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sjcoles commented on F42 Change Proposal: Fedora Plasma Workstation (System-Wide)   discussion.fedoraproject.... · Posted by u/butz
sjcoles · a year ago
KDE has far too much surface area to test and support (as in end user support) effectively. Gnome may not be as flexible but it makes for a much smaller target to be able to reproduce and triage issues.

If people want KDE they can install it. Making it the default is short sighted and doesn't align with, or help further, the goals of the Fedora project.

sjcoles commented on A 7k-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That's Bad News for All of Us   slate.com/business/2024/0... · Posted by u/pulisse
sjcoles · a year ago
Tax the hell out of them to pay for upgrading. There's zero reason why a 2500lbs vehicle should pay the same tax as a 7000+lbs one.

Giant SUVs and Trucks for non commercial use should have been effectively regulated/taxed out of existence a decade ago.

sjcoles commented on Coding Addiction: How Programming Affects Your Brain   medium.com/blob-streaming... · Posted by u/safaa1993
gumballindie · 2 years ago
Blaming users? An interesting strategy. Nonetheless I use gpt4. It’s rather useless.
sjcoles · 2 years ago
I agree with you here. For boilerplate stuff I can never remember it's fine.

With more advanced use cases I find the LLMs better at exploring a problem space and possible solutions rather than providing a solution full stop. Being able to refine a problem down into a digestible chunk the AI can take a bite of does require human level understanding that's hard to get if you haven't 'done the work' to have good fundamentals.

sjcoles commented on Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?   twitter.com/jmmv/status/1... · Posted by u/dceddia
NovemberWhiskey · 2 years ago
Some additional things to note:

Windows NT 3.51 minimum hardware requirements were a i386 or i486 processor at 25MHz or better and 12MB of RAM for the workstation version. So the 600MHz machine with 128MB RAM is exceeding the minimum requirement by (conservatively) 24x in CPU speed and 10x in RAM, along with all the architectural improvements from going from the i386 to what's presumably a Pentium III-class machine.

If that's actually a Surface Go 2 running Windows 11 - well, it doesn't have a quad-core i5 as the tweet claims - the Surface Go 2 came with a Pentium Gold or a Core m3; both with only two cores and of those is an ultra-low power variant.

As such, that exactly meets the minimum CPU specification for Windows 11 and only doubles the minimum 4GB RAM requirement.

I'm not trying to apologize for the difference here, but it's not an entirely like-for-like comparison.

sjcoles · 2 years ago
Add onto that the fact the 8th and 10th gen Intel low power mobile parts are, well, kinda garbage (low perf/watt, very little boost time, low core count) and were quickly obsoleted.

I'm not sure why Msft put that CPU and RAM combo in their own device when it's just barely past the minimum specs for Windows 10 let alone 11.

sjcoles commented on Thinking about our passive exposure to IPv6 issues   utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/spa... · Posted by u/jesprenj
radicaldreamer · 2 years ago
This behavior was rare in the US market, but it is very common now that our wireless providers are entering the home internet market. T-Mobile and Verizon both use CGNAT (but do issue individual ipv6 addresses to end user devices).
sjcoles · 2 years ago
It's been a nightmare for my org. We have several people with T-Mobile and Verizon home internet and it's always a game of "What shenanigans will I have to use this week to get VPNs to work?" Sometimes it seems like their 6to4 implementation is just broken but I'm not a network engineer.
sjcoles commented on System76 Open Firmware   github.com/system76/firmw... · Posted by u/doener
kzrdude · 2 years ago
I've used a dell latitude 5420 and I think it's got that quality. Always works. It has a few quirks (rarely hangs on suspend or similar) but no major problems.
sjcoles · 2 years ago
The 5400s and 5410s had tons of issues with power, heat, and general acpi funkiness but the 5420s and 5430s have been rock solid for my org. I really want an AMD 14" Latitude but I don't think that's happening any time soon.
sjcoles commented on The day Windows died   thomasbandt.com/the-day-w... · Posted by u/alexzeitler
torh · 2 years ago
Any experience with USB-C dock and DisplayLink drivers?

I tried openSUSE, but the only distro that seems to play with DisplayLink (or, actually it's the other way around) is Ubuntu. And I like Ubuntu as a server, but not as a desktop...

sjcoles · 2 years ago
Your best option is to dump the displaylink dock and go to a dp alt mode dock or tb3/usb4 dock if your device has a compatible port.

Dell WD19S or Cable Matters USB C docks (201055, 201056) have been flawless for my org all with Fedora laptops. For thunderbolt Caldigit has some decent options but you are still looking at $200-300 for anything decent.

sjcoles commented on Show HN: Multi-display screen sharing with CoScreen   blog.coscreen.co/blog/cos... · Posted by u/coscreen
sjcoles · 2 years ago
Wow this looks amazing. I am eagerly awaiting a Linux version. We have ~150 Linux desktops and training or collaborating via one sided google meets can be limiting.
sjcoles commented on Open letter to Gitea   gitea-open-letter.coding.... · Posted by u/d4a
lovich · 3 years ago
I’ve never participated in an open source community so this is the view of an ignorant third party. Everytime I see anything related to the open source world bubble up into the public I am only reminded of high school and college level social drama.

It seems utterly exhausting to be involved

sjcoles · 3 years ago
> Everytime I see anything related to the open source world bubble up into the public I am only reminded of high school and college level social drama.

This is engineering/technical communities in general. You get a lot of strong opinions and individuals who cannot take criticism. A few, often very loud, people make a ton of noise and take up the time of the individuals actually contributing real substance to the project.

Don't like it? Fork it. Simple as that. Same with all the code of conduct nonsense that crops up a couple times a year.

If your opinions are so popular forking and moving contributors to a new project should be easy right? Yeah, turns out your opinions aren't shared by most and only the loudest of the group, no one else really cares.

sjcoles commented on PolyMC compromised by rogue developer having unabomber manifesto in steam bio   github.com/PolyMC/PolyMC/... · Posted by u/SuperSandro2000
wisnoskij · 3 years ago
Presumably all beliefs not their own, they definitely dog-whistled that not that I can speak to that directly. But they were clearly exclusionary to different sexuality/biology.
sjcoles · 3 years ago
It's open source! Don't like it fork it! Simple as that. You're not forced to work with anyone you don't want to for any reason.

This always feels like a self tell for people with a very authoritarian mindset.

Just because someone like yourself would use conduct to exclude individuals from participating does not mean that others will.

u/sjcoles

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