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That, or the model writing it already had "You are an AI model instance" sitting at the beginning of its context ready to pull from. Telling it it's an AI pushes it to make text about AI.

Oh, that isn't how I thought the pool worked at all. Invisibly rewriting dates feels very dishonest/disorienting!

A terminal UI is the best thing we pipe through SSH because it's the tool we built specifically for piping a terminal UI. Abandoning Xorg has admittedly made streaming a GUI over SSH less simple, but still not impossible, and you can forward whatever data you want (a VLC stream of a 4k movie) with tunneling.

I do agree that new Linux users who have different needs from their computers might cause some incentive to change some of these 40 year old UX decisions. We don't really have a modern, capable remote desktop solution at least on par with RDP.

This is terrifying, great job!

Is anyone willing to sacrifice their sanity for the sake of implementing a QR renderer as TTF hinting code?

What were the internal politics at Microsoft at the time that resulted in the .NET branding being pushed more aggressively than Copilot today, everywhere from the login screen to file associations?

Not really, that is essentially the experience I've always had installing different distros from a live USB; it's mostly just seamless if you're not doing anything weird.

Probably ~20y of technical debt represented there

I used to play with the free iZotope Vinyl VST, it does a decent job at emulating pop/hiss, wow/flutter, and frequency response.

For ham radio-like sounds, maybe use SDR software like SDR++ and just pipe in a regular audio input, then mess with the decoding settings like LSB/USB.

Every Xbox game runs in a HyperV container, maybe it's not a crazy idea for PC

I think this is just an LLM doing not X but Y, as it did repeatedly in this post. Look at the author's history.

I owe thousands of dollars to amtlib.dll.

..because we very recently decided to make it that way

Can an admin please replace the link with one that isn't AI spam? https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/iran-threatens-co...

These are systems completely designed to prey on vulnerable people, addicts who can't control their impulse to gamble. That's their purpose. I think it's worth regulating intentionally predatory and harmful industries.

IIRC the old yt-dlp was removed at one point for exactly that.

It feels actively hostile to programmers sometimes

Look for used 'Digital Signage' or 'Commercial' displays. They usually have dumb firmware and the same panels as retail models.

Runs steadily around 30fps on my Pixel 7a.

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The default mail app on Windows is now called Outlook for Windows, no relation to the Outlook in Office (sorry, Microsoft 365 Copilot), and it's a significantly worse barely functional webview. It also replaced the entire Calendar app, which was decent.

A fun thing to do is convince a model to fluidly switch between character sets to express ideas as 'efficiently' as possible. It likes to use Chinese hanzi a lot for abstract concepts. I've also seen Gemini use them unprompted in the middle of an English sentence.

Recently someone did the incredible work of getting Photoshop to run perfectly in Wine, but it looks like the original reddit post detailing it got removed for legal reasons (which is nonsense, it doesn't make piracy any easier). Adobe seems to actively work against any efforts to run their software on Linux.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1qdgd73/i_mad...

Funny to see w3schools.com ranking above Twitter.

For a lot of sites Firefox's reader mode is great at bypassing paywalls, just turn it on & refresh

This is why I always read the comments here.

Android uses the 'share' icon to represent the same thing, which is maybe a little more legible, but still feels like shoving way too many actions under a confusing modal they shouldn't be in. Even worse when apps implement a custom share dialog.

As of a few years ago, you could simply spoof your MAC to that of a Comcast subscriber with these and you'd get unrestricted access on the hotspot.

Maybe because the large time investment and trial+error in making good dough provided something to focus on when stuck inside.