That name was given to me by my mother. Sadly she died before I was born. :(

“But what if I maybe need this one function in this one programme in the next 35 years?”

Technically, the LLM is right.

It’s wild to me that the only way to have a functioning computer nowadays is to exclusively use Libre software.

A computer, that fully saturates the CPU if you press the start menu button, is broken.

A computer, that refuses to start if the manufacturer doesn’t want it to, is broken.

A computer, that is glued together, is broken.

A computer, that disables previous functionality and sells it back to you, is broken.

The world of Windows and macOS is wild. These are big things. How do people accept them?

People thought that Richard Stallman had a substance filled nightmare, but apparently it was precognition.

It’s oozing brainrot juice, freshly pumped out from the LinkedIn cesspit.

Edit: also “high-performers” lol.

QbitTorrent is a libre bitTorrent software and just pair it up with mullvadVPN in a random country away from yours somewhere and you’ll be golden.

Edit: typo. Also, taking over a cargo ship forcefully is unnecessary if you just want to watch Disney+. Using bitTorrent is easier. /s

An infidel should not join the congregation, if they do not intend to convert. /s

My Little Rant on Risc V and Arm vs x86, because I have an opportunity to dump this here and get it off out of my system.

RISC systems will maybe perhaps take over market share from x86 in the mobile laptop space, but essentially there’s no point in anything else. If I remember correctly, RISC came before CISC in computing, and many old mainframes were RISC. But then people started thinking: “What if we can do multiple operations in a single instruction?” And therefore CISC was born and he did wonders for performance.

Yes, the reduced instructions are very nice for battery life. Who doesn’t like good battery life? People who like performance, that’s for sure. So if you run a programme that is programmed for CISC primarily, and then you just change the compiling target to a RISC system, then you will basically use the same battery life, but with worse performance than just using a CISC system, Since multiple clocks now need to do something that has happened in a single clock on CISC. I fully understand that having a monopoly on computing hardware is very bad. I don’t get the hype around arming normal computers because it will just shift the monopoly from one to another, the harm to innovation remains. Risc V is interesting because it would break the monopoly, but the problem is it uses a pushover license. So companies would reap all of the benefits for developing a proprietary risk system, and everyone who likes to compete is free to use the reduced, almost unusable base spec. I mean, compare the BSD kernel to the Linux kernel. It’s nowhere close. So with that being said, I think x86 in public domain would be the nicest thing to happen. Thank you for listening to my useless TED talk.

Edit: Thanks for the interesting replies, people! Time will tell what will have happened, so let’s find out together.

Arch users be like: Your system is way too bloated. Have you tried Arch?

The Linux kernel is so handy, its mascot even has three arms.

Think about him personally what you will, but professionally, he is the reason why we can have digital personal property today. Also the stuff he did for computing is objectively good.

Yes, well that happens if you use very small models. It does get better with more parameters, meaning it gets more consistent. How valuable the advice is, well, you can judge for yourself.

Well, yes, but then what’s the point? It would be like having Wikipedia filtered through Alex Jones.

Cool design.

Yes, but that’s because of the development for the cosmic desktop. After they finish it supposedly this summer it will follow Ubuntu again.

PopOS has the best support for Nvidia. It’s basically plug-and-play. Mine is the RTX 3080.

Amateur. At a previous job, I always needed to tell the interns the same thing I need to apparently tell you. Eating the worms in the salad is completely optional.

It’s a cult.

Everything is flawed, there is no silver bullet. But again, it’s still a massive improvement over what we had previously.

Well, that’s the neat part. We don’t need to do that because what Flatpak does, doesn’t matter for them. People can just install Flatpak in their system and they have access to everything. I realise for system components it’s a different story, but that’s not the use case, it’s for applications.

Edit: typo.