Notices by Itanium Thom (thomholwerda@exquisite.social)

Okay my nerds, hit me with your must-have and favourite Windows 3.11 applications and games (no DOS stuff). I want to see just how much crap I can stuff into this Windows 3.11 VM.

Since the instance linuxrocks.online is openly, knowingly, and willingly hosting nazis, I'm going to block the whole instance. If you're a follower on said nazi instance, I suggest you reconsider your choice of instance.

No quarter for nazis. The only good nazi is a dead nazi. :fuckNazis:

The EU enacted a new law a while ago that all bottle caps should remain attached to the bottle, to combat plastic trash.

All the bottle and packaging makers, from massive multinationals like Coca Cola and fucking Nestlé to small local producers invested in the development of new caps, changing their production lines, and shipping the new caps. Today, a month before the law goes into effect, it's basically impossible to find a bottle without an attached cap.

I don't know, I thought this story was weirdly relevant right now with Apple being a whiny bitch. Imagine being worse than Coca Cola and motherfucking Nestlé.

So I need to convert a DisplayPort signal to HDMI, at 4K/60Hz. Can I just buy any ol' cable/adapter or are there any special considerations? I see there's more expensive "active" ones as well. Is that the usual audiophile-esque brainrot, or a real thing?

@aral @h3artbl33d Understand their business models, and you will realise where your data is safer.

Google's core business is selling insights based on user data. That user data is the goose, the insights (ads) are the golden eggs. Unlike what a lot of people think, Google doesn't sell user data - Google would be stupid to do so. Why sell the one goose, when you can endlessly sell golden eggs? Google will protect the goose - your data - with its life, because its very existence depends on it. Ergo, I use Google products (Android, Google Home, etc., but my Gmail account is corporate to no email scanning).

Apple sells you devices and services. It needs to keep selling you devices and services to survive. That's why Apple's services revenue is so important to it... But that services revenue is 80% income from gambling "games" in the App Store. The more people are addicted to gambling in the App Store, the more money apple makes. The more services Apple can get you to sign up for by pestering you with ads in iOS, the more money it makes.

Even worse - Apple's devices business model is built on genocide. Afraid of TikTok? You should be afraid of just how cosy Apple is with with the CCP.

Google over Apple every day of the week.

@mntmn I'm trying to find the contact information for the person who wrote the blog post about Linux support, since he's been working at Qualcomm for almost a decade, and TI before that, and seems to be a huge engineer. I have no idea if that's the right person to ask (for your or my questions), but I figure it's a better shot than talking to PR people.

With Qualcomm taking Linux support for its new Snapdragon X Elite/Pro chips very seriously, I really, really need a laptop with one of these chips.

I've got some serious desires here, boys and girls.

Holy smokes does this website bring Firefox on #OpenBSD to its knees. Even two Xeons and Radeon Pro w5700 can't carry this.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/devices/surface-pro-11th-edition

Do any #IBM employees follow me here on Fedi? I will do pretty much anything - anything... - to be able to use and possibly review the new IBM Power S1012 in its tower configuration. I even have two POWER9 machines to compare it to!

Please. I will do anything.

https://www.osnews.com/story/139669/ibm-introduces-entry-level-power10-server-and-tower/

@mntmn Exactly, that's kind of what I was thinking. Should be fairly trivial to modify those things (plus perhaps a few of the about:config flags regarding Pocket, Firefox "experiments", data collection, etc., if you wanted to) for every machine shipped?

@mntmn Are you "allowed", as an OEM distributor of Firefox, to turn them off before shipping? I mean, is there any legal document that could stop you?

@aral To be fair, assuming they have a corporate Google account, their emails are not scanned for advertising purposes.

If they're just using personal accounts, they shouldn't be in the medical profession.

@mntmn Definitely mentioning the prospect of this upgrade in my review. 🤩

@aral @romu700 @h3artbl33d @signalapp A fledgling chat app that's taking venture capital money. That's a red flag so big it's visible from space.

@aral This is going to give us Dutch ideas isn't it.

Tankies are really happy with the genocide in Gaza because everyone's all but forgotten about the genocide in Ukraine and China, and tankies fucking love those two genocides.

@mntmn It must be especially baffling to read for someone so deeply committed to open source and hackable hardware like MNT.

@aral Especially one that offers refuge to dangerous nazis like Libs of TikTok.

Being painted as the crazy ones for opposing Facebook feels like we're in the fucking Twilight Zone. Pure insanity.