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Oh wow yes, completely forgot about that one. To me, it's a complete blur made from single words and letters, one series x s one box 360? Maybe they should create a 365, with MS office pre-installed. Or something.

Compare that to Playstation: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

> [...] I'm not even sure what exactly "Microsoft Copilot" entails anymore [...]

Watching from the sidelines (not a Microsoft user), I've completely lost track. Between this, the Azure 365 cloud whatever stuff, I have no idea what many of the products even exactly are any more.

I think it's highly circumstantial. For example, my personal servers run a lot of FreeBSD and even though I could stay on major releases for a rather long time, I usually upgrade almost as soon as new releases are available.

For servers at work, I tried running Fedora. The idea was that it would be easier to have small, frequent updates rather than large, infrequent updates. Didn't work. App developers never had enough time to port their stuff to new releases of underpinning software, so we frequently had servers with unsupported OS version. Gave up and switched to RockyLinux. We're in the process of upgrading the Rocky8-based stuff to Rocky9. Rocky9 was released 2022.

Sigh. It's always something...

There is also a great re-make of Star Control 2 https://sc2.sourceforge.net/

Doubt and uncertainty is left for us humans.

When an agent just plows ahead with a wrong interpretation or understanding of something, I like to ask them why they didn't stop to ask for clarification. Just a few days ago, while refactoring minor stuff, I had an agent replace all sqlite-related code in that codebase with MariaDB-based code. Asked why that happened, the answer was that there was a confusion about MariaDB vs. sqlite because the code in question is dealing with, among other things, MariaDB Docker containers. So the word MariaDB pops up a few times in code and comments.

I then asked if there is anything I could do to prevent misinterpretations from producing wild results like this. So I got the advice to put an instruction in AGENTS.md that would urge agents to ask for clarification before proceeding. But I didn't add it. Out of the 25 lines of my AGENTS.md, many are already variations of that. The first three:

- Do not try to fill gaps in your knowledge with overzealous assumptions.

- When in doubt: Slow down, double-check context, and only touch what was explicitly asked for.

- If a task seems to require extra changes, pause and ask before proceeding.

If these are not enough to prevent stuff like that, I don't know what could.

Gentoo is what really made Linux click for me, too. I'm still very, very glad for that and remain a loyal user to this day!

Although I've had to restrict it to the 2 desktop machines. Maybe I should give it a shot again on the laptops, now that binary packages are universally available...

Is that what DO is using at the moment? Never heard about it

By buying a superbowl ad?

Maybe DigitalOcean?

Germany squandered so much money on nonsense, when they could have simply driven the few kilometers over to Eindhoven and bought an ASML machine for "Silicon Saxony". Sure, it would have taken years and years and serious commitment by the government and private sector to make that a successful move. But instead of putting in the hard work with a clear vision for the future, we mostly spend our time whining and wailing. It's a shame.

The US has done a lot of unsavory things. But this comment is just disingenuous.

For example, discounting Ukraines unwillingness to simply accept foreign rule by the country that brought them Holodomor as purely based on American propaganda and arms sales is either delusional or Russian propaganda.

No company in the days of yore could pop up stuff on a screen that was always in my pocket.

Often, they'll ask for the review before I even had the time to really use the product. Like, I've just laid my hands on this thing, how am I supposed to know anything yet?!

I agree with the sentiment you're trying to express.

But as a Gentoo / SuSE user, I'm also a little offended!

Did you actually click the link? pglite aims to be embeddable just like sqlite.

... but they aren't canceling the Cybertruck?

Re: Robots bla bla: yeah, of course. FSD bla bla. Meh.

I remember a popular "greentext" specifically about this...

So now I gotta squint while I slouch!

I don't see it as a serious attempt to create a better way to write down the year. To me, it's a whimsical attempt to give the reader a little pause to think about long time periods, which is what this project is all about. That makes me smile and remember that I'm just a small spec of dust, not to be taken too seriously in the grand scheme of things. I like it.

Haha, I clicked without reading the URL. Then I read the "01931" in the text, immediately looked at the URL and of course it was longnow.org. Brought a smile to my face.

Maybe it's not wise to comment on this while living in Germany and never having been to SF.

But my first thought was: Are they gonna shuttle the kids in and out of the city in order to provide said childcare? Or the staff? How would the staff afford housing in SF on a "normal" salary? Where would they build the required buildings when land costs an arm and a leg?

The problem here is "something like this". I may buy one of these today. Then in 6 months, I have to buy a different one. Only to find out that it's firmware has a bug. Or it uses a different ethernet chips that is a problem for me for some reason. Or something like that.

The RPi I can depend upon to be shitty as well, but in the exact same way. So it stays fit for purpose.

Exactly this.

Do they still need a custom kernel?

I was mostly responding to

> [...] if I want some low power linux PC replacement with display output, for the price of the latest RPi 5, I can buy on the used market a ~2018 laptop

I guess. I don't care about the AI hat at all.

I don't know of any other ARM device that fulfills:

- I can boot it w/o having to learn about custom U-Boot implementations

- I, as a consumer or small business, can buy

- Can not only buy today but also still buy in 2 years

- Doesn't cost a small fortune

- Can be tugged away behind TVs and other small niches

It's not even the chore of installing it, Ansible will mostly do that for me. It's that I can't comprehend why something as basic as fundamental wallpaper config is not part of the normal GUI. The reasoning for that one is beyond me.

I don't have "hatred" towards Gnome3. I use it for friends and families desktops, they seem to like it. I have also rolled out about ~20 Gnome3-based desktops for my employer.

That said, there are definitely areas were Gnome could be improved. Some of them are understandable and probably stem from a lack funding / devs. Others less so, like removing the options to scale / stretch / center the wallpaper w/o installing "Gnome tweaks".