I want a GPU to do silly AI stuff, but my hesitation with Intel is I’m not convinced they’re in the GPU market for the long haul. The irony, of course, is that if there are lots of people like me, Intel may actually abort their GPU efforts because no one is buying.

I suppose that they’re working on their 3rd generation already is a good sign.

I moved from Kubuntu to Tumbleweed and really like it. For some reason I really don’t like RPMs and that caused some hesitancy when I thought of switching, but really I never deal with RPMs directly. Zypper is ok and I’ve made peace with Flatpak. I update the whole distro every weekend and I’ve tested out reverting using Snapper.

In the year and a half of using it I can think of two problems I had from updating - one is fixed by removing the GPUCache directory of an Electron app when Mesa gets updated, the other is with Zoom which I mostly fixed by moving to the Flatpak version.

I did this this year for wildfire smoke, and it works great. Having said that, it is not quiet and the way I was using it was to run it at full blast for an hour, then leave it off for most the day.

If you wanted an always-on solution, I think I’d actually suggest a commercial air purifier.

The model for most the content on the internet doesn’t work without advertising. The people who are “zero tolerance” on ads are going to prevent possible compromises from being made and just encourage an arms race. I don’t think we win that arms race, we get more insidious forms of tracking and brazen advertising.

A 500lbs. bomb doesn’t get you very much. I’m surprised how little damage there is.

The general discovery I made was this: for the small price of foregoing pretty colors and buttons and chrome, you can get a computer to do exactly what you want it to do much quicker. Assuming a willingness to learn a bit of shell scripting, of course.

I find the emphasis people put on speed interesting, because by far the slowest part of any interaction I have with my computer is caused by me just figuring out what I’m doing next. When I’m functioning at top speed not needing to click around, or say, having the perfect keyboard shortcut, would save me only fractions of a second.

Actually… to add to this I think the cognitive load of visually navigating is much lower than typing specific things it. I think this is why I find I’d prefer to click around my bookmarks or files to find something than just pull up a “Find” dialog and type something reasonable in.

I have to say that hearing this story initially, then reading this update has made me question how I might jump to conclusions.

The security footage sounds really damning. In the least, it proves the woman lied about the police not talking to her. Her and the neighbors cursing at the guy suddenly makes the “neighbors agree this guy just complains a lot” fact a lot more suspect.

In all, I can totally see this might be a case of racist neighbors, and not simply “police charge teaching assistant with a water gun with assault.”

CBC Hamilton spoke to two other homeowners who purchased houses by Marina Homes in the same subdivision. They said they’ve experienced serious issues with how their homes were constructed, but are reluctant to speak out and worried it will jeopardize their property values.

“Uhhh, no comment. We’re hoping we can scam someone else into buying this house like we were scammed into buying it.”

I tried using KOrganize which had KMail and some other stuff integrated together and ended up feeling like it was a gigantic, archaic codebase just hanging on by a thread. It struggled a lot with Gmail and several times I deleted my whole mail profile to try to fix some strange bug.

If I recall, what did me in was that it would stop sending emails after running for a while. The fix had something to do with restarting Akonadi. It was really disappointing, because I love a good UI/Plasma integration.

I use Thunderbird now and … eh. It’s ok.