lhamil64

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[–] lhamil64@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I have a Surface Pro 4 (I think from 2015) and the battery life now is awful. I might be able to get an hour or two depending on the performance mode, I usually just plug it in while using it now. If I forget to plug it in between uses, it will definitely be dead the next time I go to use it.

Plus it's starting to feel pretty slow. I do still have Windows on it, perhaps installing Linux would help make it faster but it sounds like it takes some work to get everything working properly so I haven't bothered.

[–] lhamil64@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

No, I mean doesn't it only look for updates of the current tag? That works fine if you set every container to the "latest" tag, but if you set your containers to specific version tags then you won't get a notification unless that specific tag gets updated.

[–] lhamil64@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That will just pull the latest image though right? I.e., if you explicitly have a container on a tag for v1.2.3, it wouldn't upgrade you when v1.2.4 is released right?

[–] lhamil64@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

To play devil's advocate, tab completion would have also likely caught this. OP could have typed /mnt/t and it would autofill temp, or would show the matching options if it's ambiguous.

[–] lhamil64@programming.dev 11 points 9 months ago

Or here's a crazy idea... Public transportation and pedestrian infrastructure could be vastly improved so that we don't have to depend on cars as much...

[–] lhamil64@programming.dev 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I've never heard of YumoHost, but I don't get why preventing upgrades to an application deemed to have "issues" makes sense. If it has issues, wouldn't you want to upgrade it when the issues are fixed?

[–] lhamil64@programming.dev 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

One of the great things about Linux is that you can almost always just run whatever distro from the USB drive before installing (and just reboot without the USB drive to get back into Windows) So you can download a few ISOs and try each one for a bit before committing to anything.

This is nice if there's anything specific that you need to work, you can try it and make sure it's usable for you before making any permanent changes.

For example, I'm legally blind and use a screen magnifier. I tried a few distros to compare the built-in magnifiers before settling on one.

I'd also recommend using Ventoy on your USB. That lets you just plop ISO files on the drive and choose which one at boot.

[–] lhamil64@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm guessing it'd be cheaper for MS to just keep providing security updates for Win10 than to create a whole Linux distro...

[–] lhamil64@programming.dev 9 points 11 months ago (4 children)

One issue I can see with the points system is that people could just approve it with a "Looks good to me!" without even looking at the code. Or just looking at a small portion of the code.

[–] lhamil64@programming.dev 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What is /dev/pty23? From context, I assume another users terminal so it just spams garbage to their screen?