Honestly, I think we’re 3 years out from Windows being replacable for a gaming platform.
Anti-cheat is a big one (sure, there’s “support”, but if none of the games people play are supported, is that support?), but VRR and HDR are also huge.
That trifecta is the only reason I’m still sitting in Windows, and I find myself hopeful we land there sooner rather than later so I can dump Windows and never have to think about whatever dumb crap Microsoft is going to do next.
nVidia released drivers that aren’t a complete tire fire under Wayland.
(It’s more of a regular pile of discarded tires now, but it’s still dramatically better.)
Time to rename the blue shell to The Shell of Equity, I guess?
If you don’t read the man pages, we’re going to ban you from the chat.
Better performance, but only for gay games, such as uh, well uh and um…
I’ve done it twice!
I’ve always debated between it needing to be on my resume as an ‘Achievement’ or not.
Couple of weeks ago. NSI decided to push some of their domains into CLIENT HOLD status, and that will cause DNS resolution to stop working for the domain.
Took down uh, well, everything: https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/jm44h02t22ck
Honestly, I’d contact their support and ask what their processes are and what timelines they give customers for a response/remediation before they take action.
Especially ask how they notify you, and how long they allow for a response before escalation to make sure that’s something you can actually get, read, and do something about within.
It might not be a great policy, but if you at least know what might happen, it gives you the ability to make sure you can do whatever you need to do to keep it from becoming a larger issue.
This new uh, tactic? of going after a registrar instead of a hosting provider with reports is a little concerning.
There’s an awful lot of little registrars that don’t have any real abuse department and nobody is going to do shit other than exactly this: take it down and worry about it next week when they have time.
It really feels like your choice of registrar is becoming as much or more important than your choice of hosting provider, and the little indie guys are probably the wrong choice if you’re running a legitimate business as you’re gonna need one that has enough funding and a proper team to vet reports before clobbering your site.
On the OTHER hand, Network Solutions is just took down DigitalOcean for no reason, so maybe they all suck?
First: I’m not in any way intending to cast any negative light on the horrible shit the people suing went through.
But it also kinda feels like a lawyer convinced a victim they could get paid if they sued Apple, because Apple has lots of money.
If you really were serious about suing to force change, you’ve literally got:
Apple, at least, will take immediate action if you report a user to them, so uh, maybe they should reconsider their best target, if their intent really is to remove content and spend some time on all the other giant corpos that are either literally actively doing the wrong thing, doing nothing, or are sitting there going ‘well, akshully’ at reports.
I’m more of a fan of :(){ :|:& };: personally.
(don’t run that unless you want to crash your shit)
I’d like to argue the other way: jump into whatever you find interesting and do stupid shit.
Unless this is a computer that your job relies on or whatever, then it doesn’t matter how much shit you break, as long as you’re learning what to not do next time.
It’s pretty much how everyone who is all ‘oh no! be very careful and take small steps!’ started, but they’ve just forgotten about having done that.
(I’ve broken so much shit both personally and professionally, but it just served to make me less stupid in the future. Or uh, at least unlikely to do the same stupid thing twice.)
generally replaced by systemd’s journald service
Basically this, and quite a long time ago. Anything even remotely modern (and by that I mean like, the last decade or so) is either using systemd, or in the case of debuntu, rsyslog.
Wonder what kind of funky environment is using syslog-ng, and to what scale so that there’s literally a ‘syslog-ng engineer’ job posting.
Yep, and there’s a shocking number of them to pick from: https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/qemu-cpu-models.html
So, this is a ~15 year old laptop?
The first two things that immediately come to mind when you’re kernel panicing is bad ram, and bad cpu temperatures.
Thermal paste doesn’t last forever, and it’s worth checking if your CPU or GPU are overheating, and repasting if so.
And, as always, a memtest is a quick and easy step to rule that out - I’d say half the “weird crashes” I’ve ever seen ends up being bad ram and well, at least it’s cheap and easy to replace?
Linux users don’t want to admit that a huge thing that makes people hate Linux is having to type in their password every time there’s updates
Hell, people get mad about having to hit a ‘Cool, do that button’, let alone something like a password. It’s how we ended up with UAC v2, because people were steaming pissed about having to accept when a badly written app was doing something stupid that they just changed the scope of ‘stupid’ to be much less restrictive.
In fact it’s even bled over to OS X, as people are SO mad about entering passwords they’re angry at Apple over it, too.
Basically, any time a UI hops in front of you and goes ‘Wait! This is important!’ people get annoyed, and well, all OSes are moving towards more of that shit rather than less, as if they didn’t know that was annoying or something. Glad I don’t work in UX or I’d probably lose my mind at how much stupid hostile shit is being added constantly.
Not the OP, but capacity: there aren’t 20TB 2.5 drives.
(Or 18, 16, 14, 12, or 10TB ones, for that matter…)
Kinda a dead-end product since laptops are all on SSDs, and enterprises have flocked to SSDs as well and that was essentially the entire market for that size of HDD.
Probably 75% of the web is powered by PHP.
And you forgot Wordpress, which literally is 50% of the web all by itself.
I am on the dislike-PHP side of this, but you can’t deny that the whole web runs on PHP.
MBAs? Oh my goodness no.
It was a couple of venture capitalists!
I’d also argue it makes it harder to use, period: something that takes me 10 seconds to read somehow ends up being a 5 minute video, of which 90% is fluff that’s not related to the problem.
I’ve yet to land on a tutorial video that gets to the point and doesn’t feel the need to waste a ton of time introducing themselves, a paragraph about what we’re doing, asking me to subscribe, talking about their sponsor and so on.
I lament the death of the text-based tutorial and strongly dislike the youtube format video.