Well, and also Mario Kart isn’t worth $90

Not trying to criticize you or anything, just genuinely asking - why is it so much worse to turn your computer off when you’re done with it than putting it to sleep?

A little display or indicator light somewhere on the toilet itself would be better than connecting it to some IOT app

Yeah I’d much rather spread poo particles all over my smartphone instead

You know what, I like this one. And just like KBBQ/hot pot, there’s gonna be people who ask “what’s the point of going to a restaurant if they make you cook it yourself?” And you know what I say to those people?

You’re entitled to your opinion and I respect that - also, more hot pot for me!

It’s an attempt at a joke, jokes are supposed to be funny

Dawg, you can’t make a post talking about how dumb you are, include an anecdote that demonstrates how dumb you are, and then get defensive when people call you dumb lol.

Also, if you actually want productive help, you probably need a financial literacy class and a financial advisor, not a post on Lemmy.

implying the big Linux DEs of user-friendly distros (usually Cinnamon, KDE or Gnome) were bad is just utter nonsense

Where did I imply that?

Incomplete at times in regards to very specialised administrative tasks, sure.

Right, that’s all I was saying.

Lol stop putting words in my mouth

You missed my point so bad that I’m unsure if it’s worth trying to re-explain myself

The one enabling people to understand and use their devices on their own.

If you’re using a UI, and you have a question about something or don’t understand what you’re doing, isn’t that a sign that either the UI you’re using is insufficient, or your own knowledge is lacking?

Good UI/UX conveys function.

Exactly. By itself, a good UI should “enable people to understand and use their device on their own”. If you’re a UI user and you can’t figure something out on your own, maybe you need to use the terminal to accomplish whatever you’re trying to do.

Depending on how many layers of abstraction you have, your app may not have access to the raw HTTP response.

That sounds like either over-abstraction or bad abstraction then

my hard drive overheated

So, this means they either have a local copy on disk of whatever database they’re querying, or they’re dumping a remote db to disk at some point before/during/after their query, right?

Either way, I have just one question - why?

Edit: found the thread with a more in-depth explanation elsewhere in the thread: https://xcancel.com/DataRepublican/status/1900593377370087648#m

So yeah, she’s apparently toting around an external hard drive with a copy of the “multiple terabytes” large US spending database, running queries against it, then dumping the 60k-row result set to CSV for further processing.

I’m still confused at what point the external drive overheats, even if she is doing all this in a “hot humid” hotel room that she can’t run any fans I guess because her kids were asleep?

But like, all of that just adds more questions, and doesn’t really answer the first one - why?

This worry exists for literally every 3rd party dependency, not just docker, and is addressed the same way - by running tests and vulnerability scans in a sandboxed test environment before shipping to prod

Changing that kernel API wouldn’t just hurt the Rust devs, it would hurt literally anyone who uses that API, which includes other Linux maintainers. Anyone trying to “prove themselves right” by mucking with kernel APIs would swiftly be called out on their bullshit, and probably be removed from the project.

Eh, Vance being invisible so far is just usually how it is for VPs. I think people forget that the role of the VP is basically just two things:

1. Break ties in the Senate
2. Remain alive so they can take over if the president dies

I don’t know a single lick of French but somehow my brain knew this is the intro to Foux Da Fafa, a song I haven’t listened to in over a decade

If the government cant handle “online stuff” they can pitch privatization.

It kind of already is privatized. Most of the government’s cyber security efforts are handled by defense contractors.

To make settings inaccessible on purpose or even alienate people deemed “too stupid” for them is called Tech Paternalism, and it fucking sucks.

You’re referring to Windows Registry right?

C’mon man, this is just a textbook fallacious slippery slope argument. Rust isn’t some brand new language whose stable release was less than a year ago, it’s over a decade old now. Scheme and Lisp are interpreted languages for God’s sake, it’s borderline* impossible to use them for kernel programming.

Also I’m pretty sure the whole point of the Rust project that all this drama is centered around is to keep Rust code separate from the kernel. From what I understand the whole point is to maintain Rust bindings to the kernel API as a separate project, so that if developers want to write a driver in Rust, they can without having to rewrite those bindings themselves. But the kernel code itself will still be all C code. Now I’m not a kernel developer, and the last time I wrote a driver was for my operating systems class in university over a decade ago, so take that with a grain of salt.

* I say borderline because anything is possible with code if you’re creative enough, but anyone trying to submit Scheme or Lisp code to the Linux kernel is gonna get laughed off the Internet

I remember when you pretty much only used Amazon to buy books