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One was taken during daylight on film, which needs to be processed and scanned, the other one was taken at high ISO during night time on a digital camera.

So much interpretation is done on colour on each step of the way that it's not surprising the colours are looking different.


Or maybe Microsoft continuously degrading their user's experiences has finally reached a breaking point, to the point where Pewdipie AND Linus Tech Tips are talking more seriously about linux.

So yeah Pewdiepie is part of it, but I honestly think that's only because Microsoft has done such a poor job at maintaining their operating system.


If I am reading the room right, I think Wine/Proton/Steam making gaming almost effortless on linux has been the big swing. It was not like this 5 years ago.

I have been a linux user for work for a decade, but still ran Windows for a gaming PC. But with Win11 dropping the ball so hard, and the general hype around Proton and where linux gaming was it, it was not hard to make the decision to switch.

I haven't regretted it a single bit.


Same here. Been using Linux personally for about a decade, professionally for half of that. I still ran a GPU passthrough Windows 11 VM for games up until a couple months ago. I am now switching to running everything purely in Linux, and it's great. Night and day difference between what it used to be like 5 years ago for sure.

Certainly Microsoft is responsible for most of it. I'm just saying Felix still has a lot of influence and has been pulling in the same direction to his millions of fans.

corporate speech existed long before AI

Mmm, it’s almost like OpenAI built statistical models using pre-existing corporate speech as the target data... ;)

everyone here is commenting how odd it looks to use a regexp for sentiment analysis, but it depends what they're trying to do.

It could be used as a feedback when they do A/B test and they can compare which version of the model is getting more insult than the other. It doesn't matter if the list is exhaustive or even sane, what matters is how you compare it to the other.

Perfect? no. Good and cheap indicator? maybe.


The same way you can decide to not visit a website, you can decide to not use LibreOffice.

I think it makes sense, how else are they supposed to fundraise and develop the features that makes the software useful to manage your own data?


How are you supposed to make an informed decision to simply not use libreoffice when they pop something like this on people unannounced, undisclosed, without precedent?

I've installed linux (debian LTS with XFCE) on my mom's computer and she recently called me to thank me. She says her computer is much quieter now (meaning fewer notifications). She only needs a web browser and a text editor.

So you're right, it's great for power users, it's also great for other users.


I fucking love XFCE! And have more than a decade of mileage with it.

right? windows 98 ergonomics (that's NOT sarcasm) with more customisation and not trying to re-invent the wheel every month.

I'm a gnome user myself, I do enjoy the year on year refinement they have going there, but I completely understand and respect the XFCE crowd.


have you thought about switching to another OS?

Unfortunately Linux doesn't run well on my Microsoft Surface Pro 4 (which is perfectly functional other than the lack of Windows security updates). I'm very unlikely to buy or recommend a Microsoft computer again, even though I liked the hardware.

Looks like your device is supported & has been for a while ?

https://www.reddit.com/r/SurfaceLinux/comments/nwr4kd/best_d...


I check out the status every so often. Not much is upstreamed yet, so it requires a patched kernel and some mucking about, likely on an ongoing basis. I'll probably try it at some point but not until I have moved my uses for that machine onto something else.

For what it's worth, I have a surface laying around somewhere. It doesn't run Windows any more. I have plenty of older Linux machines that are still supported.

Moving forward, I'm sticking with hardware where everything works without setting the Linux 'taint' bit (i.e., zero proprietary code in the kernel). Most laptops made in the last few years with an AMD CPU + GPU meet that requirement.

I'd require that even if I was running windows, given how badly I've been burned on short hardware support lifespans in the past. For instance, I also have an Intel OEM reference motherboard that never had Linux video drivers. It no longer boots windows.


I use claude code with an API key and pay per token, and the /cost command is very helpful.

And before people ask, it's because I have a very low usage and it's cheaper to pay per token. I'll have the odd month at $30, then nothing for a few months


Do you mean every pixel or every sub-pixel? Sub-pixel is interesting because the geometry of the grid isn't going to be the same from one screen to the other. It might also look compressed horizontally.


This claim keeps circulating around and around and is not "EVs are producing more pollution", it's "if EVs are going at motorway speed, and if we only look at the pollution generated by the tires, then indeed they produce a little more".

But that's completely ignoring tailpipe emission, and the fact that in an urban setting it's still vastly more advantageous to drive an EV.

See https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2025.104622


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