You are correct, it’s a warm and helpful community… except for the people who like the smell of their own farts.

Lemmy is better. But reddit is lousy with ignorant twats saying bullshit like “Linux is just a superior philosophy”, but who have never written a line of C or C++ in their lives. They know nothing about system design or computing history. They make claims about windows that apply equally to linux, or vice versa. They use terminology in a nonsensical context. In short, smug fools. It’s not unwelcoming so much as unappealing.

The best thing about Windows is that no-one is smug about using it.

Second draw.io - I’ve done lots of diagrams with VSCode and the draw.io plugin

Excellent - I’m about to install it for my aged mother, because windows keeps moving her cheese.

I want something that doesn’t change the workflows once she’s learned how to do a task, and that local techs can help her with, and that I can VNC to when I have to.

I’m getting started with i3, so I get your point now.

Ahhh, thanks! Please excuse my error - I am attempting to perform computation using a kilo of wet squidgy protein and fat.

My friend, you haven’t heard about Oracle.

Microsoft at least gave the world Powershell, to balance out their sins. I can also name other good things they have done. Oracle is pure and deliberate evil.

I believe that the human race will end in one of three ways:

• asteroid strike
• disease
• Oracle

I think you were merely being pedantic, but there are some interesting points in there.

Is it a crime to generate fake “csam”?

Should it be a crime?

How can prosecutors get convictions against a defense of “no, your honour, that video is AI-generated”?

What we have now is still miles off general AI, but it’s going to take years for society to catch up. Interesting times.

Another Kagi fan here. I pay $10 a month.

I’m a reasonably heavy search user, but have never hit the quota.

It’s wonderful to have relevant results again.

The one thing it doesn’t work for is shopping. From time to time I use Google. I should probably switch that to Bing, as the lesser of two evils.

Deliberately duplicate a mac address, and worse, deliberately pick a device that’s definitely going to be online in the same network segment?

At first I thought you were either trolling or profoundly ignorant.

Then I remembered that wifi is CSMA, and thought, hang on… is this actually a genius idea? Has this user come up with a hack that no-one else knows about? So I tried it.

It doesn’t work. I couldn’t even join.

So no, you are either trolling or ignorant.

Hers some discussion and links, for anyone interested: https://superuser.com/questions/1132935/duplicate-mac-on-a-wifi-network-problems

Racial origins of those terms? Citation needed.

Black and white, in the sense of good and evil, have had their connotations for a fucking long time, whereas black and white to describe skin colour are relatively recent etymologies. I’m pretty sure that Romans didn’t call themselves “white” or others “black”, for example.

I’m willing to be taught, but this sounds like bullshit to me.

The etymology being wrong doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t drop freighted terminology, I just don’t want false justification. Bullshit is never a valid reason to do something.

Pure FUD. Worse, it’s wilfully stupid.

Are you in the habit of picking pipeline commands at random? Do you not usually have a purpose in mind? OBVIOUSLY the receiving end has to understand what it’s receiving, or what the fuck are you even doing?

Do you believe that your text processing commands don’t have to understand what they receive?

Let’s get the ports of the node container.

Bash:

docker ps | grep node | cut -n 6 -f ' '

Pwsh:

docker-ps | where name -eq 'node' | select ports

First the grep command shits the bed because at some point you started a new container running a nodejs image.

Then the cut command fails because you had a container with a space in the name, so it outputs mounts instead of ports.

That’s a non-issue with sematic tools. Semantic tools are also legible. Yeah, I can figure out what that awk command does, but it’s meaningless unless I also know the shape of the data is supposed to operate on.

You don’t write “USE 2nd DATABASE; SELECT 3rd COLUMN FROM 10th ROW”, do you? Why would you want to do that in a shell?

Ate you joking? Auto-complete works out of the box, it’s a shell feature. Install pwsh and save keystrokes.

What’s wrong with Virtual Desktops on windows? They work perfectly for me.

No argument with your other points.

My understanding is that the Windows terminal sucks? I don’t know why, it just looks bad.

Your understanding is wrong. I’ve tried 8 different terminals on mac, arch and kubuntu, and I miss Windows Terminal every day. It looks good and the config is a pleasure. I don’t expect Linux to look pretty, but MacOS had fucking awful font rendering and it’s supposed to be this upmarket OS for moneyed pricks in black turtlenecks. Was everyone in unixland busy doing drugs while Microsoft was implementing anti-aliasing? Is clear legible type for losers?

That’s Teams. Slack used to be a CPU hog too, but Teams is a real piece of shit. And occasionally it used to just peg one core at 100% until I killed it.

I’m so glad I quit that company.

Looks like yellow fingers and grey complexion.

I did not find that at all.

I’m sorry you have that - I didn’t. I was quit with no cravings for five years, what got me back in was spliffs with tobacco. (Now I vape, because I do intend to occasionally smoke weed with tobacco.)

The reason you still have cravings is because you never deprogrammed yourself. You still associate gaspers with relief, relaxation, pleasure.

If you can reframe the sensation of smoking as the tense tickly feeling of “god I could use a fag”, which no-one would claim to enjoy, the rest is plain sailing, and within a few weeks you’ll be past any cravings. The bulk of the cravings are done within a few days.

I don’t mean to suggest that it’s easy to quit - most people fail. But the trick is not too withstand cravings for the rest of your life, it’s too break the paradoxical association of fags with pleasure, which is a one-time thing.

Great boast for privacy. Removes a lot of attack surface that law could exploit. And potentially reduces running costs, too.

Glad to hear you’re building the kernel too.

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