ARM platforms have whatever the developer of that system that day came up with, same as literally everything except x86.

her partner’s feed

“Guys, I’ve been bringing buttatoes home to my girlfriend for a week and now I see this…”

The screwdriver on the Style series, the PS, CS and tiny little Style all have it, is unique among multitools. It’s long and thin so it can reach down into recessed screw pockets and it comes to a tip sharp enough to turn eyeglass screws. It was perfect, so of course they got rid of it.

Actually I think we have IBM and their laziness to thank for it.

The original 5150 PC was pretty much an afterthought by Big Blue’s standards, they slapped it together from off the shelf parts and bought the OS from some pissant upstart company called Microsoft on a non-exclusive license. The only IP that IBM actually had in the machine was the BIOS. Compaq developing a non-infringing yet compatible BIOS made the x86 PC a multi-vendor platform, which made it more attractive to adopt than the likes of Commodore who made a series of incompatible computers even within their own ecosystem. Note how the only thing Microsoft has ever consistently done that was worth a damn was backwards compatibility…it’s the only thing keeping them in business.

The window is also broken.

I’d like a refund.

Silica is a common ingredient in most toothpastes.

It’s not necessarily the instruction set, it’s the platform architecture, the fact there’s such a thing as a standard BIOS. You can run Windows, Linux, Haiku etc on practically any PC. There’s Linux for ARM, why can’t I run Raspberry Pi OS on my Galaxy S10e? It’s because, though the instruction set is similar, the platforms very intentionally have nothing to do with each other.

My thing is they discontinued a lot of the tools I like. I carry a Skeletool and a Style CS, that pair works out great, but they don’t make any of the Styles anymore. I also really like my Squirt ES, another they discontinued.

Yeah, the Bill Cosby As Himself set got quoted a lot in my household growing up.

Well did anybody do anything about it, like, change the channel?

Well, I’m a pilot and flight instructor. My handedness didn’t really impact transitioning to flying from the right seat.

Apologize in one hand, shit in the other and then clap.

AI is essentially a useless term because it has been used to describe everything from an LLM to a single if statement in the code of a video game.

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Likewise. Don’t expect it from China though.

I think there’s a pretty major failure in overall AI/Machine learning as well. Elsewhere on Lemmy I saw someone talking about how the neural processor built into their laptop essentially doesn’t function. Like there isn’t and will never be any software that runs on it because it’s badly implemented and badly or not at all documented.

China has no need for open source because they steal everything anyway.

I bring you: The Tupolev Tu-104.

Literally everything should draw criticism. Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Arizona Iced Tea draw criticism.

But if you’re going to be a lemming about it, you could use basically any sitcom set in the 90’s or 2000’s. I remember reading once that the writers of Buffy The Vampire Slayer deliberately avoided giving the characters cell phones because the characters having reliable, cheap instant communication at a distance eliminates a lot of plots.

Use Saved By The Bell if you have to. Screech, the nerd, is blathering about <newfangled tech> in the first act. The gang gets into a scrape in the second act. Does Screech:

1. fail to use <newfangled tech> correctly as you would in the real world, because if he did the plot wouldn’t happen at all? – Great tech.
2. Use <newfangled tech> realistically to solve the problem, and Zach has a little moment where he admits Screech was right about it? – Good tech.
3. Cause, instigate or worsen the scrape the gang is in with <newfangled tech> which has to be solved by some other means especially deus ex machina by adult characters? – Bad tech.
4. Play the main role in this, a Very Special Episode? – Bad Bad Very Bad Epstein Bad tech.