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Cake day: June 20th, 2023
  • Tekchip@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•Don't let the corporations tell you otherwiseEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Most of the back and forth is predicated on the idea that the digital world works the same as the digital one. It does not!

    In the physical world you cannot produce and exact copy of something for zero dollars.

    In the digital world you can make many copies at effectively zero cost.

    Stealing, theft, is predicated on taking something from someone so they no longer have it.

    Making a digital copy does not steal or remove access.

    The whole argument, which I would posit is deeply flawed, is that pirating removes imaginary potential profits for reselling the thing copied (not stolen). If that’s so then prove it. Prove that at some point in the future I, or any other given person, would have bought that digital thing. Unless you’ve invented time travel you just can’t.

    Copying digital content isn’t theft and pirating isn’t the right thing to call it.

    We have to figure out how to better frame or address the digital world that just fundamentally doesn’t operate the same as the physical one.

  • Tekchip@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•just wait, it could get worse....English
    93·
    1 year ago

    Mainframes and old databases? It was 98/99 not 88/89. I spent all my time updating Netscape navigator, Windows and Java in my IT job for a fortune 500. I’m sure someone was still running crazy old stuff, someone always is, but it was solidly the age of the internet by then. I had a cable modem by that time.

  • Tekchip@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•2023-08-09.jpgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    As monstrous as it is yyyy-mm-dd could also be misconstrued by said unfortunate Americans as yyyy-dd-mm because…well…yeah. As noted elsewhere this dd mmm yyyy format also works nicely in written and verbal communication as 12th of august where no one ever is going to write or speak to each other twenty twenty three august twelfth. So again, more universal and less ambiguous.

  • Tekchip@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•2023-08-09.jpgEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    As monsterous as it is yyyy-mm-dd could also be misconstrued by said unfortunate Americans as yyyy-dd-mm because…well…yeah. As noted elsewhere this dd mmm yyyy format also works nicely in written and verbal communication as 12th of august where no one ever is going to write or speak to each other twenty twenty three august twelfth. So again, more universal and less ambiguous.

  • Tekchip@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•2023-08-09.jpgEnglish
    94·
    1 year ago

    Lot of talk of numerics only. The problem there is knowing what format the information is in since clearly there are 3 possibilities. Without context and during certain parts of the month you’re hosed. Best to remove ambiguity and go with the alpha numeric format.

    DD MMM YY (or alternatively YYYY)

    11 Aug 2023

    Ambiguity gone.

  • Tekchip@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Well that didn't go as expected...English
    5·
    1 year ago

    Getting tired of this smaller target narrative. On desktop, maybe. We don’t know for sure since most Linux doesn’t carry telemetry and one ISO download doesn’t mean one install.

    Also, Linux runs some insanely high percentage of the Internet (server, VM, container), IOT and mobile. For every individual who might own a hand full of computers there are 10’s, or perhaps hundreds, of Linux servers out there doing tasks for them. Virus and malware don’t only target desktops. There’s literally no larger target.

  • Tekchip@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Well that didn't go as expected...English
    24·
    1 year ago

    Did you read the thread you just replied to? Most of the internet, hundreds of millions (probably trillions but I’m being conservative) of servers, all run Linux. Linux is a minority on desktop computers, yes, but it’s a majority of computers on the planet. For every one or two computers an individual might have there are a multitude of servers (that’s not just base servers but all the virtual servers, docker containers, IOT, and mobile devices). 10’s of these per person if not hundreds. All linux. Your argument that it’s a smaller user base is patently false. You’re using linux right now and don’t even know it.

  • Tekchip@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Some trouble
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    1 year ago

    No joke at all. It’s literally impossible to talk sense to anyone about how bad Windows is.

    I’ve done tech support for 20+ years with the first half being Windows support exclusively and the second half being largely, but not entirely, Linux support. Windows support is much much harder than Linux. Most linux errors are verbose and can be searched to find a wealth of sources of possible fixes. MS errors are nonsensical and usually land you on only one or two other posts that if they don’t work you’re entirely screwed.

    I can install Linux in about 15 minutes start to finish including all my commonly installed apps. Windows takes 45min minimum on a good day and if you already know which things are in the drivers DB and which things require third party downloads and installs (and where to get them). That’s just OS and drivers. Software takes much much much longer from all the diverse third party sources. You could maybe cobble together some powershell or something that gets you like 90% of the way to the speed of installing Linux and software. But you’re still going to have some stuff without the API access or CLI inputs that just can’t be scripted.

    Battery life and heat production running Linux is much better because it doesn’t spend all your free cycles exfiltrating your data to MS so machines just run faster, smoother, cooler and with better battery life.

    At no time do you have to pay for or worry about licenses just trying to install the damn OS. If I had a dime for every person I’ve known in my life running windows unlicensed with that sad black background and that persistent watermark I’d have enough money to afford a single windows home license ($139 Retail).

    I could go on. But why when, as noted, no one is going to give it the time of day.

  • Tekchip@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Some trouble
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    1 year ago

    Windows sucks but no one seems to realize this because they’re too comfortable with how they fix, or work around, the broken stuff repetitively. The repetitiveness of the bad experience becomes “normal” so nothing is amiss. It being broken is “normal” so in their eyes it "just works"TM. It’s almost like a form of brain washing.

    It really is akin to people in domestic abuse situations who are just so numb to it they aren’t motivated to get out.

    Maybe we should be taking a book from domestic abuse counseling or something?

  • Tekchip@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Some trouble
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, I’m going to have to call you on that whole "Windows just works"TM business. I just had to install drivers, during setup, for a regular hard drive in Windows Server 2019. Last time I tried to run the game Rust on Windows 11 it just wouldn’t run and I blew hours and never could find a solution. Had to go back to Win 10 to get it to run. It’s also pretty easy to pay attention to any news feed and see an endless string of Windows is now broken like X on basically a weekly basis at this point. MS Fired their entire QA team and only tests on virtual machines now. Zero surprise Windows breaks in all sorts of new and interesting ways when it finally meets the real world. Anyone who makes this statement is at best naive and at worst a bold face liar/shill. I do try to assume most people are the prior of course.

    That said the rest of your statement is spot on. Right tool for the right job will never not be relevant.