Ring was an obvious trojan horse from day 1. It’s depressing how many people are only just realizing this, and how many people still don’t even give a shit.

If you have a Ring camera, you are a scourge to your entire community.

Cool, sounds promising!

I wonder how much power Valve even has here. I mean, we’re talking about Windows compatibility. How many Windows games can run properly in a 64-bit WINE environment?

Dropping 32-bit support has to happen eventually, but there’s bound to be collateral damage. It wasn’t a painless change even on macOS, which is generally a more tightly controlled “adapt or die” platform.

This matches my experience and the general consensus I’ve seen online. The 6 series had major overheating problems. Later generations get noticeably warm but not so much that it causes serious problems.

The concept is real. I mean, anyone who thought “vibe coding” would be a viable career path for long enough to actually have a career was just not paying attention to reality.

Right now it legitimately takes some expertise to get good results from AI coding. (Most people doing it now get, at best, convincingly passable results.) But the job of a “vibe coder” is much simpler than the job of a conventional programmer, and it will become increasingly simple to automate out the human’s role. It’s not like progress is going to suddenly stop. The fruit is hanging so low that it might as well be on the ground.

Are those odd choices? My knowledge of emulators is more outdated than OP’s hardware.

Let me put it this way: I audit open source software more than I audit closed source software.

This is true almost every time someone says “but without <obviously unethical thing>”, these businesses couldn’t survive! Same deal with all the spyware that’s part of our daily lives now. If it’s not possible for you to make a smart TV without spying on me, then cool, don’t make smart TVs.

If your business model crumbles under the weight of ethics, then fuck your business model and fuck you.

Related: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/felony-contempt-business-model-lexmarks-anti-competitive-legacy

If you like hiking, you might also enjoy indoor rock climbing. It’s more social and fun than a gym and you will have the opportunity to interact with a lot of the same people repeatedly. You might even have some beginners groups in you area to get started. Meetup.com is good for finding groups like that.

Good luck out there!

That actually sounds like a neat idea. I mean, it’s a privacy nightmare, but not much more than any other social media site.

I guess I’ll look into XFS and see if it’s suitable for my use cases (I know almost nothing about it), but this supports my opinion that BTRFS is an easy choice over EXT4 at least.

Edit: No snapshot support in XFS, so I’ll stick with BTRFS. My performance requirements are not that high on desktop. If I set up a high-performance server that would be another matter.

I was surprised to learn that F2FS has rather small maximum volume sizes. 16TB with 4K block sizes, 64TB with 16K block sizes. But your whole kernel needs to use 16K pages to use 16K F2FS blocks, which seems like more trouble than it’s worth. Either way, it’s so non-future-proof I’m not even going to think about it.

For context, Debian dropped support for 586 in Debian Stretch (9.0), release in 2017.

I have not done the legwork to compare this to other distros, but Debian generally supports older hardware than most other major mainstream desktop distros.

Kind of makes sense. It would be an addition to the lineup rather than a replacement like previous “T” series. It would just cannibalize sales.

Bummer, but probably the right move.

Mobile payment is the only major problem I’ve encountered. Fortunately, for me it’s just a nice-to-have, not a must-have.

I’ve heard that some banks have that feature within their own app, but I’ve never actually seen that. If anyone knows of specific banks that support that, please share! I suspect there’s no such thing in my country but who knows?

It’s an extra step in macOS 15. You need to go into System Settings now.

Used to just be able to use the contextual menu to open it and get an approval dialog.

I’m actually using an atomic distro now (Bazzite). But that’s not why I chose it, and honestly I don’t think the advantages are significant.

There are some downsides that affect me on a regular basis, though.

I need to reboot more since every update requires it. That feels like going back in time 25 years.

I need to deal with the complexity of multiple distros with DistroBox to get the functionality I am accustomed to. I think that alone is proof that atomic distros are not quite ready for prime time.

The advantages elude me. Snapper or timeshift handle rollbacks just fine, as long as you use a modern filesystem like btrfs. So I haven’t worried about busted updates in years.

I’m quite happy with Bazzite, but I can’t point to anything good about it that is specific to immutable distros. I just don’t get it, really. I guess the advantages are more for the developers and maintainers than for end users.

Ebooks.com has a ton of DRM-free ebooks. They have a whole DRM-free section, plus a search filter, and they clearly display all available formats before purchase. That’s my first stop for ebooks.

This is the clearest sign to me that Apple has jumped the shark.

Apple has a long history of waiting until they could do something right rather than rushing to market with some fad. And here they are tripping over themselves to ship something that is obviously half-baked (at best). There’s no vision, there’s no attention to detail, there’s no careful UX design. It’s just “oh shit we need AI right?”

I’ve never tested this hypothesis, but I would guess that a big-ass battery would remain useful after years of wear while a normal battery would need to be almost constantly plugged in. It’s one thing to plug in a power bank now and then, but if it effectively becomes a wired device that’s too much of a pain.

What a bizarre headline and angle for an incredible news story.