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by avhception 9mo ago
I remember a popular "greentext" specifically about this...
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by avhception 9mo ago
So now I gotta squint while I slouch!
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by avhception 9mo ago
I don't see it as a serious attempt to create a better way to write down the year. To me, it's a whimsical attempt to give the reader a little pause to think about long time periods, which is what this project is all about. That m
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by avhception 9mo ago
Haha, I clicked without reading the URL. Then I read the "01931" in the text, immediately looked at the URL and of course it was longnow.org. Brought a smile to my face.
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by avhception 9mo ago
Maybe it's not wise to comment on this while living in Germany and never having been to SF. But my first thought was: Are they gonna shuttle the kids in and out of the city in order to provide said childcare? Or the staff? How would th
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by avhception 9mo ago
The problem here is "something like this". I may buy one of these today. Then in 6 months, I have to buy a different one. Only to find out that it's firmware has a bug. Or it uses a different ethernet chips that is a problem
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by avhception 9mo ago
Exactly this.
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by avhception 9mo ago
Do they still need a custom kernel?
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by avhception 9mo ago
I was mostly responding to > [...] if I want some low power linux PC replacement with display output, for the price of the latest RPi 5, I can buy on the used market a ~2018 laptop I guess. I don't care about the AI hat at all.
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by avhception 9mo ago
I don't know of any other ARM device that fulfills: - I can boot it w/o having to learn about custom U-Boot implementations - I, as a consumer or small business, can buy - Can not only buy today but also still buy in 2 years - Doe
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by avhception 9mo ago
It's not even the chore of installing it, Ansible will mostly do that for me. It's that I can't comprehend why something as basic as fundamental wallpaper config is not part of the normal GUI. The reasoning for that one is be
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by avhception 9mo ago
I don't have "hatred" towards Gnome3. I use it for friends and families desktops, they seem to like it. I have also rolled out about ~20 Gnome3-based desktops for my employer. That said, there are definitely areas were Gnome
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by avhception 9mo ago
Huh, I'm over 10 years in and didn't know about the rightclick-resize either. I really like it! Thanks!
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by avhception 9mo ago
When KDE 4 came out, I switched to Gnome 2. When Gnome 3 came out in (checks notes) 2011, I switched to XFCE. And that was that. I have a minimal taskbar at the bottom of my screen, with a little tray and a little button for the whisker men
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by avhception 9mo ago
I'm on 600mbps fiber with low latency. Some times, I can't be arsed to load the websites linked on HN and simply head straight into the comments. For example, when it's a link to Twitter, I get an endless onslaught of in-site
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by avhception 9mo ago
The world at large doesn't care what I love, correct. But my users care about whether they have to remember that they're supposed to use port bla instead of the standard port foo, which is a common scenario with v4. Not enough add
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by avhception 9mo ago
I absolutely love the things that IPv6 delivers and employ it on purpose.
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by avhception 9mo ago
As a "West-German", I'd argue that's also true over here. The 80s and 90s are gone. I even sometimes use the construct "Bonner Republik" to refer to the time before unification.
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by avhception 9mo ago
Interesting, that's a point of view that I didn't consider so far. Growing up in Europe, even the local church often dates back quite a few centuries. My small hometown has residential buildings that are multiple centuries old, st
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by avhception 9mo ago
Hello from Germany, and thanks for the blog post. Fascinating read. I liked how you intertwined the personal point of view with the bigger picture. "Facing a complex past" is a big theme in Germany, too, of course, and I think it&
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by avhception 10mo ago
Well, I don't know why it didn't work out for you. But my AMD experience has improved fundamentally since the fglrx days, to the point where I prefer AMD over Nvidia. You said you don't know why people say that AMD has improv
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by avhception 10mo ago
Works very well for me! YMMV maybe depending on the titles you play, but that would probably be more of a Proton issue than an AMD issue, I'd guess. I'm not a huge gamer, so take my experience with a grain of salt. But I've r
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by avhception 10mo ago
Maybe it's just that you're mostly viewing this through the LLM lens? I remember having to fight with fglrx, AMDs proprietary Linux driver, for hours on end. Just to get hardware-acceleration for my desktop going! That driver was
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by avhception 10mo ago
Sometimes it's also possible to simply disconnect the hotel's SIP phone from the Ethernet jack and use that :)
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by avhception 10mo ago
> Because what this AI-generated SEO slop formed from an extremely vulnerable and honest place shows is that women’s pain is still not taken seriously. Companies putting words in people's mouth on social media using "AI" i
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by avhception 10mo ago
I tried local models for general-purpose LLM tasks on my Radeon 7800 XT (20GB VRAM), and was disappointed. But I keep thinking: It should be possible to run some kind of supercharged tab completion on there, no? I'm spending most of my
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by avhception 10mo ago
"[...] it's probably impossible to find a useful Linux installation without [Perl or Python]. [...]" Oof. We seem to have very, very different definitions for both "Linux" and "useful". If all Linux instal
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by avhception 10mo ago
Your comment comes across disingenuous to me. Writing it in, for example, Java would have limited it to situations where you have the JVM available, which is a minuscule subset of the situations that curl is used in today, especially if we&
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by avhception 10mo ago
Basically the Sysadmin's dilemma. Everything working fine: "What are we paying you for?" Something broken: "What are we paying you for?"
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by avhception 10mo ago
Are you implying that the "neo-KGB" never mounted a concerted effort to manipulate western public opinion through comment spam? We can debate whether that should be called a "troll army", but we're fairly certain th

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