installer plus a bunch of convenience utilities once you’re set up.

  It’s not exactly lightweight by default but it does make for a very comfortable Arch experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My kind of Doctor⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps they were thinking of an American doctor.

  The bowling pins are for hitting the patient on the head because that’s the only anesthesia they can afford. The ducks are the little birdies circling the patient’s head after the anesthetic bludgeoning has been administered.

  The first gun is there because America and the second gun is so you can double-tap the patient in case you suspect they might be an immigrant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just waiting for their reaction when everyone is supposed to use cloud desktops and the average application assumes the user has 128 GB of RAM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're going to accept art this horny please pay someone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  RoboCop did. So this is just like RoboCop; a pro-constitutional reform spokesperson was killed by a counterreformist gang and got most of their body replaced by a soulless megacorporation to help them privatize proreformist publicity work. The difference is that this one didn’t have any robot parts so they used a snow leopard instead.

  Obviously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Except these stamps can’t even be handed over to someone else so you can’t even pay for anything with them. So the delusion is that you’re going to want to spend a significant part of your income on LM tokens no matter what.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s called group exercise. You’re welcome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US governor boosts US-Iran 'combat footage' that is actually from War Thunder, featuring WW2-era weapons⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can we get some infantry combat footage next? Maybe from Counter-Strike or Unreal Tournament for variety?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨every time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember: If you’re not part of the solution you’re part of the precipitate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨every time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My girlfriend got herself a pair and taped them to corners of her desk. She doesn’t want to turn on the light when she gets up at night but she also doesn’t want to bump into the desk. Tritium vials fit that use case well.

  Could we have gone with dimmable lights or something homebrewed with low-power LEDs? Sure, but tritium vials are affordable and don’t need a power supply or much in the way of setup; they’ll just keep doing their thing for about a decade before you have to even think about their light output.

  They’re a solid choice if you have the specific use case of wanting something to be easily located in (near-)complete darkness but you don’t want to use electricity for some reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happens when you always think the worst of people⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that dog driving a car?

  Nope, Chuck Testa!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless other situations where the established technology wins due to inertia, sodium ion batteries have two benefits that make them interesting regardless:

  Firstly, they are safer. A punctured sodium ion battery doesn’t catch fire, which massively simplifies safety design. That makes them very attractive for certain scenarios, especially ones where density is a secondary concern. That in turn means they get further development money instead of withering on the vine.

  Secondly, they require fewer hard-to-obtain materials, which makes them attractive from a strategic perspective. This one should be less important than the safety factor but it’s also relevant.

  I’m pretty sure we’ll actually see wet sodium cells in the wild if they are actually practical. Sodium ion tech is already being commercialized and if this brings it within the same ballpark as lithium ion then it becomes a very interesting choice for vehicles due to instant crash safety gains.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The size of Portugal compared to Spain⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, they’re trying. Not very successfully as of late but they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh. They had options. With something as crazy as the Saints Row franchise they dissolve basically done anything.

  For example, have the Saints go back in time to prevent the destruction of Earth, overshoot and end up preventing their own founding. The test of the game consists of them trying to prevent themselves from being erased from existence a la Back to the Future.

  Or, if you want to dial back the craziness, declare the plot of IV to be a movie the Saints produced, which flopped and somehow ended up bankrupting Ultor.

  They had options.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't know the reason why.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because most banana varieties aren’t very transport stable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two sides to every story⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “…you see, it was actually considerably worse and I refuse to keep getting undersold by her like that.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pls?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If the show had been made in Germany it would’ve been called Just Send Saul A Fax.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI spurs employees to work harder, faster, and with fewer breaks, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah, same here except with a self-hosted LLM. I had a log file with thousands of warnings and errors coming from several components. Major refactor of a codebase in the cleanup phase. I wanted to have those sorted by severity, component, and exception (if present). Nothing fancy.

  So, hoping I could get a quick solution, I passed it to the LLM. It returned an error. Turns out that a 14 megabyte text file exceeds the context size. That server with several datacenter GPUs sure looks like a great investment now.

  So I just threw together a script that applied a few regexes. That worked, no surprise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone who has a dog does this⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been to the park with a dog with no name
  It felt good to be out of the rain
  When I make passwords, I can remember his name
  'Cause there ain’t no one for to give me no pain

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Speaking as someone who is currently planning to move a community away from Discord to something self-hosted, it’s not as easily said as done.

  Apart from the need to run your own infrastructure, competing software is typically finicky and comes with caveats. Plus you have to worry about discoverability if you want to attract new users.

  It’s doable, sure, but it requires a lot of planning and work. Honestly, it’s probably going to take us months to get our own service fully up and running.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You could have a really simple Markov chain generator fill a gigabyte’s worth of .txt files with nonsense sentences. At least that’s “content” they have to parse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the definitive way to play certain games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I could argue that experiencing the Groundhog Day bug builds character but… no. Nobody should have to deal with that.

  Admittedly, a few tactics like filling your base with laser rifles to make attacking aliens spawn unarmed no longer work. But honestly, an experienced player treats base attacks like bonus levels anyway so it’s not like much of value was lost. Besides, you also now get all the loot from big missions and not just the first 128 items.

  Also, UFO now actually remembers your difficulty setting and doesn’t revert you to Beginner after the first mission. That’s different but better. I probably should’ve mentioned that separately in my first comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the definitive way to play certain games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  OpenXcom for the first two X-Com games (UFO: Enemy Unknown and X-Com: Terror From The Deep). This reimplementation is insanely good.

  • It fixes all known bugs of the original X-Com engine.
  • It works on modern systems, including Linux, macOS, Windows, and even Android.
  • It has support for modern resolutions and aspect ratios.
  • It allows you to use soundtracks from other versions of the game (e.g. look at the website’s “Extras” tab).
  • It has mod support including a basic mod manager. And some of those mods are damn good.
  • It runs flawlessly.

  There’s really no reason to play the original DOS versions anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'I'll believe it when I see it': Windows 11 users are cynical about Microsoft's promises to fix the OS and stop pushing AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I had avoided it until late last year when I had to reinstall a friend’s borked install after it had somehow managed to shred its registry hives.

  Holy shit. That installer is an embarrassment. First it couldn’t get past the first reboot until I found out that you can set it to use what looks like the Windows 7 installer for the first steps. Then I had to deal with a dog slow installer that needs half a dozen reboots for some unfathomable reason. Then an endless cavalcade of sales prompts, including one for an Office subscription where they try to hide the price from you. All to end in, well, Windows 11.

  I simultaneously installed Fedora Kinoite on his old laptop. I don’t think the Fedora installer is one of the better ones but it was so much easier and faster to set up the machine that it was almost comical.

  Seeing both systems side by side really drives home just how clunky Windows is. And how Microsoft installers are barely better than they were 15 years ago, but now they have ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything was indeed brown.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, given that TV viewership is falling and people are increasingly using on-demand services instead of tuning in, I’d argue that 404 error pages and NXDOMAIN browser error pages are in the process of replacing the dead channel conceptually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything was indeed brown.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In the 80s the sky was the color of a dead TV channel and it was overcast.

  In the 00s the sky was the color of a dead TV channel and it was clear.

  Today nobody knows what a dead TV channel is supposed to look like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or double down on AI. Then double down even harder.

  • Make the use of Copilot mandatory; simultaneously heavily monetize it to instantly turn the AI division into a profit center.
  • To that end release the successor to Windows 11, a cloud-only offering that replaces the taskbar with a Copilot instance which launches programs for the user. Downplay any accusations that the new Windows Live 365 With Copilot is just a rental Windows 11 with the taskbar hastily hacked out.
  • Don’t forget that Windows Live 365 With Copilot does not include a subscription for Copilot, which must be booked separately.
  • Get all of your customers to switch by immediately dropping support for all previous Windows versions, “migrating” their support windows over to Windows Live 365 With Copilot. Corporate customers, which have gone all-in on Azure, will need years to migrate off the Windows ecosystem, which means excellent short-term revenue.
  • Make sure that Windows Live 365 With Copilot can only save to OneDrive to make it maximally hard for those customers to get their data out.
  • Hope that the current world order disintegrates before the massive exodus of customers ruins the company.
  • Whether or not it does, turn off your business phone and spend the next five years doing massive amounts of cocaine on a private island in the South Pacific.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨...is this retro?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It has Kinect Star Wars. And… that’s basically it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does self hosting your own internet count?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. Oddly enough, my Meshtastic contacts are much farther away than my farthest MeshCore contacts but MeshCore seems to be much livelier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither do the lower ones. The wheels of an office chair typically don’t move when the seat spins around.