bier

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[–] bier@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah I was thinking those Waltons have more money together then even Musk.

[–] bier@feddit.nl 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

That is true, but my smart TV and smart scale both got something like 5 years of updates. Who buys a new scale every 5 years? My parents still have a scale from the 90s that works fine.

[–] bier@feddit.nl 11 points 6 months ago

I'm fairly sure Microsoft is actively trying to screw Firefox. Outlook has always sucked in Firefox, teams is a shit show. When you use a useragent switcher somehow a lot of features seem to work magically in Firefox (which tells me MS is doing this on purpose).

For Outlook (exchange) I use Thunderbird with a paid plug-in (to make the 2FA stuff work). It's pretty cheap and totally worth it for me at least.

[–] bier@feddit.nl 13 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Keep running it for a while and after some time 5 or 10 years you will struggle when people ask you about (basic) Windows stuff.

[–] bier@feddit.nl 8 points 7 months ago

Exactly, if you are as big a Microsoft, you can't tell 100% if one of your developer's is actually being paid by a foreign government. Even if you say completely check the commits other devs make, there will still be deadlines when a code review is just "looks fine, next".

[–] bier@feddit.nl 6 points 7 months ago

Ugh this reminds me of a guy I worked with, he used to be a trucker but became a software tester (he was also very religious).

Anyway he used to hate on open source software and call it open sores. According to him it was all amateur crap. Ugh I still hate that guy and it has been 15 years....

[–] bier@feddit.nl 2 points 7 months ago

Actual first was I think knopix or whatever it was called. My friend had a bootable floppy and we booted it on a school computer.

First real daily use was Ubuntu somewhere around 2006.

[–] bier@feddit.nl 3 points 8 months ago

If you ban tabacco all out its going to create a huge black market. Addicted smokers that don't want to stop aren't just going to stop.

But, raising the legal smoking age with one year every year might work. Tabacco use is already pretty low for GenZ as smoking isn't "cool" like it was in the 70s.

[–] bier@feddit.nl 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't know about the windows stuff, haven't used it in years. But back in the day installing Ubuntu was super easy (just boot from USB stick and install and mostly everything works). But a fresh windows install was a real pain like downloading drivers for all your hardware etc.

Nowadays it's pretty easy in both cases I guess.

[–] bier@feddit.nl 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

https://theicct.org/publication/co2-emissions-from-commercial-aviation-2013-2018-and-2019/

Based on that graph it's 85% of aviation, so I think it's under aviation, because passengers make up 85%

[–] bier@feddit.nl 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Also because aviation is actually not a big part of the CO2 emissions

https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector

We should still try to fly less, but there are other sectors that can make a much bigger impact.

[–] bier@feddit.nl 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

No you're not, the post was editted. The original one said it was all because of AI, the entire reason for the API change was to sell to AI companies.

Edit, now I'm in doubt, because if you edit a post that is shown somehow right?

Edit2, just to be clear my point is that Reddit content was never free, before and after the API change. It's easier to get the content with a decent API, sure. But it was never free, just like the lawsuit the NY Times started.

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