It’s the constant war on end users that chased me away from windows.

You can’t say no to their relentless advertising. It’s “maybe later”. The pushing to require a Microsoft account. Ads in the start menu. Windows Recall.

The list goes on. You get as much agency as Microsoft allows, or you violate your eula and modify the os to remove things you don’t want.

We didn’t know it at the time, but windows 7 was peak windows.

You’re the one who brought him into the conversation.

Fucking same.

I deleted my main account once they first came out with the reddit recap, and deleted my replacement when they fucked RIF, never to return.

I still lurk without an account sometimes, but that’s all they’ll ever get out of me.

What I want is a way to answer the phone like a fax machine. Just press a button and the call gets answered and immediately starts playing that fax machine sound.

I’ll bet that would stop calls. Surely they have something that can tell if they’re calling a fax machine over and over.

I think the example you’re using is closer to emulation.

I’m not an expert by any means, most of my technology experience comes from hardware. But Proton isn’t changing the Linux ecosystem, and the programs are still expecting a windows environment when they’re run via Proton.

From what I recall, Linux and windows can both do the same stuff, they just have different names or different ways to ask for resources. And Proton receives the request for whatever and converts it to the Linux equivalent.

It’s not nearly as bad as it was in the past, now that the graphics APIs are system agnostic.

Most simply put, it’s a layer that allows a computer program expecting windows to run on Linux. It isn’t emulating anything, just sorta like translating.

Think of it like a language. Windows speaks English, so a program expects to talk in English. But let’s pretend like Linux talks Spanish. Proton translates the English commands to Spanish for Linux to understand and execute, and then Proton converts the responses back to English for the program.

Or hax

JAQing off, if you will.

Plus, by the time you find the end, the crew can have moved on.

You could also exploit that to ambush the people trying to follow the cable farther into enemy territory.

Looks pretty neat.

Is there a way to have it run like a ram statistics monitor? I’d love to have this running in a terminal window to monitor my ram statistics.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/brave-browser-caught-redirecting-users-through-affiliate-links

I’m not going to defend Mozilla by any means, but if you care about privacy, you wouldn’t use a browser based on Chrome anyway.

You could replace “Brave Browser” with Firefox and the statement would still be true.

At least Firefox wasn’t caught hijacking affiliate links.

TL;DR, it’s not nearly as granular as you suggest:

https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S2352467719300748-fx1_lrg.jpg

They can generally characterize the probability that the load is for certain things, but they can’t say that your power consumption is because you’re using a vacuum cleaner and 7 LED bulbs. They estimate the percentage of your overall consumption that is used by certain things. It’s not the same as feeding a LLM a few cat pictures and getting it to identify a cat.

There’s a lot more raw data present in a couple of pictures of a cat than what a power meter has access to, however.

The meter can only see overall amperage draw, and without something to reference that against, it’s hard to know what’s using all the power.

Was that the dishwasher cutting on, or a chandelier with 20 incandescent bulbs? A microwave, or a hair dryer? Air compressor? Battery charger? Vacuum cleaner?

There are lots of options for things that use power, and any inferences you could draw off of power usage makes too many assumptions. For instance, power draw is increased by the amount of conductor between the thing drawing power, and the meter. So a hair dryer can draw more amps when used in an outlet farther from the meter vs if it’s connected to an outlet right next to it. Plus, things draw more or less power based on the work being done. A drill spinning freely will draw less amps than a drill actively drilling into something.

There’s just too many variables. The best you could hope to achieve is have a computer say “this household’s power draw at this time could have been this selection of different combinations of power draws” which isn’t very useful, especially considering how efficient things have gotten. How is the meter to know the difference between me turning on my outdoor lights (4x120w bulbs) and my computer running at full tilt (my high end GPU and CPU consume almost 500w at full load)?

As someone with two kids who play games on the switch, physical carts keep me from having to buy every game two or three times.

So losing the ability to buy a game and share it between three switches will severely increase the costs of games for me.

https://www.protondb.com/app/418240

Find a similar setup to yours and see what they’ve done to make it run.

Way to make me feel old.

I never had to do that to my N64 cartridges. That was the meme for the NES.

And even then, blowing on it didn’t really help. It was the ejecting and reinserting of the cartridge that fixed the issue because the slot on the NES was janky.

It’s not weed, it’s that mint is very aggressive in spreading.

I personally like the mint growing in the yard it makes mowing the lawn smell great.

Can confirm. It’s the only game I play at this point.

Finally got to Fulgora. I want that mech suit.

Exactly. He’s just looking for a place to stake his little fiefdom where he can circle jerk about how bad Linux is, no matter how incorrect he might be. There’s no implying that Dear Leader is wrong, just stroke or get banned.