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- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 1 week ago:
That’s just FUD.
Test it under Wine. If it’s working, you’re good to go. Wine can’t make software misbehave in subtle ways. It works or it doesn’t.
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 1 week ago:
I wonder if the software you need for cars would run under Wine.
For years I kept one Windows laptop running only so I could use one proprietary app that I used occasionally when teaching. It was not ideal, but whatever. Then Windows started showing ads. on the desktop. that I was showing to my students! That I will not tolerate. So I poked around with Wine and found out I could run that app on my Mint laptop!
Goodbye forever TinyFlaccid. Go fuck yourself.
(note: I do have to use a windows machine for one thing still - to print at work using my company supplied office computer.)
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 2 weeks ago:
I’ve struggled to find an epithet for MS that would really sum up my anger in a single epic childish insult. Problem is, they already surpassed anything I could come up with.
They are tiny and flaccid, and no one should pay them any mind.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 weeks ago:
I share your pessimism. My answer had nothing to do with what might actually happen.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 weeks ago:
This isn’t the first time the US has done
“directly capturing a sovereign leader”
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 weeks ago:
Or just a US revolution could work. We don’t have to kill everyone.
- Comment on First ever photo of the curvature of the Earth : December 30, 1930 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think the flat Earth idea is nearly as widely believed as it appears. I think most of the proponents are just trolls.
- Comment on First ever photo of the curvature of the Earth : December 30, 1930 3 weeks ago:
Thank you more! I can hardly believe you went all that trouble to transcribe my stupid song.
- Comment on First ever photo of the curvature of the Earth : December 30, 1930 3 weeks ago:
It is “oblate spheroid.”
- Comment on First ever photo of the curvature of the Earth : December 30, 1930 3 weeks ago:
The world is flat.
- Comment on I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone 5 weeks ago:
In fact, if you want me to create an account on your servers, you are first required to register your OS on my own website.
I love this sooo much!
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 1 month ago:
When a post is a link to an article, I would prefer that the post title match the article. Many news communities actually require that.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 1 month ago:
More importantly, the evil people running the petroleum industry are in fact old, but that is not why they are evil.
Evil people in positions of power tend to be old because a) it takes time to accumulate power, and b) folks with power tend to keep it till they’re dead. It’s just statistics - it doesn’t mean oldness causes evil.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 1 month ago:
Downvoted for ageism.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 1 month ago:
Biodiesel is a renewable liquid fuel.
- Comment on Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing 1 month ago:
Wisconsin already blocks access to all goverment websites if you use a VPN. I can’t even check the garbage collection schedule for my town. I always thought it was this misguided concept that they thought only “hackers” would want to be anonymous. It seems they are really working for the data brokers, who don’t want anyone to be anonymous.
- Comment on Why do Republicans hate the poor so much? 2 months ago:
And yet the democratic party remains the only one where progressives are able to have a voice and make a modicum of progress.
Also, I didn’t say anything about democrats, positive or negative, in my comment. OP was about republicans, so I commented about republicans.
- Comment on Why do Republicans hate the poor so much? 2 months ago:
You can’t hoard wealth and distribute it too.
The average republican is not super wealthy, of course, but they are manipulated and controlled by those who are.
- Comment on The most famous thought experiment 3 months ago:
OK, yes, but that is over simplifying Einstein’s “thought experiment.” Or perhaps he’s the one who oversimplified it?
He should have said there is vo experiment which can distinguish between an acceleration and a uniform gravitational field.
Of course, the latter doesn’t exist in nature. So,…
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 3 months ago:
The pause in Calyx updates has nothing to do with Google’s fuckery, and they are not “dying.” They lost a major lead developer and decided they needed to restructure so no one would be so essential going forward.
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 3 months ago:
I could have stated it better. What I meant was that the fraction of kinetic energy that is taken from the wind is so small that the total kinetic energy in the wind is probably not the important factor that changes with wind speed. The dynamics of how the lift depends on wind speed is probably much more important.
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 3 months ago:
We don’t directly harvest the kinetic energy. That increase probably has to do with how the wind provides lift to the blades. Of course, you couldn’t keep increasing like that until the harvested energy is greater than the kinetic energy. But I’m sure at any wind speed we only get a tiny fraction.
- Comment on Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world? 4 months ago:
Also deserts are not even nearly lifeless. A solar farm of the size needed would wipe out a lot of habitat.
- Comment on if "you are what you eat", and you only eat vegans, you're both vegan and not at the same time 4 months ago:
You are what you eat…
and so is your poop - Comment on TIL about Android Translation Layer (ATL), a way to port Android apps to Linux Mobile 4 months ago:
I would so love to have my phone and laptop run the same operating system. Would simplify so many things.
- Comment on TIL about Android Translation Layer (ATL), a way to port Android apps to Linux Mobile 4 months ago:
With Google attempting to further lockdown, the time is ripe for Linux Mobile. Projects like this can help make it a viable alternative.
Thank you so much to everyone working on this!
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you have memory problems and need to write down events, is there a system which you can verify that its not tampered with? (Like a digital checksum, but for a journal) 4 months ago:
Wow, hopefully that doesn’t get tampered!
- Comment on How do I "sabotage" my own online content to throw a wrench in AI training machines? 5 months ago:
omg I just watched all of that video and it is freaking great! What a revelation. I learned so much about how AI really works, even though that is not directly the subject.
Thank you! - Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Trumpstein didn’t kill himself!
- Comment on It must have been a whole lot more difficult to design and build tall buildings before computers existed 5 months ago:
I don’t think more difficult is correct, just different. Take cars as an example (because I don’t know anything about the engineering of large buildings): In the 1930’s and 40’s it would have been completely impossible to design and build a 2020’s car. But the cars that they did build then were not “more difficult” to design and build.
Engineers don’t work harder when they get new tools, they just make different things.