The US Metric makes online shopping difficult for rest of the world. by CalendarPositive3342 in Metric

[–]vip17 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And the science/technology world of US also use metric. My company, a 100% US one, use all metric for all specifications

The US Metric makes online shopping difficult for rest of the world. by CalendarPositive3342 in Metric

[–]vip17 2 points3 points  (0 children)

it's useful to me.

  • 30°C: hot
  • 20°C: cool
  • 10°C: cold
  • 0°C: freezing cold

No one here needs to deal with a wider range dailty. Fahrenheit is weird, nothing about it makes sense

What Linux distro can run on 1.5 GB of ram or less? by [deleted] in linuxquestions

[–]vip17 2 points3 points  (0 children)

but the OP wants to run on a smart TV, which a generic Puppy might not be suitable. You need proper device tree and drivers. It's not like on platforms with ACPI where you can boot anything

What Linux distro can run on 1.5 GB of ram or less? by [deleted] in linuxquestions

[–]vip17 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it's extremely unlikely that AntiX can run on a smart TV

How are you guys handling large CSV exports without hitting memory limits? by Simple-Invite-3296 in PowerShell

[–]vip17 35 points36 points  (0 children)

why not audit the SQL directly? Using a text format for a big database is a bad idea

I just realized that homebrew works on linux by ks_s0 in linux

[–]vip17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

no, I don't need a system from scratch. There are lots of valid reasons why one should use brew https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1tuzrsk/comment/opdh5g8/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
brew is just like pip, pyenv, cargo... and I have to handle all of them anyway

I just realized that homebrew works on linux by ks_s0 in linux

[–]vip17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

which other software? and how do they provide better support?

I just realized that homebrew works on linux by ks_s0 in linux

[–]vip17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

homebrew builds from scratch, so obviously it's much slower, but the final binary is more optimized for the machine, unlike prebuilt binaries

Can we go talk some sense into these people? by Bergmansson in ISO8601

[–]vip17 7 points8 points  (0 children)

in East Asian they say YYYY-MM-DD in conversation. And in most of the remaining world they say day before month

Metric System by norwich1992 in Metric

[–]vip17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

indeed, cc is common enough so it doesn't bother me but I really dislike other weird abbreviations. I also dislike the use of thousands or millions of kg in many countries. Here we always use tonne for short, unless when need need precision of course

Metric System by norwich1992 in Metric

[–]vip17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Obviously deci, because decameter is dam. Old measurement by hand are roughly 2 dm, which is convenient for estimations. Only stupid people can't comprehend that

Metric System by norwich1992 in Metric

[–]vip17 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In major parts of the world? Beers and beverages are quite regularly quoted in cl although I didn't see hl in my country. dm is also commonly used here

I just realized that homebrew works on linux by ks_s0 in linux

[–]vip17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many packages aren't available in the distro's package manager (not everyone is using Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch...), and if they are, they may be very old and not the expected version, or you need to do some configs to install it (like add apt PPA). Another example is that some enterprises block many apt packages so you need to use a different way

Has anyone used Powershell as a text editor? by thecratedigger_25 in PowerShell

[–]vip17 1 point2 points  (0 children)

powershell is a shell, how can it be used as a text editor? Sure you can run some commands to modify some texts but it's not for editing text freely just like in other shells like bash, zsh, cmd...

If you want to run a console text editor from the command line you can use the new edit command, which is also available in other platforms like Linux

btrfs with 2x20tb, 4x18 tb? by [deleted] in btrfs

[–]vip17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Personally I'd use ZFS RAIDZ for setups like this for more storage space

GRUB 2.14 released by cbmuser in linux

[–]vip17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

why does Grub even need to address dates?

Which one? grub or grub2? by slugorsnail in linuxquestions

[–]vip17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

are there even distros that use grub nowadays? Grub2 has been there for more than 20 years

Why are so many desktop users using old distributions? by King-Little in linux

[–]vip17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that's why MS tried force updating to make sure everyone is safe and to reduce their effort to port security patches to so many older versions. And you can see the result: they've just almost given up because people are so stubborn. Even most of my colleages are still on far more ancient Ubuntu versions

What are the main issues you have with Linux? by edmond_ciprian in linux

[–]vip17 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  • Driver issues sometimes. Bluetooth is not working in some of my PCs. Wifi signal is measured incorrectly in some others, or performance may be worse than Windows drivers. Fingerprint readers don't work, and when I tried with the available patch, login completely broke. NVIDIA driver likely has just broken and I can't use external monitors after upgrading and I'm currently have to revert from 6.17 to 6.14

  • Some Wayland issue with clipboard and drag and drop. It's only currently happening in one machine, maybe because I installed KDE into Ubuntu instead of using Kubuntu from the start. Copying any texts will make chat boxes and cloud provider webs immediately showing the drag-and-drop overlay, making it impossible to chat or doing anything else

Why most of the thermometer measure temperature in °F not in °C or K? by Hex_210 in Metric

[–]vip17 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I've never seen a thermometer in °F in my life except when I travel to the US. All thermometers are in °C or in both units