erwan

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erwan,

Many people use credit to buy a car out of their league.

erwan,

It is very well produced but there is very little actual content. He kept showing the same clips and saying the same thing over and over.

Bottom line is “in Steam Deck reviews, media is claiming Linux is complex without any proof or example.” You don’t need 5 full minutes to say that.

erwan,

The problem is those family sets the standard for everyone.

In middle school it started from poor family who can’t afford other activities than handing down their old smartphone, then the percentage grew to the point not giving a smartphone to your kid means he’s isolated from the group.

erwan,

Even if they comply, I’d rather not have to use WhatsApp

erwan,

This is a problem of generative AI. The problem is that it’s necessary to have these kind of protections to prevent it to accidentally go full nazi.

erwan,

In his video, he shows that the more common answers are actually 42 and 69.

I discards them because they’re picked for a reason rather than a human genuinely trying trying to pick a random number, but they’re still way more common than 37.

erwan,

I think most of them get an older phone from their parents.

erwan,

At least on my country contactless with a card only works up to a limit (€50). Beyond that amount you need to input your pin code.

With a phone, no pin code. With a smartwatch either, and that’s my preferred way. No need to pull anything out of my pocket.

erwan,

There is better: eSIM that let you buy cheap data anywhere in the world.

Revolut offers one, also ubigi which is even cheaper.

This way you don’t even need to find out which operator to use in which country.

erwan,

What app is that?

erwan,

I suspect the Republic of Ireland doesn’t want Northern Ireland either, for the reasons stated in the article.

So I’m not sure why we’re even talking about it.

erwan,

That might be true for Luxembourg but not for Ireland.

All US big techs have pretty big hubs in Dublin, with engineers.

erwan,

It’s been 8 years. If they still need humans to check they’ll always need them.

erwan,

On a docked Steam Deck, yes sure. It’s a perfectly good desktop replacement.

On any other PC, I would recommend a traditional distribution over Steam OS.

erwan,

What about upgrades, are they going to switch everyone to KDE?

erwan,

Honestly, I don’t miss Internet April Fools.

It was funny 20 years ago when Google started doing it, fun to see high quality april fools from big established companies. But it got old very fast.

erwan,

The problem is when people then open huge PRs and expect you to take time to review them, then eventually merge them.

Especially when it’s something you don’t want in your codebase because it introduce a big unnecessary “refactoring” or a feature that you don’t want to have to maintain forever.

erwan,

The point is that saying “pull requests welcome” is still work for the maintainer, because now you have to have these discussions with potential contributors, sometimes explain them why you don’t want to maintain the feature, or explain them why this PR is not the way you want…

So either way it’s work, it’s important to keep in mind before saying “just send a PR”.

erwan,

It’s not a lusty image if nobody knows what the full picture looks like. Hence the reference to the Streisand effect.

What I’m not seeing in this thread is the reason why this picture is so over used.

One reason is that it’s the perfect image to test graphics manipulation algorithms like compression for example. It has all the characteristics you want to check for: various textures, gradients, lightening… It’s like the benchy (3d printing) of image compression.

The other reason is that once it established itself as the reference image, it was easier for researchers to compare algorithms and make sure the author doesn’t cheat by cherry picking a picture where his algorithm is clearly better.

Researchers were used to see the common pitfalls of compressions algorithms on this image (the fur for example).

erwan,

That’s the thing, Valve is in this position because they have the Steam cash cow. Other video games company can’t do the same.

erwan,

Since the Raspberry Pi has been released it’s pretty common.

erwan,

My money is on Raspbian. Because it’s very likely powered by a Raspberry Pi.

erwan,

Yeah they tried handhelds, barely made a dent to Nintendo market share then gave up.

erwan,

Yeah that reminds me when I was using Compiz in the late 2000’s, until I got bored of it 😀

erwan,

It’s too bad, if he stayed off Twitter (not just not buying it but not twitt either) people who still believe he’s a genius.

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