Just my personal take: the thing about Bitcoin is not that the success is based on the soundness of crypto but instead it’s based in the non-soundness of our debt and fiat-based currency. It’s a sign of the times and a growing lack of faith in institutions.

I own an Ethernet cable tester. Somewhere.

Then the frustration as you desperately try to find the hardware you know you have to avoid the shame of buying a new one.

I truly don’t understand it. It must be a weird pedophile thing.

There’s a reason why license agreements often stay there there are no warranties express or implied, no guarantees, and no fitness for any particular purpose.

I use it and I have not encountered this. You’re referring to the desktop GUI maybe?

Because they have the fascist brain disorder and are a danger to all living.

I’ll take a risk and say Fedora KDE Plasma flavor. Rolling release so highly current drivers, and it’s done a great job with my games.

I will continue to enjoy my incredibly straightforward and to the point Linux desktop that’s somehow gained a new AI-free feature by doing nothing.

I’d be interested in a chart showing the rate of change. I believe the value has been increasing significantly but it probably varies by region.

Looks like they just made it in before the big AI crash.

Is this satire? If I have to ask, it’s lame.

Are there actually enough users that I can stumble upon others in radio mesh range?

You’re right here, building it with us!

Unfortunately, the money has already been pocketed.

I’m sure somebody’s getting rich.

I thought we defunded cyber on purpose?

And China can simply purchase access I thought? We are total sell outs.

Whales: our investments.

A 1.6 in a car that light isn’t all that slow. That’s what, nine seconds? Not a race car, but cars used to be so much slower.

Unlike many Linux users, I really liked the idea of the TPM. So long as I fully control the keys, integration with a security chip to authenticate my system would be a nice bonus and represents a natural extension to secure boot. We already take this approach in principle with smartphones.

On the other hand, it’s becoming a lot harder to actually own your devices and run code of your own choosing on smartphones. It’s a tool that so far has generally been used to serve the interests of the vendor over the user.

I wonder if we’re actually against the storage format limits these days. Is the format a limiting factor in typical handsets?

Yes! The problem is that we won’t accept the full correction that is actually required. We print money, we buy securities, we find ways to prop to reduce the pain but we end up shifting the weakness to other areas of the economy.