If you can’t be assed to cuss, stop using the words. All you are doing is making it harder to read what you are saying, and making yourself look like a child who will get in trouble for cussing. We aren’t on YouTube or whatever, you won’t have your content surpressed because you offended the advertisers delicate sensabilities.

Sorry, that rant was only half directed at you. I’m just frustrated at a world where using bad words is considered worse than literal nazi shit.

Reminds me of Wiz-War, the board game.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it was soldered on because it shares the RAM with the GPU. That’s pretty common these days, and GPUs want both high performance RAM and low latency. There are solutions to significantly lower the trace lengths between expandable RAM and the CPU/GPU, but the standard never took off.

It comes from marketing copy. Same with the emdash. My company has a style guide for marketing material and it calls out using bulleted lists and em dashes exactly how AI does it.

The hardware requirements are quite steep, but I’ve got local AI running in my house. It’s mostly just there for when I want to screw around with it, but technically I could setup OpenClaw and point it to my AI server to use as its brain.

I’m not stupid enough to do that on any real computer I use, but it might be cool to do on a VM where I can tightly control what it can see and have access to. Of course, that limits its usefulness, but security has a cost.

At the same time, I can see the allure of a real digital assistant. I’m old enough to remember when professionals had personal assistants that not only helped them keep track of their work life, but also their personal life. Scheduling their personal life like doctors appointments or house repairs. Dealing with vendors to make sure stuff actually gets done, and making sure they are in the right place at the right time. That would be rad to have.

It also doesn’t take hundreds of people to make a good game anymore, just a dozen or so good employees (sometimes less). Big studios struggle with justifying their existence with graphics and scope creep. Then, more often then not, management shoves it full of microtransactions or refocuses the game to hit whatever’s hot this second. Which often leads to a polished turd of a game.

When you look at the big hits over the last 10 yeas, less than half of them came from big publishers and big studios. With less every year. It’s just not a model that works anymore.

I was watching a youtube video of an engineer student showing off his project. He had a stopwatch app up to show how quickly something was done, and there was a banner ad at the bottom of it. Like, it’s a damn stopwatch, who thought “I worked hard on this, and deserve to make some money!”. Also, how normalized to ads was that person that they didn’t think twice about letting that ad roll in their video.

For sure. Working in IT and being a hoarder has its benefits.

More so now, I still have lots of old RAM laying around. No need to pay markup prices for me.

Not the one you were replying to, but I’m answering you from a Framework 13. It’s the best laptop I’ve owned. It’s solid, runs well, is theoretically repairable without having to buy used equipment off ebay, and runs Linux quite well. I’ve put a few distros on it, and they’ve all just worked, even the finger print reader.

It’s certainly not the best price for performance, but I like the build quality, and it let me bring my own RAM and NVME, which really helped close the price gap.

As countries find success, others will follow. Not only because it isn’t seen as risky, but also because the tooling will be better refined, and talent will exist in those tools. It’s a bit of a chicken and egg problem. Microsoft 365 has a lot of problems, but a shortage of techs who know how to make it mostly behave isn’t one of them.

They don’t have to do that at all. These are “Work or School” accounts, and generally with Schools they are on a specific education products on top of that. All they have to do is make the company/school enter ages for all their accounts if they are using EDU products. Microsoft can reasonably trust that data.

So the headline lies. They didn’t ban fossil fuel ads, they refused to put them on publicly owned property. That’s a big difference. It’s a positive step for sure, but the fact that public space is for rent be giant corporations is already a problem. Cities should be using that space to promote the city, it’s people, and make it a better place to live. Not get scraps from giant corporations to let them use our own property against us.

Norton may have pioneered the technique, but Intuit perfected it.

There are industries where that works. In business software, that’s incredibly common, in part because people buy the same software every year, or on a subscription. So the company makes a half decent product, hires an insane amount of people to market it while firing the vast majority of the developers, sells a ton of subscriptions, then coasts for a decade or two. Any time a competitor starts forming, buy them, lay off the staff, and coast on that too.

It’s the business model of the vast majority of business to business software/service products out there.

If you sign into a Microsoft account during setup, Microsoft automatically turns on bitlocker and sends the key off to Microsoft for safe keeping. You are right, there are other ways to handle bitlocker, but that’s way beyond most people, and I don’t think Microsoft even tells you this during setup. It’s honestly a lifesaver for when bitlocker breaks(and it does), but it comes at a cost. In the business world, this is seen as a huge benefit, as we aren’t trying to protect from the US government, mostly petty theft and maybe some corporate espionage.

As is often the case, the real solution is Linux, but that, too, is far beyond most people until manufacturers start shipping Linux machines to big box stores and even then they’d probably not enable any encryption.

Yes, but the amount of gas in an AC system is insignifcant compared to the CO2 generated just making the AC system in the first place. Hell, delivering it probably generated significantly more pollution. Not saying we shouldn’t strive to make it better, but it’s not as actively harmful as it was 30+ years ago.

Blame Microsoft for repurposing a wifi dongle as a controller interface, and using an at-runtime firmware override for switching it to controller mode.

I’ve got one of the original XBox One controllers, pre-bluetooth. It uses a dongle that is actually a 2.4Ghz wifi dongle. Linux defaults to seeing it as a wifi dongle unless the right packages are loaded. Quite a headache.

When I moved from Lemmy to Piefed, I just dumped apps all together. I’ve been using the web version since and it works absolutely fine for my use. Granted, I mostly comment, having only created a few posts ever. So perhaps using built in “share” feature of phone OSs is useful, but besides that, the web version works great.