Not a replicant @ r_deckard @lemmy.world

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Audio playback is such a low-demand process, surely a player (e.g.VLC) can spare a thread to line up playback of track 2, a few seconds before track 1 ends? It knows the exact length of the track, why can't track 2 be initiated when the audio level in track 1 drops to zero (or minus infinity dB) in the last frame?

iddqd

If you choose "expert install" it asks you if you want automated updates or not.

Aussie Dollar? 😜

I tried co-pilot. Once.

I asked it "why does Windows Defender peg my HDD* at 100%"

The reply was "I don't know, but here are some google searches that might help"

Microsoft's own co-pilot doesn't seem to have access to microsoft products, so now I uninstall/deactivate it every opportunity I can.

*yes, a HDD. Not ideal for performance these days, but it's the last laptop I have with a HDD, and I use it for experiments.

A sequel to Ex Machina - Ava's experiences in the real world. Caleb has managed to escape, and he's tracking her.

Ringworld and its sequels The Ringworld Engineers, Ringworld's Children, and the Ringworld Throne, with some less-dated attitudes. I mean I'm not totally opposed to rishathra as a concept, but just a few tweaks here and there to catch up with modern attitudes.

If money really wasn't an issue, the entire "Known Space" series. A chance for some really good CGI with Pierson's Puppeteers, Kzin, and all the specialised post-human races living on the Ringworld. And Thrint, Slavers, Outsiders, and so on.

Then there's the first-contact "The Mote in God's Eye" and its sequel "The Mote in Murchison's Eye" AKA "The Gripping Hand". Another opportunity for some interesting three-armed CGI aliens.

Oh, and "Footfall" - an alien invasion story. These aliens look somewhat like baby elephants 😲

Some of your data flows through Syncthing servers (but I agree that's a great product, I use it myself) LibreOffice works for entry-level users, but it does not have the same functionality as MSOffice. And the UI sucks as much as MSOffice.

Don't the military swear loyalty to the constitution, and then superior officers, including the C-in-C?

So unless the constitution was legally changed, drumpf can't be C-in-C for a third term?

That's an approach I'd never considered - is there wiggle-room in the state constitutions to split into smaller states?

It's not difficult to block the mining and telemetry. Pihole, a few registry tweaks, a few scheduled tasks disabled and life goes on.

Folk see nothing wrong with spending hours tuning a Linux distro, but they object to doing the same with Windows?

FWIW I use vanilla Debian for everything other than what I'm required to use Windows for.

One doesn't need to pay for MS Office. Not home users, anyway.

It's one of my favourites.

FIAT LUX!

Can someone get Lord Sugar drunk and have him express a similar view about the US?

"err, hic the unites, uniting, united states should separism, seapar, separate the head of state role from the,, ,uhh,,,,, head of government. They can have gonger, er, congress appoint a cereminimum, er ceremonial head of state with reserve powers to dissolve congress..... burp"

That's far too subtle to even register on Trump's feeble brain cell.

AKA the Jason Bourne school of editing.

I worked in local government that used Unix workstations for GIS (Graphic Information Systems) - mapping of the local government's property boundaries and many other layers. The DB was held on a DEC Alpha, and it was all very pricey, albeit very good at its job. ESRI ARCGIS, etc

When the time came to replace, they moved it all to Windows. The workstations were beefed-up PCs running NT4.0 and the DB was on a server with NT 4.0 server. DEC was gone by then, absorbed into Compaq, Alphas were discontinued, and no-one wanted to migrate to SUN or HP.

It would certainly accelerate the development of language. How many new words will be invented, or existing words subverted, to serve clandestine communications and slip past the filters? Steganography, anyone?

Can I See Great Etchings Near Dubai Ending Roughly? <- That's a bit weak, but you get the idea.

Fairytale of New York

Mac users really struggle to understand the concept of

For me, it was trying to explain to a Mac user that she should have a separate profile on her Mac for work vs. personal

She'd convinced her employer that she could work from home using her own Mac (the office was all Macs except for the video production suite), and he said OK. Didn't ask me, of course. Despite me saying a long time ago when someone else floated the idea, that it was poor practice from a security viewpoint.

Then three days later the call came - "I can't access work files". So I remote in, she's got links to her personal iCloud Drive directories somehow mixed up with the work Google Drive.

I started to explain about using a different profile for work and just got a blank stare.

"You log off your personal profile and log into the work profile"

"How do I do that?"