jasondj @ jasondj @ttrpg.network Posts 0Comments 673Joined 2 yr. ago
This really doesn’t seem like much.
My utopia would be a home assistant with a chat bot who is, quite literally, an “imaginary friend”. Somebody to just…talk to. No judgement, no drama. Remembered what you talked about before. Knows your emails and IMs and texts, and essentially every digital memory. Maybe not quite an actual therapist, but more like a trusted confidant.
Of course this would have to be self-hosted or Google would have to absolutely guarantee that all of its data is sandboxed and only used to train your friend.
Usually I pipe my cats to more, but to each their own.
Really need a liberal court to do anything about it.
I’d never heard of it before, but apparently that’s the type of “working-man’s protections” that a republican house and senate could muster a mere 70 years ago…enough favor for shit like this to override the (D) presidents veto.
Can all the unions just take turns striking for…whatever reason, really, as long as it gets the message to the working class that we’re all PO’d, not just the ones lucky enough to be unionized.
Maybe the big unions…NEA, SEIU, Teamsters, IBEW, USW, UFCW, etc….all band together and form a “Union UN” to orchestrate it. And set up GoFundMes to supplement their strike fund. I’d bet these workers would end up making more money on strike.
As a casual gamer, I like my series S, but mostly because of Gamepass. I don’t tend to replay games after I beat them, so game ownership doesn’t mean much to me.
That has the drawback, though, of needing a lot of storage if I’m working on a few modern high-end games, and the kids have a bunch of games that they want to play, too. The built in storage on the Series S is pathetic. The supplemental storage is confusing as hell and the proprietary drive that you can launch X|S games from is ridiculously expensive. I do really hate having to plan which games I’m going to play (and when) around download and copy times, and balance that against the games that I have currently and want to play.
Now, if the Xbox could easily be paired with a keyboard/mouse/4k display to be a fully-functional desktop computer while still retaining its capability as a current-gen gaming system? Shut up and take my money. What an incredible value add, and MS gets all the sweet sweet telemetry of a family computer.
It was a birthday card, but inside he said he “Changed the launch codes to ‘1437’” because he was “thinking of his sweet Vladdy Daddy Putin-Pie.”
(That was a joke, but coincidentally today, October 7th, is Putin’s birthday. He’s 71.)
My updated edit has an even better scenario that I just conjured up. Essentially bringing Windows 365 (cloud desktop) to home thin clients, netbooks, or even STBs like the series S.
The Series S (and its descendants) would be a hell of a versatile system as a cloud desktop with official licensing and support from MS.
I wouldn’t say it’s more toxic, but it certainly is a different atmosphere.
Coming from my curated subs on reddit to mostly browsing All-top on Lemmy, it certainly feels like Lemmys audience is surprisingly more authoritarian-conservative than reddit, despite the very active Linux, FOSS, and privacy communities.
You’ve got it backwards. People take care of themselves because they have self esteem. Depression takes that away.
Please don’t treat depression like it’s a choice. Nobody chooses to be depressed.
Just switched a couple of my systems from Pop and Fedora (gnome) to Debian 12 w/ KDE Plasma.
All in l I like it. I don’t like where Canonical or RedHat are moving, for the FOSS consumer. Canonical is making huge strides as an enterprise distro but for home use I’ve really moved away from it since Unity.
Originally I went Fedora because my office was a RHEL shop but we’re moving towards Ubuntu.
Maybe this isn’t for personal editions.
I’d suspect Microsoft would prefer to move personal editions to being mostly perpetual and OEM licenses, while a subscription service for business/enterprise makes more sense. Windows licensing for business is a nightmare and a per-install subscription model could be much simpler to manage while still offering good breaks under Enterprise Agreements and putting license and support under one annual sku.
ETA: Also, worth remembering that “Windows 365” is a thing and it’s very useful for DaaS. Term-based licensing makes tons of sense for DaaS/Cloud Desktop/VDI environments.
And actually, that could make a lot of sense in a future home/personal market with purpose built thin clients. Or perhaps even a set top box. Maybe, even, the Series S. A small monthly/annual fee to to make your Series S into a full-fledged desktop PC, sounds like a hell of a deal to me.
Well, no, I think you’re missing the point.
There’s really no reason for a lawyer to be carrying a huge gaming laptop as their daily driver. There’s no advantage to it over an ultrabook, MBP, or any high-end productivity laptop (that’s probably in a lower price bracket to boot).
Now, if they do game on it, and also use it for work, that speaks to very poor IT security practice. Sensitive/valuable client data, especially for such a high-profile case, shouldn’t be on the same system that is built for gaming. The main reason being that games aren’t designed to be run on secure systems. So many of them arbitrarily require admin rights to perform properly, which means that this lawyer would have to have local admin privileges to be able to use them.
Giving a non-technical user admin privileges to a system that contains sensitive data for a high-profile client is absolutely a recipe for disaster. That system needs to be locked the fuck down. Not running Baldurs Gate during recess.
Now, perhaps, there’s a logical reason. Maybe her practice has a really good IT team and they’ve been able to effectively set up a good, secure BYOD environment. I’d still question this lawyers judgement in their professional image to select an RGB gaming laptop for their work. To me, this is no different than a shady personal injury lawyer that features their trashy Hummer H2 in every commercial, which exclusively airs during reruns of Jerry Springer.
I think for most homes, an MFP is a nice-to-have. I have one and I never use the scanner, the vast majority of times, it’s sufficient to “scan” with my phone to send as a PDF. My next printer will probably be a color laser printer-only.
For SOHO, SMB, and enterprise, though, I think it comes down to square footage. Especially when you start getting into the bigger ones. Turns out that a copying machine does a lot of the same things a printer and a scanner do. A separate, discrete copying machine doesn’t make sense in a lot of places, and I’d imagine it’s very cost-effective to get a big MFP instead of three discrete devices. Especially when you’re dealing with leased equipment.
Why adjust the law annually? Why not just write it as “no person born after Jan 1, 2005”?
$ sudo su -
# cat /dev/urandom | padsp tee /dev/audio > /dev/null
If theres a responsible relative who wants their nieces/granddaughters/cousins rapists baby…sure.
I mean I really like getting push notifications when the dishwasher or laundry is done, or the kids leave the fridge door slightly open…but a toaster is a bit excessive. I’m thinking about turning off notifications on my microwave as it is.
Not that difficult a plan once Trump is Speaker.
Just need to have Jan 6 Par 2 go more successfully.
His fan club literally had gallows built for Mike Pence and he was his damn VP.
Where is MS Office 50€/15mo and can I use it in America? Been thinking about getting a new domain since I failed to get off google workspaces in time.