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BearOfaTime

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  • Yep, that's the same issue with Mac. When you have a single Business Unit that wants Macs, they have to make a big sell to IT to get it. It's got to make a massive difference to their productivity for IT to absorb the extra effort for them.

    Then when you return the costs to the BU they complain they have to pay more for IT than other BUs. Well, yea, you take more effort than everyone else who fit the standard model. Uniqueness ain't cheap.

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  • I don't know why so many companies decide to use Windows these days

    Hahahahahaha

    Clearly you haven't worked in a business with more than a few users, with the simplest of requirements.

    Come manage a 20-user environment where you need business-standard apps to interoperate seamlessly with every client you have.

    Now expand that to 10,000 users.

    Let's see you run CAD on a Linux box.

    Let's see you open/edit/return an excel file without fucking it up. Especially because most of such files will have tables, and Libre/Open office doesn't support tables.

    Which Linux distro you going to use on laptops, that has power management that isn't painful to configure? Or that even works?

    Which distro supports all the hardware you already own, out of the box? Manpower to setup systems, and figure out new ways to do things, isn't free.

    Then you're talking about re-training staff to use a completely different OS and tools, when they have approaches that have been used for decades, across generations of users.

    On and on it goes.

    One should understand why a fence exists, before thinking of removing it. You clearly don't understand business if you think it's that simple.

  • Steam accused of 'normalizing hate and extremism in the gaming community' in new ADL report

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  • Not compromised.

    They've been hypocrites for as long as I can remember.

  • Self-Hosting Isn't a Solution; It's A Patch

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  • No amount of regulations will prevent bad actors.

    The only way to ensure your data is contained is to control where it's stored and how it's transmitted.

    So no, it's not a "patch", it's a layer of security.

    Or are you telling me companies that keep all their data on prem are doing it wrong?

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  • They host software for anyone to use, and capture all the data, usage patterns, etc, for themselves, to use for their benefit, and to use against you.

    Hell, Google deleted a company's entire dataset recently. Everything. They gave the police location data on an area and a random person, for no reason other than happening to be in the area, was arrested for murder. Nevermind that they biked through that area every day. Remember Facebook tracking pixels? Cambridge Analytica (which is currently in court)? I mean I can go on and on about how FAANG is abusive and dishonest.

    And you want to sit here and tell me they're the answer?

    Are you just an apologist for FAANG, etc? Because you're really sounding like one at this point.

    Who's paying you to post this disinformation?

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  • Trust.

    I trust my brother more than Google. Same with Jim down the street.

    I trust my circle of acquaintances more than Google (et al) , especially since Google (et al) have demonstrated, repeatedly, to be untrustworthy.

    In fact, they've demonstrated they are outright adversarial to me and mine.

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  • Also, Trust, but Verify.

    Even if we had fantastic regulations, we'd still have scammers and hackers out there.

    If my data never leaves my systems, my risk of exposure is far smaller.

  • Why is everyone vehemently against easier lives?

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  • Huh?

  • Android will soon instantly log you in to your apps on new devices

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  • This is a major reason I root, so backup apps like NeoBackup actually work.

    Then Syncthing keeps those backups in sync with a home machine.

    Lose my phone? No big deal, setup Syncthing on new one, let files sync, launch Neo, restore.

  • A petition has been created by an Austrian EU rep. to replace Windows with GNU/Linux in all Europe

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  • The problem is dealing with the application side.

    Just one feature that's massive - how many systems have automatic import/export using Excel file formats. Converting those processes will be a huge undertaking themselves, let alone how many other things that will require re-engineering. The scope and scale of this is staggering.

    A better effort would be to convert a single, small organization in government, then the scope is limited, but you get to build the fundamentals, and gain the experience of interfacing with extant systems.

  • Weight-loss drug found to shrink heart muscle in mice, human cells

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  • Yep - There's no such thing as a free lunch.

    All treatments, medications, etc have risks and side effects. It's always about balancing the treatment against those risks.

    One of my favorites is how doctors will push things like Tylenol (demonstrated to have no positive effect on pain), while being hesitant to use drugs that are known to be effective. Especially since research shows that people in pain aren't the addiction risk they're claimed to be.

    Or prescribe things like COX2 inhibitors (also with a mediocre record of effectiveness), with current research finally showing that reducing inflammation isn't a great approach to healing, since that's the mechanism our bodies uses to repair things.

    While prescribing something that truly improves things, like corticosteroids. Even short courses are now being used because they can be as effective as a traditional cycle, with lower risks.

  • D-Link refuses to patch yet another security flaw, suggests users just buy new routers — D-Link told users to replace NAS last week

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  • Right?

    Something this old is going to be power inefficient compared to newer stuff, and simply not perform as well.

    I would know, I just booted up a 10 year old consumer router last night, because the current one died. It'll be OK for a few days until I can get a replacement. Boy, is this thing slow.

  • Microsoft Please Fix

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  • People might judge you for using the word "master" but it should be alright in private.

    I snorted. It was my inner 12-year-old's fault. (Also because of recently some idiots getting up in arms about these terms in technology.)

  • Next month is gonna be rough

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  • Yea, Santa is the more secular icon. There are even Christians that take issue with the Santa character (which is a combination of "Pagan" and Christian mythos). I put Pagan in quotes, as that's a Christian term for certain non-Christian beliefs.

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  • Wait, did I read that correctly and they replaced the hat with a snowflake?? Hahahaha

    And yes, people often forget that generally offense is taken. When it's intentionally given, it's pretty clear.

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    What if people pronounced the word TWO without the silent W?

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  • Lol.

    OK, Impressive Clergyman!

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  • good replacement options power efficiency and affordable "large" storage?

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  • Good points.

    Also, SSD isn't always necessarily more power efficient than spinning disks. It depends on the specific disks, and the use-case.

    I've seen a table posted on Lemmy with data on different drive power consumption for idle, Read, and write. Sometimes SSD consumed more power.