* Posts by Adibudeen

10 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jan 2010

Microsoft declares 2025 'the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh'

Adibudeen

Re: Really?

Yeah, I've been using Linux for 20 years, so Windows 11 looks pretty much like Windows 10 to me. It seems like Windows users are always complaining about it but still stick with it. Quite the unhappy, abusive marriage!

Videoconferencing fatigue is real, study finds

Adibudeen

There are a couple of things this study doesn't make clear. They showed the students a prerecorded lecture and told them it was live. That means the students were led to believe the professor ignored their presence the entire time, and there was no interaction. As a former teacher, I'd say that's a very different problem than the issue of videoconferencing. Students benefit from an interactive learning experience, even if it's just eye contact. That doesn't necessarily translate to workplace meetings.

Secondly, they cite sources of other studies where meeting participants have their cameras on. The fatigue is usually from the cameras, not virtual meetings themselves. I always keep my camera off and feel a lot less fatigue. For this study, they don't even specify whether or not the students believe they're on camera.

Sorry Pat, but it's looking like Arm PCs are inevitable

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Taj

Many of those youth have school chromebooks that already use ARM chips. It's already here.

Intel offers $179 Arc A580 GPU to gamers on a budget

Adibudeen

It's worth noting that it should be able to use FSR too since it's hardware agnostic. Only DLSS would be unavailable.

Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market

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Why though?

I wonder if most Linux users actually feel this way or if the people who think ChromeOS isn't Linux are just the loudest. It would actually be interesting to do a proper study on the subject rather than collecting data from reddit. I think the results might be surprising.

Guess who's quietly bankrolling a legal fight against Montana's TikTok ban. Why yes, it's TikTok

Adibudeen

Re: It doesn't matter where it is stored, it matters who has access to it

And that's why this whole anti-TikTok thing is a sham. User data from Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc. is for sale, which means China or even much more sinister entities can still gain access to it. If this were really about privacy of US citizens, they'd pass privacy laws for all social media.

Supreme Court says Genius' song lyric copying claim against Google wasn't smart

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Let's also not forget that Genius staff doesn't even write out the lyrics or get them from official sources. People visit the site and contribute to it, which is why I've noticed they sometimes get lyrics wrong (in my totally not expert opinion). If they really cared about fairness and rights, they'd pay their contributors and not claim the community's work as their own.

Red Hat strikes a crushing blow against RHEL downstreams

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Re: GPL violation

And the copyright holders include a lot of people and companies. IBM/Red Hat should be expelled from the Linux Foundation and held accountable.

FTC urged to freeze OpenAI's 'biased, deceptive' GPT-4

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Re: Late to the party?

This sounds like something you just made up. A good chunk of those white collar workers consistently voted in favor of more regulations on capitalist greed. There are just as many people in the "heartlands" who support big corporate cash grabs, even as those corporations abuse and exploit them. Or are you one of those people who somehow misses that unregulated capitalism is responsible for this mess?

The truth is that people keep supporting union busters and voting against their own interests in order to prop up billionaires who do things like release AI knowing it's badly flawed and dangerous. They care about nothing other than lining their pockets, and the people who support them pathetically hope to become like them but never actually will.

Google suggests Islam is nothing

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FAIL

Not quite

Sorry to disappoint you conspiracy theorists, but as a Muslim, I can assure you that if we were to actually get upset over something so silly, it would be for "Muhammad is" or "Allah is" rather than "Islam is". Those two would be much more offensive, and both of them work just fine. You even get warm fuzzy phrases like "Allah is satan" and "Muhammad is a false prophet".

It probably is a bug, just not a very important one.