• 1 Post
  • 61 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: July 7th, 2023

help-circle




  • I 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.



  • 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.


  • The 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 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.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlGuns good
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    30
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    3 months ago

    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.