Posts by Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck

'Maybe the problem is you' ... Linus Torvalds wades into Linux kernel Rust driver drama

The simple fact of the matter is Linus approves of Rust being in the kernel.

End of story.

Get over yourselves.

Tesla sales crash in Europe, UK. We can only wonder why

Re: This is just the tip of the iceberg

I expect they'll be tanking in Canada, too...

Trump admin seeks to reclassify federal CIOs, opening door to political appointees

Zieg Heil, Mein Fuhrer Drumpf! *goose step*

Re: It's week two.

And don't forget, edit the Constitution without the authority or verification of changes that mere "history" used to require. This is the modern Mein Fuhrer Drumpf World - Der Hoemland! What Der Fuhrer says GOES, and any dissenters will be SHOT. Or their papers confiscated while they're added to the expulsion queues at the concentration camps for the "illegal aliens" guilty of the truly horrendous crime of having incomplete paperwork...

Regardless, any "term limits" will soon be overridden and a thing of the past... same as they were in Nazi Germany.

Then things get "interesting" in term 3 of the nightmare from the armpit cesspool of the Buggblatter Beast of Traal...

Eggheads crack the code for the perfect soft boil

Re: In the opinion of this Englishman

Thank goodness! Can you imagine the wave of food poising cases the next day?

Not even Nvidia's Jensen Huang can talk President Tariffs out of chip import taxes

Re: unless Americans are prepared to pay very much higher prices

Oh, make it complete, FFS - The "Church" of Scientology will be providing weekly services to the inmates....

Re: ALL RISE

Yeah, except this year's "Big Brother" is the one hated...

US datacenters in for shock as Canada mulls cutting the juice over Trump tariffs

Re: Short term pain for long term gain.

Amazing how blind the die-hard Conservatives are to the facts that inflation is a global problem dragging down economies, the supply chain problems that did the same were also global in nature, and that COVID and it's multiple billions of expenses was again a global pandemic that Canada and whoever was in power would have to just ride out. Blaming a government for global issues is flat out brain-damaged and ignorant, like most Polliviere supporters have to be to not see how eager that man is to sell out Canadian interests.

Re: Short term pain for long term gain.

Ah, but Polliviere of the Canadian Conservative Party wants to give those tariff monies directly to the corporations and investors through tax breaks right now, exactly the same way Drumpf is using the tariff funds to pay for his tax largess to the 1% of the United States instead of making the middle class pay for it directly through income taxes.

But the American public is going to pay for the extra money that is being given to the 1%, make no mistake of that. It is coming out of the public's pocket at every turn, courtesy of standard Republican policy to "shrink" government by turning over billions and trillions in contracts to corporate America, pay 10-25% of it as profit for those corporations, and laugh all the way to retirement, when they switch over to a cushy, well-paid fake job with one of the corporations (or an affiliate) that they'd been granting contracts to while in "public service."

May the Universe help Canada if Polliviere becomes PM, because he's Canada's Drumpf Part II...

By all means Canada should cut them off. Tariffs in light of the free trade agreement the previous Drumpf administration signed are insulting to start with, but imposing 25% on Canada vs. only 10% on the supposed "enemy of the free world", China, is vindictive and cruel beyond belief.

Screw Donald Drumpf, screw his fascist counterpart, Musk, and screw the American people who asked for this.

May you all rot in a festering cesspool of nothingness.

Why users still couldn't care less about Windows 11

When Windows 10 dies, it's time to install a Linux distro of your choice instead for free, with no "hardware upgrades" likely to be required. I recommend Ubuntu...

US AI shares battered, bruised, and holding after yesterday's DeepSeek beating

This generation of "AI" was never anything more than a snake oil bubble on a grand scale. The pustule has a long way to go before it is fully drained and can start healing.

Motorola appeal over £200M price cap for Airwave service rejected

There would have been a price negotiated when the contract was first signed. Sounds like Motorola tried to increase the price after the fact, and were told (quite rightly) to stuff it.

Medical monitoring machines spotted stealing patient data, users warned to pull the plug ASAP

Yep, but Canada is clearly the greater threat than China, deserving 25% tariffs instead of 10%. Because in the end, Musk and a host of tech bros that were in the front row of the inauguration rely on Chinese parts, not Canadian, and they'd be livid if they had to pass on a 25% premium on pricing to their end users. It might even mean they'd have to settle for a 35% profit margin on those products instead of 85%.

As Trump slugs Canada, Mexico and China with tariffs, industry groups hope trade war weapon isn’t pointed at their feet

Re: 'de minimis' exemptions are gone too

If they get processed at all. Even when duties are imposed, we are talking about government workers who are as likely to push that last bin of packages through without doing any paperwork at the end of the day than spend so much as five minutes overtime doing it properly.

I will not say what I really think should be done with Drumpf at this point because it would be likely to garner the unwanted close attention of law enforcement and security agencies.

You begged Microsoft to be reasonable. Instead it made Copilot reason-able with OpenAI GPT-o1

Re: this is why I will never subscribe to any M$ service

If your primary goal is to do email, surf, run office automation and drawing applications, and maybe do some casual gaming, then your existing Windows 10 hardware is most likely supported out of the box by now if it was ever popular at all. When the time comes to replace Windows, boot the old Windows box into BIOS with your Linux distro install stick in the USB port. Select the port and boot from that USB stick. When asked what you want to do with the disk, select "advanced options." This should show you the layout of your disks in the system, so that you can delete the partitions Windows created there. Once they're deleted, create a 10GB /boot partition, a 5GB /boot/efi partition, and turn the rest over to a / partition. Continue with the installation; there will be a delay while the drive is quick-formatted.

If you don't delete the Windows partitions first, you won't be able to install the Linux bootloader on the drive. It is particularly important to delete the existing EFI partition.

Like it or not, you will use Microsoft's AI tools. They're being embedded everywhere and into everything and eventually the options to disable them will be removed.

Whether that removal comes at the behest of the US government, your boss, or some super-secret security agency from somewhere is irrelevant: the main point is your choice will be denied.

You only have what "rights" the Drumpf Administration permits without any say or input from Congress or Senate, apparently. Your "rights" are subject to one orange psychopath's personal will and pen, if current events are to be believed.

Windows 10's demise nears, but Linux is forever

Re: You may be preaching to

Exactly. Run what you like; that's the whole point of having "freedom" - true freedom - in your systems.

Trump’s tariffs, cuts may well put tech in a chokehold, say analysts

Re: Shaking

Good one! *LOL*

Re: Free ride

Yeah, in the nut of it, Drumpf is blaming the previous Drumpf Administration for the "bad deal" with Canada... but he's too damned stupid to realize he's doing that!

You're going to do what to the feature? Microsoft defines what it means by 'deprecation'

I "deprecated" the entire Windblows code base out the window and permanently switched whole-hog to Ubuntu 24.04.1. Now that's "deprecation", Satya!

Dell ends hybrid work policy, demands return-to-office despite remote work pledge

Very childish way to handle the modern office phone call. Whether we had cameras on or off on our teams calls depended on whether we were planning to share a screen or VM window during the discussion or not. We rarely used video of _ourselves_ except for team meetings and gatherings, and those videos often got shut down once a presentation was started by whomever was running the show.

You remind me of people that used to let all their calls in the office go to voicemail so they never had to actually talk to anybody. That never worked with me. If I needed something from you and you weren't answering, I went and found you wherever you were trying to hide from your job.

"well, it does give our outdated deadweight management something to micromanage...."

Humans brought the heat. Earth says we pay the price

Re: I look forward to . . .

Don't forget the ever-popular blatant conspiracy theories and flat-out denial of reality.

Certain segments of North America's population are particularly adept at the latter, unfortunately.

Windows 11 stages a comeback – still miles behind older sibling

Re: running a cut-down version of Slackware

While the idea of locking down their machine is appealing from a stability point, it would also be really insulting to deny them the app store for Ubuntu and the card and other games and entertainments it offers them for free. They do like their card games and such. Light gaming, nothing graphics intensive that has ever taxed the Intel chipset graphics on their CPU, but games none the less.

Unless you think they're going to somehow magically damage the system (and that is entirely possible, I suppose), don't deny people their freedoms. Linux is all about freeing the user, not imprisoning them like an Apple FondleSlab.

Once Windows 10 is no longer supported and becomes a security risk, my folk's machine will be reinstalled with Ubuntu 24.04.1 plus patches. They already use Thunderbird for mail and Firefox for browsing, so give or take a bit of education and hand-holding for the first little while, they'll feel right at home. They don't install and use programs, just websites. Perfect candidates for a Chromebook if they didn't already have hardware waiting to be reinstalled.

Bye-bye, Satya! Pay for a new machine to let my folks put up with your "Recall" surveillance tool?

Not on your life, or theirs!

Intel sinks $19B into the red, kills Falcon Shores GPUs, delays Clearwater Forest Xeons

Re: Apples goal for 2025

Even though I'm not willing to pay "The Apple Tax" for the brand, props to the company for delivering products that are in demand, perform reasonably well, and are more secure than "mainstream" operating systems are from Microsquishy.

Re: 19B in the red?

Don't forget, if all else fails, Blame Canada, the so-called "partner" Drumpf's previous administration signed the free trade agreements with and is now claiming is responsible for all the Americans economic woes.

Which of course means that in the end, Drumpf is blaming the Drumpf administration for the US economy being in the Xitter ..

Re: Coming soon to the USA

The Republicans should come clean and rename themselves the "tax breaks for the rich party". They don't give a rat's patoot about anyone who isn't pulling in at least a million a year...

Delays and share loss are going to keep on being as predictable as layoffs at IBM for the foreseeable future due to the steady encroachment of Arm and RISC-V nodes on their server share while AMD continues to outperform and undercut the X64 market share from the other front.

Intel has officially missed the boat for AI in the datacenter

"Intel Inside" is no longer a positive selling point to anyone except the kind of naive mentality that would still trust Oracle or IBM consulting services to actually deliver even vaguely on time, and on budget.

Anyone paying attention knows all three companies have been MBA'd into obsolescence.

I didn't even bother reading up on the Intel processors when I built my last three boxes. The writing was in from the reviews - AMD was eating their lunch for performance when those boxes were built.

I don't expect that to change in the future, and it still hasn't as of writing this date.

Intel is dead. RIP.

Memories fade. Archives burn. All signal eventually becomes noise

Re: Make copies...

As far as I am aware, the same is true in Canada. Downloading a copy of something you own is perfectly fine, even if you bought the VHS tapes and are downloading 4k content.

But you are TOAST if you upload anything.

Apple plugs security hole in its iThings that's already been exploited in iOS

No operating system is immune to bugs and security holes; none. Even coding an entire operating system in something like Rust would not prevent errors in design or implementation that would allow miscreants into a system.

But some are better than others. Community efforts and community testing by millions of deployed devices mean that the core *nix distributions have had a much more thorough vetting of their code than any one company could possibly do alone.

Enlightenment reaches 0.27, continuing its quiet but persistent journey

One of the things I really like about Linux is that while I currently stick to a pretty much stock Ubuntu 24.04.1+patches+updates with NVidia CUDA 12.x stack is that you do have the option of swapping almost every default component save for the NetworkManager and systemd themselves. With Linux, you have options, should you need or choose to use them.

The "kitchen sink" approach used by other operating systems leaves them more vulnerable, because miscreants know for sure which tech stacks are going to be running on machines that identify with those OS strings, while with Linux there is some doubt and variation. No wonder Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone technologies are the vast majority of attacked operating systems out there.

Yet it costs you virtually nothing to learn and run Linux. It's reliable and stable and easy enough for a base installation without the gaming support to easily replace the typical home user's desktop experience when Windows 10 support is no more and your machine becomes a malware infested almost-brick due to lack of support from Microsoft.

Tech stocks tank as US AI dominance no longer a sure bet

Suck it, Drumpf! *LOL*

Microsoft to force Windows 11 24H2 on Home and Pro users

Re: Time to tell MS

Welcome to sanity. You'll be much happier here...

Re: M$ good, Linux bad

My comments are based on using Microsoft "operating systems" from the DOS days to Windows 11 Pro, skipping only Vista. I used those machines primarily to access *nix systems, switching to Linux with RedHat 5.2 on physical media I ordered from them.

Any "bias" I have is from 30+ years of hair-pulling PAIN dealing with Microslop.

Re: "an ever-lengthening list of known issues, many of which remain unmitigated or unresolved"

Good Universe man, leave the crack alone! I've been living with Linux off and on and now full-time on Ubuntu 24.04 for over a decade. The only reason I used to run Windows was for the gaming support.

Even that is now taken care of by Steam and Proton, so rather than put up with the risks of "Recall" and all the other "AI" shovelware Microsoft is pushing, I jumped ship permanently a couple months ago.

Zero problems. Three of many dozens of games tested won't run properly, none of which are a big deal compared to the fact that Recall captures digitally signed and identified snapshots of your screen that can be retrieved by a LEO request at any time without your knowledge. Why do you think the American spy agencies no longer cry about not being able to crack encryption? They are being provided the data they want regardless of your encryption now!

Running Linux means I can run the same software that production does instead of a not-quite-compatible Windows version. Makes life a lot easier.

Nope. It is forever Wintendo and not a serious OS to me. Linux won the war.

Trump nukes 60 years of anti-discrimination rules for federal contractors

Drumpf pretty clearly hates anyone who isn't white as snow. Just look at what he's doing to the immigrants despite the lofty words written on the Statue of Liberty.

He'd probably send them to the gas chambers if the rest of the world wouldn't nuke the US into oblivion for trying to do that...

Tariff uncertainty looms large over budget conscious CIOs

Re: Time for the EU and Canada to have a talk

Mr. Carney, one of the candidates for replacing Trudeau in Canada, has proposed much the same thing. It's a lot smarter than negotiations with Drumpf again - those free trade agreements he's tearing up were drafted by the last Drumpf government, not Biden.

As with his business operations, breaches of contracts are de rigeur. He can't be trusted to do anything but screw the American people and the US trade "partners" to boost corporate profits and shareholder payouts.

Isolated from the world, the US is going to end up as ostracized as North Korea under this criminal.

Re: In some ways it doesn't matter.

May every American pay through the nose and be as screwed over as Mein Fuhrer Drumpf intends to do to trade "partners."

You're the idiots who elected a convicted real estate fraudster and traitor, so burn in the hell you chose.

This is how Elon's Department of Government Efficiency will work – overwriting the US Digital Service

Re: A magistral maneuver

What a brilliant choice to have Musk running things. How many BILLIONS has he sunk into Xitter only to bleed users like a stuck pig and money along with it?

Musk uses other people to get the job done and claims credit as if he did it personally.

You've got a toxic, childish, greedy psycho loose on top of Drumpf now. Two psychos for the price of one election.

Man did the American voters ever screw themselves and the world along with them...

There won't be any cost savings. Historically, the idea of "small government" babbled by the Repooplicans is just bullshit and lies they feed the public to buy their vote, then any "savings" get spent on tax breaks for the rich.

VMware migrations will be long, expensive, risky, Gartner warns

Re: So it would appear a Gartner analyst

That depends; it also gives the competition time to fill in any gaps in their products.

You seriously overestimate how much work a VM manager does and how hard it is to switch them out.

VMware is bleeding like a stuck pig, and the bleeding is only going to get worse as more and more customers cry "screw this happy horseshit" and find something a lot cheaper.

Question is: how much did Broadcom pay Gartner to publish this "the sky is falling" article?

Donald Trump proposes US govt acquire half of TikTok, which thanks him and restores service

Re: Hey all you republicans

So are all the grants given to farmers to keep them in business. But Americans never have been willing to look at their country and it's policies honestly - that would require admitting that maybe the US isn't "the greatest country in the world", just the most heavily armed.

To the down voters: I guess you missed him being convicted with real estate fraud in New York this past year...

The fool used different square footage numbers for his penthouse on different loan applications despite it being rather hard to "build out" a property 40+ stories in the air.

Microsoft eggheads say AI can never be made secure – after testing Redmond's own products

Re: Honesty - a breath of fresh air.

Which will be right around when the first case for damages caused by hallucinations and errors is won - and that will happen; the only question is when.