musk asked people to be nice. That should cover the service, legally speaking, no?

It’s not like he could pull the plug, or alter the behavior of the bot, that’s impossible (as long as you ignore the many time he did).

People posting photos online of their kid in the bath, at the beach, etc. with reckless abandon maybe.

For as far as I remember (and that’s quite far these days), we’ve kept telling people to not post pictures of their kids online as much as possible. Way before the facebooks and way before the LLM craze, so people can’t mess with them. Guess 20 years of heads up wasn’t enough.

I haven’t seen these pictures, so I can’t say how good/bad it works, but if that was only that, the results would be more or less wrong. Kids are quite different from adults.

On the other hand, plenty of pictures of naked/semi naked kids in a non sexual context can probably be found online already, so it’s not inconceivable that their model had plenty of references to use anyway.

“suspension pledge” as in, their papier-maché leader asked people to “be nice, or face the consequence” on the service that don’t give a shit about consequences? I’m sure they were very scared for a second.

Hahaha… good joke, but people already did it.

…it’s a joke, right?

Technically, all the boot options were on the same drive (same EFI partition, on the disk that was initially used for years by windows), but for some reason, the motherboard decided “nope, there’s no bootloader there”.

I ended up repartitioning the “first” drive seen by the bios to make a 100MB partition at the beginning, named it “EFI system partition”, copied all the content of the old one from the other drive, and nuked the actual windows install in the process (not the boot entry though). Now all is good… I hope :D

Weird. I understand you did have issues, but that’s so far from my experience. Despite major annoyance at the project’s direction, I’m staying on ubuntu because it’s been a mostly stress-free experience as a user (and I have an nvidia card, which does NOT help in that regard…).

Do you think anyone, anywhere think of roku and amazon fire when they hear “you should try linux”?

Might be off topic, but does anyone else dread the outcome of their Linux system after an update?

Not really. I don’t really worry about that on most of my system. There is ONE computer where an update is a source of stress, and that’s my main gaming computer where I had to setup dualbooting with windows. I learned the hard way that my motherboard implementation of UEFI kinda want windows to be there, otherwise it’s very picky into which disk is parsed for EFI boot entries. But beyond that, nah. Laptop, desktop, company servers… just roll the update/upgrade, and the dist-upgrade when needed, fix the updated configs (for servers) and it’s good to go. Been this way for the last decade or so.

Worthy of note, I’m on ubuntu LTS (24.04 for now) or Debian stable (for servers), so not exactly outdated (I have the latest nvidia drivers…) but not bleeding edge either. I probably avoid a lot of issues this way.

I have no idea when it happened, but there’s a mechanism in place to download updates but only install them on reboot, kinda similar to windows, but when you want instead of when it want. It’s kinda the best of both world : updates are quick to install, downloaded in the background, and no workflow interruption.

People a week ago: “you’re all stupid, DDR4 is not impacted”

Just wait. Scarcity loves company.

Yeah. I’m on a relatively old build with DDR4, but still a decent processor and GPU. So far gaming have not been an issue with whatever I’m throwing at it. Not much in the way of loading times, and no real problem with the size of it. Some less game-y stuff, like video transcoding and 3D renders, also fine. And while I can see those improving somewhat with DDR5, I’m not sure it’s the actual bottleneck. And gaming won’t be much better with it… I mean seriously, moving loading times from 3 seconds to 2? I don’t really care.

The real issue will be when things starts to break down, as hardware do over time. It’s not that I want to replace the hardware if there’s no pressure from the software side, but I will have to if RAM goes bad, or motherboard decide to not power up.

It’s never been done before, and can never be done after, obviously. Not a chance. Nope. It’s not like it worked before, not like windows placement is not really the business of the taskbar app, not like it works with almost every other DE/OS, too.

Absolutely impossible. Microsoft, that apparently did not make windows up until now otherwise they’d know this explanation is pure bullshit, have absolutely no way, no resources, no knowledge on how to setup the available rectangular area on the screen for window placement. Nope.

The amount of bullshit is incredible. The DE sets the windows position. The DE tells the apps what’s the “usable” desktop area. It worked for decades. And now “you can’t imagine the amount of work”

Fuck you microsoft. Not that I care anymore. Even your excuses are pathetic.

One would expect such a small sample size to lower the crash rates. But tesla is subverting expectations yet again.

At some point there’ll be enough pressure for a large enough fork of Firefox and Thunderbird to exist separately from Mozilla. Keep pushing, random clueless CEO.

These days I might do that. The thing is, I’m coming from a situation where windows was installed, fully setup and configured with whatever I needed, so it was way easier to just run that than to redo everything and setup a VM.

Also, the last piece of software I need is something used to bypass DRMs, and it kinda requires the whole thing to work flawlessly. I’ll see when I come around to launch it again if it’s viable.

That’s not a thing it can do in grub. It could do it with UEFI entries, but these days windows is not the biggest culprit of that. I had it happen on a BIOS update, where it simply nuked all stored entries, and the windows one is always checked as part of the standard.

That’s a bit extreme. I keep a windows install around, just in case. It’s just not in grub; I have to get into the bios boot menu and manually select it.

Everybody knows that this is yet another distraction, but how fragile are they ready to look like. They feel threatened by a text font and some numbers these days.