mholiv
@mholiv@lemmy.world
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 14 hours ago:
gnu/linux user space phones please hurry!
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 3 days ago:
Why? He was relatively contemporary and lived a pretty normal life relative to most of us compared to the historical figures.
That and he was a mega sexist who made the lives of women in science much worse for literal decades.
- Comment on European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge. 2 weeks ago:
Yes you can. And the term Romanian isn’t the problem here.
- Comment on European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge. 2 weeks ago:
Classic European flavored racism. Are you aware that you are promoting racism or not?
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 3 weeks ago:
String recommend for learning the swipe motions. It takes a few min to learn but it’s free real-estate after that. And it’s faster. At least for me.
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 4 weeks ago:
And the easy retort to that is that they don’t apply Chinese censorship globally. Only in China. Regional laws only apply regionally.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 5 weeks ago:
I don’t own a car. I just maintain a drivers license for rare cases when I need to go to a place where public transport does not reach.
I just went through the education and have the practical experience regarding driving.
I don’t think this angry approach is the best way to go forward here. Action and advocacy will beat out internet anger all day.
Advocate for and use public transport at you local level.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 5 weeks ago:
I suspect you might be telling on yourself here as someone who didn’t drive.
People who go through car education and actually drive learn about system tolerances. Speedometers can be off by up to 10% and radar guns can be off by about the same.
If you actually drive and use cruise control set to 30 and go up a hill to a level section of road, the cruise control will likely bring you up to 33 before it reacts the reduced power needs and brings you down to 30 again.
Cars in real life are not exactly like they are in video games.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 month ago:
The point is, that the answer is 0% by any reasonable metric. I don’t think any more is to be gained here given the question dodge.
So I will say good bye and best of luck again.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 month ago:
Ok. I have one question then. I think we can come to a clear resolution with it.
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, what percentage is it Linux?
It includes 100% the apps, system tools, GUIs, and libraries that you associate with Linux. It also has 0 lines of Linux code in it.
If you can justify that it is above >0% Linux I will use your definition of operating system going forward.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 month ago:
But we can agree that there are upper and lower limits though. And I believe that we can now agree that system utilities and system libraries are outside of that limit. Just because the edge are fuzzy, don’t mean we can’t come to any conclusions at all.
Any now stepping way way back. I think we can now agree that Fedora, Ubuntu and other distros run the same operating system. That operating system being Linux.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 month ago:
That’s ok! I was just trying to help you see the difference. You do know. It’s a win/win. There was a reason why I kept on brining up Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. It really highlights the difference.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 month ago:
You’re gunna do you and I respect that. But the first line from the page is
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is a port that consists of GNU userland using the GNU C library on top of FreeBSD’s kernel, coupled with the regular Debian package set.
It is literally GNU userland using the GNU C library on top of FreeBSD’s kernel, coupled with the regular Debian package set
You can say is BSD system tools with a Linux kernel but you would be evidently and clearly wrong.
Anyways. I wish you well. Best of luck.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 month ago:
If you define it that way you are right. Yah. But the common understanding is a bit different than yours.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system
Really great read.
I urge you to take a look at www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ It’s the exact same utilities and everything but a completely different kernel. It really highlights the difference here. How would your definition avoid d for this?
Would Debian GNU/kFreeBSD be 50% Linux, 50% FreeBSD under your definition even though it has no Linux code? It has all the system libraries and system utilities that you associate with Linux.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 month ago:
But it literally is the same. The only difference is the user space. Debian GNU/kFreeBSD shows this. Different operating system same user space.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 month ago:
I mean they are all literally the same operating system yah! They all use the same kernel APIs.
The main difference is package management.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 month ago:
Hot take. Under semantic versioning everything after vista has been in essence a new version of vista.
Going from NT 5.x to 6.x was a major jump.
The reason why Vista had no/terrible drivers was because they went from an insecure one driver bug crashed the whole system model to more secure isolated drivers that don’t crash the whole system. Developers had to learn how to write new drivers and none of the cap drivers worked.
They went from a single user OS with a multi user skin on top, to a full role based access control user system.
They went from global admin/non-admin permissions to scoped UAC permissions for apps.
Remember on Vista when apps constantly had that “asking for permissions” popup? That was then not using the 6.x UAC APIs.
Given the underlying architectural situation everything since Vista has been vista with polish added (or removed depending on how you look at it)
Things will go beyond vista when a new major release with new mandatory APIs shows up. Probably under NT 7.x.
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 1 month ago:
After you edited it, it is more clear now. You should have phrased it that way to begin with.
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 1 month ago:
Because saving video games and stopping the killing of children are mutually exclusive???
- Comment on Yes, in my back yard: people who live near large-scale solar projects are happy to have more built nearby 2 months ago:
Ohh. Yah. I wonder if it’s few degrees cooler. It would be cool to see some data.
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 2 months ago:
I don’t think overprovisioning is a thing that is realistically is a problem in the U.S. or in Germany. I know that modern homes tend to have 300amp mains. Older homes 100amps. You would have to have a house that was wired in 1920 in order to have a 20amp mains available. In that case you have bigger issues safety wise.
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 2 months ago:
Ohh! I spent some time in the U.S. and there are 230v mains available. They just have special plugs. All homes have 230v. It’s just not available through the happy face plug.
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 2 months ago:
The way that it works in most countries is that the breakers are per circuit in your wall. The breakers trip in order to prevent that single circuit from overheating and starting a fire in your walls.
Let’s say you have a wire that’s rated for 16amps. More than that and it becomes a fire risk just threw overheating. @230v that gives you 3680w per circuit.
If you have your industrial microwave, water heater, and car charger all going at the same time on that same circuit that will draw way more than 3680w and thus would go over that 16a limit.
The breakers trips once you go over that 16a limit for safety. It’s a good thing. This all being said no sane electrician would put those three things on the same circuit. lol.
I know it works this way in the U.S. and Germany at least.
- Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom 3 months ago:
Exactly.
- Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom 3 months ago:
No problem. I just thought I had covered that when I said:
That’s some incredible stuff. Now days you can use things like XCP-ng to do the same but VMware was ahead of the pack for a decade.
They started dying when they were squeezed between cloud hyper scalars and the cheaper alternative hypervisors that finally had caught up.
This being said I don’t think even in 2025 proxmox and things like vsphere are comparable. XCP-ng I do think is though. It’s open source and matches features.
- Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom 3 months ago:
You’re not wrong in 2025. But VMware was able do it in 2003.
- Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom 3 months ago:
There is a major difference between running a vm on your desktop and orchestrating a fleet of highly available virtual machines. Just one example might be vmotion. You can move a virtual machine from one physical host to another in real time with 0 interruption to services running on that host.
That’s some incredible stuff. Now days you can use things like XCP-ng to do the same but VMware was ahead of the pack for a decade.
They started dying when they were squeezed between cloud hyper scalars and the cheaper alternative hypervisors that finally had caught up.
Then the corpse was bought by Broadcom who is currently trying to milk it before the body completely rots.
- Comment on Microsoft faces growing unrest over role in Israel’s war on Gaza: ‘Close to a tipping point’ 4 months ago:
I don’t think he’s a troll. And he’s not doxing you. I don’t think you know what doxing means.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 4 months ago:
I mean if you use the Marxist/Leninist definition of left then obviously not. But I mean left leaning in terms of the societal understanding.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 4 months ago:
But the fact that the majority (or perhaps less than half now) of the responses literally prove the point I am trying to make proves my point downvotes or not.
You have to remember the people who would literally unironically make such a post that proves my post are the densest of the dense.
Most sexists, while dense, are less dense than a black hole and would not prove my point for me under my post.