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What's the dumbest way you've seen someone get fired?
  • I got fired when the company decided to downsize.

    "How is that dumb?" you ask? That happened less than two weeks after I was hired. The boss man's speech indicated that that was the result of a long deliberation by corporate. So if you knew there could be layoffs any moment, why the fuck were you hiring?

  • Windows is actually pretty good OS
  • I use Linux myself, but my work laptop they gave me is windows. I can honestly say that I believe in near future the average Linux experience is going to be smoother than windows. Because I cannot believe how insanely annoying windows 11 is. It's really not good. And modern Linux has more than good enough software and hardware compatibility.

    But of course it's gonna take a long while before Linux overtakes windows because social inertia. And that's not gonna change easily because there is no humongous international corporation that spends billions every year to get their Linux based OS pre-installed on almost every new computer.

  • It's fascinating that while languages vary wildly by speaking speed, information transfer is fairly similar.
  • Compound words are very different than agglutinative conjugation though. In such languages, you don't just mash words together, you also modify them to encode all sorts of extra information into one word. You can form full, grammatically correct sentences that way. Can't do that with compound words because you can't compound them into a complete sentence.

    A famous, powe example is the word "çekoslovakyalılaştırabildiklerimizdensiniz" from Turkish, which is like Finnish in that regard. It's a complete sentence that means "you are one of those who we have managed to make a czechoslovakian". The object, subject, verb, tense, and more are all in there. Obviously that's quite a bit more complex than word together-mashing.

  • Drop your most "wtf that's not how the world works" from movies/tv shows.
  • That small inert lump of metal can have jagged edges that can cause injury later on. It also definitely is loaded with dirty crap that will cause infections. Overall it's rarely "fine" to leave random, unsterilized foreign objects inside the body.

  • Is it possible to use the NPU as "another" CPU?
  • Distributing tasks dynamically between identical individual processors is already a difficult thing. Getting another processor of a wildly different architecture and purpose in there will probably not work well at all.

  • Jellyfin 10.10.0 media server released
  • They're probably talking about Samsung TVs, not their android phones/tablets. Installing jellyfin on those things can be a chore. My experience with LG was similar. The official build was out of date and riddled with issues that didn't exist on other versions. It refused to play videos that worked well enough on other devices, transcode or no.

  • Smart TVs are like “a digital Trojan Horse” in people’s homes | 48-page report urges FTC, FCC to investigate connected TV industry data harvesting.
  • I just checked. In the online stores of the 3 largest tech chains in my country, there's exactly one 16:9 40+" monitor model available, and that's a 43" VA panel. The other 40+" stuff are weird absurdly wide curved monitors and some smart whiteboard type thing. So forgive me if I am extremely doubtful of your claim.

  • What's an obsolete or incredibly obscure word you think people should know?
  • The concept might be, but the word itself is a compound of the words "verantwortung" and "bewusstsein". They mean responsibility and consciousness respectively, and are both perfectly common and simple words. The whole thing means what you think it does, nothing special.

    German doesn't really have those hyper specific super obscure words, they're almost always compound words made up of common words.

  • Anon tries smoking for the first time
  • Same here. My parents both smoked like chimneys. I tried smoking once. Tasted awful, smelled disgusting, and made my eyes hurt like a motherfucker. Then I tried twice again on different occasions. Same experience. Just an exceedingly nasty thing overall that had not a single thing that made me wanna go back again, so that was it. I consider myself lucky that my body found it so revolting.

  • Apple backs out of investment in OpenAI
  • The problem has two sides: software and hardware. You can open source the software side all you want, it's not gonna go very far when it has to fight against the hardware instead of working with it.

    ROCm is open source, but it's AMD. Their hardware has historically not been as powerful and therefore attractive to the target audience, so it's been going slow.

  • A short, wholesome story
  • Home assistant's default, basic voice stuff is pretty bad. It works well if you either integrate proprietary models into it, or run your model own locally. The former is proprietary and the latter is rather expensive. Sure people will tell you you can run smaller models on basic hardware, but those are... not very capable or responsive. It takes some setting up either way.

  • Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second
  • Yes. It could talk to another smart device and ask it to send its packages. You could be careful and connect none of the smart crap in your house to your network, but the smart fridge in your upstairs neighbor's kitchen could still be helping with smuggling your data out. Or your devices could be connected to some unsecured network around.

    In any case, the only surefire way to stop your data from getting smuggled out is to physically kill all the wireless connectivity capabilities of the device. Disconnect antennae, desolder chips, scrape out pcb traces. Otherwise you're just hoping the firmware is not doing anything funny. Fortunately I think these are all hypotheticals that have not (yet) been observed in real smart home products.

  • İstanbul'da ikinci el ofis ekipmanları

    Esselamın hello,

    Buradaki insanlar biraz teknoloji eğilimli insanlardır diye tahmin ettiğimden soruyorum; İstanbul'da, tercihen Anadolu yakasında, şöyle ofislerin toptan elden çıkardığı bilgisayarları alıp satan yerler nerede bulabilirim bilen var mıdır? Thin clientlar, switchler vs. o tarz şeyler.

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    Dell display manager or substitute on Linux?

    Hello,

    I've just recently unpacked my new Dell P3421W monitor. I was like 80% sure there would be no Linux support for the proprietary piece of software that manages the monitor's features, because that sorta stuff is hardly ever built for Linux for some fucked up reason, but I figured I could use my macbook (for which there actually is support) or the monitor's own nipple menu to do stuff. Turns out the macbook version does not work properly on Apple silicon, and the nipple menu doesn't have all the things.

    I know it's a long shot, since google hasn't helped much, but would anyone here know if there's a way to go about it? Maybe there are existing tools?

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