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Comment Re: Yeah but... (Score 1) 213

Your hardware probably has buggy ACPI tables.

This is the most likely cause. Windows being more stable than Linux is laughable at best. While Windows doesn't crash as often as it used to, it still crashes from time to time; and that's even with every software and hardware vendor in the world supporting it.

The last time Linux had a crashing problem was in 2008 when Foxconn intentionally programmed their motherboards' ACPI tables to detect and crash Linux. They denied it, but a deep dive into the ACPI tables strongly supported the notion of intentional sabotage.

Windows, on the other hand, crashed regularly when everything was working as designed.

With that said, Kubuntu's GUI does have stability problems. However, killing and restarting plasma-shell has always resolved them.

Comment Re:Hmm. and what about everything else ? (Score 2) 276

Try it and let me know how many people receive your emails.

I have been running my own email servers (both personal and for my micro-company) for 19 years. The biggest problem I've had was figuring out how to configure SPF so Google (and probably others) wouldn't reject my emails. Once I got SPF configured properly, all my outgoing mail flowed freely.

Allstate is the only clusterfuck I've encountered. They can receive all my email, but I get frequent letters via snail mail saying they can't send me email -- even though I get monthly billing emails and other emails from them.

Comment Re:How many display ports do you need (Score 1) 98

And does M$ think they can mandate what ports manufacturers put on their PC.s

Of course they do. Why on Earth would you think otherwise? Microsoft is a monopoly and therefore wields monopoly power. They have been dictating terms to manufacturers for 30 years or more, and there isn't a damned thing the manufacturers can do about it -- even if they wanted to do anything about it. I'm sure they cope with their subservience by telling themselves they don't care.

Comment Legalities (Score 1) 167

If the courts rule in favor of copyright holders (which is appearing more probable as the cases wind through the courts, and as AI companies keep making admissions of copyright theft), all of these companies racing to replace people with copyright infringement are going to be ripe for the suing.

Comment Re:That's Crazy (Score 2) 61

DVD is an obsolete optical data storage format.

It is superior to streaming and Bluray in some critical ways:

1) It can't be turned off by the seller once you've bought it.
2) It is easy to turn into a digital copy for your home media server.
3) It won't randomly disappear from your collection because a service provider is running out of storage space or doesn't like your politics.

Comment Re:Is Tim Apple losing his mind? (Score 1) 89

I don't think parents should be handing kids unrestricted smartphones in the first place...

This goes much deeper than anything so trivial, and is a symptom of systemic societal failures. In no particular order (and not exhaustive):

1) Single parent households.
2) Two parent households where both parents work (thanks for nothing, Feminism).
3) Divorce.
4) Failure to heal childhood emotional wounds before having children.
5) Failure to treat children like intelligent human beings.
6) Religion.
7) Public school.

Comment Re: Confusing (Score 1) 89

How about a photo of your driver's license...?

That fails the, "without severe intrusion" test, and definitely runs afoul of the 1st Amendment. It's the kind of law that should have every signatory immediately impeached, removed from office, and never allowed to hold a political position in so much as the local PTA.

Comment Re:Nutshell (Score 4, Insightful) 240

...but you could slip that into the playlist at Texas Roadhouse and no one would bat an eye.

That's because most human music is a regurgitation of existing music. We've been complaining about cookie-cutter music for decades now, and AI just confirms that there is no creativity in modern music. There are only so many chords (four, if I remember correctly) and progressions that sound good, and they can be (and have been) mathematically determined. AI is great at analyzing existing music and extracting the most used chords. It is, after all, a statistical analysis engine.

Meta and OpenAI keep confessing to massive copyright infringement, so prosecution should be a no-brainer.

In all copyright cases, the reproduction and/or integration of someone else's copyrighted material for commercial purposes require permission. AI must be opt-in. If AI dies for lack of training material, nothing of value will be lost.

Comment Re:I remember when it launched (Score 1) 100

That was Lotus' fault and still is.
Has not much to do with Java itself.

Java WAS dog shit slow prior to 1.4 (Project Mustang), and was practically unusable. However, 1.4 DRAMATICALLY improved performance in general, and Swing was introduced to replace AWT. That turned Java into my platform of choice for business desktop software. I can develop on Linux or Windows, and run my programs on Linux, Windows, and (I presume) Mac with the same JAR.

The worst Java nightmare I have ever experienced was trying to use it for Web development. It absolutely sucks for that purpose, and I won't touch it with a ten foot pole.

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