I delayed Linux on the main computer for years for the kids' video games and trying to give MS a chance when they were trying to be good (WSL2, Win10 forever, etc.)
Now when I start the machine in windows, a splash screen comes up and literally tells me to buy a new computer. Linux has been lovely.
Great for giving incantatons for ffmpeg, imagemagick, and other power tools.
"Use ffmpeg to get a thumbnail of the fifth second of a video."
Anything where syntax is complicated, lots of half-baked tutorials exist for the AI to read, and you can immediately confirm if it worked or not. It does hallucinate flags, but fixes if you say "There is no --compress flag" etc.
Good cover by Ben Folds
They just extended it another year.
It's not forced on you. Everything's optional. As you might expect from a paid product.
This is why I got a Razr. Once the technology becomes common, I dream of a regular size phone that shrinks to a matchbook or something.
OSMAnd
Mission Accomplished.
I delayed Linux on the main computer for years for the kids' video games and trying to give MS a chance when they were trying to be good (WSL2, Win10 forever, etc.)
Now when I start the machine in windows, a splash screen comes up and literally tells me to buy a new computer. Linux has been lovely.
The first Black Adder.
Does "reset and recovery" mean "wipe the hard disk and put a fresh licensed Windows install on"?
Not needing a license for a Linux distro means that's straightforward without a special tool.
That was the original joke.
https://sr.ht/ ?
And for alerts like texts, this single pop for the same reason.
https://freesound.org/people/Vilkas_Sound/sounds/463390/
A recording of me heavily exhaling so that nobody but me notices when it rings. I never have to put my phone on silent.
My memory was that there were exclusive players for TV stations. But all the consumer ones could record.
Maybe severely reduced bandwidth is the idea.
I'm a big aesthetic fan of 1-bit dithered images and art. But it's hard to believe it's actually saving any energy.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/17/1114456/toy-armatron-modern-robotics-ai-nostalgia/
Great for giving incantatons for ffmpeg, imagemagick, and other power tools.
"Use ffmpeg to get a thumbnail of the fifth second of a video."
Anything where syntax is complicated, lots of half-baked tutorials exist for the AI to read, and you can immediately confirm if it worked or not. It does hallucinate flags, but fixes if you say "There is no --compress flag" etc.
HN crowd told me they're porting to swift. When I asked "why not Rust", they said the C++ code was very OOP, so it was easier to port to swift.
vim vs. emacs
It doesn't matter if you personally like emacs more, far fewer people use it.
https://plenz.com/tmp/vi.html
Busuu looked promising.