Fun fact is that arc welding is sort of a deposition process too. So you definitely can print with metal and not just metal dust, metal "filament" would work. The problem is that you can't print at a precision level AND speed that would make it remotely worthwhile.

And how do you finance the high and long lasting firmware maintenance required by Graphene OS, to stay secure?

This first step in the collaboration is not about long lasting firmware maintenance, it's about getting device manufacturer and software developer to talk with each other at all.

Financing security stuff is easy, you cut parts and features until simple and secure parts remain, then you don't update the hardware and do long term quality control, bug fixing and pen tests.

Plus mass production.

The way you DONT do it, is price yourself out of all demographics that care about it being a different OS. "High-end don't care" is covered by Apple.

The wetware processing-storage hybrid part does the calculation or it gets sleep deprivation again!

In case you're serious, Lemmy is the hot, exciting, punk, rebel version of reddit and Linux is the hot, exciting, punk, rebel version of using your computer. The motivation for using either are quite similar.

I don't care that much, but I'm not going to be offended by a tag.

Hmmm... idk... Do you have a permit?

In all seriousness, as long as the communities are small and there is low traffic broader topics and questions are totally fine. Only if there is consensus that something is "too much" and repeated off topic will it make sense to split off and fragment.

The fediverse is friendly enough that you can try first, and if you're overstepping someone will politely ask you to not do it again.

It would ruin the concept, so I get why they don't tackle the topic, but:

The federation, particularly humanity inside of the federation, is run by essentially a military government. There are elections, probably, we never really get to see them, and the decision making process of the admirals is not shown to the viewer, for world building and story telling reasons. The admirals are the problem posers, the calls to adventure, the exposition. "Go there, do this, top secret, very important, blah blah".

They don't do misuse them in lore, that much, but even the lesser capable space ships are enormously dangerous. If I recall correctly, there are even some mentions of not being regularly allowed to warp inside solar system boundaries. The risk of misuse or accidents is unimaginable. I'm pretty sure humanity has resigned itself to being ruled by some admiralty board that could order to vaporize the planet. They're not going to do that, but the implication is certainly... looming.

I also really don't like how they changed styles after the 80s/90s series. The perceived need to reinvent themselves has yielded mostly bad results. Only "Strange New Worlds" is tolerable, because it's well done, but it's still "too much" in my opinion. The special effects are nice, but there was no need to design corridors like that.

Same for uniforms. Look at how much "the suit" has changed since the 1870s. Barely at all.

If I can look up what the error was with the disk access, in a log, then steam can do that too. It can parse that, and present it to me. That's what I expect.

And if that fails, it can at least point me to the correct log.

I can not stress enough that the client tells me nothing:

• it doesn't tell me that there are logs
• it doesn't link documentation on how to read them.
• it doesn't tell me where I can look for it.

The only approach I have to solve is, is to use a search engine for "steam disk write error". That's it.

That is true, but it also shows that this issue has gone on for over a decade and not been solved.

So all of that is probably technically true.

If Steam can’t write to the disk for any reason, all it can say is there is a disk write error.

But it's [current year]. I'm sure we as mankind and GabeN in particular could figure something out to make meaningful error messages from the OS through steam, to the user a reality.

Everything my computer does or any other machine, should align with me so I can use it. That's the point. I want human readable error messages. I want buttons that are big enough for me to touch and I want an instruction manual in a language I can read. Or a good picture based one.

For example. It could be that there is not enough disk space. It could be a permission issue and it could be some hardware failure. Either of those would help me.

It’s pretty straightforward.

logs

Just like every program.

https://xkcd.com/2501/

If it has over two thousand pages of problem reports, users asking for help, it is a legitimate problem and the logs are not a sufficient help to those users.

Oopsie Woopsie!

Anything.

Could be an unfortunate freak accident that disables the electricity grid.

Could be that all trees around your home all fall down and block the roads so you can't get to the store.

Could be that you break your leg and can't go to the store to get food or water for 10 days.

Could be flooding, could be drought, could be wildfires, could be a reversal of earths magnetic field or a solar storm that destroys all electronics and throws us back to the stone age.

3-10 days is the realm of "something could happen that meaningfully disrupts the general supply chain". and also still reasonable to expect of people. Like, they're not going to ask you to stock up 6 months worth of water and food in a 50m² apartment. That's not going to happen. Too expensive, don't have the room. And they're also not going to ask you to stock one (1) cookie for an emergency in case you get hungry tomorrow afternoon.

And also, if the problem is so huge that the government, military and NGO people can't fix it in 10 days, that's a pretty damn big problem and it could be that stocking up from 1 month doesn't help much more than 10 days, because they can only solve it in 5 years.

3-10 days also buys time to figure out evacuation without having to think about literally the next meal.

So. There are two issues here.

One is finding topics to talk about. This is what small talk is for. "The weather" is a dumb topic, but it leads to all sorts of things. "Nice weather, did you do anything cool outside on the weekend?" "Bad weather, how did you cope?"

Socializing is like throwing balls back and forth as a game. You try to do something with the "ball" they throw at you and throw a question or a comment or a little story back at them. But also, if you initiate and they don't want to play the socializing game (because they're tired or busy or something), that's it, no socializing.

The voice and speaking thing is something else. Not sure how to advise on that. I don't understand having "no confidence in your voice". Do you mean you're too quiet? Sounds like more of a therapy thing. Maybe a choir or theater hobby group could help you? It's probably just practice, so you should seek a place where you get that practice and train your voice?

Oook? Enlighten me. What did I not get?

I thought the first few episodes were fun. It's a cool sci-fi idea. But the ending of the season really sucked. I didn't like how they

So I couldn't care less about season 2.

I hope they catch this John Google guy, sounds like real villain.

Oh yeah, I mean my own personal solar modules in my backyard. I agree it's not that easy to say "solar exists, checkmate doubters", that would be silly.

If LLMs can’t be made more power efficient, then the technology isn’t ready yet for general use.

Hm, I don't see the harm in powering local models with solar.

No.

Your suggestion: discuss it, have a plan, make sure this is the right gift by talking to her, otherwise, the machine is fine.

What?

Male models?