You’ve made a whole lot of replies, and not a single one in which you explained why exactly you where surprised.

I know you put the person’s name in the description, but if you want genuine answers, you probably shouldn’t expect people to click through someone’s Tiktok until they got their vibe before replying.

I was eating something when I made the account. Make a wild guess what it might have been.

I don’t care about Canon. Every Trek has done silly things that are then included, or ignored, based on the next writers whims.

What did annoy me was that it became less and less fun to watch. Neither the scripts nor the sets and backgrounds felt like they where done by people who liked the general ideas and vibes of star trek. Or maybe they just didn’t share my idea for star trek.

Pretty much only sticked around because I liked Stamments, Culber, and Adira. For all it’s failings, I did feel they nailed representation.

I signed up on a smaller instance, and it took them like two weeks to confirm my account. But it does work now.

I mean, you probably heard of PowerPC. IBM kept working on that, is still working on it. They’re at Power10 now, but that has some proprietary blobs, as opposed to POWER9.

I’d say that it’s mainly cool because it’s an architecture with enough performance for modern stuff, that is completely open source. No proprietary BIOS, no Management Engine running unknown code. Also, pretty stable, supposedly.

Only supported by Linux, some BSDs, and some proprietary IBM *nixes, if you wanna say you have a system that literally can’t run Windows.

If you want fun facts, the currently 9th most powerful supercomputer, Summit, runs on it, I guess.

The hardware is too expensive for pretty much anyone to actually wanna use it, but oh well, what do you do.

You can get yourself a workstation for about $10k here. https://www.raptorcs.com/content/TL2WK2/intro.html

What about POWER9? You can buy a complete workstation right now, with an open source CPU, Board, BIOS. It’ll cost you an arm, a leg, and probably some more internal organs, but it is currently more functional than RISC-V.

Well, I use tumbleweed on both my laptop and my main machine. Mainly for coding, compiling, CAD, games. My drawing tablet (Huion) worked without extra setup. Always worked fine, no problems. Dunno what extra packages you needed, so I can’t really say much about the problems you had.

Edit: No wait, I did need some setup for the tablet. Worked without a hickup for the last 5 years, so I kinda forgot.

Look at the way Tesla collects and treats customer data, and the way Musk seems to unilaterally abuse his control over the companies he owns for personal reasons.

Now think about the capabilities of the Intel Management Engine that pretty much every Intel CPU requires.

Bad vibes, I say.

For those feeling out of the loop, see here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine

Tldr - it’s a little always on processor, running a Minix OS, with direct access to all board devices including the Ethernet Controller.

AMD has something similar in form of their Platform Security Processor.

Huh. I use Kalpa for a media centre system, and microOS on my server. Never had any of those issues. The only thing I struggled a bit with as getting used to managing SELinux policies after only ever using AppArmour.

Just don’t travel through hyperspace.

Says the guy who suddenly started hitting all the typical shithead slogans and talking point as soon as it seemed beneficial.

Most of that site has a very “AI-assisted” vibe. As satire, it seems mostly uninspired, and not all that funny, but that is, of course, subjective.

Depends. My mother’s computer didn’t have the hardware necessary to drive Win11, so I explained the options, and she said she’d try Linux.

She’s on Fedora Workstation on both her Desktop and Laptop now, both relatively standard HP Computers (the Desktop being very, very old, however).

She can connect to her work server via Citrix and access the software she needs. She can take work calls via MicroSIP. She can edit documents locally with onlyoffice. She can do whatever else she needs in the browser. None of this needed any non-standard drivers or packages, except for MicroSIP, for which Wine needed to be installed, though it worked without any special configuration.

So it can work perfectly well. Depending on the use case.

I know, I know. I was just dreaming of a world where they didn’t suck.

A sensible approach would have been to regulate data collection and misinformation on social media in general, instead of writing a law that bans one specific platform. But oh well, what do I know.

The younger ones didn’t mind it, for the older ones I did it myself while on visit.

The server stays on, always. I have like ten people using the services on there over tailscale. There’s a kvm, should something really unexpected happen.

RTX A1000 is a workstation Card, there’s desktop cards with that branding as well. Nvidia has laptop versions of the gaming cards, but the Dell business focused ranges are more marketed for ‘mobile workstation’ type stuff, so they get the workstation cards.

I don’t even get it. Like, make a pop up with a short blurb explaining the feature. Most users will probably opt in, and you don’t piss off the ones that don’t want this.

I mean, yeah, they suck. But honestly, a crowdsourced database of coupons feels like it isn’t a good fit for a for-profit company anyway.