rarsamx

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[–] rarsamx@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

No, I'm trying to understand why someone would store so many pictures. 20TB is enough for 330 4K movies or 10,000 1080P movies.

"Just in case I need it" is the principle of hoarding.

[–] rarsamx@lemmy.ca -2 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

The real question is:

How do people have so much media to fill up those drives?

Followed by: how do people have so much time to watch that media?

Followed by: human driven climate change is real. How can people waste energy just to hoard media that they rarely ever see again?

I understand somehow if you are torrenting and contributing to the sharing ecosystem, but just hoarding?

[–] rarsamx@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (7 children)

Again. Have you used Fedora, Mint, Ubuntu?

Regular people get help with basic stuff in windows All the time. That's why there is a Geek Squad in best buy. That's probably the only thing missing for the non technical Linux users.

If people are paying someone to "install" their printer, why would it be different with Linux.

In fact, in Linux they'd need less tech support as many windows users calls are for slowness, virus and obsolescence.

Let's not compare usability using different standards

[–] rarsamx@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

Tell me you haven't used a Linux desktop recently without telling me.

"I remember". Using that phrase tells me it wasn't recently enough. And "using it inside windows" tells me you tried to fit a round peg into a square hole or that you don't know what you are talking about.

You may be a MAC fan and that's OK if that works for you, but I haven't needed to use anything else but Linux since 2004 (initially there were always pickups, though) and I've been runing it without issues since probably 2010.

[–] rarsamx@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

"Microsoft testing new ways to lose customers".

It's well known that piracy was what made Word (.DOC) and Excel (.XLS) the de facto standard.

If the kids at home can't use windows, they'll find something different. And when enough of them find if, when they become decision makers they'll stay away from Windows.

Imagine how different the landscape would be had MS cracked down on Piracy for their flagship programs.

[–] rarsamx@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure even Communists. But your political system and the leaning of most of the US people means that they will never be able to have any impact.

[–] rarsamx@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

People shouldn't wait to get to that point when all the historical signs point in that direction.

[–] rarsamx@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

I think you are being victim of the boiling frog effect.

Do you want to be pedantic and wait until the mass graves are discovered years after thebfact? Or do you see the escalating signs that they are going exactly in that direction?

Right now they are already disappearing people. They are already following the totalitarian regime playbook and history has shown exactly where it leads to.

By the way, remove the wool over your eyes, it's not like the US doesn't know the totalitarian regime playbook. They've used it many times in other countries to install puppet governments. The only difference is that they are doing it now at home.

[–] rarsamx@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

I don't have a soul, so probably I remain the same.

[–] rarsamx@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

Honestly, using the cloud to "right provision" can save a company money or at least give them great flexibility.

The problem? Companies over provision in the cloud and most of that goes unused.

When it's cheap and easy to spin a new instance under load but later no one cares about doing capacity analysis, you end up paying for way more than you need. That's where the money goes.

[–] rarsamx@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

USB charger.

[–] rarsamx@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Your signature is your mark. Uniquely identifying. It doesn't need to be your name.

I originally signed with name and last name plus a squiggle. I got tired of that and many years ago I changed it to my 4 letter first name barely legible. Way better more consistent than the variance writing my full name.

Butnintinknwe aware saying the same. Cursive is illegible, so. A bunch of squiggles is good enough. Some people call it cursive.

Note: other than nostalgia, I don't understand why cursive. Barely legible even by the original writer.

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