JustARegularNerd
@JustARegularNerd@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on New BoM website has rolled out 3 days ago:
Welllllll, it’s two clicks because the first click is opening the bookmark that would’ve taken me to my local radar.
Albeit, that’s very nitpicky and not the issue I have; 99.9% of users would click Use my location and it’d be perfect.
In my case, I just don’t ever give location permissions on my web browser - while the BOM would surely to goodness not sell off usage data to third parties, I’ve been conditioned to think any website could and therefore I’d rather type in the location manually.
- Comment on New BoM website has rolled out 4 days ago:
Yeah, I liked having a bookmark of the nearest radar - I could immediately bring it up with one click and see what’s happening. The new system with the pannable map, you just have a view of the whole country, and must zoom into where you actually are to see what’s happening.
The weather predictions layout is… fine, but the old one definitely felt more like you had all the info you needed right there where this one you have to click 7-Day Forecast and then expand Tomorrow to see more detail.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 5 days ago:
I would only hazard against Debian for gaming because of it’s slower update cycle (yes yes you could use unstable or sid…), so performance improvements or fixes will take longer to get to you.
Otherwise I completely second your comment; OOP, just pick anything mainstream like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Bazzite, Pop!_OS, you’ll be fine on any of those. Once you’re comfortable with whatever you chose, then you’ll be more informed on picking a distro more suitable for your liking.
- Comment on KEVIN 27: Rudd Immediately Gets To Work Mapping Out Vengeful Plot To Topple Smart-Mouthed President 5 days ago:
“He has destroyed multiple governments out of spite. Including his own.”
Fuck that got me good
- Comment on Stocks IRL 1 week ago:
Using an LLM for finance is insane, not only for the usual reasons AI is disliked here on Lemmy, but because the proper way to do this (putting aside whether you should) would be to tune a machine learning model, probably a supervised regression model, to do these predictions.
- Comment on Microsoft just changed where your Word documents live — here’s why it matters 2 weeks ago:
I’ve worked in business IT before, so I have a (very small) bit of background I can probably share from your bosses side.
If you’re not recommending a distro that has a support contract (e.g. Red Hat), what you’re creating is a bus situation - if you get hit by a bus, who is going to maintain the Linux terminals when they go down? Would that contract cover supporting LibreOffice? How will normal staff be able to figure out how to use Linux, and will there be a measurable increase in productivity from them, or will they be slow to adjust?
Regarding OneDrive (or more realistically, SharePoint and Microsoft 365), Microsoft has a service level agreement for this. I can’t read it on my phone because it’s in docx format, but I dare say that it does have some coverage for if data is leaked, otherwise most enterprises wouldn’t even touch it.
Your boss likely doesn’t have concern in that aspect because of the SLA assurance, and thus it makes more financial sense to move completely over to M365 and away from on premise servers that require constant maintenance, upkeep and power costs.
I’m not sure of the business size you’re in, but I’d hazard a guess that its a small business if your boss is in a position to potentially change out the existing IT infrastructure. You’re facing an uphill battle in convincing your boss to move to Linux because the desktop support for it is limited and likely expensive, and the alternative is to keep you and probably hire other Linux technicians to maintain those Linux systems when they go down.
- Comment on [Satire] Pauline Hanson slams Woolies’ brown paper bags, demands white ones instead 2 weeks ago:
I don’t like it, when you change the bag colour about
I don’t like it, when you vote One Nation out
- Comment on Something not in the water: why are Queensland councils voting to remove fluoride? 3 weeks ago:
“People should have choice,” she says. “If you want to eat bad foods, if you want to have fluoride, if you want to have, let’s say, vaccines, then you choose that. But there should be no coercion, bullying, bribery. It needs to be a choice.”
Ah, letting the anti-vax sentiment slip a little there…
Regardless of that, I don’t understand how putting fluoride into drinking water is coercive, bullying or bribing behaviour. We are already treating drinking water with other chemicals like chlorine, should we stop that too so that Queenslanders have a choice and aren’t bullied or coerced into drinking healthy water?
- Comment on Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced 3 weeks ago:
…and they want to compete with the Steam Deck?
- Comment on Qualcomm unveil the Snapdragon X2 Elite and Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, the fastest and most efficient processors for Windows PCs 4 weeks ago:
Yes, while I have the MBA running macOS, I have my trusty X260 with Linux for everything I don’t need macOS for. I absolutely love both the size and thickness of it - the keyboard is good, the nub is good, it’s a comfortable, rugged laptop with a dual battery setup.
- Comment on Qualcomm unveil the Snapdragon X2 Elite and Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, the fastest and most efficient processors for Windows PCs 4 weeks ago:
I wish decently powerful small laptops would make a return. I dearly love my 11" MacBook Air and I’m still astounded I can even somewhat use it today for various research and office work, but it could seriously do with an M1 chip and 16GB of memory.
- Comment on UNDER THE THC 🎶 5 weeks ago:
Aww this is how I learn? Sad times indeed, but at least that lobster lived 3.5 years longer than if anyone other than Brady took him
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 2 months ago:
You misinterpreted what I said in that initial comment, asked if I was hallucinating, and when I clarified this misinterpretation, you proceeded to skip over anything I had said beyond the first link.
You are not giving any valid counter arguments to what I said in my original comment (in fact detracting from the original point of this whole thread by speculating you hurt my feelings?), this is why I believe you are acting in bad faith.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 2 months ago:
It’s clear you’re acting in bad faith at this point - you’ve completely skipped over anything else I said in my original comment.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 2 months ago:
The first link is evidence that video codecs cost money and, as per that source:
Most video codecs such as H.264, H265/HEVC, MPEG-2, MPEG-4… requires the manufacturer to pay a license fee. The fees are then added to the final product, but the actual codec fees are usually unknown to the end user.
This was in response to the earlier discussion about third party libraries costing money.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 2 months ago:
Here you go cnx-software.com/…/h-265-hevc-license-pricing-upd…
The license to use macOS is not free. You must run it on a Macintosh computer and, keeping in terms of the license, cannot be run on non-Macintosh hardware. You must therefore purchase a Macintosh computer to use macOS. See Page 2, Section 2 of the Software License Agreement.
You keep repeating this argument of “show me where I can possibly pay for it” presumably because you know that it is not for sale and this is common knowledge.
What is being omitted here is that because anyone has the ability to put a PC of their own components together, Microsoft has two roads for these people: give Windows away where Microsoft sees none of that money back, or sell you a license to use Windows - they choose the second option. This is why you can buy a license for Windows. If you could only use prebuilt machines and were unable to make your own PC, the license cost would be passed onto the manufacturer and thus amortised in the final sale price.
Apple doesn’t need to do these extra steps because they are both the software vendor and manufacturer, thus the development costs associated in macOS is also amortised in the final sale price.
Please stop defending a trillion dollar corporation over specific pedantics and omissions. macOS is complementary software, it is not free.
- Comment on The Debian project is proud to release Debian 13 "Trixie", a major update that brings new features, updated components, and numerous other improvements 2 months ago:
Do this with a Pentium D computer for optimal scrambled egg result
- Comment on The Debian project is proud to release Debian 13 "Trixie", a major update that brings new features, updated components, and numerous other improvements 2 months ago:
Yep, been driving it for like 2 years on my study laptops. Only ever ran into a single issue that made the laptop unusable which was Tailscale DNS conflicting with the system’s DNS (been a while so don’t remember the exact details).
If you don’t need the latest stuff, aren’t doing anything needing the latest drivers and don’t really mess around with the shipped packages, it’s excellent for just working and being reliable.
- Comment on The Debian project is proud to release Debian 13 "Trixie", a major update that brings new features, updated components, and numerous other improvements 2 months ago:
Don’t knock it 'til you try it!
sudo apt install * -y - Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
This is a blatant advertisement. Account is 2 days old with very minimal activity, and the linked URL is on my uBlock blocklist. Fuck off with this Reddit shit, you’re not welcome on Lemmy.
- Comment on California May Ban Lyft And Uber From AI Price Gouging Users With Low Phone Batteries 2 months ago:
I mean, they absolutely could and it would be absolutely trivial to compare a database of crime rates to your departure location. The question should really be “Are they checking if I’m in a shady neighborhood?”
- Comment on Hotels have developed a new revenue stream: "algorithmic" smoke detectors 3 months ago:
My thoughts exactly and while I hate making cliché comments, I’m surprised this isn’t being talked about more in this thread. Felt like I was missing an adblocker, and I was glad it was only 13 tweets.
- Comment on Registered Sex Offender who "before he was eighteen, committed 'thousands of assaults'" Speaking at Debian Conference This Week 3 months ago:
I skimmed through Lunduke’s video (tried to find an article from him) but it doesn’t seem he gave any source and I only remain skeptical of him for discussions on Lemmy about him usually being unfavorable, so I did some quick searching to try and confirm his claims.
I did find Jeremy Bicha is a registered offender. I couldn’t source the claim of thousands before 18 or defacing a wiki, but also didn’t anything to the contrary.
I suppose my opinion just from all this is that I probably wouldn’t think it wise to have him even attending that event given (I presume) it’s open to the public, and I’d like to know how long ago he was defacing wiki’s and if he’s had a clean track record [for contributions] since his conviction before I’d have an opinion on whether he should even be maintaining Debian or other open source projects, and what risk there would be should he try to sneak spyware into a package.
- Comment on Old School Rally | Full Release Announcement Trailer 3 months ago:
I think I’ll be popping this onto my wishlist. I’ve been slowly trying to 100% complete V-Rally 2 for the PS1, as the game is a childhood classic of mine that I never completed and I’ve been enjoying it (when the physics don’t bug out that is…)
- Comment on Why are hotels in Australia so inexpensive compared to hotels in the USA and Canada? 3 months ago:
You mean they’re more expensive in the US/CA?
You’re right that they tend to work out at AUD150, although obviously area factors into it a lot (an AUD150 hotel in bush Queensland will get you two beds, an ensuite, laundry and aircon. AUD150 in a capital city will have you in someone’s basement with questionable hygiene). Forget any hotel at major tourist attractions at that price.
- Comment on Jury says Google must pay California Android smartphone users $314.6m 3 months ago:
I probably should have clarified that the 14m number was the estimated number of Californian residents that have Android phones as per the article, but my comment was moreso me overanalysing a joke.
- Comment on Jury says Google must pay California Android smartphone users $314.6m 3 months ago:
Even if it were split evenly across the estimated 14m residents, it only comes to a grand total of $22.47
- Comment on Steam Introduces In-Game Performance Monitor 3 months ago:
Seems convenient, I never really felt assed to install and set up additional tools but this being built into the Steam client would make this kind of thing more likely for me to use.
That being said 95% of my games are going to tell me to upgrade my RTX 2050…
- Comment on Your TV Is Spying On You 4 months ago:
Part of the reason why I take good care of my little 24" dumb TV. It’s on the lower end (poor viewing angles, absolutely no adjustment on the legs) but I still have a use for it, so I won’t be replacing it.
The other concern I have with smart TVs is because manufacturers basically install a smartphone SoC, the TV’s lifecycle is now the same as a smartphone. Most people probably won’t connect a new smart TV box to their discontinued, laggy (thanks to bloated apps) smart TV, the completely functional unit just gets replaced.
