This has bell curve meme vibes. I’m just not sure what the middle guy would be saying.
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This has bell curve meme vibes. I’m just not sure what the middle guy would be saying.
You need to lay at least some blame on Logitech for that one.
They’ve sold drivers to Microsoft, but since no-one writing Linux would give them any money, they wouldn’t provide drivers for their proprietary hardware.
This then lead to early Linux adopters buying non-Logitech devices and not seeing a use-case for rolling a reverse-engineered driver into the kernel.
Logitech still haven’t written their own Linux driver. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the money from Microsoft is so that they don’t.
Pretty sure Cinnamon panels are designed to fit to the width (or height if they’re attached to the side) of the screen and can’t be altered. (The depth/breadth/“thickness” of the panel can be changed, but that’s not particularly relevant here.)
The same may also be true of panel-like features in XFCE and MATE too, but I can’t easily confirm.
Do. Take a boot USB for a spin. Try a few distros.
I’ve been on Linux (Mint) for years and never had a mouse-wheel not work or any problems with sound (hardware failure notwithstanding). The computer’s been the same all the way through, but it is a bit of a Ship of Theseus at this point. Mint has had no problem with new (and old) parts that I’ve thrown in. Or new mice, as I implied before.
Getting old Windows games to work has been the biggest non-starter, which is pretty much where OPs friend was having trouble too.
Minecraft (Java) runs fine with the standard launcher, but I do get FPS problems if I’ve had an Xorg update. That’s more of a “your graphics card is so old Mint doesn’t really support it any more” problem, which I know how to work around.
I did have problems getting Linux to run on a laptop once, but then it was 1998 and Linux drivers weren’t quite so plug and play. I had no idea what refresh rates my TFT screen needed and neither did Linux, boldly warning that if I set them wrong I could burn out my screen. Since I needed a GUI, I went back to Windows 95.
True. There are various legitimate tools that are only really one step away from malware, so it’s not too hard to imagine going that one step further.
Thinking specifically of the fact that a new process is allowed to change its apparent name, as well as creating secondary process pools, but there are bound to be other, deeper ways.
No, see, here ounces compare to millimetres. If height and weight fluctuate over centimetres and pounds, and they do, lesser units should be disregarded, right?
Do North Americans really give their weight in lb? You’d think they’d short hand it like to like 15 stone or whatever since weight is one of those things that doesn’t really need to be exact and will change by a lb or so based on the time of day and what you’ve eaten.
“People” are not a learned wizard who really ought to know better.
Be aware that for some removable (or otherwise non-local) media, some systems will create a .Trash-###
directory on the media itself in the root directory.
This prevents unnecessary copying of files from the media to a local disk, and only a few media-specific location indicators actually need to be changed for the Trashed file(s).
The ##
is generally the user’s ID number as stored in /etc/passwd
, and, on Debian derivatives at least, is usually 1000
for the first user, 1001
for the second, etc., but I have heard of some systems that just use .Trash
with no suffix, or did so at some point in the past.
Is it still the norm to go to the dev’s office, yank their power cord and when they ask what we’re doing, tell them we’re shipping their machine to the client because it’s the only one that the code runs on?
And can we do that with whatever server ChatGPT-4o is running on?
I’m assuming that this response from 4o isn’t real and was invented for the laugh, but it would be tempting to throw this scenario at it if it decided to give this response.
My guess is a “solution” to the age-old problem of needing to store a secret in a file that the user can download, thus making the entire system insecure.
This “solution” appears to be either that the string itself is so outrageous that the user would not believe that it’s the real secret when it is in fact the real secret, leveraging security through obscurity, or else it’s there in place of the real secret that cannot be revealed under pain of death firing, and therefore is accidentally being used instead of that intended secret… so it’s not secret after all.
Unless they’re doing something incredibly clever to substitute that secret string for the real thing when the time is right and doing it in such a way that the user can’t intercept, someone’s getting fired.
Not voting, if you’re otherwise able, is a tacit acceptance for how things are.
Presumably you don’t want to vote for the incumbents, so vote for someone who’ll replace them, whether you like that option or not.
Voting out a bad lot is the only legal way we have to protest.
And then vote third party next time if they don’t change things to your liking. Then fourth. Fifth. Etc.
Don’t like the political parties? Start one.
Think the whole lot should be lined up and shot? (For legal reasons this is purely metaphorical.) Start organising.
But if that’s too much for you, vote.
C’mon now, the full name of a writing quill is “quill pen” because it’s the shaft (quill part) of a feather, Latin penna. Dumbledingus really ought to be able to connect the dots here.
Someone told me every processor used 0xEA
Not sure if this is a riff on the joke or not.
Back in the day I dabbled in 6510 code, and up until today hadn’t even bothered to look at a chart of opcodes for any of its contemporaries. Today I learned that Z80 uses $00 for NOP.
Loth as I am to admit it, that actually makes sense. Maybe more sense than 65xx which acts more like a divide-by-zero has happened.
The rest of the opcode table was full of alien looking mnemonics though, and no undocumented single byte opcodes? Freaky, man.
But the point is that not even Z80 used $EA. If the someone was real they probably meant every 65xx processor.
One of Perl’s design principles was the Robustness principle, though it probably wasn’t known by that name at the time. (The name came about around the same time Perl was becoming a thing, something something zeitgeist something.)
Perl can be locked down and made to complain (with at least a couple of levels of pedantry) when things are wrong, but unlike most other languages, it doesn’t do so by default.
This is mean sale price, right? Got to wonder what the current median property value (not sale price) is, and how close that is to this mean.
My point being that a lot of churn at prices near the mean would keep that mean away from a true median property value.
They need to update that. They jumped to version 24 for 2024. 24.2.3 is the current version.
If they have any sense they’ll not try to find out what’s on it and send it straight to whatever electronics recycling is available.
Sticking a USB device of unknown provenance into your computer is just asking for trouble. (When you think about it, we even take a risk every time we buy one.)
Sure, you know it’s harmless, but they don’t know that, even if you tell them. Who are you? You’re just someone who used to live in their house. As far as they know, you might be a freak who gets a kick out of leaving dodgy devices around for people to find.
Compilers were much less complex back then and didn’t do a great deal of optimisation. Also hardware was slow, so your compiled code, which wasn’t necessarily optimal either before or after the compilation phase, was at least half as fast as you wanted it to be.
If you wanted speed, you hand-rolled assembly.
Me? I’d be the muggliest of muggles except for certain knowledge a witch implanted in my brain. And it’s since transpired that she was the one who should not be named all along.