Well, no, you’re not going to be etching CPUs into silicon wafers in your basement, but it could massively lower the barrier to entry. Small startup companies being able to design processors that could compete with the likes of Intel and AMD would be a pretty big improvement.

You could learn how to design a RISC-V processor if you really wanted to. You can’t learn how to make an x86 processor that doesn’t infringe on Intel and AMD’s patents.

Not me. I think cats are vastly superior to people. I wish I could spend more time around cats and less around people.

People seeing something unusual and checking to see if it’s enough to be concerning is a good thing, even if it’s not actually a problem. I think people have formed a habit of not bothering to try because they have had the tools to learn things for themselves hidden from them, and we should be blaming it on the people doing the hiding, not blowing it off as people these days being magically different from how people used to be somehow.

I don’t really believe that. For either of them. You don’t have to be a computer expert to know that high ping is bad, and you don’t have to be a mechanic to know that the oil pressure gauge moving away from the middle of its range means something serious is going wrong. I think it’s because corporations don’t want us to understand what’s going on when things go wrong, not because people would be incapable of understanding if given the information.

If anyone is having trouble reading this, it might help to know that “þ” is the same as “th”. That’s more widely known than it used to be, but it’s still pretty niche.

Uh, what? People were obviously using RedNote as a protest against the TikTok ban. They got what they wanted, so they went back. That seems like they successfully stuck it to the US government to me.

I wish we lived in a world where banning a brainrot app wasn’t the thing that US citizens cared about enough to stand up to the government, but that’s not the world we live in.

Nobody’s checking the size of sex gametes that embryos are producing at conception, either. Didn’t stop them from saying that.

What, are they going to start having people provide sperm or eggs at the DMV so that they can use a set of tiny calipers to figure out how to fill out the gender on your license?

Sadly, that’s actually a real problem. It was banned pretty quickly in poultry, but cattle and sheep in the US are still usually given testosterone to grow more muscle more quickly, since that’s what meat is.

Honestly, chickens aren’t really any better. They’ve just been bred to have dangerously high growth hormone levels without needing to inject them. Then they get to say they didn’t give them any hormones on the packaging though. Appealing to transphobes isn’t even the reason it’s there. I’m sure the people doing it don’t mind appealing to transphobes though. That’s just a neat bonus to them, I’m sure.

:3

I guess the nicest thing I could say about this is that I’m glad that if they’re going to be evil, at least they’re bad at it.

Or both?

Terrible bait. I’m disappointed.

For my laptop, yeah. I rarely actually use it though. For my desktop not so much. I really don’t keep that much personal information on it to begin with, and if someone breaks into my house they could probably get more by stealing the desk my computer is sitting on then by stealing the computer. It just feels like a silly thing to waste my time with.

I’m sorry, but lemmy.world was the worst possible decision for a place to relocate to. I wouldn’t follow you there even if I could. If you really have to go with a big, liberal instance that will let you moderate however you want at least you should have gone with lemm.ee. They’re not making lemmy monolithic, not as much of a troll magnet, and far more competent at what they do.

Call it hate if you want, but it is an intentional design decision to break compatibility with other DEs. That is a choice they consciously made and have been very clear in communicating. There are trade offs involved. I’m not saying it’s a completely irrational choice or anything, but it is aggravating for those of us that don’t use Gnome when we have to deal with libadwaita apps. Libadwaita is designed from the ground up to be a Gnome exclusive thing. It is not for Linux. It is just for Gnome. That is the developers’ stated intention.

You sure did. Maybe libadwaita even includes tools to make it easier or something, I don’t know. I just think maybe the toolkit that breaks everything all the time isn’t the best example.

You don’t need libadwaita to do that. Lots of KDE apps are designed to work on mobile. Libadwaita just makes everything broken outside of Gnome.

You can’t just misread something and then claim that makes it clickbait. That term is losing all meaning from overuse. It’s an article about a Linux distro and it has the name of that distro in the title. That’s not clickbait.

Sure, if it’s making your life easier or making you happy or whatever, then have it. Don’t let me yuck your yum. I just think it doesn’t provide any real benefit for most people. Am I not allowed to talk about my opinion?

Copy on write is pretty overrated for most use cases. It’d be nice to have, but I don’t find it’s worth the bother. Disk compression and snapshots have had solutions for longer than btrfs has existed, so I don’t understand why I’d want to cram them into an otherwise worse file system and call it an improvement. I will admit that copy on write and snapshots do at least have a little synergy together, but storage has gotten to be one of the cheapest parts of a computer. I’d rather just have a real backup.