Yeah, I can’t wait for the tell-all book that someone inevitably releases in 20 years about how Xwitter was a complete ghost town propped up by sports and racism. The company is clearly hemorrhaging money like a firehose.

It might not completely go away, but it will slide further and ever quicker into irrelevance. Just like Xwitter has done.

Sailfish is closed-source, isn’t it? I want to be excited about it, but I am hesitant about another closed-source OS.

Last winter there was a question about why a freeze warning in the northern plains states didn’t apply to other states to the East and West. And people were like “well, the mountains…” this and “uh, the Mississippi…” that, but I couldn’t get over how “y’all, you’re missing the big thing here. It’s not weird that so few states have the same weather, it’s weird that so many do.”

If you put the US over Europe, with New Mexico over Portugal, Maine would be over Moscow. The contiguous 48 states is basically the same size as China. By itself, it’s bigger than three whole continents (not combined).

AI-powered AI detectors are rarely much better than chance.

Still almost half the planet, though. Way too much.

I wonder if that’s the ad blocker or if it’s Chromium.

There are a lot of bills that threaten privacy and could, if taken to a logical conclusion, result in the criminalizaion of open-source operating systems. This isn’t as nonsensical as it was ten years ago. I think it’s still very unlikely, but it’s been moved into the realm of “reasonable possibility.”

Also, Android and Chrome OS are Linux distros.

Explicitly yes. With a side bonus that their donors are enriched.

I’m not trying to screw the government or anything. I’m just trying to spend less money and throw fewer things in the landfill. The government part is just a nice perk.

No, I don’t think it was bigger on the top, I think it was bigger on the bottom. I’m pretty sure you just needed the bottom cover.

Honestly, that’s why the last laptop I bought (over a year ago, now) was a Framework that I put Linux on. I haven’t had to change anything out yet, but I like that it’ll be easier when I do.

They did a video where they swapped parts from a first generation FW13 with a FW13Pro. There were only two caveats: one, if you want the Pro battery on your older laptop, you have to buy a new bottom panel too because they made the battery bigger for a longer life and it won’t fit in the old cover. And two, depending on your architecture, the Wi-Fi modules might not be interchangeable due to some vendor chipset thing, I think?

Everything else was able to be swapped, though, it seemed.

Edit: oh wait, I take it back, the speaker modules. I think they might technically be compatible, but since they’re side-firing on the Pro instead of down-firing, you’d need a new bottom chassis if you didn’t want them to sound awful.

Interesting. That makes frame gen sound like “tweeners” in animation: you get the experienced animators to do the big key frames, and then have the newbies draw what goes in between them.

In the talk show they do, he talked about how even with the issues he loves Pop OS and even mentioned that very argument–that he has problems with Windows too, and at least this way one of those problems isn’t copilot.

Actually, for a while Spotify did use the BitTorrent protocol for content delivery. So this isn’t too far-fetched.

I’m a Christian and even I have no idea what you’re trying to say.

Not a vulnerability or exposure. There’s no threat vector here.

Nah, the Seffians treat Discworld with the same reverence that we treat Shakespeare. There’s a famous musician on Seffi who calls ximself Wind the Rince.