At 28 years old, it’s safe to say Leo doesn’t use KDE.

Happy birthday!

I just got one of the cheap Chromecast+Google TV things and I’m pleasantly surprised by the Jellyfin app.

UI is definitely sluggish on home screen.

I’d love to see something like ballot included in tax returns (for folks who don’t otherwise request a ballot). Near-mandatory voting, with abstaining being allowed.

“Over the last 3–4 months, we have observed that CPUs initially working well deteriorate over time, eventually failing,” he claims. “The failure rate we have observed from our own testing is nearly 100%, indicating it’s only a matter of time before affected CPUs fail.”

Not used to seeing significant age-related degradation in silicon used under normal conditions. Sounds like Intel dun goofed…

TIL, thanks!

I’ve used, and continue to use, Linux for a long time, and am very happy with it. Great for my desktop/laptop (Debian, i3).

That said…it seems like it was a bad choice for these devices. It has no stable ABI, and not even a stable API (famously — you can read the good reasons why this is the case). If a stable API/ABI was used, then I would think it would be trivial to keep up with security updates — just run a mainline kernel with a few custom drivers for cell/touch/GPU/whatever. Those will need to be kept up with security updates, but any core kernel security would be automatically handled just by running recent kernels.

Perhaps I’m missing something obvious — probably just that everyone decided on Linux, so various vendors already have good Linux support (if only for a 5.10 or some other ancient kernel…).

Yeah, but where’s Starfleet HQ?!

If you self host, or want to try it out, Immich is amazing. It feels very much like Google Photos, but you can run it completely locally. Great integration with desktop and mobile, both Android, and iOS.

I’m not affiliated at all with the project.

1400W for a minute is insane. You are either a pro track cyclist, or you should quit your job and become a pro track cyclist!

Rule of thumb efficiency of humans is about 25%, which is about the kJ to Calorie conversion, too — so 14kJ of energy output burns ~14,000 Calories.

Acoustic doesn’t have a top tube…

I think these ones are particularly interesting because yeah it’s stupid, but not entirely baseless. Garlic has antibacterial properties, as well as (I think?) antiviral (!), antifungal, and antiprotozoal properties. So it is plausible, and it seems like the reason it doesn’t work is that it’s additionally an irritant, which ends up stimulating mucus production and inflammation, exacerbating the problem.

Some false premises in this thread — corporations are not required to maximize profits. Even if maximizing profit was mandatory, this is a pretty subjective topic — is short term profit while pissing off your customers “maximizing profit,” or is sacrificing short term gains for long term customer loyalty “maximizing profit”? It’s not a rhetorical question, and I think you can find examples of both.

Corporations are also not all pursuing endless growth; in addition to “growth stocks” there are “dividend stocks.” Some companies aren’t aggressively pursuing growth, but are making profit, and the stock reflects this. It feels almost antiquated in the “to the moon” era, but these companies do exist.

Something something Drake meme Discord/IRC…

Had Linux support too! (From day 1? Not sure…)

I had a copy, and during undergrad I figured out that I could copy it over to /tmp on a computer in the University’s Linux cluster — no root required. They were high end machines at the time (Xeons with Quadro cards I think?), and UT2K4 played great on them.

The bags for produce where I am are largely compostable now, which is a start.

It really grinds my gears that the fake meat products are often in single-use plastic. It kinda takes away from the whole “better for the environment” aspect. I’d gladly take fake meat wrapped in butcher paper or similar.

Single-day records are disconcerting, but climate != weather.

Ninth consecutive warmest month on record, however, is a little tougher to shrug off. (Or at least it should be.)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-facebook-files-11631713039 NYT not the only big outlet doing “actual journalism” — not sure about WSJ’s profitability quarter to quarter, but I don’t think they are actively sinking.

And of course: opinion side of any paper is NOT news, regardless of your alignment.