TBF, almost everyone I work with uses Linux. There’s virtually no conversation about it. It’s just what it is, like even the weather is more deserving of discussion.

Simpler times.

That’s cool, what’s your favorite?

https://xkcd.com/2545/

Here’s Callaghan’s response with the behind-the-scenes stuff for anyone who’s interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlyNHpEe_k4

The “bevenolent” bits are truly hilarious.

A job well done. Time for a beer and some 'caine.

Sam Altman is right. In fact, when you think about it, humans also give off lots of excess energy in the form of body heat, and it is only logical that this energy would be harvested to make AI run more efficiently. AI gives humans so much, it’s only fair if they give something back.

/s

I absolutely hate this phrasing. Thanks, I considered it and determined that I won’t do that. Now what?

Pop OS

I was OOTL on this one and had to search for it. The article is kind of hard to find, but I was very amused by the fact that there apparently is another article from the WSJ that essentially nullifies the entire claim of rotisserie chicken being a “splurge”.

Need bassist & drummer

I plan on singing, playing guitar, and writing songs

Okay, so one right-wing dude with no friends.

uninstall workaround

I guess it technically is a workaround for problems with Windows to just uninstall it and use something else.

Most of my childhood memories have been saved on grainy, imperfect pictures and, yeah, I’m content with that and cherish them all the same (probably even more so, because that reflects the time in which they were made). If I want high-resolution photographs of something, I use a proper camera, but there’s really nothing about “high-resolution” that implies “treasured memory” to me or vice versa.

Considering that even a midrange smartphone today is leaps ahead of “real” cameras from the past, I guess a different way to phrase your question is “Am I content to have my memories preserved with the image quality of a camera from 20 years ago?”. And the answer to that would be a clear “yes”. But to each their own.

I mean, if showing pictures from your phone on a big screen is something you do so often that your phone absolutely has to do that and do it flawlessly, then yeah, I guess a midrange phone is not for you. But that’s such a specific requirement, I can’t exactly blame a company like Fairphone for not catering to those needs.

This, and in terms of repairability/sustainability, it’s hard to make an “everything device” and do it well. Every time you think you got all user requirements covered, another user comes around the corner with a new set of hyper-specific requirements, and you’re back at square one figuring out supply chains and design fundamentals. If your aim is to make something repairable and sustainable that is hard to make that way, it’s much more feasible to just make two separate devices.

You’re saying that, a generation ago, keeping your shoes on was normal?

France should be “shoes off”. Never seen a French person who kept their shoes on in the house.

What it feels like to look at a TV that’s close enough to justify 8K:

People upgrading to Windows 11 be like: