There are some codebases my job forces me to work in that would probably make me rage quit without AI. In this situation, using AI is like wearing a rubber suit when working in a sewer. For all practical purposes, I can’t really do it without AI, though I could build something really awesome without AI to replace it if I were allowed.
The other companies involved know this as well; they’re just not saying the quiet part out loud.
Yeah, hobbling along with Pegasus Frontend in the meantime. 😔
Always good to have a list of what to avoid so we can all make sure we avoid them.
I have multiple Reolink cameras at this point and just have them recording to a SD card and blocked from the internet.
They have local ML models for human, animal and vehicle detection, so something like Frigate isn’t strictly necessary, though I haven’t bothered setting them up with Home Assistant yet and mainly use them with the Reolink app and VLC with RTSP. Sometimes, I unblock them from the internet temporarily if I’m going to need to access them remotely.
I recently got a mini PC for couch gaming / HTPC functionality, and I installed Mint without ever booting Windows. I’ve been using Mint for a while after years of distro hopping, but I’m having issues with Bluetooth XBox controllers randomly disconnecting. Maybe this is the excuse I’ve been looking for to try Bazzite, although I might just need to get a USB dongle with a chipset known to work on Linux. What I’m really waiting for is an immutable distro with Plasma Bigscreen.
Only websites hosted by landlubbers are bound by such laws.
I’m sure they’ll be getting a lot of photos with abnormally long noses and saggy, wrinkled, hairy chins.
I feel a debt of gratitude to people like Linus Torvalds and Ton Roosendaal. In a world full of greedy capitalists trying to extract every last scrap of rent they can from humanity, people like them show us that humanity can do better.
The trip to Mars will be similarly expensive to a trip to the New World back in the day. I can imagine history rhyming with something akin to indentured servitude. Especially if the rockets and resources on Mars are owned by billionaires like Musk.
There are 2 reasons a big corporation will ever do anything:
Make number go up
Avoid number going down due to bad PR, government fines, etc.
This probably falls under #2.
Dihydrogen monoxide is potent greenhouse gas that has caused many deaths, and we should stop using it to generate power.
Everyone else on the road when one of these drives by with a loud muffler:
I guess my overall point is that DEs like KDE or Gnome don’t work well on other form factors like TVs, phones, and tablets. Just having Linux on a device without an appropriate UX isn’t that useful. Steam Game Mode acts like a DE for SteamOS that provides a good UX for a controller, but it’s not something I care to use unless it’s blocked from the internet so Valve can’t collect data and spy on me. If Valve makes a phone that isn’t private, the main value would be that the hardware can run Linux, but it would still need an appropriate DE to make it actually usable.
I considered Bazzite with Steam Game Mode on a recently purchased mini PC I’m using as a HTPC to replace Android TV. In addition to not working well with a remote, the data Valve collects via Steam is a concern. Not sure I’d consider a proprietary, closed-source front-end as the main UI on a phone to be much of an improvement over Android, though I’m sure Valve’s other related efforts to get Linux working well on a phone that get open sourced would be good.
He’s still the same sociopath as always, except now with a savior complex. Giving away all his money, is he? His foundation has been around 25 years and he still has $100b+ net worth. A single individual shouldn’t have that much power, and the fact that he still voluntarily wields it while virtue signaling affirms every negative opinion of him. Even if he were the benevolent billionaire his PR campaign would have us believe he is, such a net worth should be reserved for governments where it’s spread across multiple agencies that have checks and balances and are accountable to voters. I don’t trust any individual with that much power, though I’d trust any random person off the street over anyone ruthless enough to become a billionaire.
Yeah, that’s a good one, and I also enjoyed Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography. Stories like Jobs getting a bonus when Wozniak was able to design a board with fewer chips and then not mentioning the extra money to Woz are perfect examples of how sociopaths like Jobs and Gates operate. It’s sad that ruthless charlatans like them who exploit the true geniuses and innovators are allowed to accrue so much money and power in our society.
Exactly, the way Snap is managed is very much out of a big tech playbook, and it won’t be surprising if they’re acquired by big tech. The whole point of Linux for most of us is avoiding big tech bullshit.
Thanks, will check it out!
It’s really all about using Conway’s Law to your own benefit.
If adding features or fixing bugs consistently requires one person from a fairly small team to make PRs across multiple repos and changes can only really be tested in a staging environment where everything can be tested together, then it’s an anti-pattern.
However, if 100 developers or more are working in a single repo, it’s past time to split it up into appropriate bounded contexts and allow smaller teams to take ownership.
I worked at a place where hundreds of developers worked on a single Rails monolith / monorepo, and enterprise architects insisted that 100,000+ RSpec tests that required PostgreSQL had to run in CI for every PR merge. Every build took 45 minutes and used ungodly amounts of cloud compute. The company ended up building their own custom CI system to reduce their 7 figure CI spend so they could ignore the problem.