elucubra

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elucubra ,

Cost per liter including filters, liquids and electricity?

what's your current linux distro?

wanting to hop into the world of linux on a dual boot method (one of my favorite games unfortunately cannot be run on linux at all, and it's a gacha. I don't want to gamble with my account being banned, so I'm keeping windows for it specifically.) this'll be my second go at it, I used Pop!_OS briefly but had some issues with...

elucubra ,

slackware

A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back ( www.windowscentral.com )

It's a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a...

elucubra ,

I do small business support. Everytime I do a windows install I do a ninite install of a bunch of things. Everything is always in the set. The fucntionality should have been in windows since NTFS was introduced

elucubra ,

Not a musician. Isn't ubuntu studio optimized for these kind of uses?

elucubra OP ,

Is every open source app audited? Look at the XZ near disaster. And XZ is pretty critical software.
Open source doesn't mean it's safe by default, it means that the code can be read.

elucubra ,

My first job was in a Big Iron shop in the late 80's, where I was in charge of backups. We kept Three sets of backups, on two different media, one on hand, one in a different location in the main building, in a water and fireproof safe, and one offsite. We had a major failure one day, and had to do a restore.

Both inhouse copies failed to restore. Thankfully the offsite copy worked. We were in panic. That taught me to keep all my important data on three sets.
As the old saying goes: Data loss is not an if question, but a when question. Also, remember that "the cloud" simply means someone else's remote servers over which you have no control.

elucubra ,

In a big iron shop?everything gets tested, dry run, etc, but shit happens, hence backups

elucubra ,

These things (and Seagate's) have the usb interface soldered on, so if the drivd dies, forget about the data, no way to connect to another usb adapter to try to recover. Granted, it's usually the drive that dies, but in these cases, you have a 100% rate of non recovery . Any other brand's are standard drives. My favorite are toshiba.

elucubra ,

In my experience the drive fails more often than the adapter, but they do fail. Also, there is a good chance to recover data from a failed drive. With a soldered adaptor it's basically impossible.
The worst part is that the externals are often used for backups.

elucubra ,

Soldering is not the problem, unless its smd or tiny, its getting a non standard usb interface.

elucubra ,

Not particularly, but it happens.

elucubra ,

That's because in the US you could be sent abroad to kill brown people for oil. I was a conscript in my country in the 80's (Nato). In my country conscripts couldn't be sent abroad, only professionals. I'd be ok with defending home soil. That doen't mean that I wanted to do my tour, but I did it. I think I learnt a lot, not least about serving for the common good. Looking back it was good for me. Also, at hat time, after service you'd be in the reserves (simply listed) and the country could raise an army of millions, who'd only need some refresher training in a week, not like the green ass russian conscripts in Ukraine right now.

I'm favor of conscription for limited duration, and no possibility of deployment abroad. Also, women too. That wasn't a thing then.

elucubra ,

Grass is the largest irrigated crop in the US

elucubra ,

Thanks! Did the trick!

elucubra ,

Generally you can upgrade RAM of different capacities, but only the amount of RAM that matches the original will run in dual channel. I've done it in a couple of machines, and it worked fine. the extra RAM should take a small performance hit, but In my case the tradeoff was worth it. I've also upgraded RAM beyond the specified max. Hasn't always worked.

elucubra ,

In the US the most trustworthy media sources right now are Jon Stewart and John Oliver

elucubra ,

People assume that Boeing is behind this. I'm more inclined to believe that it's a major shareholder

elucubra ,

I'm almost a boomer. I started out in a Big Iron shop that mainly ran Cobol I haven't touched it in decades, and I was an Admin, so I barely touched the stuff. Now I could read the stuff, but not code a hello world.

A few years back a friend my age, who was a CS major, but had mainly been a mom for 2 decades returned to the job market, thinking that she faced an impossible task, that she had obsoleted herself. She was working within a week, maintaining Cobol at a bank, and making mint.

elucubra ,

Banks, Insurance , etc. are ultraconservative as far as tech. They want ultra stable systems. I had an acquaintance that had a business reselling ATMs to banks. Banks had a hard time sourcing EOL ATMs or spares. I remeber a story about some specific 486s CPUs and SIMMs that sold for 1000s, due to not being sourceable new from any supplier, and being needed as replacements for certain ATMs

Banks and insurance companies are also scared shitless of something breaking during upgrades to systems that control billions in funds

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