Posts by Ganso

Former reality TV star appointed NASA interim administrator

Bunch of clowns...

Russian IT pro sentenced to 14 years forced labor for sharing medical data with Ukraine

Re: Its "Napoleonic"

Well, the ruskies just wanted to kidnap a high profile American citizen to use as a bargaining chip.

She was exchanged for a Russian arms dealer, not quite the same crimes, I reckon.

Trump wants to fire quarter of NASA budget into black hole – and not in a good way

Re: Make Aerospace Grotty Again

c) Climate change nonsense is NOT "useful science"

Easy to say that shite, you (many of us) most probably will not live to see the worst of the catastrophe unfolding. We could be working to create pragmatic, sustainable solutions but, yeah, easier to just ignore the problem and keep hating on Greta and the lefties or whoever...

US senator wants to slap prison term, $1M fine on anyone aiding Chinese AI with ... downloads?

Re: I take it the $500 million

$500 BEEELLION !!? \(˚☐˚”)/

Linux Mint 22.1 Xia arrives fashionably late

Somebody had a shitty night and hasn't drunk any coffee yet.

NATO's newest member comes out swinging following latest Baltic Sea cable attack

Re: Kaliningrad

So you want to turn West Germany into a third-world backwater?

Combustion engines grind Linus Torvalds' gears

Re: It's not the electric motor

The hype train I see with increasing concern is the "SW defined car", so to continue with your list of problems, add Over-the-Air updated bricking your car, it slurping your data and sending it to the mothership, it snitching on you to the alphabet boys...

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund throws cash at FreeBSD and Samba

"W10 Very Good

W11 It's Good And Getting Better As Legacy Code And Apps removed Or Upgrade"

See, now you are just trolling.

Valve powers up Arch Linux – because who needs Windows when you have a Steam Deck?

Re: I Just Wish Winning Felt Better

I did that, several years ago, but unfortunately I could never user it as my main device. There are some android apps that I could not do without, that never worked on Sailfish OS. The store for the Android apps was attacked once by hackers (or something like that, I do not remember well, was too long ago and before the pandemic), so it never gave me confidence again, then Here Maps, worked ok and after an update never again, and never again could I get a GPS lock...

That is a shame, but if you use an smartphone, and want to use at least messaging and maps, seems that there is no escaping the known duopoly...

The graying open source community needs fresh blood

"I think it depends more on just what you are doing in the field - and why."

There, have a pint on me.

Hyundai and Kia issue software upgrades to thwart killer TikTok car theft hack

Re: This is a myth

Thank you for busting this. I am sick of this stupid myth (I speak Spanish).

Have a pint on me.

Tesla Cybertruck gets cyberstuck during off-roading expedition

Re: Good lord, that was hardly even a hill

Welcome to the future!

Hacktivist attacks erupt in Middle East following Hamas assault on Israel

Re: Unwanted fall out from Israel/Hamas conflict

Geez, chill the f#ck down! Shooting at unarmed festival goers and civilians is just plain fuckery.

I sympathize with the Palestinian cause, but does not seem to me that their cause and Hama's is one and the same.

Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market

Re: @Zolko - If ChromeOS is Linux...

Ah yeah, that. Being from North America, working in Germany, using American software, it's always a lot of fun.

Re: @Zolko - If ChromeOS is Linux...

Yeah, and not so long ago, watch >10 videos in YouTube and a lot of googling just to get rid of the screen tearing (I was installing minimalist distros).

Will Flatpak and Snap replace desktop Linux native apps?

Re: Lucky you.

Bill, is that you?

Re: Lucky you.

Well said. Have a pint ->

Re: Snap and Hidden Files

Well, I did not know that... that is just silly.

Re: Performance isn't free...

I spent some time exorcising MS shite from from my laptops, so for some months I distro-hopped a bit to see what would be better for a beginner. By that time, SystemD was already the default in most of the mainstream distros. I settled for an Arch variant, 1 of every 3 shutdows, damned SystemD would hang for several minutes, as you described. Went into forums and IRC, could not find the solution.

Then I started reading about it, but for a neophyte, it was quite daunting to make sense of all the discussions and flame wars. At the end, I said "I am just a home user, I want my laptop to shut down when I tell it to shut down, screw this SystemD garbage" and that is it, been using a rolling release distro without that shite SW for years, and normally it is a smooth experience.

Humans strike back at Go-playing AI systems

Re: re: the computer doesn't have a 'plan'.

Don't pretend. We will not tell you were Sarah Connor is.

Microsoft mulls cheap PCs supported by ads, subs

The dystopia progresses...

For the love of God people, just install Linux, it can even be Ubuntu!

In Rust We Trust: Microsoft Azure CTO shuns C and C++

Re: Came here for a bunch of fossils who can't admit their fave language is shit

All languages/technologies are or will be deemed as shit, given a long enough time frame.

Queen's shooting star was actually meteor, not SpaceX junk

Re: Comets were traditionally a sign of Great Change, ill Omen, & Impending Disaster

Yup, not only on this side of the pond.

Disentangling the Debian derivatives: Which should you use?

The Linux kernel's maintainers also have fun with the code names, providing such jewels as:

"Charred Weasel", "Psychotic Stoned Sheep", "Fearless Coyote", "Holy Dancing Manatees, Batman!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel_version_history

Re: because all of its stable releases are codenamed after characters from that film.

Nope. Shut up.

Get over it: Microsoft is a Linux and open source company these days

Satya, is that you?

Yeah, sure...

Telemetry in windows 10, forcing updates from 7 to 10, when they artificially stopped "supporting" new Windows 7 installs in certain Intel CPUs, again, to force Windows 10 adoption, the Lenovo Secured-core thing...

Not evil, right? Just a bit mischievous. Gee, I should keep a list of MS misdeeds in a txt file.

Also: is Windows open source? At least past versions? What about Office? Yes, I thought so.

I think they are just being eclipsed by more evil entities, like Meta, Google, etc.

Not evil my arse...

Hello Slackware, our old friend: Veteran Linux distribution releases version 15.0 at last

Re: no systemd?

In my experience (just a regular user that was sick of Microsoft's BS and wanted a better option) systemd was the one bringing unpredictability, sometimes taking several minutes to shut down, because it was waiting for $DEITY knows what. I do not remember the details, it was years ago.

Yes I tried to fix it, googled the damn thing and at the end I just decided to nuke it from orbit, there, problem fixed.

Again: I wasn't a Pro IT practitioner cursing its guts because I had to work with it, or even a power user, I was just a regular user expecting his laptop to shut down when instructed.

Devuan debuts version 4.0 – as usual without a hint of the hated systemd

Re: Ok, I'll switch!

I am a simple man, I see Void Linux, I upvote

Airbus to help build Mexican Moon-mining automata

Re: MSA?

Sí:

https://www.gob.mx/aem

But I can imagine that for the current regime, this has the absolute lowest priority. El Presidente is not known as a science/technology advocate...

A low-key good experience for Thor-oughly new penguins: Elementary OS 6, aka Odin

"a Flatpak-only app store is the future"

Ugh, no hoverboards or Mr. Fusion, and then this. The future sucks.