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the "critical software update" is for the touchbar, whose firmware authors are evidently clowns from the circus about 50/50 on hitting that error with any given osx update
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have literally never had an os update fail on a Mac across multiple (like 10?) personal devices and mdm managed ones at two different companies sorry about your bad IT department/brain git apologist fucked around with this message at 06:41 on Sep 17, 2019 |
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woah you'd think after the 9th one broke you'd have stopped buying more
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e. gently caress
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You should try cleaning your floppy drive, no problems updating here![]()
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r u ready to WALK posted:You should try cleaning your floppy drive, no problems updating here next you're going to tell me that a mote of dust isn't enough to destroy the keyboard!!!
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"Hard Drive"
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mike12345 posted:"Hard Drive"
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new pulseaudio out, this time with support for dolby truehd and dts-hd master audio! and even more important more fixes around avoid_resampling, guess that will bring down the cpu utilization even more https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/13.0/
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i love how u can tell apple hosed up recently by the activity in the linux desktop thread. mac users have to come and feel better about their lovely hardware company
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Helicity posted:finder does the job if youre a boomer desperately searching for the 12 copies of a vertical cell phone video of when you snuck the grandchildren to McDonalds before stopping at cvs to fill your prescriptions literally not finder's job, that's Photos.app (which is great)
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Pine64 just announced a competing smart watch for $25 just to troll everybody, because yes that's how much it actually costs to make a smart watch
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finder is just really unintuitive for me on simple actions. if I didn't live in terminal and have access to great tools like fzf and ripgrep id probably be more inclined to learn the shortcut to show hidden files the hardware is by far the most frustrating thing with a current mbp. ive had two of them get insanely hot for no good reason and it reminds me of when I took apart my personal mbp and found the heatsink slathered in thermal paste. the fingerprint scanner works just enough to tempt you to keep trying for a minute the times it doesn't work. the keyboard is a legit problem and several keys double fire or don't fire. this is on a 3 month old laptop that ive taken care of. I'd be furious if it were my own money
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Helicity posted:finder is just really unintuitive for me on simple actions. if I didn't live in terminal and have access to great tools like fzf and ripgrep id probably be more inclined to learn the shortcut to show hidden files should have gotten a surface lmao the worst you get is a BSoD about every 3 months of daily use this is only a semi-ironipost
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Lenovo 6th gen x1 carbon is great, only minor negative is the touchpad, but I don't like touch pads at all, and it even feels nicer to use in Linux than windows
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TimWinter posted:Pine64 just announced a competing smart watch for $25 just to troll everybody, because yes that's how much it actually costs to make a smart watch after wearos 2.0 my watch went from being a device that i could manage music/podcasts/messaging/notifications/payments/email triage on so my phone stayed in my bag or elsewhere 2/3rds of the time, to being a really expensive smart lock paperweight chargenoyance, so id be happy to just replace it with something cheap that tells time and does smart lock
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I've just finished customizing my t440p. Got it used, bought Intel i7 4702QM, 1080p IPS panel, m.2 SSD, 16GB of RAM, and ANSI layout keyboard and of course T450 trackpad. Replaced everything I didn't like about machine I got used for 180e (it came with 256gb ssd but that's about it). Only thing that is left intact is battery which holds for 5 hours, not bad, but I intend to buy 9 cell one, if I find good genuine deal. I am quite happy with the machine I got. Previously I sold MacBook Pro 2015 13", which started to behave really bad because of loving retarded thermals, I assume thermal paste got worn off, that piece of aluminum of getting quite hot very easily lately. Now I have to say I am quite happy and I regret that I didn't do this a year ago. I dual boot Windows 10 and Linux (plain i3, xterm and emacs).
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:emacs will be better post-rms because we will finally get llvm-based c++ support Richard M. Stallman resigns from FSF o and also MIT good riddance.
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im assuming he resigned to focus on competitive foot skin eating
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Breakfast All Day posted:after wearos 2.0 my watch went from being a device that i could manage music/podcasts/messaging/notifications/payments/email triage on so my phone stayed in my bag or elsewhere 2/3rds of the time, to being a really expensive smart lock paperweight chargenoyance, so id be happy to just replace it with something cheap that tells time and does smart lock https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-watch-series-5-500-or-linux-pinetime-smartwatch-25/ Or, lol, $500 hackinwatch. TimWinter fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Sep 17, 2019 |
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https://twitter.com/LAM_Barrett/status/1173751694485860352
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Soricidus posted:lol if those aren’t the same program for you
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Athas posted:ROCM is not a replacement for CUDA, it's more like a driver and runtime API (but not kernel driver except in some cases!) that includes an OpenCL implementation. I think there was something called HCC, which was a portable CUDA-like. There's also HIP, which is a CUDA-to-HCC translator (although I heard that HCC by itself was deprecated so who knows). Finally (not really, there's always more), there is SYCL, which is somewhat like CUDA but for OpenCL, but which I think has only been implemented fully by Codeplay. It's a super confusing mess of acronyms. AMD isn't doing itself any favours here, and seems to be spreading its already scarce resources super thin. quote from way back, but re: cuda on amd HIPCL Lets CUDA Run On OpenCL+SPIR-V
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i haven't used kde in so long that it surprises me to hear they still have releases is it Good Enough to Try? i ask as an XFCE dork, a child baby, a dingdong
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psiox posted:i haven't used kde in so long that it surprises me to hear they still have releases kde works fine it took many years for kde 4 to reach feature parity with kde 3, but since then, they have been careful not to break poo poo
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Kde is ugly and terrible. Gnome 3 is vastly superior.
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:kde works fine the kde5 migration to qt5 was a clusterfuck for the first few point releases, mostly plasma making GBS threads itself in various ways even today i get the occasional hosed up start menu or plasma randomly thrashing the cpu as in the pic i posted above its only been a smooth ride when compared to kde4
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Smythe posted:Kde is ugly and terrible. Gnome 3 is vastly superior.
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gently caress yeah lets do a windows manager wars, even better than file manager wars
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i remember being younger and getting really into blackbox then shifted to a fork (?) called waimea then shifted to a fork of /that/ called kahakai man that was a lot of bullshit
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Total Commander is great and I won't have anyone talking me out of that shame there's nothing quite like it on linux, midnight commander is alright but a bit bare
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last time I seriously used linux as my main desktop I wound up with a frankenvironment with xfce panel and fvwm2 and good ol’ xterm. so that probably tells you everything you should know about how seriously to take my opinions on ux
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Last Chance posted:kde 3 + keramik supremecy Ban for OS-tan.
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How come those late 90s and early 2000s Linux desktops (like that KDE) wasted so much space, given that monitors and resolutions were smaller in those days? GNOME didn't have those garish window decorations IIRC, but it did have strangely huge desktop icons.
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Private Speech posted:Total Commander is great and I won't have anyone talking me out of that kde has krusader if you dont like that you can use total commander in wine or something
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Athas posted:How come those late 90s and early 2000s Linux desktops (like that KDE) wasted so much space, given that monitors and resolutions were smaller in those days? GNOME didn't have those garish window decorations IIRC, but it did have strangely huge desktop icons. They were copying Windows. ![]()
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Athas posted:How come those late 90s and early 2000s Linux desktops (like that KDE) wasted so much space, given that monitors and resolutions were smaller in those days? GNOME didn't have those garish window decorations IIRC, but it did have strangely huge desktop icons. most people don't need to display a ton of files/windows/icons at the same time so you may as well use more space to make things "pretty"
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also screen real estate being at a premium meant that you spent more time interacting with the window manager chrome, so it made a perverse kind of sense for it to be more obtrusive
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