dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=1M

This command is much faster. Instead of random bits, it just marks everything zero (dude). Is good enough.

Good news everyone!

You should be able to do all that stuff with spreadsheets. Any program you use will be a spreadsheet under the hood anyhow.

Is it possible you plugged your monitor into the motherboard video output? (I’ve done this)

I’ve always suspected that many of these kinds of images were staged or propaganda.

Every so often you’ll see a meme on Reddit with a bunch of American teenagers being athletic in the 60s. The meme suggests that people were healthy and fit back then, but I happen to know that the footage was for a physical fitness push at the time (gotta do more pushups than the commies) and the athletes were far from typical students.

New CEO --> layoffs ----> line go up ----> ops, not genius after all ----> deploy golden parachute.

Is that true? the space bar is a keyboard shortcut?

My latest keyboard doesn’t have a ctrl on the right side and it took me 2 weeks to adjust.

Eugenics is the single stupidest idea in human history. To advocate for it now is to deny biology and history.

It relies on the same misunderstanding of evolution that underpins ‘great replacement theory’.

The real punch line is that in a cafe run by programmers, esoteric rules are in full force, but tables 0 and 1 are no where near each other.

You know, it’s perfectly OK to group voters by identity, so long as that identity cannot exclude “Normal” people. Soccer Mom, Six pack Dad, Middle class, working poor, labor, Small Business owner, Rural, Urban, and Suburban are all perfectly fine to promise these groups political power. But you do the exact same thing for queer people or black people and that’s identity politics all of a sudden.

Why is duplicate files a problem?

In 2003 I could have made a living selling subscriptions to 5-GB cloud storage that was tightly integrated into Windows.

I understand why Windows is trying to capture you into it’s cloud ecosystem. Just saying that between M$, Apple, and Google you can do some robust backups, basically for free. And if you’re worried about privacy, just encrypt.

Almost as interesting as a robot who builds a museum.

Once again, Linux is late with a feature that Microsoft not only has had for years, but is famous for.

If you invented something unique your first problem is going to be describing it to yourself. You’ll need new nomenclature. The second problem is describing the unique thing to someone else.

One could argue that anything that can be nailed down by language cannot be unique because the metaphors and phrases to describe it preexisted.

I’d rather be on the Ukrainian front than any place accurately represented by Blood Meridian.

alias vim=‘nano’

A common cause for time issues through power states is a dead CMOS battery.

Russel’s paradox is so wild. Set theory was supposed to unify mathematics and logic into a single coherent system and Russel was like actually, no.

I’ve been on Lemmy since June and I haven’t once seen a video of a dude punching a girl. It always made me queasy that shit was soooo popular on reddit.