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I expect better of Ars. Absolute clickbait title and sensationalism. You need a two point MITM and even then it’s not a magic shell.

That kinda is his point. A distro maintainer patching and distributing a thousand packages is duplicitous. Especially when the only real difference to the user is the DE. Putting those efforts upstream is a better use of resources. I develop software, and I’m not going to test a million different distros especially when the difference between Ubuntu and Zorin is a DE and some additional packages. It makes Linux users very mad, but the reality is that they are too fractured to support every distro they use equally.

Just like I don’t need to be a ship captain to tell when the titanic is sinking. It doesn’t matter how it’s made, a product is bad if your model audience doesn’t like it. Starfield isn’t some avant-gard experimental piece, it was meant to appeal to the masses. He can’t use the excuse of opinionated craftsmanship to excuse its poor quality.

My understanding is that’s a yes.

Yes, in my opinion. The configuration of grub (boot loader) is just another step to go wrong, and this will eliminate that possibility. Additionally, it will prevent stupider operating systems (cough Windows) from accidentally overwriting the boot loader during an update.

Same, I’m not a big multiplayer person so most of the time it works out. My latest has been Lethal Company, my first new multiplayer game this year 😂. Been a blast.

It’s been pretty good. So long as you stick to verified and playable games your experience is going to be pretty solid.

My Jamaican friend once said: “How many times do I have to tell you people flour is not a spice”.

At its current level of capability, an unaligned GPT-4/5 could cause harm to humanity

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I picked up a Black Friday Lenovo ChromeBook (Flex 3) for US $160 and use it essentially the same way you describe. You can load up a Debian-based Linux environment within ChromeOS. It’s basically my web-capable thin client.

I used to own an 9th Gen X1 Carbon but the speakers were god-awful given the lack of a DSP. Otherwise a very nice laptop though, amazing keyboard. This is going to sound crazy, but I picked up a Lenovo ChromeBook since my last post and just installed the Linux environment on it. For my needs (I SSH/Parsec into my Mac for most off-cloud workloads) it’s a combo of “just works” and *NIX where I need it. Since it’s cheap too I don’t care if it breaks which is a plus.

I’ve literally taken to pasting the articles into GPT and asking it to summarize the articles. I imagine they will be the next causality in the coming AI wars.

It took them so long I don’t even have a switch anymore 😂

Frankly Starfield didn’t even deserve the nomination. It didn’t do anything unique or deserving of merit beyond just existing. I tried it, and while it has some interesting parts it’s just shallow and bland. The lore had huge potential but got Swiss-cheesed by the game mechanics and wasn’t developed at all - in what was supposed to be a Bethesda RPG. They need to yeet Todd and bring back the Obsidian folks.

For what it’s worth I didn’t even notice they changed it. Can’t be the end of the world but I’d like to hear what network admins opinion’s are.

Absolutely, and I think that’s why snap has a future at all. Immutability is the future, as well as self-contained apps. We saw the explosive growth of Docker as indication that this was the way. If they can make their tooling as easy as a Dockerfile they will win just by reducing the work needed to support it.

Does being the last sane man on Earth make you crazy?

I like the idea of RISC-V, but I need something like a Raspberry Pi except RISC-V. I can accept a little jank, but it needs to be “good enough” if you catch my drift.

Hmm maybe we’ll run FreeDOS on breadboarded (vintage) 8086s and live in caves 😂.