I have been a Linux desktop user for 20+ years. It is incredible how far it has come. There is nothing Microsoft can do that will drive the normies away though. Microsoft knows this and that is why we are where we are.
I have been running Linux since 2011, and so much more stuff is in the “Just Works” category, especially if you have AMD graphics. When I installed NixOS on my Thinkpad about a year ago, it was almost comical how easy it was for me; I had gotten used to having to waste an entire day messing with drivers and fixing issues in 2012-2015, so it felt kind of weird for stuff to work as expected immediately.
I am trying very hard to get my parents to use something like Linux Mint because the Windows 11 auto-update on my mom’s computer actually prevented it from booting (making me waste an entire day remotely having them flash a live USB so I could rsync over her files to me…thanks MS!), so this might be enough of a final straw for them.
I have tried switching family members over after malware incidents. The most success was setting my 80 year old grandmother up with Lubuntu. She had no issue picking it up. I don’t think she even really noticed vs Windows. Lasted a few years until she went to an iPad for accessibility reasons.
Very interesting. I found myself nodding YES the whole way through the post. Something like this could lead to a large shift in how we manage infrastructure. We split terraform configs for more reasons than just splitting state of course, but something like this could make other approaches to organizing things more viable. Really cool and will be keeping an eye on this.
The market seems bad right now. Companies are offshoring everything they can and squeezing both sides.
At my company, we only hire in India now and the executives are intentionally causing "attrition" in the US by running people into the ground with demands that amount to 996 style work.
That is unfortunate. Not because I think they should have to, but because they eventually will have to if it gets big enough. Never underestimate the ability of your users to hold it wrong.
The default install only binds to loopback, so I am sure it is pretty common to just slap OLLAMA_HOST=0.0.0.0 and move on to other things. I know I did at first, but my host isn't publicly routable and I went back the same night and added IPAddressDeny/Allow rules (among other standard/easy hardening).
I love this website. It is a throwback to the old internet I grew up with. It has it all. Packed with esoteric information gathered and curated by a passionate group. Designed for desktop only with its own unique aesthetic. Not covered with ads and cookie banners and newsletter popups. I remember spending many evenings exploring such things at 33.6kbps.
On topic: I have watched every episode on TNG more than once and never noticed this. How embarrassing!
I only noticed it because I hang out with A/V people. It was nice to find this page and have it not just confirmed but fully detailed. Babylon 5 does this a lot too.
The average person has no idea how industrialized fraud has become. There are essentially entire companies with management, support staff, IT, and office buildings whose business is fraud. It is sad when you think about how many resources have been poured into it.
I always seem to end up dual booting Windows to play games. I’ve made it quite a while without installing Windows now. Mostly because I haven’t had the desire to game much, but also because of how good gaming on Linux is now. I will hold out until there is some big multiplayer game with anticheat that my friends get me into.
Cool. I want a do it all python tool. Ruff is great. Having it out of the box with uv is great. Less crap to mess with. I haven’t tried ty yet, but looking forward to not having to mess with pyright.
I have had the same experience within the last 18 months. The storage team came back to me and asked me to spread my ultra high throughput write workload across 52 (A-Za-z) prefixes and then they pre-partitioned the bucket for me.
S3 will automatically do this over time now, but I think there are/were edge cases still. I definitely hit one and experienced throttling at peak load until we made the change.
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