My next TV, I’m going to look into whether the PCB can be swapped with a computer monitor PCB made by the same company.

I have a full plan that expires this year and not sure if I’ll renew. Mail and VPN are good, but the other services I could live without or self-host.

Drive is especially disappointing with the dismal Linux support and I’ve run into issues even on better supported platforms. I technically have 3 TB of storage I’m supposed to be able to use and I wanted to use it for server backups, but they don’t have an object storage API. The rclone support for their private API didn’t work worth a damn, so I ended up also paying for iDrive e2. Not really sure what the value is of their encrypted drive when I can just use Restic with any cloud storage provider.

Gambling is an age-restricted activity because it exploits the brain’s reward mechanisms to drive profits, and can lead to addiction. Big tech social media platforms have a lot in common with slot machines, designed deliberately to drive profits, so this law makes sense. Now make free to play games with loot boxes an age-restricted activity.

DuckDuckGo has been a “good enough” option for me the last 5 years. A couple times a year when I’m not getting good results, I try the same search on Google and don’t get anything better.

I wholeheartedly agree with most of this, but have to call out a couple of points:

Some experts believe that AI may soon surpass human intelligence

Experts like Sam Altman and other members of the circle jerk spouting what they know damn well is bullshit for their own financial gain? Those experts?

millions of job losses as a result of AI

You mean as a result of rich assholes using AI as an excuse to lay people off while pretending AI is picking up the slack, but it’s really the remaining employees being overworked?

I hate Windows as much as the next person, but the title is clickbait. It’s an update bug that affects a small number of users, but the title misleadingly suggests Microsoft deliberately removed this functionality.

The other companies involved know this as well; they’re just not saying the quiet part out loud.

Yeah, hobbling along with Pegasus Frontend in the meantime. 😔

I have multiple Reolink cameras at this point and just have them recording to a SD card and blocked from the internet.

They have local ML models for human, animal and vehicle detection, so something like Frigate isn’t strictly necessary, though I haven’t bothered setting them up with Home Assistant yet and mainly use them with the Reolink app and VLC with RTSP. Sometimes, I unblock them from the internet temporarily if I’m going to need to access them remotely.

I recently got a mini PC for couch gaming / HTPC functionality, and I installed Mint without ever booting Windows. I’ve been using Mint for a while after years of distro hopping, but I’m having issues with Bluetooth XBox controllers randomly disconnecting. Maybe this is the excuse I’ve been looking for to try Bazzite, although I might just need to get a USB dongle with a chipset known to work on Linux. What I’m really waiting for is an immutable distro with Plasma Bigscreen.

Only websites hosted by landlubbers are bound by such laws.

I’m sure they’ll be getting a lot of photos with abnormally long noses and saggy, wrinkled, hairy chins.

I feel a debt of gratitude to people like Linus Torvalds and Ton Roosendaal. In a world full of greedy capitalists trying to extract every last scrap of rent they can from humanity, people like them show us that humanity can do better.

Too bad larger LLMs require ungodly amounts of VRAM, or self-hosting would be a good alternative. LLMs have their uses, but they’re not useful enough to put up with ads.

Exactly, the way Snap is managed is very much out of a big tech playbook, and it won’t be surprising if they’re acquired by big tech. The whole point of Linux for most of us is avoiding big tech bullshit.

Thanks, will check it out!

It unfortunately is. I’m currently using Linux on a mini PC with Pegasus Frontend and a remote to launch Jellyfin, VacuumTube, and games as a HTPC. It’s necessary to exit each app differently to get back to the launcher, and then if anything gets hung up, I have to connect a keyboard and mouse. Really looking forward to Plasma Bigscreen to deliver a UX more like Android TV.

We also continue investing in the snap ecosystem

Who wants Android on a PC? If anything, let’s get some better options for Linux on phones, tablets, and TVs.

A more appropriate line would be that Copilot can shit out code faster than you can pinch off your own loaf.