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herrcaptain ,

People like this, by simply existing, make me feel like a real dumb piece of shit.

My breaks from real work are video games, TV, and this sort of shit posting we've got going on in this thread right here.

herrcaptain ,

Yeah, it's the same for me. Work is so I have the money I need to live, but free time is so much more valuable to me.

herrcaptain ,

It's been quite a while, but on an older system years ago I recall it slightly nagging me about how the computer wasn't W11-enabled.

herrcaptain ,

Package manager: This package contains an updated sshd_config file, would you like to replace your existing file with the package maintainer's updated file?

Me, every time: LOL, no

herrcaptain ,

I woulgent.

Instead Of Banning Books, Idaho Library Decides To Ban Kids In Response To New Law On ‘Inappropriate Books’ (www.techdirt.com)

Public libraries are supposed to be places for communities to gather and learn, with an important focus on being a place for kids to gain access to information. But thanks to a moral panic in the GOP about “indoctrination” in libraries, it seems that at least one library has decided to shut its door to children....

herrcaptain ,

Entering force on July 1, 2024, HB 710 features a definition of obscene materials for minors that critics believe to be broad and, per the library, “ambiguous.” 

“‘Sexual conduct’ means any act of masturbation, homosexuality, sexual intercourse, or physical contact with a person’s clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks or, if such person be a female, the breast,” reads a portion of the bill. The law provides for broad assumptions regarding material that is potentially “obscene” or “harmful to minors” for simply dealing with the subject matter of sexuality or the human body’s biological reproductive functions. Parents or guardians can arbitrarily apply these definitions against libraries accused of “promoting” material that is supposedly harmful to minors. In the law, “promoting” refers to virtually any act of selling, loaning out, and distributing books, DVDs, CDs, or other media types. The law also prohibits live performances that meet the definition of being harmful to minors. It is pretty encompassing. 

Judging by this definition, the Bible should unequivocally be considered harmful to minors.
There's some pretty outright horny stuff in there. I'd say this should be challenged by using it to sue church libraries, but it looks like the bill is directed at schools and public libraries, so I'm guessing they're exempt by being private organizations.

herrcaptain ,

Thanks for the links! Of course they unbanned it, but it's at least good to see there are parents/citizens calling out the hypocrisy in the first place. I know they're fighting an extremely uphill battle in red states.

I'm really annoyed by how much Brave Search is pushing AI

I've been using Brave Search supplemented by Startpage for the past 2+ years. When I search for something, I want to get results for credible webpages, not a summary of unknown quality. I liked the previous AI inclusion because it was instant, didn't take up much space, and I could quickly navigate to the websites referenced in...

herrcaptain ,

Welcome to everything this year. Seemingly every app in the world is jumping on the bandwagon, and some are more egregious than others. I swear if Elementor (WordPress editor) mentions AI again I'm gonna uninstall it in every site I have access to.

herrcaptain ,

You do have to worry about some things though. I couldn't say what those things are, but I have a hunch that temple_os users have some pretty unique worries.

herrcaptain ,

I'm not defending AI, but I've seen Excel manage worse on its own. Granted, it's almost always my fault for not fully understanding the enigmatic systems that power its logic.

herrcaptain ,

I don't know, but they sure as shit shouldn't be allowed on pizza.

herrcaptain ,

Yeah, and this isn't just a Firefox thing - caching issues happen in every browser now and then. It seems like every other month I have to help a co-worker clear their Chrome cache to be able to log into QuickBooks again. Weirdly, the problem seems to happen to me less in Firefox despite so many big sites not being optimized for it anymore.

herrcaptain ,

The last half of the sentence suggests that it will re-download zero files. I'm not a grammar doctor so maybe the sentence is technically correct, but I've personally always found that phrasing to be unusual.

herrcaptain ,

I think this is only the second of these I've understood, but I keep coming back for more.

herrcaptain ,

Thanks - I had no idea there was a wiki. Maybe now I'll get up to 10% of the references. We're making progress!

herrcaptain ,

Are you absolutely sure the programs you need don't work in wine/proton? The last few years have been a renaissance in terms of increased compatibility.

herrcaptain ,

Yeah, I've heard Photoshop can be rough. Here's hoping someone figures those out for you so you can find your way to the promised land. These days everything important to me works in Linux and I'm never going back.

herrcaptain ,

It really depends on what you're doing. In my case the soft costs like domains are pretty negligible compared to how much I seem to spend on more hard disks every six months. You might tell yourself, "96 TB of raw storage will last forever," but it turns out forever is about a year.

herrcaptain ,

That's a slight exaggeration. I think it was about 2 years to get close to filling that up. Keep in mind that a chunk of that is unusable due to drive parity.

herrcaptain ,

If I remember correctly ZFS keeps the whole array running whenever one is active (which is basically always). If I remember, I'll check my UPS when I get home to see the actual power draw. The storage itself is probably cheaper to run than the main server in the rack - a gen8 HP 360p, which is a bit on the old side and I'd guess not terribly efficient being a 1U piece with many small high-powered fans running constantly.

Electricity here isn't too expensive though, being public hydro power.

herrcaptain ,

I'd try it. I already love pineapple on pizza (a travesty, apparently) so why not? I don't see any cops.

herrcaptain ,

Yes! I haven't done it in a long time, but pickles work great as a topping.

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Hey now, they'll build native features if it's something no one wants (Pocket).

herrcaptain ,

But haven't you ever wanted the opportunity to pay for bookmarks? Now you can!

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Right? It seems like the modern internet is made up of like 5 monolithic sites, and unlimited SEO spam.

I know that's not literally true, but it sure feels like it.

herrcaptain ,

The cops:

http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/313/189/7e4.jpg

herrcaptain ,

Judging by the last month of our Microsoft 365 tenant at work, they have plenty of room to improve. (Maybe by expanding in-house QA instead of relying on their customers.)

One of the several issues we ran into in the last few weeks was that you couldn't download or view attachments in the Outlook Web app if you'd been logged in for over 10ish minutes.According to the official advisory, this was due to "code put in production designed to increase reliability." That was a funny way of making things reliable. It was over a week until they'd pushed a fix for that one - right around the time more Outlook issues started popping up.

So yeah, while I agree with you that this might be tough - it might just be the best move they've made in a while. Maybe it'll cause them to pay more attention to fixing bugs, and focus less on solving problems no one has. (Apparently we, as customers, have been dying for an AI button on our keyboard, to easily access an AI feature now baked into the taskbar.)

herrcaptain ,

(Oh, and when I said that my system is unstable, the dev told me i should have used a “test computer”, obviously)

Hey, everybody, get a load of this guy. Imagine not running a separate staging computer and custom DevOps systems for your home PC.

/s, just in case you think I'm a Gnome dev.

herrcaptain ,

Or you didn't clap long enough at Stalin's speech.

herrcaptain ,

Well this bummed me out.

herrcaptain ,

Oh yeah, I definitely loved the game back then. As an adult though, the context is kind of a bummer. (And what Disney did was downright villainous.)

herrcaptain ,

FYI, RimpPy also runs in Linux. (Not that I won't be taking a look at this.)

herrcaptain ,

Fair point, and to your other point it looks like RimpPy is indeed closed source. I took a peak and the source code archives on the release page just extract to the same 2 files in the GitHub repo.

Rimsort looks great though - I'll definitely give it a shot on my next playthrough, so thanks for that.

herrcaptain ,

Did the artist forget to draw legs on that second girl?

herrcaptain ,

I wheeze-laughed at "Ran out of keys to bind years ago, has to use pedals under desk to switch between layouts."

Now I kinda want to do that.

herrcaptain ,

Ooooh yeah. I didn't even consider that, but it looks like it comes from 4chan so there's a good chance you're right about the dog whistle.

herrcaptain ,

I'm pretty sure Emacs has a portal to Narnia somewhere in there.

herrcaptain ,

I think the thing that saves me from doing stuff like this is that as I get older I've begun to hate extraneous cables on and around my desk. For the longest time I've stuck with cabled peripherals, but I think my next buy will be wireless in that department. Now if we could make this foot pedal wireless...

Tech brands are forcing AI into your gadgets—whether you asked for it or not (arstechnica.com)

Earlier this year, Microsoft added a new key to Windows keyboards for the first time since 1994. Before the news dropped, your mind might’ve raced with the possibilities and potential usefulness of a new addition. However, the button ended up being a Copilot launcher button that doesn’t even work in an innovative way....

herrcaptain ,

This article should have been titled, "Why the fuck does my mouse need an AI chat -prompt builder?"

Seriously. I want my mouse to do one job - move around the screen and let me click on stuff.

herrcaptain ,

Yup! The only remaining Windows system I personally use is my work laptop. I feel like its lack of customizability holds back my workflow but I've kept Windows on it so I don't get rusty for when I need to support my users. At this point I think I'll just spin up a decommissioned box for Windows testing and finally throw Linux onto my work system.

You're so right that we're all beta-testers now. If I recall correctly, MS and Google both laid off a ton of their QA people like 10 years ago and now the customers are functionally QA. Our M365 tenant just dealt with over two straight weeks of email issues. According to the actual MS advisory, this was due to a code update pushed to production to "increase reliability." No shit!

herrcaptain ,

Do I get bonus points for being vegan and using Arch?

herrcaptain ,

Thankfully, no. The only thing I'm evangelical about is the ISO 8601 date standard.

herrcaptain ,

You absolutely made the right call. Fallout is apparently at its best when Bethesda isn't fully calling the shots. Apart from the original isometric games, that's (in my opinion) the gem of the series.

herrcaptain ,

Okay, I guess I've gotta play the crow here ... Is Arch really such a bad choice for a beginner these days? Obviously building it the "proper" way would be a bad idea, but there are tons of Arch-based distros with GUI-installers. I currently run Garuda on both my personal devices and the install process really couldn't have been easier, and almost everything worked out of the box. The stuff that needed tweaking was all minor and mostly related to this being my first foray into KDE in over a decade. Let's face it - that's a pretty high bar even on Windows systems these days.

Granted, the rolling release aspect means inevitably you're gonna get a borked update that you have to revert, so that's a stumbling point for a complete newbie. It's not like that doesn't sometimes happen on other distros though - or even Windows. On the other hand, the AUR means little or no manually compiling stuff. Plus, the best wiki in the community (even if you don't use Arch). And gaming (at least on AMD) is rock solid.

Hell, I have a fifteen-year-old intern at my work (through his school). He'd had almost no exposure to Linux when he started with us, so as a learning project I had him set up Arch with Hyprland from the console. The little bugger did find the install script, but even then he had to learn a bunch of stuff and still had a running system in about an afternoon.

ANYWAY, I'm not saying that Arch should necessarily be the first distro for most beginners, just that it's not as daunting as most people make it out to be.

Setting up a computer for Grandma? Mint.

Already something of a power-user in Windows? Depending on your use case, Arch is worth consideration.

herrcaptain ,

If you wish to make an apple pie compile Linux from scratch, you must first invent the universe

-Carl Sagan

Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone (www.theverge.com)

Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu....

herrcaptain ,

Ah, the ol' "Please use Edge" update screen that pops up every few months.

herrcaptain ,

This is like those super-targeted t-shirts that get marketed on platforms like Facebook.

herrcaptain ,

Absolutely! I do that all the time.

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