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- Comment on The Internet Archive Now Captures AI-Generated Content (Including Google's AI Overviews) 4 days ago:
When we get past this historians of the future will be able to use this to figure out what happened here.
- Comment on How System76 & Red Hat Hope To Finally Improve The Linux Multi-GPU Experience 4 days ago:
Are these mutually exclusive? Also far more people have a CPU with an iGPU than are worried about passing through the GPU to a VM.
- Comment on Android will let ‘experienced users’ sideload unverified apps as Google makes case for verification 4 days ago:
If you can find an app on github you more than qualify.
- Comment on Valve reveal the new Steam Frame, Steam Controller and Steam Machine with SteamOS 4 days ago:
I haven’t been hyped for anything like I am for the steam frame in years. Really just the idea Linux might finally be getting proper VR support is more than exciting.
- Comment on Ubuntu LTS Releases Now Get 15 Years of Support 4 days ago:
This is a good thing even if you, like me, have a strong distaste for ubuntu/ canonical. The more buisness adopt linux the better.
- Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots." 4 days ago:
Banking apps are something that need to be working before most people will even be able to attempt to switch to a linux phone. If the options are call and be on hold for at least an hour when I probably am working got to a physical location also open only when I’m working or using a banking app that’s available 24/7 the last one is the only viable option for many people.
- Comment on E Ink goes mobile with budget eye-friendly smartphone 2 weeks ago:
After watching this review I am actually going to say yeah probably. The ghosting has gotten way better than I remember it being for real time apps. If youre interested watch the review he goes over most of your use cases.
- Comment on E Ink goes mobile with budget eye-friendly smartphone 2 weeks ago:
If it’s the same as past e-ink phones it’ll be slow. But nothing you’re going to do on an e-ink phone is super likely to require that much power anyways unless you are using your phone far differently than I am.
- Comment on E Ink goes mobile with budget eye-friendly smartphone 2 weeks ago:
Man I really am far too into e-ink lol. These aren’t even close to new they have mostly been for the domestic (chinese) market in the past though. Most people who have got one have been happy though because they are exactly as advertised. An e-ink phone.
- Comment on Australian police design AI tool to decipher predators' Gen Z slang 3 weeks ago:
No cap 😔
- Comment on Apple becomes third company in history to crack $4 trillion market value 3 weeks ago:
Really all of the “classics”. No way apple would have ever dreamed of putting 2Tb of storage in your music player but you can do it because they didn’t specifically make it impossible like they would now.
- Comment on Europe's plan to ditch US tech giants is built on open source - and it's gaining steam 4 weeks ago:
I wonder if the US tech oligarchs have realized they traded in soft power the world over for hard power that likely will not even last that long by backing a monarch.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 4 weeks ago:
Their proton ran BL4 about 10% faster than Valves for my specific hardware. IDK what they are doing but it might as well be magic.
- Comment on UK | Sex offenders to be denied parental responsibility for children born of rape 4 weeks ago:
Am an american and would like some clarification. Does the effect things like child support at all? Is that a thing in the UK I always assumed it was but through my reading of the article I didn’t see it mentioned but I am a dumbass anday have missed it.
- Comment on Ukraine uses British Storm Shadow cruise missiles to strike Russian chemical plant 4 weeks ago:
I feel like articles with titles like this have the intention of making me go “why would they escalate like that” when my reaction is always. “Good hope they do more things like that. Make the russian public feel like the longer this war goes on the less safe they will be.”
Might be reading into it too much but it really is the vibe I get from a lot of the russia-ukrain war news.
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 4 weeks ago:
Does the context make that better? As it stands that sounds like something Kanye would say.
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 4 weeks ago:
I really should pay more attention to firefox news. I’m not even sure what to do in the even mozilla implodes before a new non-chromimium browser actually becomes viable.
Fingers crossed for ladybird.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 4 weeks ago:
Before I figured out how to turn it off DDG’s (DuckDuckGo) AI usually sourced Wikipedia if there was an article available.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Most people immigrating aren’t freahly 18 even if they were able to keep up with the population decline. Yes there are people on student visas but it’s less than half the number of H1B visas.
- Comment on Zelensky urges Trump to end Ukraine war like in 'the Middle East' 5 weeks ago:
Maybe a hot take but from everything I’ve seen zelensky has a decent head on his shoulders. It seems incredibly likely to me hes trying to press trumps buttons in a way that make him step in even if it’s not what he would do otherwise. I think it’s worth trying at the very least when trump is showing signs of moving away from putin.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 1 month ago:
There’s a lot more to it. If you’re not using/contributing to hyprland it’s a rabithole I don’t recommend going for time reasons.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 1 month ago:
I don’t even think it’s used in academia aside from linguistics. It’s a legitimatly dead character like æ and & in the original meaning.
- Comment on A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman 1 month ago:
Tracing is absolutely art. You choose what to trace what parts of the image are important what to discard etc.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Thats super cool. Is there a link to view the non drawn over images? I can kinda make out it’s carved into the rock on the first one but the rest are kinda hard to parse the actual carvings in.
- Comment on How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves? 1 month ago:
Genuine question how hard would it be to rig some form of self destruct to a drive that has to be deactivated before power is lost to it. Obviously their would be a backup power solution for if mains power was lost but would it be feasible and doable without breaking any laws inherently (eg being a trap and killing the thief).
I’m not asking for a friend but I also don’t ever plan to use this knowledge I’m just genuinely curious.
- Comment on YSK When you hover over a piece of the phonetic notation on (English) Wikipedia, it shows you an example for its pronunciation 1 month ago:
I feel like that’s a win for hard G honestly.
- Comment on Tarrifs? 1 month ago:
Yeah but unfortunately most people don’t have an extra 200$ to spend right now.
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 1 month ago:
You see that you’re doing the generations thing right? Like you are doing the “lazy millennials” thing but just at a different generation. You’re falling for their propaganda.
- Comment on 'We can end HIV': Groundbreaking preventative drug to be rolled out for $40 a year from 2027 1 month ago:
Sheer momentum will keep a country that calls itself the United States to exist into the nearish future. The USSR took years to collapse fully after it started wherever you put that point.
- Comment on YSK: YouTube views went down since mid-August because they no longer count views of not logged in users 1 month ago:
They’ve been using AI to detect things like that for a long time. (AI in general not LLMs as far as I know.