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  1. Twisted Kidney

    Linux market share passes 4% for first time

    Don't get me wrong, I like Linux, and I'm technically adept enough to use it. As soon as you say WINE you've moved passed what 90+% of desktop PC users are willing to do. The bottom line is that using Linux daily means dealing with the Google manual, searching the internet to find instructions...
  2. Twisted Kidney

    Linux market share passes 4% for first time

    I think one massive release by a company that can use some analytics on how those installations are used could go a massive way to raising Linux up. If a company could manage to get a large enough install-base for Desktop Linux that they could really work on software compatibility other distros...
  3. Twisted Kidney

    Linux market share passes 4% for first time

    Your statement is absolutely accurate provided installing and using Linux all you want to do. If you want to use Linux to use other programs, which is what an OS is supposed to be for, that's where the problems start.
  4. Twisted Kidney

    Linux market share passes 4% for first time

    I'm fully aware of that, Linux' greatest strength is also its greatest weakness. I'd love to see a decent Steam OS for broad release but I'm just not sure there's any reason at all for Valve or any other company to do it. Linux on the desktop kind of turns your machine into a box where all you...
  5. Twisted Kidney

    Linux market share passes 4% for first time

    Apple really did let Mac twist in the wind for a long damned time. I'm glad to see some growth in Linux, I just hope somebody can make a more unified desktop version for more casual users. Right now Linux is the best way to make a useful computer into a frustrating hobby.
  6. Twisted Kidney

    Microsoft exploring options to power its datcenters using nuclear energy

    I'm glad to see the bag charge works the same everywhere it's done. What a crock of shit. I'm all for cutting back on our endless garbage, the amount of totally unnecessary plastic packaging on the average consumer product is mind bending, but forcing companies to charge consumers more is...
  7. Twisted Kidney

    Microsoft exploring options to power its datcenters using nuclear energy

    You pay the taxes, the tax money goes to the oil company. Isn't corruption great?
  8. Twisted Kidney

    Microsoft exploring options to power its datcenters using nuclear energy

    According to the world's various governments own data compiled by the IMF it's $7,000,000,000,000 a year to subsidize oil and gas. It's insane, I read that and spent hours reading more, but as far as I can tell that's the actual number. That's corruption, baby, nobody's slicker than an oil man...
  9. Twisted Kidney

    Nvidia stock price befuddling analysts

    I think both the hysteria and the hype are overblown. I'm not so sure it's pure bubble, but it's inflated for sure. Just look at how homogeneous "AI" output is already becoming as the algorithms are trained on "AI" output. This shit just barfs out whatever is most likely to get a response, it's...
  10. Twisted Kidney

    Ai Restaurant opens in California

    There's a McDonald's up here in the deeply frozen deep north of the part of Ontario that is not Toronto that's staffed almost entirely by seniors, many of whom have been there for years. You know how McDonald's is shitty, inconsistent food with half the crap on the burger and the rest on the...
  11. Twisted Kidney

    Ai Restaurant opens in California

    Nobody reads anything past the headlines so they call it AI and wait for clicks, it all works superbly. You just toss some AI in the marketing wank and get your "engagement" statistics ready for your investors.
  12. Twisted Kidney

    Microsoft exploring options to power its datcenters using nuclear energy

    I love seeing the first SMRs being built, anything is better than the world's economies flushing 19 billion dollars a day in subsidies down the oil and gas toilet.
  13. Twisted Kidney

    Apple to make the App Store less intuitive with more prompts to level the playing field, accidently rolls it out ahead of ruling.

    I know it's not happening and all, but what a great way to teach those stupid Europeans to stop voting for politicians that Apple can't buy.
  14. Twisted Kidney

    Nvidia surpasses Google, Now 3rd Most Valuable Tech Stock.

    Hedge fund manipulation is SEO for billionaires.
  15. Twisted Kidney

    Oh Samsung, you had one chance to redeem yourself......Tech cuts guy's TV to void warranty and Reddit removes video from the post.

    Samsung seems to be in a fast race to the bottom with LG these days. They have a ways to go before they make the kind of garbage that LG does, but they're trying!
  16. Twisted Kidney

    Goodbye Origin - EA App is now in session

    I guess this is a necro, the amateur forum cops might hunt you down but.. I found the thing to be utterly unusable. I couldn't get it to be stable enough to run the games I own. Thank goodness the game that lead me to reinstall it was purchased through Steam. I never got to play it.
  17. Twisted Kidney

    Microsoft Lays Off 1,900 Activision Blizzard And Xbox Employees

    OK, so apparently, as of now there are people that have lost their jobs that still don't know it. edit: Now is 2024-01-26 3pm eastern That's disgusting, there are less awful ways to do awful things. This isn't it.
  18. Twisted Kidney

    Microsoft Lays Off 1,900 Activision Blizzard And Xbox Employees

    Serving two masters when one of them has no voice in the company yet would paralyze any team. Forget the fact that Blizzard has had a very hard time making games for years now.
  19. Twisted Kidney

    Microsoft Lays Off 1,900 Activision Blizzard And Xbox Employees

    Think of all the publishing and corporate roles that were duplicated. It's going to be interesting to see where the axe fell. Duplication doesn't mean equivalency of course, dumb slashing can gut very specific and capable institutional knowledge, I'm assuming(hoping) they didn't rush this for...
  20. Twisted Kidney

    Microsoft Lays Off 1,900 Activision Blizzard And Xbox Employees

    ABK had a ludicrous number of employees before the buyout, I read 17k(?) total or some silly number. I don't know which divisions are laid out by these, or how many were there right at buyout time, but there will have been a shit-load of duplicate divisions between MS and ABK. Again, I don't...
  21. Twisted Kidney

    Subscription Growth Has Flattened claims games industry analyst

    But... The growth is supposed to be infinite..?
  22. Twisted Kidney

    Apple wants $73 million from Epic

    Kidding aside, I think the Google loss has something to do with how inconsistently Google's fees are applied to various companies. Like, sweetheart deals to "convince" large companies to not set up their own stores on Android or some such. I think it came down to Google leaving a paper trail of...
  23. Twisted Kidney

    AI Accelerator Cards in Desktops?

    Once all the sleaze bag grifting calms down machine learning will be an incredibly powerful tool for people. In the meantime grifters will use AI to make almost everything a little worse than it was before.
  24. Twisted Kidney

    Larian CEO Rails Against Game Subscription Models

    The serfs don't need to own things. Swen needs to get with the times or I might start to really like him.
  25. Twisted Kidney

    Ubisoft Wants You To Be Comfortable Not Owning Your Games

    It's sad when the best consumer experience is only available to people that don't pay.
  26. Twisted Kidney

    Twitch streaming lays off 500 staffers

    From what I can see that whole business unit is a mess.
  27. Twisted Kidney

    The Apple Vision Pro goes on sale in the US on February 2 for $3,499

    I think they'll make a lot more money off of the "new maxed out iPhone every single year" set than they will developers, that's why they've made it so public and available. Apple has had some great products, god knows I own a bunch of them. There's a certain subset of Apple customers that are...
  28. Twisted Kidney

    The Apple Vision Pro goes on sale in the US on February 2 for $3,499

    Blah blah blah yakkety schmakkety. It's all about them digital googly eyes. Innovation.
  29. Twisted Kidney

    The Apple Vision Pro goes on sale in the US on February 2 for $3,499

    $3500 Freedom Bucks for digital googly eyes... That's a master-class in the early adopter tax...
  30. Twisted Kidney

    Some Microsoft hardware is coming back

    I used to love those buckling spring keyboards, especially back when they were still called "Catastrophic Buckling Spring". I still have a couple of them, one's in the box. Today's mechanical switches have surpassed them, but it took 30 years.
  31. Twisted Kidney

    AI-Created 'Virtual Influencers' Are Stealing Business From Humans

    That will never happen there's an astronomical level of incredible creative genius behind "Yeah that same story but this time he's a strong black single mom that don't need no man." Or gawdawful super hero CGI fights. Or toy franchise advertising disguised as a manifesto of liberation and...
  32. Twisted Kidney

    AI-Created 'Virtual Influencers' Are Stealing Business From Humans

    If a million bots follow a bot does a bear make a sound when it shits in the woods?
  33. Twisted Kidney

    Intel giving ARC a respectable barrier of entry.

    Yeah, but hating Apple is a religion for people that don’t use Apple product but want Apple to fix all the shit they do use.
  34. Twisted Kidney

    New Lian Uni Fan TL LCD Fans Have Screens On Them

    There will always be new ways to extract money from silly people.
  35. Twisted Kidney

    Intel giving ARC a respectable barrier of entry.

    Nobody needs more than 640k.
  36. Twisted Kidney

    Wealthy Nvidia employees are taking it easy in ‘semi-retirement mode' — even middle managers make $1 million a year or more

    Whatever strategy nVidia is using is working. If they decided to rock the boat because of tradition they'd be idiots.
  37. Twisted Kidney

    AMD's New Threadripper Chips Have a Hidden Fuse That Blows When Overclocking Is Enabled

    Back in the olden times I used to put seal stickers on just about everything we deployed, we weren't out to screw anyone but I could figure out where to start hunting for problem by which ones were broken.
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