FYI, Two Tier Kier is a conspiracy theorist term pushed by people who say Kier harms white people and doesn’t punish non-whites for crime.

Yeah, why wouldn’t it be? Lol

It’s also unclear if they’re comparing it to the cost of the index with or without the Lighthouses.

We’ll just have to wait and see.

• Laptop OEMs seem to go with fingerprint readers that have no Linux support.

• A number of distros out of the box have some IMO dumb things you need to change.

E.g. Fedora insisting on having their own Flatpak repository that isn’t as well-stocked or updated as Flathub, and missing audio/video codecs (I realise this is due to licensing concerns, but other distros get around it).

• I’d like Linux to feel more like an ecosystem. If I could sync my DE’s settings, installed apps, etc as trivially as I can sync my Firefox bookmarks/settings/extensions then I’d be happy. Frankly I’m amazed that Gnome and KDE haven’t attempted this.

Yes, I know I can manually and painstakingly do a lot of this with Syncthing. It’s not the same. It’s a lot more time/effort and you need the knowledge to set it up.

Even calling it side loading is an attempt to delegitimise the practice. To make it sound like you’re doing something dodgy by the side.

It’s just installing an app.

Nobody calls installing an app from outside the Microsoft store on their Windows PC “side loading”.

Likewise for Macs regarding their app store, or installing an app from outside your distro’s repository on Linux.

Least insane .ml tankie

That’s a shame. I’ve had very good experiences with Sony upper mid range/lower high end TVs. Their image processing is second to none IMO, they seem to use more powerful CPUs than a lot of other android TV makers, and their use of AndroidTV means I can trivially customise my TV in a way that I can’t with lots of other brands (strip out ads, basically).

Shit, my oldest daughter moved into a flat with friends when she started uni not long ago, and took my old 2007 42" 1080p Bravia that I bought all those years ago. She hadn’t even been born yet, and it still looks shockingly good.

This is sad news.

They bring a lot of “exclusives” to PC too.

Do you think the only thing TVs are used for is watching traditional terrestrial TV? Lol

Right? That leaves no TVs. I can’t really think of any TVs that are ad-free, or are guaranteed to be ad free in future.

Personally I’ve been getting android TV boxes and installing a custom (and free) launcher on it, and using SmartTube for ad-free YouTube.

Because it’s more testing, more work, more resources spent, all for something that package maintainers will usually do for free anyway.

Generally unsupported means “we will not provide support for this, you’re on your own if something goes wrong”

Rather than “this will not work at all, we have ensured that”

Unfortunately most of the GPUs aren’t usable by gamers. We aren’t talking mining booms where miners buy up gaming GPU stock, then sell cheap when the bubble bursts.

We’re talking companies buying huge GPUs that don’t have video outputs and have an altered software stack to what’s used for gaming, missing all kinds of features and game specific patches.

Granted, many 4090/5090s were also used, and those will be usable by gamers, but even with a significant price drop on those, only richer gamers will find that to be viable.

Somewhat similar story for memory - a lot of it is tied up in HBM, or as GDDR on enterprise graphics cards.

Damn right 🫖

The US is a lower trust society than most of Europe

But but but, this way I get to feel like I’m doing something without actually doing a damn thing, and continuing to support Microsoft

Fucking hate how these shitheads take words from Tolkien’s works and bastardise them. Palantir, Anduril.

What’s next, a social credit system named “Silmaril”? An organisation that harvests the organs of homeless called “Rivendell”?

Just fucking stop.

It’s just an Android phone, so yeah, it’ll have Signal.

SK Hynix (and Samsung) is worse than Micron.

Micron scrapped Crucial, the consumer brand they owned.

SK Hynix and Samsung never even directly sold to consumers to begin with.

SK Hynix and Samsung were the ones who signed deals with OpenAI on the same day for 40% of the entire fucking planet’s DRAM supply that kicked off the DRAM panic buying to begin with! This mess is their fault!

Micron are absolutely shifting to more profitable HBM production in order to make the most of the AI bubble, and they’re fucking us over in doing so, but IMO what they’re doing pales in comparison to the levels of fuckery that SK/Samsung have done with the shady backroom OpenAI deals. I repeat… 40% of Earth’s RAM production.

It really angers me that those two have so far escaped media wrath while Micron was exclusively taking the hit for an entire shady industry. Blame all of these fuckers. Blame OpenAI. Blame Nvidia.

No, they aren’t Marxist-leninist.

There’s no overthrowing of capitalism. China is capitalist as fuck.

Socialism is not “when the government does things”.