When knee surgery is tomorrow.

Posting articles based on the contents of their headlines rather than the quality of their content or the reliability of the source seems irresponsible.

Why are you posting from Newsweek if you agree that it’s a rag? Your post directly before this one was Reuters. Your actions don’t align with what you’re saying here.

Better (Reuters) source here

Newsweek has been a rag for over a decade now.

Fuck off

PV Magazine is more or less an outlet for press releases by companies trying to innovate (often in air quotes) with photovoltaics. I’m honestly not even sure why it’s allowed here; it’s completely uncritical. May as well cite a press release on the manufacturer’s website at that point instead of laundering it through a magazine.

Okay, anyone who’s saying this either tinkers way the hell too much without the know-how to back it up, has never used Linux for more than a week, or should probably be using this as their daily driver.

• Software is, in the vast majority of cases, obtainable through a GUI package manager, versus going out onto the Internet and finding whatever you trust to give you a valid version of the software. Software is updated all at once and without even being forced to reboot (save for some niche cases). With two (2) clicks and one (1) password, every single piece of software on the OS is up-to-date. It’s like a half-step up from an app store in difficulty.
• I have never once in two(?) years using Linux had to fuck around with software drivers. Whereas trying to connect game controllers to Windows was a fucking nightmare, and it feels like I would have to go mucking around with audio drivers every time Windows decided my headset didn’t want to work anymore.
• Windows 10 has, at least once, completely shit the bed to a point where I spent most of my day trying to get my desktop working again. Zero catastrophic issues with Linux.
• Windows 10 placed itself into a state where it couldn’t update at all because Microsoft fucked up and pushed an update that enlarges the recovery partition without regard to the users whose recovery partition is bordered on the right and can’t be enlarged.
• Linux’s install is extremely fast and trivial, whereas Windows’ is full of dark patterns, makes you sign up for a worthless account just to use your desktop (lol), and can be completely fucked if you replace too much hardware in your own PC.
• The shell experience if you actually do need to get some kind of even light power user work done is way less intuitive than Linux.
• Customizing Windows is the biggest pain in the ass imaginable. I had to go into the registry on Windows 11 just to give me the basic tools present on Windows 10’s context menu. Go try to uninstall Internet Explorer. Go ahead, I dare you.
• Whereas Linux has extensive, crystal clear, and highly specific guides for basically any problem you’ll ever fall into (see: the Arch Wiki), Windows has support forums where you pray someone has the same issue as you, and if you find it, 90% of the time it’s a canned response with fuck-all to do with the issue, terminating the thread. So then you go searching your issue appended with the term “reddit”.

I use Manjaro KDE with Wayland on an Nvidia GPU, and it works right out the box. I then have maybe half an hour’s worth of personal customizations which are not at all necessary to use. Something like Linux Mint is what I would recommend to my grandparents any day of the week over Windows.

Yes, they called themselves the “most open operating system”. Which in fairness doesn’t imply all the “free” FSF freedoms, but at least being unable to work around restrictions or reverse-engineer to me definitely contravenes “open”.

That said, this is just beating a dead horse; literally anyone with a brain who knows what Linux is knows that Windows is less open.

It’s less about which ISPs have IPv6 and moreso how much work one has to do to get it working on their home network. Thankfully I think we’re in an era now where any new router you buy will support IPv6 and most major ISPs support it. However, in order to get IPv6 working on my home network, I need to 1) know that IPv6 is a thing (massive filter), 2) know that I don’t have it, 3) be motivated to have it, 4) call my ISP and ask them for a prefix, and 5) go into the router settings and enable it.

For cellular Internet, this is (short of using settings or Termux to see my IP) completely, 100% transparent to the end user, as it should be. It should be the default, not a process 99.9% of people wouldn’t even know exists, let alone initiate.

It’s unreal how bad the state of home Internet IPv6 is in the US. Meanwhile, Malaysia, Vietnam,, and China are all pushing formally for full, 100% IPv6 adoption by decade’s end.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-brewery_syndrome

I was going to say: “I’m honestly surprised you’re able to find any content at all. I want PeerTube to succeed, but I can find nothing worth watching on it.” But logging back into PeerTube, I do see a semi-prominent YouTuber I occasionally watch on there called Shifter… And there’s also The Linux Experiment. (Edit: And RMTransit.) And Flipboard discussing fediverse stuff. But it’s still not nearly enough. The only other channel I see consistently in Trending is someone called Lety Does Stuff, which from what I can gather is a generic reaction channel serving as a front for affiliate links and an NSFW Patreon. (Not sure if I can block those from appearing, since they’re spammy as hell.) For high-production video essay stuff, I already have Nebula, so I don’t mind its absence here too much.

The indie OC on PeerTube could at least be interesting from a kind of early YouTube Wild West perspective, except that it’s just so sparse. For example, there’s a quaint channel I found called Cohan Magazine that does a bunch of camping and wildlife stuff. Not my thing, but I think it adds to the indie vibe. But a lot of the OC is let’s plays, and that to me feels basically like filler content.

It just has that issue where unlike posting on Lemmy, Mastodon, etc., creating content is much harder, so it just can’t get enough momentum. Granted I think PeerTube right now might be in a better place than even a couple months ago when I last checked, but it’s definitely a slow burn.

Found a real source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-79546-1

Shhh, don’t call it “haptic feedback” or they might make them flat, unmoving buttons that have a vibration motor behind them.

Only female rich people.

Any rich person born after 1993 can’t party. All they know is gym, invest in they mentors, not work, be knowledgeable, do business, and lie.

And other reasons why closed-source firmware can go fuck itself.

True. See WP:NOT and WP:CON for some idea of how this whole thing works.

Good. Fuck Chegg. Let cheating, plagiarizing dipshits have the dubious AI slop.

CosmicRaySort.