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Another perspective.

Once upon a time, it was pretty normal to watch something and not be able to pause or rewind. It was perfectly expected that you might not get every single word and you didn't really think twice about it, just like you don't think about how you miss some words in real life.

But now, we can pause, we can rewind. We can get exactly what was said and we get preoccupied with making sure we understand every single word. So captioning becomes even more critical.

Fascinating enough, this might be actually "ok" by they are in the accelerationist camp, then the anti christ is a good thing. They think the world is beyond saving and thus the faster the end times come, the better.

The evangelicals are more likely thinking of the middle east rather than US. Biblical prophecy notes Israel being attacked as the key point of kicking off the end times. This is why accelerationists push so hard for Israel to get embroiled in violent conflct. Even if it is a counter attack, still counts by the prohpecy.

In America, they would likely describe things as "on the mend" as they are getting their way.

Looks like it is genuinely rotary dial design. Those aren't buttons, they are holes. The text is on the black background, the clear plastic above it has holes cut out. There's quite a bit of thickness to that plastic and it's some distance from the black backing. Looks very much like a rotary phone looked, though understandable that most folks haven't seen one up close.

His story was a bit less flattering. The narrative the advocates want is that Torvalds is all in on vibe coding the kernel.

The actual story is that he found it somewhat useful, even as it gave him wrong information and directed him to get help from a developer. A useful, but limited augmentation.

If Torvald's account were the accepted reality, they wouldn't be steamrolling rural locals to make so many datacenters and wouldn't be demanding we need more natural gas power, and wouldn't represent the majority of our economy. They would have utility and be available, but not so obnoxious. Well, maybe, they might not have bothered with so much expense in training for this level of capability, but the cost is sunk now.

Of course most development isn't Torvald's level, it is human slop. So there's more to things than the actually complicated work that AI is limited for.

But it's not only critics that oversimplify. Advocates are obnoxiously bad at declaring everything is all good with AI

I'll second the volunteering, though I never really feel comfortable socializing among the volunteers, it still feels good actually doing something I think matters, but at the same time know I'm utterly replacable and no one would specifically need me to do any of it.

Have a colleague who went from over $300k/year to like a $50k/year job. Basically something to vaguely keep the lights on while his savings took care of itself. Way too young to retire, but he figures he can be ok with his savings and bonuses he had over his high paying career.

Never wanted to climb the ladder, but it was the only way I could really get better pay.

The higher I go, the more I can't stand the conversations. Being straightforward is a career killer. Competing with folks that talk big without knowledge, knowing I need to carefully balance working with them while making sure my ass is documented and covered for any blame when they screw up and want to throw someone under the bus.

I have generally still loved talking to the "grunts" and customers. People who have real problems and doing real stuff without so much office politic crap going on. Not people trying to write blog posts to try to sound smart without actually doing anything or actually knowing the material.

Ironically, Microsoft platform as of yet still is pretty much a given that Linux may also run, with the exception of some of the Surface systems, but the ones no one wanted anyway. Apart from SecureBoot, Microsoft is picky enough about firmware specifications that are open, Linux can more easily be customized than random embedded things. Some things were rough, like ACPI implementations that didn't comply strictly with the spec but microsoft happened to tolerate it, but fundamentally the Microsoft approach of outsourced everything makes for better chance for third party OSes.

Motorola has been under Lenovo for over a decade now, and still is, as a clarification.

The new thing is that for whatever reason, Motorola themselves has explicitly declared that some as-yet specified 2027 flagship model will officially support Graphene (though you have to load it yourself). This goes beyond just letting the community figure it out if it happens to be workable.

Now as to whether they follow through on that, hard to say. Lenovo broadly sometimes makes announcements and then backs out without explanation.

They are compatible with some existing and future phones. Google's in-house processor decided to skip on an extension that the broader ARM ecosystem seems to continue to value. Graphene didn't invent this extension. I presume that their compatibility with upcoming motorola devices indicates other mobile device processor designs implement the extension just fine.

Actually, Motorola has more market share than Pixel.

Though Google mainly cares about the software ecosystem, so they explicitly don't care about Graphene since it's not an outcome they want in the industry anyway.