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- Comment on Former Channel 4 News anchor Jon Snow diagnosed with Alzheimer’s 1 week ago:
Have they made a live action TV series of Horizon Zero Dawn?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
If you are rich enough, you don’t buy a house, you buy a plot of land, you then contract an architect to help you plan the house to your liking, after that you get a contractor who helps you build the house.
Only poor people buy houses second hand!
…unless they are REALLY fancy, then only rich people buy the houses.
- Comment on Is this machine good enough to install QEMU considering that it runs on windows 10 ? 2 weeks ago:
Alright, just a heads up with the specs you posted, you may be rather disappointed with the performance of the VM.
Do you have any budget for computer hardware?
- Comment on Is this machine good enough to install QEMU considering that it runs on windows 10 ? 2 weeks ago:
That is what you will run on it, yes, what are you looking to do with it?
- Comment on Is this machine good enough to install QEMU considering that it runs on windows 10 ? 2 weeks ago:
Back in the early 2000s I acquired a copy of VMWare Workstation 5, I ran VMs on an HP dv6000 with a Turion CPU and a gig of RAM.
With XP it was fine, I even ran a Windows 2003 server VM with a domain controller on it.
Those days are two decades gone, you will need a minimum of 16GB on a normal computer, and I’d recommend 32GB to give yourself headroom for VMs these days.
It sucks, absolutely, but it is the current reality.
What do you want to do with the VM?
- Comment on What does non-gui mean ? 2 weeks ago:
GUI - Graphical User Interface
“Non-gui” mean that the software does not have a GUI, this means that the softare uses text mode instead.
- Comment on Anon is a paramedic 2 weeks ago:
Grief if not a competition.
For fuck sake…
- Comment on Personal trainer wins £150k payout after driving from Germany for a meeting – only for her boss not to show 2 weeks ago:
What a shitty manager and company.
She deserves far better
- Comment on Monke 3 weeks ago:
Not really…
- Comment on Monke 3 weeks ago:
Why cut the response?
- Comment on Anon went to a birthday party 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t know GC memory cards were hotswappable…
- Comment on So, has age verification really become the new normal? 3 weeks ago:
It is funny, a few years ago my YT account got flagged, for 17+ years it worked fine, but suddenly I could not watch age restricted videos, they wanted my ID to verify my age.
However, most videos I watched was not restricted, so I ignored it, and realized something, I just had to wait a month or two and then my YT account was 18, and I suspected they would lift the block at that time.
And, indeed they did, I never sent in any ID or verified in any other way, and it has worked fine for years since then
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 3 weeks ago:
Because it is not really the idea specifically that you patent, you patent a method of making an idea work.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 3 weeks ago:
I disagree, patents makes sense for normal citizens, it gives them a legal framework to fight against a company just taking the invention from them without compensation.
As for the 99% vs 1% contribution, remember that it is usually the last 1% of a project that consumes the most time.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 3 weeks ago:
Ok, so granny got swatted, why?
What was the police told about the situation?
Is there an article about this which explains the cause of this.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 3 weeks ago:
I disagree, if I spend time and money to figure out how to solve a problem efficiently, why shouldn’t I get to profit from that idea?
The above only applies to hardware patents, software patents however should not extist.
Regardless, if a company are not actively using a patent, as in a product themselves or through licensing, for X years, then the patent should be void.
- Comment on What is a Lemmy user called? A lemming? 3 weeks ago:
Yes, that seems to be the accepted term
- Comment on Humanity collapsed 4 weeks ago:
The ones I have seen have the bubbles connected in pairs and have less air in them.
This gives each air bubble a larger surface area to spread the pressure over, and with a lower pressure over all it means that you have to squeeze both connected bubbles at the same time and harder before they pop
- Comment on How do I type an apostrophe and use print screen on a European Spanish keyboard? 4 weeks ago:
Interesting!
I have wondered about that!
- Comment on How do I type an apostrophe and use print screen on a European Spanish keyboard? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t have the energy to set one up, or to moderate one, but there should be a community called “GeneralInterestClub” or similar, where interesting but not really super useful info like this would be reposted.
- Comment on I would like to play a calm game 4 weeks ago:
Gone Home is a lovely game, the story is a bit sad, and parts has a creepy vibe, but it is interesting and well worth a playthrough, it is more similar to Firewatch than Portal.
- Comment on That's clever 4 weeks ago:
This made me wonder, what is the fuel and oxidizer in a coke/mentos reaction?
To me, it seems like coke is the fuel, and mentos is the oxidizer.
Or would you say that coke is a monopropellant and the mentos is just the igniter?
- Comment on How do I type an apostrophe and use print screen on a European Spanish keyboard? 4 weeks ago:
No need to mess about with modifying the layout, just use the AltGr key as I wrote about earlier.
- Comment on How do I type an apostrophe and use print screen on a European Spanish keyboard? 4 weeks ago:
Use the AltGr key!
AltGr is a key on ISO keyboard, it means Alternative Graphic, and when you hold it And press either [ or { you should get the correct glyph.
Note that you won’t see it at first, it waits for the next character and will modify it to include the change, or insert it in front of the next character if the character does not use modifiers.
You can press space after triggering the glyph to just print it separately.
- Comment on Just say no 4 weeks ago:
Yes, the ability to do that exists.
But you gain far, far more understanding if you write the code yourself.
- Comment on Just say no 4 weeks ago:
Fair point, I agree completely.
- Comment on Just say no 4 weeks ago:
I have figured out where my intense dislike of using AI comes from.
My need for control/understanding stuff I create.
I find the idea of giving up knowledge and skills in favor of statistics based chatbot to be repulsive and extremely dangerous.
I am no systems developer, I am an IT guy, I write some Powershell from time to time to automate stuff, I understand the code, if I didn’t, I would not run it on prod.
A huge amount of why normal office workers like using AI, in my opinion, is that they never learned how make even simple scripts which would have helped them in a lot of their tasks.
And now they use AI to make a computer kinda guess what they wanted, but with no way to verify the code before running it.
I honestly can’t understand why companies/governments/institutions believe that a chatbot is better than a skilled and knowledgable developer.
- Comment on Not even a big melon 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, while perspective is important, this just using people suffering from cancer as bat to stop a slight annoyance.
I have found that in the most cases it is far, far better to simply let the person cry their frustrations out, allowing the built up emotions a safe outlet, then when they have calmed down, start focusing on even the slightest positivity they can work with, after that you can start adding humor to the situation and in that you can add perspective.
- Comment on What do you think realistically would happen the moment we meet extraterrestrials? 5 weeks ago:
I can see three options.
- Division, this would divide a lot of groups, and cause a lot of internal rifts.
- Unity, a foreign entity could easily be a powerful unifying force.
- Biological disaster, either through incompetence or ignorance, we or the aliens don’t practice good biohazard containment, spreading infection throughout our world.
- Comment on Microsoft has a new idea on how to deter students from MacBook Neo - 9to5Mac 1 month ago:
You must have a pretty specific workflow that fails so completely using Microsoft Office.
The second point is that as has already been mentioned, you can keep using the computer after the software support ends, that doesn’t really work for most subscription software.