According to this data, desktop devices still make well over 50% with over 75% in Europe.

It was somewhat of a special situation back when Gnome 3 dropped. Ubuntu & flavours of it was still regarded as the go-to distro by many and KDE still had a somewhat damaged reputation due to KDE 3 (even though 4 was already available, however that also had some issues). Many environments we know today didn’t exist yet, so lots of people were rather distraught when Gnome broke with a lot of concepts and dropped what arguably was a horrendous DE.

Many of our current DEs are Gnome 2 or 3 forks (MATE, Cinnamon, Budgie, and back then also Unity), made exactly because of this whole debacle.

Same here. Has to be degoogled though.

…no, definitely not.

Bloated when being run on a potato.

Luckily 99.9% of people do not compute on a potato.

That sounds like a design decision (not saying it’s good or bad here), not something broken.

This thread gets dangerously close to r34 territory, and I do not know if I like that.

Awesome, truly love to hear that. 🥰

Question out of curiosity, even though that isn’t exactly what you’re working on: Do you think the technology could eventually also be used to detect what might be referred to as “latent cancer cells”, that can’t be destroyed by the body but also didn’t grow into tumors yet due to the body fighting it?

Asking because that’s what happened to me years ago. Had high inflammatory markers for over 1.5 years with no doctors being able to tell what the heck was going on. Then one day an angry Lymphoma appeared that required 4 aggressive chemo cycles and 14 day radio to get rid off, even though it was stage 1. If AI tech could be able to detect those “latent cancer cells” (or some biomarkers caused by them) before tumors appear… that would be phenomenally awesome.

Is it Copilot? That thing began to censor stuff a while ago based on the Trump regime’s wordlist. Suddenly it stopped working when it read “trans” (even as part of “transcode” or sth), among others. I’d bet it still has some “anti-DEI” nonsense in their guidelines.

To be fair though, the features of that pen look really useful if you’re into analog note-taking.

What I heard so far was about advanced pattern recognition for scans (MRI, CT etc) to reduce oversights and in documents to detect potential patterns relevant for epidemologists (a use that’s very controversial since it requires all medical documents of citizens to be centralized and available unencrypted). Also some scientists seem to praise purpose-built machine learning technology for specialised tasks (those are not LLMs though).

it’s nothing but config files you have to edit from the local console shell

Some people seem to love that, as well as the total lack of any kind of access control or security. I mean, look at how many people are still arguing that “Systemd is destroying Linux”, clinging to initd with all its bash scripts and no nice way to prevent race conditions and such.

To roughly quote someone from a talk (not sure where I heard that, was about systemd as well I think):

“We nerds are very good at change when we’re the ones proposing it, but very bad when it comes from the outside.”

Reminds me of an old story about the game director Chris Taylor. He wanted to make a second iteration to bis game “Total Annihilation” since he promised to do so to his fans. However the current rightsholder, Atari, refused to sell the rights to him and instead took it as a business opportunity. They announced they’d do it themselves (without Taylor). The project got immediately canceled after the public reaction exploded in their faces (this was before social media).

Taylor still didn’t get the rights to his creation back and proceeded to do it anyway with a new name, “Supreme Commander” (with great success). Atari only lost both money and public good will. This still worked though since there wasn’t that much of a public mass manipulation machinery. With social media Atari could’ve potentially gotten through with it.

I mean, that’s a whole different topic. Documents and info material everyone should have access to need to be inclusive so even your average Fox News viewer can read it.

After reading this my brain just squeezed itself out of my skull and began to organize a protest for more workplace-related health hazard protection.

The project will either die through lack of interest or over-availability of cringe. There’s no way for it to succeed with this MAGA nonsense and threats plastered all over it, they’d have a hard time finding enough devs even without alienating everyone except Fox News viewers. Meanwhile they’ll feel confirmed in their worldview due to all the rightful criticism flooding in.

If the project survives this initial phase of antipathy we’ll probably get years of cringe from it.

Found more context, for who is now curious:

• Apparently threatening violence with guns is okay (just got marked as “off-topic”).
• The maintainer of X11Libre, Enrico Weigelt, is an anti-vaxer who already got scolded by Torvalds for writing bullshit on the kernel mailing list

The more I read into X11Libre, the more I’m laughing. Now the freedesktop ban also makes perfect sense.

There are about 675 million pigs worldwide.

Then your imagination is evidently limited.

just fuckin walk around a room while lifting something heavy in various ways until you feel tired

To feel tired you need your body to exhaust itself, which makes you feel like shit. To exaggerate my point a little bit here for better understanding: It’s the very act of movement that causes it. It doesn’t matter how you do it, the body immediately tells you it’s shit once it has to ramp up everything to deal with the strain and will keep doing so making sure you only do things as much as necessary (like to catch a bus, ride a bicycle to your important destination etc).

Like I said before, the only way this makes any sense to me is that your brains, for some reason, react to this willful suffering with blasting out dopamin and stuff. Otherwise it doesn’t make any sense to me why and how so many people deal seem to hurt themselves without going nuts.

The body is clearly stressed by exercise, I hope we can agree on that as smallest common denominator?

I’ve read the fastest as Pepsi Co.