teawrecks @ teawrecks @sopuli.xyz

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Oh yeah, not putting any blame on you, just agreeing with the person above.

On a related note, it's not even good practice to copy/paste commands directly from the browser to a terminal at all, because it's possible for unicode/js tricks to completely override what you think you're yanking to your clipboard. So copy/pasting a curl-to-bash is a double whammy of bad practices.

I much prefer the practice of stating plainly, "here's a script, consider it an example, make sure you read it first, and run it at your own risk".

It is not "hurting children" to help them understand their underlying assumptions.

It's just bad practice to even post such a thing. Especially with an influx of new users to linux, it appears so often it makes it seem like that's normal behavior.

It's like....a gun salesman handing a purchase to a customer barrel first, finger on the trigger. Like yeah, it's not loaded, nothing is going to happen, but that's just terrible practice.

He respects Putin, and feels insecure that Putin is able to invade Ukraine and he can't even rename a gulf.

He's simple and has made it clear that he doesn't understand what foreign relation techniques earned the US "world police" status. I wouldn't actually put it past him to think he needs to take over more land to be respected. He is in real estate, after all.

All of that was introduced in 2004. When you said "25 years ago" I assumed you meant the original P4 from 2000.

Negative, Pentium 4 was x86 and thus could only address 32 bits.

64bit CPUs started hitting the mainstream in 2003, but 64bit Windows didn't take off until Win7 in 2009. (XP had it, but no one bothered switching from 32b XP to 64b XP just to use more memory and have early adoption issues. Vista had it, but no one had Vista).

Bologna storage.

Maybe with climate change and everything else going on in the world, the second part feels redundant.

Especially in Canada!

That's not due to new hardware, battery life is a conscious decision from design/marketing teams. Newer hardware, if it's worth anything at all, can accomplish more operations at the same TDP as the previous generation. Or more accurately, new hw should always have better performance per watt than older hw (*generally. Of course there are always hardware architecture differences that can dramatically affect performance of very specific scenarios for better and worse, but I'm talking about on-average).

But that doesn't stop hw manufacturers from bumping up the TDP recommendations to sell their latest chips (why new nvidia GPUs always suck another 100W of power each gen), and it doesn't stop OEMs from using a higher TDP limit to sell the performance of their handheld (why newer handhelds seem to have worse battery life).

The team that designs a new handheld could use the newer compute hw with the same battery capacity and:

• the same TDP limit, resulting in a marginal increase to performance at the same battery life
• a lower TDP limit, resulting in the same performance in higher battery life

but they often determine neither of those will sell units as well as using a slightly higher TDP limit for higher performance review numbers at the cost of battery life.

This is why I like that SteamOS has a deliberately configurable TDP limit in the flyout menu, per-title! This gives the player manual control over what they consider important rather than leaving it up to a marketing team or some buggy power limit heuristics. Just one more reason why I'm excited to see wider adoption of SteamOS.

Meh, I'd rather people not be able to use the "steamdeck is older hardware" argument to avoid gaming on linux. The more users get used to gaming on linux, the more native support we get from devs.

Yeah, i don't like that all the more recent devices all added remotes and explicit apps you have to install and launch. Also the "newest" 4k-capable chromecast is from 2020, so I would already be upgrading to old hw that's a worse experience.

PEBKAC.

But seriously, she needs to understand that, even though she (presumably) taught you how to tie your shoes, you don't keep having her tie them for you. At some point there is no problem except that she isn't accepting the solution.

Keeping with the analogy, if a person just refuses to tie shoes, not wearing shoes is always an option...

Hah, I was going to say, I do check for updates at least once when I first get it, because I have run into TVs that shipped with HDR bugs in the stock firmware.

For the Chromecast, what happens with yours? Mine randomly restarts, or reconnects to wifi, or sometimes Plex has trouble buffering until I reboot it.

I recently bought a raspi5 to try out FCast, though currently afaik only Grayjay supports it.

I just never connect my TV to the internet and never have any problems. My old Chromecast is showing its age though.

I think they're just asking, from a categorical imperative perspective, what is the most effective way for all individuals with a bit of savings to help the climate situation.

And tbh, at this point OP is probably better off spending that $10k on preparing for:

• inclimate weather (HVAC, water proofing, warm clothing)
• inconsistent power (battery backups, a generator)
• food/clean water shortages (home gardening skills, rain catching/water purification).

At this point, there's virtually nothing that can be done to stop the impact of climate change, there is only adapting to survive it. The best we can do is vote and/or hope for our global political situation to finally reach its inevitable crisis point. But I don't expect that to be a pleasant experience.

I assume DeepComputing isn't releasing any of their designs as open source, right? They're just producing RISC-V compatible chips?

Hah I was going to make the same comment, but in response to this quote:

it is historically accurate, scientifically sound, and most importantly, life-changing.

The definition of terrorism is using fear of violence as a political motivator, and I think we all agree that Luigi was trying to make a political statement through the use of violence. Agree or disagree with his message, that was his methodology.

But yes, in this case, this was a self-immolation protest, with no goal of causing fear. Even if a monk accidentally sets a bystander on fire as a result of demonstration, that is an accident, and no one has any reason to be afraid the monk will come for them next.

That tracks. They can't determine if it's terrorism until they know the perpetrator's skin color.