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lexa1979 commented on Updates to Windows for the Digital Markets Act   blogs.windows.com/windows... · Posted by u/nixass
wing-_-nuts · 9 months ago
>As an American, my next OS will not be Windows.

I've used linux as my OS of choice for the past ~ 25 years. I recently installed windows 11 after building an AI/ML/gaming workstation because I wanted to run some of the more complex bethesda mods that required you to run windows executables (i.e. downgraders, etc).

The only thing that's made it tolerable is the fact that I mostly live in the WSL shell, but I cannot get past the sneaking worry that I simply don't know what my OS is doing behind the scenes. For all I know, it's logging every keystroke or snapshotting my desktop back to MS hq.

As I get older I've gotten more and more concerned about privacy and data retention. IMHO the question you have to ask yourself is not 'do I trust $megaCorp or $currentAdministratioin' it's 'do I trust every possible future permutation of corporation or government indefinitely in the future'. In my case, absolutely not. There's no way we don't someday reach the point where an authoritarian administration turns AI lose on the absolute mountain of data corporations and governments have quietly squirreled away on each and every one of us to identify 'undesirables'. At least back before the computer age this took manpower and effort. Now and in the future it just takes a little electricity and compute.

lexa1979 · 9 months ago
...do I read you on some shaarli river ?
lexa1979 commented on No Man's Sky's update introduces billions of new stars, planets, and more   blog.playstation.com/2025... · Posted by u/hochmartinez
lexa1979 · a year ago
With a VR headset: with Alyx, it's one of the best game I enjoyed playing :)

You ARE in space. That feeling when you hop in your spaceship, take off, point to the sky and come up in space...

Sure, after a hundred hours of playing, I came to the conclusion I had enough, I had seen everything that was to see in the game - even without completing it, never reached the center of the galaxy - but it sure was worth its price.

lexa1979 commented on Ask HN: I simply hate working. What do I do?    · Posted by u/unhappyddev
lexa1979 · 2 years ago
Adapt your working days ? I work a 9 to 5, but only 4 days a week - I'm off on wednesdays. I managed to live with my 80% pay. The benefit is I work 2 days, then I'm off, then 2 days of work again, then off again, and loop this... The weeks are never "too long", it's only a "2 days week": monday then immediately it's friday, twice a week ^^. It gave me a nice feeling of balance between work and private life (of course, working 3 days a week would feel even better, but I don't want to live with a 60% pay, it is a choice I had to make: I like my house, I like my car, my motorcycle, going on vacation, upgrading my gaming rig when needed, and so on).
lexa1979 commented on Ask HN: What's your seniority, location and notice period?    · Posted by u/nickkell
lexa1979 · 3 years ago
Belgium - 13 years in the position, simple IT Tech: I have to give 13 weeks notice if I quit. I'm allowed to take a (paid) day off each of those week to look for a new job. If my employer fires me, he has a 42 weeks notice to give me, I'm of course also allowed to take the day off every week to look for a job.
lexa1979 commented on Perils of not being attractive or athletic in middle school   fau.edu/newsdesk/articles... · Posted by u/geox
hintymad · 3 years ago
Is this American-specific culture? Athletics seem disproportionately more important in a school than academics or anything else. That's just bizarre. In the country I came from, students who work hard or are good at a subject, any subject, would earn respect, just like those who are good at sports.
lexa1979 · 3 years ago
I guess it is American-specific (I'm from Belgium, lived a year in California 25 years ago): sport is one out of hundreds of options you have to take to get a full schedule in school. Everyday is the same day, be it monday or wednesday. You get 5 hours of class - from 8am to 3pm - and they're the same everyday. I don't know where you're from, but in USA (at least where I lived a year), math, geography, biology, chemistry, physics, sport, choir,...all are options. There are only a few mandatory classes: english (obvious), economics, and I forgot the last one I had. The other hours, you go to the class you chose. So, if you're not into academics or art, you choose some sport and it takes almost half of your school schedule. And you get the same high school diploma than someone who took math and chemistry. That's how athletics becomes so important in their schools, but arts can be too, or any subject. In Belgium, our school system went for the "a brain discovers a lot of subjects" teaching style, in US it's more "a brain (or a body) nicely trained on one subject".

update: tried to clarify differences between Belgium / US styles.

lexa1979 commented on The meat industry blocked the IPCC’s attempt to recommend a plant-based diet   qz.com/ipcc-report-on-cli... · Posted by u/kitkat_new
lexa1979 · 3 years ago
If they really read both pieces of papers, they'd read the footnote 53 in the final draft, detailing what the IPCC is calling a "sustainable healthy diet".

"53 ‘Sustainable healthy diets’ promote all dimensions of individuals’ health and well-being; have low environmental pressure and impact; are accessible, affordable, safe and equitable; and are culturally acceptable, as described in FAO and WHO. The related concept of ‘balanced diets’ refers to diets that feature plant-based foods, such as those based on coarse grains, legumes, fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds, and animal-sourced food produced in resilient, sustainable and low-GHG emission systems, as described in SRCCL"

Is Scientist Rebellion a lobby ? Who's pushing an agenda here ?

lexa1979 commented on PayPal inactivity fee   paypal.com/re/smarthelp/a... · Posted by u/minusf
HoppyHaus · 3 years ago
Could you elaborate more on this? Specifically the DDA bit - I don't know which acronym you're referring to.
lexa1979 · 3 years ago
Direct Deposit Account ?
lexa1979 commented on New cars will stop drivers from speeding under European laws   drive.com.au/news/new-car... · Posted by u/mfgs
kaffeeringe · 4 years ago
Well, cool. Speeding is the main source of accidents. Even escooters know where they are and reduce the maximum speed in some zones. Nobody ever was killed with an escooter. Why can't we restrict cars to the speed they are supposed to drive? It would make driving so much easier!

Is there a right to break the law?

lexa1979 · 4 years ago
Yes, you have the right to break the law if you have the money to pay your tickets.
lexa1979 commented on Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?    · Posted by u/joe8756438
mikece · 4 years ago
I haven't thought about it in years... but is Delicious still a thing? I would think (hope?) there would be an open source, PHP-based project I could throw onto commodity hosting to collect and manage bookmarks. If this doesn't exist it should -- and I wonder how hard it would be to also integrate saving/sharing tab-sets as well.
lexa1979 · 4 years ago
What you're looking for is Shaarli => https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli

There's a whole community of "shaarlist" in France, you can also fuse several shaarli in a "river"... Some rivers are my 2nd HckrNws when I want to read something.

lexa1979 commented on Ask HN: Do you use a physical calculator in your day job, and why?    · Posted by u/social_quotient
lexa1979 · 4 years ago
Pharmaceutical laboratory here: my colleagues, lab technicians, almost all have a scientific calculator on their desk and they use it quite often. The reason is they know exactly how to use it and when they're filling their paper lab notebook, it's in easy reach and faster than put the notebook away, unlock the computer, learn how to use the computer, then get back to the notebook and write the result.

u/lexa1979

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