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Comment Re:Java hasn't been in the browser for 10+ years (Score 1) 34

Loading a webpage shouldn't bog down a $4000 MacBook Pro...but the shitty front-end dev community said "M4 should easily be able to load my stupid and simple website?"...."Challenge accepted!"

Does it actually bog down a reasonably-speced computer? I don't think it does, I think the sluggishness is just from the sheer volume of stuff that has to be downloaded, and the inefficient way it's downloaded. And the reason the web devs don't notice the awfulness is (a) their browsers have 98% of it cached and (b) they have a GigE (or 10 GigE) connection to the server. They certainly don't have computers faster than your M4.

Comment Re:Needs to be optional (Score 1) 34

As long as I can turn it off, I don't give a rat's ass what stupid, annoying, and bandwidth-eating "features" they put into Chrome.

I think you didn't understand what this feature is. It's pretty much the opposite of annoying, and it has no effect at all on bandwidth consumption. Though I suppose when devs get used to their sites seeming to load faster they'll bloat them up even more...

Submission + - The 40 minutes when the Artemis crew loses contact with the Earth (bbc.com)

fjo3 writes: As the astronauts pass behind the Moon at about 23:47 BST on Monday, the radio and laser signals that allow the back-and-forth communication between the spacecraft and Earth will be blocked by the Moon itself.

For about 40 minutes, the four astronauts will be alone, each with their own thoughts and feelings, travelling through the darkness of space. A profound moment of solitude and silence.

Comment Re:Please sir (Score 1) 182

Do you think the new supreme leader is going to somehow be more rational than the last one?

That's the simplicity of the system I already outlined for you up above. Just repeat until one is. Iran will run out of irrational ayatollahs long before America runs out of bombs.

If by simple, you mean simplistic, then yeah. What you're forgetting is that every time a bomb kills someone's mother, father, brother, sister, wife, son, or daughter, another America hater is born. So there's likely to be an endless supply of irrational leaders, so long as they are put into power by someone bombing the previous leader along with random military targets.

The only regime changes that are ever really positive long-term are regime changes led by the people of a country against their leaders. All other regime changes are statistically more likely to make things worse than better.

Submission + - Samsung Messages shutdown forces Galaxy users to switch to Google (nerds.xyz)

BrianFagioli writes: Samsung plans to discontinue the Samsung Messages texting app in July 2026, effectively pushing Galaxy users toward Googleâ(TM)s messaging platform. The company says the change will provide a more âoeconsistent messaging experienceâ across Android devices, largely because Googleâ(TM)s app supports RCS features such as higher quality media sharing, typing indicators, improved group chats, and stronger spam detection. Newer Galaxy phones already ship with Googleâ(TM)s solution as the default, and beginning with the Galaxy S26 generation, the Samsung app cannot even be downloaded from the Galaxy Store.

Still, the move removes one more alternative from the Android ecosystem. Samsung Messages had long served as a manufacturer provided option for basic texting without relying entirely on Googleâ(TM)s software stack. While older devices running Android 11 or earlier are not affected for now, the shutdown raises a broader question about Androidâ(TM)s future. As Googleâ(TM)s services become increasingly central to the platform, some users may wonder how much practical difference remains between buying a Galaxy device and simply choosing a Pixel instead.

Comment The real death of the internet (Score 1) 40

Complete 24/7 tracking of you as an individual. They have to have a unique identifier for you and it has to be stored somewhere for this to work.

And we are just letting it happen because why the fuck not? Any politicians it's going to oppose this is also not going to play into our love of moral panics and knee-jerk reactions. Making them completely non-viable.

Comment Why all at once? (Score 1) 41

I assume that, as an exercise, getting 5 simultaneous introductions working makes for a better paper; but is there a reason why you would want that in practice? Especially if there is any wobble in the ratios either randomly, across generations, or in the presence of certain environmental conditions that tweak the plant's metabolism one way or another that sounds like it would be a real pain in the ass to have to re-balance (and, if different patients are deemed to need different combinations even a perfectly stable plant is going to need re-balancing of the outputs) vs. very specifically going for a specific target output per-plant(or e. coli or yeast or whatever is easiest to bioreactor) and then just mixing to taste after purification. Is there some advantage I'm not seeing?

I realize that there are cases where some plant-sourced pharmacological effect looks like it is actually driven not by the identified 'active ingredient'; but by dozens or hundreds of assorted things, and in that case you just have to live with the complexity if you get better results with that than with purified isolates; but if you are deliberately engineering for very specific outputs why a mix of 5?

Comment Re:I run Debian and i3 / Sway (Score 2) 97

I mostly run application fullscreen and switch between them. The only exception is when I'm comparing the content of two windows (in which case I tile horizontally or vertically) and file selection (floating).

When an application uses the entire screen without the window decorations needed in a regular window manager, a screen's limited real estate is in fact better used in a tiled window manager.

Comment I can run Ubuntu just fine with 8 gigs of RAM (Score 1) 97

If you give Windows 11 less than 16 GB you might as well not bother booting it. It is painfully slow and that's why you're not seeing 8 GB Windows laptops even though apple is out there selling in 8 GB laptop that's threatening the entire industry.

And honestly you really really want 32 GB for Windows 11 and 64 GB wouldn't hurt. It's one of the reasons the Damned ram crisis is so bad. Microsoft guzzles RAM for their slop generators and monitoring software. As a consumer if you're stuck running Windows you have to pay for all that in CPU cycles and RAM.

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