Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)Z

Zink

@ Zink @programming.dev

Posts
0
Comments
2367
Joined
3 yr. ago

  • BMW Commits to Subscriptions Even After Heated Seat Debacle

    Jump

  • It sounds like their market research told them they would make more money this way, and my own anecdotal evidence makes me think they are correct, unfortunately.

    The area where I live has some diversity and some decent people, but it is majority white christian conservative. The amount of luxury SUVs I see rage-driving around town can be astounding at times. It's right up there with the amount of frighteningly expensive emotional support trucks with the drivers still wearing their ball caps and wrap-around shades on overcast days.

  • Just like Drax in that Guardians of the Galaxy scene

    Jump

  • It's difficult to argue against Mint when your use case is a current windows user who just wants to drop Linux in its place.

  • "lessons learned"

    Jump

  • Over-designing something using trendy technologies while also spending far more money than it would cost to go with the existing solution that is also more reliable -- this can be a valid plan. But it is called a hobby, not a business!

    Has anybody told the techbros?

  • Anyone find this? I'm old so don't

    Jump

  • Work and family are quite different for me in this regard!

    With the relatives, I'm the IT guy of course. But I haven't had to do much for others lately since everybody just stares at their phone. In MY house there's a ton of shit that needs tech support, lol.

    At work, sure I'm a software engineer and I might tell a random person I work in tech, but I am not IT. I am an embedded systems developer using my company-owned computer to try to develop a product that will be useful to some people. IT is the sworn enemy!

    (to be fair, my employer's IT is actually cool, and we can install our own OS and use M365 stuff in a browser -- they just don't have the resources to actually help us with anything)

  • Which was the style at the time

    Jump

  • I like and appreciate the extras that physical albums bring, as well as the freedom and reliability of physical media.

    But even as an old guy that's all about connecting with the physical world and stimulating all the senses and all that, when it comes to the mechanisms of listening to music it's hard to beat FLAC albums on the Jellyfin server. It takes up so little space.

  • Trump Wrecked In Devastating Poll As Most Americans Say He’s ‘Worse Than Biden’ — With Whopping 18 Point Swing

    Jump

  • Decades of indoctrination and conditioning is a hell of a drug.

  • The upgrade argument for desktops doesn't stand up anymore

    Jump

  • The importance of open & interchangeable hardware and software goes way beyond the upgrades you may or may not make, or even saving money & reducing e-waste.

    You get better products that way. Having complete control over your system benefits you even if you never exercise that control. It is literally a constraint on enshittification.

  • VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files

    Jump

  • I open nano more often than any other editor, and by a lot. I spend more TIME in vscode and maybe Kate, but lately I've been tweaking setups on a couple of machines. 

     
        
sudo nano /that/cfg/file/u/thinking/.about

  • Microsoft releases urgent Office patch. Russian-state hackers pounce.

    Jump

  • It sounds like they've gotten fat, rich, and complacent. Just like some societies I know!

  • Australia said to grant US access to Australians’ biometric data

    Jump

  • Well hey, at least our rights-obliterating global surveillance apparatus is already named like the bad guys in a stupid action movie!

  • Rule

    Jump

  • How do I make somebody else's comment go viral?

  • You must tell me, please!

    Jump

  • People are saying the facility is by the river. You know the one.

  • 99 STR, 99 INT

    Jump

  • Getting jacked and reading old books are examples of hobbies. If these sound strange and foreign to you, you should look into them!

    Hobbies are activities that you do because you want to, not because you are forced to. (Pause for fellow Americans to catch their breath...) Hobbies have the potential to help you enjoy life, to have something to look forward to, get excited about, and hopefully even improve yourself or broaden your horizons in some way.

    You don't have to make money at it. You don't have to be "efficient" at it. You don't even have to be any good! But if it's something you care about, there's a strong chance you'll end up pretty good at it.

    My example is along the lines of the meme of the linkedin profile that ends ... -> Senior Architect at Microsoft -> Goose farmer.

    I'm a middle aged computer nerd software engineer, typing this in LibreWolf on Linux. 100% on-brand Lemmy user, lol. But I am a science & nature nerd first, and I have a distinct memory of a divide in my high school science classes: I gravitated towards physics and especially electronics and mechanical design, and I really disliked studying chemistry. My chemistry teacher was awesome and shared lots of college stories to prepare us, and that left me notably terrified of organic chemistry on top of the general dislike.

    So it might not be a surprise to find that I am into carpentry, woodworking, and home automation, given some of my past. And my love of animals has led to lots of pets, including a pond in the back yard. The surprise? I kinda fucking love organic chemistry as a hobby! What is your Oxidation-Reduction Potential, babyyy?

  • The clues were right in front of us.

    Jump

  • It's not the technology running on the PC that people have a problem with. It's the owner of that PC.

  • Consequences for hit-and-run on a snowman

    Jump

  • Yep. It works.

    It caught my attention before I decided to ignore it, and even some of the early replies in these comments correctly pointing out the stupidity of the driver's ways have hundreds of upvotes, which is a lot for Lemmy!

  • Consequences for hit-and-run on a snowman

    Jump

  • Engagement bait.

    I went and checked Facebook for notifications the other day and saw this exact post.

    This is all over the place: Posts by people who are confidently wrong in some obvious way, just begging for some smart internet person to come set them straight and get their wimpy dopamine hit.

    It is really enlightening, in a depressing way, to scroll mainstream social media like that and see the level of enshittification that people are conditioned to accept and keep scrolling through. It is so much worse than even ad-driven legacy media like live TV.

  • Where to go now since Linux is mainstream

    Jump

  • I've been a fan of the easy to install all-in-one Linux experience of modern distros, being an old guy with a family and a keen awareness of how much I need to maintain some of the non-computer hobbies in my life. Mint has been my jam for a long time.

    But just recently I had reason to try out regular old Debian with KDE Plasma, and I think I have found my happy place. I just moved around my hard drives and set up my handful of self-hosted things on this fresh system. It's so nice to occasionally use as a desktop while it is also a rock solid server.

  • Removed

    No wonder Reddit has turned to shit

    Jump

  • Gross.

    I continue to have my own little cognitive dissonance about the Fediverse:

    The world needs more FOSS and information needs to flow in a decentralized, democratic kind of way.

    Howeverrrrr.... Lemmy is awesome for we few that it clicks with. For the good of the users and especially the volunteer admins who run our instances, I am glad Lemmy is not the big glowing target that reddit is.

    Maybe we just hang out and keep the lights on no matter whether it's for occasional lost Linux users or for when mainstream folks decide to ditch oligarch-tech en masse.

  • No comment

    Jump

  • The funny thing is that the biggest practical benefit to most Linux users is not the access to do these things.

    It is the secondary effects of not needing to restrict access in order to preserve lock-in and enshittification. It makes the whole user experience better because it is only doing wider you've asked it to do. For example, I apply updates more quickly on Linux than I ever did on Windows, even though my Linux DEs are way less pushy about it, because the process is an absolute breeze!

    Look at each OS option like you were a product development team, and think "who are my stakeholders?"

    The commercial products have long lists of what's driving the product features and anti-features. Linux has the developers who want the code to be helpful and stay free, and the users who want it to do what it says on the tin, with the option to audit or modify the system's code. But of course it's still run by humans, so big personalities and bad actors and whatnot do affect things.