Just wait until they figure out that the hundreds of billions of dollars that keep showing up in deals don’t actually exist because it’s all a giant circle and all the deals cancel out. They’re literally trading the same imaginary money back and forth to generate headlines to pump the stocks. Also apparently the company formerly known as Facebook might not actually have enough money to cover the cost of their shiny new data center. If Zuckerbot manages to bankrupt his company chasing the AI fad I am going to laugh so hard I might actually pass out

The merits are that the only “precedent” they have is an idea that was spitballed a while back, never implemented, and even back then regarded as blatantly unconstitutional and unlikely to survive a legal challenge. The article even says as much itself. The entire rest of the article is based on the idea that that idea would magically work rather than being smacked down by the Supreme Court instantly. They wouldn’t even need to come up with some convoluted unconstitutional bullshit to do so, the constitution is actually on their side in this one.

They should call it the FIFA corruption prize, it would be a far more accurate name and actually match what FIFA is all about.

It still does despite what Trump and his gestapo claim. They are illegally deporting U.S. citizens. If we ever manage to dislodge these parasites the ones responsible better face jail time for these crimes, because “I was just following orders” isn’t a valid defense for breaking the law nevermind the constitution.

This idea keeps coming up and while it sounds great it has the slight problem that states don’t pay taxes, people do. Basically your suggestion is then that people living in blue states should stop paying their taxes. Now, the majority of those taxes are collected for them by the companies they work for. You can reduce (maybe eliminate I’m not actually sure if you can opt into 0% withholding) how much is collected by your employer by filing out a new W-4 form, if they let you. But even setting that aside there’s the problem that none of that will matter in the slightest when the IRS comes for you with an arrest warrant for unpaid taxes. Or they might just start garnishing your wages, I’m honestly not 100% sure how that would play out. I just know that number 1 rule is you don’t fuck with the IRS.

That would be incredibly unlikely. As a general rule the US military does not use foreign made gear, particularly anything from China. More likely it’s human error, someone fucked up the maintenance.

It’s very popular to the point where multiple other distros are starting to offer its patched kernel on their distro. It’s very focused on gaming performance, particularly around Steam and Proton.

Yeah that should be completely fine then. Try dual boot, if you don’t have any issues you can always go 100% Linux at some point in the future and in the meantime the old Windows partition can provide some amount of reassurance if something does go wrong.

Is it a newer Nvidia GPU? If so I believe it pretty much works the same these days. It was mostly the older Nvidia GPUs that seemed to have a lot of problems.

So the standard setup these days. The regulation won’t be used to actually regulate the industry but instead will be used to set up a series of roadblocks that protect the major incumbent players from any smaller competition.

Cachyos seems like the general recommendation. Haven’t used it myself, but I’ve used its kernel so I guess that counts for something.

They don’t even know how to use a gamepad nevermind a keyboard and mouse. If it doesn’t have a touchscreen and big shiny icons it’s too complicated for them. One step closer to Idiocracy.

Yes, but it’s also 20 years old now and has been discontinued for almost a decade. Likewise the Wii had a PowerPC CPU in it. None of the current consoles use PowerPC, They’re either x86 (Xbox One and PlayStation 5) or ARM (Switch 2).

Amiga is owned by another company.

Kind of. Apparently the rights are a mess and owned by 3 different companies, one of which is Commodore, although it seems like the current version of AmigaOS is owned by a different company.

The most recent version of AmigaOS is 4.1 which was released in 2014, and requires a PowerPC CPU. It’s kind of hard to argue that’s a modern OS, although apparently a 4.2 release is in the works. The dependency on PowerPC is kind of a problem at this point as their CPUs have stagnated and it’s hard to find any modern ones that aren’t custom CPUs for game consoles (and even then mostly old game consoles).

Additionally there’s the problem of software availability. The new Commodore OS is just a tweaked Linux install so it gets all the Linux software essentially for free. AmigaOS on the other hand is legitimately its own OS and therefore only runs Amiga software.

I wonder if this is a single cell bacteria in the process of becoming a virus? This could be an important evolutionary link to how viruses come about.

So I looked it up and title 10 is all the rules that govern the US armed forces. The president of the United States can trivially be shown to not have plenary authority by the simple fact that the constitution exists. That is in fact the entire point of the constitution, it ensures nobody in the United States has plenary authority. Even title 10 disproves that as it sets out the rules that US armed forces must operate under.

Really I had two issues with the interview.

First about half of it is spent talking about AI garbage that’s irrelevant to pretty much everything. Their argument is essentially “the current off the shelf AI setups are built with ARM chips as their general purpose compute tying together the specialized accelerators doing the actual work” which might be true but doesn’t explain why that should continue to be the case. Sort of a correlation does not equal causation type thing.

Secondly, for like 99% of the companies out there doing cloud deployments this is all utterly irrelevant. Most businesses aren’t hyper focused on shaving clock cycles to the point where they’re obsessing about microarchitecture decisions impacting performance. The reality is for 99% of services I/O is going to be your bottleneck and no amount of twiddling with the CPU architecture is going to improve that in a meaningful fashion, and for the overwhelming majority of customers it doesn’t matter in the slightest. Sure your Amazons and Googles and maybe the fintech sector might care, but for your Walmarts and Bass Pro Shops it’s utterly irrelevant except maybe to shave some cost off a slightly cheaper AWS deployment.

As for the consumer market this is even more irrelevant. If you’re not in the market for an EPYC server currently none of this matters to you, which is a shame because the success of Apple with their ARM CPUs provides an opportunity to have a potentially interesting discussion about the relative technical merits of X86 vs. ARM and maybe even RISC-V. Technical merits this interview doesn’t really touch on either, it’s almost entirely a market focused piece with very little in terms of concrete “ARM beats x86 in this way” outside of a vague hand wavy “it has a more consistent micro architecture”.

Seems like a lot of the early LTT crew were chaffing a bit under the LTT contract for a variety of reasons and opted to leave and start their own channels. I hope most of them succeed because honestly I always liked the other hosts on LTT far more than Linus who usually came off as more comic relief than actual tech news. As the old technical crew left I’ve found myself watching Linus Drop Tips very rarely.

Should start a crowd funding campaign to make an even bigger version out of something hard to damage like steel. Make it a regularly scheduled display throughout his entire term.

as you know, with tariffs, everyone’s coming into our country.

Say what? Pretty sure there’s record numbers of people leaving the country right now, and tourism is down across the board so people aren’t even coming in temporarily never mind permanently. If we needed any more proof Trump was delusional this is certainly it.

You’re absolutely right, there’s no way Canada wants anything to do with the absolute cluster fuck Trump has turned the US into.