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brucethemoose

@ brucethemoose @lemmy.world

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6h ago

why dont android phones have a bios like computers and be able to load a generic arm linux iso or windows one,or be easily rooted?
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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 6h ago

And better security, theoretically.
TBH most Android users would absolutely install all sorts of malware if it wasn’t literally impossible with the OS’s architecture. Not that Google Play isn’t a scam-infested bog, but I do get the locked-down approach.

6h ago

Trump fires Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 6h ago

You ran it locally? With what, DrawThings?

10h ago

Could the United States lose the war in Iran? Why one professor thinks it will happen

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 10h ago

I love how there's a ton of comments and upvotes here, yet OP's article is paywalled behind a subscription. Did anyone here actually read it?

It reminds me of a post I just saw elsewhere, with total nonsense in the link. Since it was already upvoted, the moderater left it up as an experiment: it got a boatload of upvotes and comments. No one cared, even with someone pointing this out in a comment. It was just a bunch of the same comments affirming what they already believed.

...That about sums up the internet for me now. People don't actually care where information came from; they just want to drive by, then keep scrolling :(

13h ago

Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 13h ago

The "upgradability" part in a small laptop is questionable to me, anyway.

The GPU is really compromised in that chassis, as having it in a slot compromises cooling big time, and limits how much power it can use. And while I love upgradable RAM for the CPU... it'd be better if they used faster CAMM modules. Many other brands have upgradable SSDs/WiFi.

Swappable ports are awesome, no question.

...But honestly, I'd rather have a smaller chassis, bigger GPU and better cooling right off the bat, like a Zephyrus chassis. And have it reparable, and make the whole motherboard standardized/swappable, but not compromise the chassis so severely by making it modular.

1d ago

racist ai

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 1d ago

Again, why not Claude Code, Gemini 3.1, or GLM-5?

1d ago

Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 1d ago

MS is losing the school market, They’re kicking the home market out. Once all these home users get used to alternative OS’s what makes them thing businesses won’t follow suit to save money?

That's not a now problem.

Leadership is incentivized for immediate returns, not long term strategic sustainability. The current generation of workers is pretty entrenched in Windows, and the next generation that grows up without Windows is years away.

2d ago

Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 2d ago

Businesses will buy this.

Hell, they'll love it. Decision makers will jump on an "AI OS" faster than you can blink.

Some say businesses don't like extra costs, but that's not been my experience when it comes to Microsoft products and other software subscriptions.

...And that's what MS wants.

They couldn't care less about home users. They don't make them any money, not in the short term. MS wants business buyers sucked in, yesterday.

2d ago

I searched `CachyOS vs Fedora` on YouTube and all I found was AI Slop 🙄

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 2d ago

If you're wondering about Fedora vs CachyOS, it comes down to what you do on your PC. And what you're used to.

If you want better "preconfiguration" for graphics stuff, CachyOS is the way to go. With Fedora you will end up referencing and maintaining a whole lot more yourself, while the CachyOS maintainers basically do all that maintinance and config optimization for you.

But Fedora might be better for a less GPU-focused "workstation" type system.

Generally, I'd look at the "style" and interests of distro maintainers. CachyOS is built by a collective of linux gaming/compute enthusiasts that snowballed into popularity, though it does inherit all the work from Arch. Fedora is a long standing workstation/server workhorse, a "pre release" for Red Hat enterprise linux.

2d ago

I searched `CachyOS vs Fedora` on YouTube and all I found was AI Slop 🙄

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 2d ago

Shoutout to blocktube: https://github.com/amitbl/blocktube

Usually, the same "few" slop channels dominate a specific topic, so add them to a blocklist and the filtering gets reasonably good.

It's absolutely insane that YouTube doesn't allow this as a native feature.

2d ago

I searched `CachyOS vs Fedora` on YouTube and all I found was AI Slop 🙄

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 2d ago

The point of these LLM videos isn't to provide information, but to farm clicks. They're full of completely made up nonsense mixed with info copied and reworded from real sources.

As an example, when I search for info about the Canon R7 Mark II (a rumored upcoming camera), they seem to paraphrase Canonrumors articles, but the image "slideshow" makes no sense, and they add in all sorts of straight up impossible assertions and specs. But the uploader doesn't care because they've uploaded thousands of these, and a few might make them some nickels.

2d ago

Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo'

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 2d ago

To be blunt, I dunno if that's coming? Apple's designs are pretty conservative these days; I doubt they'd make a big folding iPhone.

iPhones do go on firesales from some carriers, sometimes even below cost.

2d ago

Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo'

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 2d ago

Well, with how things are going with Windows and laptop OEMs, it’s still a better deal than those.

A lot of user need an iPad with a touchpad and keyboard for their needs, which is precisely what this is.

2d ago

GIF vs JPEG-XL

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 2d ago

Yeah, it’s ridiculous.

All the AI stuff they’re shipping in Chrome, and the concern with JXL is security/attack surface? That’s a total lie. It’s so much better than AVIF for certain niches, and it’s already supported by Apple.

2d ago

GIF vs JPEG-XL

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 2d ago

It doesn’t work in Chromium at all, only in forks that hack it back in like Thorium.

Firefox needs a flag enabled in about:config, yes.

…And yeah. Realistically, a low framerate AV1 (or AVC) webm is more optimal for this, better supported, and will perform better on a lot of hardware. TBH JXL should drop the animation stuff and focus on static images (which it’s incredible at) and HDR support.

2d ago

GIF vs JPEG-XL

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 2d ago

iOS Safari/Photos will render the first frame of the JXL, but not play the animation.

2d ago

Is it bad to have a male best friend when you’re in a relationship?

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 2d ago

Take anything said here with a grain of salt, as we don’t know you, nor these two guys.

3d ago

Thoughts on Helium browser?

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 3d ago

So it’s not technically Chromium anymore? It’s a fork of Chromium?

It's not a fork, IMO. It's just a set of patches to upstream Chromium.

3d ago

ELI5. Limit of current gen AI/LLMs

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 3d ago

I mean, even as-is, it's a very useful tool. Especially as the capabilities we have get exponentially cheaper.

What people don't get is AI is about to become a race to the bottom, not to the top. It's a utility to sift through millions of documents, or run simple bots, or operate work assistants, or makeshift translators or whatever; you know, oldschool language modeling. And that's really neat as the cost approaches "basically free."

Basically, imagine running Claude Code on your iPhone, and Claude Code itself not really changing all that much. Imagine the economic implications for the big AI houses.