it’s Ubuntu dawg. you get what you pay for.

honestly it’s hard to beat Macs these days in this space for two reasons:

• unified memory means that you don’t have to load up on RAM just to load the model and then also shell out for a video card with barely enough VRAM to fit a basic language model
• their supply chain is solid and has mostly avoided the constraints that other OEMs and parts manufacturers are struggling with

pricing is tough. sure, crypto is on its way out, but GPUs are still the platform of choice for most neural net workloads (outside of SoCs like Apple M-series). i built a PC in late 2024, and it’s easily worth twice what i paid for it.

i guess it would be nice, but packages being a few months out of date is pretty normal for Ubuntu, in my experience. i’m not sure what their testing process is like, but part of using something like Ubuntu is stability guarantees. if they felt like the couldn’t do that for newer versions for whatever reason (resource constraints, lack of downstream interest from stakeholders, etc) they’re not necessarily obligated to.

there’s a world of options. this is an LTS distro. use Arch or Nix or whatever if you want the latest packages. i actually switched to NixOS because the CUDA drivers were too new on Arch, and i wanted a better way to pin versions.

or i dunno keep publicly complaining about it until someone does the work for you

as someone who has been watching far too much Food Network on the treadmill: just give em some freakin time to cook. the best things i’ve made personally are low and slow or from scratch pasta or slaw that sat in the fridge overnight. the 15-45min time frame has produced so many undercooked or otherwise mangled $80 steaks. like, even for a weeknight dinner i’m using things i marinated overnight or whatever. and in a kitchen setting you literally have all morning to prep in addition to doing overnight prep or even coming in super early to start your fresh bread. the format precludes entire classes of dishes.

i can generate this story, at least structurally, using Claude. given the other headline about how MAGA is easily fooled by AI slop, i’d be surprised if this was any more than the unholy rage bait/confirmation bias slop that has old men congratulating AI bimbos in red hats for being “a real American woman”

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guaranteed any company worth more than a handful of salt does not want this. my company would throw a library of books at them for using data in any way that isn’t 100% explicit. for the longest time they blocked me from running Ollama on my laptop cuz the lawyers didn’t understand how neural networks work and thought i was exfiltrating data.

this is only going to hurt companies that probably shouldn’t be using Atlassian products anyway (ie any company with more agility than a boomer era corporate dinosaur)

“changed nothing” can’t be really true. sure, productivity might have been on the whole unchanged, but in my experience it’s because of the clusterfuck of half finished and poorly understood work that all of a sudden gets a pass and takes real experts to come in and mitigate and clean up. measuring productivity with lines of code was always a bad metric.

art isn’t something you can generate as such. having a model that can copy the Mona Lisa pixel perfectly hasn’t stolen the Mona Lisa. it’s the shitty kids’ movies and TV ads and company logos that are at stake.

art is about effort and ingenuity and is centered around people and places and times and can’t be simply replicated by an industrial process, as much as Disney wants that

Microsoft is running out of moat to commit this type of developer abuse. Linux numbers just this year have shown that Windows can bleed, and we’re starting to enter a world where the software that people need isn’t on Windows when the converse used to be a given.

i mean, still. using any CLI tool for the vast majority of people is a nonstarter

anyone who says installing Arch is easy is hiding an extensive computer background. i struggled to install it the first time for sure. then it ran like a champ for like 8 years. solid distro with few compromises imo.

it’s one of those cases where if you have to ask, you should probably just use systemd. anything else is outdated or a passion project based on some idealism, which i’m all for, but if you’re worried about gaming performance as a primary concern i’d put it out of your mind. for example, i’m an obsessive tinkerer that uses NixOS and Arch before that and i use nushell and Neovim and Hyprland, but i use systemd cuz i don’t see a reason not to. it’s well supported and stable.

i’ve been a big fan of Jujutsu (jj) since adopting it a few weeks ago. things i used to avoid with git like proper rebasing and focused commits become so much easier, in addition to the benefits of conflicts being easier to handle. the learning curve i thought was going to be grueling only took a couple days to get used to, and honestly interop with GitHub and my team’s particular workflow were the hard parts. so not only is it useful, powerful, and becoming more important to my workflow all the time, it’s a joy to use compared to git.

i guess honorable mention to zoxide, which has basically replaced cd for me since it does everything cd does but also keeps a small db of your most commonly visited directories so you can just do z Downloads or z my_project or whatever from any directory

oic it’s using React Native. gotcha. of course the problem that everyone was worried about was which Javascript engine was running the task bar and totally not that the task bar was running Javascript in the first place

“unhackable” is a bit sensationalized here. the Xbox One is actually a security success story not because it is impossible to hack, but because it’s a rare example of a console that wasn’t hacked in its service lifetime. at the risk of giving praise to Microsoft, the architecture is actually really neat and informed the security features of subsequent Windows releases, ie a hypervisor with sandboxed sub containers (this is why they required TPMs).

(also i’m not agreeing with requiring a TPM for general purpose machines; they make sense on a bespoke hardware platform like a game console)

i bet this hack is nuts, but the blue team deserves some level of kudos

https://youtu.be/U7VwtOrwceo

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i was expecting more a human review than an AI context dump, but whatever. i’m conflicted. i’ve been through my share of vim plugin manager migrations, including the recent big change to Lazy. i’m tired boss, and i’m worried about bloat. i hope this feature works out, but i’m gonna let it bake for a while.