sqibkw

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[–] sqibkw@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Unfortunately many North Koreans already leave the country to work as slaves for construction companies, factories, etc (including in Europe). Generally they only allow people out who have families back home to be tortured/killed in case they defect.

They will probably get some, but less than you might expect.

[–] sqibkw@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Interesting, I'll give it a shot on my next rig. Looks like it came out after I'd already gotten comfy with Manjaro.

Can't say with my use case I've run into any of those issues, though the cert stuff sounds kinda gnarly, especially to happen more than once.

[–] sqibkw@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Genuine question, what are your criticisms of Manjaro? I've been on it since about 2019, and haven't had any major complaints.

For me, it feels like the best mix of features I've found so far. Pacman, AUR, very up-to-date repos, and Archwiki, without a lot of the major PITA manual labor I experienced with Arch. No shade on Arch, I just don't have time in my life to constantly be tinkering and fixing basic stuff I want to just work.

Curious why some people recommend against Manjaro now.

[–] sqibkw@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I wouldn't be surprised if part of this remaining value is because the Japanese internet still heavily relies on it as a platform, even if the west has begun moving elsewhere.

[–] sqibkw@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago

Waiting for 9000 X3D. For most people, 7800X3D is more performant than anything 9000 series.

[–] sqibkw@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, bodycam videos often contain private info (nudity, PII, graphic scenes, etc), and need to be put through a censor before being made available to the public. So someone like a police chief has the power to cover something up pretty easily. An agency is only as honest as the ones with the power to control which videos make it out to the public.

Nonetheless, I support putting those features on all officers too. Even if it's not perfect, it does improve things, and put a feeling of surveillance on the officers.

[–] sqibkw@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They know.

Capacitive touch sensors are WAY cheaper than physical buttons, and aren't nearly as prone to mechanical flaws. Plus they can market them as "newer"!

Car companies only care about your safety as much as it affects their bottom line. It's unfortunately commonplace for there to be known fatal flaws which occur infrequently enough that it's cheaper to just pay out the injured/killed victims than to issue a recall. Driving is inherently dangerous - any car companies that tried to fix everything would go bankrupt, or at least be squeezed out by those that don't.

Now, if only there were a way to build the places we live so that we didn't need to take on the risk of driving so frequently...

[–] sqibkw@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Just now tested in Vivaldi and it works, so yeah seems like Chromium 🥲

[–] sqibkw@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Alternate timeline Louis Rossmann

[–] sqibkw@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Ok hear me out. I've lived in the US and in Europe, and while Celsius makes sense for all sorts of things (cooking, car engines, PC temps...), I think Fahrenheit actually makes a surprising amount of sense for climate, indoor and outdoor.

While Celsius 0-100 is linked to the states of water, Fahrenheit is loosely a 0-100 on "how is this for a human to experience". 0°F is sorta the limit of "dang that's really cold" and 100°F is "dang that's really hot." And that's the whole reason we look at the weather report.

0-100°F also has more individual degrees than -18-38°C, and when a couple degrees can make a big difference for indoor comfort (or the heating bill), I appreciate more granularity.

[–] sqibkw@lemmy.world 29 points 8 months ago

Yep. Making a new thing is how you get promoted. Maintaining or improving an old thing is nearly useless, even at companies with competent managers.

This is the same reason why a lot of companies have awful security practices. From the managers' perspectives, they're burning valuable engineer time on something that doesn't produce any tangible benefits besides reducing the possibility of a lawsuit. And that lawsuit is probably cheaper to just pay up, rather than pay for all that engineer effort.

[–] sqibkw@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

This comic is riding a fine line between bone hurting juice and sbahj...

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