[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 19 points 1 week ago

It's not all bad


remote work policy is now a major topic. You'd be laughed out of any number of job interviews for asking about remote work policy, whereas now it's a completely fair question.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Although you can use case insensitive filesystems with Linux, and case sensitive filesystems with macOS. I believe the case sensitivity is a function of the specific filesystem


but yeah, practically, the root for Linux is always case sensitive, and APFS ~~ain't~~ is only if you ask it to be ( https://support.apple.com/lv-lv/guide/disk-utility/dsku19ed921c/mac ).

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 19 points 4 months ago

If you don't want to sail the high seas, and you don't want to pay, the library is a great, free option.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 19 points 9 months ago

Yeah, something this big is absolutely not one engineer's fault. Even if that engineer maliciously pushed an update, it's not their fault


it was a complete failure of the organization, and one person having the ability to wreck havoc like this is the failure.

And I actually have some amount of hope that, in this case, it is being recognized as such.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 19 points 9 months ago

Ranked choice works well in my city (San Francisco). Just wish it could realistically


given the political uphill battle


be applied to federal elections.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 19 points 9 months ago

Multiple desktops, 1999. What an amazing feature.

A quick web search suggests that macOS (then OS X) got this in 2007 ("Spaces"), and Windows not until 2015.

This alone makes this GUI more functional IMHO.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 19 points 10 months ago

...the department wrote alongside photos of the column. In the photos, the tall, geometric figure reflects the rocky desert and perfectly aligns with the horizon.

Not sure how you would prefer that be phrased? Also, if you can reasonably see the horizon aligned with its reflection, that suggests something to the reader about how it's more or less perpendicular to the ground, rather than slanted (cone/pyramid/etc.).

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 19 points 10 months ago

I once laser engraved "help I'm a banana" on a banana.

Death to non-compostable produce stickers. If lasers are what it takes, I'm all for it (not sure if that's really what's going on here though).

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 19 points 11 months ago

It was mostly just so I could make people I don't like call me Dr.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 19 points 11 months ago

"It's more performant than the old SODIMM sticks, vastly more efficient, it saves space, and it should even help with thermals as well. All that, and it's still about as repairable as anything we've ever seen," iFixit concluded.

Yes, there was a perfectly fine, upgradable memory standard before. And many 486s were also perfectly fine, upgradable computers.

The fact that a new technology makes it so we can have our cake and eat it too


upgradability without any compromise


is a fantastic innovation.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 19 points 1 year ago

I don't think that's true at all. I'm ok with systemd, but I don't really like it, and find much of the criticism valid. At this point the reason I use it, and am more-or-less fine with it, is that it has become the de facto standard and is very well supported.

Which is also one of the reasons I dislike it


it is such an integral part of modern Linux systems that it can be hard to change, which reduces a lot of the appeal of Linux


flexibility and freedom.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 19 points 1 year ago

Not sure if you're referencing the Steam incident, but Steam did exactly that: https://www.theregister.com/2015/01/17/scary_code_of_the_week_steam_cleans_linux_pcs/

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