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- Comment on AWS outage reminds us why $2,449 Internet-dependent beds are a bad idea 2 days ago:
- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick 5 days ago:
Now, if Tesla were to start pushing updates to older cars that made them artificially degraded or less responsive than the newer cars (as Apple is accused of doing), then that would be a worthy outrage story.
- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick 5 days ago:
There seems to be a bit of a misunderstanding by the author here, or a conflation of “no more software updates” with “continuing to get updates that your processor isn’t powerful enough for”. You may miss out on some new features, but barring equipment failure, the original software will continue to do what it did when you bought the car.
“But once software-dependent cars stop receiving updates, they will start to get worse. Maybe the navigation system starts to crash, or the Netflix app in your Tesla becomes so buggy”
No, when you stop getting updates, the car will continue to perform in the same way, again barring equipment failure. The software itself will not degrade and suddenly start to become buggy.
The reason your iPhone seems to do that is because it continues to get software updates that are made for a newer, more powerful phone. Your old iPhone 6 doesn’t play the latest graphics-intensive and high resolution games, but it performs the way it always did. And perhaps Apple pushes iOS updates that don’t perform as well on your old phone, making it seem slow. If you were to load the original iOS and the original apps of the time period, it would perform as well as it did the day you got it.
The bigger concern for me is being able to control what software is applied to my car (right to repair) so that I can keep bloated software updates out if I prefer the way it was working previously. Currently that’s not possible with Tesla.
- Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account 2 weeks ago:
Here’s a nice list.
areweanticheatyet.com/?search=&sortOrder=desc&sor…
Online multiplayer games are the most likely to have anti cheat. EA (Battlefield) is the most visible unsupported one. They view running under any virtualization or compatibility layer as an opportunity for cheating, so they intentionally deny it. EasyAntiCheat supports running in Linux, but not all game developers enable it. The success of the Steam Deck is starting apply pressure to change this, though.
- Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account 2 weeks ago:
True, nvidia does work great when it’s configured properly. Those distros that have the nvidia specific install option have done the work to do the extra config and keep it up to date. My preferred distro is not one of those. If I was buying new gpu hardware, I would go with one that has a fully open source driver.
- Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account 3 weeks ago:
Hello, friend. There will be gatekeepers in any community, but there are many Linux users willing to share their knowledge and experience with others.
I think the best way to adopt Linux is to jump in with both feet. Your productivity will take a hit for a while, but will grow as you learn how to do your daily tasks in Linux. Dual-booting is a complicated trap, and running a virtual machine is cumbersome. Buying or assembling a new machine dedicated to Linux will make switching easier. Normal internet browsing and web-based applications will generally work without problems, but you should check for any Windows-only applications that you can’t live without. Gaming on Linux is better than it ever has been, but there are some games that just won’t run on Linux. Avoid Nvidia graphics due to driver complexities.
Here are a couple of articles that might help: zdnet.com/…/thinking-about-switching-to-linux-thi… drewdevault.com/…/How-new-Linux-users-succeed.htm…
While I wouldn’t recommend Arch for a new user, their wiki has a lot of deep technical info adaptable to most distros. wiki.archlinux.org
- Comment on Power Loss but Still Online with Fiber Connection 1 month ago:
Your fiber ONT box (where the fiber signal gets converted to copper ethernet) probably has a backup battery in it. This is especially useful if you have VOIP landline phone service through your fiber provider so you can call for help if necessary when the power is out. You or your provider will need to replace this battery every few years, just like with a UPS.
- Comment on What are your experiences using Linux for gaming? 2 months ago:
Configuring and maintaining nvidia drivers on Linux continues to be a pain. I recommend using an amd-based gpu because their drivers are open source and more well integrated.
- Comment on It's too hot to think of why or how 3 months ago:
ATHF!
- Comment on xAI’s Grok suddenly can’t stop bringing up “white genocide” in South Africa 5 months ago:
Not defending Elon, but he did already become a naturalized US citizen in 2002.
- Comment on Shower thought: Valve could do the ultimate boss-move this year 5 months ago:
In the year 9595 I’m kinda wonderin’ if man is gonna be alive
- Comment on You stand at the edge of a ruined town square. (Textpocalypse.art) 10 months ago:
check pub
- Comment on You stand at the edge of a ruined town square. (Textpocalypse.art) 10 months ago:
approach fire
- Comment on US Email Providers - Other then Google, MS, Apple, ... 1 year ago:
I think you should reconsider Proton. It seems to tick all of your boxes except US-based. However, I know they have US-based VPN servers, so I expect they have US-based email servers as well. It’s worth asking their support team about.