I think I'll just call it decrimination, because it can happen to anyone regardless of who they are.. these extra words just makes matters unnecessarily confusing
The New Orleans Collector of Revenue (“Collector”) failed in its attempts to subject music streaming services to the City’s sales tax. In* *Apple, Inc. v. Collector of Revenue of the City of New Orleans et. al., Docket No. L01283 (May 2, 2024), the Louisiana Board of Tax Appeals, Local Tax Division, analyzed the...
Shipping is a massive consumer of all kinds of oils, especially fuel oil and diesel.
Want to make a real difference? Stop shipping shit around the world, accept there are growing seasons, grow and manufacture locally.
Suddenly the number of massive ships constantly churning through hundreds of gallons of fuel per hour, and trucks moving shit cross country, would seriously dwindle.
If it isn't clear by now - the power brokers of the world love moving manufacturing to wherever they've made a political deal, and don't give a fuck about the rest of us.
Do I like getting off-season fruit in December? Sure. Do I need to get it from Chile? Fuck no, greenhouses are a thing. How the hell is it cheaper to move that shit 10,000 miles than to grow locally in a hot house? Clearly someone's getting paid.
Sorry about the rant. Shipping is the elephant in the room whenever I hear people complain about cars.
Though it's really impressive how much it's improved over the years.
I keep having to say this, as much as I like Linux for certain things, as a desktop it's still no competition to Windows, even with this awful shit going on.
As some background - I had my first UNIX class in about 1990. I wrote my first Fortran program on a Sperry Rand Univac (punched cards) in about 1985. Cobol was immediately after Fortran (wish I'd stuck with Cobol).
I run a Mint laptop. Power management is a joke. Configured as best as possible, walked in the other day and it was dead - as in battery at zero, won't even boot. Windows would never do this, unless you went out of your way to config power management to kill the battery (even then, to really kill it you have to boot to BIOS and let it sit, Windows will not let a battery get to zero).
There no way even possible via the GUI to config power management for things like low/critical battery conditions /actions.
There are many reasons why Linux doesn't compete with Windows on the desktop - this is just one glaring one.
Now let's look at Office. Open an Excel spreadsheet with tables in any app other than excel. Tables are something that's just a given in excel, takes 10 seconds to setup, and you get automatic sorting and filtering, with near-zero effort. No, I'm not setting up a DB in an open-source competitor to Access. That's just too much effort for simple sorting and filtering tasks, and isn't realistically shareable with other people.
Now there's that print monitor that's on by default, and can only be shut up by using a command line. Wtf? In the 21st century?
Networking... Yea, samba works, but how do you clear creds you used one time to connect to a share, even though you didn't say "save creds"? Oh, yea, command line again or go download an app to clear them for for you. Smh.
Someone else said it better than me:
Every time I've installed Linux as my main OS (many, many times since I was younger), it gets to an eventual point where every single thing I want to do requires googling around to figure out problems. While it's gotten much better, I always ended up reinstalling Windows or using my work Mac. Like one day I turn it on and the monitor doesn't look right. So I installed twenty things, run some arbitrary collection of commands, and it works.... only it doesn't save my preferences.
So then I need to dig into .bashrc or .bash_profile (is bashrc even running? Hey let me investigate that first for 45 minutes) and get the command to run automatically.. but that doesn't work, so now I can't boot.. so I have to research (on my phone now, since the machine deathscreens me once the OS tries to load) how to fix that... then I am writing config lines for my specific monitor so it can access the native resolution... wait, does the config delimit by spaces, or by tabs?? anyway, it's been four hours, it's 3:00am and I'm like Bryan Cranston in that clip from Malcolm in the Middle where he has a car engine up in the air all because he tried to change a lightbulb.
And then I get a new monitor, and it happens all damn over again. Oh shit, I got a new mouse too, and the drivers aren't supported - great! I finally made it to Friday night and now that I have 12 minutes away from my insane 16 month old, I can't wait to search for some drivers so I can get the cursor acceleration disabled. Or enabled. Or configured? What was I even trying to do again? What led me to this?
I just can't do it anymore. People who understand it more than I will downvote and call me an idiot, but you can all kiss my ass because I refuse to do the computing equivalent of building a radio out of coconuts on a deserted island of ancient Linux forum posts because I want to have Spotify open on startup EVERY time and not just one time. I have tried to get into Linux as a main dev environment since 1997 and I've loved/liked/loathed it, in that order, every single time.
I respect the shit out of the many people who are far, far smarter than me who a) built this stuff, and 2) spend their free time making Windows/Mac stuff work on a Linux environment, but the part of me who liked to experiment with Linux has been shot and killed and left to rot in a ditch along the interstate.
Now I love Linux for my services: Proxmox, UnRAID, TrueNAS, containers for Syncthing, PiHole, Owncloud/NextCloud, CasaOS/Yuno, etc, etc. I even run a few Windows VM's on Linux (Proxmox) because that's better than running Linux VM's of a Windows server.
Linux is brilliant for this stuff. Just not brilliant for a desktop, let alone in a business environment.
Linux doesn't even use a common shell (which is a good thing in it's own way), and that's a massive barrier for users.
If it were 40 years ago, maybe Linux would've had a chance to beat MS, even then it would've required settling on a single GUI (which is arguably half of why Windows became a standard, the other half being a common API), a common build (so the same tools/utilities are always available), and a commitment to put usability for the inexperienced user first.
These are what MS did in the 1980's to make Windows attractive to the 3 groups who contend with desktops: developers, business management, end users.
All this without considering the systems management requirements of even an SMB with perhaps a dozen users (let alone an enterprise with tens of thousands).
I've never had a Windows pc get slow after 6 months... Unless I've beat the snot out of it as I just don't care. But I'm an Admin, user boxes don't usually have such an issue. I have a 10 year old Windows 7 box that's as fast as it was 10 years ago.
But... If you install/uninstall a lot of stuff, over time that can cause issues (because Uninstallers are notoriously lazily compiled - I say this as an app packager of 20+ years.)
I used to say Windows Reg cleaners are snake oil, but on some systems it can really help with the uninstall issue - lots of crap, especially stuff related to context menus, can really slow it down. The only one I've ever recommended is Crap Cleaner - I've seen it revive a test machine that had gotten slow from a billion installs/uninstalls, testing lots of iffy software, etc.
Yep, I find booting from off is as fast (and maybe faster) than coming out of hibernation these days. It's definitely more fluid.
My SMB IT friends disable hibernation when they deploy laptops. Users don't reboot enough as it is, hibernation can be problematic, and wastes hard drive space (at least 16 gig, because they don't spec any less)
(For you downvoters, OP formed the question in an ambiguous way. I highly recommend watching the movie Clue to see this gag used repeatedly to good effect).
While this is true (and a problem with current engines like Google), I could see having a local LLM doing the filtering for you based on your own criteria. Then you could do a wide-open search as needed, or with minimal filtering, etc.
When I'm searching for technical stuff (Android rom, Linux commands/how it works), it would be really helpful to have some really capable filtering mechanisms that have learned.
When I want to find something from a headline, then it needs to be mostly open (well, maybe filtering out The Weekly World News).
But it really needs to be done by my own instance of an LLM/AI, not something controlled elsewhere.
When I announced I would be closing my communities earlier this year, a curious thing happened: a surprising number of regulars replied with some variation of “I think this is my exit.” While some were specifically talking about Matrix, claiming that mine was the only room they were really active in and therefore they saw no...
Just like anything, that beginning step to assess where you are, and where you want to go, is critical.
Frankly my threat model is way too ambiguous...and I'm trying. I can't imagine trying to convince non-tech folks they need a threat model assessment and then walk them through it, design a plan to improve their security/privacy.
Hmm, well, sounds like I just described a consultancy.
I've run rooted since 2010 because it's my device, there's things I want to do, and now run Lineage/DivestOS or Graphene. But I can't recommend that to friends/family, of course.
I've tried to improve a non-rooted phone, but damn if it isn't a real PITA.
What's your network performance look like? 100mbit? Gigabit?
External drives are terribly slow, USB doesn't have great throughout. Also they're unreliable, do you have backups? I'd look into making those drives internal (SATA) which has much better throughput. I use one external drive on USB3 for duplication, and it's noticeably slower on file transfers, like 40%.
For remote access to your files, look into Tailscale. You run it on your laptop and server (or any compatible device in your network), and it provides a virtual mesh network that functions like a LAN between devices.
Syncthing is great, but it just keeps files in, entire folders of them. So if space is tight on the laptop, it won't really help, not easily anyway.
Resilio Sync has Selective Sync, where it can index a folder and store that index on any device participating in that sync job. Then you can select which files to sync at any time.
The VPN is to give you access to your files from anywhere, since you don't have the storage capacity on your laptop for all of them.
If you have an encrypted connection to home, laptop storage isn't a concern.
As a benefit, this also solves the risk of losing files that are only on the laptop, by keeping the at home.
Yea, Syncthing has it's moments (and uses - I keep hundreds of gigs between 5 phones and 5 laptops/desktops in sync with it).
Resilio does use the bittorrent protocol, but uses keys and authorization for shares. Give it a try, it may address your need to access files remotely. I use it to access my media (about 2TB) which clearly can't be sync'd to my laptop (or phone). I can grab any file, at any time.
This would likely happen to any machine directly exposed to the internet that hosts any kind of service intended for local networks only... (which is the network stack on Windows, and has been so since 1990 with NetBEUI/NetBIOS), and has been intentionally left insecured to boot.
Hell, in the 90's we put windows desktops directly on the internet just to see what would happen (yea, our bosses would yell at us when they caught it). They didn't get hacked much or very fast then, which shows how much automated intrusion scripting is happening today.
Bunch of clickbait nonsense.
Local machines aren't servers. And servers aren't directly exposed to the internet without routers/firewalls/IPS/IDS, etc. The only devices that should be directly connected to the internet are edge routers. And even they should have very secure, layered setups to ensure malicious traffic can't transit to the LAN.
Single door is nicer bc you only have to open one door, the french doors you often have to open both bc they are too small to get to things unless it's in the door compartment. Opening or closing both doors with things in your hands gets old, and if you want to get into the meat drawer you have to open both sides fully then...
I wish to solve CAPTCHA with bicycles, motorcycles etc. in a manner consistent with chaotic good alignment, benevolence, humanitarianism, etc. Shall I select squares that include riders/passengers but not also their conveyance? Was reminded of my uncertainty about this when reading this recent post by @Wilshire to the...
Yea, something isn't kosher with the comparison. SOT isn't a great measure, you'd want a continuous power consumption, and is this with or without accounts/apps?
Keep in mind without Play Services, some apps will maintain their own data sync, which can really hurt battery life (part of what play Services or any Unified Comm platform aims to help).
My Pixel runs forever without Play Services. I've found it to be the single largest consumer on all my phones.
Granted, it's not perfect, but I would assume since they have one it's a publicly traded commodity (that is someone maintains a DB and sells it to such organizations).
Oh, yes let's let perfection be the enemy of good.
It's a rare thing I can't get from my Library (mostly music and some movies), but anything educational and it's there.
I regularly check out DVD collections from The Teaching Company of university courses - I'm talking Harvard, Columbia, etc. Currently have History of Western Civilization on deck for ripping. It's 40 hours of lectures, the DVD collection would cost $1500 on the open market.
It's one of dozens I've ripped for my own use, and converted to MP3 to listen when at gym or in the car.
Completely random stoned hypothetical. Lets day im old as fuck and I decide I'm ready and done. Could I have the same postmortem autopsy done on me while I'm still alive? Like give me a ton of drugs and let me watch myself get dissected as my final moments. I understand there is a legal and possibly moral concern, but is it...
Yea, temperament. Even though we use the same 8-note system that was used during the "classical" period, the distance (in frequency) between certain pitches isn't the same as then, because we now (generally) use even-tempering.
Re:move away
Move away from today's temperament in pop music (or even how classical is played with modern instruments) and most people would probably be confused because of these slight frequency changes.
I've heard classical played with historically accurate temperament using instruments adjusted to try to reflect the sounds of the time - very different.
Check out prof Greenburg - pretty sure he does it in one of his lecture series.
38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later ( www.pewresearch.org )
people added "reversism" to things like descimination & racism just because it's harder for them to recognize it when it's the other way around
I think I'll just call it decrimination, because it can happen to anyone regardless of who they are.. these extra words just makes matters unnecessarily confusing
New Orleans Loses Bid to Tax Music Streaming Service ( natlawreview.com )
The New Orleans Collector of Revenue (“Collector”) failed in its attempts to subject music streaming services to the City’s sales tax. In* *Apple, Inc. v. Collector of Revenue of the City of New Orleans et. al., Docket No. L01283 (May 2, 2024), the Louisiana Board of Tax Appeals, Local Tax Division, analyzed the...
Ships in some UK port cities create more air pollution than cars ( www.theguardian.com )
Milford Haven, Southampton and Immingham top the list for emissions of gases and particulates...
The Mac vs. PC war is back on? ( www.theverge.com )
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how are some people able to fall asleep anywheres?
I see people sleeping on concrete, in cramped plane seats etc...
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If one conjoined twin commits a murder without the consent of their twin, will both have to go to prison or nobody?
Liquor being discarded by Prohibition Agents, USA, 1929
Ask HN: Can we create a new internet where search engines are irrelevant? ( news.ycombinator.com )
Is Privacy Worth It? ( blog.thenewoil.org )
When I announced I would be closing my communities earlier this year, a curious thing happened: a surprising number of regulars replied with some variation of “I think this is my exit.” While some were specifically talking about Matrix, claiming that mine was the only room they were really active in and therefore they saw no...
Platforms wonder why piracy is spiking ( www.skynews.com.au )
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How to speed up accessing lots of files on another computer? Some kind of local cache?
Title is TLDR. More info about what I'm trying to do below....
Idle Windows XP and 2000 machines get infected with viruses within minutes of being exposed online — legacy OSes compromised by just connecting to the Internet ( www.tomshardware.com )
Single standard door refrigerators are better than french door.
Single door is nicer bc you only have to open one door, the french doors you often have to open both bc they are too small to get to things unless it's in the door compartment. Opening or closing both doors with things in your hands gets old, and if you want to get into the meat drawer you have to open both sides fully then...
Solving CAPTCHA for 'Bicycle' -- Include Rider?
I wish to solve CAPTCHA with bicycles, motorcycles etc. in a manner consistent with chaotic good alignment, benevolence, humanitarianism, etc. Shall I select squares that include riders/passengers but not also their conveyance? Was reminded of my uncertainty about this when reading this recent post by @Wilshire to the...
Any Calendar app for windows?
I'm trying to find one. Any recommendations?
RIP Twitter Dot Com: Elon Musk Moves Social Network to X Web Address ( variety.com )
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Charts...
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Could I get an autopsy done on myself while I'm alive?
Completely random stoned hypothetical. Lets day im old as fuck and I decide I'm ready and done. Could I have the same postmortem autopsy done on me while I'm still alive? Like give me a ton of drugs and let me watch myself get dissected as my final moments. I understand there is a legal and possibly moral concern, but is it...
Private mission to save the Hubble Space Telescope raises concerns, NASA emails show ( www.npr.org )
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s3e9 "Defiant"...
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Windows 11 is now an ad platform--this is why we're here ( www.ghacks.net )
The writing is on the wall--I suspect the next Windows OS will be a subscription service. Gather your ISOs while ye may.