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Comment Played in 93... (Score 1) 18

I played it in 93 on shareware from walnut creek cdrom. More recently, like 30 minutes ago I played a UZDoom MOD called Dragon remastered. The mod has custom music from synth to live. Brutal Doom is as good as most of what comes out today. Zandorum lets you frag strangers, and UZDoom is buttery smooth on a boatload of hardware configs.
self confessed Doom fanboi

Once on a development Unix machine we loaded a doom process monitoring tool and Frag'd our problems away.

Comment RTFA: Not Office per se, Cloud licensing of Office (Score 2) 57

This isn't about Office. This is about Office 365 and Azure, and how a license is bundled when you use Azure but unbundled if you wanted to use 365 and, for example, AWS.

It's a shame because I wish they would, but the gov.uk link explicitly talks about "CMA’s cloud market investigation – Microsoft’s use of software licensing reducing competition in cloud".

This won't be what people are hoping for here - actual Office. This is purely about licensing costs with regards to cloud deployments.

Comment Giving out claude credits?!?! (Score 1) 14

They are trying to bootstrap usage by placing some value on Claude credits that will surely woo people not using Claude. /s
I've used Meta AI several times but only for art work based on my RPG game scene descriptions. We used to have a talented artist as part of the group, but she's moved on. My skills creatively are limited to writing, but I've gotten spoiled with pic's of my NPC's. I make my maps painfully thru Campaign cartographer, but visual aids add so much to the game.

Comment Re:nope. not again. (Score 1) 30

It's the original founder at least, Kevin Rose. I had a look at the relaunched I-can't-believe-it's-not-Reddit version and it was...ok'ish. But yes, they were unprepared for the bots in the main forums and unfortunately the place never got big enough to have any traffic in the smaller ones.

It's ironic - I looked at Reddit before The Great Migration following Dig...err...3? whatever the fiasco revision was. Like many others, I moved when that version of Digg appeared. I was interested when Digg said they were coming back, because Reddit has become a bit tiresome other than the smaller, subject-specialised subs. Alas though, never took off.

Comment What a joke... (Score 1) 32

If they weren't ripping people of with every purchase there would no need for a "discount". I was the "guy" who was forced to replace our really nice Commodore Pet computers with that crApple BS in HS. Apple never did anything for the schools that they didn't get paid for. Their software SUCKS, their networking SUCKS. In an effort to be "cool" and trendy apple has made supporting their stuff annoying time consuming.

Submission + - AI finds signs of pancreatic cancer before tumors develop (nbcnews.com)

fjo3 writes: An AI model developed at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, detected abnormalities on patients’ CT scans up to three years before they were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, according to research published this week in the journal Gut.

The scientists behind the model, which is now being evaluated in a clinical trial, trained it by feeding it CT scans from patients who had been screened for other medical conditions then were later diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The team then had radiologists review the scans and compared their ability to find early signs of cancer to that of the AI model. The model was found to be three times better at identifying the early signs.

Comment ebikes are dangerous! (Score 1) 244

Speaking as a motorcycle rider, ebikes are dangerous. Not because of the bike but because of the riders. They often don't wear safety gear, they don't follow traffic laws, and many bikes top out at 70-80kph. It took considerable effort to get my Class M. A bike going that fast should require licensing and safety courses and helmet laws. Most people don't realize they can squid out on the road on an ebike just like you will on a motorcycle without proper gear.

Comment No win11. Uh uh, (Score 1) 27

I just installed Fedora 44 on my old Win10 laptop. Because Microsoft made sure this perfectly good laptop with 16gb RAM could not run Win11. And Affinity Suite runs great on wine now. And no obnoxious telemetry tracking. Oh yeah, for games: steam and lutris too.

Yeah yeah yeah, linux linux linux

still, Microsoft is in self-destruct mode.

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