When I can’t block the ads, I always opt for the “non-personalized ads” option, since I know they are getting paid less. Also easier to ignore an ad when it is random.
I tried the bing chat (part of the work license), asked it some random questions, asked for more accurate information and pointed out the flawed answers it gave. It told me that I was being rude and ended the session. (smh)
This also implies that the average population has an astronomically higher capacity to read code than actually exists. The average Excel user can’t read most simple Excel methods.
I’ve been pondering something similar since I realized that Pop24 would be delayed. :) I want to see if a couple of minor items are fixed with 24.04, and can’t decide if waiting or reinstalling is more work.
So far no joy. The Linux channel and posts haven’t been able to crack this nut. New version of Pop OS coming soon based on Ubuntu 24.04, will try again after the update. :)
Some of my saltiness comes from the fact that I tried to answer questions a few times, but told I wasn't worthy enough to participate in the conversation, and so I was confused by the system. Also, I saw people answering with lots of points, but their answers were trash and I couldn't impact that response/point gathering, and just made me think it was just another gamified system, and engineers love to game a system. :)
This was my experience as well. They seemed to angle the system away from the casual user, which I didn’t have time to sit around and answer questions to get enough fake internet points to interact more.
I've been able to run all of my other regular games since switching to Pop!_OS, but one is giving me a problem still, Space Engineers.
Tried all of the Protons (and Proton-GE), tried various launch options, read all of the feedback left on protondb website for the game, looking for any other ideas. :)
Sorry, when I said "life critical", i mean things like email, banking, self-hosted NextCloud for files, etc. For me, everything else is flexible as I don't have business things that have to run on Windows (that is my work provided laptop), so I don't have to have the Adobe suite for photo editing, i can use one of several open source alternatives, and all of my hobbies have open source alternatives like Blender.
The only game I cannot get to run is Space Engineers. Numerous other newer and older games work great. To be fair, I'm not an online/multiplayer gamer, so the challenges people run in to due to anti-cheating requirements don't affect the games I play.
What was really interesting to me, is that I tried Windows 11 Pro and 6 or 7 different Linux distros over several months before landing on Pop!_OS. I mention this because it was all the exact same hardware and so I was able to compare performance in an Apples to Apples situation. There is an obvious application loading improvement. Even comparing against something like Garuda that is supposedly all about performance tweaks.
I switched to Pop!_OS earlier this year and couldn’t be happier. All apps run way faster than they did with Windows on the same hardware. All but one of my Steam games run great (one day I’ll get that last game to work). My “life critical” things are web based, everything else is adjustable.
That is 100% up to every team to decide. Version numbering is completely arbitrary.
(Hyperbole) I’m shocked! I have been informed for decades, usually at high levels of snootiness, that Macs don’t have viruses unlike those pathetic other operating systems…
(hahaha)
Recently I was thinking about how I missed webrings for websites instead of reliance on search engines, many of which aren’t even directing you to the sites anymore just showing AI summaries.
No MFA, and stale passwords up to 4 years old. And they say “anyone can do IT”…
After the recent Google AI stuff, I’d expect an AI children’s book tool to teach children how to make mustard gas with cute cartoon characters. :P
Was anyone else expecting an article talking about the subject? I was reading and then, "Oh they've set up an interesting topic to discuss... wait, other articles to read, where is this article?"
Also, the internet access mechanism (starlink) is incidental to the subject matter, why mention it in the title?
Also, what @paultimate14 said, "youth not respecting tradition"...
I have been ping ponging for almost two decades on the desktop. Currently on Pop!_OS (Ubuntu derivative) with a “safety blanket” dual boot with Windows. I went through a lot of these stages many times. So far, ~3 months on this has been the least frustrating Linux desktop experience. I’m still missing some of the power management controls and cloud file integration is kind of a joke, but an interesting time. For the many things that work well, the performance is so much better than Windows and all the other Linux distros I’ve tried on this same hardware.
2D/3D Simulation/Game creation Godot :)
I switched to Pop!_OS about 3 months ago and have been loving it! First Linux distribution that just worked for me, and every app works better than any other Linux or Windows 11 on the same hardware.
How many times? Every single time…
Hadn't realized that change was in there. What a mess.
I'm trying to shrink my C: volume to allow for dual booting, but the built in utility is getting hung up on $BITMAP. It was originally having problems with another unmovable file $DATA, but after using contig that one was moved out of the way.
However, no matter what combination of contig options, safe mode, whatever I try, $BITMAP won't move. 200GB free, and I can only shrink the volume by 9GB because of it. :)
I'd prefer not to have to perform a complete reinstall.
Or it seems, I have to go about disabling bitlocker in order to allow a 3rd party tool to work on the partition... Last time I was messing with partitions was from before Secureoot and Bitlocker days. :)
Early last year, I forked a project that had gone idle. I did a couple of updates to make it work with the new version of VSCode, and released it on both marketplaces. It has a few downloads, and no one has yelled at me yet, so I'm not the only one that uses it I guess.
I want to update it with some newer packages out there, updated security versions, and other bits such as the move from vscode-test to @vscode/test-electron, but I'm hitting a block (in not knowing JS/TS very well, most of my 30 years has been with C#, Perl, PHP, SQL, etc.), and I was wondering if anyone had an article or suggestion on documentation how to make that move.
Or am I just starting over with "how to set up test-electron from scratch" and redoing all the tests? :) (that was not my hope for a quick update turn around, but if that is what has to happen...)
edit: a phrase