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  • CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.workstoLinux@lemmy.ml•I'm all in on linux. [Damien Wilde]
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    5 days ago

    I fully flipped over every device in my house off windows about a week or two ago, and so far so good!

    I’ve been daily driving linux on my personal laptop since 2009 (16 years now!?) for school / work / personal work-esque stuff, and my work laptop is now OSX. A few weeks ago I flipped my gaming machine from windows to popOS and been quite pleasantly surprised at how well gaming on Linux is these days. So much so, I convinced my wife to let me flip her gaming machine to Linux as well.

    The only hiccup I’ve recently had was having to deal with windows-only, non-steam software. Ie. insta360. Luckily, there are compatibility layers / emulators I can use to be able to run it. It’s slow, but good enough.

    At this point, there’s no good reason for me to go back to Windows or anything Microsoft. It’s even become a red flag when I hear a business is using Microsoft’s products. I want to hope Microsoft gets a wake up call at some point soon and turns the ship around, but I think they’ve got too many big-company deals to have to worry about their consumer products being shite.

  • CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.workstoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•[app] SOS flashlight
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    2 months ago

    To add onto that: dots are short, dashes are long. So if you’re using a flashlight, or something else, it would be:

    short, short, short, long, long, long, short, short, short

    Then include a small pause (1-3 seconds) once you’ve sent the SOS before repeating. You want to continuously repeat this for as long as you can until you know someone’s received your message.

  • CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.workstoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is Lemmy's problem with AI?
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    2 months ago

    I work in the education space and my biggest worry is the next generation losing the ability to critically think.

    Just like how Gen X is much better at mental math than Millennials because the invention of pocket calculators / calculators on phones made math trivial; I think AI is going to trivialize critical thinking. We (as a Millennial) still had to hunt for a correct answer to our problems, which forced us to question possible answers we found and used our critical thinking skills to determine if it was a valid answer or not. With AI though, you type in your question and it’ll spit out an answer. For easy questions - it’s great. But for anything a little more nuanced, it struggles still. So if we don’t develop our critical thinking skills on easy questions, I wonder how we’ll do on the harder questions

  • CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.workstoLinux@lemmy.ml•OS Backup - what should and what should not be backup'd?
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    2 months ago

    I usually only keep documents and media. Programs can be redownloaded and reinstalled (and it might be better to reinstall them in case you move to a new OS anyway to ensure compatibility).

    For docker specifically, only keep stuff that’s specific for your instance; which you normally setup as an external volume anyway. Docker is designed such that you should be able to nuke the container, and all persistent data is restored via an external volume on the host. If you’re not doing that, you should immediately go and set that up now (to get the data out safely, setup a volume connection such that the container path is new - that way you don’t accidentally destroy what’s there, copy the stuff you need out, then readjust the path so it’s correct)