Telorand

@ Telorand @reddthat.com

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2h ago

Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond
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Telorand @reddthat.com 2h ago
Not a clue. Care to eli5?

3d ago

CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant

Yes, I know. I'm not looking back at the entire timeline of history. I'm looking at the most recent example, because while the idea is not new, it is not an idea that lasts on its own; people wise up over time, which is why the idea gets rehashed by different figures at different points in history.

3d ago

CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant

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Telorand @reddthat.com 3d ago

It does predate them. They didn't invent it, and I never said they did. I said their actions are the reason the US reveres wealth today, as in it's the most contemporary set of events that have reinvigorated that well-practiced strategy.

If you're looking for specific historical knowledge, as in citations, here you go:

https://history.princeton.edu/about/publications/one-nation-under-god-how-corporate-america-invented-christian-america

https://youtu.be/LvmwGwnJf7c?t=598

3d ago

CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant

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Telorand @reddthat.com 3d ago

Great, congrats. You are today's biggest pedant. Here's your prize.

3d ago

Signal Contingency Plan (spoiler: it's Delta Chat)

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Telorand @reddthat.com 3d ago

The blockchain thing feels really icky to me, so while I'll keep SimpleX as a plan C, my plan B is Meshtastic or Meshcore.

3d ago

DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Gmail

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Telorand @reddthat.com 3d ago

Why you should not use a platform owned by billionaires who are sympathetic to the government.

3d ago

Microsoft's VS Code in Ubuntu's Snap Format Eats Up Disk Space Like Bloatware Even After Removal

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Telorand @reddthat.com 3d ago

Emacs can do everything.

3d ago

CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant

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Telorand @reddthat.com 3d ago

Sure, but why it exists today in the US is a direct result of the robber barons' influence in the early 1900s. The core idea isn't new, but this instance is.

3d ago

Can KDE Tile Windows Like PopOS?

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Telorand @reddthat.com 3d ago

It's in my plan to switch, actually. The only reason I haven't is because I need to make sure I know how to use certain Pipewire inputs with the window manager. I've seen that it does work, but I need to know how to do it myself before I make the switch.

3d ago

Can KDE Tile Windows Like PopOS?

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Telorand @reddthat.com 3d ago

Smithay, yes

3d ago

CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant

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Telorand @reddthat.com 3d ago

I know you don't necessarily mean it this way, but there's a very interesting (and infuriating) history to why the US reveres the wealthy. The short version is that the ultra wealthy were pissed about the New Deal, so they used fundamentalist Christianity to tie the idea of wealth to holy favor from Yahweh.

We will have to overcome that idea if we hope to gain real class consciousness.

3d ago

Anyone using Prey Project?

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Telorand @reddthat.com 3d ago

It tracks your devices, and it's proprietary software. Furthermore, from what I understand about the PC software, it runs at the kernel level (ring 0). I don't believe it can do that with an Android or iPhone app, though.

Either way, if being tracked on a whim is within your threat model, you should assume this is spying on you. Most modern phones already have some kind of "Find My Device" tracking, so this seems like you're just adding an extra pair of eyes.

3d ago

Coworker wants to try Linux with gaming, Bazzite or Mint?

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Telorand @reddthat.com 3d ago

On the other hand, if the newbie wants figure out how things work, starting with an atomic distribution doesn't really sound like the easiest starting point. Is it though? Could be mistaken.

This is where I would agree with you, except to clarify and say, "It depends." There's plenty to figure out, and there's a lot you can learn about when it comes to understanding what layer(s) a piece of software runs in. A driven newbie could find it rewarding to figure out this new paradigm. I once read a post from someone who installed Aurora on a grandparent's laptop, and the grandparent ran with it and learned how to use everything themselves. It's good to know who the end user is.

It also highlights some of the pitfalls and old practices of relying upon sudo without good reason. Lots of software only needs to run in local userspace, for example, and devs should really take into consideration what permissions they actually need, rather than choosing what's easiest and expedient.

And then there's rpm-ostree thing. I really need to read more about that, but that sounds like yet another layer in an already very tall cake.

It's not so much another layer but dividing the existing cake into very distinct layers. You have an immutable system layer, you have an app layer for apps that you apply with rpm-ostree, and you have the user layer where your Distroboxes and Flatpaks live.

The benefit of this structure is that you can swap out the system layer at will. In theory, you could swap from a Gnome-based system to a Niri-based one, and rather than keeping all the Gnome apps and settings, you now just have the Niri ones. This ability to swap out the system layer makes it so system updates are much safer and less prone to conflicts, and they're much more scalable for large deployments.

But do read more about it. There's pros and cons to it, and then you can really get into the weeds with bootc...

Do I think a newbie needs to know this stuff from the get go? Probably not. I think that particularly since atomic distros have been around for several years now, the Flatpak ecosystem has grown quite a bit. There's a lot already there that will work for most people. There's a possibility they would need to layer something within their first year (I needed Java, for example), but it's not likely they'd need it often if at all.

If they can't help but tinker or theme, though, I would steer them away from atomic distros entirely. As interesting as they are, they're geared towards duplicability, not bespoke modifications. My daily desktop driver is CachyOS, and I tinker with that, but the laptop with Bazzite is one I need to have maximum uptime.

3d ago

AMD say the Steam Machine is "on track" for an early 2026 release

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Telorand @reddthat.com 3d ago

I dunno. There's probably plenty of examples where companies soldered RAM instead of installing SODIMM slots, even when they had space. I agree that it makes sense, but sense isn't always a factor when a company starts crunching the production cost numbers.

3d ago

AMD say the Steam Machine is "on track" for an early 2026 release

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Telorand @reddthat.com 3d ago

Cool, I tried to find the info, but obviously didn't find that detail. It makes sense, all things considered

4d ago

Coworker wants to try Linux with gaming, Bazzite or Mint?

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Telorand @reddthat.com 4d ago

Ideally, you don't. You can layer packages with rpm-ostree, but that's typically something you want to do very intentionally and sparingly, not as a first resort for installing packages.

Instead, everything is typically installed in userspace via Flatpak/AppImage or using the distrobox command to create podman containers (where you can install software using its package manager, depending on what base distro you chose for it).

When you update, you are replacing the current system image with a new one, so if there's a problem with the new system, you can just rpm-ostree rollback to the previous one.

Let me know if you have other questions. I run Bazzite on a laptop daily.

4d ago

AMD say the Steam Machine is "on track" for an early 2026 release

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Telorand @reddthat.com 4d ago

Is it upgradeable? I assumed it would be soldered in.

Maybe we'll see, "Some soldering required," instead 😂

4d ago

AMD say the Steam Machine is "on track" for an early 2026 release

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Telorand @reddthat.com 4d ago

I have the first generation, and once I learned how to properly use it and set up the pads and gyro, it quickly became one of my favorite controllers of all time.

I hope this next one will be even better.

4d ago

Sony Patents System to Generate AI Podcasts in the Voices of Your Favorite PlayStation Characters - IGN

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Telorand @reddthat.com 4d ago

which I could have played many more hours, just because I didn't have the patience to get past a level/battle/boss, whatever

I appreciate your feelings, but I need to point out that you don't actually know that you would have continued playing that game. Let's say you had this tool to help you clear a boss (and we're being very generous in assuming it can). Most games ramp up in difficulty, and many bosses or hurdles act as skill checks. What do you suppose would happen when you got to the next difficult spot? It almost certainly wouldn't be easier than before.

I get that there's difficult games out there that are hard for the sake of being hard (Fromsoft has some of the most egregious examples), but that might just be a sign that those games aren't actually your cup of tea, and that's okay, even if it's from a flaw in the game design. If you're not having fun with a game anymore, you should give yourself permission to walk away.

If you drop a game for any reason, you are never required to pick it back up, and this idea that we all need to "work through our backlog" is making what's supposed to be a fun hobby into a chore.

4d ago

Scientists say quantum tech has reached its transistor moment

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Telorand @reddthat.com 4d ago

Wake me when they make the contemporary analog to the Apple 2e. Otherwise, this just sounds like a bunch of giant corporations that continue peacocking around in an effort to get VC money.

I applaud the scientists, however, who do this kind of stuff for the love of discovery. Good luck to all of them.