So a repeat of the crypto crash for graphics cards when ASICs ate their lunch. Mind you, that’s only for inference (although a super fast QWEN 3.8 would meet a lot of peoples needs).

The argument for datacentres is for training the models, but then they’ll need to prove that they haven’t hit a diminishing returns wall, which will be hard if, as seems likely, they have. Also the Chinese have been doing it in a cave, with a box of scraps (figuratively), and gotten at least 90+% as good results.

Seems like the recent advances have been in the frameworks, which don’t need no stinking (literally if fossil fueled) datacentres.

Guess you learned, but the rules of backup are 3-2-1 with at least one offline (I count offline HDD as a different media type for 2, tape one day, maybe, seems painful), it’s not a real backup until you’ve restored from it and, RAID is not a backup.

Snake Plisskin? I heard you were dead.

Mine’s 5+ looks and works like new. That enamel is tough.

I like the analogy of Arch is bleeding edge, fedora cutting edge. Did the Arch thing (and recommend it to learn, still use archwiki) now happy with ublue after a year or two of fedora. Guess I like stuff that just works.

Wow! Nailed it.(heh)

Claire’s (likely) a good programmer, knows there’s always edge cases and is super pedantic.

Their work mostly takes place in their minds, the computer is a glorified text editor.

Trying to find it funny, but in 2026 it’s way too close to the bone and just makes me sad.

More stupid than usual?

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Worthwhile read.

KDE here.

Icons: Candy; Plasma Style Sweet; Window decs : sweet-dark; Autohide Icons-only task manager at the bottom (RIP Latte :( ), always on top panel for my secondary monitor, autohide top panel on the primary.

I actually use and like Activities, I have General, Game, Code, System, Work all with their own workflows and pinned apps etc.

I lean pretty heavily on mouse gestures using logid with a MxMaster 3. Switch activities, control music, switch apps etc.

I have the gesture button pop up Kando which can do ALL sorts of things, basically I can do 90+% of things super fast without touching the keyboard. Not that I dislike the keyboard, using it now, but sometimes I don’t want to bother.

Top centre of panel has a command output widget with cat CurrentShort.txt which pulls local temp/humidity from a couple of sensors via HomeAssistant. Hover has weather scraped from Aus BoM and a bunch of other informative stuff and if I click it it runs a script with

kdialog --geometry 1024x1024 --textbox /dev/stdin <<< $(cat CurrentInfo.txt)

which pops up a dialog with a weeks forecast among other things. I also use the command output widget for cpu/gpu temps and fan speeds to the left of the status bar, which is on the right.

The Wunderground widget is pretty cool too, find local weather stations and pop them in a panel.

Potential loss of profit from data sucking. Corporate fleets with something to lose will pay more, but in a cheap thing for the masses? Sell their data / habits/ souls…

If there’s a way under Gaia’s green earth to put it on a separate drive, do that. Stick windows on an external NVMe on a fast USB / Thunderbolt, or many laptops have a WLAN port you can shove a NVMe into (often faster than SATA, has a PCIe lane, so give it to linux). Then use BIOS (F12 or whatever) to swap between them, or boot to linux first and let GRUB start windows. Back when, I used REFind on macbooks, if I recall it gets in there earlier but winblows is likely onto it by now.

This problem has been so persistent that it indicates malice aforethought from M$, so if possible give it it’s own lesser device until you can find an alternative to that holdout software (sympathies if it’s Photoshop or AutoCAD). Perhaps there’s a way to run it on Wine / Proton.

Don’t understand the downvotes here, even just burying a HDD in a waterproof container in the backyard is way better than 99.9% of users with unencrypted files in OneDrive or iWhateverTheyCallIt. Offline backups are critical against accidental deletion among other things. Part of my 3-2-1 (not buried, just offline), I like old laptops with big SSDs, makes it self sufficient.

Yup, once you encrypt at home just chose the cheapest / most reliable (or use multiple) depending on taste off site storage. Trust is no longer an issue.

I’d like to see some sort of MergerFS for multiple offsites with varying redundancy levels, instead of my shell script.

I want to see a huge culture shift. Where we have huge peer pressure against ever u/l’ing somebody without their consent. Ever.

Hard agree, but it’s the same as just taking photos with a phone without consent of third parties, but on your face.

We need better laws.

In spades, there used to be, in common law, a requirement for third party consent to be photographed if profit ensued, Mayhap that needs resurrection.

Governments going Panoptican.

Have a Pinecil, best fucking soldering iron I’ve ever had. Haven’t had many, but it stands out. These people make quality stuff.

There’s a reason cornering markets was made illegal, and SamA sucking up all the wafers to make a moat where there was none, was a grade A example of why.