Not if you’re running an Arch-based distro, like CachyOS. Between CachyOS’s Hello app and Octopi, it just works.

Granted, I do use the terminal, but that’s because I’m a tinkerer and I want to do unusual things, not just web + games + office suite. For most users, they never need to see the terminal, aside from hitting “q” and “y” when they install or update things a few times.

In recent history, it’s every 20 versions, iirc: 5.19, 6.0, … , 6.19, 7.0

I’m not a kernel developer, but it does seem weird to remove the legacy function in the same patch as the replacement function is shipped.

That said, isn’t it fairly easy to install a modified kernel? Or is that hard on Ubuntu for some reason? I suppose it’s to do with official support cycles and patches, so that’s only really a viable fix if the distro manages to kernel options, to ensure timelines with security patches and commercial support.

I appreciate that the author suggests that Google take on maintenance of the Drive integration. I’d rather volunteers work on supporting open platforms and protocols, which seems to be what they’re doing.

Which reminds me: I need to get a Syncthing server set up.

Sounds like Windows Search Indexer. I just changed the settings in my Win 11 VM to only index the Start menu, but I’m also an old school folder user, so I never use the Windows menu to find files anyway.

Before the change, my VM was arbitrarily locking up, unable to do just about anything. It’s been a lot smoother since the change.

Except for when sandboxing is better, like for server-type things that need to “just work” and won’t directly interface with anything else on the system.

Like, a WiFi mesh network controller has no need to access anything on the system at all and users will only interact with it by a web portal. Docker (or an alternative) is perfect for that.

The ending content is pretty level-headed about this. Basically, “wait for a legal consult/directives from Arch Linux before implementing anything.” That seems like the most prudent thing to do.

Hopefully, the legal opinion is that this is unconstitutional, and that a conglomerate of nonprofits will collectively agree to fight this in court if any of them are sued over ignoring stupid laws.

Vista was fine. They just made the shift then to signed drivers, so anyone with old hardware was fucked. Windows 7 was no better, really; it had just been long enough that most people were using hardware with signed drivers by then, or were willing to accept that the “old thing” didn’t work anymore, so the perception was that it just worked.

Granted, Vista had bad default theming, so 7 looked better (by default). That probably plays a lot into the hate for Vista, too.

(iirc)

idk. I think it’s very clearly labelled that this is the author’s guess at where things are going, with context around it to explain those prognostications. I like articles like that; it’s not saying anything definitive, but his specific angle on why agenic AI might be so interwoven into Windows 12 to make it impossible to strip out was fairly compelling, imho.

Who knows; it’s not like Microsoft isn’t aware of the AI backlash, so maybe they’ll scrap most of the agenic AI bullshit. Or maybe ask the speculation is wrong and it won’t be included. But if Windows 12 includes deeply integrated AI slop, then I think the author has a decent chance of being right.

But I’m happy to hear why this article is a waste of time, so let me know if you disagree with his argument. I’m not married to the idea, but I’m seeing Linux adoption IRL already by “normal people” who have connections to technical people, so I’m biased toward the argument.

Wasps. Fuck wasps.

If not for wasps, my family would eat outside most of the summer. As it is, it’s either wasps writing 3 minutes of bringing food outside, or a wind strong enough to blow the wasps and our food away.

WiFi mesh networks can have impressive range outdoors, without walls and reflections blocking the wifis. And they can be powered by PoE (Power over Ethernet) so you only need to run 1 cable to hook it up.

But for most of my work, a cellphone hotspot is suitable, so long as it’s not so remote that I don’t get at least a strong 4G signal. Video conferencing isn’t very data intensive with compression and, if I’m not running the meeting, slight spottiness is fine.

Over-ear headphones help with this. Then you can just ignore them and pretend you can’t hear.

(My neurospicy is showing…)

This is exactly right, I’m pretty sure. Scam emails are poorly written and have tells for anyone paying attention on purpose. It’s a feature, not an error.

Scammers don’t want to waste time on someone who will never believe that the government takes Walmart gift cards.

I’m enjoying Backpack Hero, too, but I agree that it’s too easy. That might be needed, though, since there are so many items that it’s hard to get the items you need for a specific strat. Like, the other day I got a legendary bow and my build was already OP enough that I could afford the space to pivot and grab the bow, but then I only ever saw 1 arrow until the end of the run. So, it was easy enough that I could beat the run with 5 dead inventory slots the whole time, but “hard” that I could never implement a build pivot.

Regardless, it’s pretty fun, and it being a bit easier makes it more chill. I might go back to Backpack Battles instead, but I’m intimidated by needing to know all the meta builds to have any chance of longterm success in runs.

Based.

Email is terrible. It’s an unreliable communication system. You cannot depend on sent emails arriving in the recipient’s mailbox—even the spam folder.

People incorrectly assume that all emails at least get to their spam folder. They don’t. There are multiple levels of filters that prevent most emails from ever making it that far because most email traffic is bots blasting phishing links, scams, and spam. Nobody wants phishing and scam emails, but the blocks that prevent those are being used by big tech to justify discriminating against small mail servers.

I can’t remember the site, now, but I literally couldn’t log into one this week because the email never arrived.

Oh, I very much doubt it. AI just introduces lots of new kinds of problems to solve.

I think “contextual awareness” would fit better, and AI Believers preach that it’s great already. Any errors in LLM output are because the prompt wasn’t fondled enough/correctly, not because of any fundamental incapacity in word prediction machines completing logical reasoning tasks. Or something.

Lowkey how I version number personal mini-projects and small things I roll out for my team.

I guess more like:
x… “huge new feature, scope expansion, or cool shit.”
.x. “small feature, or fixing a serious bug” …x “testing something. Didn’t work. Try again +1.”

I’m not ashamed it didn’t work. I swear!

Thanks for the link. It annoys me that even “good” journalism (PC Gamer) didn’t quote him correctly; stripping the <em> tags obfuscated the original tone.

Going backwards in Tim makes complete sense. You just don’t morge enough to understand.