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perennial optimists confuse me
Infinite scroll/death of the page as model is one of the reasons we're at where we are. Plus iPhone, plus share button, and of course ads and data harvesting and siloed walls.
Yes, I was gonna say... Today, I am this old.
Finally, nothing can hold George back now, the full scale of that magnificent beast can finally be unleashed. (but seriously, RIP and condolences to George and family)
My friend had the Master System, so I got to experience the first two, and loved the dome shaped buildings it had going on.
Another friend had a Dreamcast and had pondered getting Phantasy Star Online, but never did. Anyways, I'm glad it's still "a thing" even if it's not the same.
It'd be wild to see it come back the way Dragon Quest did with XI.
Not everyone has the luxury you do.
Can you imagine if everyone who had to put up with this bullshit for shit wages, did what you said. Good luck with services.
Whether it's directed at you or not, as an employee it's still stressful AF and these people are like getting paid kinda shit wages to put up with people all day long.
I'm not arguing about whether or not this particular instance contained "uncivil comments" (do the mods have the ability there to delete the comments if they are uncivil?)...
But day in day out, on a mass level, it's such a goddamned drag, even if it isn't directed at you, it's energy and emotional bullshit. Every job has it, sometimes it's your boss or shit coworkers... But customer facing is such an awful position for the wages they usually make. Even if it's "good" wages. Even if they don't primarily face the public, but still have to engage in a secondary support role. I can't imagine what it's like to deal with this as a job when you're on the front line with an angry mob coming at you.
Again on this particular case I'm making no judgement, but it IS a stressor, regardless if directed at you, or not.
Especially in a high volume environment that probably has more incoming vectors of commentary/attack/vitriol than just the single comment thread.
One of the most interesting facts I learned this past year was that the first country to adopt Christianity as a formal religion was Armenia.
Ugh - our local paper used to have a wonderful archive, that got limited and locked down after the pandemic. IDK if they got bought out, but it's a real shame, I think some of the problem is things that used to be public information (birthdates, families, names) in hospital admissions (I found old entries of my friends parents and my own for being "in the hospital" in the newspaper for example).
I'm sure that plays a role, but still... This obviously is about cost and money making, not security as a whole (ime)
Democracy dies in a corporation, of which HR is a part of. FTFY
Has Google made a statement like this?
I guess since I complain about Mozilla a lot for their past 5-10 years (minimum) of poor management decisions, I should give them their due when they do come out with a statement of support on our rights.
"Hi I'm Mohinder from MS MSP, MSVP, SUPERSTAR ASSIST, Can I have you restart your computer... once you do that, please report back if that fixes the problem"
ms.com "support" pages.
Meanwhile, Archi Wiki? That is like... the best thing and should be a national treasure.
Like the center of a cantelope...
It's funny that following the link to source https://globalprivacyaudit.org/2026/california
Appends a source-url attribute at the end (404media).
I'm sure they're not doing anything nefarious with it, but it is a tiny bit ironic that there's a referral url like that associated with an organization that is speaking out about global privacy audits.
I'm glad they're doing this, and understand this is complex, but throwing out a "check the plank in thine eye before the sty in the others". I haven't really dealt with referral links like that, IIRC that's something 404 is sending as a referrer URL? Would it be prudent to reroute on the GPA sites such referral urls to strip them before sending back?
I gave up on Tmux due to issues w/reboot & session storage not working after.
I used the resurrect and continuum (one to save/restore, the other to save between sessions). Everytime I would reboot, the sessions no longer worked, and I'd have to delete the saved sessions.
Just trying to use Wezterms tabs panels like windows/panels. I don't do the SSH Session save/restore from remote so don't need that feature, and thus not too worried.
Elon pops up, Boring Company business card in hand: You rang?
Philip K Dick enters the chat...
Through A Scanner Darkly, indeed.
Can't wait til the precious minerals market crash from asteroid mining goes kaboom, and just like that old tale about the king who left a wake of gold in his hajj, which ended up destroying the economy. In Cairo specifically.
Will mankinds's mouth be larger than its stomach?
Found the Emperor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansa_Musa
1. Harrassment of these devs is wrong (no matter how shitty Lennart and systemd is (for those of us who dislike it)).
2. Why do the worst of the worst have to be on "my side" (like this harrassment, and other issues, where they are polar opposites of me when it comes to social issues). But. You have to go to war with the army/allies you have, and if that means I have to be in bed with ... a certain unduke, then I guess it shall be.
3. I remember when statements like the following would have been laughed at by the free software/"open source" community. Instead of acquiescing, and saying "well we have to plan for this big totalitarian overreach" (if you think it isn't, look at Palantir and all the big tech CEOs getting their mitts everywhere), it would have been calling to RESIST and do everything we can technically, organizationally and politically to push back against this, but here we are willingly just building our future prisons. At the behest of giant "open source" corporations who "have nothing to hide" after all.
Of course systemd is NOT a free/libre project in any sense of the word, which is all the more reason I distrust it, and this latest is going to push me off it (I'm on Cachy now). But like I am, we all just sit in the boiling water. I'm still on Firefox for example. I'm on Facebook. This is why it's important to resist BEFORE, so it doesn't become a systemic thing where everyone feels compelled to "go with the flow".
(the following, as referred to in point 3): "Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek replied that while it was possible California's law would be changed, ""similar ideas are popping up in other contexts and it's unlikely that they'll all go away"". Ultimately, Luca Boccassi merged Taylor's changes after a bit of back-and-forth about the implementation."
If I could trust that "it's just a field, maaaaan" fine, but I don't. I see how politics is played and plays out and it's the people who are building this that should reconsider, because they ARE enabling future abuse of these systems merely by putting them in. "Oh look - we now have an affordance there's no reason not to exploit it and put it in our central repository of "authentic" validated computer users).
How long before felons are disallowed from owning/using computers? No matter how necessary that is (and I don't mean "1337 hackers" just "we must punish 'the bad guys').
If I felt we were in a forward moving direction maybe I wouldn't be so resistant, but the past 15-20 years should have taught us well about this process of enshittification and corporate capture of tech in a way we never thought possible (just like the shock of the AT&T room wiretap back in the 00s, etc...)
That said, stop harrassing these people in this manner, it is not good and does a disservice for "our cause". Goddamnit, people.
"More grounded..." I see what you did there ;P
Systemd has always rubbed me the wrong way, and its uptake across all the base distros turns me off, but at least...
There are still distros without it, I may have to go to one, since I already jumped Win10 to Cachy for the BS MS is pulling. I was going to go systemd-free but Cachy "just worked" compared to the others in terms of setup. So I stuck with it.
I wish Lennart would just stop already.
I'm basically at the point I'm voting for Vermin Supreme this time.
Lol no.
I'm aware it's there, still. Just... not the same place it used to be - a hollowed out ghost town compared to the old days.
I miss last.fm
I always call it the "Wacky Wallwalker" method (if you're of a certain age, this will make sense to you).
Slackware :P jk
I really don't want to be "RTFM" but and (mostly) apologize for the tone here, but I don't want this FUD to go without criticism.
1. There are actually TWO GUI package installers in Cachy. a. Cachy Package Manager (the one that you get from Hello) b. Octopi (as shown from their install instructions at their wiki, pasted below).
https://wiki.cachyos.org/configuration/post_install_setup/
"Octopi is a graphical package manager for Arch-based distributions that provides a convenient way to manage packages and updates. To update your system with Octopi, follow these steps:
Launch Octopi from the application menu.
In the main window, click on the Check updates button (Top left), now next to it System upgrade.
Octopi will now check for available updates and prompt you to either install them on Octopi itself or in a terminal.
To proceed with the update, click the Apply button.
Octopi will download and install the updates.
It is advised to reboot your computer after a big update (especially if the kernel got an update)."pacman is the core arch repo installer tool (think apt or rpm). Only for the official repos (IIRC).
For AUR* you need something like yay or paru. * Arch User Repository, for applications not in the default repo's contributed by end users, but require a bit more attention since anyone can add an AUR build script.
paru $PKG_NAME will give you a list of all possible packages relating to that, and usually the first one you want is the one at the top of the list. It tells you what repo it's coming from, (cachy, extra, base/arch, aur (non-official builds by user contributions).
Can you at least try to put forth an effort? You're looking at all the wrong places (going to jetbrains instead of Cachy's repos... just use the repos)
This is the laziest attempt at "I know what I"m doing and I don't need to try and therefore it sucks and isn't ready" If you bothered reading the install instructions and following along it's not that bad.
I could use your logic against Apple since I'm not familiar with their software, and it doesn't operate the same way as Windows. But I don't blame MacOS for not operating the way Windows does. If you want a Linux that's more like Windows, then use Mint or Fedora or Ubuntu or something.
I fail to see how any of these are "failing to get it right" and not understanding you just want to use Windows and what you're used to and grew up thinking "this is how it should be" ignoring the fact that it's that way because you were exposed X number of years to it.
Do I think Linux is perfect? No of course not, nothing is, no operating system is.
Maybe it's not for you, but to say "it's not ready" is a bit of a joke when you've taken two very specialist distros and use it to act as if it's a Linux issue.
It seems you want convenience, but when you get it you complain about "indian spyware"
First - Convenience is the Enemy. If all you want is convenience enjoy the "indian windows spyware". Frankly, just use a distro that isn't as specialist/geek/game heavy Try Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, Debian or whatever.
Second - Knock it off with that "indian" bullshit. Sorry I know I'm supposed to be positive and not pick fights here, but I'm not the one whose making racist insults/implications here.
The "UX" issue seems to be more PEBKAC than actual issues of the software.
Sorry but this is just FUD with someone who wants the easy way forward instead of adapting to a new system/paradigm and learning how the system works. There is nothing wrong with that, but don't blame Linux for your inability to read and follow directions and not have everything handed to you on a platter (frankly - there is SO much more and better documentation on Arch wiki about Linux (across all platforms) compared to trying to solve Windows issues and get support on that from a million other forums with "Microsoft Ambassadors" or whatever giving you the most basic useless info.
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When WSL/WSL2 was released and there was a big open source push I actually thought they were righting the ship, then this AI stuff came along (and Win11 UX departure and "Free" OS & ads everywhere) and realized it's the same old MS.
I laugh because if this guy had any foresight, he wouldn't have to beg users to love AI, it would sell itself.