theandrewbailey

Or worse: hardware as slow as any average, bloated Electron "app".

I work in the refurb department of an ewaste recycling company. I had a TV on a roller stand come in some months ago. When I turned it on, I realized that it wasn't any ordinary consumer-grade TV, but a commercial grade one. It lacked any sort of smart functionality, had no apps, and reported DCI 4K resolution (4096x2160) when connected to a PC. I found a remote that worked with it (even though it was a 'smart' TV remote). I listed it as a "dumb TV" for $200 and it took a while to sell.

These days, swapping to disk means your SSD wears out and dies faster. That's very much an issue.

Talk to a lawyer about that firing. You might have a case.

That's a suspicious number of em-dashes for something that's allegedly against LLMs.

I'm a big fan of this format. It sounds great at 96kbit, and is in every recent browser[0]. There's good software support outside browsers, too.

[0] https://caniuse.com/?search=opus

> CERN engineers had considered moving to CentOS Stream as a more natural pathway but ultimately they say "the straw that broke the camel's back" to abandon Red Hat Enterprise Linux for their industrial accelerator-control computers was the "-march=x86-64-v2" compiler flag default as "forced obsolescence" for old hardware.

Incompatibility with x86-64-v2 means that CERN is running some older machines, over 15 years old:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Microarchitecture_level...

I can confirm this. I also add interactive-widget=resizes-visual to prevent keyboards from causing style recalculation and reflow of a page on every animation frame, to keep things smooth.

> The winter season is the most high-energy part of the year and usually the one that interests most people.

Maybe for Europeans. Hurricanes and tornadoes are rather high-energy weather events that favor warmer seasons and North America. Winter is less interesting for Americans.

It's sad that Tuta has fallen for Big Tech newspeak. Once upon a time, we installed stuff on our devices. Calling it side-something makes it seem frowned upon, which plays right into Google's hand.

Steam says hi: https://store.steampowered.com/hardware/

Though one could argue that Linux GPU support is as good as it is because of Steam.

Depends on how much one trusts whoever's running fraser.name. Is it more or less than Verisign?

Based. If an employer wants me to install something, I'll ask them for a phone to install it on.

Earlier this year, I went to a concert that required the Ticketmaster app. I searched desperately for an option to print off a paper ticket, but didn't find one. I enabled the Google Play features in GrapheneOS to install it, and I hated the Ticketmaster app experience the entire time. (Concert was great though)

P.S. Stop sideloading apps. Don't use Big Tech vocabulary for something that we did before. You installed the app, regardless of how you did it.

I was thinking this. Zstd is widely supported in browsers, over 80% right now and will increase over time:

https://caniuse.com/?search=zstd

I guess it would take a PhD in AI to run enough agents to cram 20 years of work into one week. The token cost must be brutal though.

Looks like I might start using Aptoide again. I was using it back when I was running de-Googled LineageOS. What's the consensus on it vs. Play Store or F-droid?

https://en.aptoide.com/

If we had that, many people would yearn for a cambrian explosion of diverse software running in unique niches trying out different ideas.

> Sometimes it feels like we never left 2020.

There's still a part of me that thinks 2020 will be the bright shiny future that will solve all our problems, but the other parts know that 2020 showed us that we live in the dark future where all our dreams died.

Are you trying to say that's bad writing? I think it's a good metaphor for a documented phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_collapse

No. I keep my browser to about half of my 27" 4k monitor.

Bug: this blog has no max-width. Lines of text will grow infinitely long with width.

Here I was thinking it will be somewhere between next-generation Nvidia chips, and inability to get ROI before the end of relatively quick GPU depreciation schedules.

I work in the refurb department of an e-waste recycling company. I put Linux Mint on most of the PCs I list for sale, and I've never had anyone complain.

I haven't tried Fedora in like 20 years, but I remember odd things being broken, adding up to a death by a thousand cuts, but I've never had a bad time with Mint (or anything based on Debian).

Someone has to be buying mainframes. Otherwise, there's no point in continuing to develop them. Shareholders would revolt.

I've been using KeepassDX for years, and I've been completely satisfied with it.

The pricing of GPUs themselves aren't really the problem: it's the VRAM that comes with them.

Congrats on Firefox for planning to ship JPEGXL, but AVIF currently works better for my needs (non-archival web quality).

No. AMD was taking 3200+ chips and binning/selling them as 2500+ chips. All it took was increasing the FSB speed in the BIOS, and a bit of luck from the silicon lottery. No hardware mods.

The first time I built a PC, and the first time I mounted a heatsink, was to one of these bare die AMD CPUs. I heard about the fragility of these, and must have read the directions about ten times, and paused and checked each step about five times while doing it. It came out fine, but it was nerve wracking as hell.

Overclocking an Athlon XP 2500+ to a 3200+ was pretty cool. Easiest overclock ever.