My IT tech brain's experience tells me that even a normal user will get bad updates, and say what you will about Windows, in my experience it does have quite excellent automatic recovery from bad patches.

2d ago

Trump Will Order Defense Department to Buy Coal Power | Climate and security experts say the plan is outdated and could place the U.S. at a competitive disadvantage.

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stoy @lemmy.zip 2d ago

I would need to smell the smoke from the biofueled steam locomotives to determine if it is better or not.

Regarding carbon steel, I am a Swede, I have seen the (quite sexy) ads for carbonfree steel, that is super cool and if it becomes a viable alternative to actual carbon steel, I am all for it.

2d ago

Trump Will Order Defense Department to Buy Coal Power | Climate and security experts say the plan is outdated and could place the U.S. at a competitive disadvantage.

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stoy @lemmy.zip 2d ago

Awesome, more coal for heritage rail!

2d ago

What desktop operating system would you recommend to the average user?

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stoy @lemmy.zip 2d ago

It is funny to be downvoted on this after working as an IT technician for a decade and a half, including as a Linux sysadmin, a VIP tech, a 365 admin and normal user support.

Currently I would not suggest Linux/BSD to any inexperienced user, this is due to two reasons:

Market share - Desktop linux has grown massively in the last few years, but it is still in the 5-10% range, Linux is not a mainstream desktop OS as much as the Feddiverse might believe it is, this limits available support, with Windows, people can go to coworkers or friends and ask, the likelyhood that that would work when using Linux is ridiculously small, so whoever introduced them to Linux will be on the hook for supporting them.
Fractured market share - Despite only having a very small marketshare, desktop Linux is highly fractured, some distributions use APT to install .deb packages, on the RPM side, I have used the following package managers: yum, zypper and dnf, and on Arch based distributions I habe had to use pacman and yay. Then we get to the the init systems, sure the likelyhood is that they will never need to care, untill something fails, depending on the issue, knowing if you use the classic init system, or if you use systemd. The fractured nature of Linux means that support is even more fractured, if you find an active support forum it is quite possible that it is dedicated to another distribution and at best wont be of any help, and at worst be abusive toward you for making the wrong choices.

My point is that Linux is not ready for the normal person without tech interest, I'd gladly recommend Linux to a person disposed to solve their own problems, especially if they are showin an interest in tech.

2d ago

Trump Will Order Defense Department to Buy Coal Power | Climate and security experts say the plan is outdated and could place the U.S. at a competitive disadvantage.

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stoy @lemmy.zip 2d ago

Steam locomotives does not have a better alternative, it is part of the historical experience.

There are also relatively few steam locomotives in use world wide, their impact is quite limited.

Also to make carbon steel, you need to use coal.

2d ago

What desktop operating system would you recommend to the average user?

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stoy @lemmy.zip 2d ago

IT guy here, this is the right answer.

Don't get me wrong, Linux is awesome, but I don't consider it suitable for someone with zero tech knowledge.

You don't want to get stuck as their only support person, with Windows they have plenty of other resources to check with.

2d ago

What desktop operating system would you recommend to the average user?

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stoy @lemmy.zip 2d ago

Sorry everyone, but I would go with either Windows or OSX, leaning toward OSX

3d ago

Trump Will Order Defense Department to Buy Coal Power | Climate and security experts say the plan is outdated and could place the U.S. at a competitive disadvantage.

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stoy @lemmy.zip 3d ago

Because anti-woke pandering.

That and also pandering to coal miners.

Here is my suggestion instead.

Stop using coal for pure power, it is way better used in heritage steam locomotives and steelmaking.

3d ago

Man Wakes Up Homeless, Realizes He Fell Into AI Psychosis That Destroyed His Entire Life

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stoy @lemmy.zip 3d ago

I am glad I realized just how bad AI is early on, I have sometimes had it help me write some simple HTML/CSS code, but it is mostly annoying to use.

It makes me loose track of what does what in my code, and also takes away my initiative at trying to change the code myself.

When it comes to general information, it mostly generates decent responses, but it keeps getting enough things wrong that you just can't trust it.

Combine that with the fact that AIs are trained to always accommodate the user and almost never tells the user straight up "No", it keeps engaging the user, it is never angry, it focuses on reenforcement and validation of the particular arguments given to it.

I feel dumber when I have used an AI

3d ago

What is the best alternative to a "smart" cell phone today?

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stoy @lemmy.zip 3d ago

A smartphone that you don't sign into or use any apps on.

3d ago

Do you like working from home? Yes or no, gimme some reasons.

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stoy @lemmy.zip 3d ago

Nope, I am an IT guy, I live alone in my two room apartment, and I just can't focus on work when I am working at home.

Sometimes I have to, but it sucks

3d ago

Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis

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stoy @lemmy.zip 3d ago

In most suburbs here we have several "Infartsparkeringar" basically parking for when you connect to public transport.

I only use them when I need to get into the city during weekends as I live along a relatively slow railroad that "only" (yes I know I am spoiled) departs every 20-30 min to get in and out from the city, so I park by the metro.

3d ago

Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis

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stoy @lemmy.zip 3d ago

I love driving, absolutely, 100%, being able to get around and visit places that are out of reach of public transport is fantastic, driving on fast narrow roads with plenty of bends through the woods is awesome, visiting farm shops is great!

But I absolutely will not drive in the city unless I have to, I hate it, slow, annoying, expensive parking and just a bad time.

Here in Stockholm we have fantastic public transport, I have only taken my car to work 3 times in the last decade, that was only due to other circumstances forcing me to do so, and I hated it every time.