Posts by Snake 2465 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Oct 2012
That's strange, I though it was much, err, larger (with ears) that got [re]inserted into something more...rear oriented.
"Yes. The one leader in this world who seems interested in ending this war."
Yep. As long as (a) Trump gets the credit for it, and (b) Putin gets all the land & resource benefits he's looking for.
THEN, we'll have "peace" under Trump. Only then. Get used to the illusions.
Agreed. It is defense spending: it will run fantastically over budget, fantastically late, won't work as expected and, fundamentally, just be a huge pork-barrel project to help the voting districts dependent upon the military-industrial complex to keep their votes coming.
It's a Trojan Horse by any other name. But that won't stop the praises from those brainwashed to Believe the Faith.
Of COURSE the fact that Linux doesn't run seamlessly on all hardware is a statement of Linux's problems and quality!!! Are you on planet Mars?!
Nobody CARES for excuses "Oh, it didn't come on your computer so it might not work". You people are standing here telling the world to switch - that is, KNOWING that the users are expected to come from something else in order to install Linux - and then, on the exact opposite hand, telling them "But it might not work...and that's your problem".
Your cognitive dissonance is astounding.
You want them to switch? Then things have to WORK. They will not, and I repeat NOT, come to a product with a overall poorer user experience. Get a grip. The world doesn't work that way and never has. People expect benefits when they trade from one to another - each benefit or penalty is weighed by each individual person and given a score, which each person uses to judge the worth of the effort of switching. If Linux had enough benefits...beyond simply being "free"...then it would already have a larger market percentage.
Isn't that a simple concept to understand??
Telling people that they can switch to Linux to move to FOSS...but then, on the exact opposite hand, also tell them that hardware issues are a known occurrence, software compatibility is a work in progress, replacements for frequently-used commercial software applications generally aren't as polished or capable, legacy software from the switch can be run on a compatibility layer but sometimes has problems, and that all these issues and more need to be tackled by the user spending time and learning about (previously) arcane systems in their computers that they never had to concern themselves with before...
and they should consider the change. Quite happily, in fact!
Ugh. It turns out the Reality Distortion Field isn't just in Cuppertino or [the current] White House.
"Steve Ballmer called, he wants his FUD back."
Riiiight....
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxsucks/comments/13g8qga/can_someone_explain_why_linux_is_bad/
(note: I just love the comment from VirginSlayerfromHell...that he should "just" recompile to solve his problems with Wayland! Yeah, way to prove Linux ease-of-use to a newbie!!)
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/11zc533/why_is_linux_so_bad_in_2023/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=590tpV3zmBY
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=linux+ltt
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Should I go on?? I'll fill the entire page with search results of dissatisfied attempted Linux converts in only a few moments.
Four. Per. Cent.
Why do you Linux fools ALWAYS, and I pretty much mean *always*, believe you are right, the rest of the entire world's experiences are wrong?
Four. Per. Cent.
Why do you think that Linux has such poor overall desktop adoption rates if *you* are right??
Four. Per. Cent.
I'll repeat it again, louder this time:
FOUR. PER. CENT.
Enjoy *constantly* losing this argument. All I need to do is quote actual Linux desktop satisfaction rates...
Four. Per. Cent.
and I've already won. I mean, you people are so blinded that even when Linux Torvalds HIMSELF says that Linux desktop just doesn't work as a general-purpose daily driver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzl1B7nB9Kc
you STILL stay within your personal Reality Bubble. You'll NEVER admit the Linux problems with Average Joe users because you believe that complexity is a 'bonus' - "We have many ways to do things! You should learn your computer so you can administer it from the CLI!"
But no, no, you're right: the entire WORLD is FUD'ing against the inevitable greatness of Linux desktop. Nobody but the tech bros of the world know the reality! Linux desktop forever!! It's everything for everyone!! If it doesn't work...you're simply doing it wrong. It's your fault.
Really???!!
You want to tell the 20-year old desk worker at my gym who was asking for help from me on his new Mint installation and trying to figure things out? JUST. LAST. WEEK?!!!
tl;dr
You people live in DENIAL. It doesn't matter what you tech-bros arrogantly believe are "facts", what matters are what real, average users that try to switch to Linux actually experience. "Oh, install is SOOOooo easy now!!" Yeah, and what about doing everything else?? Do you even bother to go to forums and YT and listen to average user experiences - note "average", not "gamer" or "power user", Joe Average.
Install is "easy"...on DESKTOPS. Do you even bother to keep up with Linux user feedback on laptops - you know, the devices a lot of younger people use to both maintain portability as well as fit into their small living spaces??
No? I figured.
Linux on laptops still, after 20+ years, can offer headaches. And what does the Linux community do? Lambast them for using the 'wrong' hardware o_O I mean, shouldn't you be buying [all] your hardware under some future expectation, maybe years from now, that you might switch OS's and the new OS doesn't support your hardware...but, hey, it's just "So good!" that it doesn't matter if your device isn't supported? Just go out and buy a new one!
*IF* you install Linux...on supported hardware, mind you...and IF you stick to the install profile and packages available to that distro's package manager...and IF you don't want or need to step out of these 'predestined' ownership paradigms...you may have a good Linux experience.
But what about the REST of the world? And the rest of the users who may want to try things that Linux programmers themselves don't use? You'll get "the Linux community will help!". Sometimes they will, sometimes they won't, or can't. And what happens then?
I'm going to rant: Linux is a SERVER OS. Fans have been 'converting' a server OS into a 'desktop OS' by creating window managers, UI interfaces, package managers, et al, in an attempt to make this system user friendly.
It. Never. Will. Be.
There is a "perfect", *nix desktop OS out there, one actually designed for desktop use in the late 20th Century paradigm - no window manager on top of a CLI-interface OS. It's called "macOS". I'm *not* a Mac user (some of their choices infuriate me) but it is everything in a *nix desktop OS that Linux ISN'T, AND NEVER WILL BE. Yes, it is limited to their hardware but, with the same hardware effort / compatibility issues as Linux, you can Hackintosh it. And, unlike Linux, it actually has professional and polished desktop apps that people are using worldwide. So, use the damn thing and stop pretending that a patched-together collection of utilities and applications, which they euphemistically call a "distro", will *ever* be as integrated an experience and a modern, monolithic desktop OS . It *never* can be - every package, every utility, was programmed by a different developer group with their own ideas of UIX and requirements, creating a "universal hodgepodge" of disjointed experiences. Windows is bad enough now with this, macOS tries to minimize this problem, Linux...sees it as a benefit! Yes! You too can experience radical differences...in experience...by simply changing to a different distro! Don't you *want* to join us here in Linux-land?? Just study the 30+ distros, see if you [can] figure out which one will actually work the way you want, the way you need it on your hardware, with the packages you need, and download it today!! If it doesn't work just download a new distro!! Of course, you'll have to use a friend's computer to do that, because your computer is now a PITA or bricked with a distro you hate or can't even use, but that's not a problem, right? You've got another computer hanging out nearby just in case, after all, you're a Linux user now and "serious" about tech!
Grrr. Linux has FOUR PERCENT of the desktop market after *twenty years* of attempting for more. And WHY? Instead of asking "What are we doing *wrong* that more people won't try us?", I get from the rabid Linux community "You're all a bunch of losers for not going to Linux, the superior OS!" You blame the USERS instead of standing in front of a mirror to ask "Why don't they like us more??!"
STOP forking distros. STOP repeating work, all with limited manpower, and focus on only a few distros, a few packages, a few apps, and *finally* polish the rough edges off the damn things! STOP thinking that keeping CLI-centric usage on a 21st Century desktop experience is "expert" and wanted by the very mainstream that you people are attempting to court. Make 1 or 2 distros that WORK, EVERYWHERE. All the time, on as much hardware as possible and as easy as possible whilst doing it. GUI interfaces on *everything*, (almost) nothing 'hidden' requiring CLI reconfigurations.
Users will *not* come to you, you must go to the users with an experience that has quality *and* is at least equal to the status quo. That's the known theory of customer relations: they will willingly trade for better; only trade for equal if they really must; and if at all possible never trade for worse. Linux just doesn't understand this! You *know* that the user experience, overall, isn't up to the ease-of-use or universality of Windows - never mind Mac! - but you expect users to suffer through their discomforts "because".
Keep waiting.
Linux is "free" if you don't count the manhours the Average Joe will spend trying to get it up and running. Sure, as the article's opening paragraph states, you are free to choose your distro...but then, you are also free to deal with the problems yourself when you realize that your somewhat off-the-beaten-path distro choice doesn't have a lot of user support to hold your hand on the help forums when you can't figure things out.
Just the opposite: the stupid, insipid Orange Man currently in power was put there by selfish, ignorant Trump supporters.
Like children, they'll only learn when they suffer from their own actions; you can try to tell them anything and they'll just ignore you for their own "reality".
So, very much like the very worst children, they need to learn responsibility for their own actions. Meaning: they need to SUFFER like they planned everyone *else* would. It must get worse before they learn so things can then try to get better. We've been fighting with these ignoramuses for centuries, since the Civil War, and they need to finally be punished for their recidivist stupidity.
This is what I am thinking as well, the fact that this is an employment contract good only, at best, for 3 years. If the EU is serious they'll need to consider adding long-term residency to the pot; I would think that many serious scientists wouldn't want to walk away from their research because of a hard-time deadline and, if given an opportunity (especially considering the current political climate) that some of them would seriously consider a permanent change of residency / nationality...IF the long-term benefits are both secure and good enough.
Exactly right. The security and sanitation was a mess, they left the installation's administration locations as default and therefore easy to hack, plus the coding bugs. I had to get a handle on all that was wrong, figure out solutions and then implement them, all taking quite a bit of time.
The IT industry in Poland is very strong; even the website of the company I work for was done in Poland, a "designer" here in America sold the idea to my boss (without my involvement until after I had to clean up the mess) who outsources all [her] programming to Poland contractors. I found out her 'dirty secret' after the site got hacked and I had to track down the full history - who was hosting it, where, how it was configured and how it was designed.
It's actually quite common, it seems, Poland is an up-and-coming outsourcing business country. Whilst they get paid good money by Polish standards, their pay is but a fraction of what U.S. programmers get paid and significantly less than the rest of the EU as well.
"the beancounter unwilling to invest in travel"
My highly educated guess is that it's that very same beancounter than caused the company to look to Poland and other 'outer' countries in the first place; read: lower pay. I very much doubt those very same beancounters would ever agree to spending one thin pence to guarantee the quality of their recruitment - it's not their problem, only that line on the balance sheet matters to these morons.
And why the world is going down the toilet, everything is reduced to money.
That's actually not true: Hotmail can open any Office document when in a desktop browser window.
Mail yourself the file to your free Hotmail account and click, it'll give you an option to view the file. Quite ironically, if you choose choose to print the file it'll *convert* the file to PDF to download (!) - an interesting way to get that conversion but it works just the same.
"The tech industry badly needs a robust authentication tool that users can tolerate."
No, they don't. They don't "need" it, they want it -there's a difference. It is, always, the user's responsibility to use secure authentication like unique passwords et al. The problem is that the tech industry wants to try to make the authentication system "idiot proof" - dumb it down and make it non-permeable enough that the responsibility is taken from the worst users...which doesn't solve the problem.
You're just moving responsibility from one moron - an uneducated user - to another moron, the tech/programmer/MBA at the office that creates things that fit one, but not all, and with bugs to boot.
I am MORE than happy to keep the responsibility for the security of my log-ins MYSELF. I *do not want* a company to think it can do better by creating a system...that now creates one failure point (say, combined site login with 2FA that goes to my hackable or loseable phone) rather than the individual, high-security passwords I have a habit of using (I have "low security" pass phrases, "high security" pass phrases that are usually 10-16 alphanumeric characters long...even my WiFi home password is the full 128 characters). I'm an adult, stop taking my choices away.
Yep. Ebay just did this to their latest update, it demands Google Play access, both your account and the app active, otherwise it refuses to allow to any use at all!
No. No no 1000x no. You don't deserve my Google access (a) just because you asked, and (b) because I don't keep my Google account on my phone at all unless and until I need it (new app install or update). Otherwise I remove my Google account from the phone completely. I will *not* keep my Google account active on my phone for your app!
Uninstall, goodbye. You piece of shiate.
Everyone needs to STOP believing that everyone else has their lives centered around their smartphones. I still want to log into my accounts from, GASP!, my desktop. That does *not* mean that I want to [also] access my phone to grant you my passkey.
No. Stuff off.
I am so sick of this bullshit that I can't stand it any more. Gyms telling you "You need to use our app to sign in when you arrive!" to "Sign in with your one-time PIN, which we sent to your phone!".
My. Phone. Is. NOT. an. extension. of. my. arm!
I leave it in the car when I go into the gym - I there to work out, not read the internet. When I go grocery shopping I leave my phone behind, usually no need for it. Etc etc etc.
Stop it. Stop believing that everyone is a slave to the same device you are tracking and inundating with your targeted ads. Just, stop it.
It might be that "Few companies were willing to sell us servers" actually means "Few companies were willing to sell us servers at the price we were willing to pay, £16.32 a unit. We'd skip our McD Kid's Meal dinner that night and sacrifice for the cause, Mom could just make us Mac & cheese."
"The European Commission is attempting to handicap successful American businesses while allowing Chinese and European companies to operate under different standards,"
If true, please provide the evidence, simply whinging that you're a victim doesn't make it so.
"Meta chief global affairs officer Joel Kaplan said. "This isn't just about a fine; the Commission forcing us to change our business model effectively imposes a multi-billion-dollar tariff on Meta while requiring us to offer an inferior service."
If "inferior service" means "we won't be able to sell your data in order to serve up targeted ads!" to you, then I think you've got the point of the matter while still whinging about how "unfair" you believe this to be.
According to EU law, you do not have the automatic right to users' data just because it makes you a profit.
Oh, and as an American, I say this: worrying about Trump's reaction does NOT mitigate the rule of LAW. If both Aople and Meta have a problem with honoring the laws in the jurisdictions that they operate in...too bad. Nobody owes you a good quarterly profit margin. If Trump has a problem with EU law then revoke his visitation rights and tell him to stay on his American golf courses.
I await the de-reserving of the dollar worldwide due to Herr Cheeto's stupidity. He arrogantly believes that when the U.S. says "Jump!" that the rest of the world will gladly say "How high, me Masta?"; the moron is used to playing a boss in the little leagues and fails to understand that he is now in a field of equals, equals who have their own domains and can say "Stuff off, we don't need your [building contracts / business / approval], the 3 things he is used to getting from his (paid) subordinates.
He's a tiny, local punk now playing in the Big City and he thinks his rules still apply. People should have expected this...but they're in denial, the infatuation of wealth.
"...it would take years and years to modernise to Linux after migrating as they would essentially need to rewrite all the Microsoft-based applications that they have accumulated over the years which is very challenging for most enterprises."
No, really??!! I would have NEVER guessed. I mean, after all, I've only been trying to tell people here [on this forum] this for *years* (in regards to Linux desktop) but everyone wants to live in their own little fantasy world.
Next up: Sky appears blue.
But only on weekends :p
Really, the knee-jerking around here...
""Although the error message suggests the update did not complete, the WinRE update is typically applied successfully after the device restarts"
sounding like, and meaning, there was a dependency that prevented WinRE from updating whilst the OS kept that dependent system online. Once offline, via the reboot, the update installs successfully.
In other words, the error message is correct at that moment in time, of the WinRE package attempting to run. Just as Linux would have told you - 'I can't install that package right now Dave, there is a locked dependency." If MS is guilty of anything, it is:
a) not stating why the update failed in (stating the dependency), and
b) not following up with a full "Update properly installed" status later, on the same Settings page (rather than simply clearing it out without an explanation).
Maybe Linux does something like this better. But, also, maybe not - it depends upon the package.
Maybe that's it, but hidden still gets it out of my way, shuts it up, and for right now that's enough for little ol' me. If it's still collecting and reporting telemetry then that's a different rampaging and life-destroying elephant in the room that will need to be hunted down and shot.
It's only us, the people with long-term memories and involved in tech.
Everyone else? Millennials and GenZ are adopting this [crap] as fast as BigTech(c) can can roll it out. I am quite sick of hearing my roommate talk to his new Galaxy S24 to ask a question, "Hey Google...", only to get back "This is what I've found" - as if that's any different than me swyping in a search term except I'll *still* get better answers. Because a good 40% of the AI's replies are entirely irrelevant to the asked question >:/
College students now regularly report that they use AI to write papers
https://www.edweek.org/technology/1-in-3-college-applicants-used-ai-for-essay-help-did-they-cheat/2024/07
and that was last year, I remember a more recent article that mentioned even higher ratios. [Moron] car reviewers talk about voice tech and driver assistance features more than they do the actual mechanical systems; Apple announces AI assistance for their phones and it's a headline news story. Amazon Echo now announces increased AI detection of your life, public says "Yawn" or "Thank you Sir, may I have another??!"
eBay increases spying on you (new Android app requires BOTH Play Store and your Google account activated before it even works), world shrugs. 23andMe asks for your personal DNA, sells same, goes out of business with no idea where your data will end up, most users don't care. Sign up for TurboTax online and (stupidly) expect your data to be safe; said data gets hacked, oh well, I'll re-sign up next year.
The world is too STUPID to understand the things around them any more. Simpler to just believe the leopards and trust their word that they won't eat your face.
Today.
Tomorrow, is another day!
Ah, so both vtcodger and I were correct in being concerned about the plate material,
"Furthermore, the more hyperfine structure an atom has, the more ways there are for it to emit a photon from the upper state and not return to its original state, putting it in a dark state and removing it from the cooling process. It is possible to use other lasers to optically pump those atoms back into the excited state and try again, but the more complex the hyperfine structure is, the more (narrow-band, frequency locked) lasers are required."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_state
So we might expect the plate to become less efficient over time as more and more atoms achieve a stable dark state status; the device would need to be completely taken apart and every plate treated with a 'reversing' laser to pump the stuck atoms back into activity.
We could enable change - stop giving the rich both our money and our votes.
But everyone believes that they are temporarily down-and-out future millionaires, so punishing the rich for bad actions only means that one day, once I win the lottery or sue a megacorp or invent the next Faceplant, that it will affect me, too. Then that's bad.
So I'll just keep voting [with my wallet / at the polls] against my own best interests. Because, maybe oneday-someday-fantasy, that'll be me.
I keep saying this to people, that production lines just don't "pop up" or "ramp up" overnight, building a production line takes years between real estate, permits, construction, tooling, logistics, design and training. You don't just snap your fingers and say "I'm producing in the U.S. from scratch!".
But MAGA inbreds being what they are, they'll believe what they believe. The YT videos of MAGA-heads believing that the foreign country will pay the tariffs are all you need to know about the average education level of Trump's supporters (that being, about the same level of intelligence as if you add "athletic" prior to the last word of that sentence...)
Possibly. But here in the U.S., the put in "put to answer" implies the trial; convictions are not a given and therefore "put to answer" is the process ('put') to try to convict ('answer'). Since U.S. law is inherited and evolutionary of British law, I would believe that the implications would be the same (?).
Neither am I, but the law states
"caused to come before the King’s Council by Writ, and otherwise upon grievous Pain against the Law"
This applies to
"that no Man be put to answer without Presentment before Justices, or Matter of Record, or by due Process and Writ original"
RE: any person with a complaint of "Pain against the Law" must "be put to answer" with Presentation before Justices, Matter of Record, or by due Process and Writ original.
I'll try for that even though I'm not British and therefore can only reference UK law via internet searches: the Observance of due Process of Law of 1368.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Edw3/42/3
Since the case in question will apply to millions of citizens, regardless of their status as named defendants at the start of the case, these citizens have the right, as per Observance of due Process of Law:
"that no Man be put to answer without Presentment before Justices, or Matter of Record, or by due Process and Writ original, according to the old Law of the Land: And if any Thing from henceforth be done to the contrary, it shall be void in the Law, and holden for Error"
A case where all personal data will be laid bare to be accessible by the State, yet not allow the citizens to be affected by said case to be allowed to witness or be heard in the case in front of the Justices, is a violation of their right to due process if the case is declared "secret" by the State.. The citizens' concerns and voice cannot be heard in a trial that has been declared a "secret" by the very State that will benefit from both the positive outcome of the case and the declaration of the "secret" nature of the case; the State cannot silence the voices and the right of the People to their presentation before Justices, and as a Matter of Record, by declaring that this simply does not apply to the case due to some stature of secrecy unless extremely good cause for national secrecy can be shown.
Simply stating that keeping a trial, that affects millions a "secret" because the State doesn't want to show the processes involved is not sufficient.
Yep. You've preached for the last 40 years that only profits matter, but now companies are supposed to do something you want...whilst ignoring corporate profits?
I mean, really, cognitive dissonance much??!
The companies will stick by their old game plan: Money, Money, Show Me the Money. They'll come back to U.S. production when it benefits their bottom lines, and not before. It is complete and utter ignorance to believe otherwise because it's, err, "you", telling them you have to. The Orange One's tiny little brain stem simply can't process that, so he lives in denial (and everyone who believes in him regarding this is, also, in denial).
Go ahead, cancel the CHIPS Act. And then tell them they'll need to pony-up more money. For what, exactly? Like the U.S. is the only market they can sell to?? The growth market is China and other growing economies in case you missed Intel's recent sales [collapse]. Why spend billions to get a step-up in a market that has stagnated for the past number of years? They'll just stay off-shore and U.S. customers will have to pay extra for those "tariffs", a tax by any other name, as those costs are passed down to the U.S. consumer. Meanwhile, they still get the benefit of cheaper production in other countries, for those sales in other countries.
Invest more, create higher production costs, try to ROI, make everyone pay. Versus keep cheap, make only customers in penalizing market pay. Can Carrothead do the math??
I tried for a Gold badge but was deemed unworthy :(
Of course they're right about that, I'm an unworthy heathen, but that's another issue :p
Common sense has nothing to do with it. The American people have been brainwashed into accepting the 'truth' that the only thing that matters are corporate quarterly profits and "shareholder value", and it was *America* itself that willingly exported its jobs and production to less expensive locales in order to justify paying the C-suite and shareholders more lucre. Nobody forced American business to expatriate jobs and production, they did it quite willingly. Anything else is labeled "socialist!" and once a neo-liberal economic corporatists utters that word, everything in the name of money is instantly accepted.
It's a pipe dream to believe that, all of a sudden, Americans will break their brainwashing to not accept the higher costs and not allow said corporations to maintain their profit margins. CEO's earn millions, corporations earn billions, monies are socked away in double-Irish's, funds are kept offshore in order to prevent dispersal of dividends to those shareholders, jobs are exported to increase profits...and the American people vote "YES" at the booth every 2 years to continue to process.
And they try to blame everyone else for their troubles.
It will take YEARS to ramp up production in any industry to make up for the shortfalls created by decreased trade due to tariffs. Trump is now adding tariffs to port calls on any freight ship not made in the U.S.
and how long do you think it will take to create a U.S.-manufactured cargo fleet to replace the *98%* worldwide Chinese fleet?? DECADE or more. And what happens in the meantime? All consumers pay more for just about everything, as the tariffs affect all materials on the ship regardless of their actual source...and that's if there is actually an American shipping system LEFT after the tariffs cause a business collapse.
But this is what America voted for. A return to the business standards of the 1800's, where power is held by the top few (ironic, they rail against "elites!" and then vote them into power...) and everyone else pays a tithe to just exist. They're repeating the exact mistakes of Brexit (Everyone needs us! We can call all the shots! Get rid of the heathen foreigners! We're the center of the universe!!) so I've got my popcorn ready for the crash-and-burn.
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