This is pretty much my response any time Google or Microsoft does anything negative at this point. My good will for those two was spent years ago. Swapped over to Protonmail, non-google phone, Linux. Done with their shit.

EA was easier to get away from. Just…not buying more EA games solved that one. :)

By harnessing low-cost, nonstop solar energy and avoiding land use and fossil fuels

1. “low-cost” - Nothing about launching data centers into space is low cost

2. “nonstop solar energy” Continuous solar energy is certainly nice, but that is a pretty minor buff compared to current ways of making power. If you think nuclear or solar+battery is expensive, go calculate the price for space-based solar per GW…

3. “avoiding land use” - We have a fuckload of land outside of cities, build them outside of cities… Datacenter land use is removing a cup of water from the ocean.

4. “avoiding…fossil fuels” - You can achieve that on earth, nuclear or solar+battery…

In summary, this is probably the dumbest way to build data centers. It’s stated goals are better accomplished on land with nuclear or solar+battery. It really just feels like venture capital money trap.

The United States has tethered 16% of its entire economic output to the fortunes of a single company

Yeah, this article should compare nVidia’s revenue to the US GDP (both measure of annual production). But we know why they aren’t, as it wouldn’t produce an alarming stat.

The United States has tethered 16% of its entire economic output to the fortunes of a single company

And to be clear, this stat is simply factually wrong. nVidia IS NOT 16% of US output. They sold $165B last year, US GDP is $29.2T. This means the US has tethered… 0.5% of their economic output to one company. Not 16%, zero-point-five-percent.

I agree with the other poster this seems like a hardware issue.

1. Start with a general battery of hardware tests.

• Memtest for memory. One or two errors in a full run is OK, more than that is not. A full run will take a few hours, just run it overnight.
• Furmark for GPU. Look for visual glitches or crashes.
• Prime95 for CPU.

2. If those fail to point out the issue. Swap components into another system. This will allow you to eliminate (or confirm) them as the issue. Example, does this GPU have issues in a different system?

So a complicated set of terminal commands and alternatives you need to have memorized ahead of time. That’s definitely the linux solution. You can do it, but no average user would ever be able to when they need it.

As a point of contrast. In Linux Mint you press the eject button. That’s it.

The other guy was getting into more detail for people who want it.

Whelp, time to shut down the whole computer! (Or just yank it and hope you didn’t do anything bad, lol)

Linux Mint has an eject button that allows any cached writes* to finish, prevents new ones from starting, and un-mounts it. It’s actually important to use the eject button as flash drives are slow, and the write cache can obscure the fact that a file isn’t done writing yet.

*Copying a file will add it into the write cache while it writes out to the disk. As soon as it is in the cache, you can use the file as if it was already done copying, including making changes.

Signal? No.

I’m running Signal right now on Linux Mint.

Can you run Battlefield 6?

This isn’t even a Windows or Linux thing: Why the hell do you want Saudi Arabia and Jared Kusher* to have kernel-level access to your machine? Why, why is that worth it for just a game?

*I really wish I was joking with this part

Remember when the sales pitch of The Cloud was it would always be online?

Additionally, thin pieces of concrete are very brittle. It is much more common to use molten aluminum.

With the exception of pots and pans, which take-up too much dishwasher space, if it can’t survive in the dishwasher, I don’t want it anyway. Run it through and if it breaks it breaks!

The nice thing about cast iron is, even if you fuck up the pan pretty good, you can always re-season it and it’s good to go.

Hell, even a the shittiest, oldest, rustiest cast iron pan is fine. Sand off the rust, and re-season!

Especially if these pears are shipped by sea. Then it’s even worse.

Shipping via sea is the cheapest and least greenhouse gas producing way to ship things. With the only exception being pipes, which are significantly better than ships on both fronts. However, we shouldn’t be shipping peaches via pipe. ;p

only ad I see is the occasional sentence on my lock screen, “You should try $whatever!”

Why put up with any ads? No other desktop OS does this…

updates don’t matter. Security doesn’t matter. You can just tell your computer to never update anything, and it’ll be the same for a decade. You can live in your little bubble.

You are free to do what you want, but do not give out advice like this to others. Security issues pop up constantly and not updating leaves you vulnerable to them.

For the room: If you want to stay on your unpatched machine, don’t plug it into the internet. Otherwise, use an OS that is currently receiving security updates.

Literally no one is throwing away a working machine just because some deadline passes.

You need to speak to every IT department worth a pinch of salt then; as no longer receiving security updates is a critical problem. That critical problem is solved by most IT departments by disposing of perfectly good computers, paying to have their SSDs shredded, and buying new computers.

Da es verschiedene Arten/Sorten von Linux gibt und ich auch hier auf Mastodon immer wieder was von #Linuxmint gelesen habe, wäre Linuxmint eine gute Wahl und warum bzw. warum nicht?

Linux Mint is what I recommend people use as well. The desktop UI (Cinnamon) feels familiar coming from Windows, and the OS is designed to ‘just work’ for the general user.

Wie sieht es mit der Kompatibilität von Dokumenten aus, die sich auf Sticks und Festplatten befinden (Stichworte: Formatierung, Windows)

If you mean the documents themselves, Mint’s built in programs will open any reasonable file you throw at it: documents, images, etc. You might need to install a program if you want to open something exotic, but I have had no issues.

If you mean what the flash drive filesystem needs to be formatted as, exFAT, FAT32, or NTFS will all work on both Mint and Windows. I prefer exFAT as it has the least limitations and works everywhere natively.

Wenn ich zunächst Linux nur auf einem Stick installieren will, wie groß sollte dieser sein und was sollte ich beachten, wenn ich zusätzliche Programme (Office-Paket) installieren will?

Running Linux off a flash drive, ie as a live environment, works well with a 16GB or 32GB+ flash drive. Do note it will be slower than running it off an SSD, but it is great for getting a feel for the OS and seeing if it works for you. You can install and do anything you could as if you had installed the OS to your SSD. Just note, by default this will be a live environment, it only exists as long as the computer is running; no changes to the live environment persist through a reboot. However, that is just the default configuration, you can make the USB environment persistent if you wish.

You pointed out an office suite specifically: Mint actually has an office suite (LibreOffice) and basically every normal program already installed for you.

Good luck man, and I think Mint is a great place to start!

There are no anti social engineering security measurements in Linux, for instance. Just sodo and break anything and everything.

Windows gives you a UAC prompt or needs one to run a cmd prompt as admin, both of which are functionally the same as sudo…

Windows is being bombarded by malware every second of every day. Linux, with its 6% of desktop user market share - not so much.

But, to circle back to the core statement. Yes it is. And Linux holds steadfast.

Windows is being bombarded by malware every second of every day. Linux, with its 6% of desktop user market share - not so much.

Linux dominates the server space. Basically any company with access to lots of capital or trade secrets is running Linux servers. It is a massive, massive opportunity for hackers to hit jackpots. Linux gets bombarded by attackers constantly and holds steadfast. I’m not sure where you get this idea that this isn’t the case…

Edit: Just to really drive this point home, 65% of Microsoft Azure servers are Linux. Let that sink in, the majority of even Microsoft’s cloud servers are Linux. That is the one company you would think would be pushing Windows, yet here they are talking about their high quality Linux offerings!

“With over 65% of Azure workloads running Linux, our commitment to delivering high-quality Linux VM images and platforms remains unwavering.” - Microsoft