If only MS used DuckDB then they wouldn’t have such a huge PR disaster on their hands.

Better multimonitor support, VRR, and HDR are some of the promises I think. I want all of these things but not enough to switch away from Linux Mint. I’ll be happy when Wayland makes its way in over the next couple of years.

Gets drenched in liquid nitrogen

I put a quarter in the siren.

They definitely could have phrased this better. I think what they mean is that their level of confidentiality meets or exceeds local laws.

The Matrix

I’m not such a monkey, and I could probably contribute if I put my mind to it, but I just don’t have the time… Instead I try to contribute documentation and money when I can. Everything helps!

Who needs frames per second when we can have seconds per frame?

I have a Ryzen 3700x that had similar problems. In my case disabling Precision Boost Overdrive and regular Precision Boost eliminated the crashes. PB being just the regular boosting behavior of the CPU. With it turned off the CPU basically only adjusts its frequency between the idle frequency of like 800 MHz to the base clock (3.6 GHz or whatever).

I think basically what happened was the BIOS was running the CPU too hot and eventually it just couldn’t stably boost to the higher frequencies which would cause problems. It’s an easy thing to try and see if it works for you. In my case I was able to salvage the CPU by putting it into a server whose workload doesn’t benefit from moment to moment super high CPU clock speeds.

That would be telephony, which I didn’t know was even a word until I was in my 30s.

It seems Anthropocene is the label, there’s just some disagreement over when precisely it began.

Wendy’s arbitrage was not on my Bingo card.

This is ChatGPT to me:

This is how I imagine Jorg Ancrath

One good latex pillow for me.

Realistically, I wouldn’t soil my body with their taint. But pigs and chickens gotta eat too.

Another interesting contributing factor are safety regulations and their knock-on effects, which weren’t immediately obvious when they were implemented.

For instance, in an effort to reduce pedestrian fatalities from frontal collisions, vehicles in the US were mandated to have at least three inches of crumple space between the hood of the car and the engine block. The thinking being that more crumple depth would help prevent fatalities and serious injuries that occurred when a pedestrian hit the hood of the vehicle, which would deflect, allowing those soft human bits to continue right into the (not soft at all) engine block.

Well increasing the height of the hood of the vehicle meant that they had to raise the A-pillar, which raised the height of the window opening on the doors, since the bottom of the side windows generally lines up with the hood on passenger vehicles. This meant that the side body panels of the vehicle just generally increased in size, and in an effort to maintain a proportional look, the wheels also had to increase in size otherwise they would look weirdly small. And to maintain a comparable amount of visibility out the windshield and side windows, the roof of the vehicle had to be raised to compensate for the new position of the window sill in the doors.

So something that was intended to just add an inch or two of height to the hoods of existing passenger vehicles to satisfy a safety need, ended scaling up the entire vehicle.

I do too, which is why I was on the table getting a vasectomy before the vernix was dry on our one and only kid lol

KeePassXC (there’s a Firefox extension too) and Syncthing are the first things I add to a new install.

Damn, hitting them hard with reality at the end there lol