The people at pavlok probably would want a word with the people who made the shock bands…

So… UBI.

Literally baked into http is a “referrer URL” option.

None of this is new. It’s literally built into the protocols we use daily.

Yeah… As a technology person (working IT for many years now), it’s more likely that there’s some bad interaction between the browser, Adblock and the service that does the reviews. They’ve found a way to get an image to load regardless if the review applet works.

My bet would be that the Adblock is preventing the site from loading the necessary code to show the review submission “page”. This image is up behind the review regardless of if it works, is just that if the review thing works, it covers this up.

Sounds to me that this is a courtesy message basically saying that Adblock thinks the review thing is an ad.

Is the toilet paper over the tub?

I mean… I was more talking about the four button standard diamond pattern… With different labels on each button; but okay.

The basic layout of the PS1 controller was a SNES controller with wings.

Naww. Let’s mulch them, make good food from their otherwise useless bodies.

Idk, $699 USD for the PS5 pro seems a bit closer to “PC pricing” than I would expect from Sony if they’re subsidizing the cost with future game sales.

I’d kind of expect them to be making consoles at break-even/no-profit, more than at a loss right now.

I’m pretty sure that Nintendo created this problem.

They used a/b/x/y on the SNES. The Genesis, it’s direct competitor, had a/b/c.

Then Xbox copied them and Sony copied them… But each had to have a slight variation because Nintendo being Nintendo, they’d get sued into next week…

I definitely blame Nintendo for this one.

Yeah… That’s just unnecessary to put a dog at risk like that, whether service or otherwise.

Also, don’t work in a lab by yourself. Have a buddy, even if all they do is sit in a corner and scroll on their phone. Have someone there in case something happens.

In the best case, you’ve maybe wasted some of their time. In the worst case, at least you’ll have company in quarantine.

We need the rest!

For science!

How dare!

(/s in case anyone wasn’t sure)

Nerd!

(I am too, so… Uhh… Hi)

Yes, sure, and cannibalism solves overpopulation and starvation in one easy step…

Doesn’t make it a good idea.

Most of the gig work stuff everywhere will earn less than minimum wage in most areas (where minimum wage is reasonable at least). The only benefit is that there’s basically no skill required, just get a thing (person/food/whatever) and take it somewhere, and you can basically work whatever hours you want; you’re and independent contractor for all intents and purposes.

So if a person has the ability to pick things up, carry them short distances and put them down, plus the ability to transport yourself from place to place, usually via a car, and having a driver’s license, then you can do most of the modern gig work. Whether transporting people or food/whatever… Knowing English isn’t even a requirement even if you’re working in a predominantly English speaking country.

It’s essentially perfect for anyone who doesn’t have the skills or knowledge to do much of anything yet. Not to disparage people that work the job, but everyone should already have these skills with the possible exception of having a driver’s license. Even a “McJob” or similar will require a basic conversational English (or other native language) understanding.

Don’t get me wrong, knowing the language helps, but it’s not a requirement. Translations are pretty good these days, so you can get by without really knowing anything of the language, as long as you can translate stuff to whatever language you speak, you’re all set.

In this way, the “jobs” tend to attract people of a certain type, immigrants are particularly prone to being taken in by it and immigrants have the least agency in the society they live in… At least until they become full citizens of the country they find themselves in.

It’s both unsurprising and sad that it’s happening, but there’s pretty much nothing that most people can do about it. If you boycott the services then those that would need that income will go without. So, is it better to get screwed, but still get something, or not get screwed, and get nothing?

Fair enough. Have a good day friend.

I get it, but MacOS is UNIX which is arguably just as complex, and that shit is far from niche or obscure.

The main difference is that MacOS is unified in its construction and Linux is fractured by design. If Linux can put everything together in a seamless and unified way, even if it’s not seamless under the hood, then we’ll be a lot closer to big OEMs putting out systems with Linux pre-installed.

If OEM systems with Linux pre-installed start appearing on shelves next to Windows systems and Macs at best buy, then it’s actually possible it would happen. But the Linux community needs to do what they can to build, test, and deliver, some kind of front end that gives the end user that polished experience, that for anything that a user wants to do, there’s a knob to do that with which doesn’t require dropping into a config file or to the command line.

I’m not going to delude myself or anyone else, while a lot of this is easy to say, the challenges are immense, and some organizations have been trying to accomplish this for many many years. Linux has come a lot way, but it’s not quite where it needs to be yet, in order for it to happen.

I work in IT for businesses and the number of times I’ve had to debunk AI slop hallucinations as actual troubleshooting information is not zero.

“Yes, I can see the instructions say to check that checkbox, however, that checkbox does not exist” (screenshot of relevant control panel).

This is just evidence, to me, that business types are already relying on AI instead of doing any actual thought or research on any topic they don’t already have a deep understanding of, or are too lazy to bother with.

Consumers are not driving this change.

The worst part is that it’s an echo chamber of yes-men that seem to be pushing for it. The AI enthusiasts trying to sell their crap, convincing the middle managers that they need their AI crap, and them buying it and asking for more/better AI crap, and the cycle continues. At no point does any of the output of any AI system provide any unique insight, or value, to anyone. The rest of us are being dragged along for the ride, regardless of what we want.

Well, I didn’t lift it from anywhere. So, I guess there’s dozens of us?

I work in IT. IMO, the civilian population moving to Linux is inevitable. As Linux finds itself and good ways to do things that don’t require people to know bash, or customize options by manually editing config files, things will push that way.

IMO, it will happen, but not quite yet. We’re seeing the initial push of the privacy conscious and those that want to avoid becoming a product. It’s good, but we’re not there yet. We’re also seeing some pretty major players, most notably valve, pushing for consumer goods that are unashamedly Linux under the hood. This is, slowly but surely, pushing forward compatibility for apps running on Linux.

We probably won’t see any line of business apps adopting a Linux build any time soon, and business in general actually wants the majority of what Microsoft is pushing for… Along with government institutions (for their own needs), and more. I don’t see business moving towards Linux anytime soon… Not beyond it’s current role in server operations.

As stuff like steamOS get better and better, and find ways to solve problems in consumer friendly ways, that knowledge will feed back into existing Linux tools. We’ll get to a point where Linux will be as plug and play as Windows, and that’s when we actually have a good chance of migrating a lot of personal PCs to Linux.

The Battle for the workplace is still a long way out. Well after the Linux home PC is commonplace. People at the office will simply have more experience with Linux, and push for being able to use Linux at work and eventually that’s going to start to happen… Probably not in our lifetimes.

To me, it’s only a matter of time. Unless Linux undergoes a hostile takeover and unforeseen bullshit happens, it will happen.