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- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 1 week ago:
I don’t know how many times I had to deal with missing
VCRUNTIME140.dllorMSVCP140.dllor other crap on Windows. This is not a Linux exclusive problem.
Reading through the comment thread I can’t help but think that your whole situation is self imposed.Dependency problems are universal and there are tools to deal with it. It just seems that you’re refusing to use those tools (even Windows has
wingetnow instead of relying on every installer bundling / linking its dependencies).
Now, it’s fair to not want to deal with CLI, but your cited experience is an outlier. It is not normal to break your system with justapt update && apt upgrade -y. As a matter of factaptwill not upgrade if there are conflicting dependencies, you sort of have to force it to break your system.
There are wrappers that provide a GUI forapt(and evendpkg, which is usually invoked when double clicking a.debfile) so why not using them?In Windows dependency issues are often offloaded to the provider of the software, but they are still just as present. In Linux this problem was solved[^1] a different way — via package managers. I don’t want to be the “skill issue” guy, but refusing to use the platform intended tool to solve a problem is kind of a “skill issue”. At some point you are responsible for knowing how to use an OS, just as you are responsible for knowing how to drive a car if you want to drive a car.
[^1]: dependency hell is still an issue so take the word with a grain of salt.
- Comment on Rawdogging life 1 week ago:
I think it’s that tobacco thing you pop under your lip. Like chewing tobacco, but less chewing and gross spit.
- Comment on They wonder why nobody wants kids anymore. 2 weeks ago:
Why so serious? It’s a goof. I’m not from US, I don’t know how a bill is supposed to be different from a law, It’s all rules and shit that governments enforce.
- Comment on They wonder why nobody wants kids anymore. 2 weeks ago:
For a moment there I was majorly confused as I read it:
William says Volkswagen teachers who are pregnant, new mothers would have access to donated sick days.
But the Bill is probably not a name here and the Volkswagen is VW not WV.
The grammar of the headline is still trash tho:
The law says some states teachers who are pregnant, new mothers would have access to donated sick days.
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- Comment on Infosec 2 months ago:
Oh, it’s that format… Yeah, just no
- Comment on Infosec 2 months ago:
Woosh…
19451203??
Not to mention that having birth date as password is a bad idea in general. - Comment on CompSci freshmen will relate 2 months ago:
That’s already that I have with base 13, although, that does have more mental math.
- Comment on CompSci freshmen will relate 2 months ago:
Ok, yeah, a 10 bit number seems doable
- Comment on CompSci freshmen will relate 2 months ago:
Not sure how I would keep track of power of two with my fingers but base 6 or, my current favorite, base 13 counting is easy enough to keep track.
In principle you use hands as digits, one hand representing ones the other “tens”. With base 6 you count with fingers normally up to 5 and then 6 is represented on another hand. This let’s you count to 35.
Base 13 works by counting bones in your digits using your thumb. Like touching finger segment and that representing a number. So one hand can count up to 12 and then 13 is marked in the same manner on the other hand. This allows to count up to 168 (13 * 13 - 1).
Utilizing all fingers in a binary manner could give 30 bit number (15 finger bones on each hand), but I have no idea how to then keep track of the number using your hands.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 2 months ago:
That’s a different skill, my hands don’t have to coordination draw from reference.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 2 months ago:
Attention is a big part for me to remember a thing. I never remember actor faces, even less so — names.
Names are hard for me in general. Unless I see it in chat or use the name for sufficient amount of time, there’s no chance I’ll remember it. That’s one of my problems with movies: I never remember actors or directors, I remember characters and scenario.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 2 months ago:
I think I’m 1, but there’s no way to know for sure. I find it easier to call out sounds rather than visuals. I can’t “hear” a voice or a sound if I want to. Visuals seem to require more will for the same fidelity.
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 3 months ago:
Yes, a god is unnecessary. However, discussing religion and faith is inseparable from discussing God. Especially when we’re discussing whether it is good, evil or even exist.
My point is more that you cannot argue a god doesn’t exist with logic and Occam’s razor and whatnot when the other side of the discussion doesn’t operate on logic alone. If you’re arguing faith you have to reject it on the same basis, i. e. faith.
My personal belief is that there is no god. Humanity made up religion as tool for control, morality, education, etc. I see no proof that god should exist and on the premise that it could exist (neither claim is provable) I reject it.
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 3 months ago:
TL;DR
I not so much claim God doesn’t exist as I reject it. If God can only be “proven” by faith, then it equaly can be “disproven” the same way.
That’s why I have a different (although, in a very minor way) position.
From experience I see that God would be at best indifferent to people. Given the choice to believe in such God I see no logical reason to do so.
Either it exists and need to jump through hoops to get into heaven (especially if our concept of good is not the same) or it doesn’t exist I loose nothing by not believing. I don’t even want to go to heaven, I want to just live with my loved ones and then die. I hate the concept of eternal life, there is no part of me that would want it.Now looking at christian God I not so much as disprove its existence as reject it. If God can only be believed in then it cannot really be disproven, so the next step for me is just to reject the concept the same way I am required to accept it. If God’s and my human moralities do not align, I do not need such God. Morality, by itself, does not require God or punishment to exist.
Moreover, I don’t want a God that requires belief for a reward. In no way I see it as fair and if God is not fair it’s no god of mine. - Comment on Pow-- 3 months ago:
Listen, I get that you’re just trolling, so this is more directed to anyone that can be convinced by your comment.
USSR saved no one. They took over other nations and killed a lot of people in the process. They ripped families apart and took them to their own concentration camps in Siberia. Most of these people were worked to death and died starving.
Before WWII Soviet regime decided that Ukrainians don’t deserve to exist and killed millions in Holodomor (Ukrainian famine).
In history they we’re never saviors, they were just another occupant and an unfortunate ally in WWII. What they brought to my country was repressions and deficits. I guess planned economy doesn’t really work.
The life my parents lived under Soviets was shit and it only improved after we regained independence.
Hero washing USSR only serves as propaganda. They were not heroes, they were winners. It doesn’t make them any better than the other side.
- Comment on hmm breakfast 3 months ago:
Unfortunate missing comma…
- Comment on hmm breakfast 3 months ago:
When I smoked coffee and cigarettes were one of the best combos.
- Comment on Pow-- 3 months ago:
Did USSR help defeat Nazi Germany? Yes. Were USSR just as bad? Oh, most definitely yes.
- Comment on 4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act 4 months ago:
Yes. You can impose as much laws as you can enforce them. Don’t want your citizens to buy anything from me, stop shipments at your border. Want to stop payments, talk to your banks. Want to stop access to my servers, block them at your routers.
Why the fuck should I enforce your rules for you? You made them, you figure out how you will make them work.
you being the UK government, in this case.
- Comment on negativity 4 months ago:
Both look equally bad.
- Comment on just one more bro 4 months ago:
0r something similar along that line.
I’m really bothered by that zero 0 instead of an o O.
- Comment on wax on 4 months ago:
Fact check me, but isn’t honey just bee vomit? Like it’s a little bit digested nectar, no? So knowing that bees was is not spit or puke equivalent is less gross to me.
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 4 months ago:
Fair, I mostly use my PC alone, so there’s no need for separate profiles. Having multi-account containers is a godsend for me. It isolates session data between tabs allowing me to have as many browser sessions as I need in a single browser window.
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 4 months ago:
Wait till you hear about:about
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 4 months ago:
What do profiles do that I can’t do with multi account containers?
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 4 months ago:
You can usually find recently closed windows in history.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update October 2025 4 months ago:
Just popping in here to make sure admin know we read his updates.
- Comment on Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe 4 months ago:
This does fuck all for “security”. It’s targeting, mainly, power users and puts just more hoops for developers. This has nothing with security (they should purge malware from Play store first) and everything to do with consolidating power over users.
It’s a blatant power grab and I’m surprised to see this interpreted as anything else. Arguing about semantics just helps Google fuck everyone over.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 4 months ago:
And here I thought OP just misspelled trouble.