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Cake day: July 7th, 2023
  • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.world•Apple Was Caught Off Guard by MacBook Neo's "Off the Charts" DemandEnglish
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    11 days ago

    I walked into a Best Buy last fall just to kind of browse the computers on offer. The sales rep recommended a laptop (Asus, I think) with 16gb of RAM, saying he actually even got his aunt one of the same model he was recommending to me.

    That’s insane. What the fuck is going on in these big tech companies that people are recommending 16gb of RAM for aunties and normies?

    spoiler

    Rhetorical question, the answers are: mega-reliance on webviews, every mid-level PM having to ship “features” to justify their position and to climb the corporate ladder, and every UI designer getting the brain-sickness that’s rounded-corners and animations everywhere, while some VP of product insisting on more ads and user-tracking. Add “agentic” aka slop coding to cap a decade of learn-2-code bootcamp 2nd-rate programmers who vigorously studied Cracking the Coding Interview without properly understanding the fundamentals… and voila!

    That’s the splendid thing about the Neo. Apple is saying ok, we know it’s only 8GB of RAM, but through the service life of the laptop we can ensure that that will give you a good desktop experience.

  • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.ml•Conformity
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    19 days ago

    I think you just need well-placed parks in the urban areas. I think it’s worth asking ourselves why we don’t really hear people bemoan the upbringing and experiences of kids from really urban cities like NYC or Tokyo. But when it comes to Soviet apartment blocs, this becomes a real concern. I think it’s a double-standard that’s been propagandized onto us.

    Notice the multiple “I thinks” – it’s not like I’m out here doing surveys on the topic. This is just how it seems to me.

  • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.world•Students are speeding through their online degrees in weeks, alarming educatorsEnglish
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    23 days ago

    The student who wants to actually go learn something and become an expert in a field has to contend with the fact that universities are just gilded vocational schools. And at least in the USA you will go into a lot of debt if you don’t come from wealth just to get through it. And there are no promises of stable income and employment when you do get through it.

    So, while I think this person comes out the other end functionally no more informed than before, and I would not want to work with her, I can’t fault her for recognizing the bullshit that is the American education system and exploiting it.

    For my own part, I busted my ass through university and now I’m seeing all my efforts get gobbled up into AI, cheapening everything I’ve ever done and worked for, and possibly evicting me from my career sometime in the coming few years. That wasn’t a concern when I graduated, LLMs didn’t exist yet. But they do now for current and future students.

  • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•What’s new in security for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS?
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    1 month ago

    And permissively licensed utils have been around thanks to BSD and it’s never been an issue.

    The distinction is that BSD coreutils are not attempting to be a drop-in 1:1 compatible replacement of GNU coreutils. The Rust coreutils has already accomplished this with its inclusion into Ubuntu 26.04.

    If I wanted a permissively licensed system, I’d use BSD. I don’t, so I primarily use Linux. I think citing a proprietary OS like macOS as a reason why permissively licensed coreutils are OK is kind of funny. It’s easy to forget that before before the GPL there were many incompatible UNIX systems developed by different companies, and IMO the GPL has kept MIT and BSD-licensed projects “Honest”, so-to-speak. Without the GPL to keep things in check, we’d be back to how things were in the 80s.

    So what’s next on the docket for Ubuntu? A permissively licensed libc?