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- Comment on RISC-V Hits 25% Market Penetration as Qualcomm and Meta Lead the Shift to Open-Source Silicon 1 week ago:
There are plenty nowadays from what I remember.
- They save on the ARM licensing fees. I’m not sure about the details, but I believe it’s both a flat fee and cost per chip produced
- They can freely add proprietary vendor extensions, which I’m not sure ARM allows
- They’re less restricted in general chip design (I think ARM has restricted options in the last years, Apple has some special privileges as a founding member)
- Comment on CIA behind strike at Venezuelan dock that Trump claims was used by drug smugglers, AP sources say 2 weeks ago:
Technically speaking, is there any part of general logistics infrastructure that’s not used by “drug smugglers”?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I mean peertube exists, and it actually integrates into the fediverse…
- Comment on Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update improves and breaks dark mode 1 month ago:
The average Linux user definitely will not care about reproducibility.
I think a lot of people do care about it, just not under that name. But I think a lot of users asked themselves at least once “what did I do back then to achieve X”. Not in that the whole system is reproduced 1:1, but certain aspects. That’s something much easier to answer with nix.
- Comment on Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update improves and breaks dark mode 1 month ago:
Well, you don’t need to learn nix as a programming language for a simple installation, you can use it like a slightly different job, which the
configuration.nixpart was about. You can get the reproducibility aspect from just that, so I wouldn’t say you get no benefits at all without learning the language.There are more disadvantages (like time required to rebuild because you added a single package), so Arch is the better choice depending on preferences. Arch is a very good traditional distribution in my opinion, can’t go wrong with it
- Comment on Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update improves and breaks dark mode 1 month ago:
Arch is easier in my opinion, at least if you want to leverage the power NixOS can offer. A simple
/etc/nixos/configuration.nixmaybe not, but once you enter custom options / submodule territory and use stuff likelib.mapAttrs, I’d say NixOS is quite harder. Or just a more complexoverrideAttrs. But then again, Arch doesn’t have an equivalent to that… - Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 1 month ago:
On the other hand, why they actually enjoy this, regardless of the reasons, why would they stop?
Sony could just have ignored this
- Comment on TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear! 2 months ago:
I saw this once or twice. Taxi driver had it mounted on how panel to watch something on break. Somewhat solved the power draw problem with a car adapter…
- Comment on Bonfire Social 1.0 is here, back the community‑funded roadmap 2 months ago:
Bonfire itself is a framework that implemented ActivityPub, on it you can build applications that make use of it without developing from the ground up. Bonfire Social is a social network similar to Mastodon. Collaboration is is about project management etc and allows one to host their own, but integrate with others, e.g. to synchronize milestones via federation. What they have in common is that both build on Bonfire and as such use the same protocol for federation. But they’re tools for very different jobs.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says the company doesn't have enough electricity to install all the AI GPUs in its inventory - 'you may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that I can’t plug in' 2 months ago:
Every card they buy isn’t available to a competitor.
Only half joking.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says the company doesn't have enough electricity to install all the AI GPUs in its inventory - 'you may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that I can’t plug in' 2 months ago:
“bro imagine if we could actually use all these cards we bought, we’d be the best at this AI thing”
I’m still waiting for an actual business case. Who’s going to consume all this slop? And pay for it at one point?
- Comment on where the cuties 2 months ago:
It’s us millennials coping haha
- Comment on where the cuties 2 months ago:
It’s not a phase!
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Not as common as one would like
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 2 months ago:
Nowhere does it say you have to limit yourself to that
- Comment on Mini pc for home server? 2 months ago:
Similarly here. Have an Odroid with that platform, it wasn’t cheap but it came with several advantages:
- 4 SATA ports on addition to the M2 slot
- Intel QSV
- 2 x 2.5 Gbit Ethernet (I only have gigabit at home though)
Very powerful machine for the power usage, I ran a really old Athlon before though (from 2010 or so that I retrofitted with 16GB RAM) that did most stuff just fine. But I wanted some transcoding and also possibly a smaller case.
I run everything bare metal though.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 2 months ago:
While there is quite the push thanks to Valve, they built upon the work of others, mostly Wine (which I think they fund nowadays) and DXVK (they hired the dev after a short while). So they’re definitely not freeloading, but the main lifting has been done by Codeweavers and Wine contributors through their massive work over the years, plus the quantum leap that was DXVK.
I’m not trying to shame Valve here, they definitely go beyond what they’d be required to by license, but I feel it’s also not fair to call them the reason most games work under Linux when others have poured literal years of work into making it possible.
- Comment on Yacht Trouble? 7 Common Problems & Fixes 2 months ago:
I just always being a backup yacht with me
- Comment on 2 months ago:
If I remember correctly, “earlier” in this case means most of them but the last ones. I haven’t seen one of these in my life.
- Comment on ‘Girl, Take Your Crazy Pills!’: Antidepressants Recast as a Hot Lifestyle Accessory 2 months ago:
Your explanation only covers one side, those who are satisfied by the status quo. The argument is about people who aren’t, for which the commenter made the observation that people who undergo therapy and take medications are less likely to violently fight the system that they hate.
- Comment on ‘Girl, Take Your Crazy Pills!’: Antidepressants Recast as a Hot Lifestyle Accessory 2 months ago:
Dumb name, I’ve had a friend refer to them as happy pills which makes more sense - crazy pills are supposed to make you feel like you’re going crazy (see Zoolander).
- Comment on I suppose it's better to find this out 35 years later than never at all. 3 months ago:
Yeah a couple of ROMHacks actually require you to do this (mostly puzzles)
- Comment on Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time 3 months ago:
I think an Apple machine will set you back slightly more than a League capable Windows 11 machine
- Comment on Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time 3 months ago:
Yeah, this wasn’t about whether they’re screwing the customers - they are - but about whether this has any negative financial implications for them
- Comment on Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody" 3 months ago:
Lol yeah the naming was incredibly bad. But I’m pretty sure it was 360 -> one -> series. I only owned the original one (not the One one) and a 360 which luckily was unaffected by RRoD.
I think the 360 was really good all things considered, it was a good console at the time and MS actually helped getting smaller studios their stuff into the store with summer of arcade. It also captured a lot of interest from third party studios. All in all pretty solid. Damn shame that the RRoD tainted the console so much.
Segmenting the market after into S and X was a really dumb move in my opinion. The other one was trying to turn it into an entertainment machine instead of a game console (TV, TV, TV, sports…)
- Comment on Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time 3 months ago:
unless you’re running one of the Enterprise/IoT SKUs…
That is the whole point. They’re squeezing the users they don’t give a shit about. But personal users almost never buy Windows licenses from Microsoft I’d bet. So what if they switch away? And how are they or their kids going to play Fortnite or League after switching?
The money for Windows non-Enterprise is made with OEM deals. They probably wouldn’t even notice if nobody bought personal licenses anymore. Might as well make actual money from selling data about them.
Enterprise is a different story, once you squeeze too hard, companies will find ways to replace you; they are somewhat resilient to pain, but it does have limits.
- Comment on Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time 3 months ago:
Just because it doesn’t offer features a database has doesn’t mean people aren’t trying to use it as one
I support your argument, but unfortunately there are some real monstrosities out there that have carried small businesses since decades
- Comment on Ibuprofen 3 months ago:
Do these generic painkillers even do a lot for migraines? I thought tryptamines were what helps most people
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 3 months ago:
And they said AI wouldn’t boost business. Who’s laughing now, haters?
The whole thing is just embarrassing. Anyone with a bit of understanding knew that the technology comes with huge risks (after all, there is no understanding, just the imitation of it). Billions have been poured into a glorified autocomplete in one of the biggest corporate FOMOs I can remember. Nvidia is (as much as I hate them, rightfully) laughing all the way to the bank. Crypto and now this allow them to practically buy Intel - back when AMD bought Ati, people speculated it’d be Intel buying Nvidia! Granted, Intel did their part too, but Nvidia selling cards that will be completely outdated in two years in unthinkable amounts is wild. And the best part is, except for them, everyone else lost money, like not even OpenAI themselves are making any, and this is with Microsoft subsidizing them. Absolutely insane!
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Yup because negative consequences weren’t a thing before the guy was shot
since hes now going to be a rallying cry for action against “the left”.
If you haven’t heard any before, you might want to check with your ENT physician.
In the famous of words of John Wick… “Consequences.”
Consequences indeed