extraisland

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by extraisland 1y ago
> The meme is still alive that windows accumulates garbage and becomes slower with time, so you need to reinstall it periodically. I've not needed to worry about this since Windows XP. Which was what? 25 years ago almost. > Reins
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by extraisland 1y ago
No it doesn't. I barely do anything to manage my Windows Installation. I install loads of garbage (I mostly still run the same programs as I did 15 years ago). I don't understand why people propagate these falsehoods.
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by extraisland 1y ago
I think it is counter productive to bring up ridiculous examples, which was obviously not what I meant.
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by extraisland 1y ago
> Anybody who is good with computers should be able to install linux Installation is not the same as support and isn't the same as trouble shooting. That why people distro hop. They keep on installing thinking that distro X will sol
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by extraisland 1y ago
You are only thinking of attacking computer directly itself. Often people socially engineer access to a computer system. Many UK super markets were hacked, using some of the software that is very secure, because people managed to socially
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by extraisland 1y ago
> At least two independent people understood you in the same way. So just dismissing it isn't productive. Two people that we are aware of. BTW, I often encounter this when talking to other techies. People go to the most ridiculous e
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by extraisland 1y ago
> That claim is too generic to add anything to this discussion. Ok, everything has a trade off. Thanks for that fortune cookie wisdom. It isn't fortune cookie wisdom and no it isn't "too generic". It is something that
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by extraisland 1y ago
> The problem is that if what "really counts" is too vaguely defined, then it's hard to pin down and argue the point. It really wasn't. It isn't hard to understand what was meant. > Virtual memory probably isn
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by extraisland 1y ago
What happens when the OS that is running the browser fails to update because /boot has run out of room for a new Linux kernel (this happened to me the other week)? What happens when the browser update fails because the package database
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by extraisland 1y ago
> The typical user doesn't know how Windows works, and they can run that. That is because Windows for the most part manages itself and there are enough IT professionals, repairs shops and other third support options (including someo
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by extraisland 1y ago
No everything is a trade off. That is a reality of life in general. Anything that is proposed has a cost associated with it (time, money). That always has to be weighed up against any potential benefit.
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by extraisland 1y ago
No I am not. The example given was ridiculous and absurd and you are doing exactly the same thing. There is a big difference between basic memory protections and what was being discussed. This is the issue with a lot of people that work in
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by extraisland 1y ago
> You've explained that flatpak has issues with file access and clipboard sharing. My iphone does sandboxing too, but the clipboard works just fine on my phone. > I don't think "failing clipboards" is a problem s
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by extraisland 1y ago
> You seem to be arguing that adding complexity reduces freedom, but I don't think that's true in a reasonable interpretation of the word No I am not arguing that at all.
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by extraisland 1y ago
> I think a lot of it is "nobody has bothered building it yet" vs security. All of this takes considerable time, money to build and after that you need to get people to buy into it anyway. Large billion dollar software companie
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by extraisland 1y ago
> Huh? In what way does application sandboxing take away my freedom? What can I do today that I can't do with a sandbox-everything-by-default model? I've just explained that sand-boxing causes issues with file access, clipboard
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by extraisland 1y ago
A lot of it already exists in one form or another and the trade-off for sand-boxing is usability a lot of the time. It isn't even a freedom vs security. It is usability vs security.
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by extraisland 1y ago
> At the limit, sure, maybe there are tradeoffs between freedom and security. But there's lots of technical solutions that we could build right now that give a lot more safety without losing any freedom at all. Everything you have s
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by extraisland 1y ago
All of these existed well before mobile phones and so called "enforced security". Almost all these apps are wrappers around web functionality.
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by extraisland 1y ago
Everything in life is about trade-offs. Certain trade-offs people aren't going to make. - If you want to run an alternative operating system, you got to learn how it works. That is a trade off not even many tech savvy people want to ma
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by extraisland 1y ago
> R.E. scaffolding in C#, with upcoming .NET 10, it's really simple: - Write code to myfile.cs - `dotnet run myfile.cs` > That doesn't need scaffolding either. And the standard library is huge too; you could even add depende
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by extraisland 1y ago
> 10W constant over 10 years would cost me 275 euro. €2.30 per month. Which is almost nothing. > Over 20years it will cost me ~2800 euro in today's prices. That is €11 a month over 20 years. So the extra 10 watts is still next to
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by extraisland 1y ago
> C# does not require scaffolding any more than Python does. They've changed so much in the last few years I honestly don't know anymore. Which is part of the entire problem. The last time I bothered writing anything with C# &#
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by extraisland 1y ago
I learned the basics in maybe a day almost 20 years ago now. I could make a page template with PHP and style that in maybe a day. This was back when IE6 was dominate, I don't think Firebug was even a thing. At that time I was a novice,
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by extraisland 1y ago
> Okay, and? I didn't make the claim that some other language was all that. I was dispelling the claim that Python is. I believe that people should RTFM. Any arguments that is predicated on not reading the documentation for the lang
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by extraisland 1y ago
>The difference between new and init is not knowable from reading their names. The same is true of pickle. By definition, that makes them unintuitive. By that standard nothing is. At some point if you are using a programming language you
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by extraisland 1y ago
I don't understand how that is the case when you say you can figure out much more complicated programming languages. It strains credulity. I am a former front-end developer that managed to figure out AWS, Go, C++, C#, JavaScript, Pytho
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by extraisland 1y ago
I think you are being a bit silly. I just plugged the numbers into an online cost calculator. That is extra 10 watts, is less than £2 a month in the UK. Drives are about 5 watts idle and I have 6 of them. The NAS costs me about £20/mo
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by extraisland 1y ago
I use Debian Stable on my laptop and workstation. Most packages you don't need newer versions. I don't need the latest version of Gnome or Gedit or whatever. I don't understand why people like the rigmarole of constantly upda
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by extraisland 1y ago
No they are not. It is being talked about adding age-gating to the VPNs.

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