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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Windows is just as hard as linux, harder even with all the layers of obscurity.

With Windows, there is 1 current version of Windows (11), 1 "almost current" (10), 1 "outdated but you'll maybe see it" (8.x) and only a few "you'll probably only see this in obscure situations" versions. Linux has as many "parent" distros/package management systems (apt, rpm, pacman, etc.). This definitely complicates things, as each distro family does things slightly differently.

And we haven't even touched the window manager/DE choices, of which there are a ton (as opposed to Windows). "Combinatorical explosion" maybe isn't the right phrase, but you get the idea


Debian with i3wm is wildly different from Fedora Plasma.

This is all a good thing though, as Linux users tend to like the choice and flexibility


but it does mean that the "right way" to do something on Linux is very dependent on your particular setup, which isn't the case with Windows.

(I have used Linux for the last 20+ years, and it's definitely my preferred setup, and am lucky enough that I rarely use Windows for work, and never for personal use.)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

My favorite is Barry Marshall. He thought there was a connection between bacteria and ulcers, which was an unpopular opinion at the time. So he intentionally drank the offending bacteria, got sick as expected, and then people believed him.

More here, including (which I didn't know until now) cardiac catheterization.

I'm sure better sources exist but https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/these-five-doctors-experimented-on-themselves-and-made-big-breakthroughs

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Innovation, perhaps; progress...that's something else.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 2 weeks ago

I, read this like, William Shatner, in his, role as, captain, Kirk.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

People Without Honor Can’t Be Trusted.

Sounds like something Gowron would say...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why the HUGE, irreconcilable disparity between your front page and the opinion section?

This is always how it goes, as it should. Horrible opinions shouldn't affect the reporting; and horrible reporting shouldn't affect the opinions. Different publication, but https://newsliteracy.wsj.com/news-opinion/

It's best IMHO to think of them as two completely separate entities.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 25 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

I'm gonna try to guess the most likely LLM response to your post, trained on reddit data:

"This."

How'd I do?

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 3 weeks ago

Pretty sure that's completely acceptable in parts of northern California (source: born and raised in northern California).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Blender has entered he chat (unless things have changed since I used it last).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 62 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I was writing up my problem set answers once, and it involved the (complex analysis) residue. I wasn't sure if there was a shortcut (as opposed to \mathrm); googling latex residue did not produce the search results I was hoping for...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 3 weeks ago

I'm curious what you're doing on an SBC that explicitly requires x86, though?

Not parent, but I used ARM SBCs for a bit, and while it was nice, my x86 experience with a nuc has been much, much better. HW acceleration works on some RPIs, and sort of worked on my Orange Pi 5+, but only when using an ancient kernel which had some hacks (like, kernel debug messages saying "DISABLE THIS FOR RELEASE!"). And afaik RPI 5 doesn't support hw encoding (not to mention no SSD support).

Basically, my experience was that the hardware was neat if sometimes limited, the energy consumption was great, but the software/kernel support...ugh. YMMV of course.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
  1. Certainly depends; and it depends on traffic volume!

  2. Definitely something to consider; many folks (myself included) use a free/cheap VPS as the endpoint, and reverse proxy to home, via some VPN (WireGuard in my case). Works well, and lots of guides online.

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