Does the US even have refinery capacity to make a cost difference for power customers like data centers

I played both on Linux recently. Worked well for me. Steam versions

I’m of the opinion that neither whiskey nor bourbon are worth it even tariffs or country of origin. Became real trendy for a long time now. Overpriced. Drink rum

The bill passed to ban TikTok was terrible bill. A bunch of people ate up the marketing for it and it didn’t take even 2 years from passing to start getting abused. Easily predictable outcome

It sets a baseline performance target that is really low. It’s an integrated GPU laptop that’s not close to high end integrated GPUs anymore. Makes your potential audience pretty much the whole of the steam userbase rather than the like RTX 3060+ userbase

As others, my basic home lab NAS plans are grounding to a stop because of worsening prices. Next up, phones are going to be even more expensive. Video game console price increases again

I loved last.fm. Used it for like a decade until I stopped caring about logging every time I listened to something. Was real good at finding music I liked. I used to view it as a reflection of me and then I got older and stopped caring about public reflections of myself

sequel to ego draconis

This year competition excuted well in the same launch window. Arc Raiders and Battlefield, I have played neither, people seem happy with. Looking at Steam charts, Delta Force looks popular too and CS is always popular. It’s taken like 15 years but the not Call of Duty and not sort of weird gunplay in modern times/military shooters compared to Counter Strike (I play counter strike and I know it’s gunplay and movement are weird and harsh for newcomers) are hitting their strides. Call of Duty is facing the best most suitable amount of competition since the first modern warfare

The article doesn’t read as very concerning. Too much of anything usually means bad. Under the right conditions anything can be bad. Figuring out what can be bad and when it can be bad can often take decades. Don’t stress too much on trying to optomize out anything that can do you harm in a diet. You’d have nothing left to eat and even the greatest collective of biologist getting together to make the greatest nutritional shake meal replacement would probably miss something that causes issues decades down the line or people drink too much and overdose

From my memories, the price of appliances haven’t changed much in the last couple of decades. They maintain or increase margins with cheaper parts, less QA, looser performance tolerances while keeping the same sticker price. Whatever the quality sacrifice equivalent word for shrinkflation

Looking through the thread, surprised that she’s silver 1 with that patient aim and good placement. Most people at silver 1 have a real spazzy aim. She moves the cursor better than silver and way more accurately. Looks like she can hard carry down there

Most obvious thing to ever happen since ads being added to Instagram feeds. It’s a search engine replacement. It was going to end up with basic advertisments eventually. Then targeted advertisements. Then sponsored results as sneaky as they can be in the case of suggesting the best solution/product. Free open source models and stuff like proton and duckduckgo if you really want to use AI search engines

Paradox has lately been really good at admitting fault and then mismanaging the next big game outside of their bread and butter grand strategy games. They need to shake up their management because it’s becoming clear they’re giving unrealistic timelines/budgets/demands for these games

It’s the easiest path to gaming compatibility. Don’t know about loongarch. For RISC-V box86/64 supports it but it’s probably far from great and there’s a lack of RVA23 chips to test and develop for currently. These companies could employ people to work on it but most hardware companies really minimum needed effort software until it bites them in the wallet like Nvidia vs AMD/Intel. Qualcomm hyping up day one Linux support for X Elite ARM laptop chips and then over a year later it’s still medicore. Mobile graphics drivers for Mali, Adreno, and PowerVR all being different levels of mediocre. Every car company vs Android auto and Carplay

Practically everyone I’m friends with hates imperialism and colonialism but loves the benefits of visiting poor countries that were victims of imperialism/colonialism and feeling special because of the money they bring and the lack of developed domestic entertainment/art industries so that theirs and their countries artist/entertainers are way more competitive there

Everyone’s pretty hypocritical. People that get mad at other people for working for Google are extra and easily ignored. Damn all those Boeing and Airbus employees for working for huge military contractors. When a company gets big enough, I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re lobbying for something terrible to benefit themselves.

I’m continuously confused how these standards don’t seem to apply to bank tellers, finance in general, large chain retail, fast food, large agriculture companies, fashion industry, film industry, music industry, alcohol, pharmaceutical, … etc

Some people fight the most inconsequential battles. If you work for JP Morgan Chase and someone gives you the cold shoulder or lectures you because so, ignore them. It’s such a small crowd that’s like that that it won’t change your lifestyle. It’s not like if you quit and struggled to find work and started to teeter on ruin that they’d be there for you. And someone like that probably fights so many small inconsequence battles that they’d be exhausting to be around anyways. And fighting such small inconsequential battles produces so little. Tagging, down with the oligarchy in a bathroom stall or sidewalk day to day. It’s small bubble activism

Besides myself being on Linux, I used to mix Linux and Windows since like 2010 but fully transitioned like 3 years ago, I’m still regularly using a laptop from 2016 as a zoom calls and internet browsing laptop. It gets too hot to have in my lap and the battery lasts like 30 minutes. That’s a dual core integrated graphics chip from 2016. Anyone with a discrete graphics card easily has a solid workstation PC. If you’re not gaming or your not doing something that really benefits from strong hardware, you’re good. No need to upgrade. If you’re not playing new AAA games at 4k maxed, you may be good. This is just same news as how people are holding onto their cell phones longer than before

Like the other person, in the west it’s being pushed as a Christian thing but it’s pretty indiscriminate. Heavily rural conservative Christian pastors, evangelicals, southern baptist, etc - really push the idea of Nigeria as some christian genocide thing to push fear in US christians and probably drive attendance and donations

These days it’s more about tradition nomadic groups vs the settled towns. Similar issues along the Sahel like in Sudan with the janjaweed groups in the past to today’s civil war. Nigeria has a significant problem with bandits and those pastoral nomads that come into heavy conflict with their staunch beliefs in their rights to have their animals graze as has been tradition for who knows how many thousands of years.

I think it’s to a degree recognized in law for pastoral rights for nomads but it’s pretty non-compatible with modern city/property rights society and they’re hyper aggressive to a point where it’s probably many taking advantage of historic rights to pretty much be bandits. Nigeria has an insanely complex web of different violent dissident groups throughout the country

Someday the evangelical Muslims may be the primary aggressor again in the future but today it seems to be the pastoral nomads and generic bandit groups. Boko Haram is way smaller than it was like 15 years ago. Maybe a backseat these days to the ISIS affiliate that’s spread around the surrounding countries substantially like if I recall correctly, Burkina Faso and Mali. ISIS in Nigeria isn’t to the degree as those two. Not even close yet. ISIS or Al Qaeda affiliates. Incredibly complex and hard to keep up with

What may end up being the best selling console of all time is the first Switch which was maybe about a quarter docker as powerful as a PS4. This will be fine. It’s about as powerful as a PS5. It’s a strong minipc. Person plays FFVII Rebirth and then try to pickup the game dev hobby with Godot. It’s on Steam and Flathub. Play Cyberpunk and then open up Ardour for their music aspirations

It’ll be about as significant as chromeos so good for schools while professionaland enthusiast stuck working on them will do so by running regular Linux applications like you do on chromos. I’d say it’s a stronger plus for Linux desktops than Android. Google really can’t get out of their way with their NIH syndrome for desktops. Like 15 years of attempting to do desktop Linux but in a way users likely won’t use the Linux desktop designed and often free software. I’d love to see this introduce people to Digikam, Darktable, Krita, GIMP, Kdenlive at the expense of Google Photos and adobe apps