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- Comment on Zink is Zero Ink — Sort Of 1 day ago:
Absolutely anything to avoid the metric system! If we, as Americans, has to measure in quotation marks, we damn sure will!
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer 1 day ago:
You bastard!
- Comment on Zink is Zero Ink — Sort Of 2 days ago:
My first thought was: why have I never heard of this? The answer seems to be: 2" x 3" photo paper costs $0.41/ea.
Mail-order professional photo prints are quite a bit cheaper than that. So, the main thing this contends with is other instant photo creation methods. Which are pretty niche ever since digital cameras became good.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 3 days ago:
Making sure they run well with Wine is probably what many game devs are dong who specifically want to support Linux. Right now the vast majority of games run out of the box on Wine, so there probably isn’t much a dev has to do if they want to make sure it runs great.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 4 days ago:
Why would you give up games to move to Linux? Been enjoying Cyberpunk and Guild Wars lately, and many games before that the last year.
Check out Proton DB. Gives reports on how well things run. Anything Gold or higher is going to be a non-concern to play.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 4 days ago:
It was because developers historically were familiar with Windows and would just default to making a Windows product. You want a POS interface? Your developer is probably going to hand you a .exe and not a .deb. Then your next move is to tell the hardware division to put that .exe into production systems, at which it is too late for the hardware division to argue you just chose the more expensive option without thinking.
This is changing, particularly as many platforms make it trivial to compile for different OSes.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 4 days ago:
In addition to what the other guy said, Mint is also more focused on desktop. A bunch of apps are pre-installed that one would expect on a desktop OS. Additionally, the default Mint UI, Cinnamon, feels very familiar to a Windows user. It has a start menu, task bar, tray, etc.
Debian is in the same family, and is more oriented for servers. It is super minimal out of the box, which is perfect when you want it to sit in the other room and perform specific tasks. However, you can install all the same programs, even the Cinnamon UI on Debian.
Really the difference is the out of box experience, but they are otherwise pretty similar.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 4 days ago:
Framework laptops can come with optionally no OS if you choose, and I can attest to their build quality being quite good.
I know there are some brands that will have Linux pre-installed, but I don’t know enough about them to comment.
- Comment on Replit CEO Amjad Masad says learning to code is a waste of time, citing Dario Amodei's prediction that AI may generate essentially all code by next year. 4 days ago:
Writing code is easier than understanding and reviewing another’s code. There is good reason code reviewers aren’t the interns and new hires.
My question others is, why would you want to turn into a code reviewer for AI code? It’s a shitload harder. And if the goal is anything but a weekend project, you damn well better be understanding and reviewing it critically, otherwise one is shitting up the code base and forcing others to clean up your mess.
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 4 days ago:
ASRock is my go-to now. Funnily enough they slit off of ASUS a while ago. One continually got better, and the other worse.
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 6 days ago:
The amount of damage a newbie programmer without a tight leash can do to a code base/product is immense. Once something is out in production, that is something you have to deal with forever. That temporary fix they push is going to be still used in a decade and if you break it, now you have to explain to the customer why the thing that’s been working for them for years is now broken and what you plan to do to remedy the situation.
- Comment on How do I fit a network card with a physical x4 slot into an x1 slot? 1 week ago:
Am I correct in understanding that the card will run at PCIe gen 3 X1 if I do this?
Correct. The situation you described in the original post would result in Gen 3 x1 speeds.
The interface will always default to the fastest standard that both sides can support. If one is gen 2 and the other is gen 4, gen 2 is the highest that can be supported. If one side is x8 and the other is x4, x4 is the highest that can be supported. In this specific case, if you put a Gen 2 x8 in a Gen 4 x1 slot, you will get a Gen 2 x1 link.
- Comment on How do I fit a network card with a physical x4 slot into an x1 slot? 1 week ago:
File a small slit in the end of the slot so the card fits into it, but runs past the back. The card will run at Gen 3 x1 speed, but otherwise work properly.
Many motherboards even come with the end of the PCIe slots open for this exact purpose.
- Comment on DoorDash and Klarna partner to offer buy now, pay later for takeout. 1 week ago:
If you don’t have enough money to pay for takeout, you need to be picking it up yourself or, even better, cooking it yourself. DoorDash is horrendously expensive.
- Comment on Good to exercise at home instead of gym? 1 week ago:
It is the critical basis on why all diets work. One can eat as healthy as they want, but if they eat more calories than they expend, they will gain weight. Tossing aside such a fundamental concept is silly. Instead, build upon it.
- Comment on Good to exercise at home instead of gym? 1 week ago:
CaloriesIn - CaloriesOut = WeightChange
Fat forms using spare calories. Any diet that involves eating fewer calories than what you burn will reduce your body fat.
As long as you have that part right, you are free to add any other requirements on your diet you wish.
- Comment on Assassin’s Creed Shadows is as dark as that infamous Game of Thrones episode 1 week ago:
Assassin’s Creed Shadows takes place in Japan circa 1579…300 years before the advent of the incandescent light bulb
These little jabs are great.
- Comment on Why can’t HVAC be made smarter? 1 week ago:
Less about people being too stupid and more about people just not seeing the point. The average person touches the AC/Heat switch only a few times a year.
I personally love the days where it’s cool enough at night to open the windows and get the house temperature down. Means the AC the next day doesn’t have to do nearly as much (and thus my electric bill isn’t as high).
- Comment on Windows 11 will soon let you know why your PC hardware sucks: Windows 11 will be able to explain why your PC needs more RAM and a better GPU. 1 week ago:
Now, the question will be, will they actually keep it around this time? This was a feature they introduced in Vista, and soon after killed.
- Comment on Google Hijacks Restaurants Booking System Leading To No Reservations Being Available. 2 weeks ago:
While that is shit, if I call a restaurant to make a reservation and they just tell me to go to their website, I’m probably going elsewhere anyway.
Why even have a phone number if it is useless?
- Comment on Scientists for Future, October 2021: Nuclear Energy is no technology for solving the Climate Crisis 3 weeks ago:
Absolutely. Wind, solar, nuclear, grid-scale storage, and geothermal should all be invested and built up together. With stakes as high as they are, no one horse should be our only bet. And these all scale differently in different geographies, making each of them the best choice based on local conditions.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 3 weeks ago:
Never had anything in my apartments maintained by the landlord, always had to maintain everything myself at my own expense.
When is the last time you bought a furnace, a water heater, or a new roof for a property you rent? Ever?
It isn’t that the owner isn’t maintaining it, it is that they aren’t maintaining it do the standard you would prefer. And that absolutely is an issue. And it is one of the primary benefits of no longer paying a landlord and instead buying a property and maintaining it to your own standards. You will almost certainly end up with a maintenance standard you like as you will be the one dictating and implementing it.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 3 weeks ago:
Absolutely, a problem that is improved by increasing housing supply (thus lowering costs). We need more government investment in building homes and to remove barriers to prevent homes from being built. Simply outlawing rentals would do the opposite, it would take out a huge chunk of people who are building homes, drastically lowering supply and exploding housing prices.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 3 weeks ago:
Biggest plusses people argue in favor is not having to maintain the property yourself and being able to move much more easily. If you are one of the people who would prefer to buy, I highly recommend you do so. Maintaining your own stuff is quite nice, as it lets you keep it up to the quality you desire.
- Comment on Scientists for Future, October 2021: Nuclear Energy is no technology for solving the Climate Crisis 3 weeks ago:
The part that annoys me the most, is people will doom about huge swaths of humanity dying in the future due to climate change, then bemoan and rage against building nuclear plants today, thus solving solving a huge portion of the issue.
I just do not understand people’s priorities, or if they really believe everything they say.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 3 weeks ago:
Owning a house isn’t that expensive. It’s so much cheaper than renting
The good thing is, people who don’t want to rent can buy. I highly encourage people to do exactly that.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 3 weeks ago:
You’re charging someone for you doing nothing
I see you have never managed a rental before. Go talk to someone who manages a rental, ask them specifically what they do. What happens when the tenant leaves? What happens when the tenant doesn’t pay? What happens when things break? What happens when there is a squatter? What happens when there is a bogus complaint to the local government?
The answer to those questions is most certainly not ‘nothing’.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 3 weeks ago:
The higher the supply the lower the prices; we need higher housing supply. We need to reduce barriers to building homes and increasing government investment in building new homes.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 3 weeks ago:
Buy instead, you clearly have the money. Don’t contribute to a landlord’s profits.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 3 weeks ago:
You can charge HUD twice the going rate
You cannot just charge whatever you want. They aren’t morons. Often times the government offers below market rate in exchange for the guarantee you will be paid, regardless of what your tenant is doing.