bitwaba @ bitwaba @lemmy.world

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I beat my addiction 7 times a week!

Couldn't think of a better way to go

You just need a large enough geomagnetic storm

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event

There's always a bigger power switch upstream somewhere.

Cool!

There's always a bigger power switch upstream somewhere

Apple is going to start cramming their AI the throat of all users in the next year or two as well.

Just... No.

I feel the same way, but I feel it with lots of other topics in my life as well.

I daily drive Linux for both home and work. Windows is absolutely shit, yes, but when you're using Linux as your primary system, the only interaction you have with Windows is through other people. And that interaction is only when people's experience with Windows is noteworthy enough for them to mention anything about it. Its selection bias.

A similar thing happened with me when I visited home after having been gone for 2 years. I moved from the US to the UK over a decade ago. I'd go back every 6-12 months, but because of COVID it was over 2 years. It was during the vaccine rollouts too, and I was expecting this warzone anti mask/antivax everywhere. I saw a few people (like, over 3 weeks I saw less than a dozen) with signs protesting at intersections. And I saw one guy have an argument with his wife in the parking lot which she just eventually told him to stay in the the car if he wasn't going to wear a mask while she went to the grocery store. Thats pretty much the opposite of what I expected based on the images I got for the previous 2 years through overseas media. You only get the lowlights.

Yeah. I think if someone had a sensible method for how we could switch from one to the other with minimal impact, it might work.

What would very difficult for me would be the recalibration of my internal clock. Knowing a second is slightly shorter, and a minute is longer, and an hour is much longer, would be hell for a while.

Unfortunately I think something that's pretty hard coded into the society at this point is that a day should be able to divide by so we end up with the 8hr work, 8 hr rest, 8 hr sleep. I'd be interested in a 30hr day over a 10 hr day. But that one doesn't make much sense either since it misses the mark on bringing tim fully into the 10 base metric system, but still has all the same troubles you'd encounter for getting people to switch.

Id imagine all games rely on at least the X server running to handle the display.

I know back in the day you could do some cool stuff with framebuffer, but I don't know if you'd get 3d acceleration today even if you installed the drivers, because they probably need a bunch of libraries that are packaged as part of DEs/WMs

If you just want the experience of launching graphical stuff from the CLI, that can be done. You'd still install all the packages for your chosen display server and WM/DE, then you can write a small bash script that launches a desktop session and starts your program, then closes the desktop session after you exit the program.

I do look forward to the next generation of ad free media consumption powered by a small VC startup fund that has a bunch of low cost fresh-out-of-university students paid mostly in stocks working in a garage to say "yeah fuck this I've seen ads all my life in gonna do make something that doesn't make people hate life"

Each iteration of the technology eventually becomes hot garbage. But man, for like a decade there shit is pretty good while the rest of the entrenched industry is stuck trying to pay lobbyists to get law makers to write rules that neither side understands just to have them ultimately not get passed or not address the issue and those companies still disappear.

On their deathbed, a man shows up to deliver strong pentrative action to a geriatric patient.

Ya know, send em' out with a bang.

Old features and less? No problem. Just don't install X, a window manager, or a desktop environment. It'll be just like the DOS days!

Sorry, I thought you were making a general comment. I didn't realize you we're criticizing the "metric money" statement.

But, reading over that person's comment again they also say "centidollars", which also doesn't exist, so I believe they were trying to make the point that the US was the first to make a currency that seems to adhere to the same principles as the metric system since their currently since 1 centidollars = 1 cent = 1 dollar/100.

(I'm pretty sure it was a joke though. We don't use kilodollars, etc)

Meanwhile the advantage of day first is that often you don't need to say the rest since if you don't it's implied as the present one (i.e. if I tell you now "let's have that meeting on the 10th" June and 2024 are implied) so you can convey the same infomation with less words (however in written form meant to preserve the date for future reference you have to write the whole thing anyway)

That advantage is not exclusive to the date-first system. You can still leave out implied information with month-first as well.

Personally I recognize that it's mainly familiarity that makes me favour one format over the other and logically I don't think one way is overall better than the other one as the advantages of each are situational.

This is the biggest part of it. No one wants to change what they know. I'm from the US and moved to the UK, and interact with continental Europeans on a daily basis. I've seen and used both systems day to day. But when I approach this question, my answer isn't "this one is better because that's the one I like or I'm most comfortable with", my answer is "if no one knew any system right now, and we all had to choose between one of the two options, which one is the more sensible option?"

dd-mm-yyyy has no benefit over yyyy-mm-dd, while yyyy-mm-dd does have benefits over dd-mm-yyyy. The choice is easy.

What does the grizzly bear say when you ask him?

London, all the Italian girls break out their scarves in September.

I think dildo scissors handle is something I could use at my job to hit people with when they act like idiots

You measure baking soda with a teaspoon.

You measure garlic with your heart.

The brake pedal in automatics is twice as wide as a brake pedal in manual cars.

No one is intentionally hitting the brake pedal. They're moving their foot to push in a clutch pedal that doesn't exist, and accidentally hitting the left hand side of the wide ass brake pedal.