Comment Re:I'm so dumb that I need AI to make toast (Score 1) 37
Hmmm, NetBSD circa 2005.
Hmmm, NetBSD circa 2005.
I know it has been an extension for yonks but I recently installed NoScript. Sure, it's pain to whitelist essential Javascript on the couple of dozen sites I regularly visit.
But doing my bit in fighting climate change to save a couple of kWh a year in not processing garbage from random URLs.
As eXistenZ, The Matrix and Inception explored, how many layers deep do you need to be down to lose touch with what is real and what is simulated?
Judge not lest you be judged.
You can pry Firefox from my cold dead hands slumped over a GNU/Linux desktop.
Well, Chimborazo in Ecuador is the widest from the centre of the earth due to the elliptical nature of the equator.
Let's not girth-shame the Andes.
Bro, is that Icelandic?
or some sort of Leibnician musical scale?
The kickstart Shuttleworth did was the free CD mailout to most anywhere on the planet when much of the world was still on dialup or ADSL. Prior to that, local companies with a CD burner would charge $10 or so to mail out a CD in a padded envelope.
Some missteps along the way, notably trying to compete with Red Hat and Gnome with Unity and launching a phone platform without a sustainable business model (Kudos to the UB Touch community for keeping that dream going).
But they seem to be finding their niche in the cloud by pairing with the evil empire, MS.
I have since migrated upstream to using Debian for personal use but Ubuntu was part of that journey. Mainly because I have no need in the articles' summary of snap or flatpak as an alternative to the native
I take your point, language models on embedded devices, I am sceptical on battery life, privacy concerns aside.
To me it's a signal to skip Android 15 series phones. Wait a year and the budget Pixel will have this as a standard feature.
I do like how the investigative officer's rank is a "major general", it's like they've just mashed two Latin adjectives together to sound vaguely important.
Having watched far too many episodes of the The X-Files, my advice would be to trust no one. I want to believe but Alex Krycek and the cigarette smoking man are clearly withholding information.
This is why I loathe installing apps.
Deliberately mangling the mobile experience so they can install unsolicited bloatware on your handset? No thank you.
A web forum shouldn't require an app.
Still on XFCE... It works on low end hardware and doesn't get in the way.
I gave Wayfire a try recently. As a compositor it works well enough but as a desktop environment it would need some polish.
So I'm confident that if xfwm4 adopted a wlroots-based solution as a drop-in replacement then it would be relatively mature enough.
Perhaps the solution is to accept only handwritten submissions.
In my day they were called 3 hour exams. No computers, no mobile phones - just pen and paper.
NB: You can still grade them with computers using handwriting recognition.
Well just on the India stat, 'developing' nation and all, I imagine there's an abundance of perfectly good working hardware that doesn't run Windows 11.
(TBH none of my 5 x86 computers, some in various states of disassembly in storage boxes, are supported by 11. Just waiting for MS to release the NPU hardware requirements for Windows 12 Copilot - there will be sure to be oodles of freshly obsoleted equipment to shove Debian on!)
It will be a great day for sci-fi nerds when the GenX members of the faculty retire and Alexander is promoted to Professor.
Well to the extent that corporations engage in the security theatre of 2FA via messages sent to a phone number then RCS might be a better option than SMS.
In reality, there are no open source client implementations of the RCS protocol, if you want to use that feature, you abide by their restrictions.
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
