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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

The mad rush to sell the sizzle, not the steak.

Wouldn't it be nice to have one company create a simple printer that just prints. It does not have a local webpage. It does not monitor your ink supplies. It does not phone home. It uses ink from bottles sold inexpensivly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

The way gravity plating works is not given as far as I know, Perhaps the gravity generators simply alter the number of gravitons in an area of plating. Once that value is set it remains until changed again. A sudden power spike can cause the generators to withdraw the extra gravitons, as a result sometimes certain kinds of emergency can "turn off" gravity in an area of the ship.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I use chatgpt to make up stuff, imagine things that don't exist for fun - like a 'pitch' for the next new Star Trek series, or to reword my much too succinct prose for a manual for a program I am writing ('Calcula' in gitlab) or ideas for a new kind of restaurant (The chef teaches you how to cook the meal you are about to eat) - but never have it code or ask it about facts, it makes them up just as easily as the stuff I just described.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

In before the XKCD reference!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Worf may be a badass, but there are many that are just badder than he is. But as the Jem Hadar guy said "I cannot defeat this man, I can only kill him".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I also had to (under KDE)

  • Edit the settings for each of the folders in Dolphin (The file manager)

  • Edit the location of the desktop folder in the settings found by right-clicking the desktop and going into "Configure Desktop and Wallpaper" Location.

  • Edit the show item by choosing Custom Location, and adding the XDG directory for the desktop. This setting may not stick.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Why aren't all of these just normal directories under either .local (for data files) or .config (for configuration)???

Actually, I think the XDG directories should be under a single XDG directory either dotted or not (a better name would be OK with me) ~/xdg/Documents, ~/xdg/Music, ~/xdg/Pictures etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Always mount a scratch test subject before testing or reconfiguring.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/S/scratch-monkey.html

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

But that was just Q's ad hominem response to an even better exchange: Q: What must I do to convince you people (that he is mortal and without powers) Worf: die.

Sorry I know you said "not epic" but most things Worf says are epic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nvidia does not 'hate' Linux, Nvidia simply never thinks about Linux. They need to keep secrets so people can't buy the cheap card and with a little programming turn it into the expensive card.