They were designed at a price point. You get what you pay for.

How does that follow? You are treating the idea of a user upgrading their own RAM like a service RPI is providing.

RPI paid to design the board, sold them, then spent more money to make an update to prevent users from modifying a developer board in certain ways? That makes zero sense, and can only serve to alienate the very clientele that are paying their bills.

All joking aside if....

And if you want to block Google's AI Overviews, there's over 100 extensions to choose from.

...there are literally a hundred extensions to block this, maybe instead you might think of making ONE to add it. And just leaving it out.

Ya think?

I've watched the "runs". This isn't playing Doom. This is the "fly" sitting in the middle of a single room with four opponents that shoot at it and lasting about six or seven seconds of game time.

This was by no means a fruit fly brain playing doom. It was an exercise in interfacing Doom to a fruit fly brain which gets squashed in Doom about as fast as it does in my kitchen.

What a colossal waste of time. Predictably, when you take 139,255 neurons and place them in a situation they are utterly unequipped to handle they fail to handle it. Good science boyz!

I'm not interested in what savings, I'm interesting in what software? What software does Oracle have that is worth actually giving them ANY amount of money for today?

Lexmark invented the weaponization of ink and Toner, but it was HP that took it to a fine art. Where you can buy a cartridge but not actually own the ink in it or the right to use it. I moved on to Brother some years ago and never looked back. I wrote an article about it seven years ago, and have never regretted dropping them. And the Brother MFC-J6945DW I moved to then, I still use it. Large format, fantastic quality, giant refillable cartridges. My price per page over and above the cost of paper is a rounding error.

You're right. Meet Excelcia, the Slashdot monitoring and control AI.

That's a funny way of explaining that they neglected to implement proper security measures and backup measures for decades.

The security measures I can forgive. Or, rather, I can extend them the benefit of the doubt. There are so many vectors and ins, I'm willing to issue a mulligan on that.

But the backup... what is the difference between a ransomware attack and a hard drive failure? Only the predicate intent. The result is identical.

So while I have room for tolerance for a security failure, I have no tolerance for the aftermath. Anyone can get hit by it, but being harmed by it for more than a day, that's on them. Anything more than a day's down time to re-image every hard drive and firmware back to known good, is just simply incompetence.

Tero said: How did this article even get published?

It's a great article. There are a lot of apps, use cases, and workflows that can be duplicated in Linux, but which aren't obvious or well advertised. An article like this encourages people to share those workflows they have had problems duplicating and then others who have duplicated them or found other solutions can share them. Great idea. The lowest quality (or one of) part of this article was your comment.

couchslug said: Maintaining the low quality of Slashdot is a mysterious choice by its owners whose replacement by AI would be an upgrade.

...and here we have a tie for the other lowest quality part of this article. Great name, by the way. Matches your attitude. If you want to make a complaint, then offer a solution with it. If you hate Slashdot in general so much, why are you here? We have all watched the site slowly suffer from not having any energy input into the system, but maybe dragging it down further isn't the answer. Can you even see the irony of bitterly complaining about the lack of effort the owners are putting in?

Both of you, add some energy to the system, or vote with your feet. Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Depends what you mean by video editor.

For transcoding, de and re-muxing, filtering, cropping, resizing, de-interlace, and some splicing with the equivalent audio capabilities (basically for format bashing with enough splicing ability to piece together pieces of movies, for example, spread over multiple discs) you have avidemux.

You have other tools like MKVToolNix, Mediainfo and MakeMKV for direct Matroska editing, meta-data vewing, and DVD/Blu-Ray ripping respectively too.

For video authoring with splices, fades, effects, animations, titles, with good timeline support, you have openshot.

Bah,

Made a typo in the quoting but I'm sure you can figure it out.

Would you actually be cheering if he was using Linux and had gotten away with his ransomware spree?

I would be cheering regardless of the end-use of the computer if the method used to apprehend the suspect was not frighteningly draconian. Yes.

It's not a win for anybody.

Indeed, invasion of privacy is not a remedy for crime.

These are the same arguments that legislators and law enforcement are using the world over to erode privacy. To institute "age verification" (which is really just tracking by another name) and to brand everything you do. This is the pre-internet equivalent to tattooing a serial number on everyone and then recording that number at every checkpoint and building access in order to track people. Good thing no one ever did that.

Oh.... wait....

There are many American vs "Rest of the English Speaking World" spellings that don't matter. This one does, as they are two very different things with completely different etymologies and histories.

A check is an action you perform to investigate, and perhaps a mark you make to indicate an investigation or task is completed.
A cheque is a financial instrument used to transfer funds.

If the British can set aside their hatred of all things French long enough to use the correct loan word, then even Americans can get it right.

...don't exist outside Apple.

Your argument fails at the subject line. Age verification is neither necessary, nor is it the actual predicate cause for almost all regulations requiring it. Age verification laws are more about instituting KYC reporting and tracking you than actually verifying your age.

Think about it. How can you verify your age and maintain your anonymity? You can't. How can jurisdictions make laws requiring you to give up your anonymity while justifying it another way? Age verification.

There is no good reason for it anywhere. The actual answer whenever you think age verification is the solution is parenting.

... "Canada declined to interfere with Darwisnism", with the story going on to lament the fact that unfortunately by the time of Stocton's fatal stupidity he'd already passed on his genes.

To call it a "missed opportunity" is a little extreme.

Call me a troll, but both his daredevil idiocy and the fact that other people were stupid enough to get on were and are self solving problems. Both solved by the predictable outcome. An outcome that, I'll add, wasn't merely predictable in hindsight. One hopes that people will ask more questions before getting on a submersible vehicle designed to protect the occupants with pencil lead.

I would be in favour of a law that makes many if not most liability waivers unenforceable. A company that invites people on board a vehicle not type certified as fit for purpose should not be able to enjoy any litigation protection. I would also be in favour of requiring a company that so takes passengers to prove it can cover its liability, through insurance or bond.

But none of this falls on Canada.