Lee Duna
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Lee Duna@lemmy.nzOPto
Tech@programming.dev•Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot featuresEnglish
5·5 months agoit might work just don’t delete your github account, since they have another baclup.

Just keep it and do a few commits a year at least to make sure your code can’t be used.
Lee Duna@lemmy.nzOPto
Tech@programming.dev•Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot featuresEnglish
111·5 months agoJust accept that it’s bad and go somewhere else;
before leaving github, it is better for them to ensure that their code on github cannot be used to train AI.
Lee Duna@lemmy.nzOPto
Tech@programming.dev•Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot featuresEnglish
271·5 months agofrom the comments of the article that got the most upvotes
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish
Microsoft’s Copilot push isn’t strategy, it’s the old embrace, extend, extinguish play dressed up in “AI” robes. GitHub was acquired to embrace developers. Copilot is the extend phase: saturating every workflow with unasked-for AI noise, from issues to pull requests to editors. The extinguish part is already visible - trust in GitHub is collapsing, and the very maintainers who underpin Microsoft’s ecosystem are moving to other platforms.
On earnings calls, this is presented as “momentum”. In reality, it’s forced adoption: a hostile takeover of developer experience. When customers explicitly ask for an off switch and leadership ignores them, that’s not innovation - it’s managerial negligence. Any competent operator knows that coercion isn’t growth, it’s decay.
GitHub’s competitive advantage was never a Copilot sidebar, it was trust and network effects. Those are finite assets, and they’re being burned for vanity metrics. The result? A platform that once symbolised collaboration now feels like adware, and developers - the same ones whose code powers Azure and every Microsoft AI demo - are signalling they’re done.
Shareholders should be asking a simple question: what is the long-term value of poisoning the well you drink from? Copilot may inflate short-term KPIs, but the cost is strategic: erosion of goodwill, flight of open-source projects, and reputational damage that no amount of AI rebranding can fix.
I agree with the first paragraph, this is just another M$ EEE. Utilizing source codes on github to train their AI to be smarter in coding. So they can promote vibe coding to people with a little or no experience in coding.
Lee Duna@lemmy.nzOPto
Tech@programming.dev•As Windows 10 end-of-support looms, IT faces a painful choiceEnglish
2·7 months agoThe biggest problem is that M$ has had upperhand in big corpos and governments for a long time, Active Directory is their weapon.
Lee Duna@lemmy.nzOPto
Tech@programming.dev•As Windows 10 end-of-support looms, IT faces a painful choiceEnglish
6·7 months agoIn large companies and governments, these kinds of decisions are made by IT Directors and Politicians and often they are just average users who are not tech savvy.
Lee Duna@lemmy.nzto
Linux@programming.dev•Using ZRAM on a laptop with 8 GB RAM. Worth it or waste of CPU?English
3·7 months agoI have some Linux installed on my x240, Mini PC, and 12th Gen Intel Core i3 laptop with ZRAM without any issues.
Here are screenshots of the dual boot Linux on my old Mini PC, Celeron with 8GB RAM and 500GB HDD


Lee Duna@lemmy.nzto
Linux@programming.dev•According to Pornhub data (yes seriously!) Linux market share in 2024 increased more than 40% relative to 5.1% of all users.English
10·7 months agoof course, you don’t want M$ Copilot digging into your porn history, do you?
Lee Duna@lemmy.nzOPto
Tech@programming.dev•Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user baseEnglish
1·8 months agoI don’t think they going to stop now. They even forced users to create Windows accounts in order to use Windows 11. They will also force Copilot to be installed on Windows 11.
Did we ever ask M$ for this AI spy tool? No.
Lee Duna@lemmy.nzOPto
Tech@programming.dev•Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user baseEnglish
12·8 months agoThat’s one of the reasons I use Linux as my daily driver. I’m not playing high end games, I only play old windows games from my childhood.
Lee Duna@lemmy.nzto
Linux@programming.dev•The year of the European Union Linux desktop may finally arriveEnglish
6·8 months agoIn my opinion, EU needs to force PC/laptop and other hardware manufacturers to provide drivers for Linux. Without this step, it will make it harder for them to move away from M$ Windows.
We gonna fork him into isekai world!
Lee Duna@lemmy.nzOPto
Tech@programming.dev•Microsoft locks Windows 11 user out, shows how easy losing data from forced encryption isEnglish
1·8 months agoyep, in several countries including where I live. Several government institutions and state-owned companies have been using M$ Azure since 2 years ago.
Lee Duna@lemmy.nzto
Linux@programming.dev•Must fight temptation to buy an overpriced raspberry piEnglish
3·8 months agoI have several options here : OrangePI, used Android TV box, mini PC, thin-client and laptop.
currently just installed dual boot Linux on my old mini PC (Celeron 1007U, 8GB RAM, 512GB HDD)
Lee Duna@lemmy.nzOPto
Linux@programming.dev•The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOfficeEnglish
51·8 months agojust happened, a few days ago I installed dual boot of EndeavourOS and OpenMandriva replacing Windows 7, on my potato mini PC. (Celeron 1007U, 8GB RAM, 512GB HDD)
Hardware support really sucks, as many hardware manufacturers only care about supporting M$ Windows.
There’s a way to force them to provide drivers for Linux, let’s say the trade commission in any country forces all devices to have drivers for Linux.
Lee Duna@lemmy.nzto
Linux@programming.dev•My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it goesEnglish
3·8 months agoMy laptop did not go to sleep
Some people have similar experiences regarding sleep issue, including system just went blank on wake up.
From my experiences on Linux Mint in two different laptops, the sleep issue related to Linux system cache. By default, many Linuxes use these settings, vm.dirty_ratio and vm.dirty_background_ratio are about 5 to 20 percent of the available system memory. This is fine if your system has less than 4GB of memory installed, but if your system has 8GB or more of memory, this can cause problems later on.
So I have this “can’t wake up” issue on my two differents laptop, the first laptop has 8 GB of memory and the second laptop has 16 GB. And both laptops are running on Linux Mint.
In search of a solution, I came across this conversation https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/25/39
I also found some possible system cache related issues on various distros.
So I tried what Linus suggested, and I use lower values than suggested. And it worked!, the “can’t wake up” issue on both laptops just gone in instant!
Lee Duna@lemmy.nzto
Linux@programming.dev•"I installed Linux (so should you)" by PewDiePieEnglish
1·10 months agonot a fan of PDP, but the video has been viewed 2.8 Million times in less than 24 hours. nearly beat his 3 Million video views from 3 weeks ago
yeah it looks good, at least Linux gains more attention















I’ve tried it on PipePipe, and the results are the same. I don’t think you’ll find it, because there are no comparison videos without AI slop.