wizardbeard

With the upcoming restrictions on third-party apps that Google has announced maybe? It'll be easier to get from Play, and may not be available otherwise at all.

Most of the people I've met who consider themselves "rockstars" are middling at best, and are pretty much led around by the nose by whatever latest fad they just studied/found learning material for/found sales material for.

They absolutely knew how to play office politics and games about appearances to execs (being able to spout a lot about whatever latest term is showing up in the financial magazines the execs read while not saying anything concrete helps a lot), but when push came to shove they were always trying to find ways to make their responsibilities everyone elses problem so they could play with some new toy while they left a trail of halfassed rush work and mountains of tech debt in their wake.

It's theoretically possible to extract all the GPO effected registry keys from the ADMX files Microsoft releases, but yeah, I have serious doubts that any tool like this will be able to just detect and track every distinct setting. Let alone accurately identify what each does. I'm sure there's at least one setting that's been carried over from the "stuff it in an .ini in a system folder" days.

But if there is some community sourced list for settings, where they're stored, and how they work that would be amazing!

AI is not looked upon kindly in most places on Lemmy, for good reason.

Far as your problem goes, learn how to read? The error message doesn't have too much extraneous shit in it.

Ignore the start part, as that's clearly talking about the HTML, the building blocks of the site.

Quota exceeded in 'storySoFar'. Whatever it's storing as storySoFar is too big. You aren't the developer, but that's a pretty clear variable name. The story so far exceeds the quota. The story so far is too big.

I swear, reading error messages shouldn't be a god damn super power. I've never used this slop generator in my life, I just read your error message.

I ain't afraid of no bed!

The solution you mention includes millions starving to death.

And so would my personal choice to not drive. I'm not going to be able to change the culture all on my own, and even if I were to influence this entire comment section to somehow go carless for a year it would be undone by a few private jet flights. Maybe go after events like the World Economic Forum instead of trying to push middle class people through guilt.

I've done years of public transit, biking, and walking to get to/from jobs, classes, groceries, etc. It's not something I can continue at the moment in my current situation. Even if it was, I'm not going to pretend that society is constructed in a way that makes it a reasonable option for most people. Or that it's their personal responsibility to do whatever they can to make it reasonable for them.

The basic fact is that in many places, a car is required to get from where you are to where you need to go. It's rapidly changing for the better with wider availability of things like ebikes, and the goal should be high density mixed use with everything closely available through public transit, but that's not an option for wide swaths of the population. I'm also not going to go down the path of trying to somehow blame people for where they may have to live for any number of reasons that I'm not privy to.

Regardless, I was just answering a flippantly asked question in a meme community about how someone was expected to get to where the jobs are (while they also were implying that jobs are only in cities).

My answer is valid, regardless of your feelings on the surrounding issues of car centric culture and the horrendous impacts on the world.

And jobs exist outside the cities. Might not be what you want to do for work, but suburbs and towns need local services, and those local services need people to work them. Again, that's true currently regardless of what the best end state would be.

I wasn't trying to open some grand discussion on the state of the world, I was just providing the straightforward answer to a question.

There's plenty of places in lemmy that are wonderful for discussions about the problems of car culture, the terror that is our environment and the multiple lines before catastrophic runaway collapse we have zoomed by, places for discussions about rewilding spaces, for growing your own food, etc.

But this is a meme community. Dude asked a question in a flippant way, he got a flippant answer. It's not complicated or deep.

My work indicated that they would start expecting people to make use of Copilot. There's been small errors in every answer Copilot has given me, but it has surfaced information and been able to accurately answer a few questions that would have taken me hours with Microsoft docs to find without knowing it in advance (I always confirm the data).

I can see the value in a natural language search engine. In being able to ask questions about documentation and software/system capabilities in natural language and get natural language answers.

But it makes too many errors to be reliable because it tries to be generalist instead of organizing concepts and tokens properly for the specific domain. It costs way too damn much for the not super impressive thing it actually does, and it only does that at a barely passable level.

I hate that me needing to use it for work for the sake of appearances only serves to normalize it to me and others, while adding to the inflated count of users.

In short it's hard to do right.

It would have to be in a way that doesn't chain you to one central identification server that could ban everyone, but also still handles moderation actions properly.

People would probably also want their identity to be portable (movable to other source instances) which will mean different things to different fediverse services in terms of what would move, and things like handling username collisions. We can't even lift and shift between instances of the same service yet, whete it should be a simple one to one.

Most of all, a huge part of the conceptual point of the fediverse is that you should be able to interact with the rest of it from any point inside it (with exceptions for intentional defederation between some servers). On a conceptual level, you shouldn't need to create a login for mastodon when you can post to mastodon from lemmy, and vice versa. You create your login on the type of fediverse system you want the interface of, on a server instance you agree with the moderation policies of, and then you interact with whatever you want from there.

In practice it's not so simple, but that's largely seen by the various devs as a software interoperability thing, not a sort of single sign on identity thing.

My biggest complaint with BG3. So many act 1 battles feel like if you can't take out at least one enemy each turn you just get ankle bit to death.

Like games on the playground: My sword is super strong! Well mine is stronger! My sword gets twice as strong as the strongest sword near it! Mine gets three times as strong as the strongest sword near it! Well since my sword keeps getting stronger than yours, its power becomes infinite! Well mine becomes infinite first!

But with tragedies.

I broke my toe while my life partner passed away! Well I broke my toe and my arm while mine died, and they never healed right! Losers, I dealt with all of that and tapeworms all at once! Well, my loved one had dementia, lost all memories of their loved ones, and I got a paper cut!

Feel like there's some ripe ground there for a comedy sketch, or a Cyanide and Happiness Depression Week strip.

My bad, I'll check again when I get home. Could have sworn it was available by default, but it might be a Pro/Enterprise version thing, or something I had to do through Group Policy (Pro/Enterprise unless there's an underlying registry entry you can snag to apply to Home installs).

Either way, 100% agree that you should never have to jump through hoops for such a basic piece of functionality. It's your machine, not Microsoft's.

EDIT: Yeah, you're right. Can pause updates for 35 days. You can keep resetting those 35 days indefinitely, but that's some bullshit.

And it looks like all my fancy ways of disabling auto-restarts for updates are all Group Policy, so restricted to Pro and Enterprise versions. That's some shit.

Protip: If you need Windows then go with the Pro version for the most config options against the bullshit, but don't pay for it. Get a super discounted price from a licensed OEM license key seller, or just use MASGrave to spoof the license for free.

It comes from people being unwilling to learn how Windows works or how to configure it, but being 100% on board to tinker to hell and back with Linux. So you get a lot of innaccurate info from people who think their Linux skills confer some amount of knowledge with Windows when they never took the time to learn it as well, or when they haven't used it outside of corporate controlled work machines (if they even encounter Windows that way) in half a decade.

There's an argument (which I agree with to a point) that you shouldn't have to learn how such a big paid product like Windows works in order to avoid frustrations, while it's understandable in an open source thing like Linux distros. But it ultimately boils down to a combo of "Windows bad!" and learned helplessness when it comes to Windows that people are willing to push through for Linux.