I think out of all the things I’ve heard about Elon Musk, this might be the thing that disgusts me the most.
I think out of all the things I’ve heard about Elon Musk, this might be the thing that disgusts me the most.
I think it comes down to just knowing what is good. When you’re young you don’t have any experience to judge quality by. As you get older you can rapidly assess that something sucks, even if other people are pumping it up. Either in terms of gameplay or plot or whatever, now you have standards. Also, a lot of modern games just don’t respect your time, and as you get older you realize your time is valuable so you just don’t have the patience for that.
I’m in my 30s, I still game, but I’m a lot quicker to just go “this sucks” and move on to something else.
That’s fair. nixOS can be savage. But I think it’s also helpful for a beginner since you can’t break it. A beginner is much more likely to break their system than an expert.
nixOS , because it’s a completely atomic distribution, like a docker container OS style. You define the state of the system in a configuration file, which can even control the kernel, and you can switch to an older configuration file in any reboot. It’s more of a pain than the others, but it works ok out of the box and when you fix something it stays fixed so you’ll never end up in a situation where something breaks and you can’t fix it.
Also, all the packages bring their own versions of their own libraries and directly link to them so they’ll never break during upgrades, but conversely a lot of Linux installers that try to link to system libraries won’t work.
ReactOS is dead and will go nowhere.
The reason I say this is that I’ve been following them for something like 15+ years by this point, and they haven’t made any perceptible progress in that time. They’re at exactly the same point now where they were 15 years ago.
Agreed. I’ve been slowly moving the machines onto nixOS, and I’m reformatting an older Mac for a neighbor on nixOS as well. On the livecd it runs impressively fast, but on OSX it’s so slow as to be unusable. Windows is now so actively hostile that it’s time to make the jump.
I already donate to my Mastodon instance, if my instance needs or wants money for any reason, they should set up a donation button and I’ll subscribe. Which will give them a lot more money than they would ever make from showing me ads. We should normalize removing all ads from the internet, forever.
I use a physical sim. I’m not sure it even supports eSIM, but I’d be hesitant to ditch the physical sim for precisely the reasons you mentioned. I’ve swapped sims around between phones and even borrowed them from people when I was in a new area, something that’s much harder with eSIMs.
I didn’t even know the option search existed. I just asked ChatGPT and it just tells me the option I need.
nixOS. But seriously. You can change something in the config file, and if it doesn’t work, you can roll back to a previous file. It can also control for things like custom kernels.
Even that wouldn’t be unworkable, it would be worse if you’re stuck with the brain equivalent of serial ports just before everyone switches to the USB standard.
Because art is made up and people keep quoting things from it as if they were factual things that have happened.
It’s better because Bing may still have selling ads as a priority when building the indexer. If you’re not the one paying, you’re the product.
I think people just don’t want to believe that the wealthy and powerful can be that stupid. But why not? Elon Musk was born into a wealthy family and then got super, super lucky during the .com boom. He can absolutely make stupid decisions.
I’ve thought about it and I’ve decided that I can live with that. Besides, I don’t think it will make it to that level of popularity before “the incident” that shocks everyone and triggers a senate inquiry.
Either there will be horrific side effects or Musk will cut quality or make an ‘executive decision’ that beams ads into everyone’s head. I don’t know the final implementation, but I think they won’t resist the temptation to make the firmware up-gradable remotely, and once they have that, they won’t resist the temptation to meddle.
I’m convinced that the Neuralink is the dumbest idea ever, but I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s better for people to just learn the hard way. Like, it’s so obviously stupid that anyone who’s still going for it cannot be helped.
Because last time I checked they just used Bing anwyay, while Kagi runs their own indexer.
I can tell you from experience I have a Samsung T5 (500GB) that has over 95TB of writes over 5+ years to it and it’s only used up 17% of its spare blocks. The T7 which is the newer model is like $40, I’d just get one of those. They’re very reliable, I’ve bought a few and none of them have failed. The larger drives have more spare blocks and are even more resistant to writes.
Personally I would recommend a portable SSD, over a HDD as I’ve had several HDDs fail but never lost an SSD, BackBlaze backs this up with their total drive failure statistics being 2.5% for HDDs and under 0.5% for SSDs. Your real danger will be that a portable drive is guaranteed to get jostled and an SSD is far more resilient to that.
Google’s becoming pretty terrible anyway, it only seems to return pages that are selling things. I’ve switched to Kagi at this point and it seems to work better, it’s subscription only, but you know you’re the one paying for it and that means that you’re the end customer.
They probably are, but it’s not really about cost, it’s about fear. I fear that while it costs $x to switch to Unreal Enigne now, it’ll cost $x+10 after a few weeks when they do their next decision, and $x+20 a month or so after that.