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It looks like Cuphead rip-off (which in turn was inspired by early 20th century cartoons, so who knows).

But I’d also spend 2 days writing a script to avoid spending 2 hours doing something tedious.

“Two days of debugging can save you 10 minutes of reading the documentation.”

Yet another invention driven by laziness - just like the remote control. Where would we be without that?

It’s been a while since phones started asking for user confirmation to open a link from a QR code.

I like how this is both funny and sad at the same time.

Cue the joke about killing children with a fork.

IMO it’s important to recognise that both are valid in different scenarios. If you want to click through and change something that’s actually doable with a couple of clicks, that’s fine. If you want to do this through the CLI, it’s also fine - if you’re someone who’s done 10 deployments today and configured the same thing, it would be muscle memory even if it’s 5 commands.

Quick! Break something!

I guess it’s hard when they’ve probably factored in ad revenue in the pricing. It’s not a new practice - it’s been done with cheap Chinese smartphones that were sometimes sold below the cost of hardware and production.

It’s terrible, I agree. Brands like this go into a list of offenders that I’ll make sure to avoid in the future.

Remember that some people voluntarily pay for TV and streaming with ads.

… until they start to understand and begin messing with you in return.

Honestly, the way they’re speaking. I’m fine with them calling it “american”.

I’m not a native English speaker, but I’ve always been confused by breaking up sentences like this. My understanding is that if one sentence doesn’t make senses on its own, it shouldn’t be standalone, but rather an introductory to the other one.

So Simplified English instead of Traditional English, right?

TestDisk has saved my ass before. It’s great at recovering broken or deleted partitions. If it’s just a quick format done with no encryption involved, you have a very high chance of having your stuff back. That’s of course if you catch yourself after doing just the format.

Other than that, yeah, I’ve also had my moments. Back in high school not only did I not have money for an external drive - I didn’t even have enough space on my primary one. One time a friend lent me an external drive to do a backup and do a clean reinstall - and I can’t remember the details, but something happened such that the external drive got borked - and said friend had important stuff that was only on that hard drive. Ironically enough it wasn’t even something taking much space - it was text documents that could’ve lived in an email attachment.

And that’s a great example where a GUI could be way better at showing you what’s what and preventing such errors.

If you’re automating stuff, sure, scripting is the way to go, but for one-off stuff like this seeing more than text and maybe throwing in a confirmation dialogue can’t hurt - and the tool might still be using dd underneath.

You either have a backup or will have a backup next time.

Something that is always online and can be wiped while you’re working on it (by yourself or with AI, doesn’t matter) shouldn’t count as backup.

Given that they now give out loans for people to buy pizza, that’s a solid achievement.

Again, depends on what your use case is. Even if you find a stripped down OS that’s less resource heavy, you’ll probably still be using the same other software (i.e. same browser on the same modern web, and you’ll be out of RAM once you open 10-20 tabs). If a manufacturer has meant this as base specs for a thin client, you’re not tricking anyone (but yourself) by trying to use it as a full featured computer, and you’re still driving sales (at least on the hardware part) on a deliberately crippled product.

If you want to vote with your wallet (as IMO everyone should), you don’t buy this and repurpose it; you simply don’t buy it.

Depends on what you do and depends on how it’s set up.

At a previous job we had thin clients set up to connect to some remote desktops, and indeed they were running an OS locally, but had barely enough resources to run the OS and the client app.

I think it involves cutting edge technology.