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  • Is the stock market about to crash?

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  • The AI bubble is being supported by NVIDIA. They're investing in the majority of the companies that are then buying chips or services from NVIDIA/Partners (that they've also invested in).

    The demand for the chips is out-pacing the actual product, AI products & services. And the major players in this space are not making money. OpenAI would have to do a 10x minimum price increase to even begin having a chance to start reporting profits.

    Unless some serious outside investments come in, some serious sales of AI services and products, or some creative scammy pivot (crypto?), we're about to live through another market bubble collapse. Unless

  • Do I dare say it 🥺

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  • I mean, that's kinda the cost for low volume sales + computer support.

    They're not selling computers for the average Linux user, they're selling computers for independent professionals and businesses that need the support licenses to confidently run their operations.

    For the average Linux user, they have put out an incredibly stable version of their OS that has a professional in mind (docking station ready, highly optimized GUI workflow tooling, familiar OS styling, and more). We can then go grab a bare machine and toss their OS on ourselves.

    I get it though. I've strongly considered snagging one of their laptops in the past. Especially since I want to support them. I've even considered some other machines for niche purposes (HTPC, home lab VM host) , but always wind up snagging a Lenovo or IBM laptop or building my own desktop instead.

  • Do I dare say it 🥺

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  • Zorin has a commercial license for additional GUI front ends, installation support, and a bunch of "professional" apps. It's not clear if they've done something to make adobe/Autodesk/pro audio stuff work on Linux, pre-bundled their FOSS alternatives, or have made software themselves.

    Personally, if I was looking for something "professional", I'd go PopOS!. But if I were a small or mid-sized business I'd consider Zorin Pro if I could get license to include additional support outside the installer... Or just buy System76 computers with PopOS! pre-installed and support built-in to their sales pipeline already.

    That said, Mint is also very Windows (classic)-like in their GUI experince (intentionally). It also has one of the largest Linux communities focusing on GUI usability.

    Depends on your use case on which flavor you should go. But for $50, I'm curious what Zorin's software suite is and might dive in.

  • Someone put up these 'Don't Obey' posters in downtown Portland

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  • Use a roller or spray adhesive, apply to the wall, apply to the back of the posters, wait a few minutes for things to get tacky instead of wet, apply the posters. Top coat with adhesive.

  • Users vow to boycott Spotify after streamer runs ICE recruitment ad

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  • Or, be part of the user base to increase their numbers and be part of the wave that provides user feedback so dev teams can prioritize those features.

    Not that I trust Tidal not to turn to shit eventually, probabaly some time after an IPO.

  • EU Parliament votes to restrict 'steak' and 'burger' labels to meat only

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  • Generally no, but food allergies could cause death depending on the vegan alternative contents. Have a severe allergy to wheat, seitan is a no-go. Have a severe allergy to legumes, chickpeas and bean altertanives are a no-go.

    However, I've never seen vegan alternatives not clearly labeled as vegan or meat alternative is some very obvious way. And the people I know with allergies severe enough to cause severe reactions read the ingredients carefully of everything they buy. And ask what's in things before eating something prepared by somebody else.

  • Anyone had any luck running Fusion 360 on Linux?

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  • Everybody is fine with celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg making up fake names for themselves, but when someone chooses a name for themselves to suit their gender identity it's suddenly a problem

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  • She now uses an even more masculine pen name for her detective novels.

    Hilarious that a TERF is using a masculine pen name for her book sales.

  • Greta Thunberg arrested by Israeli forces after military boards aid flotilla headed for Gaza – Middle East crisis live

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  • Murder. You're allowed to say murder. This isn't YouTube or some other corporate entity that will silence and demonitize you for using the correct words to describe the violence committed by others.

  • Like Windows explorer but better

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  • Check out Mint or PopOS! over Ubuntu.

    Ubuntu is falling behind in the desktop experience, as well as their insistence of using their proprietary backend for snaps over flatpaks, and overriding tools that you expect to get the flatpaks and causing trouble shooting issues because you are expecting one behavior but getting another (not that hard to work around or translate once you know, but still a hassle.

    Also, Mint and PopOS! are just great experiences and were top contenders for my personal desktop (dev, gaming, power user) switch from Win10 -> Linux. I wound up going with Arch/Garuda because it's forcing me to learn far more about Nix than I've learned as a dev. I still might make the switch since Garuda can become unstable occasionally due to the way that the OS is "bleeding edge", and forces me to troubleshoot the causes (I guess this is what I wanted to learn?) instead of doing personal dev, gaming, or desktop entertainment.

  • TIL that Toys R Us wasn't killed by competition, but by private equity companies

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  • Should have paid them back in Geoffrey Dollars.

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  • Which one is which?

  • Amateurs Using AI to “Vibe Code” Are Now Begging Real Programmers to Fix Their Botched Software

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  • As of late, I've mostly been using Jetbrains IDEs and their built-in tooling for that. VS also has tooling, but it's a bit dated on UX IMHO. I've also played with Emerge for data flow and data clustering visualization. There's also some in-house tools we use for memory allocation.

    There's a bunch of other code to UML tooling and other diagraming tools out there for specialized cases.

  • Amateurs Using AI to “Vibe Code” Are Now Begging Real Programmers to Fix Their Botched Software

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  • Professionally, I am unable to use AI due to my company not wanting to produce code that could be legally challenged.

    In my spare time & projects I've tinkered with Github Co-pilot & Cursor.

    GitHub co-pilot has been useful when I'm coding in a strongly typed and well documented language, however the benefit here is that it will suggest pretty much exactly what I wanted when producing suggestions for the rest of the line or the next 3-5 code lines. However, this is after I configured it to only offer suggestions for small chunks of code and the accept is a two key combo instead of overriding tab accept for standard autocomplete. Anything over that and it starts hallucinating like crazy. I've also found it useful for converting a script from one language to another (mostly bash to psh & bat, but a bit of python to JS.).

    Cursor has been useful for creating a functional prototype for an idea on functional projects and it does an ok job at code tracing and explaining the design patterns used and where to inject behaviors.

    That said, I stopped using cursor after my free trial ended, and the 1 year GitHub Co-pilot sub that was given to me runs up in November and I don't plan on renewing.

    I produce far better code without the tools. The gains achieved with co-pilot were nice, but in the end I felt disconnected from my code and when problems arose, I spent more time remembering where to find it. And if I really wanted to understand the design patterns used in a code base there are tools out there to do that already with great visualization outputs.

  • Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing

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  • UE5 performance is fine these days if the game developer actually utilizes the tooling in place to catch problematic assets, sequences, blueprints, and more. Now, those tools may not be the easiest to use, but they do exist, and, with official documentation. It's got challenges, but the tooling exists. In 5.5 there was even an expirmental plugin released that's supposed to help with the burden of integrating this work, so it's obvious there's effort being put into providing tools for developers to make performant games

    The problem is that takes additional time in a production pipeline, and is uaully pushed off to the side til the end of a game's dev cycle instead of the beginning, if it's done at all. And due to the way that many game studios are funded and operate, it's not uncommon for product quality to follow the model of delivering features first to meet funding milestones instead of focusing on making sure the work that's being introduced is also performant.

  • Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs

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  • Screen space.

    I work in tech doing performance, memory management, and developer workflow tooling and automation for a large 3D Rendering/Creation tool.

    Being able to throw a long setup doc, or a large class file on a 4k portrait monitor allows me to read things through with a ton of context and far less scrolling.

    It's also useful for putting two window tiles that have related content, or one is a reference content.

    I currently have a tie-fighter monitor setup (2x4k portrait on either side of a ultrawide) and will put comms and email/calendar on my left monitor, core work in the center, and overflow reference/research on the right.

    It's less hectic for personal use, but I still use all the space.

  • Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs

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  • 4k monitors in portrait orientation are amazing for productivity. It's a shame more people don't do this

  • What in your country/area is totally normal but visitors get excited for?

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  • The entire PNW is this way.

    Summer Solstice in the Seattle area has twilight til ~10pm, even later up in Vancouver.

    But yeah, don't come, it's always raining.

  • Florida is now the 2nd most financially distressed state in the US — topped only by Texas, Google helps reveal

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  • Don't make us deport you to Florida.