A good friend has one, also only for one ear. People don’t really notice, I’d say. I don’t think it really restored a lot of hearing but he still wears it usually as it is still better than nothing. He got it pretty quickly after his hearing loss, so no idea how that would be after 20 years. He got them for free through standard health care as far as I know. I don’t think he’d be willing to pay a lot for it if he had to. But I never asked that directly. Not aure if that helps. If you want I can try to ask him some specific questions if I remember to do so.

Don’t have a link to the thread on Mastodon, but it was only in Singapore. So it is likely a troll or some glitch.

I know this is the wrong place to say this, but I really like the Windows Explorer. Dolphin is a good replacement, but it would be one of the few things I’d like to keep on Linux.

It definitely is/was. Most user facing software these days is a web app, or native application using JS anyways. The event loop and async programming is also ubiquitous nowadays in most languages, especially server side.

The true turing test

I’m not that deep into it and as you noticed information on the issue is sparse. My understanding is that it is not possible to get power management working for these cards (see https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/PowerManagement.html). May not seem like a big deal, but as far as I understand this means the cards are stuck in the lowest power setting i.e. perform as well as an iGPU.

And from my understanding this is forced by Nvidia because power management is disabled when loading unsigned firmware.

That is my understanding of the situation. Due to this the devs basically gave up on those cards as it is unfixable.

I am aware. Nouveau works okish with cards from the 800 series and older. It does only barely work with 900 and 1000 series cards, because of the firmware signing issue. You can check their page for compatibility information. And the new “open-source” driver only supports the RTX cards.

Nope, 900 and 1000 series have little hope of being properly supported. They require signed firmware which seems to be problem and are not new enough for the “open-source” solution from Nvidia for new cards.

As of a few weeks ago, a lot of ChatGpt logs got leaked via search indexing. So privacy was never really a concern for OpenAI, let’s be real.

And it doesn’t matter what they think what type of platform they run. Altman himself talks about it replacing therapy and how it can do everything. So in a reasonable world he’d have ungodly, personal liability for this shit. But let’s see were it will go.

And that human would go to jail

Well, Wikipedia describes it sufficiently vague: “a database is an organized collection of data”. But is a linked list on its own a database? I’d say the blockchain itself is the data structure but any software using it is most likely a database.

Good summary, a few additions from my side:

• Being public is not required. E.g. banks could form an internal block chain shared only with other banks.
• Blockchains are a database. An immutable and usually distributed database.

Seems a bit jaded tbh. Safari devs were giving tentative support, iirc Mozilla was also down to deprecate further. If you always listened to every user you’d drown in tech debt. Some stuff just isn’t worth it even if 0.5% love that feature.

No, just how Debian LTS versioning works https://wiki.debian.org/DebianOldOldStable. So Bullseye is still fully supported with security updates, but now you really should have a plan to update 🙂

Didn’t he claim that with 4ó as well? But yes please inflate the bubble further, blow everything up.

It is now two years old but this video sums up the challenges faced by Helion and how it is unlikely that they will get anywhere. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3vUPhsFoniw

I guess currently it’s a chicken and egg situation for OEMs. They can’t consider RISC-V based boards/laptops because there is no or minimal software for it. Also, porting to RISC-V can’t be that expensive of an endeavor. Most unix software is already portable.

Well China did subsidize that industry massively, to a point were their domestic market is flooded with very low margins. So the market is already very distorted. But I find it hard to hate on that because flooding the market with electric vehicles and solar panels is better than anything economists are coming up with.

Full disk encryption is non standard and a PITA without a secure boot chain where the disk can be unlocked by the OS itself. If you have fun tinkering with your OS go nuts, but I want something that works every time even if install it for my mom. The current distro offerings aren’t that.

No. You can edit the Kernel command line directly from GRUB before booting into anything else. That is the default behavior (with Debian).

Yes, it is more aimed towards “casual” users that want something that just works. But auto-updating policy is not really the point of the blog. Every distro is deciding that by themselves and will always be able to.