mrinfinitiesx

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Comment · 2 years ago

I can know literally nothing about a programming language, ask a LLM to make me functions and a small program to do something, then read documentation and start building off of the base immediately, accelerating my learning allowing me to find new passions for new languages and new perspectives for systems. Whatever's going on in the AI world, assisting with learning curves and learning disabilities is something it's proving strong in. It's given me a way forward with trying new tech. If it can do that for me, it can do that for others.

Diminishing returns for investors maybe, but not for humans like me.

Comment · 2 years ago

I replied to an above comment, not when utilizing KDE's widgets and other desktop integrations like RSS feeds, weather, embedded system/server informations, etc. KDE is amazing, but I like to utilize the widgets, and full functionality of things with it. With my i3, 8GB RAM I opted for Manjaro XFCE.

I absolutely suggest using KDE for people switching over. Full desktop experience.

When not using anything my systems would idle at around 800MB-1GB running default install Manjaro. Firefox after awhile and I was using the full 8GB and tabs were crashing.

Comment · 2 years ago

I'm talking utilizing it with the desktop widgets, tools, customizations cool taskbar widgets (I'd add the openAI app), different system informations/rss feeds embedded across multiple monitors.. the stuff KDE is awesome for.

KDE is amazing. I love it. My little laptop though I get by with just XFCE on an i3 8GB RAM, 250GB NVMe SSD.

Agreed on everything else you said. People switching from Mac's ultra-HD for fonts get the 'ick' switching to Linux desktop too. We'll get there.

Comment · 2 years ago

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Been using Manjaro XFCE for a minute, KDE is great if you're rocking ~32GB of RAM but for lightweight, MX Linux (Debian), Lubuntu (LXDE) Lightweight Ubuntu. Most distros come with drivers that trackpads and wireless just ..work. So many flavors but with KDE you can customize everything with rightclicking, no config edits. It's fun, but lower end machines I'd suggest XFCE, KDE will use 2GB of RAM just idling on desktop.

I ditched Windows completely back in 2017-2018 and haven't looked back. I'm no star-programmer or star sys-admin or anything but the love of tinkering with things, VMs, networking, sockets, SSH, SCP, rsync, having direct access to my kernel (like sysctl stuff), managing my ssh keys in ~/.ssh/, using a drop-down Quake style terminal (Tilda) has been a dream.

Why would somebody want to sign on with a 'cloud account' for their desktop login, have forced stuff like Teams, Edge (Are you SURE YOU WANT TO SWITCH TO CHROME/FIREFOX? notifications), OneDrive, and have things like Recall pushed on them.

Linux isn't rocket science any more there's Add/Remove programs on every distro and people can browse from there, there's software pulled straight from github for compiling/installing as well as the 'app store' for exploring.

It's been my tinkerer's heaven. Most you need is a trustable VPN with a killswitch that runs Wireguard and your linux install is going to be great.

Gaming wise, well gaming needs to get their heads out of their asses and dev for Linux and respect that just because there's not yet manjority market share doesn't mean there won't be.

Disposable OS now adays is just boot a live CD (USB) that loads everything in to RAM with NVidia drivers already loaded.

My suggestion to anybody, check out Ventoy: https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

Try a bunch of linux distros .isos in oracle VMs or any VM managers, use Ventoy to put the ISOs on a flash drive, my 128GB stick lets me have dozens of them, and boot any distro you want you can have as many ISOs that will fit, they'll all boot when you select which one you want.

For the nerds: https://www.ghostbsd.org - BSD Desktop.

Say no to Recall.

</rant>

Comment · 2 years ago

Actually, a lot of people use Lemmy, and there's pretty decent content on it in the communities. I post Linux stuff mostly and my threads get a lot of comments. Or I'll ask questions like "What are everybody's cool not so well known websites" and get a ton of feedback. Accounts are accessible via Mastodon as well, it isn't ideal, but, it's some kind of start.

So, lots of people use it, actually. I haven't noticed any bots replying to each other like what Reddit is now adays reposting content and reposting top comments.

Comment · 2 years ago

'Testing' -> Our release and deployment automation is environment agnostic.

Comment · 2 years ago

Due to HIPAA how many hospitals and patients got screwed because of this and we don't hear about it? No QA/QC and push straight to production? All to check a check-list for 'compliance' how about 'Software passed QA by X Y Z engineers and here are their notes:' transparency if they're running on ....the world's computers.

Makes too much sense to do that.

Where's the class action law suit for all the people who missed their flights, meetings, family? I've seen stories of people's families last moments being missed as an emergency flight was booked and they got trapped at an airport. How many people were stranded in weird places they weren't familiar with and couldn't afford a hotel and weren't accommodated, or were but ended up being stuck in a place with the absolute need to be on the next flight out?

Crowdstrike doesn't care. We should.

https://devopschecklist.com/

Comment · 2 years ago

Just a quick look at 2024's CVEs, 0days for Windows is a security nightmare. Not singling out Windows specifically, but they have a lot.

Browsers only just recently patched browsers being able to be served javascript that scans local devices on 10.* and 192.168.* etc hitting IoT devices with exploits and payloads, hell even hitting open listening sockets on localhost and 0.0.0.0 -- that's cross platform, how many years did that go under the radar?

And now Windows is getting 'Recall' which will monitor and scan your every PC action to remember it for you using ML; I don't see that going back at all /s

Comment · 2 years ago

The owner of this website (www.bleepingcomputer.com) has banned your IP address (IP)

edit: VPN, ssh -D to vps & socks5 localhost worked. Can't have anything anymore.

Comment · 2 years ago

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Comment · 2 years ago

Between Wordpress's bullshit and capitalist bullshit like Google doing things like this, I'm honestly just in utter shock at what the internet actually _is_ now adays.

What a dystopia.

Comment · 2 years ago

Adtech is cyber warfare. Used to manipulate, control, and feed our minds with things that not even we understand what they're up to. There is no argument for uBlock being disabled/removed.

Fight for an internet where we're not exploited.

Comment · 2 years ago

It needs to stop here.

Comment · 2 years ago

This is all really cringe to see. The fact that 50% of websites run this is something else.