pkulak

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1. 661.▲
   by pkulak 3y ago

   Well yeah. LTE was already at the theoretical limit of information transmitted per hertz. What were people expecting?
2. 662.▲
   by pkulak 3y ago

   You’d be surprised at what a company will contract out that you’d think should be a core competency.
3. 663.▲
   by pkulak 3y ago

   That just sounds like good business.
4. 664.▲
   by pkulak 3y ago

   I do agree that with perfect software, written by perfect developers, updates aren't needed. I mean, has anyone ever had to "update" the Mona Lisa? I hold my web browser to the same standard.
5. 665.▲
   by pkulak 3y ago

   I'm responding to this: > I simply can't stand anymore the incessant ritual of software updates
6. 666.▲
   by pkulak 3y ago

   That’s all well and good, but you need security updates too.
7. 667.▲
   by pkulak 3y ago

   That’s not even enough because different zones observe DST at different times, or not at all. You would have to enter your actual time zone, not an offset, like when you install an OS or something. And then if that zone ever changes, which
8. 668.▲
   by pkulak 3y ago

   Just checked my account, and I'm 10 days away from my 20-year anniversary. Holy smokes.
9. 669.▲
   by pkulak 3y ago

   Then click delays would appear random to any single client.
10. 670.▲
    by pkulak 3y ago

    I moved from Chezmoi to Home Manager. Chezmoi is easily the best dotfile manager I had used at the time, and Home Manager is on a totally different level.
11. 671.▲
    by pkulak 3y ago

    It’s a lot lighter in terms of disk space. Yes, drives are cheap, but even so, bringing in a different version of debian-slim for every executable gets bloaty. I routinely reclaim 10s (sometimes 100s) of gigs with a podman system reset.
12. 672.▲
    by pkulak 3y ago

    Yeah, Silverblue is pretty great. But Nix and Silverblue both require changes to your workflow. I like Nix more, but I don’t think one is objectively better.
13. 673.▲
    by pkulak 3y ago

    I think we all have our own aha moments with things like this. I thought like you until I really dug in and set up Home Manager as well. My moment, and maybe this means nothing to you, was when I realized I could reference any package in a
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    by pkulak 3y ago

    I don’t know the value of half-assing it, but committing your full ass is amazing. Don’t abandon a working system, but the next time you wait a whole three weeks to pacman -syu and your GPG keys are out of date and everything goes to hell…
15. 675.▲
    by pkulak 3y ago

    I’ve never been able to get the boot loader included in Snapper. Maybe I’d use OpenSUSE, since it think that’s exactly what the installer does.
16. 676.▲
    by pkulak 3y ago

    Yeah, that’s the other big option. But I’d want to go with something like UBlue for codec support and other niceties, and I just don’t know if they will still be building images every week in 5 years. I could always rebase back to normal Si
17. 677.▲
    by pkulak 3y ago

    These are amazing options for relatives who need a computer. One of these things with Linux + Firefox will basically cover everything. I haven’t totally settled on the distro at the moment. Something immutable, so things can’t go wrong duri
18. 678.▲
    by pkulak 3y ago

    Wait, you can't see the state of the repository at an arbitrary point in time?
19. 679.▲
    by pkulak 3y ago

    YouTube has it's hands tied behind its back by the 100s of apps that have been deployed over the last two decades. Shutting down youtube-dlp, but also losing ad revenue from, say, every Roku box in the world, is not a tradeoff anyone i
20. 680.▲
    by pkulak 3y ago

    Garbage in should mean nothing out. If you ask a calculator what 2+2 is, but you mean 2+3, you still get the right answer, because you didn't put in garbage, you put in the wrong inputs. If you ask it what "pi + transubstantiation
21. 681.▲
    by pkulak 3y ago

    Every part is breakable. But USB-C puts the little roller-ball grabby bit (technical term) in the cable, not the port. That's the real wear item. Not that I've actually ever had it fail on me, in either standard, but on a pure the
22. 682.▲
    by pkulak 3y ago

    Same here. More than half our household's income goes on to a credit card, and right off again within a month.
23. 683.▲
    by pkulak 3y ago

    Internet-connected Windows computer.
24. 684.▲
    by pkulak 3y ago

    Wait, do you have those reversed? Lightning cables have zero moving parts. The clips and other bits and bobs are in the phone. USBC is reversed, so that, with USBC, most failures mean replacing the cable, not the phone.
25. 685.▲
    by pkulak 3y ago

    It probably uses SteamOS, which has no need to include Intel drivers, and probably absolutely no desire to include proprietary Nvidia binary blobs.
26. 686.▲
    by pkulak 3y ago

    And 1 out of 100 websites will accept that password, unfortunately.
27. 687.▲
    by pkulak 3y ago

    Or if your random selection happens to be all lowercase chars and the site flips out? Companies are too stupid about password requirements to make a scheme like this work, unfortunately. I've tried it, but a good password manager is wh
28. 688.▲
    by pkulak 3y ago

    Don't forget the dinners and nights out.
29. 689.▲
    by pkulak 3y ago

    “Linked lists are hard” is not “none of the common knowledge around traditional data-structures and algorithms work”.
30. 690.▲
    by pkulak 3y ago

    I've decided to put it back in, but round-robin with the Google ones. It's so darn fast, I can't quit it quite yet.