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  • For context, Debian dropped support for 586 in Debian Stretch (9.0), release in 2017.

    I have not done the legwork to compare this to other distros, but Debian generally supports older hardware than most other major mainstream desktop distros.

  • Mobile payment is the only major problem I've encountered. Fortunately, for me it's just a nice-to-have, not a must-have.

    I've heard that some banks have that feature within their own app, but I've never actually seen that. If anyone knows of specific banks that support that, please share! I suspect there's no such thing in my country but who knows?

  • It ranges from "automatic" to "infuriating".

    If you have Secure Boot enabled, there are some hoops to jump through. Read the docs and follow the steps for DKMS.

    Depending on your distro and your requirements, you might want to install the drivers manually from Nvidia rather than using older drivers from your distro.

    If you need CUDA, god help you. Choose a distro that makes this easy and use containers to avoid dependency hell. Note that this is not any easier on Windows (at least not last I checked, which was a few years ago).

  • Arc has a similar feature, but last I checked it used ChatGPT. Firefox runs a local model, so it avoids the privacy issue.

    I have no problem with this in principle. The question is, does it suck? Document summary is a use case LLMs are well suited for, but it's still highly application-specific. I've seen great summarizers and I've seen garbage summarizers. Hopefully Mozilla's implementation is not as lazy as most others.

  • I'm actually using an atomic distro now (Bazzite). But that's not why I chose it, and honestly I don't think the advantages are significant.

    There are some downsides that affect me on a regular basis, though.

    I need to reboot more since every update requires it. That feels like going back in time 25 years.

    I need to deal with the complexity of multiple distros with DistroBox to get the functionality I am accustomed to. I think that alone is proof that atomic distros are not quite ready for prime time.

    The advantages elude me. Snapper or timeshift handle rollbacks just fine, as long as you use a modern filesystem like btrfs. So I haven't worried about busted updates in years.

    I'm quite happy with Bazzite, but I can't point to anything good about it that is specific to immutable distros. I just don't get it, really. I guess the advantages are more for the developers and maintainers than for end users.

  • recently I saw someone spell “extreme” as “extream” which is just kind of baffling, I actually can’t even imagine how one would make such a mistake?

    There is a mountain of anecdotal evidence, and a small mound of scientific research, suggesting that psychedelics can improve creativity even in the long term. Ask your doctor if LSD or psilocybin might help with your imagination deficit.

  • just let me play the old version of the game on the new console.

    I don't think you need to buy any upgrades to play the original Switch versions on Switch 2. It's supposed to be almost 100% backwards-compatible with Switch games, with a few exceptions for games that rely on specific hardware features (like IR).

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the original BotW and TotK will play just fine on Switch 2 without upgrading.

    Considering how poor the performance was in TotK, I really think Nintendo should have made it a free update. That's fairly common on the PlayStation side. Lots of PS4 games got free updates with PS5 optimizations, for example (and even more free updates for PS5 Pro).

    I dropped TotK due partly to the performance issues. At this point I might rather play it on an emulator than buy it again for Switch 2.

  • This is the clearest sign to me that Apple has jumped the shark.

    Apple has a long history of waiting until they could do something right rather than rushing to market with some fad. And here they are tripping over themselves to ship something that is obviously half-baked (at best). There's no vision, there's no attention to detail, there's no careful UX design. It's just "oh shit we need AI right?"

  • I've never tested this hypothesis, but I would guess that a big-ass battery would remain useful after years of wear while a normal battery would need to be almost constantly plugged in. It's one thing to plug in a power bank now and then, but if it effectively becomes a wired device that's too much of a pain.

  • I hate to say it, but the idea is doomed to failure from the start.

    Both human writing and AI writing are moving targets, and you have no real visibility into the mechanics of either one. By the time you test and validate any detector, it will be obsolete. You will never have the opportunity to test an individual validator's effectiveness over time, because major new models are released every month or two. And the prevalence of AI writing is already influencing how real people write (especially young people who are only learning to write in the age of AI).

    I'm not sure what the answer is here. But pouring time and money into a bad idea just because you don't have a good idea is not a winning strategy.

  • Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Storage Medium Having Game Program Stored Therein, Game System, Game Processing Method, and Game Apparatus

    Why does their patent title sound like it's an Amazon listing from a company with an alphabet-soup name like BRENGSTAR?

  • Or perhaps you do not understand how Discord is commonly used.

    People join dozens of servers. Maybe one for every game they play, every TV show they watch, every podcast they listen to. Everything has a Discord.

    Even small Discord servers have many channels. Bigger ones will have dozens or hundreds of channels.

    Some servers have millions of users. Most of the servers I'm in have thousands.

    Many channels are default for all users in the server.

    Not sure what the mathematical average is, but this is certainly common at least, and any alternative that can't handle this is no alternative at all.

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