Like those chakra alignment idiots? Or homeopathic idiots? Or the anti vax idiots? Or the flat earth idiots?
Shall we then also smile and nod when the holocaust deniers speak up?
How long until the 9/11 deniers also chime in?
That's what the "freedom to believe whatever you want" looks like
Remember, the Internet is a globally available source of information, as well as a globally available source of disinformation. Some people might want to disagree with the words 'globally available', while others will instead want to disagree about there being a globe at all
Abundant upload / download at high speed is what has allowed there to be a platform where one can spread idiocy in video form, making it even more accessible to those members of society who are too lazy to read, and hence are even less informed
Sure, it would be great to live in a world where one could spread whatever info they wanted and the general populace is smart enough to figure out what's right or wrong, but we don't live in that world.
We live in a world of fucking imbeciles who get out of a moving car they're supposed to be driving, to record themselves dancing to a shit song
I haven't watched network TV since YouTube, Netflix and Hulu became available.
Before YouTube Red / Premium, I used adblock. But, once it they offered a no-ad subscription... I went for it.
Same here. Paying for Youtube Red so that I don't have to see their fucking adverts, I don't give a fuck about their "youtube originals" content
The problem is, they're not paying their content producers enough for them to not also show their own adverts embedded as part of the fucking video so I can't skip it
Every time Linus Sebastian interrupts his own show (Linus Tech Tips) to tell me about Tunnelbear or some other shit, I feel like punching him in the face
I wish I'd never heard of Patreon either
Although it's not all content producers doing this so it's semi manageable, I just end up having to avoid certain channels after the first advert
I kind of wonder this also. I do not know how many package maintainers in ARCH or how it works, but with the amount of packages available in some distros these days I guess I should not be surprised.
Sad that distro maintainers may have to vet maintainers now, adding an additional burden. But as a user we should always be careful with non-core packages.
1) Vetting who get's to alter OS packages should be the default, not an "extra burden". Or would you all like an "npm left pad" sort of disaster on your OS?
2) This makes ALL the Arch packages look suspicious, given that there may be others that have been hijacked in this way which we just haven't heard about yet.
Trying to argue why "software may theoretically have bugs" is a bad argument will take too much time. It is a lot easier for both of us if you just read the standard. (Or IEC 61508 if you want to, the safety related parts should be fairly equivalent.)
Just to get an idea of the scope, a system developed according to the standard will be able to manage a situation where a transistor in the CPU stops working, for example if the ALU no longer can set the zero-flag and conditional branches no longer is possible.
Yep, you so called "safe" high level languages means jack shit when it comes to designing safe systems. Your built in super-automatic buffer overrun check isn't guaranteed to work.
The software should be bug-free, but even if it isn't then it shouldn't cause a safety issue.
Completely agree
However, my snark was more to do with the way certain internet commenters have this incredibly high standard placed upon Tesla, yet if an existing car manufacturer for example has a tech flaw, there isn't nearly the same level of outrage/concern/whatever
Could it be that "electric cars" and "autonomous driving" are a threat to people who's ePeen is attached to their ability to own and operate a big V8?
Note: I'm not saying that Tesla should get a pass for whatever may be wrong in their cars. I'm saying that the level of wrath directed towards Tesla seems to be people getting defensive over their toys being slowly taken away. I suspect that most of these people have never even heard of Lidar until it became a talking point for Tesla
* I do not assume that Tesla actually follows the standard even if they are legally required to.
I just hope that they're doing a better job of it than Toyota
and I say all of this while I tend to avoid American cars due to hardware reliability concerns (hoping Tesla will be the exception here)
Or are you trying to imply that Tesla should get their shit together and release an absolutely perfect car on day one just like every other car manufacturer?
You can’t patch in a lack of hardware like lidar retard.
1: Other car manufacturers have been "patching" hardware for decades. It's called a product recall. Sure, patching in a whole new and improved piece of hardware such as Lidar to replace their existing tech is a big costly thing to do, but it would have to be done if Lidar were actually needed.
2: These cars don't seem to need Lidar (consider that ALL of them should be failing quite often without a required piece of navigation hardware)
you don't need mint to avoid a 'bullshit ui' from ubuntu. you just like slamming canonical, i guess.
because all that's needed is 4 or 5 brain cells to power yourself to configuring something else on it.. including your precious mint's default of cinnamon.
Let's break it down:
you just like slamming canonical, i guess.
It's easier to install 3rd party software on Ubuntu than it is on Debian.
Indeed.
because all that's needed is 4 or 5 brain cells to power yourself
Perhaps you should have engaged your 4 or 5 remaining brain cells before replying? I've used Ubuntu from around 5.10 up to and including when they introduced Unity. Tried to like it, gave up, moved on. But Unity was so awesome that they didn't cancel it, amirite?
to configuring something else on it.. including your precious mint's default of cinnamon.
Do more work to achieve the same thing, why?
And what would I gain from doing it that way anyway?
...if you're not an idiot and don't go to random sites/click "run" on downloaded files, you're reasonably safe...
Excellent, using your idea, we don't need to patch anything ever again. The answer has been right in front of us all this time, we would have never figured it out if you hadn't come along. I won't even need to help older relatives when they fuck up their PCs, I'll just print out your post and stick it below their screen
I found this 'report' to be laughable. No it was borderline ignorant and seems to be based on my work, rampant speculation, and a random technical phrase generator.
While I do agree with you (I found the details about the x86 based PS4 from your site long before anyone else knew anything about it)
The real problem here is that your superior information / insight is hidden behind a paywall
It isn't even a relatively affordable paywall that I might feel compelled to pay for once off to find out about this one thing.
Your $100 per year student subscription doesn't cover your PS5 news article.
And at $1000 per year, some Muppet is naturally going to pay that fee, make a video with extra speculation to pad it out, publish on Youtube, and contribute to the dumbing down of society in general while hoping to pull in ad revenue.
I'm not sure how much control you have over this or if it's even a good fit for your business model, but I might be compelled to pay for that one bit of information at a price that doesn't involve choosing between paying the rent or find out about PS5 before everyone else
When Sony advertises cross-platform-play and still manages to block other consoles with impunity, why give them any more money?
Maybe this is a crazy idea but, we give them money for a gaming console because they make games worth playing on said console. Games that are not available anywhere else.
Yes I know about the debacle with them forcing you to play Fortnite on their platform if you started the game there, but here's the important bit regarding that game:
Fortnite IMO isn't that great as a game, and I'd rather avoid playing it than have to wage a personal crusade against a corporation that won't miss my business anyway
I'd only be ruining my own enjoyment of gaming to be so concerned about Fortnite that I'd willingly miss God of War, The last of us, Wipeout VR etc as a result
Yes, Sony does deserve the backlash regarding Fortnite, so I'll go right ahead and not play Fornite on their platform
TBH, if I had to choose only one platform to play on right now, that platform would be PS4.
The main reason here is, where are the games? If they're cross platform, they'll likely appear on PC, PS4 and Xbox One; and on Switch to a lesser degree
So disregarding games that can be expected to appear on a given platform, which platform has most of the good platform exclusive games?
Xbox is already irrelevant because it's games are also available on PC, and has a very short list of exclusive games worth buying (Halo, Gears, Fable, Forza)
PC is still relevant for the likes of Starcraft 2 or WoW
PS4 arguably has more games that are worth playing and not available anywhere else.
Nintendo is generally always a viable choice because they make their own platform exclusive games that tend be good, but the larger collection of games on multiple platforms tend to not appear on Nintendo hardware
I understand that your preferences might not match mine because "better game" can be a subjective thing so I'd look at an aggregated comparison such as the user scores on metacritic for a better idea of what most people would enjoy (I don't know why a game like farming simulator would be popular enough to get a sequel, but even that has its fans)
That said, I would say get more than one device if at all possible. Definitely get a PC, PS4 and Switch to have access to all of the current gens best games
This is in Commiefornia...er...California, with some of the most restrictive gun laws around.
How could this have possibly happened?
I thought regulating the shit out of law abiding citizens would prevent such tragedies?
Just from the last two events to be mentioned in the news:
restrictive gun laws => shooter has a handgun => 3 injuries and the only death was the shooter
permissive gun laws => shooter has an AR15 => 17 kids dead, more injured.
This is basically what the gun control crowd is campaigning for.
Get rid of the big war weapons and at the very least a shooter is going to have a hard time killing so many people.
Ah the classic Linux fanboy. Finding bugs in the software by your desktop to work the way you need it = breaking it.
No, to give you a counter example:
The upgrade process in Mint works, without eating crazy amounts of CPU, and there's actually a repo on Mint. If this were as frustrating as it is on Windows, I would be complaining to the devs and looking into whether I can fix it myself.
Now if I fucked up my OS for example by interfering with parts I don't understand, that would be my fault if it broke.
Example, interfering with fstab and then complaining when I can't find hard drives is akin to you touching things you apparently don't understand and toasting Kubuntu
For a Windows example, me installing Windowblinds because the flat Windows UI looks like shit and fucking up the OS because of it, would be my fault.
If I moved the taskbar to the left and something breaks, that would be their fault, nobody else had a hand in making that feature.
It's their update system and their fault that the update system is shit. I can't fix it even if I knew how.
Funny, I "upgraded" a toasted kubuntu (I fucked it up) install yesterday to Min 18.3 (Cinnamon). Looked nice and slick at first. But I fucked with it again and now it's broken so I'll blame the OS
All on bog std hardware. The neighbouring Win 10 pro machine with the same hardware (That I didn't fuck up, apparently) has no issues at all.
Linux has always been crap with multiple monitors and usable desktops. Ironically we use the desktops to remote onto VM's running on a Linux cluster.
FTFY
Now my turn for anecdotal evidence:
I've been running Mint for years on my work machine (js, Python, C, C++ dev);
with Windows (C# dev) banished to a Virtual Machine before it can cause any trouble.
The host OS gives me no trouble, the guest OS typically wastes my time by being unusable while it updates, because the retarded shit gibbons at MS have written an overly complicated update system that takes 100% of a CPU core to download & copy files + edit registry
For example, why spend time and money on Dungeon Keeper for mobile when the old PC Dungeon Keeper is infinitely better; or why waste your time on Destiny 2 or 3 or whatever the next clusterfuck will be called, if someone else is maintaining the original Destiny servers.
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Like those chakra alignment idiots? Or homeopathic idiots? Or the anti vax idiots? Or the flat earth idiots?
Shall we then also smile and nod when the holocaust deniers speak up?
How long until the 9/11 deniers also chime in?
That's what the "freedom to believe whatever you want" looks like
Remember, the Internet is a globally available source of information, as well as a globally available source of disinformation. Some people might want to disagree with the words 'globally available', while others will instead want to disagree about there being a globe at all
Abundant upload / download at high speed is what has allowed there to be a platform where one can spread idiocy in video form, making it even more accessible to those members of society who are too lazy to read, and hence are even less informed
Sure, it would be great to live in a world where one could spread whatever info they wanted and the general populace is smart enough to figure out what's right or wrong, but we don't live in that world.
We live in a world of fucking imbeciles who get out of a moving car they're supposed to be driving, to record themselves dancing to a shit song
if your playing a game the last thing you want is the encoding stealing GPU cycles, you usually have more spare CPU than GPU cycles.
Or option 3: dedicated hardware for capturing the video stream, Like the PS4 has.
My company delivers internet through geostationary satellites. Not sure we can compete with Facebook and SpaceX. Time to dump all my stock?
Facebook already had a satellite destroyed by SpaceX before it even launched.
Next time, it will reach orbit only to collide with a SpaceX satellite that is aiming to serve the same people as the Facebook satellite
My laptop is expandable. I've got 64GB of RAM in it and I'm thinking about upgrading my GTX 1060 MXM to a GTX 1070 or 1080.
That's great, but I didn't say laptops can't be upgraded. I said that they're compromise devices
This means that for whatever feature you gain, something other metric is worse off
Want a 17" screen? Comes with a larger and heavier laptop
Want a high end gaming machine? Worse battery life
Want a higher capacity battery? The upgraded battery adds more weight
Want something smaller and lighter? Cramped keyboard, typically paired with weaker hardware overall
Want to upgrade anything? Pay more than you would for desktop upgrades
Buy a device that is expandable. That means a regular sized DESKTOP. If you buy a super thin device, that's YOUR fault for being trendy.
FTFY. Laptops are compromise devices.
I haven't watched network TV since YouTube, Netflix and Hulu became available.
Before YouTube Red / Premium, I used adblock. But, once it they offered a no-ad subscription... I went for it.
Same here. Paying for Youtube Red so that I don't have to see their fucking adverts, I don't give a fuck about their "youtube originals" content
The problem is, they're not paying their content producers enough for them to not also show their own adverts embedded as part of the fucking video so I can't skip it
Every time Linus Sebastian interrupts his own show (Linus Tech Tips) to tell me about Tunnelbear or some other shit, I feel like punching him in the face
I wish I'd never heard of Patreon either
Although it's not all content producers doing this so it's semi manageable, I just end up having to avoid certain channels after the first advert
I kind of wonder this also. I do not know how many package maintainers in ARCH or how it works, but with the amount of packages available in some distros these days I guess I should not be surprised.
Sad that distro maintainers may have to vet maintainers now, adding an additional burden. But as a user we should always be careful with non-core packages.
1) Vetting who get's to alter OS packages should be the default, not an "extra burden". Or would you all like an "npm left pad" sort of disaster on your OS? 2) This makes ALL the Arch packages look suspicious, given that there may be others that have been hijacked in this way which we just haven't heard about yet.
Because no piece of software has ever had a bug.
ISO 26262. *
Trying to argue why "software may theoretically have bugs" is a bad argument will take too much time. It is a lot easier for both of us if you just read the standard. (Or IEC 61508 if you want to, the safety related parts should be fairly equivalent.)
Just to get an idea of the scope, a system developed according to the standard will be able to manage a situation where a transistor in the CPU stops working, for example if the ALU no longer can set the zero-flag and conditional branches no longer is possible. Yep, you so called "safe" high level languages means jack shit when it comes to designing safe systems. Your built in super-automatic buffer overrun check isn't guaranteed to work.
The software should be bug-free, but even if it isn't then it shouldn't cause a safety issue.
Completely agree
However, my snark was more to do with the way certain internet commenters have this incredibly high standard placed upon Tesla, yet if an existing car manufacturer for example has a tech flaw, there isn't nearly the same level of outrage/concern/whatever
Could it be that "electric cars" and "autonomous driving" are a threat to people who's ePeen is attached to their ability to own and operate a big V8?
Note: I'm not saying that Tesla should get a pass for whatever may be wrong in their cars. I'm saying that the level of wrath directed towards Tesla seems to be people getting defensive over their toys being slowly taken away. I suspect that most of these people have never even heard of Lidar until it became a talking point for Tesla
* I do not assume that Tesla actually follows the standard even if they are legally required to.
I just hope that they're doing a better job of it than Toyota
and I say all of this while I tend to avoid American cars due to hardware reliability concerns (hoping Tesla will be the exception here)
You cannot save and restore to avoid an accident in real life, idiot. Once a pedestrian is maimed or dead, they stay that way.
Fucking gamers, do you ever go out of that basement?
No shit Sherlock.
But I missed the part where I stated any of that
Are you trying to imply that the traffic related death rate for autonomous drivers is higher than the death rate from human drivers?
Or are you trying to imply that Tesla should get their shit together and release an absolutely perfect car on day one just like every other car manufacturer?
What are you? A stable genius®?
You can’t patch in a lack of hardware like lidar retard.
1: Other car manufacturers have been "patching" hardware for decades. It's called a product recall. Sure, patching in a whole new and improved piece of hardware such as Lidar to replace their existing tech is a big costly thing to do, but it would have to be done if Lidar were actually needed.
2: These cars don't seem to need Lidar (consider that ALL of them should be failing quite often without a required piece of navigation hardware)
3: dumbass
Also, software can never ever be patched afterwards, so you'll have these bugs for as long as you have that Tesla.
/s
you don't need mint to avoid a 'bullshit ui' from ubuntu. you just like slamming canonical, i guess.
because all that's needed is 4 or 5 brain cells to power yourself to configuring something else on it.. including your precious mint's default of cinnamon.
Let's break it down:
you just like slamming canonical, i guess.
It's easier to install 3rd party software on Ubuntu than it is on Debian.
Indeed.
because all that's needed is 4 or 5 brain cells to power yourself
Perhaps you should have engaged your 4 or 5 remaining brain cells before replying? I've used Ubuntu from around 5.10 up to and including when they introduced Unity. Tried to like it, gave up, moved on. But Unity was so awesome that they didn't cancel it, amirite?
to configuring something else on it.. including your precious mint's default of cinnamon.
Do more work to achieve the same thing, why?
And what would I gain from doing it that way anyway?
Canonical deserves to be called out for fucking up the UI, just like one would call out MS for fucking up the UI
It's a hierarchy: Debian -> Ubuntu -> Mint and at each level I gain something useful.
Debian has a stable free software base to work with.
It's easier to install 3rd party software on Ubuntu than it is on Debian.
With Mint + Cinnamon I don't get a bullshit UI by default like I would on Ubuntu.
Yeah I know that they killed their PoS UI eventually but they've switched to something that still isn't as good as Mint;
in this case "good" meaning that it resembles what a desktop looked like before the rise of mobile UI idiocy being ported to the desktop
...if you're not an idiot and don't go to random sites/click "run" on downloaded files, you're reasonably safe...
Excellent, using your idea, we don't need to patch anything ever again. The answer has been right in front of us all this time, we would have never figured it out if you hadn't come along. I won't even need to help older relatives when they fuck up their PCs, I'll just print out your post and stick it below their screen
Isn't that true for literally everything regarding belief though?
Yes.
As the person who first dug out the specs on the next gen Playstation over two months ago here:
https://www.semiaccurate.com/2...
I found this 'report' to be laughable. No it was borderline ignorant and seems to be based on my work, rampant speculation, and a random technical phrase generator.
While I do agree with you (I found the details about the x86 based PS4 from your site long before anyone else knew anything about it)
The real problem here is that your superior information / insight is hidden behind a paywall
It isn't even a relatively affordable paywall that I might feel compelled to pay for once off to find out about this one thing.
Your $100 per year student subscription doesn't cover your PS5 news article.
And at $1000 per year, some Muppet is naturally going to pay that fee, make a video with extra speculation to pad it out, publish on Youtube, and contribute to the dumbing down of society in general while hoping to pull in ad revenue.
I'm not sure how much control you have over this or if it's even a good fit for your business model, but I might be compelled to pay for that one bit of information at a price that doesn't involve choosing between paying the rent or find out about PS5 before everyone else
When Sony advertises cross-platform-play and still manages to block other consoles with impunity, why give them any more money?
Maybe this is a crazy idea but, we give them money for a gaming console because they make games worth playing on said console. Games that are not available anywhere else.
Yes I know about the debacle with them forcing you to play Fortnite on their platform if you started the game there, but here's the important bit regarding that game:
Fortnite IMO isn't that great as a game, and I'd rather avoid playing it than have to wage a personal crusade against a corporation that won't miss my business anyway
I'd only be ruining my own enjoyment of gaming to be so concerned about Fortnite that I'd willingly miss God of War, The last of us, Wipeout VR etc as a result
Yes, Sony does deserve the backlash regarding Fortnite, so I'll go right ahead and not play Fornite on their platform
TBH, if I had to choose only one platform to play on right now, that platform would be PS4.
The main reason here is, where are the games? If they're cross platform, they'll likely appear on PC, PS4 and Xbox One; and on Switch to a lesser degree
So disregarding games that can be expected to appear on a given platform, which platform has most of the good platform exclusive games?
Xbox is already irrelevant because it's games are also available on PC, and has a very short list of exclusive games worth buying (Halo, Gears, Fable, Forza)
PC is still relevant for the likes of Starcraft 2 or WoW
PS4 arguably has more games that are worth playing and not available anywhere else.
Nintendo is generally always a viable choice because they make their own platform exclusive games that tend be good, but the larger collection of games on multiple platforms tend to not appear on Nintendo hardware
I understand that your preferences might not match mine because "better game" can be a subjective thing so I'd look at an aggregated comparison such as the user scores on metacritic for a better idea of what most people would enjoy (I don't know why a game like farming simulator would be popular enough to get a sequel, but even that has its fans)
That said, I would say get more than one device if at all possible. Definitely get a PC, PS4 and Switch to have access to all of the current gens best games
Wait???
This is in Commiefornia...er...California, with some of the most restrictive gun laws around.
How could this have possibly happened?
I thought regulating the shit out of law abiding citizens would prevent such tragedies?
Just from the last two events to be mentioned in the news:
restrictive gun laws => shooter has a handgun => 3 injuries and the only death was the shooter
permissive gun laws => shooter has an AR15 => 17 kids dead, more injured.
This is basically what the gun control crowd is campaigning for.
Get rid of the big war weapons and at the very least a shooter is going to have a hard time killing so many people.
Ah the classic Linux fanboy. Finding bugs in the software by your desktop to work the way you need it = breaking it.
No, to give you a counter example:
The upgrade process in Mint works, without eating crazy amounts of CPU, and there's actually a repo on Mint. If this were as frustrating as it is on Windows, I would be complaining to the devs and looking into whether I can fix it myself. Now if I fucked up my OS for example by interfering with parts I don't understand, that would be my fault if it broke. Example, interfering with fstab and then complaining when I can't find hard drives is akin to you touching things you apparently don't understand and toasting Kubuntu
For a Windows example, me installing Windowblinds because the flat Windows UI looks like shit and fucking up the OS because of it, would be my fault. If I moved the taskbar to the left and something breaks, that would be their fault, nobody else had a hand in making that feature. It's their update system and their fault that the update system is shit. I can't fix it even if I knew how.
Funny, I "upgraded" a toasted kubuntu (I fucked it up) install yesterday to Min 18.3 (Cinnamon). Looked nice and slick at first. But I fucked with it again and now it's broken so I'll blame the OS
All on bog std hardware. The neighbouring Win 10 pro machine with the same hardware (That I didn't fuck up, apparently) has no issues at all.
Linux has always been crap with multiple monitors and usable desktops. Ironically we use the desktops to remote onto VM's running on a Linux cluster.
FTFY
Now my turn for anecdotal evidence:
I've been running Mint for years on my work machine (js, Python, C, C++ dev); with Windows (C# dev) banished to a Virtual Machine before it can cause any trouble.
The host OS gives me no trouble, the guest OS typically wastes my time by being unusable while it updates, because the retarded shit gibbons at MS have written an overly complicated update system that takes 100% of a CPU core to download & copy files + edit registry
The only reason I would want to run Windows as a host OS is for gaming, and even that use case can be solved with a Linux host and GPU passthrough
I've tried both of those as well as the PSVR. For both comfort and market share, Sony's headset is miles ahead of the Rift and the Vive.
As an indicator of whether VR is going to be around in the future or considered a fad, PSVR and the share of VR games sold for PS4 is one to watch
https://www.statista.com/stati...
This should suffice: https://store.google.com/produ...
For example, why spend time and money on Dungeon Keeper for mobile when the old PC Dungeon Keeper is infinitely better; or why waste your time on Destiny 2 or 3 or whatever the next clusterfuck will be called, if someone else is maintaining the original Destiny servers.
Or try this: https://play.google.com/store/... It's the facebook mobile site served up as an app.