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  • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nztoLinux@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    18 days ago

    I use windows at work, I have local admin which removed a lot of friction for a more technical user.

    But the difference between my home machines (18 years Linux) and my work machine is friction. Windows makes things hard, it is always a few extra clicks or a stupid reg key change.

    E.g. recently wanted my full right click menu back on win11, no nice setting option. Go edit this unnamed registry key, it seemed so janky in a modern os.

    I’m a long time Mint user, jumped around a fair few distros but mint works well for me. It is so polished compared to windows, it seems crazy it is the free one.


  • The way to eliminate the risk is a lot more complex tracking wise but worth it for the risk reduction.

    Effectively using spread focus tracking; multiple lower powered lasers provide the power to destroy the mosquito but no single laser has enough energy to damage your eye.

    It would require extremely accurate positioning and pointing of the lasers and most likely two cameras for the tracking to get accurate distance to target. I thought of this years ago…but never really cared enough, I live in an area with no mosquito issues.




  • I understand your position, but I can’t agree.

    The Iranian dictatorship is terrible! The US is also terrible, but also untrustworthy.

    I mean you have to try really hard to make Iran look like the adults in the room.

    I’m pretty sure, now that this had started Israel, will not let it die down; until they get what they want. They are also terrible.

    We have 3 main players in this conflict, all of them are shit.

    I’m not “rooting” fit any of them. I’m hoping someone cools their head and makes the adult decision to negotiate. Israel and the US started this, the US is stuck because of ties to Israel. Iran was shitting on it’s people and funding terrorism in the region.

    Fuck then all.

    But Iran is kicking arse on the propaganda front, some of those Lego songs are banging.







  • Whilst the industrial revolution started with mechanical power; the harnessing of steam essentially. The modern world owes everything to the mastery of the electron and the photon, and more generally the exquisite control of electromagnetism.

    The manipulation of electrons enables the iPhone; touted as the possible pinnacle of achievement; basically every industrial process on the planet is monitored and controlled by electromagnetic means.

    Our true highest achievement is the ongoing development of the control of electromagnetic phenomena; we bend electrons and photons to our will, manipulate matter on the smallest scales using these forces, measure the bending of the fabric of reality, and probe the secrets of the universe. The iPhone is but one small aspect of this continuum of knowledge.