The world had subtlety agreed on a different standard (mico usb) when apple decided to do decide to switch to a proprietary one (lightning)

Granted, micro Usb is shit, but switching to a proprietary standard is worse as you force everyone to have something different.

Were lightning not proprietary, I could definitely see it overcomming micro usb everywhere

Sure, but sometimes, the errors people commit are idiotic and repeated errors are a sign of non attention.

Yesterday, I was at a restaurant chain, and there were two burguers on the menu (more than that but these two are important)

• The famous burger
• The super famous burger

I asked for a famous burger, I heard the lady taking my order muttering ‘super famous’ so I clarified with her, The regular famous, not the super famous, she said “yes, yes.”

I thought this was over when low and behod she arrives with a super famous, wich is 5€ more.

So I told her I did not order a super famous, but a regular famous and to her credit, she didn’t contradict me on that. I asked her to communicate that to the people at the register to make sure I wouldn’t pay for a super but a regular, but offered to still take the order as that would have been thrown out otherwise, but also said that if they wanted to change it to match what I ordered, I would be fine with it too. In the end no food was wasted (except for a couple of fries, the super has two steaks compared to the regular and my regular sized stomach can’t fit that).

When I got to pay, the people at the register weren’t aware of the mistake, but still changed the price to the refular famous when they saw who took my order, and someone (probably a manager from the way she said that) ranted about ‘her again’

Overhaul, the people have been very accomodating of their mistake and I was glad we were able to solve that without my bank account taking a hit or food being wasted.

But

• I had clarified that I wanted the regular and not the famous
• she apparently makes repeated mistakes
• she didn’t communicate her mistake to her superiors

People make mistakes yes and that’s fine, but you can’t excuse all of them away

Nah, it’s 10/10 , you don’t count from 0 to 99, you do from 0 to 10, so that still 100% in binary

In 20 years: +2°C is unavoidable, +3°C would require the whole world to reduce the emissions by as much as the covid crisis did… Each year.

Even if the best political minds come to term with that and take actions, I don’t see us stopping. I don’t see us capping at 3, nor at 4. Nor at 6.

I would remove the numlock and put it out of the way, you don’t need that key when typing and it takes up a spot where something more important could be like &, $, !, ?, #, ~ > < % ^

I would say that he is still incompetent after that, public image is important in the long term, and he completely ruined that.

He would have made far more by preserving it.

Woman names in my electro swing playlist…

I just love the vintage vibes they have

Swamp cooler, they do work, but raise the humidity, which might cause increased mold growth

Yeah, sad thing is we are already signed up for the next 20 years, as in even if we stopped emitting everything tomorrow, we would still have +2°C in 20 years…

And how realistic is stopping everything tomorow?

+3°C… we would need to have a new coronavirus crisis every years, not just a new one, but stack them on top, in terms of emissions. Ofc you can’t have more then one global confinement at a time (doesn’t make sense to double confine someone) so that wouldn’t even work.

We. Are. Fucked.

Linux is free, is thought to be more secure than alternatives when properly configured, and isn’t a scam?

I’m not saying Brave is good, just that it’s not because something is free that it’s bad

Regardless of if it’s on the visual spectrum or not, it’s all called light as long as it’s electromagnetic radiations

Radio waves are light, gamma rays are light, gravitational waves are not, sound waves are not

Yeah, the direction commercial AI took is truely disheartening… Like, AI is a useful tool, but it’s been buisnesized where everyone puts AI is places where it shouldn’t be. Mostly because people don’t understand what they are doing so surely an AI model will…

The other day a dude wanted to dev an app with me about some random shit with an AI, except it could all be done with standard algorithms, and would probably perform much better too.

I looked at him and almost facepalmed on the spot…

Long story short, they don’t have the mod capacity to micromanage evry single comment, since unless you defederate, you have to moderate every comment and post that gets seen by your instance, so the whole fediverse basically, and they just can’t do that.

Some instances have attracted some toxic behaviors and federating with them added an influx of comments that weren’t in line with their rules.

They decided to defederate all the big instances that didn’t filter sing ups.

It’s a blanket solution, and honestly, I don’t blame them for it, lemmy moderation is a bit hell.

Their rules are a bit strict, but I approve of what they are trying to do, creating a “safe” space… The rest of the fediverse is a bit of a far-west with anything goes being the rule…

I personally love the screen ratio

Well, you could stay private and continue to moderate as if it would always be a private sub, just have a few authorized users and a few posts a day to moderate…

any distro? no, fprint isn’t on all distro, so you might have to install that anyway.

I’m not sure what you are trying to get, is it

• a sensor for a DIY project?
• and external fingerprint reader?
• a laptop with a compatible sensor? (probably not that on since you asked about desktop specifically…)

Very nice prose btw, enjoyed reading

And yeah this sucks, my coffee maker has a 60 second boot sequence… Now I once suspeced it was heating up, but I don’t think that’s actually the case (found one that heated up in less than 10 seconds), more like someone decided to put an OS to manage the 8 touch buttons, pump, grinder and heater… Now appart from the boot sequence, it’s nice…

But microwaves… What does fish mean?

“Bringing out the best of bing to the chatGPT experience”…

LMAO

It mostly comes because a linux system is essentially a collection of much smaller programs that do one simple thing each, and each of those programs has alternatives.

So doing a gui for one program would allow you to control that one and not the others, and if you were using an alternative, you wouldn’t have that gui.

Now trying to make a gui that agglomerates the most common ones has been done for userspace, mostly on specific distros… but when it comes to administering systems… it’s a different story.

services, dns, ntp, boot, wm, lm, firewall, dhcp… all of these have important things to touch, but also have different programs that implement them.

Most authors of these programs don’t bother with gui, mostly because it’s quite some work, but also because it’s not their problem. UNIX philosophy is very much do one single thing and do it well… and when you can do a simple CLI that allows users and PROGRAMS to communicate with your program, why bother with GUI if it only accommodates one part of that equation?

Devs don’t bother with GUI not because they think it’ll be useless, but because it’s a lot of extra work for something that ultimately will be less reliable than CLI…

One reason why linux is so good at doing servers is that no system software needs a GUI to work. Windows server has a headless version, but look how many applications are just unable to run on it as they all rely on GUI…

So in a way, having CLI first and GUI second is a blessing, even if it makes the first approach more difficult for users.

Ahh this is nice, we are having an impact