Rentlar

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The feel of Lemmy communities is a little different than Reddit, even if the software features are mostly analogous and there are many Redditisms used.

Your average commentor/poster will stand out more in a small community, there's less of being able to post and then slink away.

People have gotten used to a lot more comforting features of modern Reddit, Lemmy in both the users and in the software has more of a "Reddit 10-15 years ago" feel to it.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

You probably know most of it so just some advice: Don't format the Partition table (MBR to GPT etc.) on the disk whose data you wish to keep.

Shrinking a partition or moving it carries a small risk of data loss and will take significantly longer than creating a new partition (since data needs to be cut and pasted from one area of the disk to another). If your old laptop has an empty slot for another SSD or NVME drive you can plug that in, and still dualboot and having the new drive Linux only.

Also to deal with the occasional Windows cockups, just carry a boot-repair USB, the auto repair has fixed the Windows issue for me 90% of the time (the other times are usually boot order priority or other BIOS setting)

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It would be just the same with Jill Stein or Chase Oliver as leader, Wall Street will benefit. There is obviously outsized influence of rich people in government, but big money makes money with money, doesn't matter what the politics are.

It's more important that A. The US doesn't put a leader who has real plans to become dictator and the Project2025 yes-men lined up behind it, and B. The US chooses a leader who better represents the national interests of common people, which will not happen if too many would-be Harris voters choose 3rd party or abstains.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That Kingston DataTraveller I have as well and it's my ol' reliable from at least 9 years ago. For some reason PCs put up a fuss with recognizing other people's USBs at boot, I've never once had an issue with the Kingston.

It is true that it is slower but for a live distro, install and troubleshoot disk it does the job perfectly fine.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Yuru-kyara but for the pope?

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Oh sure, next let's have an AI open my Steam and play the games I want for me.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Neat, I did already transfer my budgeting to GNUCash a few months ago, but this looks shiny too.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 53 points 1 month ago

What's crazy is that it's more than that.

"I'm a gamer so I know what I'm talking about, that gamers know nothing about this topic."

The logic is very backwards.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 90 points 1 month ago (3 children)

This is why Java edition and mods reign supreme.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hahaha I saw the parent commentor of that chain notorious for getting into back and forth arguments, sometimes reasonable sometimes not, and I thought to myself, this is going to be fun. Then I recognized the username of that other .ml user as a known troll and I was like, yep now this is going to go way off the rails.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The bad firms are going to lay off most or all of their juniors, hire AI leash-holders or something and do fine to code everything their hearts dream of, but at some point (5-10 years my estimate) enough of the seniors have left and shit hits the fan in a way where AI models can't save the company from its own creations.

The thing that ChatGPT doesn't have (at least right now) is the ability to tell management to piss off. I assure everyone that this is what the recipe for disaster for many firms will be, if any.

The smarter firms will have a keep a sizable contingent of juniors, who will work with help from LLMs, but have seniors teach them to have a bullshit detector in their industry.

Or, we start up all the coal power plants to keep the ever-hungry AI chatbots alive so humanity is fucked in the end anyway.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

Pearson Airport is still like that at the dropoffs and arrivals areas... luckily there is a cell phone waiting lot now where you can hang out until you know your buddy is at the pickup area.

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