@itsfoss I have never been able to understand how people are so comfortable with how locked down everything Apple makes is. You practically don't even own your own devices -- yet sure pay a premium for them...
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 11:52:34 JST Nazo -
Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 18:39:19 JST Nazo @nixCraft Personally I'm pretty big on striking a balance of minimalism and effectivess with *just* enough eye-candy for a thing to be more usable. I was surprised Plasma seemed to be able to fit within this balance, but stuff like that definitely does not. My screensaver is "turn off monitor."
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 19:25:57 JST Nazo @itsfoss I'm a bit surprised to find I'm actually liking KDE Plasma. I have a bit of a kneejerk towards more inefficient stuff like all the compositing effects and etc (which of course I turned off) but overall it actually seems to be pretty lean and efficient for what it does.
Guess I'm becoming a convert. It works pretty well and has pretty good control. It feels pretty comfortable overall.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 09:26:13 JST Nazo @nixCraft Actually, it's because SERN controls the only fully working time machine and viciously attacks anyone else they catch trying to build one.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 09:15:45 JST Nazo @arstechnica As a general rule of thumb, when something where privacy is a concern straight up skips the EU it means you don't want it elsewhere either until they fix whatever makes it non-compliant with EU privacy laws...
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 09:06:05 JST Nazo @arstechnica They actually had the Pocket 386 for a while. I never even understood the point of the 8088 system. It would limit so much software capabilities even in regards to retro terms... A 386 makes a heck of a lot more sense.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 09:04:07 JST Nazo @arstechnica This sounds like it requires serious investigation. For example, might he have some stake in the company that produced it?
It really makes no sense that just one person can issue such decisions though, regardless. I could understand if there were very good reason (such as an emergency and something with bad side effects was the only option) but this doesn't seem to match that. It really feels like he has stock in the company or something. (If that's not illegal it should be!)
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 15:16:11 JST Nazo @itsfoss Someone could make a live distro based on it. There is quite a surprising dearth of those.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 08:07:40 JST Nazo @arstechnica "For its part, Kaspersky and its representatives have always denied the US government's allegations."
Unfortunately, the problem isn't "does the Russian government currently influence Kaspersky." The problem is that it can at any given time without warning.
As a side note, "you can trust me because I say so" isn't very good. Of course if they *WERE* influenced they would be required to say that they weren't and it's highly unlikely they would refuse (and fall out a window.)
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 07:25:00 JST Nazo @itsfoss Went to Manjaro recently in part because of AMD's weird foot shuffling over the extremely major Ubuntu 24.04 release and all the many distros built around that. (Major LTS release and as far as I can tell the only problem is that for some reason it is built to require specific python modules that conflict -- friendly reminder to everyone, don't freaking use Python in anything that matters, it's a hot mess. They could fix it in a week if they tried but apparently don't care.)
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 07:22:49 JST Nazo @nixCraft Rofl, what the heck even?
And cue people misusing it for aimbots or something and it getting specifically banned from everything anyway.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 07:14:55 JST Nazo @nixCraft I know generally speaking such contracts have clauses that effectively try to claim they can cancel for any reason, but I suspect in many cases this may still not actually be legal -- or at least open them up to punitive damages of some sort even if technically legal. Would be nice if people hit back in such cases, though I know most doing this probably aren't lawyers.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 06:06:06 JST Nazo @arstechnica The idea is sound enough. Would be nice if there were some more automated method people might use on local LLMs or things not owned by large corporations that take your information to actually use this. For local LLMs and such one would just have to do this manually I guess.
Really the basic idea is so simple we all pretty much were already doing this really. Just the way this is described one realizes it could be automated perhaps.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 05:55:17 JST Nazo @nixCraft Seems like exa is being replaced by eza. From googling around it looks like exa is unmaintained I think.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2024 14:00:00 JST Nazo @itsfoss I imagine even with a NPU processor use for LLM tasks is going to be pretty severely limited on a RPi (even 5.) RAM of course being one of the biggest constraints, but if that "TOPs" measurement means token operations per second, prompt processing alone is going to take ages.
Can't imagine running anything much heavier than a 3B or something on there and even that would likely be limited. 3B isn't very good either. (Need at least 7 to get decent stuff and even that's pushing it.)
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2024 12:30:51 JST Nazo @nixCraft Whew...
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2024 11:32:45 JST Nazo @itsfoss I presume this is using a VM? That would be pretty inefficient and messy though.
Depending on what you need, in many cases Termux may be a better solution, but really what we need are proper actual builds of an actual Linux OS (like Ubuntu for phones, but supporting large numbers of devices and actually being developed.)
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2024 10:12:12 JST Nazo @arstechnica A good reminder of why people never should have been ok with EVs relying so heavily on closed, proprietary software... I never understood how people accepted this in something as costly and vital as a vehicle.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2024 08:40:23 JST Nazo @nixCraft Well, it's mostly for hardware. They're pushing hardware really hard and focusing solely on "AI" portions. Which is a thing that bugs me on them and AMD both really. Instead of making the stuff people are trying to do (RT and etc) run full speed native, the focus right now is on running low resolution and upscaling using "AI" resizing (which lots of issues that bother my eyes like ringing.) Some modern games (Starfield) look awful at wrong settings due to relying heavily on it.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jun-2024 08:40:12 JST Nazo @arstechnica Does TDK have some sort of exclusivity agreement with Apple? I haven't exactly kept up, but they used to be just a tech company in general, not specifically tied to Apple. They're not an "Apple supplier" if Apple just happens to use their products...
Sure would be amazing if their claim was true anyway. At least unless they actually do have an exclusivity agreement. Then it screws over the world.