The weird command was sudo apt install steam pretty much IIRC

He should’ve read the message, but it also shouldn’t have uninstalled his desktop environment, that should be a very damn safe command to run if we want Linux to be mainstream on the desktop. Sucks that a package dependency error like this managed to make it through QA.

And Lower Earth Orbit isn’t owned by Amazon

Sure, but my point was that Europe doesn’t prove the “cars got bigger and heavier because of safety regulations” statement wrong. Obviously cars in the US got even more bigger and heavier than needed for safety, but safety regulations in the EU have also made EU cars bigger and heavier.

And in the non-Windows world - this could all be implemented on Linux in such a way that you, the end user choose if you want it at all, which models you want (including both local and online ones), and what gets what access. Plus all kinds of customizability. I’m sure someone is already working on this too.

I wiped my Windows SSD after over half a year of not booting into it at all. I do not miss it, but I do greatly appreciate a larger /home partition spanning an entire 1 TB SSD (for reasons of buying at various times for projects that didn’t need a lot of storage, I have 3 1 TB SSDs lol). Now to figure out how to enlarge the / partition with btrfs.

It forces creativity, and sudden endings to things can be funny. I think it’s a better format than the long-ass “shorts” on YT or TikTok for short-form video content. Make it 6 seconds or make it 30 minutes.

Well the AI-based AI detector isn’t actively making creative people’s work disappear into a sea of gen-AI “art” at least.

There’s good and bad use cases for AI, I consider this a better use case than generating art. Now the question is whether or not it’s feasible to detect AI this way.

This sounds like the best advice here tbh.

At this point OP is probably conditioned to be tired when home, because they’re always tired when home. Gotta get those sweet activities in, THEN go home and sleep. Meal prepping might help so there’s no need to go home to cook dinner, but I’m not a well-adjusted enough adult for that, I’d just try to find a healthy meal outside, or do OMAD or something.

Food is free, but farming takes effort and resources (such as fertilizers and tools) and acquiring the resources also takes effort and resources and…

At the end of the day, we all just want to get more out of our time than what we’d get by doing everything ourselves. And the capitalists of course get the most out of their time, if they even actually spend their time doing anything productive. Many don’t

Is it feature complete? Sudo is still getting 10-30 commits a month. If those are all bug fixes, maybe it’s buggier than we thought. Otherwise it would seem that many of them are new features.

From the project’s website:

The sudo 1.8 branch is considered the legacy version. It receives no new features, only critical bug fixes. Users are highly encouraged to migrate to the sudo stable branch.

This implies that 1.9 may still get new features. And there may one day be a 1.10.

Here are the latest things fixed in the current patch version of 1.9 branch, 1.9.17p2

Fixed a bug introduced in sudo 1.9.16 that could result in sudo sending SIGHUP to all processes on the system in certain rare cases.

Fixed a bug introduced in sudo 1.9.12 that caused sudo to abort when … [some very specific cases]

Fixed a bug in sudo’s configure script introduced in sudo 1.9.17 that prevented mdoc-format man pages from being used on systems without the mandoc utility.

These are all recently introduced bugs that are results of either previous bug fixes or new features. The oldest mentioned version, 1.9.12 is from 2022, but 1.9.16 and .17 are newer.

This is not meant to be a criticism of the sudo project or Todd. He’s done an excellent job on the security front. But clearly sudo is not feature-frozen and new bugs are still being introduced. Sometimes they’re memory bugs and Rust helps with those (obviously it doesn’t completely eliminate them). Rust is also much nicer to learn than C, meaning it’s going to get easier and easier to find help in a Rust project as opposed to a C one.

Also Todd Miller, the author of sudo, has a submitted a pull request to sudo-rs at one point so I suspect he’s also excited about the project to some degree and wanted to help symbolically

Oh I agree. If encryption becomes illegal I may actually move to another freaking continent. I have nothing to hide, but I am still not willing to compromise on privacy and security.

It’s not - unfortunately, even professionals often use it wrong. the “K” refers to columns of pixels, in thousands.

2K was never used as a term for a consumer resolution, it only existed as DCI 2K really.

4K in the original form of DCI 4K is 4096x2160. But consumer screens are usually 16:9, so in consumer 4K we keep the 2160, but divide it by 9 and multiply by 16 to get 3840.

Will it? Modern small cars are huge compared to old small cars in Europe too. Because of crumple zones and safety equipment. You used to be able to get a VW Golf that was 3.7 meters long and weighed like 800 kilos. Same car now starts at nearly 4.3 meters and over 1.2 tons.

It’s supposed to be a console. You connect it to your TV and it more or less just works. Like a PS5 or Series X, except it has more games. The entire thing consumes about half the power of just my low-end graphics card from a few years ago (3060 ti). These CPUs also aren’t available as socketed versions, nor would it be a good idea because then a user might use a chip that generates too much heat compared to the design here.

This ISN’T meant to compete with a PC. If you already have a gaming PC, you don’t want a Steam Machine. If you have a current gen console, you probably don’t want a Steam Machine.

There’s a lot of speculation as to the price. If any of the guesses from various outlets end up being true, it could be less than $500 and potentially less than $400, while there have been hints at the next generation of Xbox costing $1000. But this is all speculation.

Basically, it’s a way to get into gaming with a console-like experience, a low price, and the ability to keep your game library when you evolve into a “real” PC gamer. Honestly, if my kid was old enough to get into gaming, I’d consider one. Genius move from Valve targeting specifically a market previously untapped by them - not us folks who already buy our games on Steam.

While we have problems here in Europe and they’re concerning, the US really has this shit on a whole 'nother level. The NSA more or less has ALL the data that enters or exits the country and probably most of what goes around public networks (so just about any ISP) within the country. Your Lemmy instance is hosted in France and from your comment I infer that you’re American (so likely situated in the US), so most likely the communication between you and the instance is all recorded and stored at 33 Thomas Street. They’re just storing everything so they can decrypt it if quantum computing breaks existing algorithms. Then there’s all the tooling the CIA and NSA have built to spy on everyone who has any even somewhat insecure smart device.

Denmark is trying to legislate all this into happening, the US just ignores legislation when something actually disagrees with their spying

Obligatory mention that 2k is roughly 1080p (2048x1080) and what you probably mean is QHD/WQHD but you can just use 1440p for clarity

Only with the correct iOS version though.

Back when people made a big deal about iPhone planned obsolescence, they were actually easier to repair than most competitors. Nowadays it’s about the same.

You could eliminate a bunch of systemic issues with a trillion dollars that would amount to essentially ending many of the effects of poverty for most people in poverty I would think.

Things like food insecurity, shelter, etc.

You’re right that just spending a trillion dollars as a one off grant to everyone in poverty wouldn’t do much, though. It’d need to be used strategically.

Nothing crisp about all the smoke in the air, nor clear about the months long overcast unfortunately.