If we could roll back the internet 10-15 years, everything would be much better.
If we could roll back the internet 10-15 years, everything would be much better.
3d printing != paper printing. It’s largely hobbyist ran technology, and almost entirely open source. You’re not going to get tracking dots or currency replication prevention into open source software.
Lol, most of this crap is DIY, good luck with that
The world’s foremost experts on whinging as I understand it.
That and running games in a VM has been known to get you the banhammer for multiplayer.
I actually tried linux (Fedora) this past weekend; I had fewer issues installing and using it as a day to day computer, than I did with Windows. Tried out Gnome and KDE both, preferred gnome but UI scaling (for my shit vision) was simpler out-of-the-box on KDE (about 125-150% was comfortable for me.) I found KDE a bit overwhelmingly customizable to start out with, and maybe a bit bloated.
The caveat to this was Gaming, in my case I did not have a good time with gaming (probably because I am trying to run at 4k and play a game dependant on Ubisoft DRM, as well as an older MMO that doesnt handle high DPI screens and ui scaling). Very frame-y at 4K, a decent amount of tinkering is/was required. YMMV, check ProtonDB as it is heavily dependent on what games you play, and heavily dependent on Steam. If you want to multi-box (without software, just alt-tab through windows) an MMO, I found functionally no information on how to open multiple instances of the same game to do so (which is why I mentioned the dependency on steam, which only seems to let you have one game launched at any given time)
Moving back to windows for gaming felt like a major downgrade as far as general computer work goes. Inside of an hour I had a fully functional, up to date, linux machine. Windows 11 took 1-2 hours to install and update itself, then another hour to install drivers, then longer to de-bloat and start disabling all the stupid shit from Microsoft. I’m sure I’ll be doing that continuously for the next few weeks.
Same with “Client” instead of “User”
Electric rocks were a mistake, return to goat herding.
Yeah, aniwave hurt… really easy UI, looked nice.
My lease explicitly prohibits fishtanks (and waterbeds IIRC). Pretty limited to just cats and dogs.
Is it bad that my first thought for “ASCII porn” is a pelvic thrusting stick figure with a boykisser meme head?
Firefox
Bitwarden
Steam
Story of my past couple months. There are five different products named “g4 dock”, four of which are newer than the G5 dock.
The OLD g4 dock, and then 120W/280W Thunderbolt variants that are either TAA approved or not. One of these four has a 2.5GB Intel NIC. Good luck figuring out which one because they merged the specsheet for all four of them.
M.2 is a form factor, there are different "key"ings for NVME vs SATA M.2
Man, this is how i find out? RIP Aniwave
Throw them at junior sysadmins like shuriken.
“Performance Improvement Plan” aka an excuse to fire someone but have data to try to deny unemployment as they “weren’t performing” in accordance with the “plan”.
As an admin… end users are generally fucking stupid with regards to technology. I don’t trust the average individual to operate a spoon.
The HP G5 thunderbolt docks are (currently, at least) pretty stable IMO, provided the firmware is up to date on it.
NOT the hp g4 thunderbolt dock, that one the team I’m on is at a level 3 support ticket with HP for monitor issues that render my laptop basically unusable.