“AI can code better than most humans.”

They actually mean: After burning millions of tokens and using up the energy of multiple households (for a year) it can code better than an intern.

digikam, it’s a really great alternative to Adobe Lightroom.

But it is kinda funny a propaganda post gets titled “So easily fooled”. How ironic.

Well, it’s really easy to play DVD’s and pretty much every video file format on earth (including relatively modern Dolby Vision .mkv’s) if you use the rpmfusion repos and follow the Multimedia tutorial.

But you have to know that it even exists and have to actively download two packages to enable rpmfusion on Fedora, which always felt extra unneccessary. Flathub is at least included by default now and can be ticked with a checkbox.

Apart from that fuckery, I never had any problems with dnf. It just works, and it’s pretty fast. Especially compared to Windows Update. Low bar, I know. :D

That sounds a bit like burnout, to be honest. I stopped reading for a few years, too, and didn’t even know why, I was just not “in the mood” or at least I thought so. I have picked it up again this year and ultimately realized that my job was stressing me out. I was constantly worried about problems at work, but for reading, you need a calm mind.

Quitting my job and going to another company this year was one of the best decisions ever. Since then I have found time for hobbies (and losing weight) again. I also read on a WiFi-less eBook reader and put my phone into another room, so I cannot get distracted.

I’m the IT admin, so I can run whatever I want. As long as the work gets done, I could even run TempleOS on my machine. 😀

I stay off the internet more and only try to read terrible news about the world once a week. There’s always a war somewhere on the world that I can’t do anything about, so I don’t have to read about it every day.

I also bought an eBook-Reader without WiFi and I started reading books again.

It’s good.

struthless’ video about suicide was absolutely amazing.

The BIOS on some old Thinkpads has a bird flapping its wings as a mouse cursor.

My 560X from 1998 has one of those BIOSes, too.

Oh, absolutely! I loved Aero on Windows Vista and 7. :)

My degoogled Android 16 phone already uses ~3GB of RAM. If this happens, it’s gonna be terrible.

An alpha release for early adopters is supposedly coming in 2026. Fingers crossed!

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but not being able to play nicely with Linux is a deal breaker

KDE Connect is available for iOS! It’s an app that you can use to share files between an iPhone and a Linux PC, display notifications, use the phone as a remote for media controls and a touchpad and much more.

It’s really nice, I use it on Android. :)

And no AI features.

Best we can do is Liquid Ass.

Yes! :) I have dualboot with 98SE on this machine (the eGPU is pretty terrible to use on Windows 98).

VFX, not SFX. In our company, the team shoots real-life videos and then puts effects on top. The most recent project I saw was a movie for a manufacturer of paper colors. The artists made a big tower in one of their factories explode into a wave of paint, it looked pretty (but it was only a few seconds long).

All of those screens have a CCFL, it’s basically a miniature version of of those old tube lights. If that one reaches its end of life it gets dim and yellow and needs to be replaced.

The A22p also accepts the IPS displays from an A31p. I modded mine with one of those, so now I have a Windows 98 notebook with an especially beautiful display. 🥰

I’m still rocking an A22p! It was my first notebook in 2003. People went mad when I brought it to school because of the 1600x1200 screen. I used its S-Video output so the whole class was able to watch movies on an external CRT TV. :D

There’s even a docking station with eGPU support - before it was cool!

I don’t have it anymore (sadly), but for a while I owned a Hitachi TX200 projector.

All of the fans were standard PC fans and easily replaceable. The polarization filters came on little extra modules, you could take them out, replace them and realign them easily. The service menu had an option to shift the pixels for each individual LCD to counteract for pixel-drift and you were also able to calibrate the colors for multiple zones. It’s a great projector and can run for many years with a few replacement parts.

Sadly, it was only 720p and Hitachi never made a higher-resolution model. :(