The current crop of politicians (not just in the UK) is something else. They keep poking their nose at things that are not their concern and fail spectacularly at fixing things that are (health, housing, employment, education, infrastructures).

In the early days of computing, people experimented with different signaling frameworks between electronic components (valves and later transistors). Decimal and ternary were used and abandoned because binary is much easier to implement and noise resistant.

What we do today is simulate non -deterministic (noisy) signals in LLM using deterministic (binary) signals, which is a massively inefficient way to do it.

I expect more chips with a neuron-like architecture will be coming out in the next few years. It would certainly be a benefit for the environment, as the cat will not get back in the bag

So Marvin was right.

“I’ve calculated your chance of survival, but I don’t think you’ll like it.”

Got my lovely KS1 right here. Wonderful machine, I wish I had more time to do anything useful with it.

Only nerds and dweebs and losers play single player games.

Some people actively avoid multiplayer games to avoid obnoxious, entitled kids.

If I’m renting music, at least give me FLAC level quality.

No, 320 kbps won’t do.

Dropped it for Tidal years ago, never looked back.

I’ve started collecting CDs and building my own Jellyfin library so I don’t depend on streaming services.

I was about to buy it on Steam and it turns out that it is free if you already own the originals. Sweet!

850 hours on Skyrim and counting.

I seem to have it under control now.

It’s porn.

It’s always porn that decides if a technology lives or dies.

The logo needs work. I read that as Syncoin and had a repulse reaction.

To me it was somewhere in the late 90’s, but I’m sure people will still be debating this when I die.

This leads to the question of where I can find rule 34 of this.

Each new technology immediately raises two questions: how do we destroy it and how do we use it for destruction.

The year of Linux Desktop is here!

My feeling on this is that or the “general public desktop” use case we have to defer to corporate supported distros (RedHat, Ubuntu, Suse), because they have to work with hardware vendors that are typically averse to the idea of sharing driver code, and you have to make sure your desktop runs smoothly on your average PC.

I don’t see it happening, honestly.

Exactly. I need Debian, Alpine, Manjaro, OpenWRT, MoOde Audio Player, Lakka and SteamOS.

They all serve different use cases. That’s the beauty of it, the utter flexibility to turn it into whatever you need because you can.

Maybe its because Cameron is not one of my favorite directors. I love T2, of course but I can’t say the same about Titanic because (you guessed it) I still have not watched it and also didn’t buy into the hype when it was released. I remember that movie theaters were booked solid for weeks and you couldn’t get a ticket. No movie is that good or justifies that kind of hype, so I have skipped it so far.

I’ve seen this opinion voiced quite a few times for the last 28 or so years I’ve been a Linux user.

Guess what? It’s free and open source software. People work on what they feel like when they feel like if they feel like. You can’t mandate “let’s just have a couple of distros, think of the public!”. It doesn’t work like that. Yes, life is not perfect.

It is sad to see the mental gymnastics people do to justify their inertia.

“It’s opt-in!”

“You can disable feature X easily by editing the registry”

“You can install this tool from a shifty site to restore that feature MS disabled”