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  • CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.workstoLinux@lemmy.ml•I'm all in on linux. [Damien Wilde]
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    16 days ago

    I fully flipped over every device in my house off windows about a week or two ago, and so far so good!

    I’ve been daily driving linux on my personal laptop since 2009 (16 years now!?) for school / work / personal work-esque stuff, and my work laptop is now OSX. A few weeks ago I flipped my gaming machine from windows to popOS and been quite pleasantly surprised at how well gaming on Linux is these days. So much so, I convinced my wife to let me flip her gaming machine to Linux as well.

    The only hiccup I’ve recently had was having to deal with windows-only, non-steam software. Ie. insta360. Luckily, there are compatibility layers / emulators I can use to be able to run it. It’s slow, but good enough.

    At this point, there’s no good reason for me to go back to Windows or anything Microsoft. It’s even become a red flag when I hear a business is using Microsoft’s products. I want to hope Microsoft gets a wake up call at some point soon and turns the ship around, but I think they’ve got too many big-company deals to have to worry about their consumer products being shite.

  • CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.workstoFunny@sh.itjust.works•Education
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    18 days ago
    For those that don't get it

    The way the gears are arranged will result in a grid lock - you won’t be able to turn any of them.

    Rotating one clock-wise (CW) will rotate another counter-clock-wise (CCW), and the 3rd gear will spin CW. Because the first and 3rd gear are close enough to be in contact, and they’re both rotating CW, they are opposing each other resulting in them being locked

    Ie. none of this will work

  • CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.workstoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is Lemmy's problem with AI?
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    2 months ago

    I work in the education space and my biggest worry is the next generation losing the ability to critically think.

    Just like how Gen X is much better at mental math than Millennials because the invention of pocket calculators / calculators on phones made math trivial; I think AI is going to trivialize critical thinking. We (as a Millennial) still had to hunt for a correct answer to our problems, which forced us to question possible answers we found and used our critical thinking skills to determine if it was a valid answer or not. With AI though, you type in your question and it’ll spit out an answer. For easy questions - it’s great. But for anything a little more nuanced, it struggles still. So if we don’t develop our critical thinking skills on easy questions, I wonder how we’ll do on the harder questions

  • CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.workstoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Upgrading Paperless-ngx several revisions behindEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I haven’t gone through your specific case, but generally what I do when doing a major update with potentially breaking changes:

    • Read the upgrade guides, if they have them. Some devs will put them out if they know their users will encounter issues when upgrading. If they don’t have an upgrade guide, there might be some in the change logs. Going from 1.17.1 to (assuming) 2.x.y, check the change logs at 2.0.0.
    • Backup everything. I’d recommend doing this on a regular basis anyway.
    • (If you’re running it in a docker container) Setup a second instance, restore the backup, then run the upgrade. You’ll be able to check to see if it breaks at all. If it works, you can just destroy the old one and use the new one
    • (if you’re not running it in a container) with the backup, try upgrading. If it breaks, you should be able to uninstall & reinstall the old version, then restore the backup