CompactFlax

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[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Generally true and that’s why I often read these articles scratching my head. Make them closed loop! They almost always use chillers…

Water use becomes a concern if the water is moved too far and/or too fast like your Sahara example.

I see your point but the correct answer is to install current branch. If you want pain and suffering, skip the appetizer and go straight to Linux.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Simply, because Microsoft says so. The amount of “omg micro$oft is such garbage” more professional versions of that that can be attributed to not RTFM is fairly significant. It’s interesting how much effort people will put in to making a OSS project work, and give up fairly quickly in Windows land. Merely an observation; all respect to those who daily drive on Linux (and to be fair it’s been quite a few years since I tried).

More specifically, you can run into driver and software issues both inside and outside of the Microsoft space. The “Feature Updates” that are put out do include a fair bit under the hood sometimes and you miss that. Less likely in the personal use space, but quite significant in the business space. When the IT curmudgeon deploys LTSC across 1500 devices and 2 years later needs to implement a newer capability, it’s a hell of a lot of work.

Your use case is realistically the intended use case, outside of industrial equipment/embedded systems. You’re using WINE for most stuff and poke your head into Windows occasionally.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 172 points 2 days ago (24 children)

LTSC is supported, yes, but it’s an edge case not intended for desktop (or most server) applications.

If you don’t want to move to 11, install a flavour of Linux. Don’t run LTSC.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 3 days ago (2 children)

150 year half-life in aquatic environments.

Also, just because it’s not officially used doesn’t mean it’s not unofficially used; I’m sure there were some barrels that went missing here and there.

India continues to manufacture it and China only stopped in 2007.

Thanks for sharing; I was unaware. Just closed off that network hole.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I guess you didn’t see the several points in the article where they make it clear that it is “opt in”?

I do look forward for the bursting of the LLM bubble, but the article isn’t just about LLM.

https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/17767086

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Ben Thompson has been saying that they need to collect user data (like google) for a decade.

It seems the botched Apple Intelligence release changed some minds, a little bit.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 144 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This makes sense. Give the companies like Apple and nvidia time to set up some local factories. How long could it take to acquire land, set up a chip foundry, and train up staff? 90 days?

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

To be pedantic, there is no 6e. Just 6A. I am looking at a spool labelled 6e as I type this, but that’s just a manufacturer thing, not an actual spec.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 1 week ago (7 children)

$AAPL stonk go up.

People with bad diets make poop that doesn’t flush easily as healthy poop that’s got fiber in it.

Also, Americans always need to invent their own way to do things (cheaper), instead of using the existing European and Japanese toilets. The early ones wouldn’t flush a tissue.

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