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Fatwah on Western Digital
It might be making a boot optimization pass. Either that or you got some updates that installed silently and it did more than usual back-end work during your next startup.
With regard to low cost, reasonably powerful systems, I can't recall seeing mini PCs with Ryzen 3550H CPUs before, but Amazon has several of them today, 16GB/500GB systems that are around 40% faster than an N150 and prices around $210. I wonder if this is a response to the cost per unit for newer but much more common Ryzen 5500 and 5800 mini PCs going up.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
One of my customers had an issue that it took me a couple days to find and deal with. They had a bunch of weird, invalid text in a database they're using, starting a couple weeks ago. Turned out that one of their employees has turned on an AI translation feature in Edge, such that it was taking their text input and translating it into Polish. The text looked right on their screen as they typed, but it was being translated before it was sent.
So that's a new thing we all have to look out for.
So that's a new thing we all have to look out for.
fb
Storage is cool
Interesting with AI auto translate, especially on the database side if you don't store the input as unicode (or do not store it properly as unicode).
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
What my customer actually noticed was "funny characters" and partial nonsense, which they assumed were data corruption, showing up in a daily report. I was terrified I had bad RAM in a server until my customer let me know that one of his employees had a bunch of the same weird characters and nonsense in emails they were sending.
The user swears they have no idea how the translation software got turned on. The only non-English language I even occasionally encounter here in the US Midwest is Spanish.
The user swears they have no idea how the translation software got turned on. The only non-English language I even occasionally encounter here in the US Midwest is Spanish.
mubs
Storage? I am Storage!
Time to install Linux in a VM and start getting used to it??
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Linux from the end user side isn't genuinely too different from Windows or MacOS. There are a couple small exceptions, one being that there really aren't official clients for cloud storage and another being locked out of full-fat desktop MS Office. A variety of third party clients for storage exist and you can use the web version of MS Office and/or look at GDocs or LibreOffice, but I know a lot of people who have spent their whole lives seeing ever problem as Excel-specific solutions.
Content creation on Linux can be a headache. Resolve Studio, Reaper, Inkscape and Affinity Photo work but most tools for creatives don't. A few types of games don't work (mainly online-only titles with anticheat systems). Other than that, the main thing is just knowing that the filesystem outside home folders is different and the minor annoyances of having a new Window Management system. The same people who already aren't configuring VMs or setting up private server applications will continue to not do that on their Fedora or Mint or whatever system.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Several US States and multiple countries are in the process of trying to force OS vendors to add an age verification tool to their account generation process. This is something that could put the nail in the coffin for Local Accounts on Windows, but moreover, how the hell would niche OSes like NetBSD handle these requirements?
I want to say that my main Google account is more than 20 years old and that attestation should be enough, but my fear is that, should this be implemented, lawmakers would add more and more identity information to the requirement, which could be a real problem for all sorts of reasons, chief among hem gender identity and race.
I want to say that my main Google account is more than 20 years old and that attestation should be enough, but my fear is that, should this be implemented, lawmakers would add more and more identity information to the requirement, which could be a real problem for all sorts of reasons, chief among hem gender identity and race.
sedrosken
Florida Man
Yeah, apparently Newsom himself said that the law wasn't enforceable as-is because it was so vague, but urged it to be pushed through anyway as it can be amended later on. Or something.
I find it entertaining that a BSD fork responded by modifying their license to prohibit use in California.
My question is, how do you enforce this for servers, which have no real primary user to verify? Or for corporate-owned machines? If there's a way to mass-tick a flag saying "this user is an adult, trust me bro" it'll be found and abused immediately, rendering the law moot.
I find it entertaining that a BSD fork responded by modifying their license to prohibit use in California.
My question is, how do you enforce this for servers, which have no real primary user to verify? Or for corporate-owned machines? If there's a way to mass-tick a flag saying "this user is an adult, trust me bro" it'll be found and abused immediately, rendering the law moot.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
Think about all the weird stuff we use that technically has an OS and probably talk to the internet. Copy machines, medical and industrial equipment, routers and switches, IoT gear... how silly is this going to have to be?
I am mostly concerned what this does for the state of anonymity online and perhaps it will be EU privacy regulations that win out with these things, but as I understand it, the EU wants to implement a digital identity system that has just as many issues as anything else. Mostly, I just don't want to be force to sign up for any sort of universal ID I have to use on the internet that will be tracked and controlled by the State, particularly this State. No one who has an interest in civil liberties should be OK with this and yes I do think that letting non-adult see boobs and trans and dead bodies and racism on gross web sites is the price we have to pay for that, because the alternative is an infrastructure for censorship and State-sponsored repression.
I am mostly concerned what this does for the state of anonymity online and perhaps it will be EU privacy regulations that win out with these things, but as I understand it, the EU wants to implement a digital identity system that has just as many issues as anything else. Mostly, I just don't want to be force to sign up for any sort of universal ID I have to use on the internet that will be tracked and controlled by the State, particularly this State. No one who has an interest in civil liberties should be OK with this and yes I do think that letting non-adult see boobs and trans and dead bodies and racism on gross web sites is the price we have to pay for that, because the alternative is an infrastructure for censorship and State-sponsored repression.
sedrosken
Florida Man
I saw all kinds of stuff I was never meant to online as a kid and while I can't say I turned out fine I am a functional tax-paying member of society. I completely agree.
jtr1962
Storage? I am Storage!
Even before the Internet kids got their fill of that stuff looking at dirty magazines. I remember the time me and my siblings stumbled across my father's stash. My mother of course went ballistic that he even had that stuff in the house, especially with young children around.