Oh look it’s chrome!

I was so focussed on the misspelling of “losing” that I missed the chatGBT.

It doesn’t help that win10 support ending doesn’t mean your device will immediately die. It means that you’ll probably face some kind of consequences at some point in the following year and years to come, which is too hand-wavey for most people.

Ugh I don’t know why but this was the one that got me. Just no.

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These are sophomores and Juniors in college.

… Who grew up in a world where computer internals were abstracted away so you never needed to know what a file was or even that they exist. I wouldn’t know what a file was either if I didn’t grow up in exactly the right time frame and have a dad who hoarded DOS PCs.

This is so British politics. Don’t solve all of the fundamental problems of Brexit, just fix the minor one that people will have a direct experience of.

As the guardian usually does

There’s probably a correlation between people who are aware enough of reddit’s practices and policies to want to switch to Lemmy and people who are engaged in or by political discussion.

In other news, water is wet.

I booked a flight recently, the translation engine was obviously having issues so instead of giving helpful labels for form fields it was stuff like: “{{ name.first }}”, which I could figure out for the most part, but then on submission I got an error with no description at all. I opened the dev tools and resubmitted the form to find the API response which gave me the actual error. 2 pages previously a form field hadn’t been set correctly by the web page (it was a drop-down, I selected an option, the error said it was null). I managed to force the field to populate properly and hey presto, submission works. Ridiculous.

I love the argument about c having type safety with the little side-swipe at rust. “AcTuAlLy C does have type safety! You just have to jump through the following 50 hoops to get it!”. I’m an outsider to both C and Rust but it’s still funny.

Most people just want a thing to work though. One member of my family has issues with her iPhone at the moment where the signal is just all over the place. Sometimes not able to receive calls, sometimes not able to make them, sometimes inaudible when the call is made. She’s googled and gone to apple tech support who have given her a list of basic troubleshooting tasks to do, stuff like checking settings. She said to me “I don’t want to go hunting for these things I just want to hand it to someone and they can make it work!”

Linux and computer enthusiasts are happy to assemble things as we need them because the problem solving stuff is satisfying to us, for other people it’s just a slog.

Genuine question, what good things? Part of the problem of only getting news from podcasts and social media is that I very loudly get all the bad things and maybe the good things are being drowned out.

Only heard a couple people talk about it online (that I trust to be reasonable) and they basically said it was fine but didn’t blow them away. And that’s fine but it makes for boring “cOnTeNt”.

Who is this for? Anyone who wants a “pre-build” isn’t going to be too impressed with the price and desktop PCs are already very repairable compared to laptops. Why would I buy this when it doesn’t even have replaceable RAM?

Framework laptops work because laptops are generally terrible for repairability, why bother adding a desktop line that is less repairable (albeit only slightly) than standard desktops?

Yeah this is basically the argument for universal basic income, on top of eliminating poverty.

I’m all for supporting low-to-middle incomes but it’s still a huge investment for those not in (or just outside) that bracket. I can’t spend 10k now to see the return in 20 years, assuming the rates stay decent. It’s not practical.

Rock and stone

Incels. Incels and gullible teenagers who later become incels.