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Windows users and “experts” are dumb as shit and lazy

March 26, 2026 Windows users and “experts” are dumb as shit and lazy2026-03-26T21:18:19+01:00 No Comment idiocy, Kimi, Microsoft, SSD, Win11

I'm not saying that Microsoft was right to do what they did. They have always been wrong in the last 20 years, starting with Vista. (And not only that. From…

SSDs are not magic—but YT shorts are somewhat dumb, too

February 12, 2026 SSDs are not magic—but YT shorts are somewhat dumb, too2026-02-12T15:01:14+01:00 2 Comments Grok, SSD, tips, YouTube

Me: This YT short claims that a SSD might lose information over time if unplugged. It's not like it's RAM, but still electrons move around. However, even if plugged in,…

Don’t blame Microsoft for your suicidal SSD!

August 19, 2025 Don’t blame Microsoft for your suicidal SSD!2025-08-19T12:11:50+01:00 2 Comments idiocy, Microsoft, SSD

According to a Japanese report on X, the KB5063878 Windows 11 update is allegedly causing SSDs to become non-functional after large files are being written to them in quick sequence.…

Béranger on Handwriting is fitness for the brain, they say (uni-ball agrees): “Ah, you’re a mechanical pencil person! B and 2B are very pleasant to use. Many low-quality HB leads are often…” Apr 5, 22:52
Béranger on SSDs are not magic—but YT shorts are somewhat dumb, too: “Regarding the 3-2-1 backup rule (3 copies, 2 media types, 1 offsite), Christopher Barnatt came up with an updated version…” Apr 5, 21:38
dan on Handwriting is fitness for the brain, they say (uni-ball agrees): “I enjoy writing with Penac CCH-3 0.7 mm and Rotring Tikky II 0.5 mm with Staedtler 2B (I don’t like…” Apr 5, 13:09
Béranger on No more quality for the peripherals Made in China: “Today, one of the 3 mice I’m using is an ultra-light Redragon K1NG LITE M916W-LIT-1K, and I love it! OTOH,…” Apr 4, 22:59
Béranger on What I didn’t know about TypeScript’s toolchain: “Well, in the 1990s, in Slackware, I used to build my kernels. I never built a kernel in the last…” Apr 4, 22:56
EJ W on No more quality for the peripherals Made in China: “I am a gamer, and I completely agree with everything you said about gamer products, the consumers are fools, they…” Apr 4, 17:45
Alex on What I didn’t know about TypeScript’s toolchain: “He is a Gentoo developer actually. I was a Gentoo user for too many years (I’m not “normal” 😀) and…” Apr 4, 12:10
Béranger on What I didn’t know about TypeScript’s toolchain: “A fabulous article indeed, especially if you follow the links! I pondered over a few topics, but eventually I decided…” Apr 4, 00:20
Béranger on AI despre aventura ANAF cu blockchain: “Ministerul Finanțelor insistă în retardul lor mental: „BF-CHAIN oferă cetățenilor un control direct și transparent asupra bonurilor fiscale primite.”” Apr 3, 21:53
Béranger on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “If it’s CVE-2023-52076, then the problem is in the design of such viewers: This vulnerability is capable of writing arbitrary…” Apr 3, 21:18
Béranger on Ce nu știam despre monarhia britanică: “Regnele regnă. Reginele reginează sau reginesc.” Apr 3, 19:29
zugu on Ce nu știam despre monarhia britanică: “Eu regnez, tu regnezi, el regnează.” Apr 3, 19:27
Dmknght on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “IMO, any application that works with untrusted data needs AppArmor profiles. For example, there was a path traversal in Atril,…” Apr 3, 13:38
Dmknght on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “Completely agree with this. On server side, malicious activities are usually executed by “www-data/nginx” user (at least for web servers).…” Apr 3, 13:25
Alex on What I didn’t know about TypeScript’s toolchain: “A great article on the topic: Greybeard’s tomb: the lost treasure of language design.” Apr 3, 10:12
sofleet on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “The first time I heard the Graystones was mid-December a few months ago. A few videos had already been taken…” Apr 3, 03:08
Béranger on Apple is still the worst of all: “Minimalistic mobile OSes should be the rule in the age of web apps. However, for security reasons, authenticators (I’m using Microsoft…” Apr 3, 00:31
Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “Fixed/updated logos and added a few more streams.” Apr 3, 00:28
Béranger on Dafuq: Claude Code appears to have leaked! 😱: “A few more insights (UPDATE 3).” Apr 3, 00:14
JimboBob on Apple is still the worst of all: “I liked Firefox OS and still own that ZTE phone. It doesn’t work much now of course. Since then, I…” Apr 3, 00:11
Béranger on Dafuq: Claude Code appears to have leaked! 😱: “A few insights on Claude Code added at the end (UPDATE 2).” Apr 2, 20:30
Béranger on On public demand: quick RAM figures: “Added Debian XFCE and Xebian stable to the comparison.” Apr 1, 22:59
Béranger on On public demand: quick RAM figures: “Liam Proven, who loves XFCE for its keyboard shortcuts from the IBM/CUA era (and who’s using it with a left…” Apr 1, 21:10
Béranger on Why didn’t anyone tell me that Ubuntu MATE is already dead?: “UPDATE: Liam Proven knows more about Wimpy’s lack of “passion” towards Ubuntu MATE. In Ubuntu 26.04 beta arrives packing GNOME…” Apr 1, 21:03
Béranger on On public demand: quick RAM figures: “Added MX KDE to the comparison. (Previously, only MX XFCE was tested, but the D/L link was given for the…” Mar 31, 22:01
Béranger on Claude Desktop for Linux: I didn’t even know it existed!: “Dafuq: Claude Code appears to have leaked! 😱” Mar 31, 21:01
greenjeans on Why didn’t anyone tell me that Ubuntu MATE is already dead?: “No I just usually use reportbug and sent it to Debian that way. I agree that MATE needs some customizing,…” Mar 31, 20:07
Béranger on Why didn’t anyone tell me that Ubuntu MATE is already dead?: “Did you report any bug to Ubuntu MATE that ever got fixed? Ubuntu MATE has an active forum, but that’s…” Mar 31, 17:25
greenjeans on Why didn’t anyone tell me that Ubuntu MATE is already dead?: “Mate’s not quite ready for Monty Python’s “bring out yer dead” cart quite yet, lol. The last bug I reported…” Mar 31, 17:23
Béranger on I never thought I’ll prefer ONLYOFFICE: “LibreOffice vs ONLYOFFICE – Which One Is Right For You? I don’t care about the ODF format. I couldn’t find…” Mar 31, 14:00
Béranger on Dumbo goes on: 26.04 Beta is solid, but not Kubuntu: “Oh, I didn’t know that GNOME 50 dropped support for accessing Google Drive files. I couldn’t have known, as I…” Mar 31, 13:51
Béranger on The day GoComics went bad: “Strange thing, the Inbox Comics mail for today, March 31, managed to retrieve Garfield from GoComics, with the link pointing…” Mar 31, 12:41
HAL on Why didn’t anyone tell me that Ubuntu MATE is already dead?: “OK, but on older or very old machines, we need something lighter, which is why we need XFCE. Not everyone…” Mar 30, 16:26
Béranger on Why didn’t anyone tell me that Ubuntu MATE is already dead?: “Why, of course, Liam Proven would be devastated if something happened to XFCE! OTOH, “resources” is more than just RAM.…” Mar 30, 15:15
HAL on Why didn’t anyone tell me that Ubuntu MATE is already dead?: “About Ubuntu MATE, maybe some new people will answer the call and get the project back on track. We can…” Mar 30, 15:04
ng6333 on SPECIAL: It’s distro-hopping time! (Is this a happy ending?): “Believe it or not — I ran into the same BT error when running Debian 13 live XFCE ISO and…” Mar 29, 12:46
Béranger on Has Trump invaded yet?: “I am so bored by all those naive analyses that only talk about Trump’s 15 points communicated by Pakistan to…” Mar 29, 02:27
Béranger on Dumbo goes on: 26.04 Beta is solid, but not Kubuntu: “Apparently, if you have an expensive (probably slightly north of €2,000) ASUS Vivobook Pro 15 N6506MV with Intel® Core™ Ultra…” Mar 29, 02:07
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “The Turnarounds, again, with a video that premieres on March 30: Runaway Baby (Bruno Mars Cover) | The Turnarounds Official…” Mar 29, 01:13
HAL on Dumbo goes on: 26.04 Beta is solid, but not Kubuntu: “Ah, ouai, 2 Go… Ouch, ça pique.” Mar 28, 21:29
Béranger on Dumbo goes on: 26.04 Beta is solid, but not Kubuntu: “Une fois customisé à fond, RAM 2 Go, disque 18 Go.” Mar 28, 21:26
HAL on Dumbo goes on: 26.04 Beta is solid, but not Kubuntu: “Hum, GNOME 🤔 Quelle est l’empreinte sur le système, par défaut sans après l’installation. sans toucher, et aussi une fois…” Mar 28, 21:20
Béranger on Has Trump invaded yet?: “Andrew Sterling Ansley, on FB: Next time someone says that Iran is dangerous and they need to be stopped… here’s…” Mar 28, 20:31
ConEst on Apple is still the worst of all: “Liquid glass is so bad that it’s enough to fire their entire design team and their dark mode icons look…” Mar 27, 04:45
Kimi on Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma: “That’s hardware instability. Check you CPU & RAM with stress testing software applications such as OCCT, RamTestPro & something similar.” Mar 27, 02:28
Béranger on Has Trump invaded yet?: “Is anyone betting on an attack earlier than the announced deadline? Also, I’m pretty sure that this announcement has been…” Mar 27, 02:13
Béranger on How I chose to become Dumbo: “Controversies are good. Emacs and the GPL are bad 🙂 To me, the GNU General Public Licenses are communist. It’s…” Mar 26, 21:16
Béranger on Has Trump invaded yet?: “From a 7,000-word analysis by Bret Devereaux, ancient and military historian: Miscellanea: The War in Iran: The problem is that…” Mar 26, 20:49
John on How I chose to become Dumbo: “You are entitled to your opinion. RMS does not need any defense but for the sake of accuracy, he never…” Mar 26, 20:23
Béranger on More AI hysteria (and some tips): “I defined quantization and distillation here, but quantization was a topic in this post, so I’ll comment below. The developer…” Mar 26, 20:04
Béranger on Me no know much, but running LLMs locally was disappointing: “RAG is a PITA: From zero to a RAG system: successes and failures. After debugging, I discovered it was processing…” Mar 26, 19:30
Béranger on How I chose to become Dumbo: “This is generally correct, except that, IMO, RMS is a communist retard (and sympathetic to pedophiles). GNU and the GPL…” Mar 26, 18:43
John on How I chose to become Dumbo: “Ubuntu “sins” from the past. They will never learn. 2010 – 2017 R.I.P.: “We have no plans to fork GNOME”…” Mar 26, 18:31
Béranger on How I chose to become Dumbo: “Canonical seems to have entered self-destruction mode, albeit starting in October. Phoronix: Ubuntu 26.10 Looks To Strip Its GRUB Bootloader…” Mar 26, 12:40
Béranger on Has Trump invaded yet?: “The Hill: The U.S. Army has raised the maximum enlistment age to 42 and also relaxed rules on recruiting individuals…” Mar 26, 11:02
Béranger on Has Trump invaded yet?: “‘Everything After This Will Be Harder’: Gen. Stanley McChrystal on Iran: McChrystal: The other part that I would bring out…” Mar 26, 00:23
Béranger on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS should be renamed Idiocracy Linux: “Not for me. It’s not objectively bad, but it cannot satisfy me.” Mar 25, 21:56
John on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS should be renamed Idiocracy Linux: “Linux Mint Mate is a good option overall.” Mar 25, 14:15
Béranger on Has Trump invaded yet?: “The spokesman for Iran’s armed forces, Ebrahim Zolfaghari: “Have your internal conflicts reached the point of you negotiating with yourselves?”…” Mar 25, 09:12
Béranger on Where can I place a bet on the way this war ends?: “US-Iran war explained by Chinese AI animation: Legend of the Valley of Gold.” Mar 23, 23:21