And in retrospect it’s too bad more people didn’t steal from Microsoft so that it failed as a business.
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GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims DellEnglish
4·5 days agoI’ve been a full time Linux user at home for over six years. It’s why my username is what it is :)
I can’t say it’s flawless. Sometimes you get what you pay for. But in most every significant way it is the better choice.
GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims DellEnglish
2·5 days agoYES! Same!!!
GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims DellEnglish
15·6 days agoI have to use Windows 11 for work. Maybe this is because of CrowdStrike or something, I don’t know, but I often encounter a problem where the main section of explorer, where you can actually click files and stuff, just breaks. That entire region becomes unclickable and unusable, even though the rest of the Explorer window (like the icons on the top part) all still work. So I just have to close the window and then reopen Explorer, re-navigate back to where I was, and proceed from where I left off.
Never, in the decades I’ve been using computers, have I ever encountered something as stupid as this with this amount of regularity. Windows 11 is a uniquely bad OS compared to every competitor option, including prior versions of Windows.
GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"English
12·12 days agoNo matter how “cool” it is its primary purpose, first and foremost, is to generate spam. A trillion dollar industry, effectively, in the service of spamming our search results, inboxes, text messages, science journals, homework assignments, and so much more
As for btrfs, I don’t use it because I’m an adult.
This is a strange statement, because it’s now a mature fs that works. It’s even the default fs of the OS you’re trying to use. But for the sake of experimentation, I can appreciate wanting to try something off the beaten path. And I generally agree about Oracle and, specifically, Larry Ellison.
GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam FrameEnglish
2145·20 days agoThe announcement did not include Copilot? No mention of 300 useless AI features being shoved down our throats??!
It’s wild how by virtue of the fact that Valve isn’t a publicly traded company beholden to shareholders, the same Valve which has a history of putting out half-baked goods and which has an always-on DRM client called Steam, seems poised to surpass most of its competitors both in the user privacy and hardware hardware spaces with just straightforward products. They have a product to sell, and that’s it. They don’t need to micro-optimize for bullshit like seemingly every other large tech company does.
I hate to reply because I don’t have the answer to your question, just a remark which you may not care for: why bcachefs, especially on fedora server which has a rapidly advancing kernel? Bcachefs is out of the kernel tree. It is just going to be a constant maintenance burden on you to upkeep it with your server.
Btrfs will support subvolumes, compression, nodatacow directories, and everything else you might want while not being a thing you have to manually keep up with.
I would not expect the fedora installer to have any support for bcachefs, because fedora doesn’t have support for it generally.
I stopped buying BP products because of how terrible they are.
What was the effectiveness of this? Was it “far more” than, say, regulation by a government?
GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Ugh, that youtube thing is happening already! English
4·2 months agoI think we are seeing the beginning of the end of an open internet. Taking a few legitimate problems and exploding them up to destroy anonymity online. And VPNs are not the solution when using privacy-preserving workarounds are either outlawed or just don’t work on any major website.
That it goes hand-in-hand (especially in the USA) with a neo-fascist right wing in control opposed by the most limp-dick “left” is extra troubling. What was the inception point for this trend? Oct 7, 2023? Were too many people shown images on TikTok of Palestinian civilians being mercilessly bombed?
GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Ugh, that youtube thing is happening already! English
2·2 months agoSad part is I like the design, but it’s been over-exploited by big tech corps for the past 8 years so now I have to hate it because of the new symbolic meaning it has taken.
He just lived in the society he advocated for. He literally believed a shooting now and then was worth the right for everyone to have guns.
You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won’t have a single gun death. That is nonsense. It’s drivel. But I am, I, I — I think it’s worth it. I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.
Those are his own words from 2023.
Just because it happened to him doesn’t mean it wasn’t what he wanted. For all we know, he died blissfully knowing he received a God-given bullet.
GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In AmericaEnglish
4·3 months agoI think it’s much simpler than that. I think he just wants to make money and sees an opportunity to enrich himself. These people don’t have a sense of morality, only a “fuck you, got mine” basic American individualism
GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival AnthropicEnglish
4·3 months agoThe secondary use here is when you get asked in performance evaluation time how much you’re incorporating AI into your workflow. And you’d better not say “none” so you keep generating these nonsense documents and throwing them away so it appears like you’re using AI
GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival AnthropicEnglish
9·3 months agoTheir primary use case in the office that I’ve seen is asking someone a question and having them send a LLM response where they clearly didn’t read what you asked and the response they sent you does not answer the original question. It’s so cool!
All this boohooing about his family. His wife chose to marry him because he’s a reactionary racist transphobic piece of shit. Meaning she herself is one. The only people I feel bad for are the young kids
GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.mlto
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•I have some questions about soulseek. (Hopefully this fits here)English
1·3 months agoA redundant comment already made by someone else: to consider the power draw of the computer if you leave it on 24/7
GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.mlto
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•*Permanently Deleted*English
161·3 months agoOne thing to keep in mind is the IP address might not reflect the actual user’s location.
GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.mlto
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•I have some questions about soulseek. (Hopefully this fits here)English
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How did you determine it was the SSD failing and not another component?