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"Bullshit" – The New Way Health Giants Hide Billions

hntrbrk.com
4 points·by jwcooper·vor 6 Monaten·0 comments

Google's rolling out its most powerful AI chip, taking aim at Nvidia

cnbc.com
3 points·by jwcooper·vor 8 Monaten·0 comments

Virtual Display over Web Serial

adafruit-playground.com
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jwcooper
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
I was on a Macbook Pro (multiple models for many years) and jumped to the 12th gen intel framework. It is fantastic laptop, just showing its age a bit (mostly battery life as I still have the smaller battery and 12th gen intel wasn't that great for battery).

I upgraded the screen and speakers, nothing else really needed changing throughout the years.

I was so tired of the bad docker performance on macOS that I went to a framework with Linux. Linux on a laptop (Fedora/Gnome specifically) worked so much better than I expected too.

I'm hopeful I can pre-order this new model as well.
jwcooper
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
This is ridiculous. The school will notify you if the student is not at school, or the teachers will eventually (or their grades/missing assignments).

Also you don't need to track your kids to enable school time mode, if you want to lock down their phone during school.

What are you going to do when they go to college? Track them? Monitor them? Make sure they go to classes?

At some point, you just have to trust your kids to do the right thing. It's a part of them learning how to grow up and be independent. It's better to make mistakes the younger you are so you can learn from them when there is less on the line.
jwcooper
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
Oh yup, you're right on that. I guess my point still stands as Bayer and BASF kind of fit the bill as well.
jwcooper
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
The problem isn't with the farmers. The problem is the monopolies that surround the farmers.

They buy their seeds from massive corporations that have patents on seeds. They sell their produce to global multi-national corporations that set the prices they'll purchase at. They buy their machinery from John Deere or Case IH at extremely high prices.

They have no negotiating power and are squeezed between these massive corporations. This ends up leading to farmers having to sell land to corporations that will then farm it and extract subsidies from the government.

When a farmer receives a subsidy, it usually just ends up in the pockets of Cargill or Monsanto, with whom they already owe money to.

The whole system is broken from top to bottom.
jwcooper
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
> The sticking point like always will be media playback (read: DRM/widevine). That is the graveyard where Linux browsers go to die. If Kagi can legally and technically solve the widevine integration on a non-standard Linux webkit build, they win. If not, it will be a secondary browser for documentation reading only.

I'm hopeful that some day Linux will have enough users where the media companies can't ignore them. Hopefully, that day is sooner than later.

It's pretty frustrating that peacock (and all xfinity streaming) doesn't work and you can't get 1080p or 4k on most other streaming platforms.
jwcooper
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
Your grandma doesn't need to know what wayland is to use linux. This is an enthusiast forum for people interested in this exact topic.
jwcooper
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
Most of this article seems unnecessary in 2025 and is very specific to Arch.

For most distributions you can simply install the (proprietary) nvidia drivers and you're good to go.

There is generally no tweaking or command line changes necessary for Nvidia to work on Wayland, including multi-monitors with different resolutions and refresh rates.
jwcooper
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
You can do that now, and for at least the last year.

Very few games don't work anymore, and most that don't are using kernel level anti-cheat or are generally hostile to users anyways (Fortnite and Destiny 2 could work, but they actively block Linux).

I main Fedora with an Nvidia 3080 and haven't had issues for quite some time now.
jwcooper
·letztes Jahr·discuss
Microsoft is going the opposite of what you're suggesting. Their games are coming to Steam, Playstation and Switch. Also, their game division isn't exactly thriving right now. They have a ton of studios, but they are not selling hardware very well right now.

The more that time goes on, and the more entrenched steamOS/Proton becomes, they will not have any sort of easy time trying to lock-in to Windows. Even now in the earliest days of steamOS, there is blow-back when a game does not support the Steam Deck (which means Proton).
jwcooper
·letztes Jahr·discuss
The Steam Deck is basically the successor to the Steam Machines. The actual hardware didn't go that well, but they laid the foundation in software for what we have now.

So, in a way, the Steam Machines were a great success.

Also, Valve has (for better and worse) far more power and control in the gaming ecosystem than most companies Microsoft has to deal with.
jwcooper
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
I figure if it's good enough for login.gov [1], it's good enough for my sites as well.

I also find devise pretty simple to get setup and use. It's so easy to mess up some small thing while writing your own auth. I've always pretty much trusted myself to at least get devise setup properly.

[1] https://github.com/18F/identity-idp/blob/main/Gemfile#L30
jwcooper
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
I'm not saying GitLab is poorly designed, but a poorly designed website will be slow on the fastest of languages or frameworks. It's not necessarily a Rails or Ruby problem here.
jwcooper
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
Same here - ads in their "prime" (more like sub-prime now) video service were what made us cancel as well.

Honestly, it's been fine. It turns out a lot of other retailers have almost caught up to Amazon with choice and some even shipping speed.
jwcooper
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
This is a survey from gamers. There are a lot of games that only work on Windows, or work much better on Windows.

It's only been somewhat recently that games that support Linux have exploded in numbers. Somewhat coinciding with the release of the steam deck and the massive community it brought with it. There are now launchers for other stores for Linux and more every day.

Still, a lot of gamers don't really have a choice but to at least dual boot into Windows if they want to play some of the most popular games (Fortnite, for one).
jwcooper
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
It's because they break the other distributions by version.

Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS 64 bit

VS

"Arch Linux" 64 bit

Other Ubuntu versions appear to be in the "Other" category.