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by lproven 11mo ago
> I only use turn signals when there are other cars around that would need the indication. That is a very bad habit and you should change it. You are not only signalling to other cars. You are also signalling to other road users: motorbi
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by lproven 11mo ago
No, because an LLM cannot summarise. It can only shorten which is not the same . Citation: https://ea.rna.nl/2024/05/27/when-chatgpt-summarises-it-actu...
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by lproven 11mo ago
Totally agreed regarding appearance etc. However, the one thing I'd take issue with: > As a programmer, I can point out all the many, many flaws with its technical architecture. I think, since we started out on history here, we mus
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Announcing Vojtux – Accessible Linux distro which is almost pure Fedora(freelists.org)
1 points by lproven 11mo ago|0 comments
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by lproven 11mo ago
OK. A very good response indeed, and I can't really counter any of it. Well, I mean, I can -- e.g. I loved classic MacOS. But that's a personal judgement call. I think I've seen Homer's Car in meme format, now you come t
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by lproven 11mo ago
Aha! Thank you!
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by lproven 11mo ago
Exactly. I rather miss the 15.6" Toshiba Satellite Pro A300 I had when I emigrated, a decade back. It wasn't very portable, no, but around the house, it was great. Good sized full-travel keyboard, numeric keypad, lots of ports, an
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by lproven 11mo ago
Bluetooth is a PITA. This is the 21st century version of an axiom: it's an XKCD. https://xkcd.com/2055/ Pairing is a pain, charging is a nuisance, battery life is a constant worry, responsiveness is dodgy... there
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by lproven 11mo ago
> Asimov seems to have been a very modest man... I never met him -- he hated travel, and I never could afford to go to a US convention -- but from all I've read, no, the absolute opposite was the case.
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by lproven 11mo ago
Good correction. This is the important point here. And there is a sub-point which is nearly as important: The 8086 was out there and selling for years. AT&T ported UNIX™ to it, meaning it was the first ever microprocessor to run Unix. B
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by lproven 11mo ago
This seems strangely parochial to me. It reads a little like an American who knows San Francisco and so knows about trams has tried to imagine what a European city and country is like, and hasn't quite made the pieces fit together. It
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by lproven 11mo ago
The firmware in question being Microsoft's ThreadX. This was made FOSS a few years back but that doesn't help with the Pi. https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/28/microsoft_opens_sourc...
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by lproven 11mo ago
I played with a friend's ReMarkable 2 tablet a few years ago. It almost made me weep, it was so primitive and so basic compared to a Newton. A modern e-ink tablet like that with NewtonOS 2 on it would be a thing of great beauty and ele
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by lproven 11mo ago
I endorse this. Please do take whatever measures are possible to discourage it, even if it won't stop people . It at least sends a message: this is not wanted, this is not helpful, this is not constructive.
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ComputerAid: Dispose of old IT kit in a safe, secure way(computeraid.org)
1 points by lproven 11mo ago|0 comments
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by lproven 11mo ago
Excellent point. When I lived in London I helped clients donate a lot of kit to ComputerAid International: https://www.computeraid.org/ And what's now Computers4Charity: https://www.computers4charity.org&#x2
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by lproven 11mo ago
It is still slow. Try Alpine. It's amazing. Xubuntu 22.04 took nearly 10 GB of disk and half a gig of RAM. I measured it: https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/18/ubuntu_remixes/ Alpine takes 1.1 GB o
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by lproven 11mo ago
Yeah it is. It fits into under 700 MB and runs in well under 100 MB of RAM. The default Ubuntu image is about 6 GB now and takes a gig of RAM. Have you not tried it? I have: https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/14&#
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by lproven 11mo ago
> There will never be a scenario where you need all this lightweight stuff I think there are many. Some examples: * The fastest code is the code you don't run. Smaller = faster, and we all want faster. Moore's law is over, Denn
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by lproven 11mo ago
> Only if you ignore most of reality, sure. No, not really. Hypervisor VM: emulates a virtual computer with virtual, emulated hardware, but a simulated version of the same CPU as the host, allowing 1 OS to run under another. E.g. Xen, VM
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by lproven 11mo ago
I wish. I would much prefer its final desktop, from Xandros 4, to the Trinity (TDE) desktop fork of KDE 3.
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by lproven 11mo ago
> yeah but what can you do with free QNX? « QNX DEMO disk Extending possibilities and adding undocumented features » http://qnx.puslapiai.lt/qnxdemo/qnx_demo_disk.htm
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by lproven 11mo ago
> someone took a real shot at reviving the spirit of the project. They did. https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/14/damn_small_linux_retu...
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by lproven 11mo ago
> The Acorn Archimedes had the whole OS on a 512KB ROM. True. And it's still around. It's FOSS now, runs natively on a Raspberry Pi 1-400 and Zero, and has Wifi, IPv6, and a Webkit browser. https://www.riscosopen.org
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by lproven 11mo ago
> The 8514/A (1987) was Turing complete WTF? Tell me more! I have one, but I have no matching screen so I never tried it... Maybe it's worth finding a converter.
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by lproven 11mo ago
Yep, Alpine works well. A GUI can be tricky, though. And none of the RasPi tools (e.g. `raspi-config`) will run because of the different libc. So, running it on a Pi 5 CM in an IO board, there's no way to tell the Pi what device to boo
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by lproven 11mo ago
> I have no experience with alternative C libs. Can you share some example issues? No precompiled Linux stuff runs. No Chrome, no 3rd party Electron apps work unless specifically ported. For me, no Slack, no Panwriter, no Ferdium. Flatp
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by lproven 11mo ago
Fixed over 2 years ago, as I reported at the time. https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/16/alpine_linux_318/
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by lproven 11mo ago
Yep. PiOS Desktop (for x86) was a superb very-lightweight distro. I carefully put a fairly minimal Xfce setup on it instead of LXDE and RAM usage doubled . It's impressively hand crafted and pruned. Sadly, though, it hasn't been
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by lproven 11mo ago
> Research is revealing these humongous neural networks of weights for next token prediction to exhibit underlying structures that seem to map in some way to a form of knowledge about the world that is [[citation needed]] I am sorry but

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