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laurelraven ,

Climate scientists: "do these things to fix climate change"
Everyone: "but that's HAAARD and I don't wanna!"
AI developers: create AI
Climate scientists: "AI is drawing massive power accelerating climate change, we need to stop that"
Everyone: "but it can tell us how to fix climate change so it's going to be okay!"
AI climate model: "do these same things to fix climate change"
Everyone: "but that's HAAARD and I don't wanna!"

Yeah, I can't see any way this could possibly fail...

Props to Alpine and Kali for disabling this bullshit out of the box (lemmy.world)

Context for newbies: Linux refers to network adapters (wifi cards, ethernet cards, etc.) by so called "interfaces". For the longest time, the interface names were assigned based on the type of device and the order in which the system discovered it. So, eth0, eth1, wlan0, and wwan0 are all possible interface names. This, however,...

laurelraven ,

Yes, because everyone has need of this solution, and wants to have to copy and paste interface names every time they need to touch them, rather than having deterministic naming be an option to enable for those who actually need it...

laurelraven ,

But the SSD/HDD solution doesn't replace /dev/[s|h]da# entirely, just adds a consistent way to set them in configs like fstab. You can still use the old device names so working with them at the command line is still easy for the most part.

laurelraven ,

Considering how much systemd breaks the concept of "everything is a file", this would not surprise me in the least

laurelraven ,

You know Linux isn't just used by enterprise sysadmins, right?

And even speaking as an enterprise sysadmin myself, I've not had need or use for deterministic interface naming once in my career. I have no clue how common that is, but most of the servers, both physical and virtual, that I've worked on only had one Ethernet port connected.

I see the purpose of this, but don't see a reason why it should be the default, or why it couldn't have been implemented like HHD/SSD UUIDs where the old dev names were left intact for easy use outside of fstab and the like where consistency could become a problem

ETA: you also seemed to miss the part of my initial reply to you about it being something that can be enabled by those who need it... And if you're going to say that the enterprise professionals who need it shouldn't have to turn it on every time they spin up a system, I'll remind you that enterprise admins working at that level where they're setting up enough servers for that to be a hassle are probably using orchestration like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet, and can just add that into their configs once

laurelraven ,

I mean, you should be careful with destructive changes and commands whether the interface names can change or not... And since they won't change outside of a reboot, I've yet to run into a scenario where that becomes a problem as I'm looking at and making sure I'm talking to the correct device before starting anyway

laurelraven ,

And I don't care, so whatever

laurelraven ,

Microsoft at least isn't trying to be a walked garden (at least, they didn't used to)

It's not much, but the bar to be "better than Apple" from that perspective ain't exactly high

(Also, since they didn't mention Microsoft at all or make some statement about how Apple was the worst, I don't see how it even implies that... If you inferred that, I think that's on you)

laurelraven ,

I'm pretty sure their ad revenue from their own pages is a tiny fraction of their overall advertising revenue... They basically own the advertising market online, almost anywhere you see ads googie is getting a cut

laurelraven ,

And exactly where do you propose they talk about it and actually have people see it?

Tesla is recalling its Cybertruck for the fourth time to fix problems with trim pieces that can come loose and front windshield wipers that can fail | The new recalls each affect over 11,000 trucks (apnews.com)

The company says in the documents that the front windshield wiper motor controller can stop working because it’s getting too much electrical current. A wiper that fails can cut visibility, increasing the risk of a crash. The Austin, Texas, company says it knows of no crashes or injuries caused by the problem....

laurelraven ,

Nah, it's 53 billion for each

laurelraven ,

I'm seeing that a hell of a lot this year... Linux might actually finally make some real headwind with the tech crowd

laurelraven ,

Oh, that's okay though, you signed them the rights to do that by having an account with them

... I'm sure is how they'll spin it

laurelraven ,

So you want to throw a brick through OneDrive's Windows?

laurelraven ,

Give it a go, it was surprisingly not as big an issue as I thought it would be, even for gaming (though not perfect for gaming, I've been able to get things working without too much headache at least)

laurelraven ,

When I rebuilt mine a few months back, I got two drives so I could put windows on one of them, and mounted my old drives for the same reason... I've barely touched the old data and the second SSD has not even been formatted yet, and when I do it'll probably be to give my current system more space

laurelraven ,

Last couple cars I've had that's been a setting you can change... I set mine to lock when the car moves at more than a few mph, the other options seemed like too high a chance to cause an accidental lockout to me

laurelraven ,

It's worse than that: it requires the old school lead acid 12v battery to be charged, so even if the car's battery is full, it doesn't matter if that old car battery has failed

That's not unique to Tesla EVs, but it being required to open the doors may be (the 12v lead acid runs the general vehicle electronics rather than down converting the 400v or 800v main battery... I don't understand that decision, but I'm no electronics expert so there may be really good reasons for it...)

laurelraven ,

Tesla isn't a car... It's an EXPERIENCE!!!

(/s just in case it isn't obvious enough)

laurelraven ,

Thank you for providing the good reasons for it, it makes much more sense now

laurelraven ,

Pretty sure it's just about the shared name

Microsoft Account to local account conversion guide erased from official Windows 11 guide — instructions redacted earlier this week (www.tomshardware.com)

Microsoft has been pushing hard for its users to sign into Windows with a Microsoft Account. The newest Windows 11 installer removed the easy bypass to the requirement that you make an account or login with your existing account. If you didn't install Windows 11 without a Microsoft Account and now want to stop sending the...

laurelraven ,

The accounts started out optional with benefits to entice

They're now mandatory for Home and hard to bypass

How long before they extend this to Pro and Enterprise? To Server? To Active Directory itself?

They're not done yet, not by a long shot.

laurelraven ,

I'm legit still pissed off about that one

laurelraven ,

I mean, what isn't short for Elizabeth?

laurelraven ,

It crossed that border a long, long time ago

laurelraven ,

At a quick glance I'm not seeing anywhere in the article that they think that's what this is... If you're responding to them calling it "GenAI", that's a shortening of "Generative AI", not "General AI"

laurelraven ,

Are you suggesting that all computer hardware is going to be branded as such?

laurelraven ,

Because SystemD must do all and will not rest until GNU/Linux becomes SystemD/Linux

laurelraven ,

Honestly, the only reason I'm not using a non-SystemD distro is this is my first time actually going all in and having larger communities to help with issues plus just trying to force myself to learn it since it seems like it's not going away

But yeah, I'm not a fan.

Working through a networking issue right now and the layers of obfuscation SystemD adds, especially with JournalD, leaves me not really sure where to even look

It is tempting to say screw it and load up Gentoo on my desktop though

laurelraven ,

It seems to be an issue with using a 5.8 gigahertz WiFi endpoint, which has worked fine up until a couple days ago when it started dropping packets going outside my local network: I could watch a continuous ping start failing for a couple minutes while using Synergy to control my laptop that was connected to my work VPN without issue, so it only seemed to be an issue routing outside my network, which is really weird. Switching to the 2.4 gigahertz channels seems to have fixed it entirely.

What I need to do is look up the JournalD commands to be able to read the logs correctly and find what I'm after... Might also spin up a VM to see if that goes out at the same time, would be interesting if the VM can still work while the host is dropping packets...

laurelraven ,

Since my other systems were unaffected, I'm pretty sure it's something on my PC, possibly an update for the Wi-Fi drivers introduced a bug that affects the 5.8 channels

It's been stable since switching so it's more academic at this point, I have no burning need to be connected to the 5ghz channels

laurelraven ,

Yeah, I'd rather have my back panel fingerprint reader back than an even thinner phone, and then there's the pointlessness of making the phone so thin that to have a remotely decent camera they have to add a huge bulge. Just... Make the whole damned thing that thick and use the extra space for, I dunno, more battery maybe?

laurelraven ,

I don't know much of anything about Anycubic, but isn't pretty much everything Creality releases open? How are they withholding from the community?

laurelraven ,

The problem with that, though, is if they changed the workflow to be like Photoshop, it would leave those of us who know how to use Gimp but not Photoshop high and dry

Gimp is intuitive to me at this point because I have some idea of how it looks at raster image manipulation from using it off and on for years. I have no clue how to do things in Photoshop that I can do easily in Gimp. It may be the better user experience, I don't know.

If they ever do that, I really hope they leave the option for it to work like classic Gimp in there, because people like me don't actually do image editing that much overall and relearning would be painful for much longer than someone who can deep immerse themselves until they get it. I'd hate to do it but I think I'd have to stick with an old version if that happened without any way to keep doing things the same way

laurelraven ,

I mean, even if that was what they said, that would make it and things that function like it more intuitive to them, wouldn't it? And someone who's used to a different workflow would find it unintuitive.

So yeah... Intuitive is relative

laurelraven ,

Same... I think Photoshop would probably feel difficult to me to get my head around at this point since Gimp's workflow is the one I've known and used for over a decade and a half now

laurelraven ,

I can screenshot too

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/4f743efc-e96d-4f07-bfe5-d2f006d4aed1.png

Note where you said "only ever tried Gimp", when they said they have, in fact, used Photoshop. Additionally, nowhere in that did they say they've not used anything else since then even, just not Photoshop.

But you think you've made some credible point here, and likely won't back down no matter how wrong you are, so go ahead and respond telling me some twisted logic about why you're right and I'm wrong and I can ignore it so you can walk away thinking you've won some useless internet points.

laurelraven ,

Krita is better for some things but I find Gimp's workflow easier for me in a lot of things

Krita's Wacom tablet support, though, was way smoother and easier to get working with Krita, which is the main reason I even tried it out

laurelraven ,

Worse, the harder they try to stop it, the shittier the experience gets for their paying customers, but not for the pirates really. At that point, why would anyone want to pay for a crappy experience being treated like a thief when you can save your money and actually be a "thief" (at least in their eyes) while being treated like a paying customer?

Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important (www.techdirt.com)

The key problem is that copyright infringement by a private individual is regarded by the court as something so serious that it negates the right to privacy. It’s a sign of the twisted values that copyright has succeeded on imposing on many legal systems. It equates the mere copying of a digital file with serious crimes that...

laurelraven ,

But just in general, how can you have the right to be forgotten without the right to anonymity? They're inherently bound together

laurelraven ,

Like, maybe tiered to something like 5 years: pay what it costs now, 10 years: 10 times that cost, and 15 years: 100 times, with a hard cap at 15? I could get behind that.

laurelraven ,

I thought there was a registration fee for copyright, but I think I mixed it up with trademark...

laurelraven ,

I honestly wondered why they haven't done this yet for years

laurelraven ,

One of the very few things from Florida I actually agree with

laurelraven ,

Sounds like they need better payroll processes to me

Unless you're suggesting that it would mean the worker wouldn't get paid? Yeah, no... They still owe for work done

laurelraven ,

At that point, take your kids out of school if you're that worried about them being able to say goodbye.

During the 99.99999999% of the time the school isn't being shot up, the goal is for the kids to learn. Even with as many school shootings as we have now, the odds of your kids being in one is still incredibly small. Way higher than it should be, but ensuring the kids are getting quality education is still the top priority on a day to day basis.

laurelraven ,

Ew.

laurelraven ,

Thanks for the reply!

I'll probably just start messing around with things and see where they go, worst case I'll spend some time and learn some things

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