So I took the plunge and installed Fedora Silverblue because of all that immutable buzz. And it’s the most frustrating change I have made in almost 20 years of my distrohopping....
Think about it this way: going onto Linux communities and listening to what people say can be like listening to car mechanics chat.
But do you need to know what all of that stuff means to drive your car? Nah. But that info could come in handy, if you wanted to modify your car or something like that.
You don’t need to know what Wayland/X11, PipeWire, GTK4/Qt6, or anything like that is, in much the same way you don’t need to know what PowerShell, Event Viewer, NT kernel, or registry are to use Windows.
512MB was a huge flash drive now it’s not enough ram. Turns out Spotify can’t open-source Car Thing because it’s a potato androidauthority.com/spotify-car-thing-open-sourc…
Yeah the problem isn’t so much that apple did that (a slower but functional device is infinitely better than a device that doesn’t function), but that they didn’t communicate it to users, and even after a battery replacement, the phone would often stick to being throttled (not sure if this was just for third party repairs or all repairs, but either isn’t acceptable).
If by “incorrectly done” third party repairs, you mean ones that don’t subscribe to apple’s repair programme that insists on you giving up user’s personal information, only using Apple parts both in the device and for the disassembly, and paying Apple fees, then sure.
But that’s not how third party repairs should be done and you’d be massive cunt for championing that kind of bullshit business practice.
Harry watches the government get taken over by fascists and then decides to go be a cop.
Not every police force is the ultra-militarised right wing type you see in North America. I must admit I’m quite tired of people thinking US culture applies worldwide. There’s a whole world outside of the USA. You need to accept that just because something is one way in the US, doesn’t mean it’s that way everywhere.
I’m currently living in the UK and despite their police force often being useless due to 14 years of Conservatives underfunding them, I’ll give them credit for not being violent and being extremely adept at de-escalation, and for regularly and overwhelmingly saying no when they are surveyed and offered more lethal weapons. They adamantly do not want more power. Police in the UK, as a general rule, lean left, not right.
Of course you do occasionally hear about a police officer doing something dodgy, but it’s pretty rare and makes national or even international news when it happens.
There’s very much a culture of them working for the public as opposed to being a military force that terrorises the public.
Plus the government previously being fascist doesn’t mean people working for them are fascist, particularly not after a change in government. Harry became an Auror when Hermione became Minister of Magic. It wasn’t a fascist government then. Is every public sector employee in Spain, Italy, Germany, etc a fascist just because they had a fascist government in the past?
I don’t like the art, it’s poorly written.
Poorly written, sure, I’d say a lot of it is too (so time-turners canonically exist but nobody goes back to stop Voldemort or stop victims from being killed by him? Ok lol), but so are lots of things. Not everybody is a Tolkien-level world-builder.
Regardless, it doesn’t change the point, you can think JKR is a transphobic twat and still like a book. Rudyard Kipling has some great poems and books, despite being racist. Roald Dahl wrote brilliant childrens books despite being a raving antisemite. As an Indian, I have great respect for Ghandi, despite him being racist, enormously antisemitic, and likely even paedophilic. The Smiths made great music despite Morrissey being a cunt. Etc.
If you want to discard work on account of the artist’s personalities, then fair enough, more power to you, it’s a personal thing what your boundaries are. I’m just saying it’s fine to like the art but not the artist too.
Where have I said I like JKR? Where’s the hypocrisy?
You were the one who brought up events after the books, now I’m not to talk about it otherwise it’s somehow an endorsement of transphobia or something? Lmao
And of course it’s still art - it’s part of the world that the author created. I don’t see how you could possibly argue that it isn’t. It’s HP universe stuff.
Do the events of The Silmarillion not count as art, because it came out years after the LOTR trilogy?
And again, stop asserting that other police forces are like that of the US. Other countries exist and have different cultures, curb your nationalism just a little bit.
I never mentioned fanfic, this is again you going off on a wild tangent.
Stuff from the author is not fanfiction. I think you need to brush up on what fanfiction means. You’d think the meaning would be obvious since the word quite literally describes itself.
And yes, a fascist government imposed fascism in the HP universe… Then a non-fascist government succeeded it… honestly, how is this hard to grasp?
Respect to Sony for that. As one of the biggest sellers of Bluetooth audio equipment, they’re one of the ones that would gain most from nobody being able to use 3.5mm
To be fair, Data was designed to be like a human, and was made in the image of his creator. He has a number of design decisions that are essentially down to his creator wanting to create something like a human. Including that which you describe.
Data was never intended to work like a PC, it’s very normal that he can’t just wirelessly interface with stuff.
Funny thing is, I find myself forced to use the command prompt more in Windows than I do the terminal in Linux. And don’t get me started on the absolute nightmare that the windows registry is.
Is it stupid? I doubt MS cares about the absolutely miniscule amount of people who will care enough to complain about this. Those people would probably just turn the feature off, or use a different OS, anyway. Catering to that audience isn’t something MS cares about.
The average user won’t do a thing. MS gets to outsource the computational work of all this spying to their users and then hoover up the data at the end. Microsoft stands to gain a lot from this in the markets where it will be allowed to fly.
And for battery life, see if you can find any info on what others have got with your machine. I’ve got anything from a fair bit better, to the same, to an absolute catastrophe.
Fedora Silverblue is the most frustrating distro so far
So I took the plunge and installed Fedora Silverblue because of all that immutable buzz. And it’s the most frustrating change I have made in almost 20 years of my distrohopping....
Arch Linux, made immutable, declarative and atomic: blendOS v4 released (blendos.co)
512MB ram is nothing now
512MB was a huge flash drive now it’s not enough ram. Turns out Spotify can’t open-source Car Thing because it’s a potato androidauthority.com/spotify-car-thing-open-sourc…
Apple will update iPhones for at least 5 years in rare public commitment (arstechnica.com)
TELL ME (xpost from Leaky_Cauldron@diagonlemmy.social) (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/16243150...
iPhone 16 Leaks: Apple Might Dethrone Samsung With The Thinnest Bezels Yet (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
Leaks suggest Apple’s iPhone 16 will have record-thin bezels, potentially dethroning Samsung.
Is TikTok breaking young voters’ brains? (www.vox.com)
42 key points of the secret #EUGoingDark surveillance plan for the new EU Commission (www.patrick-breyer.de)
cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/12846267...
Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide? (www.antipope.org)
xaitax/TotalRecall: This tool extracts and displays data from the Recall feature in Windows 11, providing an easy way to access information about your PC's activity snapshots. (github.com)
this rootless Python script rips Windows Recall’s screenshots and SQLite database of OCRed text and allows you to search them.
Google might keep your Pixel during a repair if you're caught using non-OEM parts (www.androidpolice.com)
Microsoft has blocked the bypass that allowed you to create a local account during Windows 11 setup by typing in a blocked email address (www.tomshardware.com)
Windows feature that screenshots everything labeled a security “disaster” (www.theverge.com)
Butts, breasts, and genitals now explicitly allowed on Elon Musk’s X (arstechnica.com)
Schenker shows off a Linux laptop prototype with Snapdragon X Elite at Computex 2024 (liliputing.com)
7 Common Linux Myths You Should Stop Believing (www.howtogeek.com)