This is always such a bullshit. The products marketed at men are ALWAYS either “deep cedar - smell like your granddad!” or “SUPER ICE ARCTIC FRESH!!!”

Before I learned to ignore it completely, I was constantly stuck between two equally terrible options.

Preparing for a space mission

Which is what makes the situation much worse

I too don’t get it, but some people love it, and who are we to stop them? Linux is for everyone!

As a Russian, I’m always bewildered why everyone else seems to refer to Europe and Asia as separate continents. Like, y’all blind or something? Look at the map!

And if you think it’s about geology or something, nuh-uh. It’s just a random convention coming from ancient perceptions, and it is heavily wrong. Eurasia is a single continent, and always has been.

My girl was like that, but consistency goes a long way!

She still sometimes thinks of herself as ugly and undeserving (she’s a fuckin’ goddess, wtf), but she accepted that she is genuinely and passionately loved.

Still weirds her out, though.

Majestic

Imagine being held in prison for 30 years, knowing there’s no way out and you’re gonna be executed, and then when that day comes, they put you through torture by asphyxiation for 40 minutes, to then rush you to the hospital, so you can be saved and they repeat it again.

True! Some level of distribution is essential for the resilience and doesn’t eat too much of efficiency.

In fact, I’ve been contemplating on the possibility of small, neighborhood data centers. They could both reliably provide local information services, as well as on-demand computing power.

Much as renewables are most efficient in a grid, hardware is most efficient in a data center.

Can we distribute and become autonomous in both? Yes. Do the times hint we might have to? Also yes. Is it optimal? Not really.

When you self-host, your hardware sits mostly idle, waiting for you to need it. In a data center, that same piece of hardware could serve so many more people, each with their own schedule. The data center approach is more environmentally sustainable, as it makes better use of the hardware, and so requires much less of it for the same output.

Unfortunately, though, there are also big, huge externalities. Dependency. Abuse. Roadblocks. Advertisement economy. This is what mostly drives people to owning their own data and infrastructure. It’s not a bright, perfect future for everyone. It’s a necessity of time, not a perfect solution. Granted, it might be fun to fiddle around with.

That said, I do self-host, and I do own my solar panel. Such are times!

Marketá Gregorová, maybe?

Absolutely is! lol

As they say, no AI is a feature.

Luckily, due to the nature of Firefox, this feature is free

You might need three diamonds (or, if you’re feeling adventurous, two buckets) to do something and make these structures operational :)

And after you learn it, you can make yours.

All kinds of messaging work properly, with notifications.

Was my concern at first, but it just didn’t happen to me in my time using it, and glass looks sturdy and thick enough to survive it anyway. Didn’t test tho.

Speaking from experience with Pixel 3a on Nura with KDE Plasma Mobile

• Camera works very poorly, but hey, yes it works
• Don’t use VoLTE, regular calls work flawlessly. The phone does wake up correctly upon receiving the call.
• Battery is brilliant, the only thing still lacking is fast charge support. Otherwise, fantastic battery life, and correct battery charge indication.

Nah, things like PLA are generally fine

Still waiting for Mobile Linux to come to these wonderful devices.

Pixel 3a running Linux like a charm, and eternally supported, never out of date :3

Pixel 6 and 7, on the other hand, are about to hit EOL because Google won’t support them, neither will Graphene, not sure about Lineage, and Linux is not there yet.

Update: LineageOS should remain available!

The technology is undoubtedly good. All technologies are, if you ask me. The problem is about externalities, but they do matter and cannot be viewed separately.

Currently, as things stand, the development and, notably, use of the technology comes with a massive threat to several important areas. This is why many pieces of software that ban LLM contributions make a for now caveat.

Relying on it now, under current circumstances, is dangerous and damaging, even if sometimes it is a tremendous help. It may get better once we have truly efficient models and training, do not reinvent the wheel from scratch 20 times over, do not screw entire economy over it, put guardrails on the use of technology against people, and have a cheap, resource-efficient, and long-relevant hardware to run it. But we’re not there yet. We’re going to space with a gunpowder barrel here. Workable? I guess. Reasonable? No.