Same for BlackRock which I maintain gets a lot more heat than the significantly worse Blackstone. BlackRock manages a bunch of index funds and was renounced by several red states for being too woke (the CEO apparently believes in ESG). Blackstone however buys entire neighbourhoods to jack up rent in an area.

At the end of the day they’re all capitalists and none should exist, but I’m still fairly sure Blackrock has gotten a lot of the heat because the CEO is Jewish and a dem supporter. That gets the conspiracy theories flowing from the right. Doesn’t mean he’s a good person, I just think BR gets singled out suspiciously much in a world full of similar companies with even worse leadership.

Yes, Citroën is just another word for lemon

I’ll show myself out

(also I don’t actually hate Citroën, only Peugeot. Citroën used to make cool shit)

No I think it would be better in real life. To scare interns. Not actually develop the megapox.

Also part of the 32 GB DDR4 club here; I’m considering waiting for DDR6 and 128 GB lol

Nothing in modern society works without computers, so everything will get a bit more expensive with DRAM and NAND chips multiplying in price. Hell, wages may go down at low margin businesses dependent on computing.

It’s not apocalyptic by any means, but it’s just more salt in many wounds.

For us gamers, RAM is a once every 5 or 10 years expense. If you buy it more often, you’re just wasting money most likely. Businesses may buy a lot of new computers every year, or they might use cloud compute services that will also get more expensive.

Well I mean the 3 DRAM manufacturers that matter all made the decision to ramp down consumer RAM manufacturing. OpenAI alone is buying up 40% of all global DRAM production.

Given all the financial fuckery going on with OpenAI and the AI and hardware industries in general, I’m pretty sure this is intentional price fixing.

So there’s three companies that make almost all the DRAM and they’re now all ramping down production of consumer RAM.

They’ve also done price fixing in the past.

I don’t think much math needs to be done.

On the one hand, I 110% agree with you

On the other hand, it’s so damn convenient. They cache your shit and they protect you from DDoS attacks, and they do it for free*

*Until you’re big enough to warrant extortion from them.

I want to use Matrix so bad, but my bridges to Telegram and Signal just… stopped working, completely. After which I promptly gave up on it and let my domain expire a few months later (the domain I’d had for 1.5 years, Matrix was the first thing I actually did with it lol).

I think there’s technical reasons for that. It looks like (and I may be wrong) they grab the YouTube website and show you a modified version of that, instead of requesting just the video from the server. This may be useful because YouTube changes how its API works sometimes to throw off 3rd party clients.

If you have 0 issues and aren’t bored with it either, keep using it. It’s completely fine.

People often have various reasons for not using it. E.g they want more up-to-date packages so they go with a rolling release distro, or they want to use a different package manager, or they want an immutable distro. Mint is just a generalist distro that works fine for most people, but doesn’t excel at any particular thing. Same as Ubuntu LTS, but with a nicer UI and less commercialization, so I see it as a great alternative to Ubuntu LTS. Ubuntu non-LTS may be more up to date though.

I distrohop every now and then, but usually when I have a convincing argument for it. Anyone want to try to convince me to switch either of my computers (one on Tumbleweed and one on NixOS) to Bazzite?

Well, yes.

Well yes, it’s antivax slop and an anti-antivax comment pointing out how ridiculous it is

It’s not just showing willingness to stick with a job. After 6 years, if OP was incompetent, they would’ve been fired long ago. So it ALSO shows competence.

Also if you keep it for longer, the performance boost from a new one is noticeable. If you replace every 2 years, you get an imperceptible change and have to waste more money for it lol

Absolutely. I’m just saying that the original guy selling the patent isn’t the reason that corporations can gouge Americans for insulin now.

IIRC the insulin being sold now is manufactured differently and the patents are completely different anyway

But overall your point is good

I’ve been a fan of xkcd for almost 15 years myself. Randall seems like such a genuinely great person and I cry with the happies a little bit every time there’s another comic on how long they’ve had together after the diagnosis.

Most current TOP500 here

They don’t actually list OS there, but you can assume it’s Linux. Lots of R&D has been done to get Linux to run well on supercomputers, it’d be cost prohibitive to try some other OS.