linearchaos

linearchaos , 1 day ago to Technology in Physical Media (Blu-Ray, Music CDs)

I probably bought 500 discs when Blockbuster went under. And they're still in an okay market for players they're not gone yet, but at some point they will go the way of the dodo

linearchaos , 2 days ago to Technology in Physical Media (Blu-Ray, Music CDs)

The biggest problem I have with physical media nowadays is that the players are slowly getting enshitified

You can't buy a tape deck anymore you can hardly find a reasonable quality record player that's not audiophile level.

There's very little choice in DVD / Blu-ray players now. I don't expect that media to be easy to maintain forever so drm free digital is a much better choice.

linearchaos , 2 days ago to Technology in A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back

Yeah, you can be damn sure I'm going to disable this at some grand level for my ORG if it makes it to us.

linearchaos , 6 days ago to Technology in Butts, breasts, and genitals now explicitly allowed on Elon Musk’s X

I don't engage with it so I'm only getting whatever the default is :)

My school releases the buses and notifies people on Twitter. If not for that I wouldn't be there at all

linearchaos , 7 days ago to Technology in Butts, breasts, and genitals now explicitly allowed on Elon Musk’s X

That scans, last time I looked around on there it was almost exclusively dicks.

linearchaos , 7 days ago to Technology in Linux May Be the Best Way to Avoid the AI Nightmare

I don't think it's a support issue at least that's not the hard part. Native Linux apps are generally second rate if you're lucky. The browsers are fantastic there's maybe a couple of dozen solid production quality apps out there that working all or nearly all distros.

You can get almost anything you want to be done in Linux, but there are definitely compromises you have to make.

As long as there's compromises are greater than the compromises you make sucking on Microsoft's tit, Linux will still be in the shadows.

linearchaos , 7 days ago to Technology in Linux May Be the Best Way to Avoid the AI Nightmare

Some, not all. If you're inflexible on gaming you're going to want to get comfortable with Windows AI.

linearchaos , 7 days ago to linuxmemes in I'm writing this from a crappy laptop with 2GB of RAM and a dull screen.

Doesn't really matter what your developers run on, you need your QA to be running on trash hardware.

We can even cut out the middleman and optimize unity and unreal to run on crap

linearchaos , 7 days ago to linuxmemes in I'm writing this from a crappy laptop with 2GB of RAM and a dull screen.

We just need to write a version of Lemmy that runs in basic on a TRS-80 and publish a magazine

linearchaos , 9 days ago to Technology in Are We in an AI Bubble?

Yes, and no.

The tech is absolutely astounding. Somebody posted a random idea on Facebook and it caused me to make it have a conversation between Fred Rogers and Steve Irwin and it absolutely nailed it. I've had it look at pictures of memes it got details like one person looking at another person.

The power wise, it's rather unsustainable. There's a real cost associated with each one of these queries were running and the price to train it with all the data. There are many jobs at which it makes financial sense to pay for it is a service but the vast majority of work or sending off to AI is nothing that anyone is willing to pay for.

We're in an AI bubble because we can only make queries against AI as long as Microsoft and Google decide that it's in their plans to allow us to do it for free.

linearchaos , 11 days ago to Technology in Google's "Manifest V2" Chrome extension phaseout next month is expected to impact the original uBlock Origin extension, which still uses the V2 framework and has 37 million users

Especially at school.

Ubiquity routers have had blocking in them it's not a stretch to expand that out to other enterprise

linearchaos , 11 days ago to linuxmemes in Switched to linux before it became mainstream

I use Linux because I don't trust windows, I don't like the direction Microsoft is headed, and I'm bored.

We're not the same either, but that's ok. We can still all have each other's backs.

linearchaos , 12 days ago to Technology in Framework boosts its 13-inch laptop with new CPUs, lower prices, and better screens

13 is a good "on call"/travel size. It's not big enough to do serious work on but in a pinch it's definitely big enough to get something done. It's more comfortable on a flight, you can toss it a fairly small bag and take it with you. It's lighter but can still manage a reasonable size keyboard. And when I get to my house or my job I'm plugging into external mouse and keyboard anyway.

It's not for everyone but my 13-in motherboard died about 2 months ago and I am definitely in the market. Now if I can just actually buy one of these we'll see.

linearchaos , 12 days ago to Technology in Manifest V2 phase-out begins

It becomes impossible to block ads in all browsers new forks will be made and the features we want will happen. The bar to spin and maintain a new browser is high but it's not impossible on there are a lot of people that want this

linearchaos , 16 days ago to Technology in Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search

Same I was dealing with a strange piece of software I searched configs and samples for hours and couldn't find anything about anybody having any problems with the weird language they use. I finally gave up and asked gpt, it explained exactly what was going wrong and gave me half a dozen answers to try to fix it.