herrvogel

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[–] herrvogel 4 points 2 days ago

He's in Hydrogen Sonata. The mcguffin guy who everyone is trying to find and talk to because he's the only person who's old enough to remember some very important thing about the early days of the Culture.

[–] herrvogel 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

One of Iain M. Banks' Culture novels has an exceptionally old character who is so exceptionally old that he's had to turn most of his body into memory storage (sounds weird if you think in terms of computers) to keep remembering things. He stores his sexy memories in his balls.

[–] herrvogel 2 points 6 days ago

Podman has a built-in automatic update feature that monitors the source repo. Could be useful for you.

[–] herrvogel 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Javascript is a beautiful language where '3' - 1 = 2 but '3' + 1 = '31'.

[–] herrvogel 2 points 1 week ago

We do jira + bitbucket + confluence + teams.

[–] herrvogel 13 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

You joke but people do that. I've seen people repurpose their old android phones to host small services on their home networks. I won't comment on how reasonable it is because battery, but it's a thing.

[–] herrvogel 99 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

I got fired when the company decided to downsize.

"How is that dumb?" you ask? That happened less than two weeks after I was hired. The boss man's speech indicated that that was the result of a long deliberation by corporate. So if you knew there could be layoffs any moment, why the fuck were you hiring?

[–] herrvogel 4 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

I use Linux myself, but my work laptop they gave me is windows. I can honestly say that I believe in near future the average Linux experience is going to be smoother than windows. Because I cannot believe how insanely annoying windows 11 is. It's really not good. And modern Linux has more than good enough software and hardware compatibility.

But of course it's gonna take a long while before Linux overtakes windows because social inertia. And that's not gonna change easily because there is no humongous international corporation that spends billions every year to get their Linux based OS pre-installed on almost every new computer.

[–] herrvogel 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Compound words are very different than agglutinative conjugation though. In such languages, you don't just mash words together, you also modify them to encode all sorts of extra information into one word. You can form full, grammatically correct sentences that way. Can't do that with compound words because you can't compound them into a complete sentence.

A famous, powe example is the word "çekoslovakyalılaştırabildiklerimizdensiniz" from Turkish, which is like Finnish in that regard. It's a complete sentence that means "you are one of those who we have managed to make a czechoslovakian". The object, subject, verb, tense, and more are all in there. Obviously that's quite a bit more complex than word together-mashing.

[–] herrvogel 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

That small inert lump of metal can have jagged edges that can cause injury later on. It also definitely is loaded with dirty crap that will cause infections. Overall it's rarely "fine" to leave random, unsterilized foreign objects inside the body.

[–] herrvogel 28 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

There's the Elven Rope that's light as a feather and strong as steel. No reason there could not have been the Elven Condom that's thin and impermeable.

[–] herrvogel 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Distributing tasks dynamically between identical individual processors is already a difficult thing. Getting another processor of a wildly different architecture and purpose in there will probably not work well at all.

 

Esselamın hello,

Buradaki insanlar biraz teknoloji eğilimli insanlardır diye tahmin ettiğimden soruyorum; İstanbul'da, tercihen Anadolu yakasında, şöyle ofislerin toptan elden çıkardığı bilgisayarları alıp satan yerler nerede bulabilirim bilen var mıdır? Thin clientlar, switchler vs. o tarz şeyler.

 

Hello,

I've just recently unpacked my new Dell P3421W monitor. I was like 80% sure there would be no Linux support for the proprietary piece of software that manages the monitor's features, because that sorta stuff is hardly ever built for Linux for some fucked up reason, but I figured I could use my macbook (for which there actually is support) or the monitor's own nipple menu to do stuff. Turns out the macbook version does not work properly on Apple silicon, and the nipple menu doesn't have all the things.

I know it's a long shot, since google hasn't helped much, but would anyone here know if there's a way to go about it? Maybe there are existing tools?

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