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When the first mentions and prototypes of the Amiga started surfacing in 1984, I began saving my paper-route money to buy one. I finally got it on the first day I could. It was way…

Well, GPUs sorta went up in the past 5 years.. but nothing like now.

I got the EVO-X2 for $1,599! In 44+ years of buying computers, I've seen some appreciation, but nothing like this. Going from $1,599 to ~$3,500 in a year is just insane.

Running CachyOS has overall been great for me in the past year but the AUR supply chain attack (or whatever it was exactly) was a little unnerving.

You'll overpay -- but not by trillions.

I bought the Snapdragon Elite X over a year ago based on the promises of Qualcomm to bring solid Linux drivers at some point. Fast forward to today, Linux for that SoC is still a h…

I use them ALL THE TIME. If anything, I have my 'local remote' in my Syncthing shared dir - its great for sharing code between my dev workstation(s) w/o using Github, etc.

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I got mine almost exactly a year ago - $1699 direct from GMKTEK. To think it retails for 2X that, a year later, blows my mind.

I was in Warsaw a few weeks ago and ended up visiting that museum almost on a whim, so I wasn’t prepared for the experience. I don’t think a museum has ever hit me that hard — insp…

The “created vs transferred” thing is more nuanced than that. At some point, accumulated wealth becomes power, and that power can be used to pull energy, attention, labor, and publ…

I don’t know who his wealth was transferred from, exactly. But I do know what he’s using it for now: as a gravitational force to unilaterally screw with public institutions and sys…

How are you installing Resolve in Arch? I have not actually tried installing directly (in Arch at least). What problems are you having in the Fusion page too?

As per my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47765893 I run Resolve under CachyOS using the project I mentioned -- everything works afaict.

I use this project to run Resolve Free/Studio on Linux: https://github.com/fat-tire/resolve It helps you build and run Resolve in a Docker or Podman container. I’ve personally used…

I have the same beef with the Signal Foundation. A few years ago, I engaged with the new CEO when she was soliciting donations and asked whether they were going to publish any kind…

Usenet is the main reason I started my own ISP in ’93: to have a reliable USENET feed. I loved it then, and I love it now. Even back then, though, it was always under attack by spa…

My favorite example is here in the Phoenix metro area. We had DSL and cable internet pretty early compared to the rest of the country (mid/late 90s), but then things stagnated. The…

The best pronoun joke, ever.

If you don't mind saying, what distro and/or Docker container are you using to bet Qwen3 Coder Next going?

This is huge. There's been 3rd party Signal library for this for years -- and for some reason I can't determine, the developers have opted NOT to do this.

In the 80s I read all the comics compilations from the late 50s -> 70s, that was the golden age of the strip. It was an amazing comic and you'll see why all the strips creators sin…

Yeah, I wonder what gaps in Litellm Proxy made Mozilla want to even do this.

For all my constant freak-outs about AI in general, it turned out to be a godsend last year when my wife’s mom was hospitalized (and later passed away a few weeks afterward). Multi…

This post resurfaced a thought I had. MSFT is really, really pushing AI. It would be really cool if someone attempted, with any of the coding models / agents, to recreate Windows f…