Not surprised a user from a tankie instance is angry about a western country imposing rules on a domestic company for reasons of national security, but is completely fine with China allowing barely any western countries in their market at all and, when they are, enforcing that they must be run by Chinese and have a close relationship with the government.

It’s bad when the west takes an inch, but it’s good when China takes a mile.

I get the frustration, but it does actually cost money to make content, especially high effort content like this.

Add on top of that the fact that the people involved need to be able to eat, have a home, provide for their families, have a life.

People would complain if they were sponsored by some shitty VPN provider or the like, and also complain about them trying to sell merch. I certainly wouldn’t work for free, so I don’t see why they should have to.

It’s not really that hard to do a couple of key presses to skip ahead, either. It’s what I do.

For a while, but only people that closely follow Linux news would know about it.

I didn’t say they have to like it, that would be silly.

I’m criticising them for making an incorrect statement, being corrected on it, then acting extremely proud of being ignorant of the facts, and committing to not informing themselves.

Imagine being this proud of ignorance. I can’t wrap my head around it.

The X1 Elite never lived up to its geekbench scores, and the drivers are absolute dogshit.

The X2 Elite wont match Apple or AMD in real world scenarios either, I’d wager.

This feels more like politics news than technology news. Sure it’s done over social media/messaging apps, but so are plenty of things that I wouldn’t really call technology news.

I’m somewhat surprised that boys are at a much greater risk of online sexual exploitation than girls, though.

Most likely your motherboard. Asus and ASRock (they are related companies) have been fucking up recently, so if you use one of them it’s likely that.

Can’t believe I’ve lived to see Cloudflare be the good guys

There is a difference between telling your computer to delete something and the computer complying, and doing a windows update only to find it’s corrupted your data or straight up killed your disk.

I’m not going to get angry when I tell my PC to delete a file and it actually does it.

I have an extreme dislike for OpenAI, Altman, and people like him, but the reasoning behind this article is just stuff some guy has pulled from his backside. There’s no facts here, it’s just “I believe XYX” with nothing to back it up.

We don’t need to make up nonsense about the LLM bubble. There’s plenty of valid enough criticisms as is.

By circulating a dumb figure like this, all you’re doing is granting OpenAI the power to come out and say “actually, it only uses X amount of power. We’re so great!”, where X is a figure that on its own would seem bad, but compared to this inflated figure sounds great. Don’t hand these shitty companies a marketing win.

What are you talking about?

Debian is stable.

Spiced roasted meats, pasties and pies with spicy meat fillings, probably a bunch of seafood stuff, you could probably make blackcurrant in a salsa work depending on what you’re pairing it with. Beans are an obvious one too.

And tbh, there’s loads of great British food. Roasted meats, soups, casseroles, pastries, deserts, etc. That meme needs to die. It’s about as accurate as France always surrenders. They’re both WW2 era stereotypes that don’t make sense outside of that time period. It’s especially hilarious seeing it regurgitated by people from a country who eat “cheese” sprayed from a can.

It works well, so long as you don’t mind your DE being a bit behind the latest version. With how much Plasma and Gnome have been improving in the past couple of years, that may matter a lot.

To be honest, I think it makes more sense than it used to. You can have an extremely stable base, and if you want regularly updated user apps you can utilise Flatpaks.

Android is far less open than it has ever been.

It’s all well and good being oh so principled like you’re making yourself out to be, but phones are expensive, and the above user is being completely rational for wanting to settle on a Pixel 9a for $250, especially when the other OEMs have plenty of their own problems.

Get off your moral high horse.

I’m a very vocal critic of LLMs, I think they’re so overhyped and overused it’s hard to believe.

But I’m also getting really tired of people purposely putting extreme effort into tricking the LLM into saying something harmful if someone were to follow it blindly, just so they can make a clickbait headline out of it.

And what the hell is up with the major “ChatGPT is Satanist [if you instruct it to be]” angle? Are we really doing the Satanist moral panic again?

ffs, criticise OpenAI for being closed af, being wasteful, being strong political lobbyists, for stealing work, etc. You don’t need to push disingenuous stuff like this.

Honestly, a physical password book isn’t a bad idea.

Not accessible via the internet, and in most cases if someone has physical access to your system you’re done for anyway.

The main weakness it has is from a nosey flatmate, spouse, or child in the house.

I don’t think the issue with phones is the smaller bezels or better displays.

That’s not what’s ruining them.