wizardbeard

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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

EDIT: Misunderstood your comment.

As far as cloud infra goes, rumor has it that a lot of Azure's underlying shit is on Linux already. Would explain the cross compatibility work with WSL, PowerShell, .Net, etc over the past decade or so.

Original responseIt's a wonderful dream, but you underestimate how many systems' server components are still built to run on Windows Servers, and I've yet to find a vendor that doesn't support it.

Plus the extremely long tail of places running legacy software for as long as fucking possible because they refuse to spend money on newer shit.

"Soon" is relative. I think it's more likely that containerization will make the underlying OS matter less and less. It'll end up being a matter of licensing, support, ease of management with existing tools, that sort of shit. Ultimately the suits want someone to be able to yell at, even if raising a ticket with Microsoft is like pissing into the wind.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Holy shit, you've got a line on artisinal cheese duck fleshlights? I've been in the market for ages!

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 hours ago

I appreciate and agree with this sentiment entirely, but the people who need to hear it won't.

Lots of people crowing about the (I think it was) Chinese idea of solidarity, where the peaceful protestors shouldn't undercut or decry the violent protestors because they're all on the same side. They missed that the incredibly oversimplified concept is meant to flow both ways.

Yes, this isn't enough, but that doesn't mean this isn't also an important step in the right direction. The way this is worded definitely sounds like a party switch. If he's the horrible asshole everyone here thinks he is, it's not like it ever takes long for these folks to demonstrate it again.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I don't make it a habit to check, but it has been fun to check and call out in precisely two scenarios.

  • One user and I deep into a sub thread on a multiple day old post arguing about ettiquette here. Was weird to get multiple downvotes on those sorts of comments. They were using their "abandoned" alts.

  • Another thread where I had repeatedly asked someone to share the source for their claim despite them insisting that I just wasn't googling right. I offered them to edit literally every comment (multiple thousand) on this account to sing their praises. Downvoted with no response.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 14 hours ago

In moderation. Everyone needs a way to lazily recharge. But make no mistake that even though it's engaging, it's only better for you than mindless content consumption by very thin margins.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I'm summoning salt, and this is the history of autism screening speedruns

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Just who is this 3JOH NUF? A code name? Some super wizard class hacker? A government operative? Both?

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 18 hours ago

Good point. I would hope it's a mixture of both.

But these people seem to have this crazy idea that anyone not openly resisting them endorses them. It's an important tool to show them otherwise. There should be no situation in which they feel welcome. They should be worrying that every pair of eyes could be reporting them. And it should be broadcast loud and clear that the situation is of their own making.


ICE under Obama did operations against supposed extra criminal illegals (sex traffickers etc) and also against "illegals" (people just living their lives while "not supposed to be here" 🙄). While it's definitely arguable they should have, they never got the kind of public resistance they're now getting under Trump. At the very least that needs to be made un-ignorable.

This whole situation is all the more damning because a certain amount of this sort of shit was acceptable as status quo. Not many people are going to wring their hands over actions taken against cartel or sex traffickers, or unfortunately people who can be convincingly labelled as such.

So when it's getting a response like this, it should be crystal clear just how fucking far over the line this is.


I personally still have a hard time advocating for precautionary violence, but there's surely a lot of ground to be gained in terms of breaking ICE morale.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 18 hours ago (6 children)

Could be good, but could also be jammed. Have they been jamming cell and/or bluetooth out there? Also could be in violation of FAA laws (not that it really matters here).

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Sweet! That was such a great one! Definitely feels more like a real game than a hack!

I'm not familiar with everyone involved, but if codenamegamma is programming it should be top notch.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm not who you asked for context.

You even took the time to edit this comment and didn't check who you were replying to?

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 21 hours ago

Lol, wow. You just keep going deeper.

I'm teasing you a little about the clear chip on your shoulder, but I'm completely serious about the fact that you are broadcasting that chip loudly and that it's a you problem.

You immediately jumping to the conclusion that anyone ever making a complaint about noisy neghbors is in the wrong is ridiculous. Then your further insistence that anyone complaining about it that wants something done has to be calling for eviction or arrest is even more ridiculous.

Most people just want to be able to be in their house without hearing a domestic dispute through the walls, or without being able to make out exactly what songs their neighbor is listening to for multiple hours every day. The goal is to get that to stop, or at least lessen. The solution to achieve that is "whatever it takes, starting with the reasonable options".

If, after multiple polite conversations, and maybe even some not so polite ones, the neighbor continues or escalates? The loud neighbor has then chosen the severity of the solution by denying the reasonable ones. If you've had a neighbor talk to you about your noise repeatedly, then you were the problem, not them.

You can get a sheet of pads to make cabinets and doors more quiet for like $5. You can wear headphones for your music.

Personally, like I said in my last comment, I wouldn't escalate past talking to them and the landlord. Historically I've lived in complexes large enough that a noisy person could be moved to another unit if the landlord had recieved a ton of complaints, which would be my hope from the landlord at the absolute most absurd extreme. If nothing changed, I'd live with it and curse about it a lot. Probably bang on the wall on egregious occasions. Maybe blast something worse back right up against the wall rarely.

 

Dankpods used 12 computers with different hardware to test the performance of 5 games in 1080p and 4K, comparing the average fps results of the games' built in benchmarks to determine which OS ran the game better across the same hardware: Windows or Bazzite.

Some notes on methodolgy under this spoiler

Each game uses the same in game graphics settings in Windows and in Linux. The Linux distro used was Bazzite, using the version specific for the graphics card hardware fpr each individual machine. To be clear, this means that he installed the Bazzite version for (legacy) nVidia as appropriate.

Each bazzite install was fresh, no copying installs or swapping around a drive with it pre-installed. After install, it was updated using system update and rebooted, repeated until no updates remained.

Screenshots of some of Dankpods's comments to this effect:

There are many comments under the youtube video pointing out that in many of the Linux runs, it was not actually using the correct driver, comments about the experience using other distros, and comments about various potential fixes and workarounds.

This misses the point. Dankpods intentionally tested this way, and used Bazzite, to try and show what this would be like for the average gamer schmuck without a ton of technical skill interested in switching to Linux. Out of box experience matters in this situation, even though it's not quite fair to compare that between free opens source distros and an OS created by a megacorp. To the average end user, it won't matter. They just want it to work.

Prepare to be upset. With this particular testing methodology, Linux doesn't really win overall.

I'm interested to hear the community's thoughts on this.

 

An absolute classic youtubepoop. Can't believe it's 17 years old.

Just about any line from this activates me like a sleeper agent. This is going to be stuck in my head for a month, at least.

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Check the new pinned post in .ml's meme community. Here's the post itself:

There's so much goofiness to unpack here.


And a bonus, this small comment thread. We're totally not a marxist instance guys but we totally are a marxist instance guys and it's such a good thing:


I can't mentally square how someone could claim their instance is general use, run a general meme community, and also openly state the community purpose is to further specific ideology. Wow.

Nothing against surfacing lesser heard voices, but that's not the place for a generic meme comm (go make a leftymemes equivalent or something), and we all know that isn't what's really going on here.

 

Someone gifted this to my wife and I after our successful IVF. Still haven't put our photos in it, and everytime I see it I giggle.

Miracle Love Baby sounds like some magical girl anime shit.

 

Honestly? That's rookie numbers.

 

Bah humbug.

 

PrefaceI'm not trying to call out the mod action of removing my post from the comm so much as I'm calling out the complete lack of mod action leading to the comm becoming shit and having the current top post by scaled, hot, and active being a post that explicitly targets another lemmy user.

That out of the way... !mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world has clearly been slipping from the purpose of the comm for a while now. Most of the posts are actually infuriating and/or political. I understand that what qualifies as either of those can be different for different people, but I feel most of this shit clearly isn't mundane or simple enough to fall under the label of just mildly infuriating.

Here's some examples from the first page right now, sorted by scaled.

While I could have sworn the sidebar had a no politics rule, it doesn't at the time of me writing this up, so politics are arguably acceptable, although I personally feel these all clearly don't match the theme of the community, violating Rule 7.

Sidebar, and expanded rule 7

A few other posts have been made calling this out.

Mod harder and [META] What actually constitutes "mildly infuriating" content?

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Beyond all that mess, we have what was the final straw for me.

Rule 1 (and less so 5), and the current top post by scaled, hot, and active.

I cannot accept that a post to mildly infuriating that targets a specific user while not even removing their username is respectful, and I personally consider it harassment (while it may not violate rule 5 as there is no call to action). Removing the username is usually the bare minimum even in the fucking reddit brigading subs, for plausible deniability.

And regardless of whatever arguments can be had about interpretations of the community's specific rules, it's a dick move. Just block the guy. It reminds me of the god awful reddit dogpiling and brigading. I don't want any of that to come to lemmy.

So I reported it, then saw the recent posts asking mods for action that got no response. I then looked at the mods.

  • LillianVS@lemmy.world (Aer) has not been active in two years.
  • STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world (Striker) has not been active in one year.
  • Tenthrow@lemmy.world had not appeared to be active for six days at the time I reported the post, but upon checking the community mod log was likely active two days before (assuming that the other two wouldn't be just lurking and modding for over a year).

So I did something dumb as hell. Roughly an hour after I reported it, I made my own post (now removed from the comm). I find people who make call out posts about others, and the absentee mods allowing it, mildly infuriating. Yeah, childish as shit. What's done is done.

Modlog:

Removed for "doesn't fit community", but what do you folks think? Does it really not fit when the top post is what it is? Personally I think both should be gone, lest that comm descend further into shit.

Either way, now that I have this yell into the void out of me, I'm blocking the comm. Maybe I should have made my post in actually infuriating? (kidding)

 

That is a threat.

From some back to school flyer.

 

We understand that this is a jarring and sudden change, but we're proud of our audio team's ability to create suitable replacements with such short notice. We hope that in time, these new sounds will grow to hold a place in your heart just like the old ones.

(Original post: https://lemmy.world/post/38428736)

 

I have so many great memories from childhood vacations to Mystery Flesh Pit National Park. I cant believe the disaster happened all the way back in 2007.

At least someone has been collecting and documenting everything they can find from the old place: https://www.mysteryfleshpitnationalpark.com/

I still can't make it all the way through the disaster report.

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