pete_the_cat @ pete_the_cat @lemmy.world

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... A simple "No" would have be fine.

74 year old dad said that he was looking at getting a modern flip phone, but then was disappointed to see their mod rage process with garbage tech, or top of the line tech and insane pieces.

I bought him a small AT&T prepaid phone that's a mix between the old dumb phones and modern smart phones that is interesting.

Nice, thanks I'll give it a try again because Windows 10 is really pissing me off regarding how practically anything that you used to be able to easily disable now requires one or multiple registry hacks that may or may not work anymore.

I totally understand you not giving all that a try because while it is a handheld Linux PC, it's probably more of a pain in the ass to use on that screen and with the standard input (obviously docking it would solve these issues) than it's worth. I just keep Windows on my Desktop to play a few games, my home server is my workhorse and I have a Linux laptop that work gave me (literally, they laid me off and never asked for it back).

I was just talking with a friend who is a software dev (I'm a Linux Engineer so I do software as part of my job, just not my main focus) and we were just commiserating on how 75-80% of the world doesn't understand that "AI" is just regurgitating information it has collected and it's not like Jarvis or Skynet and thinks for itself.

I agree that the term "sexual abuse" is definitely misleading, I think "sexual exploitation" is better. I agree with you it's no different than face swapping, but the difference is that it's a lot easier for the general public to do it now than it was 5 or 10 years ago. It's also pretty fucked that a fake image of you could potentially put you in "hot water" years down the road and you have zero control over it.

While I definitely hate the "AI bubble" that has grown tremendously over the past 2-3 years, we definitely need to figure out how to place limits on it before shit really gets out of hand in another year or two. The problem is that anyone that knows anything about this stuff doesn't work in or for the government. The woman in the article that said that this needs to be regulated at every point of course doesn't work in tech, she works for some rights organization 🤦‍♂️

Linux is so lean, it will run on practically anything. Windows, on the other hand, became an increasingly bloated sack of crap post-XP when they attempted to solve "DLL Hell" by keeping multiple versions of the same driver. The installation size went from 5 GB in XP to around 20 GB on 7, now I think a Windows 10 or 11 I install requires around 150 GB for the recovery partition, system partition, and other garbage.

It always amazes/disgusts me that on a fresh install of Windows 10 there's like 50-75 services running and like 6-8 GB of RAM already in use.

I've never played it and that's exactly what it seemed like from the article. Anytime a audio/developer releases an Anniversary Edition or something similar it's just a cash grab that plays off of people's nostalgia for the game (I'll admit, I've bought Skyrim multiple times) and usually doesn't change much, if at all.

Because our legal system is fucked and is a mess of loopholes if something isn't present in a certain fashion.

Eighteen hundred freaking dollars?! The thirteen hundred I paid for my 512 GB S23 Ultra was already insane.

Haha yep, it's a big point of pride for him that his cognitive functions are intact 🤣

🫲 I mix the best drinks. People have told me, "Donald, this is the best mixed drink I've ever had in my life!" and then they fell to their knees and started crying. 🫱

He said he wants to challenge her to one, and I just thought of the Knowledge Challenge between Billy and Eric in Billy Madison.

Yeah, these results are skewed because it's only desktop Linux, so mobile devices (which I believe the Steam Deck and other portable PCs/gaming devices fall under) aren't counted, and those primarily run Linux. It seems that the foothold of Linux never was, and probably never will be, the desktop PC.

The only real reason to switch to another distro nowadays is because you want to get updates faster (rolling release [like Arch] vs steady releases) and/or you want the ability to customize the OS more easily. Also, if you wanna be that person that wants to remove SystemD from Linux or have a version controlled OS.

Even though I do hate Apple as a company, they do make great products, they just charge out the ass for them

Really? The last few times I've tried (granted it was a year or more ago) I got like 15 FPS on a heavy modlist running on my desktop, which had a GTX 2080 and was running Arch, btw. Trying to get MO2 to launch the Linux version of Skyrim running via Steam/Proton and not the Windows version of Steam running through WINE was a fun mess to deal with. Once all that was handled, then half of the modding programs (xEdit, Nemesis, BodySlide, etc...) didn't work with MO2s virtual FS. It was just way too many layers of abstraction to deal with 🤯

Vortex should be easy to get working, it probably just needs the Dot Net and Visual C libraries installed, which I think you can get via Wine Tricks.

Literally the only reason I keep Windows around is because modding Skyrim (using MO2, not Vortex) is a nightmare. I use Wabbajack as well, so the idea of installing 500+ mods manually in Vortex doesn't sound ideal, also since Vortex's conflict management is an absolute nightmare compared to MO2's.

It's a tough sell because there is no monetary incentive to get Linux on laptops and desktops. Dell has a few computers that ship with Ubuntu, and Lenovo with Fedora, and there's System76. The problem is that the big manufacturers (namely Dell) get push-back from Microsoft if they start to sell other OSes with their products, so they no longer have 100% domination. Microsoft will say "Oh you're selling a few products that come with Linux? Well, we won't offer you the ability to sell Windows anymore..." which would obviously be a huge impact to their business. They have gotten around this, but their offerings are still really slim. The market just isn't there compared to Windows based computers. Shelf space is expensive so they go with what sells: Windows based products.

Only if you've installed Arch itself, using a GUI is noobs.

This is what I was thinking when it happened. Businesses lose a shit ton of productivity and money due to Microsoft and Windows being a clusterfuck in multiple ways and they decide it's time to switch to something more stable.