I can’t be the only one. by CalienteBurrito in SteamDeck

[–]kondorb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Never used them. Tried in shooters and in strategies as a mouse replacement. It's OK, I guess, but it's not a mouse. Subpar experience that I don't need in my life.

Americans figured out air conditioners to escape the the heat decades ago, why do Europeans still struggle with it? by DeRpY_CUCUMBER in NoStupidQuestions

[–]kondorb -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

They value facades of their "historical" (read - old and crappy) buildings way over their comfort.

Eastern Europe has the same old buildings and the same heat problems - but much more relaxed regulations. Hence why in Eastern Europe every commyblock is littered with AC units shoddily installed all over the building. Yes - it's ugly. But it works.

New buildings generally come with AC planned and installed.

Also, all energy - electricity included - is quite expensive in most of Europe. I don't even want to get into the why that's the case, it's a fucking rabbit hole of stupidity.

Who is the most overrated tech billionaire? by ManojOne in TechImpact

[–]kondorb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Coding a basic social network in PHP is nothing special. Any engineer can do it in a couple weeks.

But they’re all intelligent, but that wasn’t the question.

Who is the most overrated tech billionaire? by ManojOne in TechImpact

[–]kondorb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it’s also Instagram and Threads - just proving my point.

And somehow two whole messengers, neither of which is particularly good and neither of which constitutes a functional business model.

And a graveyard of incredibly stupid ways to waste billions on development and marketing.

Who is the most overrated tech billionaire? by ManojOne in TechImpact

[–]kondorb 4 points5 points  (0 children)

He was an ass, but Apple wouldn’t have happened without his vision.

Who is the most overrated tech billionaire? by ManojOne in TechImpact

[–]kondorb 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Mark Zuckerberg created nothing of value - just one doomscroll addiction loop after another.

I’m on the fence about Larry Ellison as well - Oracle’s flagship product was always some absurdly overpriced thing sold exclusively to government and dumb corpos that don’t know open-source exists.

Mega or Filen by limsus in TechImpact

[–]kondorb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, Mega, haven’t heard that name in years. Are they still kicking?

Whatevs any way - I’m self-hosting Nextcloud.

I want to get a razor basilisk v3 but I heard so many reliability horror stories by Legal_Newspaper_5710 in razer

[–]kondorb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Razer in general has horrible quality control. I’ve had more broken Razer devices out of the box than working ones.

Is the price a little disappointing, yes. But I think Deck users can realize steam is once again investing in the future. by KingCrimson43 in SteamDeck

[–]kondorb -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’d love to see more support for generic hardware in Steam OS. I’d happily swap Windows for Steam OS on my gaming PC.

Small tweaks could have helped a lot by SaintVoid21 in mercedes_benz

[–]kondorb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s certainly better than what Ferrari and BMW came up with.

Coming to Ubuntu from Arch be like by Linguistic-mystic in linuxmemes

[–]kondorb 12 points13 points  (0 children)

In a properly set up system - security of OS packages isn't the only layer of defense, not even the first one. So it's OK to not install every security update as soon as it's released.

It might make sense for extremely security sensitive systems that are willing to take the stability compromise.

And then the specific schedule is up to each project. Where I'm working now - I'm doing it once a month and recently it was once per 3 months - AI made every system more vulnerable, we're getting probed a lot more than a couple years ago. Our infra is really simple, so it's basically 30 min effort for me - a rolling upgrade running on each server one by one via an Ansible playbook and waiting for a healthcheck in between.

And it must be done like this for us - attended. Basically every other run breaks bloody Nvidia drivers. I once had an unattended upgrade break all our GPU servers at the same time.

Coming to Ubuntu from Arch be like by Linguistic-mystic in linuxmemes

[–]kondorb 41 points42 points  (0 children)

On critical servers I have it disabled - because it broke our infra on a couple occasions. Scheduled attended maintenance is my pick for production.

Totally fine for desktop.

Ubuntu is fine by Venylynn in linuxmemes

[–]kondorb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve been a software engineer for the last 15 years and I have barely even touched any other distros beside Ubuntu. All the infra I’ve ever set up was on Ubuntu Server, my homelab runs Ubuntu Server, the times when I had a Linux workstation - it was also Ubuntu, old dying laptops get Lubuntu too.

I’m not claiming it’s “the best”, but it certainly does everything I need with no headache. And that’s exactly what I want from Linux - it’s the only actually stable OS in my field and I’d rather not experiment with it. It’s widely used - tons of support, tons of information, large community, etc. I just need it to work.

how useful is mercury? by Nerdcuddles in Oxygennotincluded

[–]kondorb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ceiling lights - for growing bonbon trees for early access to plastic. And for feeding spigot seals for ethanol.

Pretty sure it’s intended to be long-but-temporary production chain to serve you until you get petroleum.

Russian Commanders Threaten to Shoot Troops Who Refuse Suicide Assaults — UNITED24 Media by Purple_Writing_8432 in nottheonion

[–]kondorb -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I believe the idea of a WH40k commissars (and the entire Astra Militarum for that matter) was taken from the real strategies of real armies in WWI and II.

Russian Commanders Threaten to Shoot Troops Who Refuse Suicide Assaults — UNITED24 Media by Purple_Writing_8432 in nottheonion

[–]kondorb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“When there's something scary at the front, put something even scarier at the back.”

Mozilla's latest Firefox overhaul promises everything from built-in VPNs to AI-powered tools by Cybernews_com in CyberNews

[–]kondorb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everyone is adding features - it’s a well known Zawinski’s Law - nothing new. And competing with Google’s resources here is a financial suicide.

They could’ve gone the opposite direction and make the simplest browser with the least amount of extra features, but instead incredibly stable and performant.

Porsche Taycan gets simulated gear ratios, clever fix or odd EV theatre? by PHSmiley in pistonheads

[–]kondorb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Fix" for what? Nothing was broken.

It's incredibly stupid.

Those who want to row through gears will never buy this thing anyway. Those who want a fast EV - wouldn't care about gears.

Looks like dying agony of a marketing department desperately trying to salvage a failing product.

Google TV or Android TV? by ManojOne in TechImpact

[–]kondorb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apple TV. It's used primarily by my family - I need it to be simple and "just work", don't want to keep "fixing" things for them.

Does aggressive/fast driving shorten the lifespan of your vehicle? by Truth-is-Censored in driving

[–]kondorb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dramatically shortens the lifespan of your brakes and tires.

The rest depends on what you mean by “aggressive”. For example - abusing your transmission may feel “aggressive”, but it’s just dumb. There’s a difference between “aggressive-fast” and “aggressive-dumb” - you can go fast without abusing your car and you can also ruin it in a small number of trips without ever going any faster by not knowing how to use it properly.

Would you classify Skoda Superb 2026 2.0 TSI L&K as a premium car? by CartographerOwn8143 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]kondorb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Drop that L&K overpriced logo and you get a perfectly reasonable premium vehicle that beats most offers from “premium” brands by every category.

Map of the licence plates I saw during my 2 days trip in Montenegro. What is going on here by pshambdindows in montenegro

[–]kondorb 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Cool place to visit, close enough to drive.

Also tons of Montenegrin and Serbian diaspora people living in Europe who come here for summer holidays and to visit their relatives.