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  • screen sizes

    Where I'm from, even that has a cm rating right next to it.

  • Oh yeah.
    I almost forgot about MS Project.

    There was once a time I looked for an alternative to Project. Then I found one (probably used it a bit) and forgot. I think the alt wasn't as fully featured as MS Project and that gives MS Office a big win.

    Dynamics NAV

    No idea, never used it. No comments.

  • That's what I'm doing nowadays.
    Except for Sniper Elite (version 1), which I paid for on Steam, because I felt like I owed something.
    Thinking about it now, I should have bought the GoG version.

  • all browsers that arenโ€™t WebKit or Gecko

    I don't get this part. Are all engines other than those 2, based on Chromium?

    Perhaps you are forgetting Ze great Konqueror ?

  • Of course, maybe I am being too hard on people by expecting everyone to put more thought into everything they make a decision for. But it is in fact the lack of thought that tends to cause problems in all areas we see nowadays.
    But that's a topic for somewhere else.


    We can simply go by "Linux is more bulletproof than Windows"; instead of calling it "safe", which would also be wrong.
    Also with, "Windows will shoot you with intent, Linux might just get some stray shrapnel."

  • Done properly, an injection like this probably could have been done with no change to default behaviour,

    Interesting.
    So the sloppiness was in the implementation and not the social engineering.
    But then of course, people tend to be not good at both, fooling people and fooling programmers/computers at the same time. In this case, the chap turned out to be better at fooling people than programmers/computers.


    And I am being sloppy for not trying to learn enough about exploits even though I should have a good enough programming base to start it.

  • I do like the idea of mandating git clang-format as the Kate project has.
    That way the other devs don't need to change their own IDE settings to comply.

  • https://upvote.au/comment/818245

    Nah, I'd say the chap was pretty unsloppy.
    Just that we were lucky that someone found it.

    It's a good thing that xz is a type of program that people may want to profile.

    But this is an eye opener for people saying that Linux is "secure" (not more secure, but just secure .) because the code has many eyes on it. --> jump to digression.

    This confirms my suspicion that we may be affected by the bystander effect, so we actually have less eyes than required for this.


    digression:

    • of course I don't mean that this makes Linux less secure than Windows. The point that it makes it more secure than Windows/MacOS or other closed source systems is already apparent.
      • Just that, we can't consider Linux to be secure (without comparing it to something less secure) as many ppl would, when evangelising Linux.

    My point being, tell the whole truth. The newbie that's taking your advice will thank you for that later on.

  • OooOo!
    That's some high number of dwnv0t3s!
    I wouldn't have realised unless you had replied here.

    Nice, but it's also good that everyone is at least free to downvote and see the number of downvotes, unlike YouTube.


    All over history, there has been this trend of people misusing technology and then blaming the technology instead of those that misuse it. This trend is detrimental to the technological progress of a civilisation and is one of the driving forces, causing the cycle that our civilisation is stuck in (of losing all tech and history every once a while and then having to start over from the dark ages).
    Technology, gives someone the ability to do something, but it is their will that makes them want to do so. If the "something" is considered "bad" for society, then instead of taking away the ability, we need to insist on getting the person to understand, why and how, said "something" is a problem for the society.

    Until this problem is fixed, we are going to be stuck at the barrier and the next levels of civilisation shall stay a part of Fiction.

  • I say stop antagonizing the AI.
    The only difference between a skilled artist making it with Photoshop and someone using a Neural Net, is the amount of time and effort put into creating the instance.

    If there are to be any laws against these, they need to apply to any and every fake that's convincing enough, no matter the technology used.


    Don't blame the gunpowder for the dead person.
    People were being killed by thrown stones before that.

  • Relatable

  • Or maybe their IDE had a different auto indent config and they saved it all, then committed it all without checking the diff or the status.

  • We have the same point.

    1. Bad IT will destroy both Win and Linux systems
    2. People on Lemmy are much less likely to be fans of either OS
    3. Advanced stuff can be done better using scripting languages and depending upon the case, it's fine to not give a -ive point to the OS for not implementing advanced stuff in GUI
    4. Users who don't try to understand what's going on before pressing Next or Y or Enter will mess up stuff.

    In fact, I was starting to learn PowerShell back when I decided to jump to Linux.

    There are a few things I have to differ about:

    1. The Win PCs at my previous workplace were pretty standardised. They were all same models, bought in batches with contracts with the OEMs. Also, the Win PCs had better H/W 7th gen i7s vs the makeshift Ubuntu setup I had made with a 7th gen i5 with similar RAM packages.
    2. Even though I give a lot of flak to GNOME, it still worked better than said Windows setups.
    3. A laptop of mine (Win 10) that was going bad fast, due to inadequate cooling, was fixed using Manjaro KDE, which if you try yourself, will realise is actually uselessly pretty heavy on resources due to extra configurations (as kompared to stock KDE). Despite that, I managed to go for higher workloads than Win on that dying laptop. (mainly using Office programs and Web browsers).
      Similarly, I am also able to run KDE Plasma on my Core 2 Quad, which, even though is slow (due to high load on Secondary Memory), still managed to be as good as Windows 7, if not better, at basic tasks.

    Coming back to the original topic:
    My main point is that the main thing that is going for Windows, is not any sort of Objectively Higher Quality design, but it's current popularity. Similar points for Adobe software and MS Office.

    On the other hand, Autodesk software for Engineering CAD does have a Objective upper hand, which cannot be trumped by just people one day deciding to shift to FOSS.

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  • The only mistake I can remember not being mine, was with GRUB, in which grub-install installed stuff in a different way than what was already installed by EndaeavourOS beforehand, meaning that the default options didn't work well.

    Of course, there might have been an eos application which was supposed to be used for that.

    Otherwise, whenever systems broke, they were my own doing, sometimes explicitly.

  • I had past exp with Debian not working on my laptop.
    So when buying a new Desktop, I made sure to check my Motherboard for compatibility before the purchase, so that it would work well on Debian.

    Then I went with EndeavourOS. ๐Ÿ˜œ

  • That's just camel case vs snake case (though in this case, it also has the first character capitalised)

  • I use C++ and in certain projects, I am already halfway there.

  • Once collaboration with Windows/Mac users of a specific industry is required then itโ€™s game over โ€“ the โ€œalternativesโ€ arenโ€™t just up to it.

    You are right. But when I say "alternatives", that's not what I really mean. And there's a reason I gave the example of Blender. That is because, if your company is using blender, they won't be needing 3dsMax and other stuff.

    waltz in some office and have people tolerate broken documents of some format

    Of course not. I am talking about the whole office switching over to (or even starting off with) LibreOffice. Because it's just that good.
    Except that it's about as slow as MS Office, if run on Windows. But from my exp, everything is slow on Windows, so the ppl not complaining about their Windows being slow, won't complain about this and the ones complaining about Windows being slow will still do the same thing, except that they will be using LibreOffice.

    how much time (days? months?) you want to spend fixing things on Linux that simply work out of the box under Windows

    Don't worry, Microsoft is helping us out in this regard, by making Windows as problematic as Linux used to be, while Linux is becoming less so.

    In my office exp, the ppl who ask someone to fix their Linux problems are also the ones who ask others to fix their Windows problems. Then the people who tend to fix those Windows problems tend to be doing so, not by understanding the problem, but by following some random tips passed onto them by people who worked there long ago (some of which actually understood what they were doing).
    Then there's the IT department having people who do nothing other than follow instructions and turn out to break stuff more often than not when pushing updates. In my last workplace, there had been more loss of productivity from the Windows computers being stuck for hours in a reboot loop, than from any Linux problems and that was when there were 60% Linux machines. In my current workplace, I do tend to have more Linux problems than Windows, but that is with a Linux to Windows ratio of 10:1.

    Another anecdote with advanced Networking options. Doing anything out of the mainstream for networking stuff is way easier on Linux for me (coming from someone who did Windows for >15years before getting to Linux for 3years). In fact, it is after I had to do these kinds of configurations during work, is when I realised, how much better it is to have high quality terminal applications with man pages, rather than the mess of Windows System Settings.

    And then comes the time when a multi billion dollar contract needs to be made to port a piece of software from Windows 95 to Windows 10 and make it work with new hardware. All because someone managed to save some money the last time, by not thinking about how stuff would work later on when Voodoo cards are no longer available and signed off on getting the software (which was to be used for over 50 years) as a binary blob, instead of getting the source. Short term gains, is all you have, when saving your stuff in non-open standards.


    Nowadays, most Linux "problems" I get on work is from people not understanding how to install new stuff. For example, setting up a new docker image; stuff requiring other dependencies; internet telling them to use apt and then me reminding them to use yum. All the stuff that comes with people predominantly having used Windows and having no idea about Linux.

    But when making solutions, it doesn't tend to be much harder to create stuff for Linux than for Windows. If you can't expect someone to deploy stuff by copying files to the correct place, you will be making an installer/shell script either way.

  • No need to get them into Linux (Though Autodesk technically can since their main toolkit is Qt)
    Just need to give great alternatives. Like Blender, which easily ups 3dsMax and Maya