re: AI impacts 

@arielmt i like the comparison to asbestos, it gets used everywhere and we'll be picking it off shit for years to come

@82mhz also re: "how efficient are these things" vs modern smartphones, beyond just ridiculous processor specs turning power into heat, mobile radios take a lot of power

try running your phone on airplane mode with WiFi and Bluetooth disabled and you'll see it lasts a lot longer

@82mhz my 4th gen with a battery replacement and similarly original 40gb hard drive sat on its last sliver of life for hours while i worked the other day

re: Linux rant 

My only choices are extremely niche, which will be supported for who knows how many more days, and vintage distro versions with the certainty of no more updates.

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Linux rant 

"Got a dusty old laptop you wish you could use again? Don't want to throw it out? Just run Linux on it!"

This is total BS, now that every major Linux distro has abandoned its i386/i686/x86 32-bit editions. I can't even find one to put on my Atom Netbook anymore, let alone my early XP era Dell Inspiron tank.

Especially don't promise such BS with a stock photo of an obvious Commodore PET 4032 with the nameplate taped over to make it look like a generic old PC.

re: Linux rant 

@arielmt and having tried those, the contemporary OS to older machines is almost always a better experience

One of the ways that LLM-authored code improves productivity is by merely SAYING it does things. It's way faster than the whole time-consuming process of actually doing things. This is real code someone sent to me for review.

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.

FOSS nerds: the Torment Nexus cannot be ethical until it is Open Source

hello people i want a bluetooth audio transmitter board which has breakout signals for volume controls received by the paired headphones

does such a thing exist? i can only find boards that simply take an audio input and nothing else

@mwichary as an anecdote it was juxtaposed to a stick figure finger-drawn on the window to which a second artist (judging by the difference in strokes) added a rude appendage

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