My set-up of Linux Mint and GRUB seems to have messed up my Windows drive, as now I can’t boot from it directly anymore, but only by going through GRUB first, and I want to uninstall Linux. How would I go about figuring out the issue and fixing it?...
I never tried, but I think you can ignore the problem with GRUB, just keep it and set Windows as the default OS to boot with no wait (set the timeout to 0 or 1 second)
As for the rest, I don’t agree with you. The way the distros (with some exceptions) handle the installation of new software is pretty easy. Add some others ways like AppImage, Snap and the like and usually to run a new software you really just need some mouse clicks (and download time ;-) ).
And yes, the HDD are way slower than SSD. There is a reason why SSD are taking over HDD ;-)
There were a total of 12 threads there and not one of them was the slightest bit bigoted. Get a grip.
“WHO AM I TO JUDGE” – THE POPE’S COMMENTS ON GAY PEOPLE (dilw.ie)
Giving this post the old litmus test to see how admins vs mods handle this. Tread carefully :3 Nobody’s closer to Jesus in rank than the Pope.
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Does anyone else feel churches are pushing gendered Bible studies way too hard? (kbin.social)
Maybe it’s because I was growing out of youth groups, but It seemed to me that coed Bible studies used to be more of the norm. Now all of a sudden we have men’s groups and women’s groups. And men’s groups are all about Bible, throwing axes and equating 400 pushups to mountain climb your way into heaven. And women’s...
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This Sunday, pray for missionaries that are overseas. (kbin.social)
You can pray for missionaries in general (which is great), or you can ask your church about specific missionaries they support (which is also great).
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How was Church today? (kbin.social)
What was being preached? Did you learn anything? Do you have anything we can pray for?
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How was Church? (kbin.social)
Tech difficulties meant worship was disorganised this morning, but 5 people were baptised in the sea so it was awesome....
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What are you grateful to God for today? (kbin.social)
I’m feeling convicted about some sin I’ve been struggling with. Thankful that I can approach the throne of grace with confidence where I can find mercy, be freed from shame and cling to God’s strength as I seek to be holy. Praise Jesus for his love that has made this relationship possible....
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Take care of your pastor. 'Exhausted' pastors suffering decline in overall health, respect, friendship: study (foxnews.com) @TheOneWithTheHair avatar [email protected], 3 weeks ago
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Ace Lifestyle? (kbin.social)
I was reading the rules and it said "This community does not affirm practiced LGBTQ+ lifestyles, with the exception of the ace lifestyle in certain contexts.", what is an "ace lifestyle"?
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What do you need prayer for? (kbin.social)
There's only a few of us right now, but we should pray for one another. What do you need prayer for?
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How important is love to Christianity? (kbin.social)
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Introduce Yourselves (kbin.social)
Greetings, everyone! As many of you know, there is a huge influx of new users coming to Lemmy from Reddit. This includes yours truly, by the way. Whether you're a Reddit escapee or coming from somewhere else entirely, please feel free to introduce yourself here - not your real name, of course (don't doxx yourself!), but a little...
And it wasn’t just a 4KB “stick” of RAM or something, it was literally magnetic rings threaded onto wires called Magentic Core Memory. Further, 4 KB implies that it was 4096 bytes, but it was actually 2048 “words” consisting of 15-bits (+1 parity bit) [source]. 2048 words requiring 16 bits each means 32,768 magnetic rings weaved onto tiny wires. Oh, and another fun detail about magnetic core memory is that if you read a value, I.e check to see if one of those magnetic rings is set to 0 or 1, that is a destructive operation. So if you wanted to read without deleting, you have to read and then immediately rewrite.
Oh, and another fun detail about magnetic core memory is that if you read a value, I.e check to see if one of those magnetic rings is set to 0 or 1, that is a destructive operation
Yeah, this is the same thing with modern RAM. The Magnetic Core Memory is doing roughly the exact same thing modern DRAM is doing. In the MCM it's magnetic hysteresis that's holding a bit of magnetic charge, in DRAM it's a tiny capacitor holding a bit of an electric charge. Either way, the charge is placed into a thing called a sense amplifier. The amplifier is a flip-flop circuit. During the refresh cycle the state of the sense amplifier is written back to the cell whence it came.
Static RAM, SRAM, is the kind of RAM that a read is non-destructive. It's really expensive (Here's a 2MB SRAM as an example of cost) and doesn't do well at really fast clock speeds at the moment. However, SRAM is really simple to interface with (Block diagram on page 1 and you can see you just have Address pins (A0-20), IO pins (I/O0-7), and the control pins that you turn on or off to indicate what the heck you are doing with the chip (CS#, OE#, WE#). Which the OE means output enabled (read) and WE means write enabled (write). See super easy to interface with) and it's usually what's used when folks proto circuits that need RAM. It doesn't matter what your clock speed is nor how you probe the contents of the memory, all of it is non-destructive. But DRAM, is stupid cheap compared to SRAM and handles higher clocks a lot better.
I am looking into getting a NAS setup at home, but have to consider wanting it to just work and work for my family who are not technically advanced. They use computers fine, but being asked to open a terminal would require letter by letter instructions....
2 bays sound like a nice easy introduction to NAS until you pick raid 0 like a fucking animal.
I could have data redundancy or I could have DOUBLE the storage ...
There are ways for things to come from nothing in quantum mechanics. Positive/negative particle pairs can pop into existence because their average energy is 0. They’re typically very shortly lived though. It’s possible it didn’t come from anything and just was. Time is also part of space-time, so there wasn’t a “before” most likely either
On Reddit, my karma was always weighted more on the question side than on the comment side. I felt bad for not being a valuable contributor to people’s lives rather than being selfish and always asking things for myself. Lemmy has gotten rid of that point system so now I feel like I can feel free to ask as many questions as I...
I did residential construction for a couple years, then 4 in the military, so no stranger to physical exhaustion… Insomnia hit even in those times.
The only way to predictably get a decent chunk of sleep is to kind of bank hours in the days leading up to it. Like if get 0 to maybe 3 hours per night through the work week, I’ll sleep like a baby come Saturday.
Never been on meds for it. Was afraid to report it when I was active duty (fucking stupid) and now my rating isn’t high enough to cover prescriptions and I don’t have regular health insurance so… can’t afford them. :-/
So, basically I’d like to replace the /home with different hard drives. I have a 4tb one that I’m using for videos, a 1tb I’m using for audio files and video games (not the actual game installed there but for example executables or ROMs), and a 500gb I’m using for texts and images. My idea would be to not have the...
There are a few ways I can think of to do this but I’m not sure what would be the best way.
You can just mount individual drives or partitions to the corresponding location (xdg directories or otherwise). This is what I generally do.
I haven’t tried this but If you don’t want to partition the shared drives, you could make corresponding folders on the root of the drive (or anywhere really) and bind mount those folders to the corresponding location. For it to be persistent across reboots, a brief search says you can put it in fstab this way: /source /destination none defaults,bind 0 0 There is also rbind which I think is recursive but I haven’t read up on when to use it.
I haven’t tried this either and forget which is which but symbolic link or hard link may or may not be viable and would also be persistent I think.
I dont know where I have it from (I think somone on reddit posted it), but I use this in the uBlock Origin Filter since 8 month and it removes all my shorts from the subscription:
Even creators I used to respect started creating this adhd-friendly nonsense with 0 educational value.
I can’t imagine how someone born today is going to grow up to be a functional human being. All the big corporations are controlling every single little thing they see.
What sucks is that Outlook for some unfathomable reason inserts CSS that sets the paragraph spacing to 0 into all e-mail. So when you reply to someone who uses Outlook, you have to do that crap.
It is 100% Linux with 0% Android. I had a Volla Phone X for a few weeks.
Edit: It uses vendor blobs to communicate with the hardware. Besides that, it used some lineageOS code in Halium, which is a layer between ubuntu touch and the vendor blobs.
Didn’t knew the value of the scaling factor, but supposed it didn’t mattered a lot when the denominator of the division is in the 10^(-8) range.
Another problem in my opinion is in the log(max(1,3+score)), anything with a score of -2 or less send the max function to 1, the log(1) to 0 and the whole score to 0, so the distributions of post with score 0 should be gigantic without discrimination of a controversial - something score post against something with a score of - thousands. Also, some malicious agent can just use 3 bots to totally fuck all the post on new.
When Meta launched their new Twitter competitor Threads on July 5, they said that it would be compatible with the ActivityPub protocol, Mastodon, and all the other decentralized social networks in the fediverse "soon"....
Defederating isn’t the threat - the situation you describe would hurt the fediverse, but it would survive as you said.
You’re missing the far more insidious piece - changing the standards
So let’s say we have mastodon servers, threads, and maybe another player or two.
Context for my example - Lemmy and mastodon use paths, 0.<root post id>.<reply>.<reply reply>.<etc>
Facebook decides “path isn’t good enough for what we want, we’re changing the first number, always 0, and we’re going to set it to a number from 1 to 100000 that will encode topic, work appropriateness, and sentiment analysis into this value”.
Being the majority of the network, suddenly mastodon either throws out the threads content or the clients start breaking - the fix would be simple, but until that happens either they temporarily defederate or apps start crashing.
Either way, people are pissed - either their busy feed has suddenly gone quiet, or their app no longer works. It gets resolved in a few days, and now apps are able to do better sorting
The takeaway for most people is “mastodon sucked for a few days”
Now let’s say they use this sentiment analysis more deeply for the algorithm. They’ve got AI doing it, hell, they’re even being “good fediverse citizens” and running it on mastodon posts for free. Everything works better, you find stuff better, nsfw posts are better flagged, the clients add cool new features around it
Now, let’s say Facebook decides “mastodon is costing us server time, and we don’t make much off them. Let’s just show more threads content and only show replies and the top thousand mastodon posts each hour” Suddenly, mastodon users get much less engagement when they post.
Their takeaway is “mastodon isn’t as good for us as it used to be”
Maybe someone builds an open source system for mastodon to do classification. It’s much more expensive server-wise, so maybe only the top servers do it… But their posts get seen again, and everything is good again. People move to these servers or to threads so they can keep being discovered
Now, let’s say someone at Facebook goes “their classification isn’t as good as ours, and their nsfw tagging isn’t as good. Our advertisers would be pissed if they found out, let’s not sell ads on any post not classified by us just to be safe”. Someone else comes along and says “we’re leaving money on the table here, let’s show less of those posts”.
And kind of like this, these little decisions made with little malice would slowly choke out mastodon. With a dominant player, the little guys don’t need to be targeted - Facebook just has to put themselves first. And if you think a company would consistently pass up on profits or savings for a vague promise as years go by, I don’t know what to tell you
If threads is a more stable experience, only privacy minded people would pick mastodon. Even people that refuse to use threads on principle would be less likely to be active on mastodon
In reality, the decisions and side effects would probably be more subtle than this… But it doesn’t take much. They just have to occasionally make the fediverse feel buggy or unfinished in comparison, and it’ll forever become a place for enthusiasts and never as a serious option by the public at large
For context, LDAC is one of the few wireless audio codecs stamped Hi-Res by the Japan Audio Society and its encoder is open source since Android 8, so you can see just how long Windows is sleeping on this. I’m excited about the incoming next gen called LC3plus, my next pair is definitely gonna have that.
I got my car (2020 Ford Fusion Hybrid SE) new 3 years ago at $25k for a 6 year loan @ 0% interest for entirety of loan, $350 a month payment. I’m about halfway paid off and have about $12.5k left on it. What should I do? I just get sick of paying $350 a month.
At 0% interest the cost of your money is nothing, so you save nothing by paying it off early. you will be better off taking your extra money and putting it towards other debts (1st) or investing them (2nd). In fact, even if you do nothing with you extra money now you will still come out ahead because of the future value of the dollar decreasing with inflation.
I think it gives them value as a sales tactic. Plenty of people get cars they can’t afford to pay for upfront, and may be a little outside a sensible budget for payments too. But if they see a 0% loan for 48 months… “what a great deal”… boom that’s another car sold
Well, the ideal would probably be to train a discriminator based on human ratings of generated outputs.
Take generation 0 (G0), produce output which is accepted or rejected based on humans, train a discriminator to predict those ratings off output, and then use the combined accepted outputs from humans and trained discriminator to train G1.
Repeat again for G1, G2, G3, etc.
My guess would be that the end result would continue to get better and better rather than worse.
The problem is if the diffusion model can’t properly reject weird hands or pupils, those magnify in subsequent rounds.
But there’s likely adaptive and maladaptive tendencies in the diffusion model, and adding a halfway decent filter between human selection and synthetic selection of outputs separate from the diffusion model itself would effectively curb the magnification here.
My thoughts on Linux (and a troubleshooting request)
My set-up of Linux Mint and GRUB seems to have messed up my Windows drive, as now I can’t boot from it directly anymore, but only by going through GRUB first, and I want to uninstall Linux. How would I go about figuring out the issue and fixing it?...
Javascript is the most popular scripting language in use today (lemmy.world)
Explanation: it’s mostly due to how js does type conversion. for the Ls, it’s...
Bigoted community on your instance
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Chrome Rocks /s (lemmy.ml)
what is the current recommendation for a simple home NAS?
I am looking into getting a NAS setup at home, but have to consider wanting it to just work and work for my family who are not technically advanced. They use computers fine, but being asked to open a terminal would require letter by letter instructions....
The next time you are trying to get one more thing into your suitcase, remember that the entire universe once fit into a pinpoint. So, it'll fit.
There is no limit to what can fit in your suitcase if you are ok with creating a singularity.
I like the transition away from prioritizing comments over questions.
On Reddit, my karma was always weighted more on the question side than on the comment side. I felt bad for not being a valuable contributor to people’s lives rather than being selfish and always asking things for myself. Lemmy has gotten rid of that point system so now I feel like I can feel free to ask as many questions as I...
If you could have one small thing as a superpower. What would it be and why?
I mean small like I sneeze and a 20 dollar bill appears in my hand or something like that. Not classic answers like flying or super strength.
Question regarding partitioning
So, basically I’d like to replace the /home with different hard drives. I have a 4tb one that I’m using for videos, a 1tb I’m using for audio files and video games (not the actual game installed there but for example executables or ROMs), and a 500gb I’m using for texts and images. My idea would be to not have the...
Looking to Fully Automate downloads From Seedbox to Plex
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Youtube added shorts to the subscriptions page, pushing the subscriptions almost entirely off the page... (lemmy.world)
I prefer “list” view over grid view. Switching to grid view shows six videos before the break, but significantly less information about the video.
Help me, step-programmer, I'm stuck.. (feddit.de)
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Plex Amp is now free!! (techcrunch.com)
Europe is doing so well regarding Linux smartphones
I have been looking at Fairphone and Volla, and it feels like the Smartphone scene for Linux is going very strong right now....
The decentralized web is growing (jlai.lu)
How does Lemmy decide what goes in the hot feed?
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A clear victory for the free fediverse: Meta now says integrating with ActivityPub is "a long way out" (privacy.thenexus.today)
When Meta launched their new Twitter competitor Threads on July 5, they said that it would be compatible with the ActivityPub protocol, Mastodon, and all the other decentralized social networks in the fediverse "soon"....
thank you Linux for giving a damn about Bluetooth headphones (feddit.de)
For context, LDAC is one of the few wireless audio codecs stamped Hi-Res by the Japan Audio Society and its encoder is open source since Android 8, so you can see just how long Windows is sleeping on this. I’m excited about the incoming next gen called LC3plus, my next pair is definitely gonna have that.
Is it worth paying the reaminder of my car loan off?
I got my car (2020 Ford Fusion Hybrid SE) new 3 years ago at $25k for a 6 year loan @ 0% interest for entirety of loan, $350 a month payment. I’m about halfway paid off and have about $12.5k left on it. What should I do? I just get sick of paying $350 a month.
Random internet people explaining math better then math teacher (i.imgur.com)
Generative AI Goes 'MAD' When Trained on AI-Created Data Over Five Times (www.tomshardware.com)
Shit in -> shit out 📤