Darling, please.

You are policing, that was my point.

Liking the concept of a small, utilitarian pick up doesn’t make you right wing. Liking big pick ups might make you a bit misguided in my eyes, but still doesn’t mean you can’t be on the political left.

I am vegan, and could very easily make arguments why you are unethical and aren’t “properly” left wing if you aren’t. I just don’t think that it’s productive, and that you can’t nail down a person’s whole world view over some general issue like this.

For me - not necessarily for concentrated viewing, but I can deal better with some boring tasks when I have something in the background that keeps my brain occupied, be it a podcast, a long video essay, or whatever else.

Here’s an one hour video essay, if you like one hour video essays.

Ya know, Pick Up Trucks aren’t inherently evil (though I’d argue many current designs are rather destructive in several ways), and there’s, like, lefty farmers, contractors, non-city people, etc. I think policing what people are allowed to like will get us nowhere.

Those are blackbird, sparrow, cuckoo, eagle owl, owl. The one in the meme is a Gelbkopf-Schwarzstärling (“yellowhead blackstärling”)

So, not that different, I’d say.

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.

Ich kann’s verstehen, habe auch für Sync bezahlt, zweimal. Bin aber mit proprietärer Software einfach nicht sonderlich glücklich, auch, weil ich nicht unbedingt froh darüber bin, die ad und tracking packages aus der kostenlosen Version weiter mit mir rumzutragen.

Bin jetzt bei Thunder, und glücklicher.

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.

The thumbnail was a rather more NSFW picture until a reload. I assume the wrong link was posted by mistake, and the reports are from before it was corrected.

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.

I’m living in a city with a housing situation that’s fucked even if you have a halfway good income, and my lease will end this year.

I am lucky enough to have a safety net of friends and family, but if I didn’t, I could very much face homelessness this year, as someone who’s employed, and “functioning” in the eyes of society.

Sometimes I have half a mind to go to spend the rest of my existance in some remote monestary, but I feel I am not quite religious to the necessary degree. Or at all.

He is. I just have the annoying habit of voicing information passively by formulating it as a question.

NY Times - Hutton Gibson, Extremist and Father of Mel Gibson, Dies at 101

Reminder that, according to a solid seeming report from the leeches at Hindenburg Research, Opera’s owners are fucking loansharks.

https://hindenburgresearch.com/opera-phantom-of-the-turnaround/

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.

I think they’re charming, and different then the mainstream, while still being familiar. Sometimes you don’t want something crazy out there, just a bit different.