Valve should go with the Rolex model instead. You can’t buy the sexy Steam Frame that’s reserved for valuable consumers unless you’ve bought a Steam Deck, Steam Controller and Steam Machine beforehand.

/s

Well, webOS is alive and well… It just became the shittiest spy-TV ad-ridden cancer in existence at the hands of LG…

Rawdogging gang represent!

I started in the late 90’s with a Mandrake CD from a magazine. No internet meant nothing more than “this is interesting but I can’t do anything with yet”.

Then in school we were given a PC, an internet connection and we burned a Debian 3 CD. I became expert at reinstalling it because at the time it was the “simplest” way to unfuck what I fucked up.

Then I just winged it at work and learned a lot.

Then I just moved every system at home to Linux. Never looked back.

Sometimes I feel I still know nothing. But then, when asked to do any administrative task on Winslop/macOS that I know can do in a few seconds on Linux, I feel so hapless and inefficient that I feel it must amount to something.

chmod -R 600 ~/, because I dont trust anyone, not even myself.

You’ve convinced me, I’ll send all my rnoney immediately.

That’s the neat part. It doesn’t even need to be.

Indiscriminate mass killing and destruction is still mass killing and destruction, regardless of any objectives. A regime official or a school for girls? Who cares.

Mass surveillance doesn’t need to target terrorists and opponents, the goal is to terrorize the population into submission. The more arbitrary it is, the better.

Disinformation doesn’t need to be believable, you just need to flood the public discourse to drown any reality-based opinion.

I fucking hate politics so much…

There’s a guy in my team. I need to push him into a more advanced role. Because he deserves it, and because otherwise I might lose him. I brought him in from another team where things were going bad. Real bad. Turns out, all he needed was a human working with another human, not an type 1 cunt demanding output from a walking, breathing toolset. He already fits and fills that role within the team, but I need to make it official. Better pay, more perspectives. I know I’m gonna get cockblocked by the fuckers who still hate him for the wrong reasons. Career reviews are at the end of the year and I already dread it. I need to get involved in politics and I’m terrified of it.

I became a manager about a year ago. Now that I’m part of the “inner circle”, I can see firsthand what I suspected for the past 20 years.

There are 2 types of managers.

There are cunts bosses who treat their employees as property for their personal gain and advancement. They demand productivity at all costs (see: LLM-cogsuckers), punish for mistakes and pressure people into responsibilities they should take. They are the ones who want RTO to exert control on their employees. They are the ones who “joke” you must take a half-day leave if you need to go before 6PM. They are the ones who openly shit on their employees (or other teams employees FWIW) because they’re not benefiting them enough. They are not part of the team, they feel and act above everyone in it.

The second type, which I strive to be and most of my closest “manager friend” are, are servant-leaders. They want to get shit done by easing roadblocks and making technologically informed decisions. They understand that productivity is a consequence of a functional team and happy employees. They take on responsibility for mistakes and push the team towards finding solutions to prevent them. They understand that Life^TM is more important than work. They are an integral part of the team, they’re not the boss but a full member with a different role and different responsibilities, like a PO or a data analyst.

As a tech lead first and a trained Scrum Master second, I feel much more comfortable in the second role. I help the team internally and report and manage external roadblocks with other teams. It’s what I already know. I hate the hierarchical part of the job.

That’s the very reason of this board’s existence though. Initially it’s a binned APU that is not supposed to pass QC for the 36 CUs required for the PS5, as a way to recycle silicon that should have ended in a landfill. The only guarantee is that 24 CUs work.

I’m not sure the massive increase in power and cooling requirements vs. stock is worth it in a mid-range gaming situation, as the performance uplift is not as impressive.

While the scalpers struck quickly, AMD might end up foiling their plans, as the company says it will continue mass-producing the Ryzen 7 5800X3D Anniversary Edition to ensure supply stabilizes over time.

Good.

CliffyB is the real MVP

I’ve put my dad on Bluefin (same project as Bazzite). It’s perfect. Major upgrades are the same as weekly updates. Transparent and uneventful. It’s been almost 2 years and zero major complaints. He even finally accepted to ditch his ancient MacBook Air since I installed the Affinity suite on his Linux laptop. It was his last holdover.

Ah yeah let me check my thermometer after a whole night of ventilation… yeah it’s still 27, down from 28 last night whooo. And this is my bedroom which is towards north.

European living in a “temperate climate” here. A decade ago, I didn’t need AC. Temperatures over 30 happened for a few days at a time a couple times per summer. Heatwaves that killed old folk with sustained temperatures over 35 for a week happened once a decade.

Now it’s the norm. We see temperatures in May that would only have been possible in the peak of August in the mid-2000s. We see temperatures over 35 everyday for weeks at a time. When it finally rains, it doesn’t cool down anymore. It just gets unbearably humid. Temperatures at night don’t fall down below 28 after a few days.

Even worse. My living room, home office and kitchen are in full sunlight the whole afternoon. I can live in the dark, but the walls have a thick insulation. Insulation doesn’t deflect heat, it stores it and slows it down. It’s literally accumulating heat as soon as a single sun ray touches it. Once the heat creeps through, they stay hot and radiate for a week. You could ventilate all you want, you can’t fight the thermal mass of a wall heated through its core up to 45C.

Climate change transformed my mild-winters, warm-summer region into a rainy-winters, unbearably hot summers region in a few decades.

Honestly, I don’t drink much anymore. I drank a lot as a student and I was youthful enough not to feel too many after effects.

But now… maybe once or twice a month tops. I’m mostly there for the taste now. I brew beer. I drink so little of it I end up giving away most of my bottles, or maybe sharing one with several friends on occasion. I love a good whiskey, but I’d rather buy an expensive bottle and let it last several years than powering through it or getting fucked up with cheap booze.

Truth is, I literally can’t stomach heavy drinking anymore. So now I more often than not stop when sufficiently buzzed or when my taste buds give up.

Oh I love this one

Well, technically the open source kernel behind all Apple’s OSs is still (mostly) open source. It’s useless as is, but it exists. So yay for BSD licences, I guess?

For me, “progress” is any societal or technological change that helps society as a whole and reduces or removes inequality.

Examples of progress : ending slavery, women’s rights, worker’s rights, free quality education, LGBT+ rights and general acceptance and understanding, ending racism, the personal computer, internet, medecine, clean transportation, diplomacy, right to repair etc.

Exemples of absolutely NOT progress: conservatism, fascism and authoritarianism (several sides of the same coin), social media, LLMs (both being pushed by and controlled by and only benefitting technofascist feudalists), erosion of rights, mass surveillance etc.

I would never buy a such a critical piece of equipment if it depended on an app. I’ve seen too many devices being rendered useless or crippled when their app disappears or worse, forces a subscription model. Meanwhile, I SSH into my Mikrotik router, as the gods intended.

Yeah until CTOs start to realize that they spent the budget to double the workforce on tokens while producing nothing of lasting value. Nobody profits from LLM code except LLM companies.

That’s my hope anyway…

Thanks OOP for putting words on what I’ve been feeling for months.

Were “incentivized” (read “threatened into”) pushing features quicker than humanly possible with no regard for quality, sustainability and proper ownership of the code to please one (1) stakeholder who had a barely thought out idea. The amount of tech debt in staggering, broken features come and go as the code is “rewritten” with each commit.

It’s completely unsustainable and the only ones who profit from it are the LLM providers. When the whole product collapses, the only one to suffers the losses are the company building that product and their clients. Their employees get fired because it’s somehow their fault. LLM providers get even richer because now the remaining employees burn through tokens to try and “fix” millions of nine of code nobody has ever thought out, written and reviewed.

Companies pivoting to “full AI” code are literally committing suicide, for the exclusive benefit of LLM providers. I get that that’s Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s plan all along. I just can’t understand the utter stupidity, hubris and amount of kool-aid drinking most CTOs are riding right now.