I retire at the end of the year and am glad to do so. At least I had some semblance of work/life balance.

Workers rights are being eroded and this is the next step. If you have half a brain then you know the end game.

It will be like the gilded age were labor is just another commodity to be exploited by the ruling class.

I watched the program and was struck at the hubris of Stockton Rush. His staff tried to warn him but he either fired them or they quit. Total denial, full speed ahead.

The footage of him in the submersible and listening to the sounds of the carbon fiber popping as it went deeper and deeper was wild to me. Stockton called it 'seasoning'. Granted this all in hind sight but the sound of carbon fiber failing should have been the audible clue to maybe step back and re-evaluate the design and implementation.

Anyways, at least the passengers didn't suffer when it finally failed. FWIU, death was instantaneous, so there is that upside.

Just got the mac mini m4 . It's plugged into a UPS and yeah, the power button is on the button and I don't even care.
It's not like I intend to use it very much and even if I did power down every night it still wouldn't be an issue.

I just don't get how people get hung up over trivial things.
Someone mentioned apple removing the headphone jack and honestly, I don't even miss it.

If you are the type of person that gets put off over these types of things then don't buy the product.

My wife was pleasantly surprised with a $125 check. We totally forgot about it since it has been so long since we posted.
The laptop is still usable though and the keyboard still functions.

In the end it is hubris.
Some of these American companies have been at the top for so long that they have become complacent.
For the longest time Intel had no real competition and they skated along.
The little guys, AMD in particular, barely alive. Then came Ryzen. Then TSMC with its foundry making cutting edge processors for Apple, then Broadcom, then Nvidia. The landscape has changed over the past 10 years but Intel didn't keep up.
They thought their position was unassailable, to be challenged in any way by these 'upstarts' was unthinkable.
Fueled by corporate greed, decreased quality, higher prices...topped with hubris. Yeah. That is a recipe for success /s

Can Intel pull out of this? I have no idea. Will they become irrelevant? I have no idea. I remember when Intel was king shit and untouchable.
Now they can't even seem to find their way.

While I don't use microsoft products unless forced to use them (work) I am surprised that their security is this bad.
They have been top dog in the enterprise space for decades, have virtually unlimited money to spend on improving their product. To see this happen, theft of code, and senior officers getting hacked.
Wow, just wow.
Is it incompetence? malfeasance?
How can something like this happen today, in 2024, with all that we know about security.

lol, ethical? These guys? This is purely performative. Each of these organizations will use AI to their own benefit and enrichment. Who is kidding who?

Once you lose your reputation, once it is established that you lie, and lie consistently. That your past actions are so well documented to be hateful, spiteful,malicious and in the case of the Catholic church, murderous. There is just no way you could get your reputation back as being honest,empathetic and ethical.
Whatever goodwill these guys had is long gone.
The future is fucked with these sociopaths running around.
AI will just make it so much worse.

My daily is Debian 12 with Gnome and it runs flawlessly. Installed Ubuntu 24.04 on a spare partition because I do like Ubuntu and like to keep track of where it's at for it's LTS releases.

Frankly, the visual differences between Debian's version of Gnome and Ubuntu's is not readily apparent to me. File managers "improved' speed is not noticeable to me either...whatever.

Thunderbird is now a snap on Ubuntu but I couldn't bring over my Debian Thunderbird config, the one that resides in ~/.thunderbird.
Ubuntu's snap puts it in a different location, fine. But my Debian config wouldn't work.
Uninstall/purge the T-bird snap and install the deb package. Moved over my ~/.thunderbird from Gnome. Done.
Annoying to have to do that and I should mention that Thunderbird as a snap seemed to start as quickly as the deb version so that is a plus.

Libreoffice on snap is incredibly slow to start up, I need to google how to purge that next and install the deb package.

Remmina doesn't work as a deb package, it crashes on startup, but from what I can find it does work as a snap. I need to check that out.
I thought 24.04 had an import tool for wireguard, if it does, I did not see it.
That was last night.

I got disgusted and rebooted back to Debian. I do like Ubuntu, I don't have a hard-on for them like some people do but damn, snaps have been around for awhile. Fix that shit.
Honestly, I don't want to deal with this anymore. Debian isn't doing anything crazy, it is stable, reliable and simply does not annoy me. What's not to like. It's dependable.
Maybe I am getting old. I no longer have the patience I used to have nor the tolerance. I have better things to do with my time.
Fix your shit Canonical.

That's kind of harsh. There is something to say for 'simplicity' and mac certainly brings that to the table but not all users are looking for simplicity. I have been using linux since 1998 but got into Mac around 2018 to see what a 'refined' unix environment would be like. There is a lot to like about Mac that's to be sure, it is quite polished.
It is off putting when people call it a walled in garden, though in some sense it is true, as I download and install packages from brew. That 'walled garden' allows for 'regular' users a safe and well integrated environment and for some people that alone can be worth the price of admission. I certainly had no problem with it but I know about brew and mac ports.

As for the Mac 'shitting itself' I have to say I never experienced that. I can't speak for Time Machine since I have not every really used it. Some peoples negative experiences are not everyone's negative experiences.

I recently went back to debian and ubuntu and the reason is simply the cost of buying a Mac with reasonable amounts of ram and storage. It is way too expensive for those that know and for the price of a Mac M1 mini I can build a killer debian workstation, and so I did, with money left over...

But as to the article, I am not surprised that Ubuntu 24.04 is faster than windows 11. Linux is a beast and will not be contained,lol. It will only get better, faster and more secure as time moves forward.

I still like Mac though. A lot of work went into the OS, I feel it is refined and simple where it needs to be.
Granted some people are buying into the environment as a status symbol but they are clowns anyways.
But everyone takes a different path and not everyone has the same technical knowledge that some of us here have.

Your not wrong and I think I should have refrained from responding. It's just that yes, losing coral due to bleaching is a bad thing but that in itself pales in comparison when you take a broader view of the environmental damage that is happening.
Left unchecked it can make the planet unlivable not just for the coral, but for all living things.

Even if you are somehow in a position to save the coral reefs, which I doubt, then bravo. Job well done! But it won't matter in the long run. Warming temperatures, erratic weather, more violent storms; the death of the coral reefs will be the least of our problems.
But yes, let us do what we can to protect the coral reefs.

Does it really matter though? Humans will do little to nothing to change their behaviour until it is too late, but by then most life will fail and die.

The Planet does. not. care. And clearly, neither do humans. We say we do, but we do not.

So bleach away, kill off the environment, create a downward trend where all life is impacted and dies.
The Planet will continue its orbit around the sun and in a few hundred million years, if not sooner, some other form of life will develop.
We just won't be here to witness it.
So don't worry about the coral, or anything else for that matter. Just enjoy the ride. The Planet will sort it all out eventually.

That would be ezekiel 23:20. For some reason I remember that and it is disturbing. But throw in the talking snake, magic apple, virgins giving birth, human sacrifice, genocide, dead people coming back to life and all manner of parlor tricks and you know what, it all begins to make sense. I will stick with my Greek gods though, they are more interesting anyways, lol, you can keep your Abrahamic god.

I had this problem. Turns it it was my monitor that was set for auto-detect. Once I disabled that the issue was resolved.

Clearly what he did was 'wrong' but the easy solution is for him to be a US Senator trading on inside information. It's ok when the ruling class does it, it's not ok when the proles do it.

If you think AI is NOT going to be used in this fashion, regardless of whatever law, request, or sense of decency, then you are naive and a fool.
Of course AI is going to be used to undermine health care for people, along with any other application where AI can give corporations an edge over the paying customer.
AI, just another tool to fuck people over.
Pay for a service, just don't expect to receive that service fully when you need it.