NaibofTabr

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A meme in the "IQ bell curve" format. On the left, stupid wojak says "If we don't stop AI, it will destroy humanity", while thinking about rogue robots from Terminator. On the right, sage wojak also says "If we don't stop AI, it will destroy humanity", but he's thinking about massive energy requirements and carbon emissions associated with AI. In the middle, average intelligence wojak is in favour of AI: "Noooo AI will make our lives easier, we can automate so many tasks. Only a few more years and we'll achieve AGI, just wait and see. Surely this time a couple exajoules of energy spent on training will do the trick."
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NaibofTabr ,

If you're separating your application from the core system package manager and shared libraries, there had better be a good and specific reason for it (e.g. the app needs to be containerized for stability/security/weird dependency). If an app can't be centrally managed I don't want it on my system, with grudging exceptions.

Chocolatey has even made this possible in Windows, and lately for my Windows environments if I can't install an application through chocolatey then I'll try to find an alternative that I can. Package managers are absolutely superior to independent application installs.

NaibofTabr ,

Can I sudo apt upgrade my installed flatpak apps?

NaibofTabr ,

This is true, the only shared libraries are usually the .NET versions, but so many apps depend on specific .NET versions that frequently the modularity doesn't matter.

NaibofTabr ,

Oh no, no GUI nonsense. Single, simple shell command update for the whole system so that it can be properly remotely managed, please. Something equivalent to sudo apt upgrade

NaibofTabr , (Bearbeitet )

Um, if it's "parallel" (e.g. separate from the OS package manager) then it's not centrally managed. The OS package manager is the central management.

There might be specific use cases where this makes sense, but frankly if segregating an app from the OS is a requirement then it should be fully containerized with something like Docker, or run in an independent VM.

If a flatpack is made reasonably, then it gets library updates independent of the app developer doing it.

That feels like a load-bearing "if". I never have to worry about this with the package manager.

NaibofTabr ,

I finally solved this problem in my desktop by having two separate M2 drives, one for Windows and one for Linux. Boot & grub live on the Linux drive and Windows never touches it.

With Linux and Windows on one drive, this is super annoying.

NaibofTabr , (Bearbeitet )

Run Qubes

https://www.qubes-os.org/attachment/site/qubes-trust-level-architecture.png

Run whatever OS environment you need, in its own instance. Run a virtual networking stack. Crosslink your environments as needed. Segregate your environments as needed. Create new environments as needed. Destroy them as needed. Expand your virtual infrastructure.

Experiment with BSD and then realize that TrueNAS Scale is the last NAS environment you'll ever need, and you didn't really want to spend time on BSD anyway. Expand your server and network infrastructure.

Run every environment. Realize that you actually have a lot to learn about Windows, especially server and AD forests, and all the stuff you've complained about is actually kind of petty next to the monolith of professional computing environment that Microsoft has built (and also keeps making unnecessary self-harming changes to, and wtf is with user CALs anyway?). Learn to do user and domain management for real. Then learn what the real problems with Microsoft are.

Experiment with Redox, then give up and do something more useful with your time.

Install Xen Orchestra on some cheap secondhand Dell server you bought off eBay. Run a proper VM cloud environment. Run everything on top of it. Create your own VM golden images for the environments you use most often. Your personal computer doesn't even have a local OS installed anymore, it's just a terminal that runs whichever VM you need from your Xen server at the moment. Reject limitations.

OS elitism is for the weak and the simple. Enlightenment is understanding the strengths and weaknesses of each platform, and getting the best from all of them.

The fuk? Please help me complete this insane captcha ( lemmy.world )

Fridge fridge hamburger truck truck... ??? What's the blue thing? I thought hamburger would be the answer, but it isn't? I just get the same captcha with the hamburger in a different place. WTAF is happening? And what's the blue thing? I refresh and it's the same icon in a different place. I AM HUMAN!

NaibofTabr ,

I would guess it's the lower fridge in case the items are supposed to be falling and the fridge will be the first one to hit the floor.

wut.

NaibofTabr ,

KDE has a really nice suite of applications and utilities. No other desktop environment really compares on that level (and Amarok is back!).

XFCE &etc are also good if you are running lightweight hardware (not just old hardware) but still want a desktop environment.

CLI is best for servers and remotely managed/headless systems.

NaibofTabr ,

Development was dead for years, so dead that it wasn't included in new release repositories

Clementine was a fork that was pretty good, but I think had more ambitions than active developers.

Strawberry later forked from Clementine and is still being developed, and they're doing well, but they aren't building on the KDE framework.

NaibofTabr , (Bearbeitet )

but it literally says it will update outside of active hours.

Yeah, but it lies.

And the privacy toggles are set when you install the OS. You can untick all of them the last time I checked.

But a future Windows update will reset them without informing the user.

Microsoft respects user choice about as well as Republicans respect voting rights.

NaibofTabr ,

"Authorized" in the sense that even if I set all these options to No, a future Windows update will reset them and not tell me.

NaibofTabr , (Bearbeitet )

Has it been proven to happen on Windows 11? Not that I can point to specifically. 11 hasn't been in general use long enough to see a real pattern of behavior.

I was a mixed Windows and Linux user through the full life cycle of the Cortana implementation. The number of times they changed or moved Cortana related settings through the years was just ridiculous. It finally came down to having to manually change registry settings to keep it from scanning your files and messing with basic local search, and even if you did that you had to make sure the registry values were still set after version updates because they would get unset without warning.

I have no trust left for Microsoft, only suspicion.

NaibofTabr ,

Ah yes, the US caused the Russian army to invade Ukraine. Makes perfect sense.

Nothing at all to do with Putin's warmongering megalomania.

NaibofTabr ,

The problem with these "settings" is that Windows updates don't respect them. They frequently get reset or superseded by new updates. This happened constantly if you tried to disable Cortana in Windows 10 - even if you changed the registry settings manually, they would get overwritten during updates. I don't trust Microsoft to respect user choice, they have a demonstrated track record of ignoring it.

NaibofTabr , (Bearbeitet )

Don't use mushroom ID apps and don't trust random guidebooks from Amazon, they're probably AI-generated crap.

The deadly mycotoxin orellanine, which is present in Cortinarius rubellus, the deadly webcap, may not cause symptoms in those who ingested the mushroom until one or two weeks have passed – after detectable traces of the toxin are already gone, and late-stage kidney failure has already begun. Connecting the sickness with certainty to a misidentified wild mushroom that was eaten weeks earlier with no obvious ill effects is not always possible.

Yeah, nope.

NaibofTabr ,

Part of the reason this is even worth doing is that they already have the district heating infrastructure in place to pipe the hot water out to buildings to be used for heat. This storage system is basically an add-on to that infrastructure.

This is made possible by the underground district heating network that most properties are connected to. There are more than 600 kilometers of underground district heating networks in Vantaa. Around 90% of Vantaa residents live in a home heated by district heating.

So if you have a city that already has such a hot water piping network in place and has nearby natural caves bedrock that can be easily accessed and used in this way, then the cost of implementation is low.

If you don't have the heat piping infrastructure then it's a heavy lift to retofit it into all the existing buildings. Doable, but it will take a lot of time and resources.

If you don't have the caves then this is just a non-starter.

*edit: So I got that wrong, they're apparently going to be digging (or blasting?) new holes into bedrock for the water storage. I guess you could do this anywhere where there was bedrock relatively close to ground level (I'm not a geologist, I assume it would depend somewhat on the type of rock).

I'm curious how they're going to make building-sized holes in the rock relatively cheaply. Typically every kind of earthmoving is expensive. If we're talking granite with an average density of 2.7 g/cm^3^ (2700 kg/m^3^) then they plan to move 3 billion kg (3 million metric tons) of rock.

NaibofTabr ,

Here comes Arch Linux with the parts for a steel chair! Now they're pulling out the instructions for putting it together! Uh oh, the instructions say what kind of bolts they need, but not how many! Arch is trying to fit it all together anyway! Hmm, looks like some of the assembly steps are missing... ok, Arch has got something that looks like a chair constructed... now they're going to test it by sitting down... oh, and the chair frame has held together but the seat has fallen off. Arch forgot about not breaking user space again!

NaibofTabr ,

Hexbear also has a large number of Putin and CCP apologists. Authoritarian bootlicking isn't liberalism.

NaibofTabr ,

Pushing Native Americans onto reservations lifted a lot of European immigrants out of poverty.

Burning fossil fuels lifted entire nations out of poverty.

Campaigns against the barbarians lifted many Romans out of poverty.

If you think this "lift" is some example of public good in action that hasn't come at the cost of exploitation, you're delusional.

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