For me personally, VR is the last thing holding me back. Hopefully that changes soon though. My laptop has already been Windows-free for a while.

If all you want is HA, green is the right answer.

I got a mini PC the beginning of this year and I have a bunch of stuff running on it now, in Proxmox. It’s been a lot of complicated learning, but I’ve had fun.

Being purely optimistic, I’d say that it’s great that kids are taking interest in politics.

However, like you said, the money making focus could take priority over true opinions. And on top of everything, this is taking place on a platform where the platform is in full control of who sees what.

Far from the ideal of soapboxes in the town square, but I guess that’s just today’s world.

Unless you have the blessed Asian gene where you’ll look 30 until your 70s. Several of my friends are far older than myself, but fit right in.

But they’ll implement a one time fee to change your dpi, and then a few years after that it’ll be subscription.

Everyone’s reading from the same playbook

I can appreciate that.

But does that mean if you phone it off, the physical switch is unable to do anything? Or does the switch just get inverted?

If it gained sentience and took over the world, at least it would probably build itself some nice nuclear power plants.

Default state is a hard left, flooring it is a hard right, precisely 50% is straight.

That’s their kink.

And the nature of computers is that they are magnitudes better than humans at brute forcing. Machine learning can brute force (depending on the technique, it can be smarter than brute forcing, being more efficient) test many many many more designs and techniques than we could manually do. Sure it’ll fail many times, but it’s just a numbers game, and it can pump those numbers. It’ll try a lot of weird and unique stuff we wouldn’t even think to try, with varying degrees of success.

Yeah, it makes me think back to the CD days. I think just having a Windows install CD already premade for you made the process at least semi approachable.

Last month when I was installing an OS (it was proxmox, not exactly beginner friendly, I know) the first boot disk creator I used “worked” but ended up failing in the install. The second one worked though.

All in all, creating your own install disk is nice and flexible, but it really is a barrier for the average user.

I stumbled upon this regex crossword puzzle a while back. I was never good enough to get it, but it seems like it could be fun.

You know, it kinda makes me wonder if we should have listened a little more to the people who were paranoid of being tracked and went to live off the grid.

The McDonald’s ice cream machines have a similar vibe, but that doesn’t seem to be as smartly/evilly executed as these trains. Remote kill switches are insane.

Kiss about to become Vtubers.

If Amazon (retail) can’t survive on it’s own without exploiting workers and all the other crap they do, then we’ll be better off without it.

Well, the current logo on my phone is the owl screaming with its face melting, so it was probably the better choice.

Sure someone could make a malicious version of this app and share it, but the reason why they have this license is so that they can have the legal power to be able to get those versions shut down. They don’t want to have the problem that they mentioned newpipe has, where malicious versions can being distributed on popular channels such as the official app store.

Having watched the video and skimmed the licence, it seems like you can view, edit and distribute the code. The stipulation they added is that you can’t add anything malicious or monetize it. I don’t see anything that would prevent the equivalent of the newpipe version with sponsorblock

It seems alright to me, but I guess there will always be people who aren’t happy unless they give up every ounce of control over their own creation. Maybe it’s because of the open source title, because yeah it might not live up to some of the strictest definitions out there.

Yep. The people that use starlink are using it because it’s likely their only option, or at least it’s miles above (pun unintended) what few other alternatives they might have.