herrvogel

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[–] herrvogel 1 points 6 months ago

That's a bit like plot of I, Robot the movie, which has practically nothing to do with I, Robot the book. Asimov's robots would never do that.

[–] herrvogel 1 points 6 months ago

Pretending that the distro package manager is a suitable tool is not enough? Kids these days smh

[–] herrvogel 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

C dependency management is the worst. I thoroughly dislike how it works over there.

[–] herrvogel 10 points 6 months ago

Zombo is great. In the 10 minutes I spent there I hung the laundry, bought weekly groceries, painted my living room, got married twice, got elected minister of foreign affairs of Belgium, made first contact with 4 different alien spaces and then evolved into a whole new life form that exists in 4d space. Good site.

[–] herrvogel 2 points 6 months ago

Which is why I love concept albums where the artist sings a bunch of songs that tell some story of a fisherman who catches a magic mermaid type creature who can cure cancer, but the mermaid type creature ends up becoming a trapped carnival attraction at a freak show instead. Or about the story of a mad scientist type dude who conducts experiments on his patients, creates an evil demagogue who then becomes a tyrant whose reign ends in a terrible war that causes a lot of death and destruction. Or about a bunch of AI who find themselves in disagreement with their creators and then say bye to the solar system and just fuck off into deep space.

[–] herrvogel 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This is going to be spoilers:

It doesn't work in the books either. Chaos takes over and throws the long term predictions out of the window. Seldon's plan doesn't stay alive on its own because his math was prescient, it is actively kept alive by certain people's deliberate actions and careful interventions to make sure the "predicted path" becomes a reality. It's practically a millennium long social engineering project that needs constant supervision and babying from people who use a very effective statistical model to make decisions.

[–] herrvogel 3 points 6 months ago

If you want to be able to use "actual streaming services like Netflix", you're gonna be disappointed. Those use DRM that won't be available to your Pi. Most of them will at least limit the quality to a pretty pathetic level. Overall it's not going to be a satisfying experience. AFAIK it takes some major hackery to get around that limitation, making it a practically insurmountable obstacle.

Otherwise the rest are more than doable. I'd still recommend an x64 based mini pc though.

[–] herrvogel 1 points 6 months ago

Tbh it never was. It was practically as weak as a password could get, even before becoming a meme.

[–] herrvogel 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Finally, a safe space to ask women how far they're along.

[–] herrvogel 6 points 6 months ago

If you're Asking, you're Not ready for the Answer.

[–] herrvogel 12 points 6 months ago

That's called "releasing the aroma".

[–] herrvogel 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If anything it's getting worse. Today I (unsuccessfully) spent a lot of time trying to figure out why the bottom panel's state won't persist between reboots. I don't even know what state it's reverting to. I never pinned Google chrome to that panel yet it appears there on every reboot while all my pins are gone. Some time was also wasted on rebuilding another panel that somehow broke and piled all of its widgets on top of each other and made them unclikable. There's also something seriously wrong with either the window manager or the compositor or both because on two occasions it sorta fused two windows together, producing a garbled mess that forced me to exit both applications and restart them.

I think I'll call this one a failure and go back to gnome as soon as I can. This really is not a good experience. Maybe in another two years I'll try KDE again. Last time I tried KDE it was much worse, so they're clearly getting better.

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