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Wait, you’re saying we didn’t already think that?

There were some last year specifically for games on SteamOS vs Windows, like this: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/06/games-run-faster-on-steamos-than-windows-11-ars-testing-finds/

Even that is just confusing. I sometimes use Perplexity (because Pro comes with my bank account - neobanks have zero focus). And by default it remembers things you say. So when I ask a question sometimes it will randomly decide to bring in something else I asked about before. E.g. I sometimes use it to look up programming related stuff, and then when I ask something else it will randomly research whatever language it thinks I like now in that context too and do things like suggest an anime based on my recent interest in Rust for no good reason.

Tbh I think the Sun Ray thin terminals were pretty cool at the time. Not really cloud because it was an enterprise product 20 years ago, so they used servers hosted by the enterprise. But at the time this idea of taking my entire desktop session with me via my employee badge felt pretty cool. Of course only supporting X11 sessions on Solaris meant that nobody outside Sun wanted it though but that’s not really a problem with the concept as such.

In October 2025, so much later.

Yeah, it’s a major pain at my work because our cloud doesn’t support Macs (like e.g. AWS would), so we run a server room with a bunch of Macs that we wouldn’t otherwise need.

You could also just only use Macs. In theory ARM Macs let you build and test for macOS (host or vm), Linux (containers or vm), Windows (vm), iOS (simulator or connected device), and Android (multiple options), both ARM and x86-64.

At least in theory. I think in practice I’d go mad. Not from the Linux part though. That part just works because podman on ARM Macs will transparently use emulation for x86 containers by default. (You can get the same thing on Linux too with qemu-user-static btw., for a lot more architectures too.)

Damn you’re running a whole production pipeline and it only takes two minutes? That’s pretty good. I’ve worked with projects that take tens of minutes, if not hours, just to compile.

At work we have CI runs that take almost a week. On fairly powerful systems too. Multiple decades of a “no change without a test case” policy in a large project combined with instrumented debug builds…

Tbf we don’t run those on every single change though. The per change ones take a couple hours only.

If there is one then Lufthansa doesn’t know about it, based on my experience with Lufthansa long haul flights between Europe and East Asia. They sell connectivity but it never really works.

I’m not sure I’m on board with this “fewer CVE’s reported means the product is more secure” logic in this article…

Due to the blank between Harada and TEKKEN, the title reads like he said TEKKEN as he imagined it is dead, but what he actually wrote is his X handle (with the underscore), so he’s talking about himself.

I think that’s a very strange prediction that looks like it basically assumes market share is only influenced by regulations. Gas stations losing 83% of their customers is a huge change with cascading effects, but this chart looks like it assumes combustion engines will just stay popular forever, only bounded by production limited by regulation…

Again with the easy choices though? It’s trivial to avoid a few car brands. So far you’re only listing companies people are likely to randomly not buy from anyway. When someone asked a question about something where it’s not as easy, you blocked them. You’re not avoiding Nazi collaborators, you’re just virtue signaling in the cheapest way possible.

Just wondering why you’re singling them out like that. Especially if you want to avoid anyone that has anything to do with them. If we’re talking acquisitions from IBM, the largest owner of patents originally owned by IBM is Google (they bought around 2.5k). Companies that had significant dealings with IBM include Microsoft, which would probably not exist in its current form without the original contract from IBM to develop DOS. (Linux would also be quite different if the influence from RedHat, owned by IBM, was removed.) And pretty much every PC manufacturer who’s been in the business for long enough would have licensed IBM technologies at some point or at least copied them. Even though they failed to make money from licensing the original PC design or later inventions like USB memory sticks, IBM created a lot of computing basics such as DRAM.

Avoiding Lenovo kind of sounds like a random easy way out. They have much less influence. I’m not consciously avoiding them and still have nothing from them. They’re not difficult to avoid at all.

You’re avoiding a random a Chinese company founded in the 80ies because they bought the Thinkpad brand from IBM?

Yeah anything not too complex will work. We had to implement a PIC simulator in university, I thought that was a great exercise too.

Although 6502 actually was my first assembly language.

Tbh I think teaching 6502 assembly would be a great idea. You can learn the basics of how computers work without having to deal with all the complexity of a computer from 2026.

The interview appeared to be one of the most extensive conservations Trump has had with journalists on his health

Heh.

I have written code this holiday, but I was afk on vacation for a month in November. That was a good reset too. But tbh I like programming, the reset is more for the other circumstances of my work.

I was surprised how many of these I’ve actually done at some point in the last 35 years.