MalReynolds

servicing your own car or modifying the exhaust on your motorcycle (teenagers here didn’t have cars in the first place, actually)

Today’s equivalent is building your own ebike, and it’s awesome and way easier than rebuilding an engine.

Almost Human

Also, Firefly, duh!

You should be fine on gOS for 6 yrs+, which is how long google promised to keep up with security updates. The device tree (think hardware drivers), which is what google removed with pixel 10 is what is causing grief, is already there for lower pixels. Unless, of course, google comes up with some new fuckery to invalidate the usability of the security updates (pray I don’t alter the deal further…)

Annual rentseeking incoming, 3.2.1…

It’s PCIe 4.0 :(

Boo! Silly me thinking DDR5 implied PCIe5, what a shame.

Feels like they’re testing the waters with Halo, hopefully a loud ‘waters great, dive in’ signal gets through and we get something a bit fitter for desktop use, maybe with more memory (and bandwidth) next gen. Still, gotta love the power usage, makes for one hell of a NAS / AI inference server (and inference isn’t that fussy about PCIe bandwidth, hell eGPU works fine as long as the model / expert fits in VRAM.

Pretty sure that’s a x4 PCIe slot (admittedly PCIe 5x4, but not many video cards speak PCIe5), would totally trade a usb4 for a x8, but these laptop chips are pretty constrained lanes wise.

Perhaps a poisoning the well attack on AI scrapers?

I’m enjoying Zen, really gets out of your way nicely. Does a bunch of things I used to hack in userChrome.css better, still reasonably secure as best I can tell, it’s not librewolf but it’s still firefox so I add back the normal privacy add-ons, about:settings etc, but the UX uplift is worth it.

That said, without the firefox base we’re all fucked, so this, and their general culture, is really quite disturbing.