renzev

joined 2 years ago
[–] renzev@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

At this point I have completely given up on printer drivers. I just put files on a usb stick and plug it into the printer to print. Printer doesn't have that functionality? Oh well, it's as good as broken to me. Biking to the local library will take less time and kill less nerve cells than troubleshooting that piece of crap. I can only pray for people like you who have to work with this mess on the daily.

 
  1. Family member has 720p webcam
  2. Family member buys shiny new 1080p webcam
  3. Family member plugs in shiny new webcam and gives me a videocall to test it
  4. New camera works flawlessly. I get to keep the old 720p cam. Yippee!!

...BUT THEN

  1. Family member goes to the website listed on camera's packaging and clicks the big blue download button
  2. download button installs custom usb driver and companion app
  3. companion app has twenty quadrillion toggles and dials spread across fifty billion tabs and sub menus. Family member spends all evening twiddling with it.
  4. No matter what, the image looks like crap. Too bright, but not enough contrast. Worse than it did originally.
  5. next day family member asks for his old 720p webcam back, I get to keep the 1080p webcam

I'm happy with my new webcam so I'm not complaining, but why do people do this?? Why do manufacturers make these shitty custom driver? The whole point of USB is to be plug-and-play without any custom software.

[–] renzev@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Can't tell if /j or /srs but upvoting anyway

[–] renzev@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Totally on board with the message, but, isn't this, like, a direct violation of rule 2? Or are we going with the Gamer(TM) definition of "politics" where any stance that the community agrees with is inherently non-political?

[–] renzev@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Reminds me of an old soviet joke:

Q: Now that Stalin has died, what happened to his cult of personality?
A: The personality has died, that is true, but the cult lives on.

[–] renzev@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

"Advanced Privacy" app on /e/-os (opensource android ROM) sends me occasional notifications about apps with most trackers haha. Also has a "wall of shame" (it's literally called that) where you can browse the worst offending apps

[–] renzev@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

This is just the standard mac os experience to be honest

[–] renzev@lemmy.world 24 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

Pretty sure there is a sizeable demographic of people who fantasize about falling in love with an elf precisely because their relationship would be like that of a pet and owner

EDIT why did I have to go and type that out. Cannot stop thinking about 1000 year old condescending dommy mommy elf GF now. fml

[–] renzev@lemmy.world 22 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

It’s far more racist to assume only minorities work for Door Dash

Yeah agreed. Racial profiling is still racial profiling, using euphemisms like "lower class" and "minority" instead of the usual slurs doesn't make it okay.

[–] renzev@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I personally pronounce it with a hard G even when talking about the mythical creature because that's how it's pronounced in most other languages that have a similar word. Anglos can go fuck themselves with their needlessly complicated phonetics.

[–] renzev@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

You know this will only make people want to dig deeper, right? Whoever is paying you off to pretend like nothing is going on should've really told you to use an alt or something.

[–] renzev@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Can we stop with this subtle EU propaganda slop? I LIVE in an EU country and I have the exact same problem with modern movies. This has nothing to do with who gets to make the laws, there are only two reasons why everything needs subtitles now:

  • Because of advancements in microphone technologies, actors don't need to speak as clearly and are getting lazy as a result.
  • Movies producers are assholes who think that everyone has a 50000$ surround sound home theater system and master the movie soundtracks accordingly -- which makes explosions and action scenes sound WAY TOO LOUD on normal people sound systems.
[–] renzev@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I love how new versions of the CLI have the result automatically update as you type. Nice to see people going above and beyond to make CLI's pleasant!

 
 

still better than ios lol

 
 

Explanation for newbies: setuid is a special permission bit that makes an executable run with the permissions of its owner rather than the user executing it. This is often used to let a user run a specific program as root without having sudo access.

If this sounds like a security nightmare, that's because it is.

In linux, setuid is slowly being phased out by Capabilities. An example of this is the ping command which used to need setuid in order to create raw sockets, but now just needs the cap_net_raw capability. More info: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/382771/why-does-ping-need-setuid-permission. Nevertheless, many linux distros still ship with setuid executables, for example passwd from the shadow-utils package.

 

Explanation for newbies: The GNU/Linux copypasta is an argument made by Richard Stallman that the operating system should be referred to as "GNU/Linux" or "GNU+Linux" because linux is just the kernel and what makes it useful are the various GNU programs and libraries like coreutils and glibc.

Alpine Linux is a linux distribution that ships without any GNU software (though it can be installed using the package manager).

 

Here's to getting added to a secret government chat one day 🥂

 
 
 
 
 
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