HStone32

joined 1 year ago
[–] HStone32@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Jut put my Mother on mint. Her windows 10 pc is reaching EOS, and I finally convinced her that having to buy a new computer every several years is unacceptable.

[–] HStone32@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm convinced the reason people hate terminals is because there must have been a disinformation campaign against them by the Microsoft sales department in the 90s.

After that, even people who were comfortable with using BASIC on their 8-bit home micro-computers somehow became convinced they were too stupid to do anything without a mouse. Its Orwellian, honestly.

[–] HStone32@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Either microcontrollers, operating systems, or something else involving RISC-V. That's still a ways off though.

[–] HStone32@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Don't know what to tell you. All I know is that WiFi worked before the update, and then didn't after. Updating the firmware didn't fix it. Reinstalling the OS didn't fix it. Taking it to the PC repair shop didn't fix it. Replacing the network card didn't fix it. But dual-booting Linux mint did fix it, on the mint partition, at least.

[–] HStone32@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm currently taking the very last CS class my major requires. I can't wait to leave OOP behind and focus on hardware completely.

[–] HStone32@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Why do people use wsl? The only reason I can think of is to take advantage of Bash and the shell environment. But if wsl runs in its own container separate from Windows, what's the point?

[–] HStone32@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Has a Linux update ever broken something on my computer? Yes. Have I ever needed to revert versions? Yes.

Has a Linux update ever broken my computer so badly, that a hardware component on the motherboard had permanently stopped working, even after reinstalling firmware? No, but a windows update did once. I had to dual-boot Mint just so I could use WiFi.

[–] HStone32@lemmy.world 42 points 5 days ago (2 children)

"Dear floss4life,

Our developers have encountered an issue while using the open source framework you published on github. We have lost as many as 400 user accounts. The estimated cost of this error is $6800.

This is unacceptable. Be a professional and fix it immediately.

Chad Elkowitz, MBA, Gruvbert and sons Finance Lt"

[–] HStone32@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Memory safety is a skill, not a feature.

[–] HStone32@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

The face of a man desperately trying to convince the world that c++ has made c obsolete, so that more people may share in his misery.

[–] HStone32@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They had a good thing going. YouTube was far from unprofitable. But the skyrocketing density and plummeting quality of ads drove people to adblockers.

I suspect though, the day will soon come when ad-space is no longer quite so valuable.

[–] HStone32@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

"I need you to tell me how we can incorporate ai in our product."

"Ai? How could ai possibly benefit our product?"

"Don't ask me that. you're the engineer, you should know."

"Well, then I'm telling you the product has nothing to gain from incorporating ai."

"Fine, I'll keep looking until I can find someone with actual vision. See you at your performance review."

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