Pretty sure it was snapd that drove this decision. It's truly horrible for real daily desktop usage, causing many seconds lag for app startup and certain operations like selecting files to attach to email in Thunderbird.

Snap / snapd is pretty much like Windows Vista when the world was so used to Windows XP.

FWIW, I've used various Linux distros for my main desktop machine since 1994. Never in all these years have I seen anything like snapd which makes a high end desktop feel so sluggish.

>It's one of the few segments in IT where you're not directly at constant risk of being replaced by an H1B.

Truth. One of the reasons why I keep gravitating back to defense work. Only since around 2004 or so; there's now this "government shutdown" nonsense, which is a bit of a vicious circle, because programs get fucked over, then you have to roll off the contract and find work on another. And sometimes, there isn't any. (happened to me at Lockheed), so some people have to cycle back into the private sector for a few years (which isn't a bad thing; because THAT is where you pick up new skills, to be honest). Then when some asshole "businessman" crashes the business and does layoffs (to replace you with H1B's), you're back on the street again, and you end up back in the "safe" sector: defense. Oh, and if your Clearance expires while you're in the private sector, then the contractor just pays the $10k (or whatever it is now) to re-do your investigation. This has happened to me twice now.

People who financially benefit from a Ponzi scheme before it implodes tend to believe they are involved in legitimate work.

Whether Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme, I don't know. But one thing I do know for certain is people who are making money almost always believe they are doing good, even with plenty of evidence is contrary.

Yup!

One of the impacts of regulation is that it changes. Building a large plant takes years and while it is being built regulations change. While the plant is still being built, the plant has to make changes to align with the new regulations. There is a long post on Medium or Substack about this. The article tries to nail down why the US is one of the most expensive places to build nuclear power. Changing regulations is a major cause.

If one could bang out a dozen modular reactors in the time it takes to build a single large one, it is a huge win.

You've mis-used the word "clowns", which is defined as "a person who performs physical comedy and arts in an open-ended fashion, typically while wearing distinct makeup or costuming and reversing folkway-norms." One should only use words in strict accordance with their original dictionary meanings, rather than trying to employ any sort of sarcastic, hyperbolic, or humorous shades of evolved meaning.

I remember back when we had chat bots like the Bonzi Buddy in 1999.
Now in 2024, we have the technology to run a full rendered chat bot, using local or online chat apis, but it still doesnt exist.
Tavern AI and other chat apps/services exist, but they are only static images.

Why no realistic person avatar for the desktop yet?

One constant of stock market bubbles is people riding the euphoria always say "it's different this time".

So this would have been perfectly fine if they paid for licenses to film the music video.

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Are you saying that Germany can fix their problem by going with Telsa? Can they build enough Megapacks to take this issue on? How much would that cost?
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Two words: phase stability

I read an article recently that Germany needed to keep one of their coal plants on for frequency and phase stability for the grid. The article pointed out the engineers have been worried about this issue for years, but it has yet grabbed the attention of politicians.

The only company that crippled Netflix was Cogent. I love Cogent (I've used their services), but they made a mistake taking on Netflix as a CDN client. Cogent prides itself on settlement free peering. Netflix pushed them beyond the settlement free contracts and they had no incentive to upgrade the peering links. That isn't the ISP's problem. The whole Netflix issue a few years back had nothing to do with net neutrality and everything to do with settlement free peering contracts.

Did you actually read about the components that comprise the RHEL AI system? It isn't just marketing. RHEL AI announcement is made up of:
* bootc -- bootable containers. A way to build ami, qcow2, vmdk, etc images in the same way one builds container images.
* Granite LLM -- Apache 2 licensed LLM.
* InstructLab -- tooling for using, managing, and training the LLM

Podman Desktop has a plugin called AI Lab that makes it easy for people to startup AI endpoints. In some ways it is similar to LM Studio, but container based.
Openshift AI is a system for Openshift (K8s) that supports building AI pipelines.

That's called peering and it is pretty important part of how the Internet works! Peering saves a company from using their more expensive transit links. The FCC should NOT mess with peering. It should in NO way be confusing with Net Neutrality.

Its sad, dac/amps make headphones sound so much better. The LG phones had them, but LG is discontinued. Think the Sony and Asus gamer phones have them. Samsung tablets don't have headphone jacks anymore. But entry level samsung and motorola do. So the high end and low end users use wired headphones, but the middle class will gladly buy bluetooth?

Its strange, I can understand replacing sdcards since they could include a TB internally, but most are still cheaping out on internal storage.

But dac/amps are still light years better than bluetooth. I use one in my car to hook up my phone, its louder and better than bluetooth.

For a world with needs/options, removing a simple headphone jack seems very insulting to users.