Kubuntu 24.04. When 24.10 is out I’ll switch to it (usually a week or two later because I’m lazy and don’t feel like rebooting). I’ve got two desktops and two laptops running that. Then there’s the HTPC which also running Kubuntu with font scaling set real high to make it easy to read stuff from the couch (that includes Firefox with lots of GUI scaling changes; uBlock Origin makes it a fantastic anime watching station 👍).

Mine and my daughter’s phones have KDE Connect so we can control the HTPC without having to get up to get the wireless mouse/keyboard 😁

The three Raspberry Pis in my house are all running the latest Raspbian image.

My wife’s laptop is a Chromebook.

Ubuntu 2204

OMG! What’s it like‽ Did Linux become a mainstream desktop by then?

How’d you smuggle it back in time? And no: It doesn’t surprise me in the slightest that Linux maintained backwards compatibility for the ancient hardware we’re all running for that long 👍

First person that appreciates clammy hands.

Skintimidators

They never ever got a license to do it in the first place!

Maybe we should take a page from the Trumpers here and declare it a conspiracy!

The deep state doesn’t want people following Harris! They don’t want you to know about it. They think they know better than you!

“Let me tell you, folks, I know how to follow people and this Twitter situation smells. I know all about smelling. Smells. Smelling. Smell… Ling! The word just sounds awful, right? They want you to smell things. They’re coming for your smells!”

Haha, yeah… This is Elon Musk’s X.com we’re talking about. It’s just sheer incompetence and the usual buggy bullshit. We should expect this as normal X behavior at this point. Is anyone really surprised that X is suddenly throwing errors when users try basic functionality? Come on. The platform is garbage and that’s not even taking account the garbage present on the platform.

It’ll be 911,000? As long as it’s stored with 32 bits that should be fine 🤷

That’s probably why Goldman Sachs is against AI all the sudden: They didn’t invest much in it and now everyone else is reaping gains in the stock market that they failed to take advantage of.

There’s not even any evidence that anyone actually printed it 😤

I can answer one of these criticisms regarding innovation: AI is incredibly inefficient at what it does. From training to execution, it’s but a fraction as efficient as it could be. For this reason most of the innovation going on in AI right now is related to improving efficiency.

We’ve already had massive improvements to things like AI image generation (e.g. SDXL Turbo which can generate an image in 1 second instead of 10) and there’s new LLMs coming out all the time that are a fraction of the size of their predecessors, use a fraction of the computing power, and yet perform better for most use cases.

There’s other innovations that have the potential to reduce the power requirements by factors of one thousand to millions such as ternary training and execution. If ternary AI models turn out to be workable in the real-world (I see no reason why they couldn’t) we’ll be able to get the equivalent of ChatGPT 4 running locally on our phones and it won’t even be a blip on the radar from a battery life perspective nor will it require more powerful CPUs/GPUs.

Why limit it to black VS white? Go lizard or amphibian or fish or something. Just making the people black isn’t that interesting.

The Science VS podcast did a show on diets and nutrition a while back and they said that the only emulsifier showing evidence of potential harmful effects (e.g. gut bacteria problems) at the time was soy lecithin.

If you go into any grocery store in the US and look at the ingredients for stuff in the bakery soy lecithin is in everything! It’s actually kind of ridiculous, actually.

It’s also hard to find ice cream that doesn’t have soy lecithin. It’s not even brand-based where you can just choose one brand over another to avoid it. For example, most Haagen Dazs ice cream has soy lecithin but not the chocolate peanut butter flavor 🤷

To be fair, is as “new” as what the major record labels put out!

Surprise everyone by bringing a grill!

This is seriously puplifting News!

This is how you get hooked on 3D printing 👍

Bonus: You should be able to put a hook around the bottom to hold your bag/umbrella. Someone measure the diameter of the pole so we can start making 3D printed hooks for this purpose!

Men shouldn’t be allowed near children that aren’t their own. It’s rarely stated but regularly assumed.

If people are having no trouble with that they need to start testing tentacles.

I always assumed that iDevice users were just (mentally) lazy. They’re the type of people that aren’t interested in learning new things and they think you’re the annoying one when text messages don’t show up correctly/full size on their iPhone.

To be a “techie” one needs to constantly be learning new things so it certainly feels like someone with an iPhone would be a tech noob… because the techie will have tried hundreds of things with all their tech devices and get excited when new stuff is available to try out. Whereas the iPhone user will just be satisfied with what’s familiar.

There’s Android people like that too… That don’t want to bother with learning a new device if they switch to the iDevice ecosystem. They even get super annoyed when an app makes minor changes to its interface. Like when Google recently changed their camera app so that switching between photo and video modes used a new slider UI element these people would be loudly bitching… Even though it really is a nice improvement once you get used to it.

Most people don’t like change that’s forced upon them. This is why Apple spends billions advertising the features of their products: So users will think positively of the changes instead of moaning about things getting changed right from under them.