Hemingways_Shotgun

The final “Gate” so to speak, will end up being your motherboard.

At a certain point, your motherboard just won’t support a newer part and you’ll have upgraded all the existing parts as far as they can go.

My current rig that I’m still perfectly content with is just under ten years old. I’ve upgraded the Ram to as much as the motherboard will allow. I’ve upgraded the Video Card two or three times in that span, where it’s now running a 3060. While I still see a huge improvement with that, there’s no doubt that the video card is being throttled somewhat by the motherboard throughput limitations, but for I don’t mind. I’ve added extra cooling fans, replaced the drives with SSD and use the old metal spinners for extra storage.

It still runs plenty fast enough to do Blender (nothing complex, just airplane modelling and animation for xplane), video editing with DaVinci Resolve (as long as I use proxy clips and take it a little easy on the motion graphics), and most newer games (though of course not at ultra settings).

The last bottleneck that I’ll simply never be able to pass is the fact that the CPU socket will never support an octocore processor or higher. I can upgrade as much as I want, but it will never not be a quad-core.

For now that’s fine. But that’s the hard limit that I’ve given myself. Your mileage may vary.

Tom Holland was not amused to find paparazzi waiting during his ren fair holiday.

Bitwarden. Second place isn’t even close.

I feel embarassed to say this as someone who is fairly techy, but I’m a little confused by the whole brouhaha.

Is Google making changes to Android, or to AOSP?

If Google is making changes to the Android fork they put on their own phones, then fuck 'em. Use Graphene. Use e/OS/, use Lineage…use something that forks their own branch of AOSP and Google can pound sand because those forks are in no way obligated to make the same changes as Google. AOSP is open source for that very reason.

If Google is making those changes to AOSP itself, which means that anyone who uses AOSP as a base have those changes by default, then isn’t Google obligated to keep those changes as Open Source, in which case anyone else who uses AOSP can just remove them from their own fork?

Someone explain like I’m a particularly dim five-year-old, please.

International trade has the same rules as dating:

“Never stick your dick in crazy”

If the US and China are both equally shady (which they are) then at the very least I’m going to choose the one that is a functioning adult.

Linux by design gives the user enough rope to hang themselves with.

And that’s certainly not a problem when dealing with tech enthusiasts who know what, when and where to touch to avoid messing things up. But when you’re dealing with getting a phone into the hands of ordinary people, that isn’t going to fly because all of those people will at some point start mucking around inside and then expect tech support when they mess up.

For mainstream adoption, the linux kernel must and the desktop environment must be at least somewhat locked down.

Just because it’s a libre phone, doesn’t mean it’s necessarily a linux phone. Or at least any more so than Android is a linux phone because it uses a heavily modified (almost unrecognizable) linux kernel.

There’s nothing in the article that says they’re just going to use a mainline linux kernel and throw a touch optimized version of some existing desktop on it (ubuntu touch, etc…)

Heck, they could be meaning that they’re planning on making their own heavily modified kernel for their very own OS so as to skip all of the trouble that trying to make mainline linux into a handheld device has been so far. (similar to I believe how SailfishOS is doing it)

Ich bin ein berliner

I’ll hear NO aspersions against my precious Cron!

Cron is magic. Cron is civilization!

anything I’ve ever removed with ( flatpak remove --unused ) has not re-appeared again. Not that I’ve noticed anyway.

No. Next question.

Well at least they refunded the balance on my yearly EA Play subscription when I cancelled it this morning.

Absolutely. They do it anyway, so why do I bother?

There isn’t a year that goes by where I don’t file my taxes, submit them, and then two months later get an email saying “we’ve audited your filing and you made an error.” Sometimes it’s that I get more of a refund that I thought. Sometimes it’s that I have to pay more. So it’s not malicious thing or anything like that. But either way there is no recourse to their decision, so what was the point of me doing it first in the first place?

If you know what I owe, or what I’m owed, just fucking tell me. And if I’m a financially responsible adult, I’ll have an idea about whether or not they’re accurate, grumble about it if their not and then move on with my life because they won’t do anything about it anyway. (You know…the Canadian way)

When I graduated highschool, the idea that some dinosaurs had feathers and evolved into birds was still “fringe science”.

That kind of pie-in-the-sky happy happy optimism won’t work on MAGA. They are too far gone. Literally anything you say to them is a lie (in their mind). Every fact is “fake”. Every source is "Pfft…that’s what they want you believe*. Every survey is “biased” and every person who doesn’t agree with them is a “radical”.

Your tips apply to regular debate, even to some degree with christian conservatives. But MAGA is legitimately a cult at that point.

When they firmly believe that Charlie Kirk performed a miracle by preventing the bullet from killing people behind him, they aren’t a rational group anymore; they’re mentally ill.

So far I’m enjoying U-Boat. Seems to be the spiritual successor to Silent Hunter 3…which I refuse to uninstall.

I hadn’t realized just how far Ubisoft had fallen. Amazing.

I’ll admit I was at first surprised by how low Paradox is on the list. But thinking about it for more than a second I realized that Paradox games are somewhat niche. Not many regular people want to play a spreasheet simulator with graphics like my weird self.

I would. That’s the advantage of federated social media. They’re welcome to their little corner of bullshit, and rest of us don’t have to listen.

So programmers are now basically the equivalent of in-shop publishing house editors, or a better analogy, a script-doctor in the hollywood production scene.

A company vibe-codes something that is cheap and shitty, then has to pay an editor to actually make it usable.

I hate this timeline…just pay the person to create the code in the first place…

But that doesn’t rhyme! How are your supporters going to understand something that doesn’t rhyme?