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The Linux ecosystem is vast and diverse, offering a multitude of distributions to suit every need and preference. With hundreds of distros to choose from, it's a pity that most are rarely mentioned while the popular ones are constantly being regurgitated.
This thread aims to celebrate this diversity and shine a light on smaller projects with passionate developers. I invite you to pitch your favorite underappreciated distro and share your experiences with those lesser-known Linux distributions that deserve more attention.
While there are no strict rules or banlists, I encourage you to focus on truly niche or exotic distributions rather than the more commonly discussed ones. Consider touching upon what makes your chosen distro unique:
- What features or philosophies set it apart?
- Why do you favor it over other distros, including the popular ones? (Beyond "It just works.")
- In what situations would you recommend it to others?
Whether it's a specialized distro for a particular use case or a general-purpose OS with a unique twist, let's explore the road less traveled in the Linux landscape. Your insights could introduce fellow enthusiasts to their next favorite distribution!
I installed it on my Desktop, replacing LMDE. Unfortunately I have trouble running the one game that I play even though it works on Linux with Steam. It worked in Linux Mint, but for some reason it won't start in Bazzite. Surely it's because I have an Nvidia graphics card, but that wasn't a problem with Linux Mint.
Another problem that I ran into was Firefox (flatpak) crashing all the time. Luckily you just have to disable wayland using Flatseal, but I still get graphics glitches with it.
I'm thinking of restoring my Linux Mint backup.
I don't know why I'm responding to your comment, I just wanted to share my experience, I guess.
That Firefox bug is Mozilla's fault and happens to anyone on Wayland + Nvidia right now. It's fixed in the nightly Firefox build. There's no official flatpaks for the nightly, but you can install it in distrobox and export it.
I recommend hopping in their Discord for help with your game. The devs are always responding to folks in there.
I finally got fed up with my Windows machine and upon seeing symptoms of motherboard failure, I've ordered all the parts for a new rig and intend on installing Linux as my primary OS.
Haven't decided on a distro yet. I'm a DevOps engineer with a few passion projects, so I plan on setting up a couple of kubernetes clusters where I can play. I do all the usual things (word processing, gaming, web browsing, multimedia, etc), plus some AI stuff (stable diffusion, local LLMs, OpenCV). Ideally don't want to have to fuss with drivers too much, but I don't mind getting my hands dirty every now and then.
Is Chimera the kind of distro I should be looking at, or should I pick something else for my first go at full-time Linux?
I have HoloISO running around on mini PCs because they just work as remote steam machines, can play games in their own right, and I can use them as media boxes if I want. I don't necessarily recommend it, but it was super easy to install and configure except for the Bluetooth issue that cropped up occasionally where I had to unload and reload the Bluetooth module. Now I just have a script that automatically does that on boot because I can't give a shit about fixing it.
I also have a couple of Slax USBs running around. They used to be relatively popular with folks who fixed computers. I like building from modules and I'm familiar with Slackware so it was a good fit for a live environment.
https://www.crunchbangplusplus.org/
Crunchbang was one of the first Linux experiences I had and then found ++, I stopped using it recently to try out pop!os but the idea of crunchbang++ never leaves me. It was great on my little thin client laptop
I know this might be asking for trouble, but how does BunsenLabs compare to CB++? I know they both came out of Crunchbang but I went with BL when that died.
These days I'm on EndeavourOS, but I still use Openbox instead of DEs and customize it to look as much like Crunchbang as possible 😄
Edit: also, I feel naked without Conky on my desktop.
how does BunsenLabs compare to CB++? I know they both came out of Crunchbang but I went with BL when that died.
Also interested. Same scenario.
Want there a post I saw just the other day about Nvidia starting to make open source releases with one of the upcoming driver updates? I just saw it yesterday and didn't even think I checked it out yet but it's somewhere here on my "look at better later" lists here.
It would be fine then if that was true.
I think nixos is still niche, but seems to be gaining momentum. It has some unique features:
There are certainly downsides - poor docs, confusing core language. Instructions for installing something on say debian will not work on nixos. I do think this style of package management is the future, if perhaps not this specific implementation. It can be a pain but its also super solid.
I use NixOS on my workstations, and I'm slowly migrating many of my server VMs over to it.
NixOS w/flakes + home-manager + impermanence on zfs + disko w/ nixos-anywhere is amazing and gives an insane amount of declarative control over your system.
That said, the current state of the leadership gives me pause to recommend it to anyone, and I do have a few devil's advocate responses to some of what you said:
Every package has its own dependencies, so you can install a 7 year old firefox alongside the latest, and have no interference.
Unless the dependency is Qt, then it better all be the same version.
Abandons the HFS, but can still fake it for apps that need it.
Using ldd and nix-alien to patch in dynamic libraries still sucks, and often doesn't work without a lot of extra effort. If what I want isn't in nixpkgs, and I can't get nix-alien to work on the first try, I just end up not using whatever I want trying to run.
What, you don't have 64 GB of RAM?
Jokes aside, the hardware reqs for Qubes are about on-par with Windows, so its not too bad.
If that is what you are looking for, try Chimera Linux. It was created by a Void maintainer.
Windows 11 minimally requires: Memory: 4 gigabytes (GB) or greater.
Qubes OS minimally requires: Memory: 6 GB RAM
Compartmentalization buys you disposable VMs.
And more.
TAILS is amnesic, which is an improvement to this.
How? Please focus on the security merits.
Everything is lost between sessions
If this is your reasoning to justify your earlier statement, please explain how this outdoes Qubes OS when it comes to security.
Btw, it seems you're conflating protection against forensics with a proper security model. In terms of security, TAILS does not provide anything remotely comparable to Qubes OS. Qubes OS is literally built differently. In case you enjoy tables.
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Guix - It's basically an abstraction over software compilation and distribution. It uses guile lisp language as glue to bind it all together. (Full programming language to configure with)
The beauty arises if you want to get a minimal os running with a single application and package it either as a full iso or a docker container you can. Or if you need to get an OS to run as your router.
It's also highly encourages free software to the point, that proprietary software actually feels like huge downgrade to include. (Compilation from source is always available)
I've been using this only for 11 months. I've barely scratched the surface on what is possible. So I'm pretty sure I'm not making it justice on what a gem it is. For example: Only recently I started to use programs in an immutable way.
Thanks for the info, although versioning afaik not the thing that keeps it behind. There are tools to import the necessary packages with 'guix import crate'. It automatically selects the necessary packages.
Difficulties arise when Cargo.toml for example uses git as source. Then you have to pull and write specifications for not a standard package. The build system is isolated and cannot download anything off the internet.
The guix manual is pretty well explained. Now i'm learning Guile (Scheme's dialog) and learning to configure both guix and guix system.
The fact of being able to revert system and home environment software installation and configuration without breaking anything, is too good to be true.
It's also very cool to define packages either as compiled software or source packages to compile.
More niche? Opensuse Kalpa.
I started running it and their are some pains like figuring out which layer to install tablet driver software, undervolting software, and kde connect. Seam flatpak still sucks dick and the tray icon for it doesn't work at all and it needs a ton of modifications to get things to where the native steam runtime just works, but still a fun experiment.
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Sound reasoning. That said…
Have you considered using Distrobox?
You can use Distrobox to crate a dev environment on Chimera based on glibc ( like Arch for example with its 80,000 up-to-date packages ).
This has the added bonus of keeping your dev environment somewhat apart from your main install. If you ever want a clean slate ( too many junk packages accumulated or you mess something up ), you can refresh your dev environment without impacting your main desktop. You can also have multiple dev environments for different projects.
Small nit-pick: MUSL is libc too. I think you meant to say Glibc ( the GNU libc implementation ).
I think it could be good for something like an office, where it might be beneficial to have everyone on an identical setup that's immutable so they can't mess with it, and can (presumably) be duplicated by just copying a config file.
I assume the con would be that if something breaks in an update, it probably breaks for everyone. But by the same token, the solution should fix it for everyone too.
May I ask what the issue actually was? Was it about "working system" or about "working development system"?
I don't recall needing more than two days for getting a system up and running for the first time, and in fact it worked so well that I switched all my machines to it by now; granted, I have changed a lot about the configuration ever since and there seem to be a lot of paths to take in the beginning and it's not always clear which one to take. But getting a working system, even one suited for development (personally, I'd recommend a nix development shell for that), shouldn't really take that long.
I like TailsOS, which is an amnesiac system that runs entirely in RAM and boots from a USB hard drive. The goal for the operating system is to be a safe operating system for people who are in compromising situations - from international reporters to survivors of domestic abuse, it is a way to highly reduce your ability to be tracked.
The downsides of amnesiac systems are obvious - without enabling the setting for permanent storage, effectively everything you do on the OS is lost every time. And if you do enable persistent memory, well, that's not exactly entirely safe if you are caught out.
What I like the OS for though is as someone who is not compromised or in a situation where I need these privacies (despite appreciating them), my usage of it makes it safer for others who are using it (since internet is through Tor), and I feel more comfortable using computers in the wild when needed, since I'm not logging in on the public operating system that will be used by everybody else.
Many people give these projects flack or diminish their values as a "daily driver", but I think often times forget the important aspects of them. They may not be a daily driver for you or I by nature of our needs, but they are certainly important daily drivers for others. In addition to that, supporting a project that helps people in compromised situations and becoming another node to bounce off of (again, Tor, not inherent to the usage of this OS) is a nice additional benefit.
Tl;DR amnesiac operating systems because they're simple, straightforward, and make you feel more like whitehat hackerman when you've done nothing at all.
I had PostmarkedOS, which is Alpine with some extra phone stuff
We need more arm packages..
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TempleOS (formerly J Operating System, LoseThos, and SparrowOS) is a biblical-themed lightweight operating system (OS) designed to be the Third Temple prophesied in the Bible. It was created by American programmer Terry A. Davis, who developed it alone over the course of a decade after a series of manic episodes that he later described as a revelation from God.Davis began developing TempleOS circa 2003. One of its early names was the "J Operating System" before renaming it to "LoseThos", a reference to a scene from the 1986 film Platoon. In 2008, Davis wrote that LoseThos was "primarily for making video games. It has no networking or Internet support. As far as I'm concerned, that would be reinventing the wheel". Another name he used was "SparrowOS" before settling on "TempleOS". In mid-2013, his website announced: "God's temple is finished. Now, God kills CIA until it spreads [sic]."
Davis died after being hit by a train on August 11, 2018.
TempleOS was written in a programming language developed by Davis as a middle ground between C and C++, originally called "C+" (C Plus), later renamed to "Holy C", possibly a reference to the Holy See. It doubles as the shell language, enabling the writing and execution of entire applications from within the shell. The IDE that comes with TempleOS supports several features, such as embedding images in code. It uses a non-standard text format (known as DolDoc) which has support for hypertext links, images, and 3D meshes to be embedded into what are otherwise standard ASCII files; for example, a file can have a spinning 3D model of a tank as a comment in source code. Most code in the OS is JIT-compiled, and it is generally encouraged to use JIT compilation as opposed to creating binaries. Davis ultimately wrote over 100,000 lines of code for the OS.
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No, but yes.
Crowdstrike was one of the first companies doing EDR, and have a first mover advantage they have held onto. Lots of other companies offer good solutions now, but crowdstrike is still considered the gold standard, and they have worked hard to become the "default" for their market segment.
What CrowdStrike is actually selling, is someone who actually looks at the system logs and who pushes a button when something pops up. Roughly.
There are better solutions on the market. Unfortunately CrowdStrike has the more aggressive sales team.
For those wondering, I’m referring to *nix based solutions like SElinux, appArmor, iptables, nftables, cgroups, …
But you need to monitor your logs if you want to take appropriate action.
The problem with SELinux/nftables/cgroups is that they don't come with a centralised log aggregator, and they don't do much blocking beyond the defaults for 99% of deployments. Also, SELinux is a massive pain to set up (even compared to AppArmor), and setting it up correctly is even worse.
CrowdStrike does a lot of what SELinux does but it's easier to configure, works on every operating system, and comes with tools to roll out configuration across an organisation. There's nothing close to that in the open source world. Even if you set up something yourself, you'll need to continuously tweak your setup not to get in the way of employees and to prevent alert fatigue from all of the false positives.
I think a preconfigured solution like Security Onion combined with tons of group policy and Ansible can form an open source alternative, but that only monitors, whereas CrowdStrike also blocks. To block behaviour, you'll need to write code for most platforms, and that's just as likely to take down your org as an auto update from CrowdStrike.
The problem with SELinux/nftables/cgroups is that they don't come with a centralised log aggregator, and they don't do much blocking beyond the defaults for 99% of deployments.
You must not have heard of (r)syslog.
Also, SELinux is a massive pain to set up (even compared to AppArmor), and setting it up correctly is even worse.
I beg to differ, I find SELinux easy to setup. But your mileage may vary, depending on one’s experience.
CrowdStrike does a lot of what SELinux does but it's easier to configure, works on every operating system, and comes with tools to roll out configuration across an organisation. There's nothing close to that in the open source world. Even if you set up something yourself, you'll need to continuously tweak your setup not to get in the way of employees and to prevent alert fatigue from all of the false positives.
Apparently, recent events show it doesn’t work on every OS… 😜
When talking about ease of use… Configuration is configuration. If you do not take the time to learn how to use your product, the product you know will always be better than the one you don’t. I’ve used Crowdstrike. I’ve battled them to get their kernel modules signing certificate to be signed by RedHat. I’ve battled them to have the possibility to have the auto update disabled. So no, I am not impressed by the quality of their product.
I’ll bet any day a vanilla RHEL with the correct security related software and the latest updates outperforms and outclasses Crowdstrike.
I think a preconfigured solution like Security Onion combined with tons of group policy and Ansible can form an open source alternative, but that only monitors, whereas CrowdStrike also blocks. To block behaviour, you'll need to write code for most platforms, and that's just as likely to take down your org as an auto update from CrowdStrike.
I can’t speak of MS products, as I have not managed them for 20 years, but all of this is not needed on a decent Linux distro.
rsyslog and many other frameworks only work for programs that also output to rsyslog. For programs that do log to rsyslog, structured logging support is rarely available. There's a reason tools like LogBeat exist; rsyslog is but one log aggregation tool.
SELinux is easy for trivial setups, but its tooling is clunky (and who the hell uses a binary format to store permissions anyway?). I much prefer AppArmor myself.
I don't think CrowdStrike's target audience is Linux shops. I get the feeling they have Linux support because some of their customers asked about it, and maybe it'll work on some loosely configured end user systems, but enterprise Linux doesn't seem to be their focus.
What do you use for live threat protection on Linux? If there's a way to avoid these closed source trash fires I'll gladly take it, but the best I've come across has been ClamAV and that's not that great.
Basically, drivers can launch code all the way up to ring 0, the highest level a code can access to. This mean it runs its code with the same priviledges as the kernel itself. The anti-malware solution CrowdStrike makes use of this access to determine what could be going wrong, and deploy solutions accordingly.
If a code running in that level crashes, Windows will rightfully assume there's something really fucked up is going on, and give out a BSOD.
there's something really fucked up going on
I would actually prefer this kind of error over the usual and equally uninformative "Oopsie! Something went wrong. We're sorry 🙁"
The QR code Windows displays usually brings up a documentation page containing more information. Windows also displays a stop code next to the QR code (something like BOOT_DEVICE_NOT_FOUND, MEMORY_MANAGEMENT, CRITICAL_ACCESS_DENIED) and the failing driver's name (if available).
If you want to dig into the details, you can run a program like WhoCrashed, or dig into the crash using windbg to analyse the crashdump file on the hard drive.
I hate the "something went wrong" popups individual applications show (though I admit I've written those myself to deal with errors that should never ever happen), but bluescreens are usually quite informative if you read beyond the indicator for regular people.
Windows used to dump memory locations of the failing driver and even opcodes, the same way Linux does, but that scared a lot of people because they had no hope of understanding any of it. With KASLR the memory addresses are useless anyway, and it's not like modern drivers come with debug symbols to show the crashing method name, so Windows started hiding unnecessary details, which I think is a good thing.
It's one of the better EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) tools on the market. For enterprises, they are able to suck down tons of system activities and provide alerting for security teams.
For detection, when I say "tons of data", I mean it. Any background logs related to network activity, filesystem activity, command line info, service info, service actions and much more for every endpoint in an organization.
The response component can block execution of apps or completely isolate an endpoint if it is compromised, only allowing access by security staff.
Because Crowdstrike can (kind of) handle that much data and still be able to run rule checks while also providing SOC services makes them a common choice for enterprises.
The problem is that EDR tools need to run at the kernel level (or at a very high permission level) to be able to read that type data and also block it. This increases the risk of catastrophic problems if specific drivers are blocked by another kind of anti-malware service.
When you look at how EDR tools function, there is little difference between them and well written malware.
Crowdstrike became a choice recently for many companies that got fucked over by Broadcom buying VMWare. VMWare owned another tool, Carbon Black, which became subject to the fuckery of Broadcom so more companies scrambled to Crowdstrike recently.
I hope that was enough of a summary.
Operating systems are moving as much software out of the low level kernel space as they can. On Windows, the entire GPU driver can crash and the OS will just flash a black screen and recover. Your games and browser probably go down with the driver, but that important Word document you had open in the background will survive.
In this case, there's no way to implement the features at hand anywhere but deep down at the kernel level. It's like anticheat but except for intercepting cheating software it's intercepting all software that looks a bit suspicious. There are ways to protect against this (running applications in a virtual machine with a microkernel of their own for instance) but in practice this won't work for the type of user Windows mostly serves.
As long as software like CrowdStrike is necessary, we run the risk of this stuff crashing. However, the impact doesn't need to be this high; the reason everything went to shit is that every company installed this one piece of software onto their critical machines, rather than diversifying and having two different vendors. They probably don't want twice the management overhead and twice the price, but they could've gone with a competitor on half their systems and only have half their services crash.
Nobody on Linux puts such software in kernel space
Falcon Sensor is also being distributed for RHEL and Debian, and it caused issues there too.
https://www.neowin.net/news/crowdstrike-broke-debian-and-rocky-linux-months-ago-but-no-one-noticed/
CrowdStrike recently caused a widespread Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue on Windows PCs, disrupting various sectors. However, this was not an isolated incident, CrowdStrike affected Linux PCs also.Pradeep Viswanathan (Neowin)
I think this is part of the reason Apple is trying real hard to prevent people from loading third party drivers. While that means a lot of hardware simply won't work on their machines, at least a bug can't cause a kernel panic.
As long as third party software is allowed to be loaded into the kernel (drivers, HALs, filters) we'll have bluescreens created by applications. You can go without third party drivers, you just won't be able to game on your computer, or run any antivirus software that wasn't made by your OS vendor, or use any USB peripheral more complicated than a keyboard, or use WiFi.
They are, but many if them don't provide the same abilities or functionality that the kernel level interfaces did. For example, their network filtering/firewall API had (has?) a design flaw that allowed Apple's software to bypass any attempts to block traffic.
Windows does the same, and Linux is slowly moving towards running more stuff in user space as well, but there's no way to run something like CrowdStrike without low level access, at least not without crippling its capabilities.
https://youtu.be/4yDm6xNeYas?si=0VzBxIuPEHC4SMaa
This fireship video is a good, short explanation.
How so? System Restore already automatically reverts to OS to a previous state after blue screens during boot since at least Windows 8, and you could do it manually since at least Windows Vista.
The problem isn't working around the problem (just rename or delete a single .sys file), it's that this happened almost exclusively to massive companies with hundreds or thousands of computers. The fix itself takes maybe a minute, the problem is the massive amounts of work this requires to do across tens of thousands of computers.
Luckily, the quick solution seems to be "reboot the computer about 15 times so the automatic update that fixes the bug probably gets applied before the next crash", but for systems where that doesn't work, manual intervention is necessary.
Definitely a "woah bruh 420 blaze it" kind of thought this eve, but I'm wondering if there is a philosophy, lifestyle, or technique that addresses this:
I often wish for some way of making anything worth doing, therefore removing the need to judge whether something is worth doing.
Many hours of my "free time" outside of work are a struggle of meta-evaluation re: "time investment" and feel it would be so much more peaceful to outgrow this mindset
Edit: Thank you all for sharing your thoughts and advice. Seeing both simple truths and nuanced anecdotes makes for wonderful reading, and I'm glad I put this question out there ✨
Happiness is worth doing.
The earlier you realize that the only reason to be as productive as possible is to maximize your free time the better your life will be.
Just wait until this extends to "work" as well!
Seriously though, nothing is "worth" doing. Eventually we'll have the heat death of the universe. Or our sun will die and we haven't figured out interstellar travel. Or climate change will destroy everything. Or you'll just simply die.
Once you accept that nothing is worth doing though, is when you can stop worrying if something is worth doing and just do it. Like you could either do nothing and end it now or do something. Usually, your natural biological will to live won't let you do nothing and end it, so you might as well do something.
Value is only determined by what someone is willing to spend.
If you spent your night playing a video game, then that was worth it, because that's what you paid for it. Simple as that.
Everything you do is already worth it.
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius might help. It's a bit hard to judge without knowing more about your situation.
You could also look into mindfulness. When I feel rushed by my internal monkey drive and I am tired of it, I just slow down. More and more, gradually. If it doesn't go away I'll simply stop what I am doing. I'll just sit down on a chair lol. Trust me that drive will die down and that will give you space to live. Just want to do my darn dishes in peace!
I'm reading a book about fostering good habits, and there's this novel idea that you should celebrate your small victories.
As someone who has struggled with depression most of my life, I can tell you that often times most things don't seem worth doing. Like, why bother making the bed if I'm just going to mess it up later?
Well, if you only do the things that seem worth doing, you can run into trouble when your perception of what's worth doing is skewed. And as you do less and less because nothing seems worth it, you'll find that it starts taking more effort to do anything at all.
But if you allow yourself to feel good because you did something, the outlook starts to shift. Suddenly you want to do things because that means you're winning. Nothing feels better than feeling good, so your brain will seek out more of that behavior.
Then almost before you know it, you realize your perspective has shifted. Nothing seemed worth doing before, but now suddenly everything is worth doing as long as you can feel good while you're doing it.
Okay, so enough with the sermon, here's the technique:
Break the activity into its smallest part, and when you accomplish that part immediately celebrate.
Example, if you want to make flossing more worthwhile, celebrate after you floss each tooth.
That's it.
Celebrating will look different for different people. Say "Awesome job!", fist pump, strike a pose, do a dance, smile, make sound effects, congratulate yourself, imagine thunderous applause, pretend you're in a video game and you just got 100 points, mentally affirm that you're starting to get your shit together. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as it makes you happy.
Anyway, I don't promise it'll be easy or happen overnight. But if you start small you can foster this feeling of celebration and suddenly things will seem more worthwhile.
Value is a personal and arbitrary decision. You are free to value anything you want as much as you want. Everyone has this freedom.
This means that everything can "be worth doing" to anyone who chooses to value it highly enough compared to the cost of doing it.
Peace.
The act of engaging fully in things without worrying about their value is called “playing”.
My advice, if you need a formal way to start playing, would be to join an acting class and then act in some roles.
Being an actor requires you to be able to go all in regardless of how real or fake a thing is. It will allow you to practice decoupling your investment from any evaluation of whether it’s worth it.
Like, if you’re playing an Oompah Loompah, you will act out being very concerned with the running of candy-making machines, despite having zero call for such focus in real life.
This is why we call it “acting”. It’s acting in the sense a robot’s “actuators” are its output. As an actor you cease focus on input and processing, and put all of your focus on your output, your action.
Which is, in a particular way, exactly what your question is asking for.
Optimistic nihilism is my chosen way of life. Here’s a really good kurzgesagt video on it: https://youtu.be/MBRqu0YOH14?si=2xh3B1eQJN4xosI6
[insert happy/sad bus meme, but both sides say “nothing matters”]
Another way of thinking of it, if you only get to experience this once, make it the best experience you can.
What brands do you avoid at all cost?
I don't keep up with the news all that much, and many of the reasons to avoid something don't make it there anyway. So I'm asking here to make a big list of things to avoid. It could be anything from bad security practices to really frustrating packaging. Working as a cashier myself, I definitely know there are plenty of brands I avoid purely on the basis that their product is a pain to stock.
On the flip side, what's the alternative? If you avoid Pepsi, for example, what do you turn to instead?
Well, I guess spirit is technically the cheapest. So that might be worth it to people all on its own. But I find the seating to be very cramped, I don't like the feeling of being "nickel and dimed" with their "charge for everything" scheme, and when I rode spirit they would have extremely generous take off and landing estimates so that even with many delays, they are still "on time".
None of this is really malicious, I think they are clear about the fact that they offer cheap tickets for a cheap experience. But man, as a customer, it feels bad. I will just pay the extra money and go with something else.
Not really answering the question but I've completely stopped buying anything that requires USB micro B. I can't fucking stand that connector. USB C costs a negligible amount more and I've yet to have a single port or cable fail irreparably after using it for the best part of a decade.
An actual answer to the question? I'm done with Microsoft and Nvidia. I'd love to add Google to the list but I'm still largely entrenched in their ecosystem.
Samsung. & Vodafone.
For NZrs: Fisher & Pykel.
F&P quality is shit and the first two have awful customer service. Samsung also, while they do innovate, lack quality and don't stick by their products.
Also: HP and Apple. Shitty lock-in tactics
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Coca-Cola, Apple, Samsung, HP.
My alternatives are none (water & coffee only), Android (OnePlus specifically for phones), LG/Toshiba for consumer electronics, Brother for printers and Dell or Lenovo for laptops.
Edit: Oh yeah and Tesla, not only because of Musk, I simply don't want to drive a tablet on wheels. I'm going for low-tech cars only. Some barebones Kia, Hyundai or Dacia.
Amazon: I avoid them because of worker abuse and union busting. While prime shipping is convenient, planning around not having it comes pretty naturally. Just plan as if it’s not an option at all. This does require good internet search skills to find sites that sell what you’re looking for, but I can’t express how worth it the work is to get better quality products.
Starbucks: I avoid them because of union busting. I make most of my coffee and tea at home, it’s cheaper and better anyway. Otherwise, I go to a local cafe. My area has a lot of them, but even if yours doesn’t, try asking around.
I can understand people find Apple stuff outrageously expensive and locked down, but come on have some justice on its performance.
I have a dual boot Win/Linux PC with Ryzen 5800x, and an MBP M2 Pro laptop. MBP blows my PC out of the water for my job, which requires hundreds of layers of audio running bazillions of DSPs in real time. Even renders take 30% less time on M2 on my case. And that’s happening on battery.
I never get that much optimized power on my PC. I have to disagree there’s anything out there that performs better for a user just want to have the job done in a reasonable time.
Yeah, we've got something I recall being called the P-laws or something brought in, meaning all new sockets need to be a certain height above floor level.
I've seen many rented houses here that still have them on the floor since older builds ain't required to rectify them. Scary if you see all the recent flooding we've been having in some parts of the country :/
But those three pin / fused BS 1363 whilst been one of the safest sockets you can get, I can confirm they're an absolute bastard if you stand on one.
HiSense - they make appliances and they're junk
All bottled water - no one needs them and it's plastic that's here forever
Temu - disposable shit
Bath and Body Works - the creators of microbeads (plastic) hand soap
Teflon - poisoned my town's water
Chick-fil-A - evangelist food, no thanks
All bottled water - no one needs them and it's plastic that's here forever
Depends on where you live. It's a bit ignorant to say "no one needs them". Also sometimes you have no choice, like maybe in an airport.
Yes yes, exceptions.
I live in one of the worst cities regarding lead in the drinking water though, thanks to old pipes, but a waterfilter solved all this.
Samsung; just a lot of general very anti-consumer behaviour
LG; a "do not sell my data" option on a TV that's turned off as standard? No, thanks
ASUS; has become pretty unreliable in my experience and their RMA shenanigans haven't helped
Apple; overpriced and anti-consumer, I wouldn't mind getting a MacBook as a gift or something, though...
Nestlé; do I really have to explain?
Amazon; treat their workers and costumers like absolute shit. I just use eBay for most stuff, although they're probably not that much better tbh
Spotify; endless price-hikes to enable the CEO to buy more soccer teams and firearm manufacturer shares, pay artists almost nothing per stream, disabled their car thing after two years, lied about Spotify Hi-Fi....
This might be a bit controversial, as Google is obviously also known for their fair share of not so good stuff but I really like their Pixel line of devices. Especially for that stock android experience (doesn't Samsung even pre-install TikTok nowadays?). Sony phones are also pretty decent from my experience.
As for laptops, the business lines of both Dell (Latitude & Precision) and Lenovo (ThinkPad) are pretty solid. Especially Dell's support is just amazing, I deal with them regularly at work and they've been really great.
As for ASUS; I haven't had to buy a mainboard in a while but I heard some good things about Gigabyte.
Tidal is a pretty good alternative to Spotify; I think they pay artists the most per stream out of all music streaming services, they offer true Hi-Fi quality for the same price Spotify charges for their base tier and they even upgraded all Hi-Fi members to Hi-Fi Plus for free recently.
Nestlé is a big enough campany that you just have to live with not buying their products I guess... Although there are pretty good alternatives for stuff like frozen pizza (Dr. Oetker is pretty good if that's available where you live) and chocolate (Tony's Chocolonely ftw).
I was trying to get on the list at mt work when I got a hardware refresh this year, I dislike large laptops and the dev spec is a 17" thinkpad (which imo has the left CTL and fn keys backwards, breaks muscle memory when changing between computers) but I'm docked most times but when I'm not the battery is terrible, maybe a handful of hours. Probably due to corporate crapware, but at least the arm macbooks stand a chance, my partner has an m1 mbp and she doesn't bother charging it most workdays or work with it plugged in, she doesn't need to. We were playing factorio the other night and she was moonlighting into her desktop, she got through a day's work, a bunch of hours of game streaming and some of the next work day, that should be the expectation for a normal device.
Apple in my view really understood mobile devices, they had the hands down best trackpad for a long time, a fantastic keyboard, great display, a form factor you can actually carry around and as far as I recall, even the intel macs had better battery life.
LG, Nestlé, Coke-Cola, Amazon, TikTok, Temu, any big brand bank, ASUS, Johnson Outdoors brands (jetboil, scuba pro)
Edit:forgot Tyson foods and Hormel. Their fucking over chicken farmers.
Mostly anything USA since I was 12-15 years old. Israeli too since many years ago.
Coca cola, apple, google, Intel CPUs
Dollar, Thrifty and Hertz are all the same company now. They intentionally overbook. I don't know the exact reason why.
The last time I rented with them (initially Dollar) I booked several months beforehand and when I got up to their kiosks, I ended up getting one of the last cars that they had on hand. I know I got one of the last because as I was waiting (for hours), they first closed the Dollar storefront, then they closed the Thrifty storefront - funneling everybody into one line ultimately ending up at the Hertz storefront. Shortly after I got up to the desk and they were finally giving me my paperwork and keys, they began to shut down the Hertz storefront. At this point there were still literally more than a hundred people standing in line (it was a holiday). So closing up left a whole bunch of people carless and very, very (rightfully) angry. So even waiting for hours through this bullshit, I was one of the LUCKY ONES. Let that sink in a bit.
I booked the car online at the extortionate price of $800 for a week, but ever since the pandemic, rentals have been overly expensive so whatever. Subsequently, they proceeded to apply every possible extra to the rental, without my knowledge. Extra insurance, top tier insurance, full tank of gas, roadside assistance - everything - all of which are also at inflated prices. Not until I got home did I notice that the actual cost of this rental was going to be almost $1500, TWICE THE FEE I HAD BOOKED ONLINE. I had no choice but to accept it and get on with my driving vacation, but I never forget.
Question: how is it different than the atrocities against animals most people participate in every day?
Many store-brand foods because they're made with half garbage.
HP - their printers and subscription models pissed me off so much that I want nothing to do with them.
Apple - 'nuff said
I think the key that they never admit is that none of those disposable razors can really handle anything more than a couple of days growth. If you are someone who doesn't try to stay cleanshaven, but just want to shave once you start to get scruffy, it will never work.
That's where double edge, shavettes, and true straight razors excel.
Beech-Nut baby food. They have a history of bad faith actions including multiple citations, years apart and after litigation no less, for "selling artificially flavored sugar water as apple juice."
I'm in the exact same situation, however the right shift key broke, and activates randomly. This laptop only ever moved between a cupboard and a desk, without the tiniest bump, but after a couple months of very light use the shift key breaks. I now have to have sticky keys enabled permanently.
Also the only way to enable sticky keys on the login screen is to triple click the power button. You would thing they could just put a button for the accessibility accessibility menu next to the one for the keyboard layout switcher, but no.
Nestle
HP
Apple
Tesla
There are more but those are the first that came to mind that I don't have to go dig up a list.
Apple for their poisonous followership.
Canon for being assholes.
Microsoft for their shitty products that only survive due to the mass they have acquired during the years running largely unchecked.
Facebook/Meta/Twitterx/Tesla: see Apple.
What's wrong with Canon specifically? The rest I am already aware of their sketchy dealings.
Usually Canons camera selection is quite good, was there a scandal or is it just shit support for their printers or help in general?
Personally I don’t think I’ve seen sugar-free condensed milk. Not sure how you could make it.
it's everywhere except vietnamese coffee places.
Qualcomm is designing fast-growing chipmaker Nuvia, founded in 2019, for $1.4 billion, citing the growth of 5G and Nuvia’s custom CPU core technology as a key differentiator to help it make inroads in the data center and supercharge its Snapdragon pl…Nick Statt (The Verge)
Very true.
I generally just use my ceramic bladed hair cutter on 0 when I'm not required to have a clean, clean shave, and then like I say above just use a BIC when I need a baby's bum face for work etc.
The twin / triple blades I find can be off-putting to some since if you have too much growth they latch on and snag.
I'm a big privacy and FOSS advocate so my list is kinda long, but the main ones are:
-> Google (I use GrapheneOS)
-> TikTok
-> Tesla (too much data collection)
-> Microsoft (self explanatory, however for some things I need to keep an w10 LTSC VM configured)
-> Adobe (same reasons as Michaelsoft)
-> OpenAI (same reasons as Michaelsoft, but I do use it inside a vm in no-account mode for some work related things)
-> Uber (oh man that app is digital herpes)
-> Spotify
-> Facebook/Meta
-> Dropbox
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Not entirely sure yet. I do know that whatever I get, I'll be installing Linux on it instead of android. I might try out one of those de-googled android copies, but I'm not sure.
I've got my eye on the rugged survival phone market though. They seem to have different priorities than everyone else, and it seems to really improve the quality of the phones. I haven't yet found anything that exactly matches my personal requirements though, and most of them are unpopular enough that Linux support is unlikely to ever happen.
Overall, I'll probobly have to settle for something less than optimal.
I try and not support many corporate brands, and buy local produce and meats.
It's easier to avoid problem companies by not buying any of the millions of cheap snack foods that are basically just repackaged corn syrup and starches.
Work backwards. Find some literature/research that supports what you've done and work it into your paper.
Meet with your thesis advisor frequently. They should have helped you correct course long before you reached this point.
You must have had a class on how to do research, how to cite a paper, how to look for books in a library, etc. No?
I am not trying to come of as condescendent at all, it truly baffles me because I had such classes starting in middle school all the way up to graduate school and they were mandatory. Isn't that the standard in higher education?
Now, this one may surprise you, but I recently bought Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League as a joke. And no, I did not pay $70 for the game. In fact, I bought it for a far more cheaper price on CDKeys since they were having a huge sale for North American/European game keys. Was on sale for roughly $16, a huge steal in my eyes. Capped it only because I wanted to get it to laugh at it. I original was planning to get it through the free Prime Gaming offer, but through past complications with Amazon charging us even after repeatedly cancelling our Prime subscription, I went against getting a free trial for Amazon Prime.
I have been loving the game, in a very ironic way. I'm serious. I only bought the game to see how bad it truly was and to laugh at the game's bad design choices (mostly the lackluster story). I just wanted the game for shits and giggles, nothing serious. I only like the game because of how goddamn bad it is. Literally wanted to laugh out loud while I was playing through the first 2 hours. It's so bad, but hilariously bad. The story doesn't make sence, either - why was the Suicide Squad recruited by a literal FBI agent? I get that it's about the Justice League becoming evil and all, but it still doesn't make any sense to me.
Needless to say, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is a guilty pleasure of mine. Because I like laughing at it.
Also, of COURSE I got Garfield Kart: Furious Racing. My Steam library truly didn't feel complete until I got gifted the game.
I only wanted the game as a joke, not for any serious reasons. But dang, it's actually a fun time-waster.
I've bought that game quite some time ago as a meme
The devs behind it appearently started hosting contests for it so joined them for the heck of it.
Yeah, I agree. It is extremely disappointing to know that this was Kevin Conroy's farewell. His swan song. The man deserved to have a much better end to his career. Heck, even Orson Welles had a much better one when Netflix dropped his unreleased movie "The Other Side of the Wind". He deserved to go out with a bang, and I was very disheartened by what we got, genuinely.
The game's concept was good but the execution of it was terrible in so many departments.
It's another one of those "great concept with bad execution" examples.
Fps chess - not bad really, the mechanics are but thats part of the charm
Muck - made for a game jam, fun with friends
Retail royale - ikea themed battle royale, no more than 12 players online typically
The looker - satire game based on the watcher
Leaf blower revolution - cookie clicker style idle game with more engaging mechanics. Not bad really but a time waster fs
Unturned - just a classic but still silly
Lunch lady - group survival horror game, played it once, not great
Pearphone.io - fps game where you play as a pear shaped phone with a pear logo, no comment
Peasant royale - self explanatory I think
Rust
Pearphone.io
I was wondering if that was based off of the fictional phone in iCarly, and I was correct.
Chess, but you replace your entire army with a royal shotgun. A unique strategy roguelike based on the timeless checkboard classic.store.steampowered.com
Maybe not quite the answer to the question you asked, but I have a relevant story.
My very favorite YouTuber is named "Any Austin". (Just stay with me here.) And he has a show called "VG Wham" in which he goes to some e-store for video games (the Switch eStore, the PlayStation e-store, Steam, whatever) and purchases a game priced $2 or under and plays/reviews it.
Fully expecting it to be terrible, mind you. He does honestly review the games and gives his thoughts about them, but it's still mostly comedy content. Not generally the sort of show you'd watch to find good games to potentially buy and enjoy.
But one game in particular he clearly loved was "Radiation Island" by a studio called "Atypical Games." The episode of VG Wham in question is . But he loved this particular game so much he streamed a full playthrough that itself is a masterpiece. And throughout he constantly flip flops from deriding it ot praising it to praising it ironically. It's like nothing else I've ever seen.
And the game itself makes zero sense, it's absolute purchased assets trash, kindof minimum viable product as a game, really just churned out in about 5 minutes for a buck. And it's evident from Any Austin's stream.
I rewatched that stream just recently and decided to go ahead and purchase the game. I'd seen it played, but didn't really know what it would be like to play it myself. I really didn't know whether it was going to be crap or awesome.
If anyone else picks it up, I highly recommend the hardest difficulty.
I haven't yet played the sequel "Radiation City." Any Austin streamed it, but didn't like it as much. I bought a copy and intend to play it at some point, but I haven't started it yet.
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I bought BioFreaks for PS1 because it looked fun. I knew it would be janky and have weird physics, but it's also got a weird dystopian story too!
To be fair, I was 8 or 9 at the time, but it's an entertaining piece of shit, like Pitball (also for PS1).
My friend made Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015. He explained it to me and I was like, "who tf showered with their dad growing up!?" Surprisingly the friend group was split in half on that one and it was common.
Anyway, I told him I'd grab it just have it appear in my library, but it's half fun. I remember unlocking the Inglorious Bathdads mode, thinking he was genius.
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I made Diarrhea 4 as a joke. Does that count?
I bought and played many a bad game but never as a joke.
Yep! I have Big Bumpin' in my collection, got it for free after I was specifically requesting a retro game shop owner if he had any of the three Burger King games in stock. He was actually surprised that someone was actually looking for these games, and he opened a drawer, and handed me a copy of Big Bumpin'. Dude threw it in as a bonus game and only made us pay for Watch Dogs: Legion. He was the nicest and coolest retro shop owner I have ever met. A few months before he gave me that for free, he gave my sister some free PlayStation headphones and stated that he wasn't sure if they were working or not. And guess what? It worked. Flawlessly.
Dude is still around, still kicking ass at retro game store even to this day.
In fact, I think it was the owner of the shop who gave it to me.
Sharknado VR. Got it on sale for half a dollar. Not bad for the price. It was about what I expected and with a playtime of about 30 minutes it didn't have the time to get stale.
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I got a game where you play as a piece of bread. I think it was called Toast?
Yeah, that didn't last too long as an installed game.
I got a game where you play as a piece of bread. I think it was called Toast?
Wait, was it "I Am Bread"?
Yep, figured that was the one lol. 😂
Bossa really loved making rage games. In fact, they made a sequel called "I Am Fish", where you control a fish in a fishbowl. I played that for 10 minutes and couldn't handle it anymore. The controls were a nightmare... far too clunky.
Oh my God, yes, the controls drove me mad.
I would play that stupid ass concept game more if it wasn't so fucking broken.
The concept turned into an actual fully-fledged game on Steam. It's one of the few Bossa Presents titles that actually got greenlit from their whole graveyard of "Protohype" games. That game... no. Never again. The controls literally sent me to the point where I wanted to break my controller. They shut down Worlds Adrift for this garbage streamer-bait.
I will be avoiding that game like the plague from here on out.
I Am Fish is a charming, physics-based adventure starring four intrepid fish friends, forcibly separated from their home in a pet shop fish tank. Swim, fly, roll and chomp your way to the open ocean in a bid for freedom and to re-unite once again.store.steampowered.com
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Ah, yes, the infamous Sonic the Hedgehog Xbox 360 game (Sonic '06). Weirdest fricking Sonic game in existence. And not weird as in bad, but weird in general. Why was Sonic having sensual moments with a human princess? Why are we running around aimlessly in a city? Why are the controls so bad? All of these weird design choices just makes it... interesting, to say the least.
I'd pick it up just for shits and giggles.
Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death.
It’s not as bad as I expected.
A friend gifted me snowrunner. I didn't think I'd like it. In fact the learning curve was so steep (and the beginner trucks so bad) that I actually rage quit it the first time I played it.
I now have over 500h lmao
I vibe with you. I frickin' LOVE Goat Simulator! Just a hell of a fun game where you can cause as much chaos as you please as a goat. I have played the original and every one of its DLC packs, and I pre-ordered Goat Simulator 3 as well, and I am gonna be picking up the Multiverse of Nonsense DLC at a later point. An all-time favorite game series of mine.
Currently waiting for the Re-Maa-ster of Goat Simulator 2... (ba dum tsss) 😂😂😂
Shhh, I downloaded a ROM.
Drakengard. Good lord. What a game. Just.. just watch a video.
Quite a few, I'm one of those people. In fact, I could answer this question in so many different ways. The game I feel is the "prize" of my collection, though, is Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude.
I like the classic point and click Leisure Suit Larry games; I think they have a certain charm about them, and though they're drenched in sleaze, Larry in his quests for sex more often than not ends up the butt of the joke. Raunchy, sexual, but most importantly, mainly making fun of our protagonist desperately trying to get laid. The gameplay was fun too, point and click games have a certain feel that you don't see too much today. On top of all that, when the series moved into a more higher resolution art for LSL 4, 6 and 7 the series genuinely beautiful with an unforgettable style
LSL: MCL does not have much of this. You play truly horribly designed minigames over and over to progress. These range from bad to worse, and you will become the best virtual quarters player of all time by the end of it, I promise you. The comedy is reduced to 2000s boner comedy level, and it seems as though Larry (or Larry's nephew, Larry, in this case) is an unironic protagonist on a real quest, rather than failing upwards, accompanied by the constant mockery of our witty narrator. What once was a series about a hopeless sleazeball constantly petitioning and getting rejected by women out of his league got turned into a unironic college boning simulator. To top it all off, our beautiful art has been replaced by the early-2000s-est of 3D models and textures
I played it for 22 hours or so. Couldn't stop. It's like a car crash. Not only does it If any game deserves "so bad, it's good" status, LSL: MCL is at the top of the list.
For those kind enough to read my rant, here are some runners up from my shelf in which I assume you'd also be interested:
BCFX The Black College Football Experience:
A college football game where only Historically Black Colleges and Universities are selectable. Only part of the game is really about football, because you also play as the band at halftime in a Rock Band-style minigame. It's such a niche game, with such a niche audience. Who probably won't even like the game because it doesn't play well at all.
Sneak King:
C'mon, we all know this one. Premium, refined jank.
Fight Club:
A fighting game based on the movie based on the book, where you can play as Fred Durst from Limp Bizkit and also Abraham Lincoln should you so desire.
MTV's Pimp My Ride:
PBG fans out there, time to represent. Basically just a minigame collection with some driving between. It did, however, teach me how to Ghost Ride the Whip, for which I am eternally grateful.
I bought Ace of Seafood, in which you can play as many kinds of fish that all shoot lasers out or their mouths at other fish.
It's absolutely baffling but probably not how you'd expect.. I found it pretty technical and demanding. It's like a very serious game where you fly F16s and dogfight and destroy aircraft carriers except everything is fish. It's Japanese to the max.
I paid about £6 for it on the Switch, did not play it enough to get my moneysworth. But I think once you hear the concept, you will never stop thinking about it until you try it, so I was glad to be able to stop thinking about it.
House of the Dead: Overkill on the Wii.
Genuinely has a great (and hilarious) soundtrack.
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I'm Schedule A, have a few letters of recommendation, have my resume, and I'm getting my Bachelor's degree in Communications in one month. I'm Latino or Latina (?) so I guess there's some DEI service I can utilize....I can't fucking wait. I need a job. I need income. I need a fucking car or transportation. I need to move from this place.
It's Joever, folks... for Makan, ig? Idk, I had to squeeze in the current lingo there. But as the Joe(ker) himself said, the four-letter word on everyone's minds is "Jobs! J-O-B-S!" (Yeah, I had to Segway to an old Biden gaffe there, you see).
Anyway, I'm not anti-work, like what they have on that subreddit... and I've never exactly been "neutral" on work either.
I'm "pro-work," if anything. I want a career. I want a job or role I can take pride in. I'm disabled, yes. I'm Autistic, among other things. But gosh darnit to frick (I know, I know, naughty and vulgar language), I need a job. Maybe a union job with LiUNA or whatever. But I need a job.
But for the life of me, I suck at job-hunting.
I'm not sure what details to give to you all, but I need pointers on how to land a job, maybe you can all tell me how you were able to do it (...assuming you did, mind you)?
I just need advice...
Fyi: when you post something on the Lemmyverse everyone from the other instances can also see it and chime it. Which means everyone can see both of your posts on lemmygrad and bear.
This doesn't apply to the instances named lemmy.world and maybe sh.itjust.works since they've decided to stop sharing due to the leftist views that the lemmyverse was created to support.
I'm bothering w any of this because I wish someone had told me; so I'm trying to pass it along and good luck w the new job.
...That... last part is something I didn't really think about.
Ugh, I will definitely have to settle, I'll say that much.
Everyone is hired to solve a problem that can't be automated. Identify the
When I've been involved in interviews, rarely, but sometimes, my only two questions are,
1) Can you do the job?
2) Can we get along?
That's it. If you can answer both questions you get the job (unless someone got there first, or beat you on unfair grounds like prettiness or race or something). The first can be answered quickly by any interviewer who understands the work. Shit engineers famously display their juvenile egotism by trying to impress each other with making the process of answering this question intricate and involved, with puzzles and shit. These people are morons.
The second is answered by just getting the interviewee to talk, about anything at all, just to get the vibe. This is the more important question. Nobody wants to work with an asshole, except other assholes. Really good teams defend their vibe from assholes. Depending on the job question 2 might not be relevant at all. If someone just needs anyone to man a station then they don't care because question1 is the only important question.
As the job becomes more skilled and teamwork based, question 2 will be the more important thing. You wouldn't be in the room if you didn't already
"Tell me about yourself?", "What was the last book you read?" ...interviews are invasive and demeaning. I fucking hate either side of the desk. But that's just how it be.
Again, "Everyone is hired to solve a problem that can't be automated." Identify the principal person bothered by this problem and speak your piece to them, and their headaches, directly or indirectly. And how you're going to make everything aaalll right. With no fuss or drama and they can forget about you and get on with their own shit.
I gotta warn you, as an autistic person who graduated last year with an engineering degree...shit sucks. Half the applications are fake, half the interviews are fake just to scare the overworked employees. The hiring managers are perfectly willing to waste your fucking time justifying the existence of their jobs. I've applied for over 350 jobs and internships and gotten zero offers. Same with my classmates. Expect multiple rounds (3-6, maybe more) before getting an offer.
And engineering was supposed to be a "safe" degree. I can't imagine how much harder it is for humanities.
It's honestly about who you know, then how wealthy and privileged you already are, if you currently have a job, then how personable you are, then a whole bunch of factors I haven't been able to identify, and then at the very end, how competent you'll be in the role.
Make sure to go to your school's career fair. Dress up as much as possible and bring ~69 copies of your resumé (yes, around seventy, but I'm a manchild so I actually printed exactly 69 last career fair) and hand them all out to employers you can tolerate working for. Typically, you will be expected to know about their company's work and what positions they have available. I noticed that a lot of companies are there just for brand recognition, i.e. they're wasting your time. If they're not wasting your time, there's a good chance that the person standing there is either a braindead hiring manager or your direct supervisor, or anything in between. At my college, the companies actually list the positions they're hiring for. If there are none, I don't go to that company, because they're wasting my time or aren't serious enough to fill out the paperwork.
If your school publishes the employers who will be at the fair, make sure to scan through the list and target employers you want to talk to. Many employers have long lines, so plan accordingly. As an anarchist, I also do a bit of research on each company to make sure they're not defense contractors, police collaborators, prison contractors, etc. This eliminates a third to a half of the possible employers at my school.
Career fairs are, from my experience, emotionally and physically draining events that need several days of preparation to get any benefit, and several days of recovery. They are surprisingly loud (bring inconspicuous headphones or earplugs).
Make sure you have experience in the field you're applying to work in, even if (especially if) a job posting says you don't need it. They're lying. They're always lying. They basically don't want to train you at all. Experience in my field is internships and other free work, or a previous job. Research does not seem to count as experience. I hope your field is different.
Don't give out your personal info over email to a job posting. Don't do email interviews; make sure you see an actual moving human, be it over a video call or in person. Got my identity stolen that way. And don't work for a company that will make you cash a big check (about $5000, right up to the deposit limit for online banking) for "office supplies". It's a scam. However, legitimate companies will also ask you for basically the same information and store it in an equally insecure plain-text database, and you're expected to provide it.
For DEI stuff, you can fill it out, or not fill it out, or whatever floats your boat. For example, I fill out that I am Hispanic, but not that I'm autistic. I dunno; I just don't trust engineers to be cool with an openly autistic person based on literally every engineer or engineering-adjacent person I've ever met in person ever.
Besides letters of recognition, make sure you have people you can use as references who are actually willing to be contacted by phone.
Technically, you should tweak your resumé for every position. However, because I'm so done with this shit forever, I basically keep a few classes of resumé for different job types. For example, I have a "generic" electrical engineering template, a "control systems" template, and a "data science/software" template. If there's an opportunity I really want, only then will I tweak it by mirroring the content of the job post. It's super important for your resumé to be searchable, because the employer is probably going to just do a Ctrl+F to find relevant terms.
Make sure to also have a plain-text version of your resumé lying around. A common pattern is for the employer to have you upload a copy of your resumé and not even fucking attempt to parse it, meaning that you have to re-enter all its information by hand into their shitty form. Generally speaking, you should be expecting to spend about 15 minutes per application.
Don't put absolutely everything on the resumé. You need to leave some stories for interviews.
Do your phone and Zoom interviews in front of a computer with a text editor open. I actually take notes during and after the interview, and then commit it to a remote repo so I can pull it onto any computer and get all my notes from all phone calls. You should also have a copy of the resumé you actually submitted to the company on hand.
Technically also you should write cover letters for every position, but again because I'm so fucking done with this bullshit, I rarely do. If I'm feeling like doing a half-measure, this is actually an excellent opportunity to use ChatGPT or an open-source LLM to write for you, of course with proofreading, because this is an application where a bullshit machine ~~IS FUCKING DESERVED~~ actually works since they socially expect bullshit. Not like they're reading it anyways.
I'm "pro-work," if anything. I want a career.
Can I be honest? I desperately want to work too, but I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that it's literally easier not to fucking bother and just live off the government, parents, rich friends, and/or stealing. I'm actually a lot worse off than I used to be before studying engineering. I'm overqualified for my old job, but underqualified for engineering and tech work, and all at the price of thousands of fucking dollars of debt. Turns out capitalist "efficiency" is making it harder for us to be put to work.
Looking for work is a job in it of itself, except you don't get paid.
Starring this.
And yeah, career and job fairs might also be my best bet. Better to meet these people in-person.
I understand the last part, but I want, in my life, to at least try a career, try my hand at it. Not sure how to explain.
I understand the last part, but I want, in my life, to at least try a career, try my hand at it. Not sure how to explain.
No I get it. I'm in the same boat, I'm still trying to get a job and I really just want to start participating in the engineering world. It's just so hard to be allowed in.
It sucks but the proper mindset is "building" not "settling".
Think leapfrog
I have a hdd attached to my server. It's sda but has 2 partitions so sda1 @16M and sda2 @3.6T
It defaulted to being in the location /media/devmon so I kept that and it worked for ages.
Suddenly the data is gone.
I had files located here: /media/devmon/4tb_drive/kiwix/zim and that directory is now empty.
But I put the drive into a Windows box, and everything was there.
When I run mount /dev/sda2 /media/devmon/ it says:
The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0).
Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount.
Falling back to read-only mount because the NTFS partition is in an
unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown Windows fully (no hibernation
or fast restarting.)
Could not mount read-write, trying read-onlyHow do I get access again?
I find if I have NTFS problems, throw it back on windows, do a disk repair then come back to Linux.
Also remember to fully shut down (not sleep or hibernate) windows before removing the disk so windows doesn't lock up anything
Edit: the error actually tells you the latter of what I mentioned... So back to windows you go for a shutdown before removal
If you can access it on Windows, that's a good thing and all you need is a disk repair there. If you cannot access it even on Windows, you'll need file recovery (and another 4TB disk).
However, note that there is a good chance for NTFS disks to get corrupted on Linux if you unmount them without getting the notification that indicates it's safe to remove the disk.
So I really recommend you to find a temporary disk (or buy a new one) and copy everything to it and format your disk as a Linux file system of your choice and move your files to it, before you get a real headache with NTFS (talking out of experience).
Also note that, it's possible for NTFS disks become inaccessible if fastboot option is enabled for Windows on BIOS, if so disable it.
I used this when my son's computer wouldn't boot after a Windows update. None of Microsoft's tools would repair the disk.
I attached it to mine and ran ntfsfix on it. Success!
root@skynet:~# ntfsfix -b -d /dev/sda1
Mounting volume... NTFS signature is missing.
FAILED
Attempting to correct errors... NTFS signature is missing.
FAILED
Failed to startup volume: Invalid argument
NTFS signature is missing.
Trying the alternate boot sector
Unrecoverable error
Volume is corrupt. You should run chkdsk.
root@skynet:~# ntfsfix -b -d /dev/sda2
Mounting volume... OK
Processing of $MFT and $MFTMirr completed successfully.
Checking the alternate boot sector... OK
NTFS volume version is 3.1.
Going to un-mark the bad clusters ($BadClus)... No bad clusters...OK
NTFS partition /dev/sda2 was processed successfully.turned off windows quick start
ran chkdks D: and waited...then shut down and put drive back into linux and reboot.
still no
any ideas? clearly not the larger partition, which is good.
If you really need the data on it, get another disk and make an image of the failed drive asap.
If not, skip that step.
See if testdisk can detect your partitions and read data from them.
It is NTFS after all, support has been flaky over the years. Are you running modern Linux NTFS drivers? If there's no other messages and chkdsk repair (on Windows) doesn't fix it I would assume the filesystem is alright and look at trying different NTFS drivers versions on Linux.
Have you verified that Windows can actually read all of the files? It may show them and not be able to read some of the files if the filesystem is corrupted.
My partner worked for a local council. They reset your password every 90 days which prevented you from logging in via the VPN remotely. To fix it you'd call IT and they'll demand you tell them your current password and new password so they can change it themselves on your behalf.
Even worse, requesting a work iphone meant filling out an IT support ticket. So that IT could set up your phone for you, the ticket demanded your work domain username and password, along with your personal apple account username and password.
along with your personal apple account username and password.
I would never ever share my personal Apple account with work related things. I prefer to have my private stuff seperated from work related things.
I once worked for a small company that had such a setup: All devices were Apple, and everything was connected with the company owners private Apple accounts. That means that I was able to see personal calendars and to an extend some email-related things - Things that reveald more about a person than you wanted to know.
Startup in a rented house in a residential neighborhood
“Router” was an old PC running Linux with a few network cards, with no case, with a household fan pointed at it to keep it cool
Loose ethernet cables and little hubs everywhere
Every PC was its own thing and some people were turbo nerds. I had my Linux machine with its vertical monitor; there were many Windows machines, a couple Macs, servers and 2 scrounged Sun workstations also running Linux
No DHCP, pick your own IP and tell the IT guy, which was me, and we’ll set you up. I had a little list in my notebook.
It was great days my friends
We went out of business; no one was shocked
with a household fan pointed at it to keep it cool
It had a CPU fan, right?
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. I turned in a time card once that had over 24 hours of work on it in a row. The boss was dating a stripper, and she would sometimes bring stripper friends to our parties and hangouts. We had ninja weapons in the office. The heat was shitty, so in the winter we had to use space heaters, but that would overload the house’s power which would cause the breaker to blow which obviously caused significant issues, so a lot of people would wear coats at their desks in the winter, but that obviously doesn’t do much for your typing fingers which was an issue. I frequently would sleep in the office on the couch (a couple of people were living in bedrooms in the upstairs of the house).
Like I say, it’s not surprising that we went out of business. It was definitely pretty fuckin memorable though. Those are just some of the stories or right-away memorable pieces off the top of my head.
I was gonna ask why they didn't use DHCP and then I remembered half the stuff in my home network doesn't either.
Still have half of the IP range available for DHCP tho
Loose ethernet cables and little hubs everywhere
actual hubs; not switches?!!!
Non IT guy here.
Not all attackers might want access to the POS system. Some might just want to mess around
Couldn't someone mess with the WiFi or network itself? I'm just figuring someone who doesn't secure the WiFi is someone who's going to leave admin passwords on the default and they'd be able to mess with the network settings just enough to bring the system to a halt.
What industry are you in. This could be compliance for different reasons. Retention is a very specific thing that should be documented in policies.
I know financial institutions that specifically do not want data just hanging around. This limits liability and exposure if there is a breach, and makes any litigation much easier if the data doesn't exist by policy.
Should they be more choosy on what gets deleted, yea probably. But I understand why it's there.
I have worked as a lead developer for a major print shop with about 100 employees. The entire order workflow for all branches was shoehorned into one order management system that was initially hacked together for one or two users. It was built on a then already ancient OpenERP system and it had a PHP and smarty frontend for the actual order management. All was hosted on one old debian box which was a VM on a Windows server.
At some point in time, MT decided to slap a web shop onto this system, which was part of the main code base. User data were saved into the same database with plain text passwords. That was convenient for the support people: if somebody forgot their password, you could call support and they would read you your password over the phone.
Another thing that made my hair raise in fear, was that for every single order, any working file was retained indefinitely, even in the light of the then-looming GDPR laws. This amounted of terabytes of data, much of it very private.
I worked at the main branch. When a person walked in, there was a desktop computer at the counter. No password protection, an order management screen open by default. People could just walk in and start viewing orders at will. I am not sure whether they did, but we did push MT to at least have manadatory password protection on their PCs.
A software shouldn't use passwords for tls, just like before you use submit your bank password your network connection to the site has been validated and encrypted by the public key your client is using to talk to the bank server, and the bank private key to decrypt it.
The rest of the hygiene is still up for grabs for sure, IT security is built on layers. Even if one is broken it shouldn't lead to a failure overall. If it does, go add more layers.
To answer about something like a WiFi pineapple: those man in the middle attacks are thwarted by TLS. The moment an invalid certificate is offered, since the man in the middle should and can not know the private key (something that isn't used as whimsically as a password, and is validated by a trusted root authority).
If an attacker has a private key, your systems already have failed. You should immediately revoke it. You publish your revokation. Invalidating it. But even that would be egregious. You've already let someone into the vault, they already have the crown jewels. The POS system doesn't even need to be accessed.
So no matter what, the WiFi is irrelevant in a setup.
Being suspicious because of it though, I could understand. It's not a smoking gun, but you'd maybe look deeper out if suspicion.
Note I'm not security operations, I'm solutions and systems administrations. A Sec Ops would probably agree more with you than I do.
I consider things from a Swiss cheese model, and rely on 4+ layers of protection against most understood threat vendors. A failure of any one is minor non-compliance in my mind, a deep priority 3. Into the queue, but there's no rush. And given a public WiFi is basically the same as a compromised WiFi, or a 5g carrier network, a POS solution should be built with strengths to handle that by default. And then security layered on top (mfa, conditional access policies, PKI/TLS, Mdm, endpoint health policies, TPM and validation++++)
Freight shipping company still running on a custom AS400 application for dispatch. Time is stored as a 4-digit number, which means the nightside dispachers have their own mini Y2K bug to deal with every midnight.
On one hand, hooray for computer-enforced fucking-off every night. On the other hand, the only people who could fix an entry stuck in the system because of this were on dayside.
Apparently, this actually isn't uncommon in the industry, which I think is probably the worst part to me.
A behavioral health company with 25 iPads deployed to field employees as patient data collection devices all signed into the same iCloud account instead of using MDM or anything.
They all had the same screen lock PINs and though most of the data was stored in a cloud based service protected by a login, that app's password was saved by default.
I was a backend developer for a startup company where:
- Windows servers without any firewall and security hardening.
- Docker swarm without WSL. We had to use 4 GB Windows base images for 50MB web apps.
- MSSQL without any replication and backups.
- Redis installed on Windows via 3rd-party tool that looked like a 2010 era keygen generator.
- A malware exploited the Redis * what a surprise * and kept killing processes to mine crypto on CPU...
- VPS provider forgot to activate new Windows Server on production and it kept restart for every 30 minutes until I checked the logs and notified them about the missing license.
I left there after 6 months.
I actually disagree. I only know a little of Crowdstrike internals but they're a company that is trying to do the whole DevOps/agile bullshit the right way. Unfortunately they've undermined the practice for the rest of us working for dinosaurs trying to catch up.
Crowdstrike's problem wasn't a quality escape; that'll always happen eventually. Their problem was with their rollout processes.
There shouldn't have been a circumstance where the same code got delivered worldwide in the course of a day. If you were sane you'd canary it at first and exponentially increase rollout from thereon. Any initial error should have meant a halt in further deployments.
Canary isn't the only way to solve it, by the way. Just an easy fix in this case.
Unfortunately what is likely to happen is that they'll find the poor engineer that made the commit that led to this and fire them as a scapegoat, instead of inspecting the culture and processes that allowed it to happen and fixing those.
People fuck up and make mistakes. If you don't expect that in your business you're doing it wrong. This is not to say you shouldn't trust people; if they work at your company you should assume they are competent and have good intent. The guard rails are there to prevent mistakes, not bad/incompetent actors. It just so happens they often catch the latter.
Current company (Remote Desktop inception): Linux host machine -> Remote Desktop to windows machine -> Remote Desktop to Linux machine
Bad frame rates, modifier keys hardly ever work, super annoying to code. Windows machine resets all settings and files (besides desktop and one specific folder) each day. Each day I have to install a language pack, change display options, keyboard layout etc.
Probably not as bad as some of the other examples here, but the company I currently work for has its 10tb shared drives backing up to a server that’s right next to it in the same cabinet. Those two servers, plus all of the networking hardware and a variety of ancillary devices are all plugged in to one socket via a bunch of extension cords.
Yes, the boss has been told to get it sorted, but he’s the kind of older guy who doesn’t give a shit.
Yeah, exactly that.
So I back up my own shit on my own external drive, just in case.
This was 5 years ago at a usd200mil multinational...
The email system was pop3.
There were no document backups.
There was no collaboration tools.
There was no IT security. You could basically copy company data out and no one would ever find out.
The MS Office license was bought singly. Ahem!
I was hired to implement a CRM for an insurance company to replace their current system.
Of course no documentation or functional requirements where provided, so part of the task was to reverse engineer the current CRM.
After a couple of hours trying to find some type of backend code on the server, I discovered the bizarre truth: every bit of business logic was implemented in Stored Procedures and Triggers on a MSSQL database.
There were no frontend code either on the server, users have some ActiveX controls installed locally that accessed the DB.
every bit of business logic was implemented in Stored Procedures and Triggers on a MSSQL database.
Provided the SP’s are managed in a CVS and pushed to the DB via migrations (similar to Entity Framework), this is simply laborious to the devs. Provided the business rules are simple to express in SQL, this can actually be more performant than doing it in code (although it rarely ever is that simple).
There were no frontend code either on the server, users have some ActiveX controls installed locally that accessed the DB.
This is the actual WTF for me.
An IBM PC portable. Yes, PC. 4.77MHz, 256k RAM, two floppy drives. Built-in a maybe 8" green CRT screen, and the keyboard could be used as cover for the screen and disk drives.
In theory, this thing was portable. If you were a body builder. The case was steel, and the whole beast was about 15 to 20 kilograms.
This want their fault and I feel for them.
Working in telecommunications and we get a call from a customer that they are moving premises in 3 months time. They want us to check the place out of we can get a service in there. All goes well, time table for install goes out and we rock up the day after they get the keys, only to find the previous tenant took ALL the copper cables with them. Now when I say all, I mean ALL. Data, telephony, and power were stripped out all the way back to the dmarc point of the building.
They were fucking pissed. The lease for the existing place ran out about 3 weeks after the got the keys to the new place.
SSO with passwordless is the ideal world.
yubikey or similar phishing resistant mfa with biometric is the goal but smartphone number matching is a pretty good
Never trust the network in any circumstance. If you start from that basis then life becomes easier.
Google has a good approach to this:
https://cloud.google.com/beyondcorp
EDIT:
I'd like to add a tangential rant about companies still using shit like IP AllowLists and VPNs. They're just implementing eggshell security.
BeyondCorp is an enterprise security model that allows employees to work more securely from any location without the need for a traditional VPN.Google Cloud
I had a boss at an animation company (so not exactly a hub of IT experts, but still) who I witnessed do the following:
As far as I could ascertain, at some point she'd had a Windows PC with Outlook that was all set up how she liked it. The whole office then at some point switched over to Macs for whatever reason and some lunatic had come up with this as a solution so she wouldn't have to learn a new email thing.
When I tried to gently enquire as to why she didn't just install Outlook for Mac I was told I was being unhelpful so I just left it alone lol. But I still think about it sometimes.
I'm not certain that it's still the case but several years ago Outlook for Mac was incapable of handling certain aspects of calendars in public folders shared groups and there was some difficulty with delegation send as.
At the time the best answer I had was for the Mac users to use Outlook as much as possible and then log into webmail when they needed to send us. It's been a few years so I can't help but think it's been fixed by now. Or the very least equally broken on PC.
I started a job at a university department. A previous admin had a habit of re-purposing desktop machines as servers. There were at least a dozen of them. The authentication server for the whole department was on an old Dell desktop. All of the partitions were LVM volumes, and the volume group consisted of 3 physical volumes: The internal SATA drive, a bare SATA drive in an external USB cradle, and an external USB SSD.
This is why we drink.
I’m like 99% sure that goes against PCI compliance, they could get slapped pretty hard with some fines or lose the ability to take cards at all.
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/what-is-pci-compliance/
Today’s businesses must accept credit cards to stay competitive in the marketplace. With credit card fraud, identify fraud and stolen data on the rise, maintaining a safe environment for charge card transactions is of the utmost importance.Jennifer Simonson (Forbes)
They used a wildcard SSL for all of their clients to transact all information.
glances at my home server setup nervously
Exactly this. I don't know anyone in the IT industry that would willingly buy IBM. They're either locked in due to legacy reasons or government projects where most of them are incompetent.
Thankfully it's changing, but slowly.
A company making signage and signal lights for road construction, with 15 employees. Their former IT guy had switched all of their systems to Linux for ideological reasons and to save money.
Then they found out that they had a long term contract for an accounting software that housed all their customer data, only ran on Windows and required a server-client model.
So they hauled in the boss's private laptop which ran Windows 7, and installed both the server role, database and client software on it. When his employees needed to access the accounting software, the boss had to stop what he was doing and grant them full access to his laptop via teamviewer. When the boss's laptop was off or he was on vacation, there was no way to access any price info, customer contact info, or financial data.
The PC was set up to back up (using Windows 7's integrated backup tool) to an external drive which wasn't attached and no one remembered ever existing.
The Linux server was running and attached to an MCU when my company surveyed their infrastructure, but no one (including the former IT guy) knew the correct root password, and we never found out what it was even doing.
I had another customer who wrote down all passwords to everything in an unprotected Excel sheet and uploaded it to OneDrive, with the comany's single, shared Microsoft login being admin@companyname.onmicrosoft.com . The password was companyname in lower case letters with no 2FA.
And another one who had their server in a shared office that was inside the owner's privately owned apartment building. During the Christmas holidays, the owner turned off the heating for the office to save money, which crashed the server when temperatures dropped below freezing inside the room.
Small business IT is wild. It's one of the main reasons I quit my job at that small MSP and switched to a larger company's internal IT.
Lol you can totally do it in a home server application. It's even okay if I'm a e-commerce store to use wildcard for example.com and shop.example.com. not a best practice, but not idiotic.
Not idiotic unless you also have a hq.example.com that forwards a port into your internal network...
...where ftp://hq.example.com takes you to an insecure password shield, and behind it is the SSL certificate, just chillin for anyone to snag and use as a key to deobfuscate all that SSL traffic, going across your network, your shop, your whole domain.
7.0.0 - Add DownloadUser configuation option used to drop-privileges when downloading files.GitLab
- On Linux systems, ensure the download process does not write
outside the download directory
What does that mean "On Linux systems"? Pacman is available for non Linux systems?
arch = base.tarball[0] + pacman
[0] 90% similar to all other linux tarballsThe base tarball that separates Arch from Debian or Gentoo differ in very minor structural ways, but the difference is the way they fetch, parse, and install packages is huge.
Given this small difference in base tarballs, one can make the case the Arch codebase is the pacman codebase.
I mean... Yeah...? It's not all that controversial to say that any distro is essentially just glue between several pieces of software...
What's your point?
(not quite sure where the hostility is coming from, but) if you agree that the base tarball of the distro is inconsequential, then one could argue that the package manager is the actual distro.
That is, using pacman on Windows is akin to an Arch installation on windows.
Apologies, hostility wasn't my intention, only seeking understanding.
Ya know, in the context of the software in a vacuum, sure. But I think I'll ammend what I said earlier about what constitutes a distro:
IMO, It's not just software that glues other existing software together into a contiguous OS, but also a staff, a community, a philosophy cast on that collection of software. A way of doing things and thinking about them. Decisions and the rationale for them, a history of iteration, user needs and how those needs are filled. Us soft squishy humans that make, maintain, modify, administer, use, and complain about the software.
Because I think that reducing a distro to only the software it produces or uses fails to paint the whole picture. The mechanisms used for managing the collection of software on any specific machine is only one part of a larger system.
Pacman isn't the only part of Arch, and Arch isn't just pacman. The same is true if you s/Arch/MSYS2/g on that statement.
I hear what you're saying but I try my best to divorce a piece of art from its art fans and curators, because ultimately I don't want to be sold into a doctrine on how I should see something, I just want to enjoy it.
I do agree that Arch is much bigger than its codebase (I just sometimes wish it wasn't, with the sole exception of the Arch Wiki)
Does it work on linux?
Edit: checked for myself, it does. Has a .deb too
A protein is like a really long chain of simple monomers (amino acids), that you can think of as a long string of differently coloured beads. The ordering of the beads somewhat determines how the protein functions, but the major factor that determines it is how this long string is bundled up, i.e. "folded" (think of a ball of yarn).
A DNA sequence tells us the sequence of the amino acids in a protein, but tells us nothing about how it is folded. It is of great interest to compute how a protein will fold, given its sequence, because then we can determine how and why it works like it does, and use gene-editing techniques to design proteins to do the stuff we want. This requires huge amounts of computational power, so you get the fold@home project 😀
Thanks for contributing!
From their own description -
Try this addicting word puzzle game
Um, no thanks 🧐
Slice and Dice is a good rogue-like dice builder with no bullshit.
No ads. No DLC - there's a demo game and full version. And the mechanics are solid with no grindy bits.
Absolutly love this game, great replayability.
I have just discovered Card quest which is taking up a lot of my spare time at the moment.
A unique card-based rogue-like with more than a hundred hours of content!play.google.com
LE PARKER is a game by PLAY PRETEND, a group of friends dedicated to design and develop games after falling in love with pixel games during their childhood.Play Pretend
Last I checked, I thought you could still purchase BTD6 without needing netfl*x through the play store. Has that changed?
Also, glory to glorious Arstotzka.
The Sonic game that started it all is now free-to-play and optimized for mobile devices! Race at lightning speeds across seven classic zones as Sonic the Hedgehog.App Store
Dunno if anyone mentioned Badland yet.
Looks difficult to play but is so well designed that it isn't
Survivor.io is actually amazing and doesn't panhandle your for money
Bloons TD6 is great and will melt your life away
Pawnbarian is a good twist on chess
Peglin is super fun. It's wood-described as a peggle rouglike
Fancade is also great. It's an open engine for little arcade games, so there's always something new to play. There's different modes like an adventure mode and a battle mode. There are IAP's but they're purely optional and very unnecessary.
All games I'm going to mention aren't sending me any notifications.
Square on top is a bit like jump king, and let's you disable 'unwanted' Ads. You're still able to watch ads for your own gain, but dont have to.
Divineko is a fun shape drawing/reaction game that has very fair ad placements IMO.
Xeonjia is an ice puzzle game (you walk in one direction until you hit a rock) that reminds me a bit of Pokémon with its art style. I dont think it has any ads.
Those three are my go to's currently.
Twenty is my go-to. Blockus clones are fun too, and there are a lot of game modes.
This Ars article turned me on to it. Maybe click through some of his other suggestions-
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/05/why-twenty-is-my-latest-mobile-gaming-obsession/
Number-matching tile games get a refreshing jolt of time pressure.Ars Technica
Ignoring the arcade style preference: i like Cats are Liquid: A Better Place and Cats are Liquid: a Light in the Shadows
They are 2 platformers with abstract graphics, abilities and a sad(extremly confusing) story
Download TIC-80 is a fantasy console that also has an android app.
Inside it you'll have access to tons of games made for that console.
I've been some weeks playing "Shadow over the twelve lands" on android TIC-80 and it has been a great experience.
It's all open source too!
With a little bit of know-how, you can get Balatro running on your phone, and Balatro is amazing.
To do it, buy the game then follow the instructions at https://github.com/blake502/balatro-mobile-maker
Create a mobile Balatro app from your Steam version of Balatro - blake502/balatro-mobile-makerGitHub
Dead Cells seems like it would be absolute ass on a touch screen, I've got 300 hours on it on PC but no thank you
You folks that like to sync a controller to your phone might enjoy it though
Sky Wings is pretty fun. It's super arcadey, has different ships with different abilities and shooting styles, different modes and difficulties. I've put in quite a few hours over the years.
The Flow Free puzzle games are pretty fun imo. I have most of the different ones installed on my phone, and some years back I actually bought a bunch of the expansions for the base version so I have a ton of puzzles to go through.
If you like twitchy reflex killers, two oldies-but-goodies from Terry Cavanaugh: Super Hexagon and VVVVVV.
Fun chiptune soundtracks, minimal graphics, and so much "I died already? Okay just ONE MORE try and then I really need to get some work done. ARGH - okay maybe ONE MORE try...." And when you finally succeed the dopamine is second to none.
Shattered Pixel Dungeon
Loop Hero
Pirates Outlaws
I install a few others every now and again to try new things, but it's usually ad-driven / endless predatory MTX bullshit.
Other's have suggested emulating Pokémon. However, if you want a native RPG, the first six Final Fantasy games were remastered for mobile. That's five whole good games! They all have very frequent auto saving, so they're pretty easy to just pick up and put down.
These aren't arcade-y, though. Others have already suggested the best. I like Super Hexagon the most of the suggestions due to its simplicity. Geometry Dash is also great, but sometimes, it just isn't sightreadable.
I've been playing Shattered Pixel Dungeon, which is an actual roguelike game.
Egg Inc is angrowth game that's silly and fun. Squad Alpha is a great casual shooter, and all ads are voluntary. (Note, this is NOT Alpha Squad.)
Bonus slurs:
This instance is encouraging naked unashamed white supremacy by permitting this filth. The moderators of .world have a sustained record of not just complicity but encouragement of this behavior. Lemmy.ml is turning into a nazi bar.
I see no slurs in the screen cap.
As you kids like to say these days, you need to get outside and touch grass.
Even if there were "slurs", offense can only be taken.
Then there's also the issue of you labeling something racist or a slur just because you don't like it, as a means of getting your way. Now that I find offensive.
Some people are asshats, (actually, we're all asshats from time to time). That's life.
I watched this video where they talked about how someone installed Linux on their Google drive. Like, installing everything in Google drive, not finding some Google client. Storing the /* in Drive.
I am currently attempting to do this as well, but with Microsoft OneDrive. I'll update you all on my progress!
I would think that even a slow USB 2.0 drive would provide better performance than a cloud-based file system.
That’s not the point of such experiments.
You could pxe boot off a local network server and mount your cloud drive to a fileserver that offers it as nfs to the local network...
But.. why?
After I'd read that the Trump shooter had looked at photos of Trump and Biden and their upcoming speech locations and the fact that the shooter was a lone wolf and bullied at school, I read part of the Wikipedia page about the Uvalde shooting . The Uvalde shooter also was a lone wolf and also used an AR-15. My thoughts right now are like this :
What can be done ?
Not much to learn, really.
You've just pointed out what's been known since the 90's.
The short and simple of it is:
1) Doesn't seem like there's hope for things getting better.
2) Following the rules doesn't matter.
3) Suicide is hard, so why not attempt a "suicide by cop"?
Should bullying at school be pro-actively approached and make victims and bullies talk to each other under professional supervision ?
Hell, no. Don't put the responsibility on victims to help their bullies/abusers.
Also, it's not always a clear cut bully/victim dynamic. My school had a loner gun-loving asocial student. He probably thought he was bullied. In reality he made people, especially the girls, super uncomfortable and he was avoided. No one really made fun of him, never physically attacked him, never pulled pranks on him, just avoided him. Not inviting his friendship is not bullying. He needed professional help.
Forcing me, for example, to talk to him and pretend to be his friend would have been bad for both of us. He needed counseling/therapy, which I was not and still am not qualified to provide, and I needed safe friends I could trust.
Hell, no. Don't put the responsibility on victims to help their bullies/abusers.
I see. In Europe things are different.
Here is an example of a school which has anti-bullying policy :
https://www.eeb3.eu/app/uploads/2022/03/B3-Anti-bullying-Policy-EN.pdf
Also, it's not always a clear cut bully/victim dynamic. My school had a loner gun-loving asocial student. He probably thought he was bullied. In reality he made people, especially the girls, super uncomfortable and he was avoided. No one really made fun of him, never physically attacked him, never pulled pranks on him, just avoided him. Not inviting his friendship is not bullying. He needed professional help.Forcing me, for example, to talk to him and pretend to be his friend would have been bad for both of us. He needed counseling/therapy, which I was not and still am not qualified to provide, and I needed safe friends I could trust.
Okay. That is a lone wolf example, it is not about active bullying.
I consider bullying to be violent in general.
Even words can be damaging for some people.
The whole "boys don't cry" is a tragedy in my opinion and has done a lot of emotional damage already.
And reading this today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_L._Trump#Personal_life I would not be at all
surprised if Donald Trump would benefit from long time therapy.
Most classrooms already have policies about not using your mobile phone, as in general students are supposed to be paying attention to lectures. Students are already sneaking their phone usage during class. I don't see the connection between mobile phone use and violence, though. I don't think the Trump or Uvalde shootings have anything to do with phones, social media, etc.
I think it makes sense to cancel subscriptions to NYT and to likewise boycott Twitter, but I think that's just about being a critical consumer in general. It requires collective action and mass movements to make a difference with something like that.
Alienation is a problem in the U.S. and maybe the West in general. Obviously junkies, the unhoused, and refugees are not inferior people, they are merely unfortunate people. Our society does stigmatize and dehumanize them, however. Random and unprovoked violence against all three of those groups are more common. But this is also true for women, racial minorities, sexual minorities, etc. Did you have thoughts on how to repair the alienation, dehumanization, etc.?
Sometimes the custom 5-port gigabit switch _is_ the solution.Martijn Braam (BrixIT Blog)
This is cool. I struggled with exactly the problem as described. Installed the NVIDIA driver and it would not load, without telling me why. Somebody on Lemmy pointed out that you need to disable Secure boot.
It's nice to know they are working on a solution, just a pity it's so difficult. But they are trying very hard to make it workable.
Hey Lemmy! I'm ashamed to admit I haven't yet quit Google Docs. I think I should especially since I got a lot of documents which I really have no reason to keep online, I've been doing so out of lazyness as I'm used to GDocs and its ease of use.
I'm looking for a text editor that lets me paste images straight from my clipboard into the documents, this is a must for my workflow.
Another feature I use a lot is the side menu/index, which is created automatically when I insert a header and lets me jump quickly to any part of my document.
With that in mind, the search function is also essential, I need this to either have a search bar or work with ctl+F
Of course I need some basic color and font size variation, and having the ability to create tables is handy but I don't need any kind of math functionality.
I could use Libre Office but I'm looking for something bare bones and lightweight. I haven't used LO in years so it may have changed, however from memory it's pretty well fleshed out and I find all the extra features distracting especially since I don't need them. I'm not sure though, perhaps I'm wrong and you can convince me?
Have you got any suggestions? TIA
Do you host anything yourself at all? If so, there’s a few self hosted options as an alternative to google
https://alternativeto.net/software/google-docs---word-processor/?platform=self-hosted
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I'm not sure about color support without HTML or add-ons, but Obsidian is a good markdown editor with a lot of functionality and extensibility.
It's not open source but it runs on everything.
Obsidian is the private and flexible note‑taking app that adapts to the way you think.obsidian.md
Logseq is a good alternative, if you like everything being a bulletpoint :/.
It doesn't fit my note taking workflow and learning or translate to a new way of note taking style will take to much time/effort...
Guess I'm still stuck with Obsidian.
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With the R515 driver, NVIDIA released a set of Linux GPU kernel modules in May 2022 as open source with dual GPL and MIT licensing. The initial release targeted…Rob Armstrong (NVIDIA Technical Blog)
Yes.
Purple is not a single color. Maybe a spectrum analysis could answer this for a given instance of purple, but that's not my area of knowledge.
Right, indigo is a color (~425nm), violet is a color (~400nm), purple is typically a blend of colors.
See more: https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/47-colours-of-light
Light is made up of wavelengths of light, and each wavelength is a particular colour. The colour we see is a result of which wavelengths are reflected back to our eyes.Science Learning Hub
Nu uh!
Okay, poor choice of words by me. Wavelength color vs what the eyes see.
Specifically, purple is not a wavelength, unlike red(s) at ~700nm and blue(s) at ~400nm.
Purple is what human eyes see when the blue and red cones are both stimulated by their respective colours of light.
Nope. Purple is a wavelength that partially triggers both the red and blue cones.
The visual spectrum is continuous, not just three wavelengths corresponding to the three cones.
The blue cones and the red cones are stimulated by purple light. It’s a mix of blue and red signals from the retina, but the light is a single wavelength that is actually purple.
Purple is a green wavelength that doesn't trigger the green cones in your eyes.
It is made up by your brain.
The 'royal color' does indeed stand apart from the rest.Alexandru Micu (ZME Science)
I like that some people are so confident in their incorrect understanding of something that they'll downvote the correct answer.
What you said is correct.
Urgh, I go to sleep, wake up, read soooooo much awful wrongness.
Thanks for the vote of ~~confidence~~ fact.
Ohhh, I think I get it.
Purple is what you get when you force the visible light spectrum into a wheel, so there'll be something that "connects" blue with red?
If so, is the reason we perceive green as a different color than purple is because we have receptors for that specific wavelength, otherwise both colors would affect our red and blue color receptors similarly?
Essentially, yes. Although violet is a colour, and that does correspond to a wavelength of light. I'm not really sure where violet ends and purple begins.
Looks like this guy has had a crack at explaining the difference, though.
jakubmarian.comPeople say that a picture is worth a thousand words, so let’s take a look at the two colours in comparison (there are various shades of purple and violet, and the following
Erm what?... That's a pretty bizarre question. Like asking if a fork is more of a spoon, or a butter knife. Purple is not a red or a blue, it's a mix of red and blue, not a discrete wavelength. Violet and indigo may look similar to it but, unlike purple, are discrete wavelengths.
If one has to answer the question, it depends on the red and blue used to make the purple.
Colors are very dependent on cultural context so if people would put their countries along with answers it'd be nice.
I personally think it's completely separate and not really comparable even though directly translated from Icelandic the color is "violet blue". From Iceland
Hey all, so I used Blokada (5, I think) for a long time but then when they forced an upgrade I moved on to AdAway. AdAway is great, it's not perfect, but it gets the job done.
I decided to give ProtonVPN a try, due to recent state legislative website laws. I like it, it's cool but it doesn't block ads in the free version and AdAway can't run at the same time, afaik.
I've heard lots of people talking about how great FF with ublock is and I only recently switched back to Firefox so I'm considering giving that a try but I'm getting overwhelmed.
What is the right combination to block most ads as well pretending to be from another state?
Firefox with uBlock Origin should always be your starting point.
Except Firefox is not secure on Android.
Avoid Gecko-based browsers like Firefox as they're currently much more vulnerable to exploitation and inherently add a huge amount of attack surface. Gecko doesn't have a WebView implementation (GeckoView is not a WebView implementation), so it has to be used alongside the Chromium-based WebView rather than instead of Chromium, which means having the remote attack surface of two separate browser engines instead of only one. Firefox / Gecko also bypass or cripple a fair bit of the upstream and GrapheneOS hardening work for apps. Worst of all, Firefox does not have internal sandboxing on Android. This is despite the fact that Chromium semantic sandbox layer on Android is implemented via the OS isolatedProcess feature, which is a very easy to use boolean property for app service processes to provide strong isolation with only the ability to communicate with the app running them via the standard service API.
https://grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing
Usage instructions for GrapheneOS, a security and privacy focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.GrapheneOS
Yeah, it gets more blown out the bigger the difference between the sdr brighrness setting and the highlights is.
Support for HDR screenshots is hopefully something I can add soon-ish
People don't grasp immortality and infinite time.
"High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high and once every thousand years a little bird comes to this mountain to sharpen its beak. When the mountain has thus been worn away a single day of eternity will have passed."
Hendrik Willem Van Loon, The Story of Mankind
Depends on how hard performing tasks are. Can I punch trees to get wood, it doesn’t hurt like hell and doesn’t break my fists? Can I dig through the earth quickly with just my bare hands? Can I construct a dwelling relatively easily? If yes, then I think I’d be ok after getting over the initial shock of “WTF?”
If we’re talking real world physics, then I’m probably dead the first night.
Initially a lot more, because of the shock and the will to ba back to my world, among humans, living the life I've been living my whole life. I wouldn't want to die alone in what looks like an unexplainable minecraft world.
I may, eventually, reason that for such a thing to happen bigger forces must be at play, so I may just willingly try some form of suicide out of curiosity, so in such a state I would be a lot less scared.
You don’t have to theorize this, you can play Minecraft in VR and experience it.
It’s fucking terrifying. A creeper blew me up and I almost had a heart attack.
Here's the thing that makes Minecraft's world so much more dangerous: we have life-threatening creatures in the real world too, but they are living creatures bound to the laws of ecology; if you build a city without large herbivores, you can be sure that this city won't have tigers in it, because they need those to live. A tiger would need to physically walk from the forest to the city, with ample opportunity of getting spotted. Hell, killing the last tiger is a safe way to never have to worry about them again, since they need to reproduce sexually, and if there are no tigers left in an area then no new ones will appear out of nowhere.
Minecraft creatures, meanwhile, do appear out of nowhere. It doesn't matter if you've depleted the world of every last zombie, new ones can spawn absolutely anywhere, even within the safest possible area, all it takes is a small corner of mild darkness. Or does it? Because i've had random mobs spawn in extremely well-lit built environments where i was convinced they couldn't.
Minecraft's creatures cannot be definitively excluded from an area, nowhere is really safe beyond doubt even if the place is built entirely out of light-emitting blocks.
Then again, people do live in areas with venomous snakes and scorpions, those have a similar "potentially anywhere" threat as Minecraft mobs, yet people seem fine. They don't live in fear all the time. Then again again, snakes and scorpions are passive and only attack if you make physical contact with them, whereas Minecraft mobs actively look for you.
So yeah, nowhere is truly safe in Minecraft, there's genuinely always a possibility that you'll need to defend yourself from some horror.
Idk, you just need to put a few layers of carpets in front of your door and mobs won't even try to enter your building. You just need to know the quirks of Minecraft logic
I wouldn't be scared of death in Minecraft, idk
I've noticed and I've never really understood why that when you buy any meat that is crumbed from a butcher in Australia, it is always or nearly always yellow in colour.
Why do they do this and where does the yellow colour come from?
Bread is brown. It's white with unnecessary additives. If you buy breadcrumbs for such purpose, they're always light brown or wholemeal. There's no point in fluffy white flour being used which arguably cooks worse with meat cooking methods as it's finer.
If the meat's distinctly yellow, it is likely oil too, rice bran oil is common as it's quite flavourless and results in strong colour, like conola oils. Oil is used to have crumbs stick on meats that have had their fats/bloods well drained. These are usually cuts not reserved for top quality cooking where the meat is preserved as the pinnacle for the dish, rather than meats being added to the dish or being part of the dish.
Source: Not a butcher, but big into slow cook and BBQ, so deal with a lot of cuts and prep.
This isn't meant to be rude or anything, I'm just not sure why you're telling us this.
Is it just an in interesting fact for non-americans?
the OP asked a question about butchers. I have had the fortune to live in most of the united states over the past 40 years and have never experienced what the OP has.
I frankly find your comment a bit condescending for no reason. My comment was on topic.
Your original comment could be taken in various tones and they wanted a clarification. For what it's worth, it is useful to some to hear it, since it could help people see differences between the US and other countries. It's just said in a way that felt more like "Butchers don't do this" rather than "As the contrast, I don't see this done in my country". Either way though, in the spirit of the question it is sorta off topic.
It's like asking "Why does this currency have this person on it?" and getting the answer "I've never seen that currency used anywhere I lived." While true, it's not really relevant, doesn't answer the question, and can either be taken as a long winded way to say "I don't know" or stubborn self centered everything worth knowing is centered around your own experiences. Which is definitely reading into it too much, but there are people who act like that, either as trolls or real jingoists.
Okay.
I guess in the same way you found my comment to be for no reason, I also found yours to be the same.
IMO, your comment wasn't really on topic. They asked a question about why it happens to them, and you replied that it never happens to you. How is that on topic?
I did find it interesting that it doesn't happen in the US, I was just checking that you were just making a comment about your own experience, and not to help answer the ops question. That's cool, and I was just checking.
I hope you have a nice weekend:)
Do ya’ll not have beef/chicken/veal schnitzel over there?
OP is not saying “any meat” as in “every meat”, just ones specifically designed as crumbed. It’s pretty popular here in Aus to have breaded meats.
It's certainly a rarity (and a crying shame!). The closest things we see regularly are chicken nuggets and battered/breaded fried fish, but I've never seen those premade at a butcher shop either, just the freezer section from the giant companies at the grocery store.
But this thread did make me recall https://shorelunch.com/ which is a DIY crumb. Shake-n-bake is the pervasive product.
Panko is also a popular option for the crumb.
Shore Lunch offers the perfect soup, breading and batter mixes to complement any meal or enrich the flavor of your favorite recipes.Shore Lunch
Breaded meat is fine. Buying pre-breaded meat sounds gross.
Probably a good way for the butcher to sell wheat flour at the same price as meat.
Up here in Canada we have a type of bacon that's traditionally coated in corn meal called peameal bacon - if this (random image from the internet affixed below) is what your meat looks like it might be the same stuff:
https://celebrationgeneration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Peameal-Bacon-2.jpg
Edit: Disregard. Read "crumbed" as "crumbled" and thought OP was referring to ground meat/mince.
I couldn't find any pics of what you're talking about, so if you have one, I'd be curious to see it.
From my searching though, I saw that grass fed beef, which would be the "good stuff" has yellow fat instead of white, so when that is minced it will likely coat the meat with that, giving it a slight tint.
Just a guess, but that's all I could find.
I'm unsure why but It used to be the same here in New Zealand, most butchers seem to have transitioned to panko breadcrumbs now.
The only place i've seen this in the last few years at the cheaper butcher chains like 'The Mad Butcher' and the one in my link below.
I think OP is talking about this.
https://www.coreysbutchery.com/shop/product/409143/beef-crumbed-schnitzel--from-500g/
Edit.
This image from 'The Mad Butcher' includes the breading ingredients.
Made in-house by the team at Corey;s Master Butchers, a thin slice of beef flank is battered and coated in Golden Breadcrumbs, perfect for a hearty midweek meal with some seasonal tasty roast veges.$1www.coreysbutchery.com
I can confirm I've seen what you are talking about, but have no idea. Not at every butchers though.
I'm not much of a crumbed meats buyer, but occasionally will buy crumbed fish and some places also have that unnatural yellow crumbing.
This was asked on the other site: https://reddit.com/r/AskAnAustralian/comments/15ecqe2/anyone_here_a_butcher_or_work_in_commercial_meat/
The type of crumb being purchased was the answer.
I always thought it was because most breadcrumbs are white. When used as a breading they require a bit of know how to cook the meat properly and not burn the crumbs.
By coloring them you can cook them quicker, cook them easier, and still end up with that “golden brown” color that’s desired for the finished meal.
I wanted to make VirtualBox kernel module working so
Upgraded kernel from 6.6.7 -> 6.9.9.
Two libraries were missing ( libelf1t64 and libssl3t64 ) so
I begun to upgrade the ubuntu from 23.10 to 24.02ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'apt_pkg'
apt now is broken and I can't add a PPA to install a python3.8 or build from source as I can't resolve dependencies in package manager.
only python3.11 and python3.12 are installed
apt clean
apt -f install
Simple Python version management. Contribute to pyenv/pyenv development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
This isn't a gloat post. In fact, I was completely oblivious to this massive outage until I tried to check my bank balance and it wouldn't log in.
Apparently Visa Paywave, banks, some TV networks, EFTPOS, etc. have gone down. Flights have had to be cancelled as some airlines systems have also gone down. Gas stations and public transport systems inoperable. As well as numerous Windows systems and Microsoft services affected. (At least according to one of my local MSMs.)
Seems insane to me that one company's messed up update could cause so much global disruption and so many systems gone down :/ This is exactly why centralisation of services and large corporations gobbling up smaller companies and becoming behemoth services is so dangerous.
Latest Crowdstrike Update Issue: The issue seems widespread, affecting machines running various CrowdStrike sensor versions. CrowdStrike has acknowledged the problem and is currently investigating the cause.Moinak Pal (Times Now)
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More generally: delegate anything critical to a 3rd party and you've just put your business at the mercy of the quality (or lack thereof) of their own business processes which you do not control.
Having been in IT for almost 3 decades, a lesson I have learned long ago and which I've also been applying to my own things (such as having my own domain for my own e-mail address rather than using something like Google) was that you should avoid as much as possible to have your mission critical or hard to replace stuff dependent on a 3rd Party, especially if the dependency is Live (i.e. activelly connected rather than just buying and installing their software).
I've managed to avoid quite a lot of the recent enshittification exactly because I've been playing it safe in this domain for 2 decades.
This is exactly why centralisation of services and large corporations gobbling up smaller companies and becoming behemoth services is so dangerous.
Its true, but otherside of same coin is that with too much solo implementation you lose benefits of economy of scale.
But indeed the world seems like a village today.
you lose benefits of economy of scale.
I think you mean - the shareholders enjoy the profits of scale.
When a company scales up, prices are rarely reduced. Users do get increased community support through common experiences especially when official channels are congested through events like today, but that's about the only benefit the consumer sees.
That being said Microsoft still did hire crowd strike and give them the keys to release an update like this.
End result still is windows having more issues than linux
Company offering new-age antivirus solutions, which is to say that instead of being mostly signature-based, it tries to look at application behavior instead. If Word was exploited because some user opened not_a_virus_please_open.docx from their spam folder, Word might be exploited and end up running some malware that tries to encrypt the entire drive. It's supposed to sniff out that 1. Word normally opens and saves like one document at a time and 2. some unknown program is being overly active. And so it should stop that and ring some very loud alarm bells at the IT department.
Basically they doubled down on the heuristics-based detection and by that, they claim to be able to recognize and stop all kinds of new malware that they haven't seen yet. My experience is that they're always the outlier on the top-end of false positives in business AV tests (eg AV-Comparatives Q2 2024) and their advantage has mostly disappeared since every AV has implemented that kind of behavior-based detection nowadays.
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It is annoying. Some possible solutions:
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On mobile: Using the reader mode or the Print preview often works. It does for me on this website.
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heres the entire article
Latest Crowdstrike Update Issue: Many Windows users are experiencing Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) errors due to a recent CrowdStrike update. The issue affects various sensor versions, and CrowdStrike has acknowledged the problem and is investigating the cause, as stated in a pinned message on the company's forum.
Who Have Been Affected
Australian banks, airlines, and TV broadcasters first reported the issue, which quickly spread to Europe as businesses began their workday. UK broadcaster Sky News couldn't air its morning news bulletins, while Ryanair experienced IT issues affecting flight departures. In the US, the Federal Aviation Administration grounded all Delta, United, and American Airlines flights due to communication problems, and Berlin airport warned of travel delays from technical issues.
In India too, numerous IT organisations were reporting in issues with company-wide. Akasa Airlines and Spicejet experienced technical issues affecting online services. Akasa Airlines' booking and check-in systems were down at Mumbai and Delhi airports due to service provider infrastructure issues, prompting manual check-in and boarding. Passengers were advised to arrive early, and the airline assured swift resolution. Spicejet also faced problems updating flight disruptions, actively working to fix the issue. Both airlines apologized for the inconvenience caused and promised updates as soon as the problems were resolved.
Crowdstrike's Response
CrowdStrike acknowledged the problem, linked to their Falcon sensor, and reverted the faulty update. However, affected machines still require manual intervention. IT admins are resorting to booting into safe mode and deleting specific system files, a cumbersome process for cloud-based servers and remote laptops. Reports from IT professionals on Reddit highlight the severity, with entire companies offline and many devices stuck in boot loops. The outage underscores the vulnerability of interconnected systems and the critical need for robust cybersecurity solutions. IT teams worldwide face a long and challenging day to resolve the issues and restore normal operations.
What to Expect:
-A Technical Alert (TA) detailing the problem and potential workarounds is expected to be published shortly by CrowdStrike.
-The forum thread will remain pinned to provide users with easy access to updates and information.
What Users Should Do:
-Hold off on troubleshooting: Avoid attempting to fix the issue yourself until the official Technical Alert is released.
-Monitor the pinned thread: This thread will be updated with the latest information, including the TA and any temporary solutions.
-Be patient: Resolving software conflicts can take time. CrowdStrike is working on a solution, and updates will be posted as soon as they become available.
In an automated reply from Crowdstrike, the company had stated:
CrowdStrike is aware of reports of crashes on Windows hosts related to the Falcon Sensor. Symptoms include hosts experiencing a blue screen error related to the Falcon Sensor. The course of current action will be - our Engineering teams are actively working to resolve this issue and there is no need to open a support ticket. Status updates will be posted as we have more information to share, including when the issue is resolved.
For Users Experiencing BSODs:
If you're encountering BSOD errors after a recent CrowdStrike update, you're not alone. This appears to be a widespread issue. The upcoming Technical Alert will likely provide specific details on affected CrowdStrike sensor versions and potential workarounds while a permanent fix is developed.
If you have urgent questions or concerns, consider contacting CrowdStrike support directly.
If you have urgent questions or concerns, consider contacting CrowdStrike support directly.
Something tells me that isn't going to provide the comfort it was meant to.
It is theoretically automatable, but on bare metal it requires having hardware that's not normally just sitting in every data centre, so it would still require someone to go and plug something into each machine.
On VMs it's more feasible, but on those VMs most people are probably just mounting the disk images and deleting the bad file to begin with.
Well, "don't have self-upgrading shit on your production environment" also applies.
As in "if you brought something like this, there's a problem with you".
Didn't Crowdstrike have a bad update to Debian systems back in April this year that caused a lot of problems? I don't think it was a big thing since not as many companies are using Crowdstrike on Debian.
Sounds like the issue here is Crowdstrike and not Windows.
They didn’t even bother to do a gradual rollout, like even small apps do.
The level of company-wide incompetence is astounding, but considering how organizations work and disregard technical people’s concerns, I’m never surprised when these things happen. It’s a social problem more than a technical one.
They didn't even bother to test their stuff, must have pushed to prod
(Technically, test in prod)
Everyone has a test environment
Some are lucky enough to also have a separate production environment
And roll it out in a controlled fashion: 1% of machines, 10%, 25%...no issues? Do the rest.
How this didn't get caught by testing seems impossible to me.
The implementation/rollout strategy just seems bonkers. I feel bad for all of the field support guys who have had there next few weeks ruined, the sys admins who won't sleep for 3 days, and all of the innocent businesses that got roped into it.
A couple local shops are fucked this morning. Kinda shocked they'd be running crowd strike but also these aren't big businesses. They are probably using managed service providers who are now swamped and who know when they'll get back online.
One was a bakery. They couldn't sell all the bread they made this morning.
I just had an Amazon package delayed for a week it says. It doesn't name names but...
A small number of deliveries may arrive a day later than anticipated due to a third-party technology outage.
Fair enough.
Still this fiasco proved once again that the biggest thread to IT sometimes is on the inside. At the end of the day a bunch of people decided to buy Crowdstrike and got screwed over. Some of them actually had good reason to use a product like that, others it was just paranoia and FOMO.
One program I tested went from (31,12,99) to (01,01,100). Its front end formatted the date and added the century, so it showed 1 January 2000 as 01/01/19100
That wasn't fixed. The fault didn't affect processing (the years were wrong but had the correct offset between them) and was only visible to internal users, and also that system was expected to be retired in 2004
One shop I was at had a manual process going with cash only purchases.
That blew up when I ordered 3 things and the 'cashier' didn't know how to add them together. They didn't have calculator on Windows available🤣
Every system has its faults. And I'm still going to dogpile the system with the most faults. But hell Microsoft did buy GitHub, Halo, MineCraft, and a million other things they will probably find a way to buy Linux and ruin it for us just like they ruin everything else.
Let's see, ...we are somewhere in between Extend and Extinguish on the roadmap.
Edit: Case & Point, RIP RedHat & IBM and GitHub CoPilot, what a great idea. RIP Atom Editor and probably a million other things. Do we have a KilledByMicrosoft website yet? I hope people in the pharmacy could get their prescriptions or we might have to add peoples names to the list.
None of this has to do with the current outage though.
I hope people in the pharmacy could get their prescriptions or we might have to add peoples names to the list.
Which isn't Microsoft's fault. Linux systems have also been taken down by Crowdstrike's fuck ups in the recent past.
Microsoft has many faults and I'll criticize them as I please. And if Linux is a culprit in a global outage someday I'll contemplate criticizing them too.
This "Not Microsoft's Fault" comes off as white knighting for Muh Billion Dolla Corporation.
Do we really need to SIMP for the company town.
Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon and others deserve every ounce of vitrol they earn through their shitty practices. Again I am criticizing them for being shitty not for the particulars of System X vs System Z but for the aftermath.
Yes, thank you, exactly. The centralized model has its benefits but it also can act as a single point of failure.
If I was going to analyze from an engineering perspective I would focus on when these inevitable events occur due to human error do we have adequate tools to roll back updates? Do we snapshot OS drives before updates? Is there adequate Safe Mode or Fallback Tools to diagnose which files are offending in order to allow the user to remove them.
In my view the windows user isn't dignified to have the skills or intelligence needed to workaround a "setback" issue like the one yesterday.
It doesn't help that NTFS is missing modern capabilities, or that there isn't easy to use DIFF for the layman to understand which files were added to the filesystem that may be causing the breakage.
To be fair though even with those pot holes filled the entire design paradigm of Windows and a proprietary platform is part of the problem. Software is not broken up into package modules that can be assembled into a functioning system it is encumbered with "anti-piracy" boogie man where the software treats the user as an enemy and is designed to break.
Linux isn't like that. I've cloned many distro drives and swapped them into new machines and with 1 or 2 tweaks they JustWork
I see many people on the net defending Microsoft as blameless for technical reasons.
My criticisms were that Microsoft just sucks as you interpreted correctly and offered a eloquent summary. Thank You.
Where I think the entire conversation should move is --
What are the design flaws that allowed this to happen?
"More Rust & Less C" I see some people suggest as this was allegedly a null pointer issue.
And is Windows Broken By Design? My opinion answer - Yes.
(Okay, and what to do about it before the next billion dollars is lost. I would think critical infrastructure should have a model similar to NixOS in immutability but that's just my opinion.)
Windows does have a fallback mode called safe mode and that's exactly what's being used to fix this utter mess.
Package management isn't going to save you from this as it didn't save the Linux systems affected last time. It didn't stop Arch Linux from failing to boot after a Grub update either.
Windows also has drive cloning tools, that isn't unique to Linux.
NixOS isn't immutable. It's not an a/b root system and / isn't read only. Rather it's what's known as reproducible. I am not convinced NixOS would make this any easier either given how simple the fix was. Funnily enough though tools exist called ansible and puppet for configuring systems in repeatable ways that apply to both other Linux systems, Windows systems, and even macOS.
There are like one or two valid points in this whole comment and the rest is pretty much falsehoods and misconceptions.
Edit: Forgot to mention tools exist to make Windows immutable as well. So that is an option.
Windows does have a fallback mode called safe mode and that’s exactly what’s being used to fix this utter mess.
The other fix was reboot your Windows computer at least 15 times.
Package management isn’t going to save you from this as it didn’t save the Linux systems affected last time. It didn’t stop Arch Linux from failing to boot after a Grub update either.
Not everyone was affected though :
How come not everyone was impacted?Prior to the most recent version, grub only registered the fwsetup if detected support. If your machine detected support, you would have had the fwsetup command registered and the failure wouldn’t occur.
Admins can also restore backups or manually delete CrowdStrike's buggy driver.Ars Technica
The other fix was reboot your Windows computer at least 15 times.
How is that an argument against anything I have said?
Not everyone was affected though
Only machines running crowdstrike were affected, not all Windows machines. So in neither case were all systems affected. In this case though Microsoft doesn't bare any responsibility as they didn't distribute the software. In the case or Arch and EndeavourOS they had a responsibility to check packages before they shipped them to users. In this case the OS maker was more at fault.
Sure you can criticize as much as you want but if you are wrong in your criticism it just damages all of your criticism over all.
In my opinion it is important to state facts not fiction. This was not Microsoft's fault, no matter how much you hate Microsoft it still wasn't there fault and saying that is was is incorrect and doesn't solve the issue.
Hilarious. I am sure that, out of principle, you have stopped using all the software that Red Hat contributes to your distribution.
If it is ok with you, I am not going to define my morality in terms of corporate interest. They are not my friends but I do not believe that shutting on their contributions does much for me either.
What I usually do is set next boot to BIOS so I have time to get into the console and do whatever.
Also instead of using a browser, I prefer to connect vmware Workstation to vCenter so all the consoles insta open in their own tabs in the workspace.
I get the sentiment but defense in depth is a methodology to live by in IT and auto updating via the Internet is not a good risk to take in general. For example, should Crowdstrike just disappear one day, your entire infrastructure shouldn't be at risk nor should critical services. Even if it's your anti-virus, a virus or ransomware shouldn't be able to easily propagate through the enterprise. If it did, then it is doubtful something like Crowdstrike is going to be able to update and suddenly reverse course. If it can then you're just lucky that the ransomware that made it through didn't do anything in defense of itself (disconnecting from the network, blocking CIDRs like Crowdsource's update servers, blocking processes, whatever) and frankly you can still update those clients anyway from your own AV update server which is a product you'd be using if you aren't allowing updates from the Internet in order to roll them out in dev first, phasing and/or schedules from your own infrastructure.
Crowdstrike is just another lesson in that.
Our group got hit with this today. We don’t have a choice. If you want to run Windows, you have to install this software.
It’s why stuff like this is so crippling. Individual organizations within companies have to follow corporate mandates, even if they don’t agree.
No because Windows Indoctrination starts with Academia.
There will have to be heavy monetary losses before IT is forced to leave their golden goose that keeps them employed with "problems" to "fix" that soak up hours each.
But maybe they will notice the monetary losses and competitors not using their trash will pull ahead -- that will get their attention. Still they require the cognition to understand the problem and select a solution and the Linux Jungle is hard for corporate minds to navigate without smart IT help.
Is there an easy way to silence every fuckdamn sanctimonious linux cultist from my lemmy experience?
Secondly, this update fucked linux just as bad as windows, but keep huffing your own farts. You seem to like it.
Oh you really have no fucking clue. It's medical and no treatment has worked for more than a few weeks. it's only a matter of time before I am banned. Now imagine living with that for 4+ decades and being the butt of every thread's joke.
A real shame that can't be considered medical discrimination.
I'd unsubscribe from !linux@lemmy.ml for a start.
I'm pretty sure this update didn't get pushed to linux endpoints, but sure, linux machines running the CrowdStrike driver are probably vulnerable to panicking on malformed config files. There are a lot of weirdos claiming this is a uniquely Windows issue.
Thanks for the tip, so glad Lemmy makes it easy to block communities.
Also: It seems everyone is claiming it didn't affect Linux but as part of our corporate cleanup yesterday, I had 8 linux boxes I needed to drive to the office to throw a head on and reset their iDrac so sure maybe they all just happened to fail at the same time but in my 2 years on this site we've never had more than 1 down at a time ever, and never for the same reason. I'm not the tech head of the site by any means and it certainly could be unrelated, but people with significantly greater experience than me in my org chalked this up to Crowdstrike.
While that is true, it makes sense for antivirus/edr software to run in kernelspace. This is a fuck-up of a giant company that sells very expensive software. I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment, but I mostly see this as a cautionary tale against putting excessive trust and power in the hands of one organization/company.
Imagine if this was actually malicious instead of the product of incompetence, and the update instead ran ransomware.
If it was malicious it wouldn't have had the reach a trusted platform would. That is what made the xz exploit so scary was the reach and the malicious attempt.
I like open source software but that's one big benefit of proprietary software. Not all proprietary software is bad. We should recognize the ones doing their best to avoid anti consumer practices and genuinely try to serve their customers needs to the best of their abilities.
That's precisely why I didn't blame windows in my post, but the windows-consumer mentality of "yeah install with privileges, shove genshin impact into ring 0 why not"
Linux can have the same issue. We have to keep the culture on our side here vigilant and pure near the kernel.
CrowdStrike recently caused a widespread Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue on Windows PCs, disrupting various sectors. However, this was not an isolated incident, CrowdStrike affected Linux PCs also.Pradeep Viswanathan (Neowin)
Yes but I upgraded to 555 at least a week or two ago and it started crashing a couple of days ago, I think there's an issue with explicit sync
explicit sync is used, but no acquire point is set
If you Google this you'll find various bug reports
It's not that clear cut a problem. There seems to be two elements; the kernel driver had a memory safety bug; and a definitions file was deployed incorrectly, triggering the bug. The kernel driver definitely deserves a lot of scrutiny and static analysis should have told them this bug existed. The live updates are a bit different since this is a real-time response system. If malware starts actively exploiting a software vulnerability, they can't wait for distribution maintainers to package their mitigation - they have to be deployed ASAP. They certainly should roll-out definitions progressively and monitor for anything anomalous but it has to be quick or the malware could beat them to it.
This is more a code safety issue than CI/CD strategy. The bug was in the driver all along, but it had never been triggered before so it passed the tests and got rolled out to everyone. Critical code like this ought to be written in memory safe languages like Rust.
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wow the /c/fediverse mods on lemmy.world REMOVED THIS SAME EXACT POST LMAO
that instance is a queerphobic shithole
In the end I'd say this is likely a nice demonstration of decentralisation and a plurality of instances is inherently valuable. Every online place will have its inclinations and slants, in many ways, which can always combine to create shitty interactions between otherwise defensible or understandable actors/motives.
Ensuring that there are multiple such "places", which we can each connect to as we wish, means that many/most issues or people can have a place to "breath" without handling the shitty noise and friction the internet is so liable to create.
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
Oh, you know... to enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
(I just stopped clicking youtube links on here, most of it is hot and/or dumb takes for superficial engagement)
Or alternatively to Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
I do not know why the YouTube link blurp is speaking French to me. It's been doing that for a week or so...
Thinking about it now, it's probably that the lemmy.ml server is in France or something and it requests the blurb info once, then I get it served from lemmy.ml.
Presumably, it would show French for you then, too, if you look at this same post on lemmy.ml: https://lemmy.ml/post/18149222
Was looking at getting a macbook air with an m1 chip in it and running Asahi Linux on it. My question is how viable is it for daily life? E.g. browsing, torrenting, uni notes ect. Would it be equivalent to a regular x86 laptop running Linux? Or would I be missing useful features?
Edit: Another question is how it holds up against newer AMD laptops, as it is 3-4 years old at this point.
You'd be making a few concessions, specifically Microphone, and HDMI ~~out~~ in:
https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/M1-Series-Feature-Support
That being said, those wouldn't deter me personally, especially if I got a good deal on one.
Hardware and software docs / wiki. Contribute to AsahiLinux/docs development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Of course apple profita from used laptops. If noone buys used apple laptops some of those who are replacing cannot afford the new one and there is a crowding out effect.
Moreover, the higher the demand for other vendors, the higher the support for them.
Don't ever buy apple devices. It's not a good company
The m series really are a game changer for battery life and ease of use and weight. What the other person said about soldered on components is just completely ignoring the reality of the situation. There are plenty of arguments for and against soldered motherboards. Linus Tech Tips has a good video covering it.
The m1 isn’t as good as later chips, and the air really needs more oomph, but I literally run DaVinci Resolve, Lightroom Classic, and insta 360 studio on mine (mine is an M3) at the same time as I’ve got a thousand tabs in Firefox open and it
can handle it just fine. Which is saying something as those are not lightweight programs.
I can’t compare it to an m1 air, but my dad has an m1 air and he’s never complained about it. He’s using it for just normal stuff though. Doc editing, web browsing, watching YouTube.
Not M1 but I tried installing Mint in my touch bar 2021 MBP and zero components worked. No track pad, no keyboard, wifi, Bluetooth etc.
Apple doesn't provide the drivers.
the whole apple-bad thing aside, you're getting a non-expandable 8 GB laptop, of which a significant portion goes to graphics. that's pretty low today, and it's gonna be worse down the road. speaking of graphics, although Asahi has basic functionality, the driver isn't 100% yet.
I hope you don't plan on torrenting a buncha stuff, as the SSD is small and non-replaceable and after years of use has an insane TBW number.
the battery longevity is a solid argument but you are buying a 4 year old battery that will show signs of aging.
I am all for repurpose/reuse/recycle, but unless you get it for free, or close to it, this thing s a bad idea. get a similarly aged business-class laptop (thinkpad, yoga, latitude, elitebook, etc.) that you can cram full of RAM and storage and replace practically every component if it fails.
that's radically different. although the serviceability is still nonexistent, that's a very useable machine. just be prepared to toss the thing if anything breaks.
for me, that would be a deal breaker but I understand the itch to try it out. just make sure it's not icloud locked.
Well, when it comes to laptops these days lots of brands can practically only be serviced/repaired by bringing them back to the Apple Store/manufacturer’s repair shop. Especially when it comes to lightweight models.
I miss my old Sager/Clevo gaming laptop where I could replace practically everything, I even upgraded the gfx card.
Do not buy an M-series mac just for asahi linux. It's a cool project. It is not daily driveable (yet). However, for using it as a regular laptop with MacOS.... Agh, I'm gonna get hate for this, but it's amazing. I'm a firm believer that you cannot get a better laptop experience than this. Great battery life, great performance, great screen, great touchpad. And as for MacOS, it's like worse GNOME with KDE settings, really nothing to write home about. Install homebrew and it functions like you're used to with linux distros...
Ik apple bad and all, but the way I see it, they are just as bad as other manufacturers like DELL, just that their products are actually good while they work...
As for the actual performance, it completely obliterates X86 counterparts around it's price range, unless you need to game or do graphically intensive stuff.
While I'm definitely on the same page as you with regards to performance, battery, and a great touchpad, I do think that given we are on Lemmy and a lot of us are what you would call "power-users", it is worth pointing out that MacOS is terrible to navigate with the keyboard.
As a small example (amongst many others), Macbooks do not come with dedicated home, page up, page down, end keys, and I've been using my wife's M2 Macbook Air for quite a while (over a year), and STILL feel as though I can't get the same snappy behaviour I can by using a keyboard for most of my navigation.
Once again, of course if people tend to navigate the OS using the touchpad this isn't as much of a problem, but for folks who swear by the keyboard, you do feel it.
I'm hoping that the second iteration of the snapdragon x elites will be good enough to replace the Macbooks for what I do.
Yeah, I swear by touchpad navigation, so the lack of PgUp, PgDown or the as described by you - terrible keyboard navigation doesn't really bother me.
I was hoping that the snapdragon X Elite laptops were gonna be as good as advertised, but alas, they are not.
It helps that Apple makes the best touchpads out there, and they are integrated into the OS really well. The haptics are almost magic.
My other laptop is a crappy 13 inch Dell with a spongy touchpad with uneven feedback and it makes me want to throw it into the wall.
Mac comes built in with those shortcuts just by holding command. Command left and right is home and end. Command up and down is page up page down.
And yeah there are definitely some holes? But Karabiner-Elements closes them up better than anything on windows does.
For navigation by keyboard you need to turn off a bunch of the animations and it’s very very snappy. I use Hammerspoon and can jump between apps faster than on Linux and windows.
they are just as bad as other manufacturers like DELL
Demonstrably false. Dell does not pair components, does not have agreements with component providers prohibiting them from selling to anyone else, doesn't prevent you from installing storage they haven't rubber stamped, etc., and you can buy at least some of them with repairable and upgradeable components.
Dual boot install first and make sure it’s working good for your needs. Power management and mic in asahi isn’t there.
The computer will be pretty good under asahi and blow everything else out of the water under macOS.
If you don’t already know it, go ahead and learn macOS.
If you’re worried about the ssd being slow, make an install medium and flatten and reinstall macOS with after filling the ssd with bits from dev/random.
It's not great. I have one, and I am able to use it, but there are some issues. Battery life is the main one. It will probably get 6 hours or so of active use, but they don't have good idle power management, so you don't get much more by turning it off.
Their performance isn't bad. It wasn't ever all that great though. It was mainly ppw that people liked, and you wouldn't really get that benefit with asahi because of the previously mentioned power management issues. Newer AMD laptops will absolutely outperform it.
Another issue that you didn't ask about, but I feel is worth mentioning: apple's build quality is bad. On mine, the display flashes pink sometimes. It did this before I ever put asahi on it. There are many reports of other users with the same issue. When I fist noticed it, it only happened once a month or so. Now I notice it 5-10 times a day, and I don't use it that much (maybe an hour or so a day).
Also, according to Louis Rossmann, there is a data line next to a power line on the motherboard that can easily be shorted out in humidity. He has pointed out many design issues, and usually they persist for quite some time before apple does anything, if they ever do.
I know I am coming across as very biased against apple, but keep in mind that I bought one. I thought that M1 was a large step forward in the quality of their products, and thought it was worth it to get one. I was wrong.
Is there such a thing as there being degrees (Which are useful and can be applied to a decent selection of vacancies) and:
"degrees" (Which might sound fancy but aren't useful in a lot of vacancies, could also be just to say you got a degree)
This is not to insult anyone who has been to a university and finished their course, but it's something I've been told long time ago by my previous work colleague who nearly became a lawyer, supposedly there are meme degrees as he puts it that look good on a CV but used in an interview is tripe.
What are your thoughts on this? Would you say that is complete nonsense? Or is there some truth to this?
What is your general attitude towards those who believe in religion whether they are jewish, Muslim, Christian etc etc.
Do you get on well with any religious friends and neighbours?
Have you ever thought of believing in a religion at some point?
If you do not like the faiths, why?
If you DO, also why? Does this come from your family? Maybe something went bad during your life?
I get that Lemmy might have the same stereotype in Reddit that there are loads of atheists, but there's a good reason why despite criticism of religion, it is still here.
P.S. I am not religious or anti religious in any fashion, I am agnostic.
I am looking for online master degrees and came across TECH, with an incredibly granular offering and excellent reviews in sites like Trustpilot or Emagister. Their prices are also very competitive.
The more I tried to find information about them, the shadier things looked. The vast majority of the opinions about them are very favourable (suspiciously so), but some are straight up scam accusations. No middle ground.
Has anyone had first hand experience with them?
They aren't accredited in the US, so if that's where you are, the degree is worthless.
https://www.techtitute.com/us/information/frequently-asked-questions
Expect those reviews to be fake. Not saying there aren't any people who graduated and actually liked it, but more often than not, those universities aren't worth it.
You could check LinkedIn for alumni with a degree you are considering and see where they ended up, that's usually a good real life indicator.
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It might partly be that a lot of what is designed for a screen is made deliberately to be maximally appealing to begin with.
For example a film or tv show is shot with various lenses that create pleasing depth of field, color and light is carefully controlled. Same with high fidelity video games. Even the UI of your applications is made to be appealing and clean.
Sports are sort of shot like films too, and often the cameras can resolve much higher detail than our eyes alone can. The way a sports event is shot in high def can be like gaining the visual abilites of a hawk or something. The lens can zoom in close while our eyes can only squint.
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate art more than most. But there's an exclusionary aspect that exists with art, wherein only some people can truly appreciate various aspects.
In contrast, nature is more universal and primal. Everyone, regardless of language or culture or education, can appreciate natural phenomena. The beauty of nature speaks to us on a fundamental level, whereas the beauty of art requires a certain degree of acculturation and intellectual effort to grasp.
Furthermore, human art is a reflection of nature and indeed a part of the beauty of nature, as you say. However, that inevitably positions it as a subset of the all encompassing beauty of existence as a whole. Artistic works are small mirrors reflecting back aspects of reality in interesting ways. But because they can only ever represent fragments of the greater whole, I would hesitate to place them above reality itself.
But it's hard to argue that they could exceed the beauty of the thing that they reflect.
Only if you're looking for objective value of paint on a canvas, or words on a page. What I think is beautiful about art is the way it makes people feel, and the complexity of the human context that allows that. Just this week, a story caused my fiancée to have a breakthrough in her CPTSD therapy. That's a unique kind of beauty
Well, if ye think about it from a perspective of recording things
Most of our ancestors may have been able to look at things as it is, according to their eyes, but they've never seen it recorded in photos and videos, let alone in color or good quality, until these relatively recent centuries that we now live in...
It gives a new perspective to the world around us, beyond our eyes, and is probably the closest we'd ever get from literally looking at someone else's point of view...
Comparison mostly. HD and 3D isn't impressing you by virtue of it being superior to real life (it isn't after all), it's impressing you compared to other examples of the same thing done "worse". The best portrait artist in the world can not make something look more "real" than the reference material, but it can compared to other attempts at painting.
This is true in other natural things as well. For example, a really big tree surrounded by smaller similar sized trees feels "really impressive" compared to a mountain surrounded by other... similar sized mountains. Or why a particularly colorful plant seems impressive surrounded by a bunch of green and brown plants.
On the other hand, things like OLED screens can be impressive compared to the natural world due to their ability to arrange and display colors rarely found in nature.
I have a pretty shitty life, but even I don’t consider my real life to be mundane.
The real world is full of so much glorious beauty and wonder, it constantly blows my mind.
I left to wonder, why don’t you see any of this?
Well, like, to me, my thing is... a video image is much more powerful and useful than an actual event.Like back when I used to go out, when I was last out, I was walking down the street and this guy came barrelling out of a bar - fell right in front of me and he had a knife right in his back - landed right on the ground.
And I have no reference to it now. I can't refer back to it. I can't press rewind. I can't put it on pause. I can't put it on slo-mo and see all the little details.
And the blood, it was all wrong. It didn't look like blood. The hue was off and I couldn't adjust the hue. I was seeing it for real, but it just wasn't right.
Because that's comparing oranges to apples.
In terms of pure image quality, real objects would win every time because they only have to be filtered by our eyes - digital images are filtered through the GPU and screen before ever reaching our eyes.
As such, the real contest is the ability of displays to make digital images look comparable to those real objects - because that's harder to do vs. ust looking at the real life object, it's more impressive to us.
I'm terribly nearsighted myself. You're probably already aware of this, but if you find yourself without your glasses and you need to see something far away, use your phone.
You can see your phone, and your phone can see far away.
I feel like it's the perspective that matters? Yes, we go through life seeing "higher resolution" in real life, but recreating this through pixels on a screen is a different medium. Going even further, if we take the next step and look at VR, suddenly we have real life competing with something that was previously unable to be experienced (more than once, at least.). Like, you can get a lightweight experience of what it's like to fall off of a tall building. We can do it in real life. We can do it in a 2D/3D game. And we can do it in VR. The "real" feelings we get of this happening in reality aren't quite the same as they are in VR, although it comes close, and likewise aren't the same in monitor gaming, but again can come close. Our brains are interesting that way. My stomach is able to drop when falling from tall heights in games, despite in real life not actually being falling, or even moving in the slightest.
So I think it comes down to it being the medium and what it's presented with.
Speak for yourself, I think reality is fucking gorgeous. That’s why people try so hard to evoke its appearance in the first place, not only on screen but on canvas and in sculpture and prose.
That’s why my favorite art isn’t realistic at all; if I wanted to see the most beautiful realism around, I could just walk to a lake.
During the third or fourth time I was mad that 3D hadn't taken off like technicolor, I though "fine! I'll just look at trees and hallways in real life then!" And yeah, it kinda works.
There's a lot of beauty in the world if you just, you know, look at it.
In a game, movie, work of literature or theater, your feeling of awe and immersion is maintained by something called the "magic circle". It is an area of experience that is separated from normal reality by the proverbial 4th wall.
Everything inside the magic circle is filled with artistic purpose, it works (in good works) to drive meaning and communicate themes and ideas of the art work.
Whenever this magic circle is broken, you suspension of disbelief becomes overtaken by cynicism, and the immersion is gone.
Mundane life is full of this cynicism, because we are not conditioned (anymore) to find mundane reality purposeful, outside of really outstanding and dire situations. We take reality with it's amazing graphics and narrative for granted, not noticing the magic.
Because it’s art.
There is a lot of skill and artistic talent needed to create a facsimile of real life. Anyone can draw a tree, but a realistic tree takes some amount of artistic knowledge. The more realistic the more talent that the artist shows. Similarly, when the artist deviates from recreating real life it shows an artistic vision beyond reality.
We like art because it shows a different perspective from the minds eye of the artist. And when the artist can render that vision as something that looks real, even if it couldn’t really exist, it is impressive.
Light projection. Others have hit on the psychosocial aspects, but watch a dull projector of the same video as an OLED TV and see how much better the TV is, and how the dim projector is worse than the real world. The simulated brightness and contrast play a big role in the "magical" feeling because our eyes are typically interpreting light via lower-level reflection.
Another way to reproduce this is to look around a big city with lights everywhere at night vs daytime.
I guess you’re not taking the time to appreciate the beauty of the real world?
Where I live, it’s all very beautiful. I’ve not had the experience you’re describing, where the detail of the world is mundane.
Because what you see on your screen is new. I bet you if you did some new shit IRL, it would be more impressive than on a screen. Dude, go sky-diving, racing, diving, kayaking, snowboarding, surfing, rock climbing, or play an intense game that physically wears you out. Travel to some place with a great view in the morning to see the sunrise and nice place to see the sunset. Go see the northern lights and tell me that's mundane.
I love screens too because they let us see different worlds and even the impossible - inside of a star, quantum realms, spaceships, life as ant, other worlds, species, and a bunch of other shit, but if you see it all the time, that'll be mundane too. I fell asleep to Dune, bro. Blockbusters with special effects send me to sleep because I've seen that shit thousands of times. Just got used to it. Probably that's what happened to you.
as of today I noticed I can't access my plex server at all when on my work's wifi. But if i swtich to 4g i can watch plex just fine. But obviously mobile data isn't truly unlimited high speed. And yes I only watch shit on my break. I have remote access enabled etc. Not sure what I can do?
Update: turns out I'm an idiot and my HD bay was turned off hence why I couldn't get into my plex/media. Now I can view it all just fine at work.
That's not "Windscribe as my VPN", it's a VPN to Windscribe's servers.
You want to setup a VPN to your home network. This is one option: https://tailscale.com/
Tailscale is a zero config VPN for building secure networks. Install on any device in minutes. Remote access from any network or physical location.tailscale.com
Forgive my ignorance, but how would they know? Wouldn’t they just see a VPN connection and where it’s going, but not what’s happening across the VPN?
I’m just glad I don’t have to deal with this. Even if I use the WiFi at work, it’s for public use and there’s no restriction with regards to streaming.
It honestly depends on the network policies you're dealing with. Some employers have strict security and won't allow workarounds like vpns or proxies, and they really don't want you connecting the network to other unsecured ones.
That said, I'd try a personal VPN (not necessarily a proxy one, just one that can connect you to your plex server on a shared network). If that doesn't work, I really doubt it's a good idea to connect to your plex server from their wifi anyway. If that's the case, I would just download the media I want before I get to work
I have a NTFS drive for Storage, which is shared between Win 11.
I want to change the location of (or replace) ~/Downloads, ~/Music, etc..,.
Note that the link to made is between NTFS and EXT4.
I found two ways while searching.
1.Creating **Symlinks** in `~` with target pointed to folders in NTFS drive.
2. **Mounting** the NTFS folders **directly** to`~/Downloads`, `~/Music`, etc..,.Also how to mount folders to other folders (option 2) ? (I would really appreciate a GUI way)
I know this is not that important of a thing to post on Main Linux Community, but I already asked 2 linux4noobs community, and they are empty.
This is a continuation to my previous discussion, where most of the people said,
/mnt/data/music to ~/music)
I don’t think this is a bad question at all, and personally I would prefer to mount the drive once and symlink folders for a couple reasons:
One possible con to symlinks is that certain (linux native) software can misbehave when it has to interact with them, but this is a fairly uncommon issue. Stuff ran through wine or proton should support them just fine, as they are abstracted away.
Lots of internet people says that one can't create mount points across different filesystems.
Citation needed. Bind mounts work just fine wherever you put them, again: you need to mount your source filesystem somewhere then you can bind mount paths from that mounted filesystem anywhere in the running VFS tree. You should Google linux bind mounts, they're quite simple.
problems that symlinks doCan you explain more please?
Some software has problems following symlinks properly and fails to work unless given the symlink source path instead
Citation needed
My bad. I got it confused with hardlinks.
Thank you.
Thanks man.
It’s easier to automate
I'm failing to see how and why one would do this? ( just curious )
I personally like symlink syntax more than mount syntax 😛
same man. It's just more simple.
afaik you can't mount folders, only drives. So what you're looking for are symlinks (symbolic links, as opposed to hard links; use e.g. ln -s <source> ~/Downloads). I have a few in my $HOME pointing to other drives as well.
if your NTFS drive is unmounted or unavailable, the link will be broken; but you won't have to recreate it in the future: so it's a "set and forget" operation for as long as the path the link points to remains the same.
Thank You.
FYI, you can mount folders. I just don't exactly know how.
For data like this from another filesystem I usually like to mount the entire volume somewhere private (like under /run) and then bind mount the parts I want to use into their desired locations (like /home/foo/Download, etc.)
I do this with a second ext4 drive that I use for performance sensitive storage with my primary btrfs system root. It works well, just be aware of edge cases involving containers (you may have to grant the container access to the original mount location under /run in addition to the bound path. This is definitely a gotcha when working with those paths with flatpak.)
then bind mount the parts I want to use into their desired locations
how though?
This is definitely a gotcha when working with those paths with flatpak
Can you explain a bit more please?
how though?
mount -o bind /source /target or use fstab or systemd mount units
Can you explain a bit more please?
Container software often needs permission for both the virtual path (wherever the bind mount is mounted to) and the source path (wherever the original is mounted from. It's not terribly complicated but it does mean fiddling with access permissions in flatpaks.
You should read about bind mounts, they're fairly straightforward and there are many, many, many explanations available online
Seconding this. As it's a mount that is explicitly for your user, you might as well mount it where it's most convenient for you.
If, on the other hand, it was a mountpoint for the entire system, I'd keep it in /mnt and go the symlink route - I'm old fashioned, and I like to use /mnt for as much as possible. I find it more tidy that way.
Seconding this.
I'm sorry, but which one exactly?
As it's a mount that is explicitly for your user
So, mounting folders just do that for a single user whom created the mount point?
Not related to your question exactly, but if you want certain "special" folders (Downloads, Music etc.) to be in specific places, it might be worth setting up xdg data dirs to the appropriate location.
Thank You.
This helped me. But would you suggest XDG or creating Symlinks?
I am trying to understand difference between using ln -s and mount --bind. In basic scenario I can use both to access one directory from somewhere else. In what scenarios those two will behaveAsk Ubuntu
Hey man, I think this is a perfectly valid question to ask here. Also I was one of the people who replied on the other thread as well.
So, let's start with the why. I imagine you want to have ~/Downloads be inside your large disk so files get automatically downloaded there, I imagine ~/Documents is to have access to the same documenta on both OSs. If that's not the why or there's something else let me know as I'll be basing my answer on this assumption.
Last time we told you about how you can mount things wherever you want to, I imagine by now you have an entry on your fstab that automatically mounts that NTFS drive somewhere. I'll call that somewhere /ntfs just to give it a name/path, but any other path should be the same.
If you wanted your ENTIRE NTFS partition to be on ~/Downloads it's as easy as changing that fstab entry from /ntfs to /home/gpstarman/Downloads (or whatever your username is). But I imagine you want something more complex, you want to have /ntfs/downloads and ~/Downloads to be the same directory.
Like you found out there are two ways to do this, the first and most easy one is to create a link. To do so graphically just open whatever file explorer you use right click and drag from one path to the other and you should have an option link here or something similar. Note that you might need to delete or rename your existing ~/Downloads folder to have the link be named that. If you wanted to do it by command line it's ln -s <target> <link name>, so in your hypothetical case ln -s /ntfs/downloads ~/Downloads
This should work for 99% of cases and honestly I don't think you should care too much about mounting. I'll reply to this comment with the steps for mounting and explaining why it's different just to be on the safe side.
For mounting it's a bit trickier, just like you added an entry to fstab to say that you wanted to mount (for example ) /dev/sdb2 on /ntfs you would need to add another one saying you want to mount /ntfs/downloads to /home/<username>/Downloads. If you want to run this as a one off the command is mount --bind /ntfs/downloads /home/<username>/Downloads (but note that running this with a command will become undone when you reboot, the only way to preserve it after reboots is to have an fstab entry)
What this does is essentially at the kernel level say that one path is the other. How is this different from a link? Well, a link is just a file that points to the other place, whereas a mount is the other place. A couple of examples on how this is different:
In short, a link is like a door that when you open it tells you "go to the other door", whereas the mount is replacing the room behind that door with another one. Most programs are smart enough to go to the other door, and on most cases the other door exists so all is good. On some edge cases (like I said, docker, chroot, etc) the "go to door X" could be a problem if inside the client system X doesn't exist.
Ps: I don't know of any way of doing this graphically, this is advanced stuff so likely it's expected that people who want to mount folders know enough to do it in a terminal
Thanks Again.
This is Everything I needed to know.
Guess I'll stick to Symlinks for the sake of simplicity.
Folders? you mean directories 👀
Mount the disk (if you ask me at /media/nameofdir) and configure ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config}/user-dirs.dirs and define each XDG_***_DIR= to the respective directory in the path of the mounted disk, no need to make symlinks, though you might need to because there is likely many apps that don't follow xdg specs.
I would really appreciate a GUI way
I know gnome-disks has a GUI way to change the mount options, I don't know how good it is though.
Thank You.
Found this just for you.
https://lemmy.world/post/1352601
would you suggest XDG or creating Symlinks?
You can do both, and both are easy.
The user-dirs.dirs file contains something like this:
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"/media/dirname, it would be something like this, I'm giving it a external-drive name in this example:XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="/media/external-drive/Desktop"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="/media/external-drive/Documents"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="/media/external-drive/Downloads"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="/media/external-drive/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="/media/external-drive/Pictures"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="/media/external-drive/Public"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="/media/external-drive/Templates"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="/media/external-drive/Videos"Desktop, Documents, etc directories. It is as simple as this:ln -s /media/external-drive/* $HOME
That will symlink all the files in the drive to your $HOME
I suggest you do both because you might run into a program that doesn't follow XDG user directories.
Fixing the bwrap: Can’t make symlink error with Flatpakideatrash.net
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It is the cycle of life
(That is not even taking into account where someone is being a transparent dickbag and then whining when they get moderated for it, which I suspect is what’s going on here and why they don’t want to go into any details)
This is more of a theory than anything I’ve tried in practice, but I think “go ugly early” might be good advice in moderation as it is in marathons. If someone’s being a dickbag just get rid of them. Temp ban for dickbaggery, perm ban for consistent or unrepentant dickbaggery.
It seems like a lot of the mods try to dress it up in this elaborate system of rules and procedures like they’re only implementing the will of the great magnet, and they have no personal stake in anything. Just ban the dicks and people will either agree with your judgement on it or they won’t. But it seems, just from my observations, like trying to dress it up in a fig leaf of impartiality doesn’t really fool anybody.