nehal3m

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by nehal3m 9mo ago
You're not wrong, but how screwed up is it that we expect leadership at companies we spend most of our waking time on to bullshit through their teeth at the people that make the damn thing work in the first place? I'm so tired of
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by nehal3m 9mo ago
Posting from an FP4 with slashyslash! (/e/) Good move from a service perspective, repairs while you wait instead of backing up, transfer to new phone, sending the old one in for service, yada yada yada. Also great for Fairphone&#x
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by nehal3m 9mo ago
So much so it's losing letters!
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by nehal3m 9mo ago
I managed some 200 ThinkPad branded laptops around 2018-2020 and that era had issues with Thunderbolt firmware. I believe something wrote to it's memory that was meant as WORM storage, breaking things eventually. I went around all the
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by nehal3m 9mo ago
My boss used to have an apt sticker on his ThinkPad that said 'My other computer is a data center'. In my case that's also true; I just use local I/O for KVM but the heft is in whatever I'm SSH'd into. I daily
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by nehal3m 9mo ago
I write for fun, to organize and articulate my thoughts, and I love doing that in vim. The same is true for note taking (I just write .md files and sync them with syncthing). I also like working neomutt. It's just fun working with (rel
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by nehal3m 9mo ago
Agreed. Time to switch to publicly funded software. Sign here! https://fsfe.org/activities/publiccode/publiccode.en.html
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by nehal3m 9mo ago
Interesting. Do you have more specifics? I don't use Chrome or it's derivatives, but this is the first I've heard of it doing that.
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by nehal3m 9mo ago
Hah, I hadn't realized, but yes it does lol
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by nehal3m 9mo ago
Those are facts, but the industry remains fragile. It didn't take much during Covid, and the Nexperia supply shock combined with DRAM shortages are doing a number on automotive right now. And I imagine the chips manufactured on older l
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by nehal3m 9mo ago
Except everything that runs on electricity has a CPU nowadays; the world as it is cannot function without computing. Your bank, your (municipal) government, airplanes, ships, satellites, televisions, the cell network, cash registers, you ge
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by nehal3m 9mo ago
Take this with a grain of salt, it's impossible for me to tell what you are and aren't comfortable with, but there is an alternative to using trackpads or mice at all and that's tiling window managers. You drive the OS with y
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by nehal3m 9mo ago
A computer (or a smartphone, basically whichever type of Turing complete Von Neumann machine you use) is your interface to the modern world, from interacting with your government to the stores you frequent and talking to the people you love
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by nehal3m 9mo ago
You can swap those in BIOS for most models.
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by nehal3m 9mo ago
Sure, Valve has done some amazing work in that regard. Most mainstream and older games just work, others require some tinkering.
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by nehal3m 9mo ago
I guess it is to most people, but others have never given it an iota of thought and some are part of today's lucky 10,000! https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by nehal3m 9mo ago
OpenAI buys all the RAM driving up the price so their models can shit out poorly optimized software so I have to buy more RAM. Awesome.
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by nehal3m 9mo ago
That's still the behavior on Mint 22.2 and Firefox 146.0.1
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by nehal3m 9mo ago
Because shareholder value is more important than productivity to leadership. Thank Jack Welch.
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by nehal3m 9mo ago
I have a non-ANSI keyboard so tilde is in a super weird place for that (next to left shift). I swapped the shortcut to Option+Tab, makes much more intuitive sense.
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by nehal3m 9mo ago
That's assuming novelty is the only way to live long subjectively. Is that a decent assumption? Personally I find subjective life longer if you just take your time, no pun intended.
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by nehal3m 9mo ago
> If you are time-constrained and do a lot of kitchen work, though, it's worth paying attention to these optimizations. Absolutely. However, lately I've been going at humdrum daily stuff at a pace so slowly it's just a tad
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by nehal3m 9mo ago
The system is always on and moving air as a whole, and the water closet and bathroom have an intake duct that sucks in humid air that goes to the heat exchanger for exhaust. I have a little humidity sensor hooked up to Home Assistant that k
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by nehal3m 9mo ago
>One solution that can help is an external air heat exchanger I have one of those, it blows fresh air in through the bedroom and sucks it back out through the kitchen (loft house, this route prevents food smells from wafting into the bed
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by nehal3m 10mo ago
Which is also a thoughtless, dick move.
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by nehal3m 10mo ago
I'm not trying to sit in my arm chair and act like I know better, but do you think it's possible people order those just in case?
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by nehal3m 10mo ago
The Singularity series by William Hertling were fun reads in that category too.
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by nehal3m 10mo ago
Sort of. It’s like selecting from hundreds of versions of a letter of reference that word the same three bullet points slightly differently. It still feels empty to me, but I guess that’s personal.
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by nehal3m 10mo ago
I really like Cory Doctorow’s description of why it feels empty, quote: “Herein lies the problem with AI art. Just like with a law school letter of reference generated from three bullet points, the prompt given to an AI to produce creative
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by nehal3m 10mo ago
Am I missing some irony or sarcasm here? Aren't internships meant to spend some time teaching people the ropes in return for free hands? This sounds like a weird Jack Welch circlejerk.

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