qupada

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[–] qupada@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago

I'd have been pretty happy to be able to update it to fix the dishwasher that came with our house.

It could not, no matter what you did, resume a cycle. If it was paused for any reason, the only way out was to power it off and start a new wash.

The drain pump also sounded like shaking a soup can full of nuts and bolts, which contributed more to it being replaced than did the shonky electronics.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

System Collapse is almost a one-and-done move on any enemy, at least at the iconic level. Considering the RAM it consumes you'd bloody well hope so.

But with Blood Pump, Biomonitor and Overclock you can happily take down half a dozen (or more) before you've even poked your head out from cover.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 52 points 4 days ago

I can guarantee this will be a hilarious shitstorm of false positives wasting IT departments' time, because their detection of it is massively flawed.

At least once a month my - completely stock, and un-rooted - phone tells me I can't use Outlook/Teams because of root. Every time, a reboot is required to resolve this. One one occasion, TWO reboots.

Ignoring whatever reason Microsoft think they're blocking this for, it's going to regularly block regular users, who are not going to stand for it.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago

And yet somehow despite the lack of horses (I mean I presume) this one manages to pack in 400% more horseshit.

Incredible how that works sometimes.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

Well it's that or Beavis... which I like because it means that Butt-Head bat must be out there somewhere.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

After the certification training my colleague referred to this as the "forklift snuff film".

[–] qupada@fedia.io 3 points 2 weeks ago

Far Cry New Dawn has motorbikes with sidecars, but no straight motorbikes.

Both it, and Far Cry 5 that it is a sequel to also have quad bikes.

Potentially neither of these quite count, for the purpose you're asking the question?

[–] qupada@fedia.io 70 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

Without having read the article, lemme guess... Electron.

Maybe now that no-one can afford RAM these companies might get motivated to do something about that. Hell, I'd accept them just feeling shamed into not being the worst memory hog on your system at this point, over any altruistic reason.

See also: Discord and Slack, two other colossal wastes of space that use an order of magnitude more RAM than a native app would while running slower and providing absolutely zero other benefits.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 13 points 4 weeks ago

The Multipla justifiably gets a lot of hate, but it had great visibility, and seats six (three front seats rather than two).

It really is fugly though.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 13 points 4 weeks ago

Back in those (pre-UEFI) days it was quite easy to add GRUB to the Windows boot manager instead.

You'd wind up with a menu entry that Windows would usually leave alone, unlike its aggressive reinstallation overwriting GRUB.

Once UEFI came along, it became easier to give each OS an entire disk with no connections between them, and use the BIOS as the boot menu.

Or, y'know, just give Windows the flick and only run Linux 😉

[–] qupada@fedia.io 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They're waiting for you Gordon... In the test chamber

[–] qupada@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago

It would be fun to test, there's still a big disc wallet buried somewhere in the (hot and occasionally humid) garage, undoubtedly including some of those 20 year old ones. Worst possible storage conditions for recordable media.

The larger issue however is there is no longer a single device in the house capable of reading one, and hasn't been for a number of years.

Also a significant fraction of them were Linux install media. Not in the modern nudge-nudge-wink-wink-we're-really-talking-piracy-here "Linux ISOs" sense, but actual Linux ISOs, which would be used a couple of times (maybe even only once) then discarded once superseded by a newer version.

It would be at least another couple of years after that period in history before I could afford a) sufficient hard drive space to not have to burn and delete things straight away after downloading them and b) flash drive(s) large enough to do away with optical media for that use case.

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