Nice.
I’m also trying out SDL + Vulcan.
Would be nice to learn from a small project like this.

Mostly Mass Effect fans back then, I suppose.

I myself considered the idea kinda fun, with the cool graphics it was portrayed with, in the game trailers.
Even though I never ended up playing the game, that was probably one of the things that caused me to give a try to Google Assistant for a few hours, before I realised how it just wasn’t worth it.

And now they’ve got stuff with extremely high price/performance ratio, expecting people to find it desirable just because it is “fluent”.
I have enough experience listening to people who fluently speak information that they understand nothing of and don’t need a machine to do the same, just because it has a bigger dump of information and lower rational capabilities.

At that level, might as well not try persuasion.

Just tell him to make a Linux VM for it.

No biggie here. Just one of the pawns in MS’s FUD tactics.

Doesn’t seem ridiculous enough.
They probably expect the OS to “just work”, so that they can work on other things that don’t just work.
A little BS though, but understandable.

there was this person who was not using Linux because of the CAD software he wanted to use and when I asked what exactly it was, he said, “KiCad”

https://programming.dev/post/41009576/20603820

If I’m doing Dell vs FrameWork, then the latter has the winning argument.

Of course, neither of those models are available to me (with FrameWork wholly not available in my country), but the Dell thing is going to be more expensive, both in the short and long term.

Very inclined on going with 2nd hand.

The three-martini lunch is no longer common practice for several reasons; these include the implementation of “fitness for duty” programs by numerous companies, the decreased tolerance of alcohol use,[4] a general decrease in available leisure time for business executives and an increase in the size of the martini

I would love to see a whole AI data-centre and its accompanying nuclear power plant get arrested.

Yeah, doesn’t seem worth using AI to me.

I can manually program that much in an hour.

How about those that own things and control people so much that they can somehow get enough charity to live off it?
I somehow fail to understand how that manages to be a viable method.

People desired Cortana in their devices.
Until they found out what it is being made out of.

If you are adding the plethora of generally available dried fruits to the mix, it should be manageable.

Though you might need to do some research if you intend on committing on fruit-only.

If I were to try something like that, I would have in mind that if things start going wrong I could just get some eggs for emergency.

Don’t forget lemons and tomatoes. Also that some fruits are better off cooked.

Kinda useful to know the lane configurations before buying the thing.
Considering that the configuration tools in motherboard BIOS don’t seem to explain very well, it would be useful even for one that you own.

A pity that its data base is limited to the newer models.

We have Rust at home.

Tigger would be better. no?

No need to unionise when you have the power to make a startup.

But then first you need the power and ability to make a startup.

Better get an Open Hardware RISC V system, with stuff like the graphics, sound and elt/WiFi/Bt being Open Hardware too.

Then you can go with a fully open OS and it will actually make sense.

I made sure to get one with 4 slots (still haven’t managed to use them all though) and good component cooling.
Thinking back, getting the G version would have done better, but I didn’t intend on swapping with a 5800X back then.

Now it’s just about getting the right parts to accompany the CPU and RAM I have lying around. And the HDDs of course. The Toshiba one ended up having an undesirable delay, meaning I would have to go with the Seagate ones priced 50% higher.

And then a router not having a backdoor.
Hopefully I can find one with OpenWRT without having to choose ASUS.