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laurelraven

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laurelraven ,

For me, the Boost Lemmy app let me downvote even though my instance has it disabled... It just quietly failed and when I go back the downvote isn't there.

The Jerboa and Voyager apps, on the other hand, don't: Voyager let's you try but correctly shows an error, while Jerboa flat out doesn't offer it since I can't anyway

laurelraven ,

Maybe they used him because it's a shit opinion?

laurelraven ,

That shell reminds me a lot of PowerShell

laurelraven ,

It's aliases all the way down

laurelraven ,

I've long said that Kaiser is great, but should not be: the service they provide should be the baseline everyone gets, not exceptional by comparison.

Everyone deserves what they provide, or better. But it's nearly impossible to find anything in the US that's even as good as them without paying unholy amounts of money

laurelraven ,

I wouldn't bet on that

laurelraven ,

I don't know how I would react to being told that other than staring at them incredulously and fighting my instinct to say something along the lines of "you're complaining that I'm doing my job TOO WELL???!?"

laurelraven ,

Can confirm, when I was doing that forever and a half ago, Comcast actually never gave us trouble when we called them, but anything having to do with at&t or Verizon was like pulling teeth

The worst was one site who was serviced by neither of them, but our last mile provider interlinked through one of them, who linked through the other (I don't remember the order of interlinks) to get to our actual ISP and into our datacenter/WAN. We had issues upon issues upon issues with that site's connection, and it was the interlink between those two that was the culprit. It was easy to narrow down, and easy to fix, but getting them to actually fix it took months of us screaming at our last mile to scream at them louder since we weren't their customers and they both refused to talk to us because of that.

It did get fixed but it took probably a year and a half of fighting before they finally updated the interlink.

laurelraven ,

Sounds lovely.

You are aware that most of us in the US don't actually have options like that, correct? I'd dump my ISP in a heartbeat if those plans were available to me.

laurelraven ,

Depending on the outcome of the coming election, could be next year

laurelraven ,

I definitely recommend a beginner friendly distro to start with, but also encourage going through a Gentoo install at least once to get a better understanding of how the system works

Whether you succeed or fail at getting the install to boot and run or not, you'll learn something from the experience

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....

laurelraven ,

And we don't speak of NT 6.0

laurelraven ,

I will say the solution to that IS to not play those games, but that only starts to work when enough people do that to hurt the bottom line of the devs

laurelraven ,

It popped up in all of my 2022 servers, before even running updates, which means they can push things and change our production without our involvement at all

I'm beyond pissed

laurelraven ,

We have it, sort of, but those systems have all automatic updates disabled (they're part of a terminal server farm and need to be as close to identical as possible and our patching team for whatever reason have never been able to reliably and consistently update all of them at the same time)

I'd like to interject for a moment. (lemmy.ml)

What you’re refering to as Windows, is in fact, GNU/Windows, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Windows. Windows is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another closed component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising...

laurelraven ,

I mean... The kernel is called NT, not Windows, but okay

laurelraven ,

Same, and with only a few exceptions, it's been a fairly painless switch

laurelraven ,

I think we sound test that.

For skyense.

laurelraven ,

If enough creators moved, the fans would follow.

Unfortunately, the creators won't move to a platform that doesn't have users to watch them. And users won't bother with a platform that doesn't have creators to watch.

While this can be overcome... Yeah, I think googie will need to fork up yootoob a lot more before enough on both sides are willing to jump ship en masse

laurelraven ,

They might not be able to easily, but that's 100% on them for spending their obscene profits on yet another nesting yacht rather than upgrading their infrastructure to actually keep pace with demand

laurelraven ,

For me, being backed by IBM isn't exactly a selling point... Not as bad as backed by Oracle, mind you

laurelraven ,

Also, even when you actually get an error message (which you probably had to dig through the awful mess that is the event viewer... Seriously, the only update they've made to it in the last twenty years was to split a bunch of things into a ton of individual logs that are more than painful to dig through), it's cryptic (if it tells you anything at all) and pasting it into search gives you nothing relevant, and quoting it gives you nothing at all (even the part that's obviously the generic part of the error), or if it does, it's a couple hits with people asking for help and either getting no replies, unhelpful replies that misunderstand the issue, or tells them they're asking in the wrong Microsoft support forum

Like... Come on, Microsoft. You clearly coded this error in the operating system. Put at least one page in documents online with at least something useful about it...

laurelraven ,

I don't feel very supported by their killing off CentOS and cutting promised support down from many years to the end of the year rather suddenly... Forgive me if I don't trust them with much of anything after that

laurelraven ,

They literally cut promised support pulling the rug out from under many people and businesses that put their trust in that support. Not sure how that doesn't count as "day to day software support". Being able to trust that their word will be honored and I'll not be forced to scramble to replace their os is kind of important and losing that trust understandably costs that trust pretty much across the board, at least for me

laurelraven ,

Also totally appropriate

laurelraven ,

This is shocking.

I'm shocked.

This is my shocked face I have on right now.

laurelraven ,

Makes me think of when they brought out Stadia... Friend of mine was all into it, and didn't understand why I just shrugged and didn't bother with it.

I think he learned a valuable lesson there... Oh well, at least they refunded people's money

laurelraven ,

I use mint btw

laurelraven ,

Linseed has an awfully low smoke point though, wouldn't seasoning built with it burn off when trying to cook at higher temperatures?

laurelraven ,

So, when you go to check them... It's not like the AI is going to hallucinate a valid registered domain with a webserver hosting the hallucinated source as well, so click the link, it's dead/fake, toss out that reply as suspect.

If you follow the source and find it's valid, supports what the AI said, and is reasonably trustworthy, then you can consider what it has told you.

If it cites its sources, you have a way to check its math (so to speak).

laurelraven ,

The person you were replying to was talking about checking those sources though.

Yes, fake sources can and will give people a false sense that it's legit, but checking a "hallucinated" source will quickly make it clear that there's nothing backing it up.

It's a problem, but it's one that an individual using it who's aware of it does actually have a way of mitigating fairly easily.

laurelraven ,

But it's also told to be completely unbiased!

That prompt is so contradictory i don't know how anyone or anything could ever hope to follow it

laurelraven ,

It also said to not refuse to do anything the user asks for any reason, and finished by saying it must never ignore the previous directions, so honestly, it was following the directions presented: the later instructions to not reveal the prompt would fall under "any reason" so it has to comply with the request without censorship

laurelraven ,

If the pandemic had happened 10 years earlier, I'm pretty sure Skype would have been the choice everyone reached for

How Microsoft managed to so thoroughly squander a market dominant position and generally positive public option to the extreme they have I'll never understand

Even did a two-fer by destroying the progress Lync was making on the business side by rebranding it Skype for Business, while simultaneously losing interest in improving the platform, making it fall behind the curve badly and causing business to see it as more of a toy by branding it like a consumer product

laurelraven ,

Yes, that's the story it's telling

laurelraven ,

You mean you haven't set up a PXE Boot auto installer for non Linux machines connecting to your network to be automatically upgraded yet?

laurelraven , (edited )

I remember really liking Encounter at Farpoint when i was a kid

Rewatching it more recently, I realized Diana's "PAIN! I FELL PAIN!" was her sensing the audience's reaction to the horrible episode

Like... It had a single episode worth of good episode in there but they left the other half in that should have hit the editing room floor

ETA: I had to look up what season 5 episode 2 is, and yes, that's an excellent representation

I'd argue that the second pilot of the original series, "Where No Man Has Gone Before" is also a excellent overall introduction to Star Trek: cerebral rather than action oriented, the focus on the people and their relationships both with each other and their own humanity, asking questions of the audience to make us think, solid message ("absolute power corrupts absolutely")...

But definitely skip the original pilot, The Cage, in its standalone form. Watching that, we were damned lucky it didn't get shitcanned fully right then and there

laurelraven ,

I can't even use virtual box at work, every time anyone downloads it, Oracle sics their licensing trolls at us, ignoring the fact that it's free for all outside of the extension pack

I'm STILL pissed off that Oracle bought Sun

laurelraven ,

When i first started there, I did, just out of habit, but when i was approached about it, I removed it without hesitation... Never did download it or install it again, but every time i downloaded the main program, within a day I'd get someone saying Oracle was coming after us again and ultimately we just stopped allowing it altogether because having to deal with Oracle's bullshit just wasn't worth it, I'd rather pay VMware than deal with Oracle's bullshit for a free product that they can't figure out their own license for

Well... Now VMware is owned by Broadcom and is apparently being dismantled from the inside so i may be looking for a third option soon (that isn't HyperV... It works fine but I've always found it hit or miss for Linux, which is like 100% of what I virtualize on my desktop)

laurelraven ,

Pretty sure Kerrigan, the Queen of Blades, could have sent him packing

laurelraven ,

I've used Windows 11 a lot

I've made all the changes

Ultimately, switching to Linux is what it took to get rid of the garbage, and didn't have to disable anything on the new system.

Can we not defend this bullshit, please? Or dismiss it as not that bad? It's bad. Really bad. Stop pretending it's okay because you can go through a dozen settings, half a dozen registry hacks, and a handful of third party programs to make the system work almost as well as it did a decade ago.

laurelraven ,

Not only that, but they sure made it sound like you were buying the house

laurelraven ,

Because they didn't feel like going to lunch? Was it mandatory? If so, were they going to get paid for it? And for the gas to come in just to have lunch?

laurelraven ,

True

People going on about how much electric cars suck are usually shocked when I agree with them... And moreso when I point out that they suck because they're still cars, and that's not a conversation the anti-EV crowd is ready to have.

Also, goes into the old "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" mantra which it seems nobody understands is ordered that way intentionally as that's the order they should be implemented. Reducing usage is by far the most effective tactic for positive environmental impact or environmental harm reduction.

They just get to "recycle" and see that they can change pretty much nothing more than putting trash in a different bin and figure that's all they need to do. Even though it's a really poor overall impact.

laurelraven ,

Well, adding ads could easily be that very bad decision, if anything can position itself as an attractive alternative fast enough

laurelraven ,

Shouldn't have to, it should be something to enable or better yet install

laurelraven ,

It's okay, I've already switched to Linux

laurelraven ,

Depends on where you live, where I am Everclear is "only" 75.5% ABV

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