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    • sheogorath@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      23 hours ago

      Agile has been a mistake for the software industry. It did nothing except to give executive more avenue to force changes to the software that are being developed and in the end it’ll take a longer time to have production ready software when compared to traditional waterfall approach.

      • sykaster@feddit.nlEnglish
        2·
        18 hours ago

        It depends on the use case. For incremental changes and validation of hypotheses in an uncertain or new product Agile is great. It allows for fast valuation and fast pivoting. I would not recommend Agile for systems that are mostly known and need a big upgrade, that’s not what its for.

        Agile became a buzzword and shouldn’t have been implemented as widespread as it has. It does have its use cases though.

    • RiceBowl@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      I love my 13". Does exactly what I need. I kind of want the 12", but I don’t really need it. So i’m going to hold off.

  • Rooty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    217·
    2 days ago

    Butbutbutbut Linux is not ready for desktop! I asked a stupid question in an Arch forum and they told me to RTFM! It does not support kernel level anti-cheat! Terminals are scary!

    Etc, etc.

    • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      good I’m convinced. just one thing… which graphic design programs does it run natively?

          • fxdave@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            13 hours ago

            May I ask what’s your job? I’m a web developer completely fine on Linux. I used windows for a long time, I tried mac for some month. Linux is the best.

            • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              13 hours ago

              developer is completely different from designer. I’m a graphic designer, and I also do animations and videos. I use adobe illustrator, photoshop, indesign, premier; affinity designer, photo, blender. I use figma too which is good for prototyping for web or apps, but not graphic design in general. and certainly not photo editing. inb4 gimp–completely unusable for pro work.

              • fxdave@lemmy.mlEnglish
                2·
                12 hours ago

                For 3D animations, Modo has linux-x86_64 binary. Blender is native also.

                I’ve never been into 2D animations.

                For compositing, The Foundry Nuke is native also. (If you’ve got the money, or you’re willing to buy it from seejeepeers)

                For video editing, most youtubers use DaVinci Resolve.

                Inkscape is slow as it’s using SVG for its backend and not as polished as an illustrator but it is feature-rich. Adwaita icons are designed in inkscape. It’s not a big sacrifice.

                I learned photoshop when It was the CS4 version. I know it’s got a lot of AI features since then. Luckily, I left it before I could get used to them, so now I can use gimp. And btw, check gimp’s new release candidate. It’s a huge step forward. Everyone could give them their adobe cc subscription fees and we could see how they compete after that.

                Why do you use affinity if you have adobe?

                • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  11 hours ago

                  i like it much better than adobe. up until a recent update in illustrator it even performed better but now AI seems to have surpassed it. but i find affinity designer’s tools much more useful, although there’s been a bug that pisses me of with the contour tool for quite a while now. but i tolerate it because overall it still allows me to design icons much faster.

                  in case you’re interested in specifics:

                  • the pixel persona in AD allows me to work on raster images without leaving the program most of the time (not all affinity photo features can be used but still having a limited raster editor mode feels much better and smoother than switching between programs). AI simply doesn’t have this in any capacity.

                  • AD’s corner tool instead of AI’s corner rounding with the direct selection tool is much more capable and useful because it’s nondestructive. you can change the original shape with the rounding still applied, which is something you cannot do on AI.

                  • AD’s contour tool, despite the bug that doesn’t properly round corners when you expand, is still much more fluid to use than AI’s extremely clunky, 1998-ass-feeling offset path. apart from not requiring entering fucking numbers into a fucking dialog box and instead allowing you to offset the path with simple scrubbing… it’s also nondestructive so it can stay on an object even as you edit its original shape. so i still prefer to do workarounds for the bug rather than dealing with that terrible experience in AI.

                  • gradients are so much better in AD than AI i don’t even know where to begin. it’s just easier to use and more importantly you can use transparency gradients separately from color gradients (but also can have opacity info on a regular color gradient as well). so you can have an object that goes from 100% blue on the left to 0% green on the right but also add transparency gradient that goes 80% from top right to 20% on the bottom left and see the combination as a result in one object.

                  • AD has “erase” as a blending mode which is small but can be very useful if you’re designing something to be exported to png. Has a couple more modes that AI doesn’t have but this one’s the most straightforward and useful imo.

                  • It’s nothing huge but I like the vector crop tool in AD, you can just crop anything without thinking about it.

                  • consistency between programs when using affinity is a great experience you don’t get to have when working across Adobe tools which even for the most closely related ones feel like they aren’t being developed within the same company but different … I wanna say planets? yeah it’s like they’re being developed in different planets instead.

                  • one time payment for major versions only. i bought affinity 1.0, got all the updates for free up until 2.0, which i was able to buy on discount for upgrading. now i get all the updates on 2.x for free.

                  there are things that AI does better and i use it when i plan to use those, and sometimes use one and copy paste to the other to use the best of each. best highlights are repeat function (Ctrl+d). now there’s also radial repeat which can be great. blend can be very useful… most of the time though i go with AD.

      • gian @lemmy.grys.itEnglish
        1·
        12 hours ago

        Why not ? I suppose that as long as a browser (and whatever else she need) is working, my grandmother would not need much more. And I could also install a windows11 theme on KDE, if I really want to. A icon is a icon

        And in the end I think that my grandmother would be able to mantain neither a window machine, so I don’t see the problem.

        • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          11 hours ago

          I think most of the replies to my remark thought I was questioning Linux for grandma overall. I wasn’t. Just Arch. I don’t think grandma needs rolling releases.

      • CancerMancer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        101·
        1 day ago

        When my wife’s grandparents had to get a new computer they got upset about the new windows interface and the fact their old games didn’t work, so I set them up with Linux and a DE that resembled XP (it’s what they were familiar with), and I was able to get most of their games going.

        They used it without issue until they died.

          • CancerMancer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            4·
            20 hours ago

            Now that would be a funny headline.

            No sadly COVID lockdown isolation did them in. I’ve never seen minds and bodies decay so fast. I have another friend who developed full-blown psychosis from it too, and at this point it looks like he’s never coming back. The lockdowns were harder on some people than we were/are ready to talk about I think.

            • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              2·
              12 hours ago

              Yeah, it’s honestly crazy to me because I think lockdowns were a net benefit to me. I was able to spend more time with my SO and kids, I had time for exercise and hobbies since I didn’t need to sit in traffic, and I didn’t need to spend as much social energy making small talk (I’m introverted). I honestly thrived during COVID. Getting COVID sucked for the week or so I had symptoms, but that was honestly a small price to pay for solitude.

              But then I see headlines of people literally going crazy, see a dramatic increase in road rage in my area (which didn’t have lockdowns, only social distancing for businesses), and see my own extended family struggling.

              I feel so bad for people like your grandparents that suffered. I just personally wish the COVID lifestyle was more accessible.

              • CancerMancer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                1·
                9 hours ago

                I just personally wish the COVID lifestyle was more accessible.

                Same, it suited me quite well and I feel bad saying I missed it because so many others, including some of my own family and friends, suffered. Now that I’m back in the office 5 days a week, I lose >2 hours a day with my kids. I had my own parents say “i don’t get why you’re complaining, we got by before COVID” while refusing to acknowledge it’s different because one of them stayed home with us, while my wife and I must both work to survive.

                I grew up in a religious conservative family. These and other experiences drove me to the left in a big way. I see now that thinking we can solve systemic issues with individualism is bullshit. I want a world where my wife or I could stay home (or some communal solution) to raise our family right rather than having a bunch of latchkey kids and being stuck doing chores from the moment we get home until the moment we lie down. Some people say “well that’s how I was raised” but it isn’t right.

      • Rooty@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        Depends on her needs. If she uses it for Facebook, no problem, since I’ll be admining her system anyways

  • Lena@gregtech.euEnglish
    212·
    2 days ago

    of file corruption when symptoms occurs" adds the report (Translated from Japanese by Grok AI).

    Why would you use an LLM to translate text? There are tools made specifically for that

    • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
      264·
      2 days ago

      Which are based on LLMs or other neural network models. It is kind of the thing that language models are actually good at.

      See DeepL for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepL_Translator

      The service uses a proprietary algorithm with convolutional neural networks (CNNs)[3] that have been trained with the Linguee database.[4][5]
      According to the developers, the service uses a newer improved architecture of neural networks, which results in a more natural sound of translations than by competing services.
      The translation is said to be generated using a supercomputer that reaches 5.1 petaflops and is operated in Iceland with hydropower.[6][7]
      In general, CNNs are slightly more suitable for long coherent word sequences, but they have so far not been used by the competition because of their weaknesses compared to recurrent neural networks.
      The weaknesses of DeepL are compensated for by supplemental techniques, some of which are publicly known.

      • Lena@gregtech.euEnglish
        14·
        2 days ago

        Yeah I know they’re based on LLMs, but they’re more adapted to translation, right?

      • fishy@lemmy.todayEnglish
        72·
        1 day ago

        As someone who’s played a few LLM translated games, it is in fact not good at it. There’s a lot of contextual hints that get lost and slang terms tend to confuse it. It does make it close enough where a human that doesn’t speak/read the original language could easily finish the translation though or still make it through the game.

    • ssillyssadass@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      Honestly, translations are one of the few things LLMs are good for. It can catch things like idioms or other things a machine translator may mistranslate. Though tbf, the main appeal is still live translation.

  • bassgirl09@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    1 day ago

    The 24H2 update would not install on a brand new prebuilt PC that I bought for my parents. I contacted both the manufacturer and Microsoft and spent too many hours troubleshooting before I gave up and returned it to where I bought it as defective. Back to the drawing board for a replacement PC for my parents.

    • PlexSheep@infosec.pubEnglish
      642·
      2 days ago

      Didn’t they proudly say how much of windows is AI generated slop code a few months ago?

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zipEnglish
      281·
      2 days ago

      I think it has more to do with the new atomic update and their now-usual not-testing aproach.

    • Wispy2891@lemmy.worldEnglish
      171·
      2 days ago

      It looks like finally after almost ten years they will complete the dark mode on windows. But some buttons will still be with the light theme, they ran out of ai credits and need to wait for next month to replenish the free tier

  • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
    17929·
    2 days ago

    Linux users: “See what we mean?”

    Windows users: “La la la! I can’t hear you! Losing my data is clearly better than having to learn something new!”

  • tekato@lemmy.worldEnglish
    608·
    2 days ago

    The reporter’s own “test” proves this is caused by faulty drives unable to sustain the speed they advertise, not Windows.

      • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.caEnglish
        6·
        2 days ago

        Maybe ? I know R/W speeds used to be a lot slower in Windows than Linux but I thought they fixed that a few years ago.

        • kadu@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13·
          2 days ago

          That’s mostly related to Windows Defender intercepting reads and writes and hasn’t truly been fixed.

          Sometimes it’s literally faster to read a database using WSL than the native system.

    • tatterdemalion@programming.devEnglish
      61·
      2 days ago

      Why would IO speed be a factor in whether a user’s data is corrupted? That just sounds like a race condition.

  • cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    127·
    1 day ago

    I switched to Mac after my old Asus laptop went out. I figure why bother with a PC laptop, it’s not gonna game and let’s see what the fuss is about. Love my MacBook Air. So then our desktop dies and I give my wife 3 options. A Mac, a cheaper PC, and a more expensive PC. She’s Android, figured she’d want to stick with Windows, but she picked the Mac! So happy. I mostly game on Switch and Xbox these days so that’s fine.

    I keep feeling like I left Windows at the right time.

    • polle@feddit.orgEnglish
      9·
      1 day ago

      Being happy for someone switching to mac and being on lemmy where everyone is on the Linux train, was not on my bingo card.

      • cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        Thanks I guess? Surely Mac and Linux users can be friends or at least allies against Windows. Linux comes from UNIX which macOS is based on so they’re very similar, only one is FOSS — which I suppose is the point — and the other is not. But another commonality — Macs and PCs can both run Linux.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        31·
        1 day ago

        How does Apple’s profitability being a little less than it used to be (they’re still insanely profitable) imply that it’s a “sinking ship”?

        I’m a Linux user as well, but use macOS at work and it’s fine.

        • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 day ago

          Did you watch the video or are you guessing based on the thumbnail? Because the video isn’t about Apples profitability.

          • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            31·
            1 day ago

            I watched the first minute or so, which was about their stock price relative to Microsoft. Profitability is a huge part of a company’s stock price.

            I didn’t watch the rest because I’m not going to watch a 30 min video without a good reason to.

            • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              19 hours ago

              TL;DR: Under Jobs, Apple focused on engineering products and the profitability and stock price followed. Under Cook, Apple focuses on stock price (dividends, stock buybacks) and is massively cutting R&D/Engineering costs to the point they did not release anything really new for years and their projects keep failing while also increasing prices. E.g. Siri that is unable to catch up to modern chatbots.

              • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                1·
                13 hours ago

                Sure, that’s an argument for why the stock price is suffering, not for why macOS is in danger. Apple is still massively profitable, the stock price just reflects the market’s perception that profits won’t increase as fast as their competitors.

                • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  11 hours ago

                  Again, why are you so over focused on stock price? As a consumer, how is the first thing you take away from lack of innovation and engineering failures that Apples stock price may suffer and not that the machine you are buying may be sub-par and overpriced?

  • zer0bitz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    82·
    2 days ago

    Yesterday I got into the process of installing Windows 10 onto my laptop because I am selling it tomorrow. I asked the buyer if he wanted it with an OS or not, and he replied that he wanted Windows 10 Pro. I downloaded the ISO and installed it to one of my M.2 SATA SSD drives with a USB adapter.

    Before installing Windows over my Linux installation, I did a SecureErase to wipe out my drive with the Linux installation because that is the SSD I am selling with the computer.

    After installing Windows 10 from the M.2 SATA SSD with a USB adapter to the SecureErased drive, I instantly got multiple error messages about SMART checks saying that the SSD was broken/corrupted. I had never seen this POST error message when booting that computer with a Linux installation.

    Well, I obviously had to change the drive to another one where I got the Windows installation to work normally without the BIOS POST error message.

    I really cannot be sure what caused that. Can SecureErase do that so SMART checks report the drive as corrupted? Or was it the Windows installation?

    • Eximius@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      2 days ago

      SecureErase would overwrite the whole drive (potentially multiple times). So if the ssd was close to dead, it might have just triggered it.

      • zer0bitz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        I see. Well the SSD was used and few years old. Some Samsung SSD from a OEM build. I did run SMART tests on it like year ago and it was ok/healthy.

        Time to fill it with linux isos and seed them with torrentz until it breaks completely.

        • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          20 hours ago

          Fully overwriting an SSD is so archaic.

          Example from hdparm:

          --trim-sector-range
          For Solid State Drives (SSDs). EXCEPTIONALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT USE THIS OPTION!! Tells the drive firmware to discard unneeded data sectors, destroying any data that may have been present within them. This makes those sectors available for immediate use by the firmware's garbage collection mechanism, to improve scheduling for wear-leveling of the flash media. This option expects one or more sector range pairs immediately after the option: an LBA starting address, a colon, and a sector count (max 65535), with no intervening spaces. EXCEPTIONALLY DANGER‐ OUS. DO NOT USE THIS OPTION!!

          I think the all caps warnings say it all.
          This is only for the trim sectors of the disk but I can’t imagine it being much different overwriting a whole disk.
          Not to mention, as OP said, an old and very used disk.
          Quick formatting should be enough to prevent any normal user from extracting meaningful data from the flash storage as only the controller knows how to piece together the flash cells to a file.
          If the controller forgets it, the files are toast anyway.
          At best write some random data to a quarter of the disk or something lile that.

          File recovery may only be possible if you give it to a drive recovery facility. But remember: Those ain’t exactly cheap.
          A client paid some 4 figure price because an HDD died. Just for a small amount of files.

          • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            11 hours ago

            @zer0bitz@lemmy.world did a SecureErase, which is an entirely different function. It was exactly made to be used in this scenario: user is selling their laptop.

            other than that, hdparm --trim-sector-range is most probably only marked dangerous because with a slight miscalculation you can wipe some of your data and you won’t even know how much damage you did. I’m pretty sure the fstrim command relies on this, which is executed every few weeks on my system, by default. check systemctl status fstrim.timer, maybe on yours too.

            Quick formatting should be enough to prevent any normal user from extracting meaningful data from the flash storage as only the controller knows how to piece together the flash cells to a file.

            what do you mean by quick formatting? how do you do that on linux? I have only heard this term with te windows disk management tool.

            on windows quick formatting only deletes the partition entry from the partition table. that’s why it’s quick. all the former data is there and can be easily recovered, given you know the former partition boundaries, which can also be recovered by tools. the ssd controller won’t know a thing, it won’t forget where it should look for each LBA address.

  • 0ndead@infosec.pubEnglish
    26·
    2 days ago

    “We looked around and could not find other reports resembling such situations. The problem has been reported by a Japanese PC builder and enthusiast and some of the comments on the thread seem to indicate that others there may be experiencing similar issues. So it could be a region-specific thing too”