BCsven
@BCsven@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 21 hours ago:
I have a brand-new lenovo workstation with an nVidia RTX card. Works great. Vulcan calculates the shader cache on first run of a game that takes a minute to run through, but after that the game runs great. I’m on tumbleweed, the only issue I had past week was kernel moved ahead but the nvidia driver wasn’t ready right away. Just meant booting the old kernel in the boot menu till that all syncs up
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 21 hours ago:
Windows 10 did that to us. My work workstation and my wife’s laptop suffered with W10, so I searched alternate OS and found Linux. Luckily our CAD software had a Linux version and I got productivity back.
My wife’s 2010 laptop on w10 was not usable. Its super fast with Linux. Faster than my work issued brand-new Lenovo laptop with W11. The only performance problem would be rendering video or other hardcore tasks.
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 1 day ago:
As somebody that has worked from home everyday since 2009, nothing beats in person collaboration. Not saying you need to be in the office everyday, but to truly collaborate and get input and open discussions an actual meet session is better.
You can see who is not onboard by body language, you can see who isn’t paying attention and will miss key details, you get free conversation where a random comment provides a solution to something that wasn’t on the agenda. And I say it as somebody that is 150% more productive at home.
Even in our own company employees often work siloed on collaborative projects, in person forces a discussion.
- Comment on fucking French 2 days ago:
Ha. Looks like besides the 25 round mag, a 30 round is available. As is single shot mode.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 3 days ago:
Anecdotally, I have seen many Americans aren’t exposed to a lot. Like pointing out countries outside of North America is tricky for a lot of them. There is systematic degradation of their education system, but also this culture of “we are the best, we don’t need nothing”
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 3 days ago:
For my son, that has downsydrome, analogs clocks made sense for him because he could see the time passing or time remaining to the hour, but digital requires abstract number concepts he struggled with. 15 or 45 didn’t really mean anything to him sizewise, they are both 2 digit numbers. So he would struggle to grasp the time passing or time left… And making things worse we count 1-99 before the next unit but clocks are 1-59. How much time before 6 when it’s 5:47? Becomes a math equation, but a glance on the clock is readily apparent.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 3 days ago:
I love flip clocks
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 3 days ago:
They are actually a helpful way to show passage of time visually, without abstract math knowledge. For example my son has downsydrome, he could read time from analog and understand passage of time and time left on it, but numbers counting up to 60 was abstract… Like its 47 minutes past 5 how close to the hour is it getting? No clue unless he wrote it out as a math question and did the subtraction. But for him those were meaningless numbers anyway. 15 was no different than 45 for him. But visual cues of quarter past and quarter to made sense for him
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 3 days ago:
My son has down syndrome, he did better with analog because you can see the motion and time left in an hour, whereas digital was abstract and he didn’t really grasp 47 was getting close to 60 etc.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 3 days ago:
Every school i have been in has them, even last week. Many lesson plans include analog clock stuff because its another way to deal with fractions, and help kids learn analog in case they are in an old building or subway/airport that has analog clocks. It’s not quite obsolete yet.
- Comment on AWS outage reminds us why $2,449 Internet-dependent beds are a bad idea 4 days ago:
Kasa TPlink sockets and switches can be set to only run local on Homeassistant., with some github hacking help. Don’t need their cloud app at all
- Comment on But why 5 days ago:
Yeah it’s weird. Like you have the lesson plans, just give the kids that are ahead the next section.
Luckily we had a cool music teacher, she saw that I lacked music capabilities so just let me bring a book to read in class. After a while there was two of us reading at a desk while rest of the class played three blind mice for the 100th time LOL.
- Comment on I ain't risking shit 6 days ago:
If Brett Johnson is right, they totally are using sketchy tools from online. Unless they gained access via rogue Apple repair license.
I would assume NSA types have better tools with help from Apple, but the device is quite well locked down to the piblic. I say that as a guy that installed Linux on my Wii, and hacked my home smart plugs and lights so I don’t have to use the manufacturers shitty telemetry apps.
Brett Johnson 39 felonies for cybercrime darknetdiaries.com/episode/128/
- Comment on I ain't risking shit 6 days ago:
I secretly wish they had a trip wire, so you hold the door, they go running out and a wire pops up from the sill and they splat on the pavement. Just for some good lols
- Comment on I ain't risking shit 6 days ago:
As somebody that picked up an old iPad from a thrift store where owner had not removed their account, factory refreshing it is a hard if not an impossible task.
Even the sketchy tools weren’t great, you could boot it to a state of new user use, but a power off and back on you are locked out again.
And they don’t give you enough of the previous users email to be able to track them down and say “Hey, either I found your stolen iPad, do you want it back, or can you remove your device from your apple ID”
- Comment on But why 6 days ago:
Wow. Thankfully my teacher had better sense (or maybe not); when he asked why I wasn’t doing silent reading of our course textbook, I told him I read the whole text the night before or on the weekend. He was pissed at first…and was yelling about it. Not sure why. But next day he must of realized he overreacted and brought in the Battlefield Earth tome for me. It was the thickest book I’d ever seen, and kept me busy. Something like 900 pages maybe. Lol.
- Comment on Why do so many boomers and even some gen x believe so peristently that if you dressup and show up in person anywhere you will get whatever you went there for? 1 week ago:
It does work sometimes because people can ignore an email or phone call, but its harder to ignore a person standing in front of you.
As an example we were contacting a business abut something we offered that we knew they needed.
Emails and phonecalls always got the reply of: I have left a note for the owner and when he has time he will contact you.
After months of that, and us happening to be in their area, we just dropped in unnounanced and asked for the owner.
He engaged with us , asked lots of questions, asked for samples and info. As we were doing that the secretary realized who we were and said something like " oh I’ve been meaning to have you read their emails and setup a meeting" lol
Too late lady.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Not here, we have had collusion and price fixing amongst competitors lawsuit already. One big chain owns the competition, and also owns land rights with no other stores allowed to open in a certain radius.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yeah, if a company can deliver it for cheaper than your travel time and gas money, then yes delivery makes sense. Somebody gets to keep a job and you have better quality of life to spend it doing what you like.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Our stores have done both full self check out, plus higher prices, so it is lose-lose here
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It won’t be, the store will just make more profit. Our dollar stores have gone full self checkout and prices have gone up
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You are doing the useless job for free though. At our store items don’t scan so you have to wait while one person tries to help 10 people so it ends up taking longer that going through a checkout.
- Comment on Protect yourselves! 1 week ago:
Top image looks like they had Kangaroo in mind
- Comment on Protect yourselves! 1 week ago:
Yeah, and TRex always looked like a bird body with wing feathers missing missing. They say those scrawny things are arms but they look more like how bat wings are with claws sticking out.
- Comment on Not promoting hate speech but what happened to all the slights/slurs/vulgarity from like the 20s and 40s. There were so many. Now it seems well I can only think of three? 1 week ago:
A coworker got jipped/gyped by a gyp, and now he hates them with a passion. I told him it’s his own fault. He wanted cheaper exchange rate than bank or currency exchange offered, so agreed to buy currency at a discount in an alley. They put a good bill on top and bottom and rest was paper cut to size. LOL
- Comment on Protect yourselves! 1 week ago:
Well the did, and they can flip a switch on chicken DNA and the chickens get tooth nubs again
- Comment on 1 week ago:
In a socialist utopia would you need a shop keeper, or would the government run delivery service just bring stuff to your house weekly? I’m thinking back to my youth when the milkman (or woman) would drive their electric truck to each house and drop off milk, cream and orange juice every morning.
Then the sparrows or tits would come and Peck holes in the top of the cream and gobble the good stuff off the top.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
That’s the same as any work cell job. Stamping press: load heavy part, hit your two buttons, take part out and stack it, repeat 8 hours.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Its a trap though. If they had employees at all the lanes there wouldn’t be a lineup either. Our store has about 16 lanes and maybe 10 self checkout, the lanes are all closed except 2, so you ate forced to wait or self checkout. They are training you yo do your own labour for free.
- Comment on Sunlight special 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I get it. I like well cooked stuff myself, but lots of people like it how it is in the photo… At least from what I saw growing up will full English