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mindlight ,

I'm pretty sure they essentially are "one time use" only.

Extremely simplified:

They run for 20-30 years without refueling, which means the reactors/system could be built more compact, a higher level of safety and require less maintenance / monitoring / fine-tuning.

All those parameters are connected in an equation which means if you want higher safety you have to make another parameter "worse". By making the system "one time use" you set the "refuelability" and "repairability" parameters to the lowest and can therefore up the other parameters.

Also, military requirements are very different from civilian.

mindlight , (edited )

Not even if Windows and Linux were on different partitions on the same disk would Windows be able to access the files on the Linux partition without the key.

Just pointing out that s separate disks doesn't change anything. The data, in its encrypted form, will be inaccessible without the decryption key.

Have you ever bough an external hardrive only to take the disk out of it?

Hiya, so am looking to buy more storage and while browsing am seeing some external harddisks, such as Western Digital My Book and Seagate Expansion Desktop for cheaper than the internal harddisks themselves. Have seen this one video from KTZ Systems where he bought up multiple of these external ones just to open them up and use...

mindlight ,

Yup. /r/Datahoarder guided me right. Got two of the recommended model of MyBook and shucked them.
This was 2-3 years ago. Disks are still going strong in my NAS.

mindlight ,

I'm pretty sure not everyone has a life and people who cares about them.

mindlight ,

Did you just try to angle my comment to be about people with disabilities being less capable and/or of less value?

What I countered was a claim where the first part stated that everyone has a life, which is just not true.
For the second part of the claim to have any value in the sentence, the first part has to be true. Which it wasn't.

Whether I read it wrong or not doesn't change the fact that I never limited my statement to be about people with disabilities or disabilities automatically taking the life away from people.

So I stand by my claim, that not everyone of the 8 billion living in this planet has a life and people that care about them.

mindlight ,

Why wait with the switch until 2025?

mindlight ,

Yup, They did.

mindlight ,

I'd argue that Windows 11 is a result of what Google has been getting away with Android.

Google has shown Microsoft that the users happily pay money for giving up the control of their device.
While Android was open 10 years ago, Google has worked hard to lock it down for 99% of the end users.
The amount of personal data they get from each device is staggering.

mindlight ,

Well, at least when you used to buy windows you were the user and the customer.

With Google you're just the product.

mindlight ,

Cool. Where can I read up on the catalog of Tidal?

mindlight ,

PCWorld:

Microsoft’s latest Windows update breaks VPNs, and there’s no fix

What Microsoft actually said:

Windows devices might face VPN connection failures after installing the April 2024 security update, or KB5036893.
We are working on a resolution and will provide an update in an upcoming release

I'm so fed up with everyone trying to make a quick buck on our constant struggle to stay safe.

mindlight ,

Nice idea but the chances of that happening is close to zero.

If you take the top 10000 companies around the world that use some open source software and count the amount of full time employees that contribute with code to open source projects I would be extremely surprised if you would reach 10000 contributers in total.

I love the philosophy behind open source but business people doesn't understand why it's valuable for them to have additional cost associated with "employees helping competitors".

Business people are the ones pulling the strings in the corporate world.

mindlight ,

TIL that Silicon Graphics still exists...

mindlight ,

If you want to promote your position - and it may not please someone and that is normal in a democratic society - take responsibility. What are you afraid to say who you are?

While I understand the problems the propaganda machines of Russia and China (among other) causes, this here is some stupid shit

Try to criticize Putin openly while living in Russia, speak up for the freedom to love and have sex with whoever you want in Uganda or publish pictures of Muhammad as a dog and sign all of it with your name and see what will happen.

Anonymity is a double edged sword. While being "nice to have" in a democracy it's a "must have" in a dictatorship.

mindlight ,

It's so funny that you use the word "unintuitive" and the describe the most intuitive way of adding a program to your computer. 😁

mindlight ,

How do you get new furniture into your house?

Our way, since I'm a Windows and Linux user, of adding applications is a remnant from the old times.
We have left the age where computers are maintained by men in white coats and powerful computers took up while buildings.

Apples way is more intuitive since it mimics how it most often works in the real world.

Computers should adapt to humans, not the other way around.

mindlight ,

No.

That was easy.

mindlight ,

Care to elaborate?

mindlight ,

Microsoft has no choice.

Arm has been dominating the biggest growing market mobile (everything from phones to tablets and now).
Intel is fighting a three front war now.
While one battlefront is the mobile market where ARM essentially is the only choice, another battlefront is dominated by Nvidia with the processors for graphics and ML/AI.
If that wasn't bad enough, AMD is attacking hard on Intel's home arena: PC CPUs.

When Apple dropped Intel for M1 they showed that Arm wasn't just some niche processor technology for less powerful devices, such as mobile devices.

So not only is AMD taking market shares in the PC market, ARM is on the rise and doesn't look very good for Intel right now.

Is Intel really capable of innovating their way out of their current path to extinction?

mindlight ,

Shortly as in?

mindlight ,

Yes. And it will.

mindlight , (edited )

No. Middle management is a lot of repeating tasks that an AI could do.
The thing is that were not talking about replacing all middle management, we're talking about giving 10% of the managers the tools to run 90% of the repetitive, tedious and boring tasks.

mindlight ,

You make it sound like corporations invent a new revolutionary wheel each quarter.
They don't.

What fantastic new beverage have Coca Cola launched the last couple of years?
What astonishing new car technology has GM or Volkswagen released lately?

Most companies are doing what they've always have done and guarding their market share. Now and then some small competitor with something revolutionizing pops up and either starts eating market share it gets aquired by one the bigger ones.

So between a competition popping up or one of your engineers coming up with a lucky accident, all you do is to manage the business as you always do.

mindlight ,

Even if you got US and Israel to sign it, Russia, China and The Saudis would never.

mindlight ,

I actually have no idea who sold what in this case and it's actually not even remotely relevant since the discussion was about updating the Geneva convention and who wouldn't sign.

However, you seem to imply that Israel lacks the knowledge and resources to create the Lavender system themselves. Intriguing! Please elaborate with some links supporting your claims.

mindlight ,

Yup. That's right.

mindlight ,

Actually, in the long run this might be something good.
This will force EU lawmakers to act regarding software services being pulled without consent.

A lot of things are sold with features relying on software services / cloud services.
You buy a smart tv today and two years later the vendor decides to kill the appstore.
(Had a friend who bought a Sony Bravia TV. Two years after she bought it she finally got a network outlet installed near the tv. However, Sony had decided to go another route and just killed 99% of all apps and the smart TV was really dumb)

Is this what you initially paid for when you decided to buy the device? Should the consumer just accept that a major part of the listed features just disappears?

mindlight ,

I'm pretty sure that looks better on paper than it will do in the real world.
Today a lot of software libraries are incorporated into applications. These libraries solve specific problems that the vendor didn't have to solve themselves. Often these libraries are licensed to be used under specific circumstances.
Even if you would get your hands on the source code, you are certainly not allowed to declare it open source.

So even if Sony were to release the OS on the Bravia as open source, it would most likely be a Swiss cheese with holes that had to be fixed before it was usable.

At that point you still wouldn't have gained much from an end user perspective since there is still no app store. Even if you set up your own local app store you would have to convince Netflix and other streaming services to release a client app for your tv.

I think the solution is more in the direction of legal pressure. If you sell something, it should be expected that you honor that sale and not change it to something it wasn't when you happily accepted the money.

mindlight ,

Might be your ideal world but that will not happen.
The only reason Android is "open" is because Google wanted to hit Microsoft and Apple where it hurts.
If they were super pro open source they would have released all code for Okay Services and the hardware in Nexus and Pixel.

But they didn't... So... Yeah... Not even Google is sharing your vision.

mindlight ,

Yeah. Maybe aim for something that at least has a chance to become a law?

mindlight ,

If it was OS/2 from IBM it was true multitasking and the OS in full control of memory allocation, something Microsoft only were able to offer after creating a new operating system from scratch (Windows NT).

If you thought OS/2 took forever to boot on a 386DX with only 8MB of ram, imagine how long it would take to boot Windows NT 3.5 on that same machine....

mindlight , (edited )

OS/2 3.0 "Warp" was a little too much ahead of its time and had the exact same problem that Windows Mobile had: no applications.

IBM tried to solve that with Windows emulation but it was a headache from the start and often have a buggy experience.

It didn't help that the real world hardest requirements were off the charts as compared to Windows 95 (still 16-bit MS-Dos based and not even close to what OS/2 was).

IBM did everything right from an engineering perspective but failed miserably on what the market wanted.

It never stood a chance. IBM had always been great at delivering solutions that was well engineered. What IBM has n-e-v-e-r been good at is marketing and understanding the volume market.

mindlight ,

So they got hacked / ransomwared?

Linux market share passes 4% for first time (arstechnica.com)

We see the nearly 33-year-old OS’s market share growing 31.3 percent from June 2023, when we last reported on Linux market share, to February. Since June, Linux usage has mostly increased gradually. Overall, there's been a big leap in usage compared to five years ago. In February 2019, Linux was reportedly on 1.58 percent of...

mindlight ,

I've been a regular user of Debian and Ubuntu for the last 20 years and even though I love the idea of Linux taking market share from Windows the article doesn't in any way analyze the reliability of the statistics.

Statcounter says it gets its desktop operating system (OS) usage stats from tracking code installed on over 1.5 million global websites generating over 5 billion monthly page views.

So... How reliable is this actually? There are a millions reasons for me to fake which is and web browser in using. Some sites actively sabotage the user experience and usability if the OS is not identified as Windows or the web browser is not Chrome/Edge.

I've been working IT since the 90's and there's not a 4% market share of Linux when I look at my friends and colleagues that works IT.
The ones I know that doesn't work IT definitively don't use Linux. Att least not in other things than Steam Deck and Android (Linux as in "modified kernel") and maybe some premade img for RPi

mindlight , (edited )

You're free to whatever opinion you might have but it's not a secret that Google used to change their search page to a more limited one if you were using Firefox.

Hence people created add-ons to change the User Agent to mimic Chrome when accessing Google.

Edit: I just reread your comment and noticed that you only quoted the part about Windows.

I'll just let my comment remain but it's okay that you're having an opinion that spoofing OS when accessing websites is not needed.

mindlight ,

I had to check if I was alone on this...I wasn't. First hit on a quick Google:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/z5sidv/me_every_time_a_web_page_doesnt_work_because/

So yeah, not alone... this is the hill I'm dying on😁

mindlight ,

...and shitty business decisions there are plenty of.

mindlight ,

Touch screen, Vibration feedback/Color change or not, means that you have to look at what your hand is doing and not on the road.

A physical button means you can keep your eyes on the road and find the right button with easy.

So let's be honest.
At this point, touch screens are chosen by car makers because cost and not design.
So essentially, safety is less important than cost for the car makers.

mindlight ,

Don't worry. There was some little minor thing about a vent but is reported as fixed since it was discovered.

mindlight ,

But then again, you never know when the service you rely on will be canned by Google.

How many Instant Messengers have we(yes, I'm an Android user) been through now?

mindlight ,

Even if this was the case, it's still not good:

"The one who controls the AI now controls you."

mindlight ,

Funny thing, he's not only spending his own money. He's burning the taxpayer's money too.

All these useless lawsuits takes up important resources but lucky us that Elon has a taxable income....

Older Computer Programmers & Engineers

Lately, I was going through the blog of a math professor I took at a community college back when I was in high school. Having gone the path I did in life, I took a look at what his credentials were, and found that he completed a computer science degree back sometime in the 1970s. He had a curmudgeonly and standoffish...

mindlight ,

No degree at all but been working IT since the 90's.

It's fun that when I started in IT everything went from centralized (mainframe and terminals) to decentralized (PC). Then came Citrix and everything went towards centralized. Smartphones and apps came so we went decentralized again.
Then cloud came and we essentially went centralized again.

It's all about trends, the pendulum swings back and forth....

mindlight ,

Well...AI's don't snort cocaine so that's an improvement for Klarna....

mindlight ,

Now, the powder scandal wasn't just about the execs 😁

mindlight ,

Wait what... Who can login to the internet bank with just a user/password?

We've had MFA requirement here in Sweden since the early 00's...

mindlight ,

With that strategy, there would have been no iPod and therefore no iPhone.

Hell, there would probably not even been a computer mouse since Rank Xerox would have been focusing on how to make copies of paper.

mindlight ,

What in "Not that I think Intel wouldn't cheat, because they've showed what they're "capable of" time after time.." was unclear for you?
Your conclusion from the above statement is that I'm probably a shill or just doesn't know IT as good as you because I don't agree with you on the spot?
Really?
Is that what you using your full mental capacity was able to conclude from my statement?

Let me just clear up it a little for you:
The issue isn't that Intel was (is) an asshole, it's that you blurb out unsubstantiated claims and when called out on it you claim that there's a conspiracy lead by Intel, all the journalists are on it but we all should take your word for it.

We both have all the information in the world literally in our hands and still you are unable to link to facts that support your statement and that is my fault somehow?

Nice talking to you. Have an awesome weekend. I will.

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