Sounds about typical for intel since the P54c.

K6 was faster than a P2 when executing code optimized for it instead of pretending to to be an Intel chip, which admittedly was part of its job which it didn't do very well. Still, from K7 on there has seldom been any good reason to buy an Intel CPU.

They don't care, they're paid to improve stock values in the short term. They will jump out of the window of the corporation they set on fire and float gently to the ground using their golden parachute, and either retire or repeat.

I can use my brother laser MFC without any brother drivers at all if I use it through the network. Scanning and printing are both standards-based in that situation, and the only thing I lose is use of the quick scan buttons on the device. The problem isn't linux, and it isn't manufacturers who don't maintain support; The problem is manufacturers who don't support standard interfaces, and the users who buy their hardware. Samsung is competent at one thing only, making SSDs– and even some of those have been botches. Please stop giving them money.

Islam is a problem in that regard, but so is christian fundamentalism. And it is even more archaic by definition.

Microsoft recently changed Word's behavior so that when you open a document to which you do not have write access, it pops up a little message in a word bubble (like in a comic book) that says you can't edit it, and you have to acknowledge it before you can do anything else. This change occurred within the last year.

My employer retains knowledge in Word documents. When I open one of these documents I used to just hit ^F and search to find the part in the document that I wanted. Now I have to acknowledge the notice before I can do that.

Nobody wanted this "feature". Just put the bar across the top of the document like you do in Excel, Office developer assholes.

What's interesting about your post following his is that it's a somewhat common thing among hispanics to have two non-hyphenated last names... You can tell from someone's ID because there are two name fields. Middle names get put into the first name field, so if you see two names in the last name field, they're both last names.

It's interesting because of the nvidia parts, not because of the intel parts.

The only effective way to resist things of this nature is to upset The Powers That Be. While it's all fun and games and only the hoi polloi are being trampled they will just take the Big Tech money and parrot the prescribed happy talk.

In this case the thing to do is create fear and outrage by using "AI" to interfere with one or more sacred cows. The financial system or elections, for example. There are many others, limited only by your creativity. Recall how failing to optimally represent certain "protected" classes in generated images provoked immediate action by all involved parties, to the point were certain systems literally could not generate an image without token minorities being inserted, despite any amount of implausibility.

Of course, messing with sacred cows will get you on the establishment shit list like nothing else, so be prepared to pull a Snowden and abscond to Russia. Or something.

Perhaps the safest route is to somehow use AI to become rich very rapidly. That disturbs people a lot; they expedite the creation of whole new crimes and bureaucracies in response, greatly slowing new applications. And, at least that way you'll be able to afford the lawyers you'll need.

Solar panels repaid the energy investment in their construction in about seven years in the 1970s. If we had started installing them in all of the places where we use a lot of A/C alone back then we could have saved an immense amount of pollution from fossil fuel sources and also kickstarted their rapid development that much sooner.

Nuclear on the other hand has had massive subsidies in the forms of free insurance, pretending the mine tailings aren't polluting, and getting to stick the waste in pools and pretend it isn't just waiting to become a problem.

Just because there isn't a name or law for something doesn't mean you get to pick a favorite hang-up out of your ass and make accusations.

Maybe it could be a proven to be a conspiratorial pump and dump scheme. If so, my bet is that will happen: the Powers That Be were upset enough about it last time to sic a couple of the precious few effective feebs on it, and the group doing it doubtless includes enough crack brained chuckleheads that weren't difficult to flip, bug or otherwise compromise in the meantime.

Hell, it could be Roaring Kitty they/it/her/him/self. Who can tell?

If you don't care about anything or anyone it's easy to assume that nobody else does, either. But the first thing to know about assuming everyone else is like you is that you're wrong.

Well, it did also bring cgroups... However, those can be manipulated with simple shell commands, so that could have been done by augmenting the init script libraries. So to me the question is what did systemd give us that we couldn't have had some better way.

"the only reason nuclear plants are unsafe is because the public is scared of nuclear power."

That is completely false. It's the other way around, in fact.

Nuclear plants are inherently unsafe. Walk away from them and they fail catastrophically.

That was the promise of nuclear energy. Look how well that worked out.

It was the promise of phone service. Look how well that worked out.

Now we have someone saying it about AI. Guess how that will work out?

That doesn't make anything like sense.

sysvinit is good. It is simple and it works.

systemd is bad. It is complicated and when it goes wrong you can't figure out what is wrong without using the debugger.

Hate for systemd is logical because sysvinit still works better than systemd, but systemd has infected all the major distributions and we have to deal with it in the real world where we get forced to work with them.