What? All [amazon or whatever] cares about is cost/benefit/profit. Old (and rare) books are cheap and [amazon or whatever] is already investing massively in data centers. The beast demands to be fed.

The US intelligence agencies determined it was not in the United State's national security interest for Nvidia's most advanced chips to be exported without control, for fear they'd fall into the wrong hands, (like the Chinese). The UAE really wanted to buy those chips so they bribed Trump and voila!

This is what is know to the industry as, "a cluster".

Actually AI sorts everything very well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

amen brother... dependency "hell" using apt is pretty effing good vs flatpak and snap. Appimages I agree are the only portable format that doesn't f*ck you over. Actually, if you use apt you dont' have dependency hell. I've used debian/devuan and apt for ever now, over 20 years, on hundreds of installations. Install or remove/purge operations have worked very well, only occasional problems have occurred with nearly always something to do with python versions. Ugh. If I want problems, I'll stick with PHP. The worst php version problem is nothing compared to python hell. Avoid python if possible. Ive been around the system ops track a few times, and my life has been pretty easy by only using Devuan/Apt + a few Appimages. I had the unfortunate experience of having to install and use Redhat a few times, and what ever they use for package management, I've fortunately forgotten its black name, (rpm?) it was untrustworthy and horrible. Use Redhat if you want to get 98% of a computer working. If you want 100% use Devuan. Even Debian is tolerable since they dumped systemd-resolved.

Looks like a personal customization to me. I did that too about 15 years ago... what was it called? Umm.. I asked the great big head in the sky (Gemini) this was it: Refracta (and its core tool suite, Refracta Tools), created by fsmithred. same guy behind Devuan.

I used Refracta to make a customized iso that I could install on client computers and machines on the private lan ... customize once, install many times. This distro looks nearly like what I had 15 years ago. So yeah. It's barely a distro at all, but a customization of devuan.. but what is ubuntu but a customization of debian? side note. I personally like compiz, but basically it's just a cube and a couple of animations when opening and closing windows... everything else is just a toy... but I find the 3d spatialization of workspaces to be very useful organization metaphor.

You can't be serious. For starters their so called systematic studies are thin and extremely dated. But secondly they obviously did the studies wrong, asked the wrong questions to the wrong users, and drew the wrong conclusions. Nothing makes sense in gnome and it's opaque to discover how to use it. Free yourself and use ... well... anything else.

I believe the description you are looking for is "beyond atrocious".
Fortunately I only had to read your woltman link to see the atrocity that I've sucessfully avoided since Gnome was the best UI in all computerland. (version 2.x I think). Notwithstanding it's large memory footprint at the time.

You'd have to be mentally retarded to want to use that given any other alternative. I'm pretty sure even windows vista was better than that. Even the Gnome programmers are probably doing their work on Macs. Who would willingly subject themselves to that?

I want a pony.

you're right. I looked around. He was a loudmouth wrong about nearly everything. I was just wearing my things were better back in the olden days glasses I guess. I didn't follow him past Cranky Geeks. I did like the show though, clearly I forgot all the content. I probably would have hated him if I didnt lose track of him. <puts olden days glasses back on>

just regular joe talk, here not interested in a bunch of name calling..
I don't recall him being so wrong about things. Cranky Geeks, that was the show I used to watch/listen.
I thought between him and the guests it was informative and interesting to hear what they were saying down in silicon valley.

I guess I wasnt hanging around here much at that time... I used to go by fuzz500, but I couldn't get the UID back when I returned here to kick ass I was so bored during the pandemic. I was a 6 digit dude like you.

He was cranky. Kind of like me, now. :-)
Its a lot better than what passes for journalism or "articles" now, esp when I fall upon the odd magazine article on windows, it all sounds like cheerleading to me. Then again, I left windows well over 20 years ago, for obvious reasons once linux had readable fonts, circa ubuntu 6 or 7.

I prefer the cold hard light of day rather than rah rah we love the turds microsoft feeds us.

that there are other stars, with other planets, with other moons?
next thing you know they'll be saying there's water and organic molecules and stuff.
who'd believe that?

You don't make friends when you're a real journalist. They aren't likeable, thats what a real journalist is like, critical thinkers.I thought he brought a slightly jaundiced, but fair point of view to tech reporting. Used to watch his talk show on the web before it was called a podcast, circa... what 2000? really seems like along time ago.... with 3 guest panel discussing tech. I'll miss him.

you're a loudmouth who's wrong about everything

perfect code?
what model are you using?

also... Musician here: what are you using ai for and what model are you using?