Posts by arctic_haze

Re: Windows update Situation Normal

I am during the process of migration from Windows 10 to Ubuntu. The Ubuntu laptop upgrades often but with no surprises (except for the fact that it requires a reboot much often than the Redhat machines I used to administer at work. But Windows is of course a constant source of surprises. Yes, I did the sequence of command lines to increase the RE partition. It did work but (obviously) only after a reboot.

So the bottom line is that in the olden days Window upgrades worked pretty easily but needed reboots while Linux needed a lot of commandline tweaks to make some updates work. Now it is the other way.

EU is going to ban such shenanigans for the most known example, namely printers:

https://ecostandard.org/news_events/after-much-ink-spilt-the-eu-is-about-to-crack-down-on-made-to-break-printers/

But it is obvious that we need a general solution.

ChatGPT is like most students. When pressed for details, it will make up stuff.

Also Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria and Greece are using the Eastern European Time (UTC +2 in winter and +3 in summer).

Re: a job-free future

But this model is 100% incompatible with the right-wing idea of cutting welfare, preferably to zero.

Re: Please, ell me another one, that one was hilarious

You must be American to write such nonsenses about trains. Especially since when are buses (or cars) safer than trains?

In the European Union trains and planes are the two safest options (0.035 deaths per 100 million passenger kilometers), followed by bus and coach (0.07), ferry (0.25) and car (0.7). In other words, trains are as safe as planes, twice safer that buses and 20 times safer than cars.

Source: https://etsc.eu/transport-safety-performance-in-the-eu-a-statistical-overview/

"Musk will just lawyer up"

I wonder if he will pay the lawyers anything...

Re: Won't get anything from me

Mine would be similar. I first tried to see how reliable it is (a total failure). Then I started testing its limit. Funny thing but it is easier to entice it to create an erotic story than to agree that Putin is a war criminal.

Re: Thank God!

Also Install Windows 10 without going online. This forces it to offer you the local account option.

Re: Content moderation = politics

The "carefully-contrived company" (whatever that means) is wholly owned by the trust. And per taxes, how much do you think it should pay on a profit of £11.7m (2022)? More than companies which have profits in billions but pay no taxes at all?

"I find myself continually wishing MS would just drop Windows entirely and do a completely new greenfield OS"

Well, they could make their Linux distribution and do some work on Wine to have backward compatibility. An easy job, actually.

All hail the successful test!

It was the most successful space mission ever. Full stop.

[Will I get my blue badge for free?]

Re: Nothing changes

I have been flying using a driving license as ID in two countries: the US and the UK. In the US it was a California driving license but in the UK (to make it stranger) it was a EU country driving license. I'm not sure if Brexit killed that option or not.

Re: Passport was always checked

You left the EU, including the single market and you still expect to be treated as if you were part of it? You no need to pass an external border of the EU which is also a customs border which was not the case before Brexit. Blame only yourself.

Re: Fire all architects!

When I asked ChatGPT if the AIs can cause human extinction it waited for a very long time and gave me an answer arguing it is "relatively unlikely". I ask how relatively and then got an apparently pre-prepared (no delay) answer about no need to worry if the AIs are written in ethical way. Not very encouraging, in my opinion.

Re: Interesting

I'm pretty sure it is already as illegal as not paying the rent for your building. But somehow Elon thinks he can get away with it.

Re: The meltdown continues

It's simple. You are extreme left in the US if you believe no one should be too poor to buy food, have a roof above his/her head and have access to medical help just because he/she is unable to work.

Re: Twitter Still Free to Use ?

"200m robots won't have $5 each"

Neither will 100m kids and 100m users in poor countries.

Re: "miscreant", "scumbag"

It is illegal as long as you are not a billionaire.

Re: So more users less advertisers

I have a Samsung phone but no Twitter app. There is one for Facebook I never used and yes, I am able to uninstall it (I have just did that successfully).

Re: Here we go again

What's wrong with criticizing someone who breaks the law?

And if you will claim he is not, just wait for the result of the torrent of lawsuits that will follow his recent decisions.

Re: So a cellphone is mandatory to enter the country...

Not even a cellphone. You need a smartphone and certainly not one with some niche OS.