I have no artistic skills so freebie: Arch is like Russian roulette where the odds are good but there is still a non-zero chance some update is going to shit the bed. I don’t even know how to convey that in meme form either.
DevDave
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DevDave@piefed.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•The iPhone explains 33–52% of fertility decline among women aged 15–44English
22·3 days agoAmong my millennial friends the majority do not own their own home, gave up family ideas, and are basically just fucked. Major reason I have a house is because when I was younger I killed a bunch of strangers for the government. Now even that isn’t enough for an increasing part of the country. Fuck, replacing my roof is going to be thousands of dollars which I only have part of right now.
DevDave@piefed.socialto
politics @lemmy.world•Tuberville voted in Florida after tax records say he moved back to AlabamaEnglish
23·7 days agoIt’s alright tho cause he’s an old white guy that wears a suit.
DevDave@piefed.socialto
World News@lemmy.world•Sherpa guide missing for a week on Mount Everest rescued while crawling to base campEnglish
9·7 days agoHow many people have survived having only gone missing for 24 hours, never mind a week!
DevDave@piefed.socialto
News@lemmy.world•How Elon Musk Killed Hundreds of Thousands of PeopleEnglish
2·10 days agoOn that note, I can’t tell if Musk has fired whoever it is that has gotten Space-X as far as it has so far. Maybe the starship project will turn out to be their cybertruck?
DevDave@piefed.socialto
News@lemmy.world•How Elon Musk Killed Hundreds of Thousands of PeopleEnglish
301·10 days agoMaybe they’re onto something with these illegal immigrants ruining America? Elon has boasted how his brother and himself violated their student visas to work on a tech startup that would eventually become PayPal. I am not a lawyer but that feels like well into felony territory?
DevDave@piefed.socialto
World News@lemmy.world•Europe—not US—first to authorize Moderna's combo mRNA flu-COVID vaccineEnglish
1·10 days agoIt’s a good to keep mentioning when the US does stuff like this as a warning of how quickly a corrupt country can implode.
DevDave@piefed.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•Ronny Chieng's 'Fuck AI' Speech Met With Cheers From Harvard GraduatesEnglish
10·12 days agono need to burn them down, just focus on the chillers. if they use evaporative coolers a water balloon partially filled with oil and soap will fuck that entire system.
also better to cripple then destroy as they get a full insurance payout where just drastically degrading facility performance is harder to prove the monetary value.
DevDave@piefed.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•Nvidia CEO Begs Execs to Stop Telling Workers They're Fired Because of AIEnglish
3·14 days agoThis is fascinating. Most of those are indeed elder millennial double spaces after the punctuation but the inconsistency is odd. Also I don’t see them on my computer.
DevDave@piefed.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•Nvidia CEO Begs Execs to Stop Telling Workers They're Fired Because of AIEnglish
3·14 days agoI am not seeing a problem so I suspect its an elder millenial/xennial thing?
Other possibility is I am on piefed, you are lemmy, and the formatting has gotten bjorked between them?
edit: I am curious now, can you send me a screenshot?
DevDave@piefed.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•Nvidia CEO Begs Execs to Stop Telling Workers They're Fired Because of AIEnglish
17·15 days agoThey just can’t help themselves. All of these techbro fuckers jumped the gun on this being “THE” AI wave but instead have bet everything on the equivalent of the self checkout kiosk at the grocery store. That was touted as the way to save money, lower the chances of unionism, and make the checkout process more efficient. Instead it has been a money pit that introverts and morally flexible people love! AI slop is flooding Youtube, drowning the tech industry in biblical sized code commits and hallucinated security threats, while continuing to be the greatest theft in the history of our species (after that mother fucker Thog stole my ancestors shiny rock).
Trying to recover my old account but supposedly “TrustMeBroThisIsSuperSecure” is not sufficient. Fucks sake, even I would have trouble just typing that in.
DevDave@piefed.socialto
World News@lemmy.world•Canada Strikes Major Deal to Export Liquefied Natural Gas to GermanyEnglish
9·15 days agoIt’s tough find good numbers but this thing (https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/natural-gas-consumption-by-country) claims Germany consumes ~78 BCM. 1 BCM is roughly 1 kilometer cubed of natural gas at a set temperature. Last I knew China was supposedly projected to consume ~380 BCM while that website has a much higher figure, but again tough to get good numbers.
I really wish Merkel didn’t go along with shuttering their nuclear energy sector, but what is done is done.
DevDave@piefed.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’English
9·23 days agoindeed! The open source community should adopt LLM powered mailing list filters. Basically new age version of “protection money” as you pay AI firms to stop other AI firms from drowning your organization.
Joking aside, the dead Internet theory is unfortunately looking pretty accurate.
DevDave@piefed.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’English
9·23 days agokinda like an anglerfish in that you are lured into a false sense of security which makes the straight to the jugular scathing responses even more effective.
DevDave@piefed.socialto
politics @lemmy.world•These blue states aren’t getting fire prevention money from TrumpEnglish
1·1 month agoMy partner plus several of my friends work for FEMA and the sentiment is kind of fatalistic these days. Americans have really fucked these people over. Latest “Fuck you” from not just MAGA was the absolute apathy over the furlough except to get upset when TSA tried to halt the precheck lines.
Before that, DHS started firing people by not renewing their contracts on New years eve, barely a peep on the news or social media.
Also DHS handed down a decree that supervisors are not allowed to give anyone a rating higher than 3 (out of 5) for future annual evaluations. Basically a solid 3 out of 5 is a foundation for firing people.
When there is a major “temporal atmospheric deviation” (they’re not allowed to say “climate change”) at least we might have the national guard but as for FEMA, it feels effectively dead.
DevDave@piefed.socialto
News@lemmy.world•Rudy Giuliani is pursuing healthcare through 9/11 program, lawyer saysEnglish
18·1 month agoGiuliani had the NYC emergency management/crisis center relocated to the WTC despite experts warning him that was a bad idea.
DevDave@piefed.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•"This could cost people their jobs": VS Code added Copilot as co-author without permission or noticeEnglish
2·1 month agoI’ve been using some variation of Linux since the mid 90’s but never been able to fully switch over. That said I am on my longest and perhaps permanent switch over with KDE EndevourOS (Arch based). I don’t believe this is what you are hoping for but I do believe it is close so perhaps something to keep an eye on for the future.
I have gotten Teams to run once for a about an hour before it crashed and now I can’t figure out what proton/wine voodoo witch doctor recipe I used.
No idea what luck you will have with RDP or RustDesk.
KDE plasma’s window tiling manager is really damn cool but has no documentation. Still you can do neat stuff with it like having a floating window tile on top of another tile (basically an always on top state but on steroids) with distinct tiling arrangements for each virtual desk space.
Scaling has been good but font support is still at the “almost but still not perfect”. A graphics designer might be in trouble.
Drivers - This is where Arch’s pacman (software package manager) and pkgbuild really shine. If it can compile and is available as a git repo, an rpm, or deb file then there is a good chance you can get it working. That said there are still an unfortunate mountain of unsupported stuff.
Otherwise, with all the improvements to Wine via proton and the other forks, it is getting easier to run a lot more Window’s applications.
Like I said, EndevourOS/Arch with KDE is getting pretty close to being an easy jump from Windows but not 100% perfect.
DevDave@piefed.socialto
News@lemmy.world•The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their FamiliesEnglish
51·1 month agoEven the Nazis, the literal ones from the 30s and 40s, were not as inhumane as we treat our homeless, chronically ill, an disabled.
At least they would outright murder them while here they end up dead behind dumpsters or just outside hospitals. I did a lot of volunteer and community work until I had reached my limit of seeing how fucked up things are at the bottom.

More terror attacks by the USA. Non-targeted bombing campaigns or operations focused on civilians has never won a war but it has spread misery far and wide. The people leading the war are either out of range or in a bunker deep enough that it might as well be on the other side of the planet. Even if you “glass” major cities, that’s not where the missiles are located.