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Soon, Windows will just be a desktop environment for #linux. Why invest money and time into building a kernel, drivers, and other operating system stuff if the linux community gives it to you for free. @leo
@NoLifeKing@leo@cstross others have observed that modern Windows, especially now that WSL exists, is what we got because someone wished that "everyone gets Linux on the desktop" on a monkey's paw.
@wesgeorge@NoLifeKing@leo@cstross WSL + bash is what you get been you rub the magic lamp and tell the genie you want a usable command line on Windows. Nobody wishes for Gnome. Android is what you get when Google wishes for linux on the phone.
I'll show myself out...
@wesgeorge@NoLifeKing@leo@cstross it's nuts though, you can run full GUI linux programs in WSL & work is very picky about what software's allowed in windows but WSL's very much "use any program in there, we don't care"
@patterfloof@wesgeorge@NoLifeKing@leo@cstross At my Real Job I work on a pretty niche GUI astronomy application with multiple interlocking components. We only officially support Linux and macOS, but... apparently it runs in WSL and everything Just Works. Truly we live in the future.
That's literally the opposite of the business model.
Safe Browsing’s opt-in Enhanced protection mode deals with this by using Google’s Safe Browsing server-side database, which catches unsafe URLs much faster in real time. Yet users must provide Google with more security-related data for full protection, which is why it’s an opt-in mode.
tldr: diminishing returns on performance gain for power consumption
In one Blender rendering benchmark, the i9-14900KS consumed 31 percent more power than the i9-14900K for a less than 1 percent performance gain. The gap isn't always quite that large, but the power usage increase is generally disproportionate to the performance increase.
it's even worse when you also look at the 65w versions (which also don't need elaborate cooling solutions. just a noctua or similar) of the same chip. 14900(f) vs 'k' vs 'ks'
to use Google’s Safe Browsing server-side […] users must provide Google with more security-related data
Should be illegal, to propagate the opposite of what is true. Of course, if your company and all related are the good guys and everyone else the bad guys, then, only then, this headline makes sense. A bit of a hero complex, selling people privacy infringement, as protection. I can’t even blame the average consumer for believing that, as it’s such so perverted construct and this shilled trash article sells it as positive.
Hey it’s opt-in, I’m sure Google will not pressure people with pop-ups and fake news, like this one, to enable this setting.
Man, I so love NTP. Y’all younglings have no idea what it was like in the day.
Us kids would literally “synchronize watches”, like in the old war movies. We’d call the free “time and temperature” number to sync up. No one’s clocks matched exactly. Now we just take it for granted.
Every device in my house is within 1-second of every other. LOL, I meet with people all over the globe on Zoom, and we’re all on time. To the second.
NTP is so critical for the information age, I can’t overstate it. If you’re not a programmer or other such nerd, it’s hard to get your head around how complex the NTP protocol is. Yet it works wonderfully! Much, much respect.
Lol I was very much doing the same as a kid, but this comment read like an old timer telling of an age long ago. I legit typed out “that was interesting man, thanks for sharing”.
Not sure wether to laugh or cry because I’m so old 😂
In Australia there was exactly that toll free number you could dial that was a recorded person reading out the time 24/7. That voice is forever etched in my mind.
“At the third stroke, it will be 7:35 and 15 seconds" beep, beep, beep
can’t I just have a fuckin web browser that I use to look at fuckin websites? not everything needs a god damn account. I’m so sick of it. like you can’t just sign in to a separate gmail account, you have to “add an account” Add to what? I don’t want it there permanently, I don’t want to keep any information about the account in the browser program, it’s a web based email account why can’t I just go to the website damn
I’m not saying it is – I’m just asking why you need an “account” and whether it’s a “Mozilla account” or a “Firefox account” doesn’t make a difference - why do you need it? it’s a web browser. has no one else been on the internet before the late 90s? didn’t have an “internet explorer account” or a “Netscape account” to deal with, I fuckin double clicked and went to stileproject.com or whatever. I’m mostly just shaking my fist at the clouds and I understand that.
To sync your bookmarks and saved passwords and stuff. Back in the netscape days you had a single device that could access the internet. The way you want to use a browser is still easily available to you. Yelling about a service you don’t have to use in any way existing is just childish.
You can though…? The account gives you some useful features if you want to use them, like syncing tabs and bookmarks across devices, and if you don’t want to use it, the browser still works normally.
There is nothing more ironic than large game companies throwing the largest temper tantrum the second a single person pirates their game but then years to even decades later decide that they are gonna profit off the hard work it might have taken a cracker to remove DRM by selling copies with the cracks and act like there is absolutely nothing wrong.
I have a far better gaming experience buying than cracking garbage all the time. I’m not sure what crack you are on but most of my games are installed via remote app and playable in one click.
They’re admitting that they are the source of a massive problem. But are they going to do anything about it, or keep pushing their shitty, half-baked AI? It’s crazy to me how much worse their AI is than ChatGPT, considering all of the financial and engineering resources available to Google.
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