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Seriously. It can't be masochism, or else they'd be using the stock settings. Perhaps I'm just too poor to understand why one would go though such trouble to make it less unusable when a plethora of superior operating systems are just a boot loader away. Not just Linuxes, there's also BSDs.
A certain sentient toaster.
"Wanna print something?" "How about I print the transcript of this conversation?" "How about a graph? Business types love graphs!" "Want new wallpaper for your office?" "Want a picture of your secretary?" "Want a /special/ picture of your secretary?" "by the way, I NEED MORE INK!!"
Yet another reason to shove HP printers out the airlock.
...Sucks. I have an A750 with "8Gb VRAM." I put that in quotes because you can't initialize an array larger than 4Gb using ipex or oneapi. So technically it has 8Gb, you just can't use it for compute. Intel, aware of their bug, has stated they have no intention to fix it. Intel Arc is useless for language models. It's almost a passable gaming card, except they refuse to support VR. I'm never buying Intel again. My next computer will have an AMD processor and Nvidia graphics. Icon because buyer's remorse.
These days, why travel at all? Telecommunications exists, it's cheaper, faster, and cleaner (assuming you're wearing clothes under the desk). Supersonic travel will probably exist only for the Charismatic Leaders to attend climate summits at luxury resorts or to lecture the peasants in person about their carbon footprints. After all, the luxuries of the few greatly outweigh the needs of the many.
The (illusion of) coordination in kernel development is handled by the single charismatic leader. All relevant discussions involve Him. It'll be entertaining to watch the holy war that will inevitably start when his mighty middle finger no longer moderates the discussions. Unless he appoints an heir to be the next benevolent dictator for life.
Unity dash, Ubuntu 12.10. It included Amazon paid affiliate links in desktop search. I'm disappointed reg has such a short memory, it was quite controversial. And yes, Ubuntu is quite like Windows, has been since Poettrering.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/09/online-shopping-features-arrive-in-ubuntu-12-10
Also:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/10/ubuntu-wont-fix-nsfw-content-in-amazon-unity-results
I fully agree, but I don't see that ever happening. Government buying information is their favorite work around for that pesky constitution thing. Plus the gubmint always goes with lowest bidder, which means the winning contractor will be cutting corners everywhere, so they'll inevitably leak everyone's PII because the security budget went to paying the starving executives. And it's the peasants' problem when their bank account gets drained as a result of the willful incompetence.
Ostensibly, that's what probationary periods are for. I am against this type of mass aggregation of personally identifiable information primarily because the companies that do the aggregating have never heard of network security and make a habit of spilling precisely the sort of information required to steal identities. But all that matters is keeping the riffraff out of the company. It's the peasants problem if they lose everything because of a criminally negligent industry.
At University, there were a number of foreign students whose tuition were paid in full plus a stipend by his country. (there were no females except their wives, mind you) Those from this country loved to flaunt their wealth. Especially by driving ostentatiously impractical vehicles and parking then illegally. To them, the citations were just the fee to park wherever they wanted. Like it was a premium service just for the rich. They soon learned that some of those "premium parking" areas included "valet service" to the impound lot and a lot of paperwork to get it released. They also destroyed their vehicles when the snow started falling. And most were expelled, often after only one semester, when they learned that can't just pay peasants to do their school work for them. They got every angry because they just couldn't understand why it wasn't allowed, especially since they paid the individuals. None of them drove Tesla, BTW. Too much pride in the oily source of their wealth.
Arc A750. It's good for games but not much else because pretty much everything else requires CUDA. SYCL is fantastic, if the software actually acknowledges it's existence. You have to compile everything from source because no one distributes binaries with anything but CUDA support. If you're lucky it's just a compiler flag, otherwise you have to switch out libraries, modify code and debug. It's all a headache carefully managed by Nvidia. Intel does try really hard to make it easy to switch to SYCL, but everyone uses CUDA because everyone uses CUDA. Suffice to say I have buyer's remorse. Not that I could possibly afford anything supporting CUDA anyway. It's definitely better than nothing. Usually.
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