radix
@radix@lemmy.world
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 2 days ago:
I graduated in 2001 in a tech-adjacent field, and my first job was as a security guard making barely over minimum wage. Things get bad. Things get better.
- Comment on But also, the correct answer is Devil's Due 4 days ago:
Someone had to protect Wesley from Picard.
- Comment on snek go beep beep 4 days ago:
If it looks like a cobra, it’s a cobra, and if it looks like a viper, it’s a viper.
- Comment on Why Shouldn't I Use A Small Gaming PC 1 week ago:
These types of machines certainly have their place, and if it meets your needs, go for it.
The big downside is going to be a lack of upgradability. Most of the core components will be soldered to the motherboard, so no CPU or GPU upgrades, and no replacements if something breaks. I know the one you linked was just an example, and not necessarily “the one,” but its on-board graphics are similar in power to a GTX 1650. Lots and lots of games available at that level, but you’ll be locked out of anything newer with no clear upgrade path later.
For reference, I own something similar, but even older, as a secondary machine. It’s fine for what it does. Just be aware of the limitations. There are ways to build a similar-powered full desktop for about the same price. At that point it’s a tradeoff: would you rather be able to upgrade later, or do you want the simplicity and small form factor (portability, aesthetics, etc)?
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 2 weeks ago:
The security of their bank balance.
- Comment on What goes here? 2 weeks ago:
Turtle with a runny nose.
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 2 weeks ago:
Well they say all new tech is driven by the porn industry, so, um…
- Comment on Would you ever give up your right to leave a bad review about a company? 3 weeks ago:
ftc.gov/…/consumer-review-fairness-act-what-busin…
The Consumer Review Fairness Act makes it illegal for companies to include standardized provisions that threaten or penalize people for posting honest reviews. For example, in an online transaction, it would be illegal for a company to include a provision in its terms and conditions that prohibits or punishes negative reviews by customers.
- Comment on here there be lions 3 weeks ago:
“I’m a lone wolf.”
OK, so you’re too useless and/or immature to pull your own weight among your group and they kicked you out?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Odyssey counts, right?
- Comment on CUSTAAAAAAAARD 4 weeks ago:
Is that a research grant I hear calling?
- Comment on Is there a place online where I can apply for a bunch of free books? I was thinking of creating a library in my local county jail to help educate and pass the time in a healthy way? 5 weeks ago:
A local or regional library often (but not always) serves jails in their community already. If not, they may be open to extending operations there. If that fails, libraries often rotate out stock to make room for newer, or more popular books. Anything they dispose of would be older, but for this situation, that may not be as much of an issue.
- Comment on I can get a 430 hearing on any family member I want. Hell i can even testify if someone else needs one. So tell me why I can't go through the legal system to get an invasive one for Trump? 1 month ago:
The real answer is, it’s complicated. Involuntary commitment (and related acts) is a pretty extreme measure for when an individual is a danger to themselves or others. There’s no evidence that he’s trying to hurt himself, and the “other” usually has to be a specific person, not just a hypothetical class of others to have standing.
And it’s even more complicated by the idea that the president has been gifted broad immunity regarding anything remotely tangential to official powers. So you can’t even say you, specifically, are in danger due to things done by the government, so long as there is some whack job theory under which it’s being executed.
If he came alone to your house naked and covered in nacho cheese with a knife threatening to hurt you, you’d probably have a case. Depending on the state, it probably takes something similar even for a family member or acquaintance (but check your local laws).
- Comment on Black Holes 1 month ago:
Teachers: You can’t divide by zero.
Nature: Hey guys, check this shit out. - Comment on protein! 1 month ago:
In other news, sales of the caveman fad diet books have cratered.
- Comment on we must protect them from exotics 1 month ago:
What’s the worst that could happen if we eradicate all the rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows?
- Comment on Thoughts?? 2 months ago:
They were living in 2025 when they posted that in 2023. I don’t think the stats software is the biggest story here.
- Comment on Trump despises the future because it threatens him 2 months ago:
He was born in 1946. The world came together to reject what he stands for before he was even born.
- Comment on billionaires are a cancer on society [literally] 2 months ago:
Ok, Agent Smith.
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 2 months ago:
Win10 EOL is surely driving some people away, but it’s difficult to put a number on that. Measuring by market share is tricky and can be misleading. Steam Deck popularity may be driving increased usage, but those users aren’t necessarily migrating their main OS, just adding a new machine to the mix. But maybe “migrating” their time spent in a given OS counts? It’s messy.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I mean its not even too late for this to happen starting like right now 2025, right?
No, it’s not. The US, and increasingly the rest of the western world, is infected by a bunch of politicians who think ‘1984’ is an instruction manual rather than a cautionary tale.
IT being used to weaponize surveillance against the people is happening right now.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
That’s not an argument, that’s somebody who only looked at the cover of the cliff notes on presidential terms but didn’t read it.
Right, but he can’t read, so it can still be his position.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
And of course, anything passed by the normal legislative processes can just as easily be repealed that way.
Lasting change is going to require constitutional amendment(s) to harden the democracy against bad actors.
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 2 months ago:
The question is basically answered now, so I’ll just drop this video here for some additional context about Microsoft’s history of trying to build a file system that solves the problem, and the challenges they faced even in the early XP days:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5d5H92c4Mk
tl;dw: MS tried to understand the context of each file, not just the name. Once you add dozens of pieces of metadata to each of tens of thousands of files (even 20+ years ago), the whole system became too difficult for them to properly index and manage efficiently.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yeah, my wife teases me all the time about not answering. “Going to the store after work” doesn’t, IMHO, require me to do or say anything about it.
A direct question will almost always get a response.
It’s going to be a little different for married couples, though. Even if I don’t respond, we’ll be talking face-to-face in a few hours tops.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 2 months ago:
Might be too late. They changed the policy a few years ago when they introduced mod packs. They didn’t want entire packs to fail if one person pulled their mod, so total deletion was disabled.
Folks can still hide their mods and make new individual downloads impossible, but it’s still there in the background.
(All this is from memory. I hope I’m wrong)
- Comment on We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span. 3 months ago:
As soon as I graduated, ‘too many people are fighting for IT jobs, depressing salaries, meanwhile we’re paying plumbers $100/hour.’
That was 2001. Almost 25 years later, I recently paid a plumber $300/hour.
- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 3 months ago:
I’ve always maintained that the first was a fine game that was tanked by the price. It was priced to drive gamepass subs, not sell the game. At $35-40, it would have been received much better, imo. Years later, now that it’s more appropriately priced, it seems to be more well-reviewed.
Unfortunately the second is going down the same path. It may take 5+ years for the game to be appreciated to its fullest (assuming no glaring issues), through no fault of the devs.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
This is why subject matter experts matter. Support for the vague idea of “deport people here illegally” is pretty high, but any specific method of actually doing it is much more unpopular. Media is essential in getting that distinction out to the laypeople, but they’ve largely failed.
And I’d argue that it’s not just immigration where this disconnect exists. Lots of policies have broad support until you start talking about specifics. People just want to “get things done” but the “how” is either boring or unsavory.
