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Similar history including gentoo and distcc to speed up openoffice and x11 compiles with a pile of old computers.

Put linux on a PC laptop and it just so happens the NVMe controller in conjunction with the kernel driver has some glitch that causes the hard drive to fall off the bus forever. No big deal...

It's great seeing a bunch of nvme nvme0: I/O (number) (I/O Cmd) QID 10 timeout, aborting then reset controller then removing after probe annnd data loss. Didn't have the patience to figure out the bug in the driver right now. Maybe someday.

Most of the software updates you see are a result of CI/CD processes. The industry claims it makes good design patterns to get features our faster and more reliably. In reality it is just a rushed shitstorm that results in half-assed Friday releases that aren't fixed until the following week.

I've long turned off auto update of my apps. Too many times I'm on a trip or other scenario where my tool is meant to be a tool and not some tech bro's rented wet dream, and the tool is broken.

But here's the kicker. CI/CD exists for another reasons or so:

• Frequent updates tend to reset review rankings in app stores. Not only does it offer plausible deniability to the app company, but it also screws with the review scores in their favor, as well as other rankings.
• Great way to help nudge along planned obsolescence. All that pointless rewriting of flash storage on a daily basis.
• Psychological manipulation, it gets notifications in your face to try and increase app engagement, which ensures it is fresh and running gathering user telemetry to sell as a side-hustle, as well as direct-interaction telemetry and getting more ads in your face.

It'd be better if we all just went back to landline phones some days. Modern tech is too noisy, abusive, and intrusive.

Win10 gets Copilot as well. Pushed without consent. Likewise if you use a program like InControl to lock W11 to 22H2, you can keep copilot at bay. For a time.

Switching to any other platform is better though. Screw them.

They are blind and lost. Nest hasn't had a feature update since they acquired them 10 years ago. Their thermostats don't even have a "its freezing outside and the air conditioner shouldn't run" feature. Fi rots on the vine. Their camera service is terrible and they just raised the rates. Garbage company anymore.

The energy required, despite the quantity of lithium (which wouldn't be available anyway) would just surge carbon output to later reduce it decades later. We can't capitalism our way out by making more things. Stopping making everything would actually help more, but would implode the planet's societies. Throttling energy use by AI and other expensive processes would do more, now. Pushing the use of public infrastructure, even busses, would do more now. Getting people to stop using cars would do more now. Forcing employers to require jobs that don't need a physical presence to all be work from home would do more now.

They're likely less now, closer to 25-30% now in the US. About 1/3 of the voting population voted for the orange dumpster turd in the last election. There are more factions than ever realizing that he does not represent their ideals. Nobody that previously didn't vote for him is suddenly going, "you know, he did a real shit job last time and almost destroyed the country, but you know what they say about broken clocks!"

They'll lose and go back into the fascist hole they came from.

Great write-up and great find! You'll find companies will often try to weasel out of actually honoring ethical programs more than not, but that doesn't mean give up! If nothing else, the learning will lead to long term education and basically forever employment in various fields.

How does this keep happening? Poor quality control. Pepsi had similar earlier this year.

Chicken fried water heater?

I love that Lemmy is more "old Internet", in that we are devoid of the corpo echo chambers, and we do have these confusions. It helps us all grow and learn. I was very confused as well. No comment on ABV of various bloodstreams.