linearchaos

linearchaos , 1 month ago

The automated walk out service wasn't a con. It was a shortsighted, honestly s***** idea, that was never able to be brought past the human oversight stage.

Con requires intent. I'm absolutely certain they fully intended to make it a completely humanless system. They failed and drug their feet trying and now they've shut it down.

If it's a con, what's their long game? What are they gain from having humans watch the store remotely? Is it tech just so neat that they'll have a lot more shoppers than a regular store? Do they save so much in on-site staff that it's cheaper to run than a conventional store? There's no advantage here that would make it a worthwhile con. It's a failed moonshot that they ended up manning with people to see if they could make it work that's all.

linearchaos , 1 month ago

It's a give and take honestly.

System-d has better logging. Until you have something that needs to really really log. You can argue that if you have something that's that dependent on logging it shouldn't be logging through the console but it's worked fine for decades. Auto pruning of logs isn't necessarily ideal. Getting console logs and assist logs as a pain in the ass.

Same goes for service dependencies we had this sorted it was answered via run levels and naming. It wasn't necessarily the most elegant solution but it was simple and there was very little to go wrong.

The tools to manage the services and logs are needlessly complicated. Service start, service stop, service status, service log, service enable, service disable. And I shouldn't have to reload the Daemon every time I make a change.

This isn't to say that it's all bad. It's flexible, and for most workflows, it's very automated and very light touch. The other pruning on the log file says probably saved a lot of downtime, a whole lot of downtime.

It's really well suited to desktop.

Service creation is somewhat easier.

Dependencies are more flexible than run levels.

To be honest I wouldn't go out of my way to run in a non-system distro but I would feel a little sigh of relief if something I was screwing with was still init.d

linearchaos , 2 months ago

Freezing/unfreezing credit needs to be free and easy.

linearchaos , 2 months ago

Talking about freezing credit checks, not card usage.

linearchaos , 2 months ago

With your social security number first and last name and some public record information you can apply for credit cards, loans, you name it. For the process to kick off a credit check is performed. The company that is offering to give you the money Will check one or all of the major credit bureaus to get your credit worthiness.

You can write a letter to the three credit bureaus and ask them to lock your credit status so if anyone checks them they will get nothing back. This is a free service as long as you've got plenty of time to wait. You can sign up for any one of a dozen different "credit monitoring" services for the rate of about $30 a month they'll let you turn your credit check on or off at will.

I think the credit bureau should be forced to provide you a portal to authenticate and turn your credit status on and off at will.

linearchaos , 2 months ago

Yeah, we're heavily leaning toward making borrowing easy to the point that any security breach puts us at risk. It's trivial with just a little private data to take out a loan or buy a car in someone else's name. It really sucks.

linearchaos , 2 months ago

Cracks? Cracks! These are not cracks, these are features of our product. Their features of our business! It's what differentiates us from the fractured Windows and Android communities. You want these crac...err features, you need them because it makes our products better.

/s

linearchaos , 2 months ago

NixOS, it has a lot of the same pain points as Arch, even steeper learning curve for installation and configuration. And lose support for even more software titles.

If it's not 1995 slackware difficult I don't want it.

linearchaos , 2 months ago

I mean, unpatchable vulnerability. Complacent, uncomplacent, I'm not real sure they look different.

linearchaos , 2 months ago

Whatever it is It will only come down to costing companies with deep lobby pockets money and how the conservative new agencies are spinning it.

I'd like to see everything priced on the rim and out the door. Taxes, registration, fees, shipping all on the line. I'd like the price on the shelf/invoice/website/advertisement/cash register and bank statement to all match.

linearchaos , 2 months ago

Verizon FIOS is like a unicorn. Service is stable, price hasn't moved, support is available, clear and friendly. Install and repair dates are quick.

one day the shoe will drop, been waiting for it for years, but in my little corridor they just keep kicking comcast's ass.

linearchaos , 2 months ago

Yeah, if you ended up with frontier or anyone else they sold to you're going to have a bad time.

linearchaos , 2 months ago

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linearchaos , 2 months ago

I'll take one of each from the left column and all three on the bottom

linearchaos , 2 months ago

Some form of tiny PC with Kodi and a remote.

I'm currently looking at jailbreaking an Apple TV for the purpose.

linearchaos , 2 months ago

I maintain giant playlists for each user. Generally just shuffle whoever's listening.

linearchaos , 2 months ago

I run a catchall account. Every vendor gets [vendor]@myemail

Stops spam, stops data theft, stops phishing stops data brokers. Makes tracking data on me useless.

To be honest, it works so well, I can't imagine not having it.

linearchaos , 2 months ago

I think the differentiation is in who's placing the ad.

There were sponsored ads before where a company reached out to Reddit and bought advertisements and read it took the money for them and posted them. They were labeled as sponsored.

But since the beginning of Reddit, advertising firms have just posted nearly blatant ads without notifying anyone.

Sounds to me like reddit's just removing he sponsored indicator from their sponsored ad sales.

linearchaos , 2 months ago

GPS signals are incredibly weak and super vulnerable to interference.

We all deserve the right not to be tracked.

The solution to this isn't in GPS jamming the solution to this is in data collection laws. They should absolutely refuse to sell cars that don't have the option to turn off cellular links and GPS tracking.

linearchaos , 2 months ago

I'm not getting vice as a project on it :/

linearchaos , 2 months ago

"They" (collectively large lobbying corporations) own the US government.

linearchaos , 2 months ago

Also if note keep an eye on value when selecting sizes. Rice and grains go down in price per weight drastically when you buy larger quantities. I buy extreme bulk for flour and rice. The flower lasts me months the rice lasts me years and I'm paying less than half as much for my rice and flour

linearchaos , 2 months ago

Even if you don't pretend it's way down from where it used to be.

linearchaos , 2 months ago

Quick everybody stand back! They're MAD!

linearchaos , 2 months ago

Which is kind of surprising after his incredible string of extremely smart moves over the past several years... /s

linearchaos , 2 months ago

I moved to a newpipe fork about a year ago. I stopped using their suggestions altogether. I'm not going to lie it was a couple of months before I was able to get used to it. I've come to believe that having YouTube on permanent autoplay based on their algorithmic calculations of what I'd want to see is not entirely healthy for me.

At current, once I've watched everything from my chosen creators for the day. That's it I'm done, I go and find something more useful to do.

Now I see only the shows from my chosen creators,and if one of those guys recommends a different creator that they enjoy I'll usually throw a follow in that direction. Very organic very much not in someone's pocket. I've avoided TikTok like the plague. I think that, as much as possible, no companies financial statement should have a serious impact over my content consumption.

linearchaos , 2 months ago

Tubular, it's The same as new pipe plus sponsor block but it's currently active.

linearchaos , 2 months ago

He kept the 70% he wanted, it'll be a propaganda engine and communications platform for the right wing.

linearchaos , 2 months ago

Strategic alignment. Getting his taxes cut counts. Of course, could be some deeper conspiracy. I'm not so anto- conspiracy that I don't think people aren't making grand plans to install trump.

linearchaos , 2 months ago

I personally don't really mind TikTok. But the algorithm is a bit too addictive. The short form 30 second content consumption format is slowly eroding our attention span.

linearchaos , 2 months ago

I've been looking for a couple of days. It looks like Kodi is probably the way to go.

You can use any of a number of remote controls, or even a modern cell phone.

Unless your media server is up to the full task of transcoding it needs to have a little bit of horsepower to do transcoding on the client.

linearchaos , 2 months ago

At least rolling back after you broke it was easy. :)

linearchaos , 2 months ago

Oh yeah, I've been running nix for a week, it can't even find plz6 after I added unstable and updated. Lost a couple hours to the attempt, rollback was 30 sec tho

linearchaos , 2 months ago

Outlook owa pwa is 99%

The rest of the apps sans access work 99% in wine.

Google docs works great

Run NixOS don't give em root or nix-shell. They can't install anything you don't allow.

Put each users allows softlist into source control. Make the boxes cron and reconfigure on demand.

Tailscale VPN.

linearchaos , 2 months ago

Meme's not wrong and I daily Linux, but how we got here is all that crap on the bottom has a pretty low chance of leaving you bricked and getting back from bricking windows is usually marginally trivial. The same people get lost in Linux, don't read warnings, do stupid shit without thinking then spend forever trying to muddle through how to fix it. Mr. LTT did it himself.

linearchaos , 2 months ago

ore completely bricked Windows installs than Linux. Don’t think I’ve ever managed to completely Bork a Linux install ex
Everybody has different experiences.

I completely shattered my NixOS install by trying to activate Nvidia Prime on my laptop. Of course it was NixOS, so i could roll back from the boot loader.
There was the time I used vim to edit /etc/sudoers on a remote VM. that was a joy.

If you screw up most of your core windows install DISM online cleanup will put most of it back.

Windows has more guard rails than say Debian or Ubuntu. But to each their own.

linearchaos , 2 months ago

verage moron who thinks they know everything so they

I had such high hopes when he and Luke started that challenge. If they would have made it, we'd probably have twice the uptake we have now. But because he has to drop out to cli and do stupid crap. He could have run Ubuntu with Unfree and used straight GUI installs and have been in steam in 15 minutes.

linearchaos , 2 months ago

For it being such a big freaking deal They sure as hell can't seem to get around to mailing me a replacement red card mine expired I called twice a month apart, still no card. I just called a few days ago and canceled not even a why are you canceling,just thanks have a good day

linearchaos , 3 months ago

I wouldn't pay $36 for an HP printer that they didn't monitor much less per month

linearchaos , 3 months ago

5%? I get that 700 ppl is a big number but 5% is pretty tame for the games industry. AAA sheds more than that after a big title releases.

linearchaos , 3 months ago

I mean I'm game if you are. :)

linearchaos , 3 months ago

Heh, That's fair. I wasn't presuming gender or orientation, mostly just for the LoLs.

linearchaos , 3 months ago

Yes it's still useful and it's basically how we made our last couple of jumps. An AI training on AI generated data being graded by another AI. We've hit diminishing returns though.

linearchaos , 3 months ago

I don't know how in the hell they let it go as wrong as they did. They had all the eyeballs of the internet. They had all the Google search traffic. They had an API that encouraged tons of other people to make applications that link with them to display their content.

All they had to do was light touch monetization, and slightly stroke the egos of the mods. Every new phone, car, light bulb that ever came out had a place where it could be directed right at the people they want to sell it to. All they had to do was disguise it as an unboxing or a slightly pithy review. Hell, they could have gotten competitors to bid against each other. Chevy could have been on there dissing forward, Ford could have been on their dissing Dodge. They're so many opportunities there for monetization. They have control over their own algorithm.

linearchaos , 3 months ago

A degree for developer just means that they know how to learn.

I've seen some straight a solid developers come straight out of college enter the enterprise sector and bomb right out.

Why aren't you using Python, why aren't you using inheritance. They're walking into these places with 20-year-old code bases and nowhere near enough money to rewrite any of it.

And the problem is, even if they get the opportunity to rewrite it, they try so hard to optimize it and put so many little smart decisions in there that becomes very difficult to maintain.

linearchaos , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Apple can't compete in that space. Their schtick is producing moderately inexpensive nice looking goods for exorbitant prices that are designed to be impossible to repair by anybody with them.

Tesla has already corned the market.

Trying to block people from repairing? check, trying to block sales of used items? check. Getting rid of all the buttons for all the interfaces and making you work with a tablet in the center of the car? Check.

linearchaos , 3 months ago

I don't love it, but they're probably trying to stay away from extra controversy that will get them canceled by the government.

linearchaos , 3 months ago

I've been blocking bots for 6 months now, it's a neverending stream of new garbage.