Posts by GraXXoR 253 publicly visible posts • joined 9 May 2020
The only thing keeping me from using Linux are my VR devices. I have a Pimax 5K+ and an Oculus Rift OG.
I don’t know if Linux can support either of those.
I’ve found my stream deck is usable and I think I can get RGB on my Corsair keyboard customized.
I’d hate to have to dump VR for Linux but if windows keeps on keeping on the way it has been then I’ll have to say good bye to one of my favorite toys.
While I love Linux, I find that I’m having to constantly relearn things and that a large sum of material on the internet is actually obsolete or just doesn’t apply to the particular variant of Linux and subvariant of UI I’m using. Wayland being one such thing I found myself battling with far too often.
I actually believe that the sheer variety of linuxes is working against adoption since it’s splintering the bathtub of the knowledge base into finer and finer buckets and then mere cups or even in some obscure cases, thimbles.
These sorts of shenanigans are totally fine for average users, me included. Rufus got W11 onto my GOD Pocket 2 of all things! But of course it’s not gonna fly when it comes to corporate installs which need to be guaranteed or at least accountable to a predictable future compatibility.
Back in the 90s, I always used to fly to my gf's place in Hokkaido via Chitose Airport with a bag of Laserdisks of cheesy 80s films for a popcorn weekend.
I always wondered why I didn't have to check them in and they weren't ever inspected.. Those thick, heavy disks turn into a pair of 12 inch scimitars when you snap one in half and the raedge can cut clean through leather.
I know because I tried to dispose of one by snapping it to throw out with the rubbish and nearly lost a finger! Those things could do far more damage than a pair of scissors.
They’re basically trying to have their cake and eat it.
They leave their source open hoping that customers will offer improvements or fix bugs.
And then they alone will profit from their customers’ efforts presumably while couching the whole thing in suitably innocuous language: “This will create a synergistic ecosystem in which our clients can emphasise their own needs by influencing the direction and development of the platform for a mutually prosperous Future.”
Typical trickle down economics… ie. evaporation of the previously enjoyed lakes followed only by a constant drizzle of bollocks.
So Meta are saying they did nothing wrong and yet they had to pay $1.4B ? How do they square that? It makes no sense.
The whole political and business world is coated with a hundred layers of “spin” with something entirely malevolent lurking below.
TBH, I’m finding it hard to put into words the precise feeling of vague dread I have that nothing seems entirely real any more, everything is just a veneer and the illusion is about to burst.
Everything feels like it’s being held together by sparkly duck tape that is straining at the seams.
Is this what existential dread feels like?
I found the reference to XKCD 2347 extremely satisfying in a self referential sort of way.
The fact that that tiny 8 character (9 with space) reference contains so much context pertinent to the article, yet itself relies on a tenuous internet link maintained over nearly 20 years by a solitary dude name Randal Munroe is peak irony.
Very well played Reg!
Where does it end? When every single company in 2024 appears to be seeking that elusive “infinite growth” to bolster their shareholders’ positions by squeezing customers for every single penny they can, in a world that most certainly is not showing “infinitely deep pockets” (on the contrary) surely there can ultimately only ever be disappointment.
I clesrly do not know enough about economics to fathom how every company seems to expect their profits to increase in perpetuity while offering their customers increasingly cynical products.
This is like one of those dystopian situations that comes from films like Brazil.
There should really only be one major metric for work: merit of work. Which could be broken down into separate sub goals.
Do they produce good or excellent output?
Do they produce it in a timely fashion and in an appropriate format?
Do they add sufficient value to their team or the company as a whole to offset their compensation?
I just pulled these out of my arse, since I’m neither a personnel evaluator nor a middle manager. But if I were a manager, I would imagine these would be my top concerns.
But what I don’t get is, if AI ends up getting 50% or more of the average workplace fired and reducing the salaries of the remaining workers due to intensified job competition then who is going to be left with enough money to actually buy the shit the company is trying to sell?
At some point the market is going to run out of consumers if nearly everyone is jobless, homeless and starving.
I know this is unlikely to get to this extreme point but if pushed to the ultimate end, every company would just wind up consisting of one employee: the CEO themselves, making products for and selling them to the other CEOs.
Is everyone really using AI that much?
copilot is the first thing I disable when I am forced to install Windows.
My kids use it to make pictures of flying gorillas or bananas weight training on top of Tokyo Tower… that’s about it.
A single friend of mine uses it to check his English when writing reports for his boss.
But does it really need to be baked into the OS?
I used to use arduinos after the Pi’s got hard to get my hands on. But now I’m fully into ESP32 territory for embedded systems.
I’d feel sad if the RPi did float and became another victim of shareholder greed, but there are alternatives that occupy much of the same territory on the Venn Diagramme.
Said it before and I’ll say it again. Until they get rid of CrippleOS and put a proper OS in their iPads, I.e. MacOS, Linux or … lol. Windows for ARM, these high powered chips will only be actually necessary for a very small subset of people.
I just don’t understand why they insist on such a cut down, limited OS on so-called Pro machines at least.
They all do. All those who use rhetoric like “we need a war” or “a reset” are much like those “Sov Cits” and Brits who said “we need to reassert our sovereignty and stop freedom of travel” only to be surprised that the restrictions also applied to themselves travelling to Spain for retirement.
As a small business owner dealing with deployments to small medium enterprise I’ve been trying to train myself to perform EVERYTHINNG as a migration. And issue a rollback … be it database updates, crontab edits, batch scripting.
It’s so hard overcoming the old habits of just winging it and creating “ad-lib” fixes… Even though I know my old easy-going self where I would completely forget what i did to solve the problem, when I redeploy the issue resurfaces.
Making sure EVERY change is recorded as a migration step is the only way I can ever hope to roll back or redeploy.
It’s tiresome, unrewarding work but a necessary burden.
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