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New comment by 6th in "Who Gets the TikTok in the Divorce? The Messy Fights over Valuable Social Media"

6th — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 23:23:20 +0000

TikTok? A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

New comment by 6th in "Why is Linux apt asking for Microsoft ppa?"

6th — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 23:07:58 +0000

I'll just put Microsoft... with the rest of the fire (Canonical|Ubuntu|SystemD). https://youtu.be/1EBfxjSFAxQ?t=75

New comment by 6th in "Microsoft's latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs"

6th — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 02:07:55 +0000

I have a triple boot setup. Every OS sucks so why not?

It doesn't hurt to have intact alternate OS's ready to go.

I might only use one Linux regularly but there's a devuan and a vanilla windows (+patches from ~1 year/6mo. ago) - it's really no big deal leaving them be. It's just disk space.

windows will probably get nuked soon cause it's on a gen4 NVME - not using that is a waste.

New comment by 6th in "Google-Wiz deal fizzles out, company will pursue IPO"

6th — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 03:08:57 +0000

I did mean Wiz. I guess my brain just substituted that. I guess I'm at least familiar with the Wix name in that I saw ads all over the net ~a decade ago?

New comment by 6th in "Google-Wiz deal fizzles out, company will pursue IPO"

6th — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 02:29:20 +0000

It is indeed. Thank you.

New comment by 6th in "Google-Wiz deal fizzles out, company will pursue IPO"

6th — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 01:18:12 +0000

I very much doubt that. This as a phase doesn't even seem to exist online till today, even much less as an idiom, telling me the equivalent of "just google" for someone specific's thinking is entirely unhelpful.

I wasn't interested in what ChatGPT can hallucinate or even output. I was after Voloskaya's context, Voloskaya would be the one to provide this insight, which is who I chose to ask for that.

New comment by 6th in "Google-Wiz deal fizzles out, company will pursue IPO"

6th — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 23:57:59 +0000

Not even knowing about Wix until today, I had no idea what to make of it, I wasn't trying to be snarky with that comment.

I was actually interested to know what they meant because it sounds like saying: "let's take a walk down to the top of the highest mountain".

New comment by 6th in "Google-Wiz deal fizzles out, company will pursue IPO"

6th — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 22:21:18 +0000

Meteorites crash & burn, honestly, what is a "meteoritic rise"?

New comment by 6th in "Smart Quotes for Smart People"

6th — Thu, 23 May 2024 00:48:32 +0000

> Using proper quotation marks and apostrophes today is easier than you’d think.

Proceeds to demonstrate, no, it really isn't - it's exactly how we thought.

Reality is: it truly and utterly does not matter. It's significantly slower to type and so will naturally lose every time. We're talking milli or micro oseconds vs maybe a minute or more to dig out the codepages, copy, paste or get the glyph, check the utf code, insert it by key combination. For every word with a quote or punctuation.

Yeah. Right. I'm not doing that.

Get over it.

New comment by 6th in "BenQ releases 3:2 aspect ratio 28 inch 4K+ monitor designed for programmers"

6th — Fri, 17 May 2024 03:33:11 +0000

I use my Samsung SyncMaster 245B as my daily driver - it's almost old enough to drive!

New comment by 6th in "Does anybody here gamifying his/her life?"

6th — Sun, 12 May 2024 23:14:21 +0000

No. Because I don't want to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yHYAG01aaY

New comment by 6th in "Google CEO Sundar Pichai Explains the Company's Layoff Strategy"

6th — Thu, 09 May 2024 22:53:08 +0000

Related video: https://youtu.be/FWpWGVE6PUE?t=9

New comment by 6th in "The IMEI Code: Your phone’s other number"

6th — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 23:41:37 +0000

It was the only way to be certain.

New comment by 6th in "The biggest source of waste is untapped skilled pragmatists"

6th — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 00:12:50 +0000

No. Terrible people won because terrible people were in positions of power, as is the case often.

Good jobs, great jobs even, can and do turn to shit overnight. It's often the management itself.

People don't leave bad jobs they leave bad people.

The job is something in their life workers, in a non-slave market, can take control of.

There's no good reason for a person to stay working for nutters.

There's no good|sane reason to reward bad behavior.

They have ZERO obligation to fix a toxic workplace and culture.

That is management's failing entirely.

>your next company isn't getting a good employee.

Your next employee|team member isn't getting a good boss|colleague.

New comment by 6th in "Google Nerfs long-standing long press Home button for Circle to Search"

6th — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 22:58:37 +0000

I turn off assistant - this will just be another thing to disable. I don't even use Google search anymore.

I want to bring all my data home again off cloud and when I do that I'll stop using all their services entirely.

New comment by 6th in "Starbucks is raising prices almost every month now"

6th — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 03:24:34 +0000

No, that was the last straw. There's no more.

Supply and demand dictates buy buy buy. Straws are going to the moon!!!

New comment by 6th in "Tesla's 'nightmare' year continues as a big drop in deliveries sends stock down"

6th — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 02:53:05 +0000

EV's in Group B would be awesome!

Bring on Group B-EV

New comment by 6th in "The Tankership Tromedy: The Impending Disaster in Tankers [pdf]"

6th — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 05:38:45 +0000

Well that was quite the read. Wow.

New comment by 6th in "Earth Is Becoming Sentient"

6th — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 23:08:49 +0000

Where do roads fit in either nerve system|internet?

Analogies are like bugs in software. They exist.

New comment by 6th in "Considerations for a long-running Raspberry Pi"

6th — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 23:32:11 +0000

I have a 32GB DDR5 ECC in a max spec https://www.solid-run.com/industrial-computers/bedrock-v3000... - it's headless.

You can go to 96 GB.

With displays: https://www.solid-run.com/industrial-computers/bedrock-r7000...