vinnymac
@vinnymac@lemmy.world
- Comment on Archinstall 3.0 Arch Linux Menu-Based Installer Is Here with a Revamped Interface - 9to5Linux 1 hour ago:
Short of a live usb, I think archinstall might be the fastest way to get started on Linux. From beginning to end it took me ~3min the other day.
- Comment on I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks 2 weeks ago:
I have a metal dual USB A & C microSD card reader on my keychain. It lets me swap out cards easily, and should it ever be damaged, the chances are slimmer that the tiny microSD will be destroyed.
- Comment on Whenever I see someone walking around in clothes with big, visible branding, I can’t help but think they paid a fortune to wear an advertisement. 2 weeks ago:
Sure am, but we are discussing wealthy people and what they wear in this thread.
We can be nuanced about the 1% all day and start talking about a different group in that 1% but it doesn’t change the fact that they are all rich and some of them wear logos does it?
- Comment on Whenever I see someone walking around in clothes with big, visible branding, I can’t help but think they paid a fortune to wear an advertisement. 2 weeks ago:
African American culture is the antithesis to your argument. Even the most wealthy individuals sporting logos of all kinds, literally as status symbols.
I agree that people have become walking billboards, but I don’t think it’s always black and white in fashion, it’s much more complex than “rich people don’t wear logos”
- Comment on TSMC suspended shipments to China firm after chip found on Huawei processor, sources say 2 weeks ago:
Your friend knows a secret recipe for the best chocolate chip cookies. Your mother owns the best ovens in town.
Your friend cuts a deal with your mother to use her oven exclusively. Your mother agrees knowing she’ll get to charge your friend every time they use the ovens.
This is like that. The main value is in the design (recipe). Modern foundry’s are also complex and difficult to operate affordably, but they exist all over the planet. It’s ultimately the partnerships that makes it all possible.
- Comment on This Website Allows You To View And Interact With Retro PC Game Boxes in 3D 2 weeks ago:
Games should start releasing 3D box arts that come with each game again. They could even have manuals that you have to search for inside the box. Then hide tips and tricks in the manual so people are inclined to read every page.
Could even make a good teaser site for an upcoming title.
- Comment on Actual Budget is a fantastic FOSS budgeting tool that you can self-host 2 weeks ago:
The man who originally invented this tech is a really good guy, can’t recommend it enough!
- Comment on Why Surgeons Are Wearing The Apple Vision Pro 3 weeks ago:
The new AR prototype glasses from Meta could be useful in that case. Since they’re not heavy and still allow you to see reality. They aren’t a consumer product because of the price, but maybe a surgeon wouldn’t care about the expense as much?
- Comment on Why Surgeons Are Wearing The Apple Vision Pro 3 weeks ago:
I wonder who experiences greater discomfort surgeons or factory workers.
Not that we can currently afford factory workers this tech of course. I’m just imagining if the price of this type of tech was to drop dramatically perhaps it could be used in other fields.
Although by then maybe those jobs would be automated anyway?
- Comment on Peter Todd Was ‘Unmasked’ As Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto. Now He’s In Hiding 3 weeks ago:
Just sounds like HBO harassed some random dude with no real evidence. Calling that forum post “finishing his sentences” is conspiracy bullshit.
Hopefully if they continue to make claims they have a better argument to bring to the table.
- Comment on Watch out, Microsoft Outlook could soon give away when you're sneakily working from home 1 month ago:
I had to read this like six times, because it was so illogical my brain refused to comprehend.
- Comment on Mozilla launches privacy friendly AI addon called "Orbit" 1 month ago:
In a different world maybe, but I can already see the headlines, “Mozilla open sources lackluster AI tool”. PR is unfortunately a thing, and once you miss that initial wave of interest, you’re unlikely to grab attention later without another marketing push. Mozilla is experienced in open sourcing software, so by now they’re pretty good at knowing when to do it and when not to. In other words, it says something that they chose not to do it in this case.
- Comment on Mozilla launches privacy friendly AI addon called "Orbit" 1 month ago:
Believe it or not but it requires resources to open source an internal product, especially one that may have been an experiment that some small team was able to convince leadership could become useful to the masses.
React.js at Facebook is a good example of this. It took a lot of effort to externalize and open source React, and tbh the codebase is still kind of garbage when it comes to contributions from those unfamiliar with its intricacies.
- Comment on Why are people seemingly against AI chatbots aiding in writing code? 1 month ago:
I did, and I stand by what I said.
Review is both taken and given. Peer review does not occur in a single direction, it is a conversation with multiple parties. I can understand if someone misunderstood what I meant though.
- Comment on Why are people seemingly against AI chatbots aiding in writing code? 1 month ago:
As am I, it’s a two way street. You need to review the code, and have it reviewed.
- Comment on Why are people seemingly against AI chatbots aiding in writing code? 1 month ago:
A developer who is afraid of peer review is not a developer at all imo, but more or less an artist who fears exposing how the sausage was made.
I’m not saying a junior who is nervous is not a dev, I’m talking about someone who has been at this for some time, and still can’t handle feedback productively.
- Comment on Epic is merging Sketchfab, Quixel, ArtStation Marketplace and UE Marketplace into Fab.com 1 month ago:
I used to work in the same office as sketchfab over a decade ago, founders are good people.
- Comment on DuckDuckGoose 2 months ago:
My grandfather is/was an electrician for over 60 years. Worked on very important projects in New York City. This rubbed off on me growing up. I spent much of my childhood taking things apart, figuring out how they worked, and putting them back together how I liked. I’ve been working on both hardware and software since I was 11. Had the privilege to study CS formally in high school, and Computer Engineering in university.
Good timing mostly got me into farming, especially since interest rates fell to the floor during the pandemic. Had enough to buy the acreage I wanted, and the wife was interested in helping out. We grow a variety of things now, and not just plants. For example we sell Honey, Soaps, Walnuts, and Mushrooms. It can be hard on the body to be so active all the time, but it is more satisfying than a monitor staring back at you at 3am because of some small incident.
I continue to tinker, and assist startups in my spare time, I can’t imagine I will ever stop programming.
- Comment on DuckDuckGoose 2 months ago:
Might be one of the first few times a Lemmy post related to me.
I have owned a farm for four years, and do engineering for fun. AMA
- Comment on Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10 2 months ago:
Nah, completely wrong take.
Linux can be adapted to fit any use case you have, and that’s an important part of its flexibility. What you really are getting at is that mass producing a machine with an OS built into it is convenient for consumers. See Android phones or Steam decks for evidence of this convenience being important to the sale of Linux based devices.
In the not too distant future, windows will go out of fashion for the home desktop PC. Someone will sell a cheap and cool arm based PC with a decent distribution. It will be a slow win, nothing like what we saw from macOS.
- Comment on someone was alive and died the most painful way possible 1 year ago:
Morbid curiosity piqued, has a person ever been spaced? (Not just vacuumed)
- Comment on Starting any sentence with 'how come' makes you sound like a tattle tale. 1 year ago:
How come you are so awesome?
The best kind of tattle.