For every change there is an angry Linux user. Even when it is easily disabled and never a problem again.

On the flip side - how often do you install new programs so this becomes an annoyance in the first place?

I install something new maybe once a month or less for desktop use. I have not even noticed this blip.

Somewhat more often in and for terminal use.

Guess why

The clearing where we bury the unbelievers and let the forest thrive on the nutrients released from their rotting carcasses.

Well, that’s what we do here at least.

I’m thinking it’s like ads. Some people see them, read them, click the links. Others recognize by glance and filter them out without bothering to process.

Social media, and internet in general, has always been a wild mix of top notch content and bottom of the barrel garbage sharing screen estate.

Hey OP, you were released today with performance gains!

Ha, gotchem. The drive by compliment strikes again.

The time when people were doing strange and funny websites by cut and paste design on Geocities and Angelfire, new music was found on MySpace, vinyl rips of rare obscurities were posted on blogs you follow in Reader and expanding your music catalogue was amazing on SoulSeek.

I’m quite happy that movie distribution have evolved beyond blocky 1-2CD DivX;-) though.

I trim my adult dogs nails when I hear them clatter. Sometimes twice in a month, sometimes not because he wears them down pretty well all by himself.

I think LLMs and generative AIs are a really interesting technology with many potential applications in the future and even today.

But it is ridiculous how tech bros and marketing are pushing and overselling the capabilities of a technology that is yet in its early childhood. Infancy is already past as it knows basic motor functions.

And it is m funny when these companies publish their ambitious attempts and hilarious failures like this article right here. It reminds me of a more funny and diverse and geeky internet when nerds got money from investors to do whatever with a domain name. Maybe it is still there, behind the wall of marketing execs.

I believe they can be read by anything that can read rfid and can access the online database for information for that serial number.

Here in Sweden too but my biological chip reading abilities are somewhat lacking.

“Eehh, du?” in Swedish. I’ve done it, I’ve been it.

MmmBop. I hated it the first time I heard it, I hate it now, and I only have to be reminded of it’s existence and it will play in my head because it is so fucking catchy that somebody must have sacrificed the minimum of one newborn to some dark deity that thrives one human suffering.

I want it curled up and snoozing on my chest.

Nah. We still have the family computer that connects to the internet.

The family is pretty much just me and my dog though.

A civilization on a planet without a moon would probably say the same about earth. I wonder how they would imagine life on our planet to be in comparison to their sad, stable moon-less lives.

It was a mistake to leave the oceans in the first place.

Thinky boi is the CPU. GPU are also thinky but they are in parallel so plural. Thinky bois.

The mood light thing. Some televisions have adaptive lights that project colours of the screen on the wall behind. For me the telly is the window to another universe. I want to be immersed in the movie. I can maybe see the appeal if watching family entertainment and such but for me it’s a nope.

Homebrewing. Either everything you need to get started and going for like €100. Spend the rest on tools and equipment and ingredients as you go and learn what you need and why you need it.

Or, as it seems to me is the middle aged man thing to do¹, buy everything for a complete microbrewery and insist it is absolutely necessary with the best of laboratory grade equipment for your first batch of IPA that will taste like anybody else’s first batch of IPA and the only solution is to keep spending another €1000 when you got it on better equipment and gadgets and dodads and quirkmaflixers in magical materials and still nobody will be impressed but that’s just because you didn’t have the correct temperature to the third decimal and dear we absolutely need to take a small loan on the house no listen this is an investment when I get this going hey baby wait listen…

¹ I’m a middle aged man so I’m allowed to use these words.

I’m on the last generation of plasma still, waiting for OLED or micro-LED to become affordable. I love watching movies at night in a dark room with proper blacks on the screen. I don’t understand why people would want lights behind their telly.

If you are comfortable with command line and want to learn the Swiss army knife of such uses for future scripting and whatnot - curl.

I’m on the fly right now but search for “curl crawl web pages” and you’ll find.