Gordonjcp (u/Gordonjcp)

Gordonjcp commented on Win11Debloat is a simple script that removes pre-installed windows bloatware github.com/Raphire/Win11D... · Posted by u/mariuz

housemusicfan · 2 years ago

You're trying to convince a bunch of people that think

  curl | sudo sh

with random scripts off the internet is perfectly okay.

Gordonjcp · 2 years ago

This is kind of the problem with Windows-y thinking, yes.

"Oh the security stuff is in the way, why does it need that, MSDOS doesn't have it, no-one needs it"

Gordonjcp commented on The history of spaghetti squash in America atlasobscura.com/articles... · Posted by u/pepys

walthamstow · 2 years ago

I'd like to see more kinds of squash in my local UK supermarket than just butternut, but, having tried spaghetti squash a few times from local farmers, I would not like it to be one of them. It's watery, bland tasting and disintegrates when cooked.

Alternative squashes I have enjoyed include pattypan, crown prince, kabocha and "turk's turban"

Gordonjcp · 2 years ago

Patty pan squash grows like crazy in most of the UK. If you live near a farm with cows or horses, get yourself as much manure as you can lay your hands on and dig it in well, and you will be eating the damn things until you're sick of them.

Gordonjcp commented on Bored? How about trying a Linux speedrun? (2020) rachelbythebay.com/w/2020... · Posted by u/mdwalters

l0b0 · 2 years ago

An end user variant of this might be counting total key strokes/mouse clicks to install Linux on any machine, including all the disgusting BIOS/UEFI fiddling to enable USB boot, disabling SecureBoot, and anything else necessary. Whoever wins has found the best end user hardware/distro combo.

Gordonjcp · 2 years ago

It'd be interesting to compare that with installing Windows, which in 30 years of using Linux I have still to successfully do.

Gordonjcp commented on Bored? How about trying a Linux speedrun? (2020) rachelbythebay.com/w/2020... · Posted by u/mdwalters

cyclotron3k · 2 years ago

It's more like an escape room than a speed run.

First person to watch a specific youtube video, which contains the password, wins.

Or maybe you're literally locked in a room, and you have to bootstrap the PC to the point where you can connect to the local network, then connect to the insecure Citrix server which is running the security software that controls the door locks. From there you can unlock the door to your cell and escape.

Only to find you're standing alone on an abandoned oil rig in the north Atlantic.

Gordonjcp · 2 years ago

> First person to watch a specific youtube video, which contains the password, wins.

Why would that be difficult?

Gordonjcp commented on Dear websites, stop asking for ransom sign-ups iamvishnu.com/posts/rands... · Posted by u/vishnuharidas

DamonHD · 2 years ago

Indeed a dark dishonest practice.

I won't touch services that do such things.

Gordonjcp · 2 years ago

I love services like that. I love entering data into them! In fact, I love it so much that I wrote some scripts to do just that...

Gordonjcp commented on x86 is dead, long live x86 engineering.mercari.com/e... · Posted by u/harpratap

slfnflctd · 2 years ago

When I think about how long chips like the 6502 have still been in active use (almost 50 years now), it is hard to conceive of a world where there isn't a significant presence of x86 activity for the rest of my life.

The majority of 'the market' may go elsewhere, but for a gazillion reasons, x86 will not be disappearing for quite a while. At this point it would honestly surprise me if we didn't at least have high quality emulation available until the end of the human race as we know it.

Sure, we've probably lost most of the software ever written on it, but a whole lot of interesting artifacts from a key transition point for our species still remain locked up in this architecture.

Gordonjcp · 2 years ago

Stuff like 6502s and Z80s are a bit like little single-cylinder engines - the world will move onto all sorts of interesting new places, but something somewhere will always be powered by a wee Briggs & Stratton that starts first pull of the string, and we'll be glad of it.

Gordonjcp commented on The power of weeds to end hunger in an uncertain climate worldsensorium.com/the-po... · Posted by u/dnetesn

VBprogrammer · 2 years ago

I think those and the little burrs are different species. Galium aparine Vs Arctium minus.

Gordonjcp · 2 years ago

Oh you mean like the cockleburrs you get on things? Maybe more about the size of a small grape, outside diameter?

It's weird, I've only ever noticed those on the west coast.

Gordonjcp commented on A dive into the AMD driver workflow geohot.github.io//blog/je... · Posted by u/tikkun

sosodev · 2 years ago

This hasn’t been my experience on Linux. The nvidia drivers appear to “just work” but actually caused a lot of instability. My desktop no longer crashes every other day (or more often when gaming) since switching to an AMD GPU.

Gordonjcp · 2 years ago

I've found them to be rock solid stable, and of course unlike AMD they are accelerated.

NVidia are literally the only game in town for video editing, because AMD won't provide compute acceleration in Linux.

Gordonjcp commented on The power of weeds to end hunger in an uncertain climate worldsensorium.com/the-po... · Posted by u/dnetesn

samstave · 2 years ago

"weeds" is such a misnomer in many instances, such as milkweed and dandelions and clover being very important.

Whatever that weed is with the little spikey-ball-nodes that get into your pets hair, or in your laces and socks - that weed sucks - but nature has a balance between insects and "weeds" that we shouldnt be decimating with glyphosate...

Monsanto is more a threat than climate change. Because killing the shade, plants, ecosystem etc will make it compoundedly harder for the general ecosystem (which means food pollination) will be more heavily affected by greater average temps.

Gordonjcp · 2 years ago

> Whatever that weed is with the little spikey-ball-nodes that get into your pets hair, or in your laces and socks

In Scotland it's called "Sticky Willie" which is nowhere near as rude as it sounds.

Its primary function in the ecosystem is providing long thin sticky plants for children or childlike adults to stick to each other's clothing without the victim noticing, and seeing how long it takes them to figure it out.