I can only hope that the A.I. bubble bursts in time when I need to buy a new computer.

… and your inheritance.

Remember, Google is not alone:

Wasn’t Zelenskyy shopping for 100–150 Swedish JAS Gripen only a few weeks ago? Eager to modernize the air force with European planes, I guess.

In related news about a robot vacuum cleaner: https://infosec.exchange/@masek/115452385066637223

Some context and discussion here: https://mastodon.social/@Edent/115048990801167629

I fear many won’t understand the reference here.

I guess it is like bicycling: there is a price to pay in blood 😉 My suggestion: in Romania, take a few hours of driving lessons with a professional teacher who can explain everything to you.

There is a Swedish short movie about a similar incident about 20 years ago: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1hvo3QOHtaA

Microsoft tried the same idea about 10 years ago with Continuum, even including a hardware dongle: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Continuum https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/continuum-phone

Canonical had something similar, too, back in the days with their Ubuntu Touch and named it Convergence: https://www.linux.com/news/first-ubuntu-touch-tablet-brings-convergence-last/

https://archive.is/JTlZx

From what I heard from a teacher who was on exchange to China is that traditional Chinese education values the memorization and ability to rephrase or reproduce previous scholars’ work, but neglects reflection and own ideas, especially if you are just a student. Western academic traditional to the contrast values the student’s ability to evaluate, compare, and reflect on previous work. Hypothetically, a report that would give you a pass with distinction at a Chinese university would make a plagiarism checker cry at a Western university and vice versa.

Many arguments call countries’ names, but actually prices are dictated by companies (directly or indirectly by their behavior) that want to make a profit. Sweden’s electricity prices, as a rule of thumb, are always lower than prices in Germany, so from an economic p.o.v. it makes sense to buy as much electricity in Sweden as can be transported south. Of course, that drives prices up in Sweden to historic level (but still cheaper than in Germany). Why are prices so high in Germany? Several reasons have been discussed here, but one I would like to highlight is that operators of gas and coal power plants, which are meant as reserves in cases of high demand and low supply, do not produce sufficiently much electricity: they simply earn more by selling little electricity at high prices than by selling more electricity at lower prices. The politicians’ fault is that they have created a mostly unregulated market where under the right conditions some actors can make huge profits at the cost of everyone else. This is why more nuclear power plants won’t help: even their operators will have to pay back the huge debts left from construction and thus also will try to maximize profits from high prices via low supply.

There was choice, but not enough volunteers: https://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/

Most comments comments mention Brother, but for me, Oki is working like a charm. Using a B431dn (b/w, duplex) and a C531dn (color, duplex) with PPD files from OpenPrinting. Older models though, not sure if Oki dropped quality in favour of DRM since.

Rules of thumb:

1. Laser instead of ink unless you specifically know that you need/want ink.
2. Stay away from HP, Canon, and probably Epson. HP, like IBM, has long lost its aspiration for quality.
3. Stay away from anything that is ‘smart’ or ‘cloud’.