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It's amazing to me that Microsoft messed up Windows. All they had to do was not not change things, but they continued to force junk on me that I don't need, take power away from me, and spy on me. Honestly MacOS isn't much better. Linux is still crap software, but we've reached the point where most things can be done on Linux, so good riddance. I hope that more people switch and Linux continues to improve. There's actually interesting improvements being made in the Linux world too, like NixOS.
Not when I can read the root filesytem if mknod privilege isn't dropped, update firmware on the EFI partition, load kernel modules in the host namespace etc....

But it is really about the order namespaces start with almost no isolation and you add whatever you want.

Sandboxes and Jails tend to start more restricted by default.

As an example here is an older step by step example of the above. Note how disabling privileged containers at the docker server layer is still not possible as they decided user namespaces were their solution.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36425230/privileged-cont...
A lot of Americans think they want to sit around doing nothing all day, but having done that on medical leave, and observed other people, my remark is, people hate ennui.

And most people can't get enough stimulation just from social media or TV, so given infinite leisure time, a lot of them are going to go stir-crazy and want to do _something_.

Look at all the elderly people who are constantly craving _some_ stimulus in their lives.

People think that the natural state of others if given no challenge in their lives is indolence, but having met a number of people looking for social safety nets, most of them just want the ability to get out of the pit they're in...and even the ones who think they want to just not care forever, everyone I've ever met who ended up in situations like that, had to find _something_ to stimulate themselves, sometimes including developing crippling addictions to feel _something_ for a moment.
Hate to break it to you, OSX/Mac are just the same cash cow with proprietary vendor lock-ins for forever.

Unless that was the irony you were pointing out. Good show.
That's the most ironic twist, I'm using more command line on a windows install than a modern Linux distribution nowadays.
Are there in person communities for this sort of thing? I've set myself a personal project to reproduce some circuits I have in a 1947 paper. But I'm not a hardware guy, huge tracts of the tooling are opaque, best practices are unclear, etc etc etc.

So I'm looking to just come meet people in person who know the material and can provide advice. Do such groups exist? Especially in Los Angeles?
> CONSTANTLY resetting my user preferences every update (like shoving new buttons [see: ads] onto my taskbar) ultimately lead me to buying the first m1 mbp as my new personal machine.

Boy are you going to be disappointed when you discover that settings reset quite aggressively, especially in cases where Apple really thinks it knows better.

Want to keep bluetooth off? Both iPhone and macs will not abide.

Want to keep your passwords in local keychain? Nah, they will be automatically migrated to cloud keychain on next upgrade.
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I for one have stopped supporting Windows for friends and family. The last version I used myself was XP, but I could still muddle around to help people with later versions for a long time. Now I can't.

At least the move to using web browsers for everything really eases migration to easier platforms.
I've always preferred Mint over Ubuntu itself. It runs better and seems to drain the battery on my laptop more slowly. Cinnamon is a nice and simple DE, though I usually use Plasma.
"To Access the old devices and printer use the run prompt and type the following:

shell:::{A8A91A66-3A7D-4424-8D24-04E180695C7A}"

And people complain about Linux.
The thing is users have no choice, it makes a complete mockery of computer programming as a profession. The people that were quality oriented lost the people selling licenses won.
>Are you saying that LLMs can't learn to discriminate between which questions they should answer "I don't know" vs which questions they should try to provide an accurate answer?

This is highly problematic and highly contextualized statement.

Imagine you're an accountant with the piece of information $x. The answer you give for the statement "What is $x" is going to be highly dependent on who is answering the question. For example

1. The CEO asks "What is $x"

2. A regulator at the SEC asks "What is $x

3. Some random individual or member of the press asks "What is $x"

An LLM doesn't have the other human motivations a person does when asked questions, pretty much at this point with LLMs there are only one or two 'voices' it hears (system prompt and user messages).

Whereas a human will commonly lie and say I don't know, it's somewhat questionable if we want LLMs intentionally lying.

In addition human information is quite often compartmentalized to keep secrets which is currently not in vogue with LLMs as we are attempting to make oracles that know everything with them.
what's a soundcard?

(being flippant but also.. Yeah why?)
With the latest m2 macbook air's you actually get a significantly better laptop, for a lot less money, then a windows version I've found. Let alone the fact it just damn sexy.

I got a DELL laptop from a client to be able to access their windows applications. I used it for coding for a bit, it was so painfully slow, so I switched back to my macbook air m2.

I thought the Dell was just a cheap laptop, found out the retail price was a few 100 euros higher then my m2. I was dumbfounded a shitty laptop would go for those prices. (granted I have a 13 inch, 15 inch are around the same price)

The new macbook air's are really fairly priced and are sufficient for most professionals.
They are even worse on the OSS side. They'll push azure on everyone while shitting on the community that kept .NET alive between 2012-2019
Wasn’t 7 the one people liked vs the previous version Windows, Vista? I remember windows 7 being popular until about Windows 10 or so. Lots of people think Windows 7 was the last good Windows version (at least from my memory).
Xfce is far better than Gnome and KDE to me personally. Gnome-shell is nice on a tablet though.
The problem is what San Francisco already experiences: it will attract more homeless from elsewhere for 2 reasons, one bad, one horrible

1) homeless will want this, and move by themselves

2) other state and city governments will dump homeless on San Francisco as a cheap way to "solve" the problem in their city.
The issue with Windows that the HN public might have trouble to understand, is how bad decisions are sticky in a company with little to no taste like Microsoft.

You can't suddenly change things and expect app developers to accept it like they do in OSX. This means they can't change Windows too much.

Any new change creates lots of compromises and just slapping a new UI doesn't fix the underlying issue.

This has been the case since forever, that's why Apple could survive and that's why we have Linux.

It isn't worth for Microsoft for example, to change how program becomes initialized at system startup. What happens is that every program then will want to be initialized at Startup.

The average windows user is used to have to close lots of garbage at system startup. Also dealing with pseudo-ads all around the OS and also edge. Changing this would probably mean less revenue and no corporation would prefer to delay revenue in a bad product that will likely never die.

Mac likely wouldn't be vibrant and with so much attention to details if Windows didn't exist. There wouldn't be a market for it.
Only the part that you zoom into is loaded in gradually higher resolution, that save bandwidth and less data to download. Send me an email (on my profile) and I can describe how to run the Python processing etc yourself.

That way I believe you can host it.

Had to make some adjustments because of the size of the original image.
The newer models are much better than what I have. It's surprisingly quick off the lights, which is fun because it looks like a very ordinary SUV.

It's quiet, the glass roof is nice - I'll never go back to a petrol car.
I would say the fundamental problem with Mac is paying through the nose for hard drive space, ram, and multiple display capabilities. However, like you say, Microsoft is driving users away with their terrible choices like forcing me bing and actively adding spyware to my machine, but they are far from the only ones doing it. Other legacy software makers like Intuit are actively sabotaging their software and the enshittification continues.
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I only heard of roku because my money obsessed friend kept talking about it and its stock price. For years I didn't even know what he was talking about until I asked him one day.

Seemed like a stupid product to lose money and I told him. I have never heard of Roku outside of conversations with him.
dhh sure has a lot of opinions
Ah, I see — it isn’t required on Sony’s variant of Android TV, but I guess it is on other variants?
If I'm not mistaken, tasks defined in Task Scheduler can be set to run at system wake, so maybe look at your tasks... I'd be worried about something configured to load a URL (i.e. call home) on every system wake.
OS X works well especially with the hardware it was co-designed with. The only other option is an idealistic Linux, which still isn’t suitable for most people, so grandma moved from Windows to OSX, and never looked back.
You may be right. I haven't used OCaml or Haskell in a while, either. Last time I did concurrency in OCaml, there was no such thing as `let*` (you had to use Camlp4 to achieve anything like this), so it's entirely possible that the user experience has improved. As for Haskell, I mostly remember the complexity of getting anything like a reasonable error handling through the IO monad.
this to detect motion?

https://www.vendingconnection.com/vending-technology-news/in...

"The technology acts as a motion sensor that detects faces, so the machine knows when to activate the purchasing interface — never taking or storing images of customers."

vs this;

http://www.learningaboutelectronics.com/Articles/Motion-dete...

https://www.elprocus.com/motion-detector-circuit-with-workin...

Invenda Group told MathNews that the technology does not store information on "permanent memory mediums" and that the machines were GDPR compliant.

"It does not engage in storage, communication, or transmission of any imagery or personally identifiable information," Invenda Group's statement read. "The software conducts local processing of digital image maps derived from the USB optical sensor in real-time, without storing such data on permanent memory mediums or transmitting it over the Internet to the Cloud."

MathNEWS reported that Invenda Group's FAQ said that "only the final data, namely presence of a person, estimated age and estimated gender, is collected without any association with an individual."
The new two stages desktop context menu is indeed insane. Probably "we need to give it a new look, but we can't risk breaking anything, so let's keep the old one too".
> like shoving new buttons [see: ads] onto my taskbar

searching for apps in the Windows menu used to take less than a second. Now it takes 5-10 seconds to fetch crap from the internet (ads and bing results), and mix it with local results.
The article doesn't specify what the issue was, neither you or I can say what the best way to fix the problem would be, if it required something specific of the old panel unable to be accessed via more appropriate or modern tooling.

I suspect this is on purpose.
I really hate the way they're forcing their products I don't want on me. Stop opening things in Edge, I'm never ever going to use it. And stop asking me to backup folders on OneDrive, I already have Dropbox, I don't want it.

And jesus, stop breaking the taskbar. Every major windows version they just make it worse. Now you can't even dock it to different parts of the screen. Why?!? The Windows 2000 taskbar was infinitely superior to this macOS dock wannabe pile of trash. Also, why do "widgets" always come back. It's never been a good idea in any OS, but it feels like we're constantly being sold on it. If I want the weather I'll just do a quick internet search. I mean, they've been trying to make this a thing since Active Desktop in Windows 98 and most users have never ever cared or wanted these things. Maybe 26 years later it's time to say that it's not a good idea?
I’m guessing you must be referring to something niche? [parent post kindly edited to add examples]

I’ve been using macs since 2012 and never had any setting change on me.
Recommendations for cheap bandwidth servers in China?
I saw this list recently of cloud providers sorted by their egress prices.

https://getdeploying.com/reference/data-egress

I was wondering if anyone knew of any similarly cheap providers within Mainland China when it comes to egress.

Alibaba Cloud charges $0.11 USD / GB within mainland China. Surely, I can get it 10x cheaper somewhere else?
Bingo. Many people need to justify their role in an organization so they need to just deliver anything even if harmful.

Most companies I've worked with are full of similar projects, rebrandings, major rewrites in micro services, everywhere I look at from UI to tech to product there's always a huge bunch of people needing to show they are actually delivering and working.
I managed to convince my mother-in-law to use Linux and drop Windows.

But it seems that convincing the network guys at work is harder than convincing a retiree. Apparently it's easier to administer a Windows network than a Linux one.
> any proof that they are indeed bleeding users more than what is deemed normal?

They are, but not to other OSes. More and more people associate computers with something you use for work (and work provides) or for school (and school provides). All personal computing happens on a phone.

My partner, for example, uses her personal laptop about once a year to do taxes. Otherwise it sits in the closet.

Even I use an iPad for most personal work these days. Laptop is mostly for personal coding projects for which I have less and less time as life adultifies.

I know a lot of people who don’t even have a personal computer anymore and just use the work laptop the few times their phone isn’t good enough.
It's an alternative to Apple TV and Android TV, and in some cases superior to Android TV in terms of quality. I'll never go back from Apple TV though, the quality and reliability is too high for me to bother with Roku or Android.

Quite well known here in the US.

Honestly, I'm surprised Amazon didn't just buy out Roku, the Fire stick is not really that special.
Linux have been usable as a daily driver for at least the past ten years (exhibit: my mom), and with Proton it has even become usable for gaming.

For people above 60 who've spent two decades using windows, Linux Mint has even shown to be more manageable than jumping to a newer version of Windows.
How do you get absence of guilt removes programmed automated response? If I witness an idiot poorly leading or baiting a conversation my automated response is rage. The same rage I assume someone guilty would also exhibit. Broadly assuming someone is guilty because of an automated response is dangerous territory. People that are sensitive to the lexicon and well trained in communication arts will take great offense to word fuckery being used against them.
EDIT: I was complaining about the bill's provisions against distributing "material harmful to minors", unaware of existing obscenity laws that permit states to restrict it.
Is converting the least tech literate an issue? I assume some of the easier distros are pretty much plug and play now, and if your only goal is to browse Facebook and print off recipes from an already set up printer pretty much anything can do that easily. But these people would probably be happy with an iPad if their iPhone wasn't cutting it.

I think the big middle of the population that's the problem, people who are tech literate enough to do some things, but not willing to relearn the wheel. They can use microsoft office, but don't want to have to relearn a new file structure. Those are the people who probably will have the biggest issue, and there's a lot of them. That's office workers, computer gamers, all those people. Even the pretty tech literate people who know how to do things in Windows but don't care to relearn it all in Linux.
Windows really is a confusing mess right now. Especially the two different settings areas.

All sorts of ridiculous stuff like Microsoft realizing people won't be able to find the options to turn system icons on and off on the Desktop anymore, so they add a tiny clickable link to a Bing search for how to find it

If you go back to Windows 95 right now and use the interface it feels amazing in comparison. It feels like everything is designed to be both easy and productive. There's even a little Task Scheduler icon in the taskbar just in case maybe you want to set up something to run sometime. Because why not let normal users discover power user features? The Task Scheduler interface is much clearer and less intimidating than the current one.

Can you imagine getting your first ever PC now and trying to learn Windows 11? Especially without using the Internet to find where everything is?

That's not even mentioning the other issues (advertising/privacy/bloat/Microsoft account to log in...).

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A while ago I decided to see if there's still local help in Windows and wrote down my experience.

I typed 'help' into the start menu search in Windows 11. An app came up called Get Help.

It opened with an ad banner at the top: "Increase productivity and collaboration all while staying organized, using a new meeting solution designed for small businesses. Learn More". Out of morbid curiosity I chose to Learn More but "We are sorry, the page you requested cannot be found."

There were several features in Get Help beyond the primary feature of linking to a broken URL. You can sign in, you can rate your experience out of five, or you can send feedback. There is no Contents or Index, but there is a search box with a few suggested searches like 'How to install Office'. I tried searching 'how to copy paste' (without quotes) but "Your search did not match any solutions." It suggested I sign in to contact support. Closing the app was a little tricky because the minimise/maximise/close buttons are the wrong colour - white on pale grey. I rated my experience a 1/5, although it's 5/5 as a satire.

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/aToMCtE
It's just a GUID. They're a good thing and very useful.

Spoiler alert, your Linux systems probably use them too:

[lammy@emi] blkid
/dev/mapper/nvme0n1p5_crypt: UUID="RjKq3i-w2ov-ZXcp-Uc60-Ylzp-Gc56-xtjpkg" TYPE="LVM2_member"
/dev/mapper/mint--vg-root: UUID="4d5373f4-d9e2-4787-98d8-24c33a1574b7" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/nvme0n1p1: UUID="d6b28757-9cd9-44a5-b68a-25515537e540" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="bc0382eb-01"
/dev/nvme0n1p5: UUID="19104716-2c1f-4e92-8c75-35b113d9ecae" TYPE="crypto_LUKS" PARTUUID="bc0382eb-05"
/dev/mapper/mint--vg-swap_1: UUID="dbfcbc11-37c2-4752-9f8f-6288aa7e8b43" TYPE="swap"

And FreeBSD:

[lammy@popola] gpart list|grep uuid
rawuuid: c345aeb1-1dde-11e9-a10e-0cc42afa3cea
rawuuid: c350c1ee-1dde-11e9-a10e-0cc42afa3cea
rawuuid: c359c46d-1dde-11e9-a10e-0cc42afa3cea
rawuuid: c3601e82-1dde-11e9-a10e-0cc42afa3cea

And probably others but this is what I have on hand lol
Screens are really good at entertaining our brains.

Before screens, if you are bored you go out and hang out with other people.

And the push-pull of romance is entertaining, the sex and the physical activity is a huge rush of hormones to the brain.

But we can get a similar rush of hormones on demand by visiting any porn site.
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Any condescension you read in my post is imagined.
A long time ago there was a video (or was it audio) of a really angry dude ranting about this and that and in the end he exclaims: I can’t print. And that is the punch line, his life was miserable and the root of the problem was printing.
You get passed it by opening a shell and invoking the networkless version of the OoBE.

It's bullshit of the highest order.
> Yet, both of these options are better than modern Windows unless you need Gaming

Linux is good for gaming. macOS is not and will never be with Apple's attitude.
Because I have to use Autodesk apps everyday I am forced to use Windows. There is not one other thing I can't do better, with a more efficient workflow on Linux. If ever there becomes a good way to run Revit on the cloud or on Wine, etc, I will throw a massive party.
Meanwhile, Linux keeps getting better and better. I used to run Ubuntu 15 years ago, then went back to Windows for a while for software and because Windows 7 was okish. Now I'm back, and while Ubuntu may not be as good as it was 15 years ago, debian and other distributions are great, and getting awesome new releases left and right. Smartphone connectibility with KDE connect has blown me away. It's and interesting trajectory right now.
> You can't suddenly change things and expect app developers to accept it like they do in OSX

Ads in the taskbar indicates that Microsoft has no problem pushing some choices.
Yep. My first reaction was printer issue? Riiight, that's definitely going to be the large market issue driving ppl away. People like the blackbox OS that doesn't do anything. It's not good for IT, but neither is Mac OS!
Welcome to the Gruen transfer.
I guess because the majority of Linux folks don't really care about making it a solid user experience for normies, and those that do so might have strong opinions on things that might not roll with everyone, especially coming from Windows (read: gnome).

I've maintained an in-house distro for a couple years so I know the ins and outs of systemd, dbus, polkit, xorg and whatever crap is needed to run a desktop session, and how to track down what's broken if the system misbehaves in some way. So switching every machine I use to Linux wasn't really an extra burden. Ironically it made me switch to i3 as my WM and ditching a file manager, gvfs and other moving parts. I'm doing a lot of things in the terminal. I loathe complicated setups - less moving parts, less things that can break. But I'm fully aware that I'm a complete oddball here, and I don't think nor care whether the day of the Linux desktop will ever come. Unless maybe we're at a point where really absolutely everything runs in the cloud and people only need a browser. But at that point just get a Chromebook?
It’s only for online games, so I don’t think it’s very comparable to a blanket playtime limit on video gaming.
I'm not sure what you mean by not present in earlier systems.

Windows 3.1 had minimizing programs' icons in bottom-left corner of the desktop, and so did NextStep, and similar icon space can be traced all the way back to Windows 1.0.

Extending that to all running programs and/or dedicating an always-visile area doesn't appear to be as fundamental a you want it to appear. Integrating it into the OS is obviously not meaningful part of the innovation as Windows approach would not apply elsewhere.

The essence of it is someone having an idea that all program's icons should be always visible on the screen, the rest is implementation, and ideas shouldn't be patentable. I'm also pretty sure adding a task bar to KDE/Gnome was done not by reading the patent, but rather by implementing this basic idea from scratch.

Going back to blue LEDs, it's as if the concept of a blue LED was patented itself, and nobody could do a blue LED with a different kind of semiconductors and doping.