Even in terms of story, the content is no longer optimized for quality. It’s optimized for watchability which generally refers to the ease of viewing even when you’re not completely paying attention.

They somehow found a way to even further commercialize and mass produce the moving picture.

Interesting. All the systems that I knew of they were refreshing to use ethernet with static IP address addresses instead.

I think optical media is a dead platform. Hence, there is an apparent lack of interest I think in implementing alternative solutions. I’ve had success with MakeMKV using the docker container approach, but never tried to rip UHD.

The Corpo-inspired future is that you should not get to own any of your media outright. They will decide when you can stream it and to which devices. Piracy is quickly becoming the only viable option if you value your freedom, and it’s a very unfortunate state of things.

Very cool. I’ve used this for about a five year period in my career. Used it to control test equipment, and there’s definitely systems out there today still using it.

The one platform where I’m actually excited for the new update.

We’ve got representatives attacking the postal service for not being highly profitable. We aren’t at square one of investing in the public good even when it pays in the long run.

Costs are borne by all, but profits only for the few.

A sure sign that your rights are under threat either way.

AI investor expectations can’t shift soon enough.

Really? I’ve been told by all my dudes into hardware that AMD is where it’s at for value. Plus, Intel has manufacturing issues. I’m sure there’s good deal out there if you look, but I feel dissonance between this article and what I hear in my circle.

Then, he is a fool. LLM technology has no fence around it. You can download and run one on your own hardware. The only reason a person would use their service is convenience access to a larger model.

Fun fact:

nop is also just xchg eax, eax!

Power prices are also up a ton. It’s like up over 20% year over year in my area to help subsidize all the new AI data centers.

I appreciate a simple piece of software that does exactly what it’s supposed to do.

It looks like the spray tool from MS paint in Windows 95.

I installed TF2 on a Mac with only integrated graphics in college and played a ten to twelve FPS slideshow for years.

It was Debian as well.

My wife used to love this game! And then her mom started playing.

It’s not just that. Imagine the dependency management trying to hold onto 32 bit compatibility.

Ugh, I feel you there. I need fractional scaling for my eyes these days to get the elements just visible without wasting so much screen.

This doesn’t look like Arch.