Operating system and CPU architecture are useful for sites to serve the correct binaries when a user is downloading an application. I know you could just give them all the options, but the average idiot has no idea what the difference between ARM and x86 is, or whether they have a 64 bit system. Hell, I wouldn’t even trust some users to accurately tell me what operating system they’re using.
Wind turbines actually have a fuckload of grease and oil in them. I used to work for a company that runs wind farms. A single gearbox can contain around 100 gallons of oil.
Still more environmentally friendly than fossil fuels though.
This is a similar situation to mine. I tried running Linux on my work laptop, ran into too many issues that made it unreliable. Especially during business trips, when I really needed my laptop to work.
Not to mention that I still needed to use business tools that are only available on Windows. Redacting and signing PDFs in Acrobat, creating images for Windows machines (I’m also the IT department), Autodesk software, etc.
Windows + WSL allows me to get the best of both worlds, with all my Linux apps running alongside my Windows ones on the same hypervisor. I just wish they would support PCI device passthrough, as part of my job involves writing and debugging kernel drivers for some custom FPGA accelerators.
Huh, I’ve been using grub to boot into windows 11 for a few years now. Never had an issue with it. Are there specific grub versions that were affected?
It will be taken out of her estate and her son will get zero inheritance.
I mean, yeah. Reddit is so big that they don’t give a shit whether you use the platform or not. They can continue falsely banning thousands of people each day because their user base is so big that those lost users wouldn’t even be a rounding error.
Stop patronizing places that don’t give a shit about you beyond how much they can sell your data for.
Like it or not, the average person still sees Lemmy as a mostly homogenous platform. If they see “lemmy is full of tankies”, it’s not a good look. They don’t know how defederation works.
Judge him all you want but he tells it like it is
When I traveled across the world last year it took me 5 minutes to sign up for a temporary cell plan in the country I was visiting, then install the eSIM from my phone’s web browser. I didn’t have to plan ahead and wait for them to mail me a SIM card so I could juggle around SIMs while abroad. I much prefer that over a physical SIM card.
This is just my anecdotal experience, but most of the time when I compare Waymo and Uber prices in my city, Waymo is cheaper.
For example, I’ll use both apps to calculate the fare to the same destination. Waymo is almost always slightly cheaper, and that’s before considering that you aren’t expected to tip.
Even if it was slightly more expensive, I’d prefer Waymo every time. Not having to deal with a driver, being able to put my own music on, and the flexibility of being able to edit my route at any time are great.