A major reason these kinds of things are happening is the EU move toward digital sovereignty.

Since there isn’t exactly a non-US commercial OS available and Linux is good enough for most everything, we’re starting to see a lot of interest in the open source world and moving towards open and standards-based software.

Commercial companies recognize that the EU governments represent a huge potential source of income. Some categories of software have essentially no Linux support… this leaves a huge vacuum to be filled by a company who can create professional image editing/CAD software which also works on Linux.

If Affinity is the only large, commercially supported professional publishing software available then they become the defacto winner of all of these new EU Digital Sovereignty contracts.

But the equivalent would be to take tutorials, examples and small open source projects and tinkering with them, rather than asking a machine to do it for you, no? I

I’ve found that using LLMs to research/summarize eases the friction of entering a new hobby and having to learn the tools, techniques, vocabulary, etc. You can just use Google (As an aside, nobody worries about how dependent we are on search) but the answer may not be in a answered in a way that is understandable to you or that fits into the context that you’re working with.

I’m going to RTFM eventually, but right now I need to figure out what the hell ‘Hello World’ means, who is World? Where do I type this text? What does compile mean?

Of course, none of this changes anything about the fact that it requires actual mental effort and problem solving in order to learn. LLM agents provide a new tool for people to use to avoid making that effort which can injure their own education, I can agree there. However, if deployed intelligently, they’re a useful tool/tutor if you can’t afford a, fairly incompetent, human expert in every field to be on call 24/7.

Using LLMs as a semi-incompetent tutor is a good use. They know the basics well enough to explain it to you and have an idea of how to do the more complex stuff… but if you actually needed the thing done, you’d hire a professional.

It gets weirder the longer you look at it.

Sure, let’s just say the guy was overzealous with the (silicone caulk? lol) adhesive compound. Maybe the white cord is DC power, replacing the battery… but the red wire that’s right beside the ‘power’ wire is a USB cable plugged into the phone’s USB port.

What is plugged into the other end? It’s Zalgo isn̴̝̂’̶̯̾ṭ̷̆ ̶̫̈i̷̹̚t̴̩̉?̶͊͜

Honestly, if someone is just looking to get started cheap and easy, buying a pi and installing pi hole is a great first project that has immediate positive returns. Adding more services can be easy (if you used containers) and expanding to add more services is cheap.

Then, when you decide to spring for a server box, those Pis can still be useful as home automation devices. For example, they can control a decent amount of programmable LED strip lighting. Attached to a sensor shield, a solar panel and battery it can do atmospheric monitoring outside (while also controlling your driveway lighting) while being easy to integrate into HomeAssistant.

If you need to retire it, you can throw some emulators on it (retropi), load it up with a few thousand ROMs and donate it to a place that buys kids toys for holidays/their birthday.

I’m about to head out the door may as well do a quick system upgrade.

Doesn’t that require Extended memory? I don’t think that’s going to catch on

Run in the background? Look at you with your fancy multitasking OS

You might have meant it as a joke

Yeah, I didn’t think anyone would get the joke if I posted a picture of a 486DX with the J20 jumper set. You have to be a greybeard to remember that.

Kids these days with their 5% overclocks.

Back in my day we had 100% overclocks!

We’ve towed it outside of the environment.

I didn’t get a chance to see what long-term progression systems were available.

It looks like they were going with the Helldivers 2 Warbonds mini-battlepass system which has some mechanical unlocks (a silencer in the Server Slam) and some cosmetics. If they can keep adding new items and mechanics at a good pace then it can go a long way towards keeping the gameplay fresh.

Either way, I bought it so I’ll be playing on launch. :D

It was a sect until someone forked it, now it’s a cult

I had zero interest in Arc, I watched a brief video a year or so ago and not much else.

I grabbed the playtest for the server slam last weekend and I have to say that I’m pretty excited for the release. It looks amazing, it runs super smoothly and they’ve gone a long way towards polishing and updating the game systems so it is fun to play and dying doesn’t feel as punishing or unfair. (though, those flying rocket UAVs are the spawn of satan)

TLDR: Wayland is super broken, NVIDIA makes it worse,

Wait, what? I’m using NVIDIA and Plasma 6.5 without issues.

Ubuntu

Ohhhhhhh

I used one to play WoW too, now I use this with a gaming profile instead of needing a piece of dedicated hardware:

The profiles are done on the hardware, so it doesn’t need anything special from the OS except to support keyboards.

Bots pretending to be tech bros*

Twitter is basically millions of Groks in a trenchcoat at this point.

I don’t believe any kind of analysis that depends on measuring sentiment on social media given that it’s trivially easy to run hundreds or thousands of accounts on a 5 year old graphics card and some vibe coding.

I was just guessing (it’s how I’d do it) 🥳

Maybe each server shows up as a library. Like “Server 1 - Movies”

Kind of annoying but less so than swapping servers and search should work

I’m not trying to convince you to cheer for this, I’m just correcting a common math mistake.

0.3% overall.

.3 percentage points. 11.6% increase

Those are two different things