Comment Ummmm... (Score 1) 45
Who the fuck cares? It's a game console. Change vendors....start reading books, etc.....
Who the fuck cares? It's a game console. Change vendors....start reading books, etc.....
Once storage became cheap and bandwidth was no longer an issue (in the home), I just ripped all of my content to use FLAC and called it a day. I've stored all the original media somewhere safe where it won't get damaged. For commercial content and devices to replay that content using other encoding methods, I'll let those folks duke it out with Dolby. Wake me up when it's over.
What does a failed test look like? If containment fails and 92 protons interact with matter, I would imagine you wind up with a flash of energy as the antiprotons and their proton cousins mutually destruct. It's been a fair amount of time (and bottles of wine) since my last physics class. How much energy are we talking about? I am guessing it's not a significant energy release in terms of there being any real risk to anyone/anything nearby.
Or perhaps AI would be better at eliminating dupe posts? There was already a story on this right here just a couple of days ago.
Could be their biggest export customer!
It isn't even worth the hassle. Everyone at home (myself/wife/kids) are all using Ubuntu as our daily driver and I've switched to a Macbook Pro for the obligatory work laptop. Even my 80 year old parents are using Ubuntu now.
Seeya MSFT....
The scale of this is surprising, but not the act itself.
He was a class act and will be missed by many.
Good luck enforcing that. I agree that the deluge of slop is lame, but I don't see it going away either.
Perhaps with a "massive home" it doesn't work. How many "massive home" people are out there? I suspect that's a standard deviation or three away from the bell of the curve.
An average American home consumes close to 1000KwH of electricity per month. Assuming its sunny, and is rarely cloudy in your area, that would still be only about 7.5% of a typical home's electrical needs. Where I live, that would save me about $8-9/month....or about the cost of a couple of loaves of bread. And of course, very few places are sunny every day all year long.
Granted, not everyone lives in a single family house that uses a lot of electricity in a state with relatively inexpensive grid power. I'd imagine that if you live in a place like California where power is very expensive and there is lots of sun, the value proposition could be a bit better.
Personally, I'd rather have enough solar capacity (and somewhere to store excess for rainy days) and just be done with the grid entirely. That's likely what I'll do for my next home.
And when the ads appeared, I tossed them. Frankly, I should thank Amazon for that as it reinforced that I didn't want any of their shit in the house so now it's all gone. Pretty soon Prime and and their streaming services are going too. They're consistently ratcheting up the rates to the point where it's gotten silly. Going back to using Jellyfin to play media in the home.
Seeya.
But I wonder if there's really room for multiple professional support options for Linux in the enterprise. We've got IBM, Oracle, SUSE, Canonical, and a few others.
Which is your favorite?
Personally, I'd rather the politicians focus on producing a balanced budget (you know, like we all have to do at home) rather than waste time rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic.
The sales numbers for Kia/Hyundai EVs are somewhat small in the US. Tesla sold about 600k units in 2025. In 2nd place is Chevrolet at almost 100k sales. Hyundai/Kia combined sell about 100k units as well.
The top 10 are:
Tesla 589k
Chevrolet 97k
Hyundai 66k
Cadillac 49k
BMW 42k
Rivian 42k
Honda 39k
Kia 34k
VW 29k
GMC 24k
Total EV sales: 1.28 million units (only about 8% of total vehicle sales and down 2% year over year)
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