If every time an OS had to delete something it had to fill the space with zeros or garbage data multiple times just to make extra sure it's gone, we'd all be trashing our flash chips very fast, and performance would be heavily degraded. There really isn't a way around this.
The solution to keep private files private is to put them into an encrypted container of some sort where you control the keys.
All my fellow edgy 90s goth/headbanger friends: "He called it 'Nine Inch Nails' because that was the size of the nails that were used to nail Jesus to the cross"
Then watching an interview with Trent in a documentary 20 years later: "I just thought it sounded cool at the time".
You know, the room inside your monitor full of little hamsters with tiny paintbrushes that speed paint everything onto the screen from the inside. They used to have a lot more room, but we had to breed the hamsters way smaller.
Dude literally just explained the issues facing actual workers that use computers for productive activities, not your mother looking up tendie recipes.
This is the kind of stuff seasoned Linux users just mindlessly deal with without realizing it and then tell new users "What's your issue? It's super easy to use." They're using years and years of institutional knowledge they've built up without knowing.
Once it clicks you'll think the drive letter thing is stupid. I can have 10 partitions from five different drives all seamlessly mounted on the filesystem on various paths and any program using them would be none the wiser.
Me at 14 trying to recreate my favorite palm-muted metal strumming patterns from songs I know: "what the hell why does their shit sound so good and thumping and my shit sounds like AM radio static in a tin can?"
Me, many many years later: "BASS! IT WAS ALL MISSING THE FUCKING BASS!"
Theoretically, anything that can implement boolean logic can be used to build a Turing-complete CPU. It just needs to represent a "true" state", a "false" state, a way to make a comparisons, and an input and output mechanism to feed other subunits or retrieve data from them. Stuff like this has also been implemented using water pumps/valves, and even in Minecraft using redstone. Computers don't have to be based on electronics.
I'm an electronics hobbyist. This triggers a panicked sequence of shutting off every power switch and yanking every cord within reach.
I once had some lipo battery leads accidentally touch and weld themselves together, and the second I saw that glow and smoke, ripped the wires apart with full force.
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More like "Huh. Cool." because I'd prefer to be corrected if I'm full of shit. Sometimes I'll google my own comments even if nobody else has a problem with them just to double check.
Due to my exposure on the Internet, I've begun to take on some phrases and things from other English-speaking countries that I like. "Can't be fucked" is one of my favorites for when I'm too lazy to do something.
Spend the next week sporadically troubleshooting when I get a free few minutes here and there.
After week 2, I finally decide for shits and giggles to download and install the "official" AMD driver from AMD's website instead of using the built in kernel one like every goddamn reply on every forum post has been telling me to use, because the PC's GPU is about ten years old at this point and the driver that came with the distro doesn't work with it.
Today at the grocery store a sweet older lady approached me and asked if I knew anything about computers. I said yes I do, and she produced a mouse saying that her son set up Linux mint for her and she was wondering if the mouse was compatible. It needed kernel version 2.6 or newer so I said that the mouse should work, guessing...
My father, who taught computer science for the US Army, later became a government contractor, and for whom Unix systems were bread and butter, is now retired and farts around on a Mac reading political blogspam all day.
My mother, having never had any interest or real education in computing in her entire life, now uses Linux Mint to take care of important shit and keep the family organized.
Can you stop that? Just because someone has a more nuanced take than "Snowden fled to Russia, therefore Snowden bad" doesn't mean they support Putin. That's a lazy response and you know it.
Linus honestly never struck me as someone capable of running a company with over a hundred people. He strikes me as someone who never grew out of their teen gamer phase and is in way over his head, running around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to stay on top of things. Whenever I see him, I'm still seeing the shy, quiet kid from NCIX. That's where he really needs to be. Being the nerd that he is, showing off something cool and nerdy. Not this company man hustle shit.
JNCO parachute pants, a Korn shirt, wallet chains, and ball-chain necklaces were the uniform of that time period. Gen-Z mushroom tops also have nothing on the all around close shave with long front bangs.
So I've finally been doing my little reddit/twitter migration against my better judgement (my better judgement would say to take the opportunity to get off the internet but who listens to that loser). I'm finding all these platforms interesting, I particularly like how kbin combines both formats and links up to Mastodon, that's...
Usenet arose during a time when the people using computers actually understood how they worked and how to use them. Asking someone to download and install a Usenet client then set it up to connect to a server of their choice and then subscribing to newsgroups is way above and beyond what most people are willing to do in 2023, sadly.
If it's not on a touchscreen, and not able to be done with 2 or 3 taps, then it ain't happening.
Expanding on this, I'm worried a technological education gap is forming among the youth. Old people didnt grow up with computers, they have an excuse. Middle aged people had to deal with the computers of the 80s and 90s, and because of that, understand computing pretty well. Young people were born into a world of instant gratification and super simplified touchscreen GUI interfaces, and from talking with them, it's clear most of them know how to get on the internet and do their thing on social media, but most of them have no clue how the nuts and bolts of it all work.
iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/12670977...
why does noone inprove bash such that you can write a normal foor loop with whitespace in file names?
I know that there are ten different alternatives. Why don’t we simply improve the basic stuff?
Trent Reznor meant that too. (lemmy.world)
Steam on Linux (sh.itjust.works)
Raising prices you say? Oh that's too bad. (lemmy.zip)
You can remove or disable Windows 11 and 10's AI 'bloat' with new BloatynosyAI (www.neowin.net)
A Day in the Life of a Linux Noob or How to Break Your System
TLDR; I spent nearly two hours troubleshooting my broken system, because I installed a Windows spell checker for my LibreOffice....
So this is why he doesn't do Linux... any more (sh.itjust.works)
Give some love (lemmy.world)
The future is now, old man (lemmy.world)
the main differences!! (lemmy.world)
this is just a meme, I know that everyone is different and not all GNOME or KDE users are like that!!
Based on real events (feddit.de)
I can’t be the only one who experienced this more than once
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A little meme I made since RMS isn't feeling good rn (lemmy.ml)
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burned myself.... (feddit.de)
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Meme moment when talking to my friend about her PC gaming rig
Nothing to do about it now except move on with my life. (startrek.website)
Oscilloscope Watch Ships After 10 Years on Kickstarter (www.tomshardware.com)
Met a nice lady at the grocery store
Today at the grocery store a sweet older lady approached me and asked if I knew anything about computers. I said yes I do, and she produced a mouse saying that her son set up Linux mint for her and she was wondering if the mouse was compatible. It needed kernel version 2.6 or newer so I said that the mouse should work, guessing...
Ice T on Trump (i.imgur.com)
Saw this on feddit.de and want to share the idea. (lemmy.ml)
Sonic has a solution (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
I don't see anything wrong with how we used to be (sopuli.xyz)
Anybody remember Usenet?
So I've finally been doing my little reddit/twitter migration against my better judgement (my better judgement would say to take the opportunity to get off the internet but who listens to that loser). I'm finding all these platforms interesting, I particularly like how kbin combines both formats and links up to Mastodon, that's...