Lot’s of circlejerking online. I have no doubt that some people have issues while having an nvidia card, and I also have no doubt that in some cases the driver might be to blame.

But unless you fiddle things, go out of your way to “optimize things” by following some random posts or something like that, most common distros handles nvidia drivers properly. The same usual disclaimers applies though; being “bleeding edge” means you’ll cut yourself, and all that.

For people that just install a system (and I mean something well known to work, not “the latest craze you absolutely have to replace everything with”, it’s fine. They (nvidia) even ironed out most of wayland issues for a while now. There are still some minor lingering issues, but nothing most average users will notice.

Sure, just let me put that fully operational graphic card that can run games fine in the trashcan, shell out another thousand dollar or so on a new card for absolutely no other reason than to appease the internet crowd. It’s so easy, why isn’t everyone doing it.

Yeah, it’s illegal, but the premises where a bit murky too, so it cancels out.

If there’s a company policy against, who knows, sending any company’s IP to a random third party known for shitting on both license terms and their own ToS, having your work marked like this is a big red flag. And since it “accidentally” happened to everyone, either you dismiss all the suspected bogus entries and let the rats in, or you have to carefully review everything.

It’s big trouble either way.

Meanwhile, there’s strong evidence… well, facts, at this point, that taxpayers’ money is fueling a silly war for ego, possibly funding a gigantic ballroom, personal enrichment of high-profile in the administration. I wonder why they’re not complaining about that.

no one is jumping to Vim

I’m seriously thinking about going back to VIM. At this point the only thing holding me back is that I like the file tree view of GUI tools. It’s not much.

I looked into “lightweight” alternative, but their PR and “features” make them seems almost worst than vscode. Zed in particular; people praise it for being “simple”, but the biggest upside seems to be “GPU accelerated” and “not as sluggish as vscode” which, ok, I guess, but I don’t think an IDE needs to be GPU accelerated and vscode don’t feel sluggish at all even on my modest first gen NUC so…

While I understand the sentiment, this have nothing to do with vscode, which you can perfectly use on Linux and with whatever cvs you want.

Article talk about pushing a large model on people’s computer. You minimize this by going about McDonalds, Shell, BP. Do you even know what “whataboutism” mean? Your first sentence is “what about McDonald, Shell, BP”.

Oh, some whataboutism. Great.

Also great to know you don’t have to pay to get storage in your devices, otherwise you’d be quite unhappy to see it taken out of your control for no feature (Chrome still relies on cloud services for most AI features).

The AI model we’re talking about here is not used for most of the AI features, which instead relies on cloud services. Those 4GB are there only for a fringe feature most people don’t know/don’t care about, hidden behind hoops you’ll have to jump through to get.

You had to rewind VHS. Then VHS got replaced by DVD, but unfortunately most early DVD players did not have a rewind function, thus this device.

I had an appendicitis go undiagnosed for a few days (partly because of bad emergency care, partly because I keep waiting forever before seeing a doctor). Turned into peritonitis, as it does. Decision to operate was instantaneous; I didn’t even go back to the emergency “landing area” after the radiography, but straight to showering before the operating room. Then, had to spent a week in the hospital, including four days of full-blown crazyness-inducing fever, three different kinds of painkillers (btw I’m allergic to three derivatives of morphine… found out the fun way).

It all cost me something around 8€ in the end. That would have been around… $8 at the time. Not to mention, I had no issue at my job back then because we have sick leave too.

At no point in any of this have I considered “but can I avoid going to the doctor” or “I should leave the hospital as soon as possible”, or “I have to work during this week of madness”. I just got better, and got back on track.

That was France, btw.

If they start looking into your stuff for any reason, and suspect that a user connected to your site through a VPN, you’re in.

It doesn’t have to be true to begin with. And it doesn’t have to be enforced at scale, only when needed.

Even worse, that would not necessarily help. If someone’s accessing your website through a VPN that’s not located in that state, you would not block it… then become liable.

Better block everything at this point -_-

Irrelevant. The end goal is they can say “you connected to a site without going through our checkpoint, you’re liable”. Then the fun begins.

The teshnikully… discussions are useless against this. Heck, given how some networks operate, I would not be surprised if some people would fall into this without even knowing.

Remember when we told people “they’ll make it illegal to use a VPN” and we got snarky replies like “it’s not enforceable LOL”.

The fuck it isn’t. Traffic coming from a VPN? That’s a paddlin’, kiddo.

They’re not even trying to masquerade it as… oh, yes, they’re still trying to masquerade as a “think of the children!” measure. Those fuckers.

1. Have a project works well
2. Amass a massive community with lots of goodwill
3. Project gets bought/merged/under new management
4. new management destroy everything that attracted the community and goodwill
5. ???
6. Somehow, not profit

I wonder where it’s gone wrong. What would it have cost github to keep operating decently for the vast majority of small users, and still have a business side?

Nah. I mean, there might be some stuff like that, but nowadays, I’d be surprised if feature parity wasn’t 1:1 (or even better, with some open source drivers having features that are removed from official windows drivers…).

The underlying OS is pure garbage, that’s mostly it. Windows will start chugging everywhere with even moderate FS activity: running a background, single-threaded backup process will sometimes make it impossible to click in another window or open a new application. Driver API is not great, you have to jump through hoops to do basic stuff. There are many ways to do the exact same thing, each being more or less efficient than the other. Audio API is so bad, an audio device failing will sometime cause ohter, unrelated, non-audio application to spontaneously combust.

And so on and so on.

On the other hand, the Linux compatibility layer that proton provides do add some overhead in places, but surprisingly, it’s not that much overhead. And it’s not that common (basically, the code runs natively until specific instructions that requires special handling).

Obviously, when you have a better operating base, and very little extra overhead, software tends to run smoother.

And all that is not taking into account optimisation to Linux system themselves; there’s been a lot of improvement in technical stuff for graphic drivers (especially on AMD side, but not exclusively), the kernel itself can get improvement in its handling of IO and memory, the whole thing is more flexible, etc.

Yes. I’ve had a bare metal setup of tiny tiny RSS setup for ages. I think it changed maintainer at some point, but still gets updates. The thing’s been purring along all this time.

And a lot of modern websites still have an RSS feed. Not all, unfortunately, but it keeps up.

I miss the time where everything had a distinct identity. Shapes, colors, a bit of imagination…

The motto now seems to be sterile, monochrome, uniform design; nothing must stand out. Subway station? Moved from colorful place with art stuff on the walls to white, squarey area. Fast-food? two-colors, no decoration (except for advertisement collaboration of course). Store? Bland aisles full of items, no billboard, no nothing.

All logo are converging toward a single letter/shape with no feature. All UI must be full of empty space and devoid of lines/distinctive features, with components similar across everything. Gadgets and gizmo? Smooth, uniform, nothing extravagant.

No wonder every time anything with a bit of personality comes out it’s acclaimed to no end.