DDR4 is still somewhat affordable (I stress “somewhat”), and it should still be plenty fast enough for gaming. You can get a 32GB kit for ≈$200, which is only double (lol) what it was a few years ago.

Yes, and I passed that research paper onto someone who works with researchers who think LLMs are the best new invention for technical writing. It’s going to be a constant battle, even amongst people who should know better.

I don’t know if I’d say “a lot,” but I think you are correct to say “some.” We don’t need to suddenly start flinging around generalized invectives towards science, especially when there’s already a concerted effort by conspiracy theorists and bad actors to convince people to reject science out of hand.

You might enjoy this video/series: https://youtu.be/yawlonjLp4c

I’ve been trying to get my audio working the way I want (instead of everything just going to the default sink), and it’s been helpful.

Love it (CachyOS). For the most part, everything “just works.” I have no plans to go back—not even wishful musings.

There have been a few…let’s call them…stnanks.

• Not all of the sensors were recognized for my motherboard out of the box. The important ones, like basic CPU temp and a few others were fine, but more granular ones, like fan speed, T_junc, T_die, etc. were missing. I like to apply my own fan curves based on various sensor conditions, so this was a sticking point initially.
  • Thankfully, the Arch wiki and a thanklessly maintained dkms module for this specific (problematic) chipset came to my rescue. Pretty easy to get set up.
• A small number of very specific games and mods don’t work on Linux. If you exclusively play competitive online games, there’s a good chance you are going to be out of luck.
  • I have friends that play League, but I’m not willing to give up Linux just for that one game. Plenty of other multiplayer games out there that work just fine.
• Audio routing is both easier and more difficult.
  • There’s great GUIs to manage audio connections.
  • Trying to get automatic connections going, like with VoiceMeeter, is a lot more technical and involves learning Lua and Pipewire/Wireplumber. Not impossible, and audio tends to work just fine otherwise, but if you want a specific custom setup, it will take some effort.

Overall, I wouldn’t trade what I have for Microsoft any day of the week. I’m done being their product.

I thought text selection was handled via keyboard. Also been a hot minute since I first learned about this, and not using that buffer has not exactly been a common discussion point, since being able to reuse text is typically a desirable trait!

Joking? Or the ideas of a mad genius? (h/j)

https://loss32.org/

I thought this was an old feature of Linux (maybe Unix?). Highlighted text gets copied to the buffer, which is useful when you’re on the command line (because Ctrl+C ends the current process).

I don’t know how you’d change this, but maybe that can give you some clues on what to do.

Same. I’m thinking about replacing the PSU, which is one of the original parts, to ensure the rest of the parts don’t fail due to improper power delivery.

At least PSUs haven’t yet spiked in price.

I would be curious to find out why, honestly. Is there some economic factor? Has Adobe thoroughly captured the market? Is it cultural? I know the comment author speculates that it’s a cultural/political shift, but I’m curious what the data would show!

I sincerely mean this: thank you for your sacrifice. I wish there were more people like you who were willing to make the sacrifices necessary to stick it to the big corpos.

I’ll be excited if Linux hits 20% total market share, which is about where Apple sits last time I checked. That would put Linux squarely as a contender for normies.

First tech device I’ve ever bought where I didn’t feel some amount of buyer’s remorse. There’s nothing I dislike about it, and I can even install my own distro on it, if I so desire. Because of the form factor, I’ve even been able to tackle my backlog!

But with https://unbox.at/ to make it harder for companies (and maybe certain governments) to tie you to your inbox. Also, it’s just generally helpful for managing spam and promotional garbage.

According to the article, it might be a company in China, but that remains to be seen. They could just as easily pivot into AI bullshit to try to get a piece of that pie before the bubble pops.

The ones I know aren’t at all, they’re just uninformed.

Depends on the project and the kind of utility I get from it. Up to $20 USD typically, but I’ve donated more for specific cases.

Exactly. They’re okay with the fascist Xitpool, but if any regular dev ever crossed those “guidelines,” they’d be banned in a heartbeat.

Probably true, but iirc, there are already people planning to keep X11 going, because change means fucking up their personal workflow.

I have an idea: fuck capitalism!

https://archive.org/download/AlbertEinsteinAndHisWorks

The essay is titled: Why Socialism?