For me it does -- I hope they can keep it going. The popup and background play features are killer.

.. Google Home has been nerfed in so many ways over the past few years, it's almost useless now save for turning my lights on and off.

- They killed the Apps SDK, and all games and custom stuff
- They killed Google Music, and 'play X from my Library", only Youtube Premium Music now or ads in between every damn track
- They killed all podcast feeds other than Youtube Music (many podcasts aren't on Youtube).
- They have borked most radio stations (used to be able to play almost any station via TuneIn)

The Enshittification has been wide, deep and purposeful. No way in hell will I *ever* pay for Youtube Premium.

Not much else needs to be said. A $1T company, yet a drain on the nation.

...source code for the version his local university had, their listings were often discarded in the back bins of the labs. Oh, and he wasn't enrolled in classes there so he stole computer lab time to work on his version.

No I don't have the references handy, but they're out there.

Bah, stupid title length limits...

Meant to say "..plenty of other pre-existing reasons why Bill Gates is a trash human being."

One more or less won't matter.

I liked my ZenPhone 2 Laser back around 2018-2019, for a while.. but the camera was sluggish as all hell, and the ZenPhone 3 was, I'm told, even worse. ASUS did absolute dick all to improve the situation, despite the fact their forum was absolutely full of users complaining about camera issues.

And, idiot that I am, back in 2024 I bought an ASUS laptop (Duo Pro 2024) -- dual-screen beauty of engineering, but, you guessed it, ZERO support for issues and they pretend Linux doesn't even exist.

It's been about 2 years and keyboard, screen and audio support for Linux are still entirely absent save for some heroic independent devs who are trying to make things work (they're still not done reverse-engineering ASUS's bullshit).

Never buy ASUS, ever. They hate open hardware, and hate users.

I admit I'm sour on LLMs, esp. in math. It could be though, that by brute-force searching for related topics and data, it brought enough info together to propose something and this time, it happened to be right or nearly-right enough for the researcher to have a light-bulb go off, so to speak.

I fully admit I didn't RTFA (read the fine article) -- I'm supposed to be working right now. But given how often LLMs get things entirely, completely, but confidently wrong, I still must presume this was the rare exception, not proof of some new step in "AI".

It wou;d have been backwards-compatible and given us the expanded address space desired.

http://bill.herrin.us/network/...

Oh for some actual anti-trust enforcement... sigh.

Oh no, he is *definitely* angry about the spam... the vast energy wasted in generating it, the insincerity-by-proxy of the AI tech-bros who tasked it with generating this email ... so many aspects are just dumb and wasteful and rude. His reply should be a beacon and example to everyone else on how to treat this slop, the systems that generate it, and the tech execs who fostered it for their own selfish gain.

Guillotines cannot come soon enough for these bunker-building post-capitalist corporatist arseholes.

>XLibre/no Wayland, no Rust re-writes of basic utilities,

This is sounding better and better. If Devuan ever drops the ball I guess it'll be time to go BSD.

... without a user-approved popup for things like games, simulations etc. that might require it.

... and these reactors can then be used for actual *useful* work.

Hopefully, as well, CANDU style reactors will be more prevalent, which can use spent fuel/waste from light-water reactors so we can extract maximum benefit from the waste of other designs.