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[–] aard@kyu.de 2 points 2 years ago

Ich hatte auch lange Zeit keine Kuechenmaschine (nichtmal nen Handmixer - in ner ordentlichen Kupferschuessel laesst sich Eischnee auch mit nem Schneebesen relativ schnell schlagen). Ich hab mir dann doch mal eine gekauft, und bin gluecklich darueber - der Vorteil ist nicht dass einzelne Schritte (oder alles) schneller gehen, der Vorteil ist dass ich in der Zeit schon was anderes vorbereite.

[–] aard@kyu.de 2 points 2 years ago

In den letzten Jahren haben verschiedene Boardhersteller angefangen die eingebauten Soundkarten via USB anzubinden. Das kann gut gehen - wenn man einen ordentlichen Soundchip verbaut, und das an einen USB-Controller haengt bei dem man garantieren kann dass der nicht ausgelastet wird. Wenn einem die Soundkarte abhaut nur weil man was von externem USB-Speicher kopiert ist das dann auch nicht mehr so toll - seitdem hab ich auch wieder eine separate Soundkarte.

[–] aard@kyu.de 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

killall typically sends SIGTERM by default. It accepts a single argument, the signal to send - so shutdown would call it once with SIGTERM, then with SIGKILL. killall is not meant to to be called interactively - which worked fine, until people who had their first contact with UNIX like systems on Linux started getting access to traditional UNIX systems.

It used to be common to discourage new Linux users from using killall interactively for exactly that reason. Just checked, there's even a warning about that in the killall manpage on Linux.

[–] aard@kyu.de 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

On a real UNIX (not only AiX) killall is part of the shutdown process - it gets called by init at that stage when you want to kill everything left before reboot/shutdown.

Linux is pretty unique in using that for something else.

[–] aard@kyu.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I guess it depends on how you are using your phone. If you're mostly using it between charges (possibly replacing other devices) it indeed doesn't matter. If you care about standby time, or use it as music player or similar tasks more than active use it does matter.

[–] aard@kyu.de 1 points 2 years ago

The same people who, in my field (software engineering), don’t know the difference between Java and JavaScript

The same people who don't understand that zip codes are not unique to a country, and do a zip code search on recruiting platforms without also setting a country. And then offer you to move to their country (at your expense) when you explain them the concept of zip codes and countries.

[–] aard@kyu.de 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

On a phone the additional power draw of larger modules can be an issue - plus phones are designed to freeze background apps to conserve memory, so you can get away with less.

I currently have 6GB in my phone, which mostly is fine. In a few situations I'd have preferred having 8, though. 4 or less hasn't made sense for a few years now.

[–] aard@kyu.de 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Koennten das bitte jetzt noch ein paar mehr machen, damit bei der naechsten Wahl dann alle rechten Parteien (gerne auch mit der CDU) unter 5% fallen?

[–] aard@kyu.de 7 points 2 years ago (6 children)

RAM is cheap, and even if you're just doing absolute basic shit your current PC will work better with 16GB of RAM (also looking at you here, Apple). If it's not a phone you're buying don't get anything with less than 16GB.

[–] aard@kyu.de 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wall is a linguist, which influenced several of his design choices. You have a wide variety of expressing what you want in perl, just as with natural languages - some ways are maybe a bit harder to read for newcomers, while others are not worse than something like python. Typically you'd have coding guides for projects.

I did a webchat in perl in the 90s, and eventually rewrote it in php3 - php was easier to manage properly isolated between users than perl via the CGI interface, so it became popular with hosters very quickly. I went back to doing all my web scripting in perl once I started hosting my own servers,though.

[–] aard@kyu.de 2 points 2 years ago

For an inkjet printer with paper feed issues pulling it through a few times might actually fix those - the print head should be far enough away from the paper that it will not get damaged, and there shouldn't be other parts close enough. I've prolonged quite a few inkjet printers life in the 90s by just sanding the rollers a bit (in some cases you could even get maintenance kits from the manufacturers - which just would be an overpriced tiny piece of sandpaper).

In a laser printer I'd be worried about some of the internals, though.

[–] aard@kyu.de 17 points 2 years ago

You'll get different results depending on the printer type, though. For example, that kitchen paper would work in a inkjet printer (as in, would get pulled through, but you couldn't read the result), and work perfectly in a dot matrix printer. I know the latter as I used to print, err, learning aids on paper handkerchiefs with my dot matrix printer in the 90s. A few times teachers were suspecting something, in which case I'd just use it to clean my nose, and toss it. Nobody ever was curious enough to continue their investigation afterwards.

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