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In-reply-to » Microsoft’s new era of AI PCs will need a Copilot key, says Intel Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and AMD have all been pushing the idea of an “AI PC” for months now as we head toward more AI-powered features in Windows. While we’re still waiting to hear the finer details from Microsoft on its big plans for AI in Windows, Intel has started sharing Microsoft’s requirements for OEMs to build an AI PC — and one of the main ones is that an AI PC must have Microsoft’s Copilot ... ⌘ Read more

@mckinley@twtxt.net He’s actually used to Wordpad and Rich Text Format files 🤔

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Made this awful mistake of not doing pre-prep work before going away on our next camper trip (now). Discovered this morning that some (idiot) person had turned off the power to the camper trailer and the battery was basically dead. I just hope it’s not “dead dead”. We plan to leave after 4hrs of Bulk Charge from the mains power and it’s internal battery charger and hope for the best. I’m also brining a spare 12.8V LifePo4 battery that is basically full to power the fridge, just in case. Fark I’m an idiot 🤦‍♂️

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In-reply-to » Microsoft’s new era of AI PCs will need a Copilot key, says Intel Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and AMD have all been pushing the idea of an “AI PC” for months now as we head toward more AI-powered features in Windows. While we’re still waiting to hear the finer details from Microsoft on its big plans for AI in Windows, Intel has started sharing Microsoft’s requirements for OEMs to build an AI PC — and one of the main ones is that an AI PC must have Microsoft’s Copilot ... ⌘ Read more

@mckinley@twtxt.net He likes it enough which is good. The painful part is some OSS software just really sucks ass 😢 He’s found it particularly hard to find a decent “document” editor/tool he likes. He’s stuck with Abiword for now, but it’s not the most polished ir easiest to use. It also saves things in a really weird non-portable? format?

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In-reply-to » Microsoft’s new era of AI PCs will need a Copilot key, says Intel Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and AMD have all been pushing the idea of an “AI PC” for months now as we head toward more AI-powered features in Windows. While we’re still waiting to hear the finer details from Microsoft on its big plans for AI in Windows, Intel has started sharing Microsoft’s requirements for OEMs to build an AI PC — and one of the main ones is that an AI PC must have Microsoft’s Copilot ... ⌘ Read more

@mckinley@twtxt.net Ubuntu

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In-reply-to » Microsoft’s new era of AI PCs will need a Copilot key, says Intel Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and AMD have all been pushing the idea of an “AI PC” for months now as we head toward more AI-powered features in Windows. While we’re still waiting to hear the finer details from Microsoft on its big plans for AI in Windows, Intel has started sharing Microsoft’s requirements for OEMs to build an AI PC — and one of the main ones is that an AI PC must have Microsoft’s Copilot ... ⌘ Read more

@mckinley@twtxt.net Agreed. I’m just glad my dad has finally gotten out of the Windows ecosystem 😅

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In-reply-to » Microsoft’s new era of AI PCs will need a Copilot key, says Intel Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and AMD have all been pushing the idea of an “AI PC” for months now as we head toward more AI-powered features in Windows. While we’re still waiting to hear the finer details from Microsoft on its big plans for AI in Windows, Intel has started sharing Microsoft’s requirements for OEMs to build an AI PC — and one of the main ones is that an AI PC must have Microsoft’s Copilot ... ⌘ Read more

This whole “data commodity” has gone too far.

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In-reply-to » Microsoft’s new era of AI PCs will need a Copilot key, says Intel Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and AMD have all been pushing the idea of an “AI PC” for months now as we head toward more AI-powered features in Windows. While we’re still waiting to hear the finer details from Microsoft on its big plans for AI in Windows, Intel has started sharing Microsoft’s requirements for OEMs to build an AI PC — and one of the main ones is that an AI PC must have Microsoft’s Copilot ... ⌘ Read more

@mckinley@twtxt.net Well yes, true, but not my primary point. Microsoft really needs to pull their head out of their ass. Toyota, BMW, Samsung and even Apple to some extent. Companies need to understand a basic economic rule: If a customer buys your product X, they really don’t expect to have to pay for (useless) service Y in order to use product X. I’m looking at you BMW and Toyota, both have attempted to do this and somewhat failed at a consumer level. I wonder why 🤦‍♂️

Now Microsoft?! C’mon. For fuck’s sake. If I buy a new “today” computer of some kind. I expect to be able to use it “offline” if I want. I’m not going to be forced into paying for a subscription or handing over all my personal information to some stupid tech company that has no business whatsoever treating me as “their product”.

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In-reply-to » Microsoft’s new era of AI PCs will need a Copilot key, says Intel Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and AMD have all been pushing the idea of an “AI PC” for months now as we head toward more AI-powered features in Windows. While we’re still waiting to hear the finer details from Microsoft on its big plans for AI in Windows, Intel has started sharing Microsoft’s requirements for OEMs to build an AI PC — and one of the main ones is that an AI PC must have Microsoft’s Copilot ... ⌘ Read more

If this goes ahead, it will really give new meaning to “PC ownership” 🤬

Like none whatsoever 🤦‍♂️

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In-reply-to » Microsoft’s new era of AI PCs will need a Copilot key, says Intel Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and AMD have all been pushing the idea of an “AI PC” for months now as we head toward more AI-powered features in Windows. While we’re still waiting to hear the finer details from Microsoft on its big plans for AI in Windows, Intel has started sharing Microsoft’s requirements for OEMs to build an AI PC — and one of the main ones is that an AI PC must have Microsoft’s Copilot ... ⌘ Read more

@osnews@feeds.twtxt.net

lack the words in any of the languages I know to describe the utter disdain I have for this.

How about “fuck off Microsoft” 🤣 Or even “get the fuck out”🤣

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In-reply-to » Florida Braces For Lawsuits Over Law Banning Kids From Social Media An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Monday, Florida became the first state to ban kids under 14 from social media without parental permission. It appears likely that the law -- considered one of the most restrictive in the US -- will face significant legal challenges, however, before taking effect on January 1. Under HB ... ⌘ Read more

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net Well, I see no issue with this personally 😅

I ban all forms of social media in our household 🤣

Adults and visitors included! 🤣

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In-reply-to » @lyse I use ytdlp-sub

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org It’s just a simple config file subscriptions.yaml for me and the program run on a cron. This basically lets me subscribe to, download and keep in sync various channels I’m interested in and store them wherever I want. The nice thing is the output format / presets are done in such a way as to support media servers like Plex or Jellyfin out-of-the-box.

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In-reply-to » Trump's Truth Social Is Going Public An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Former president Donald Trump'sTruth Social, a shameless Twitter clone, is set to become a publicly traded company as soon as next week. Shareholders of Digital World Acquisition Corp. voted on Friday to merge with Trump Media and Technology Group, the company behind Truth Social. The vote is a culmination of a years-long saga attempting to merge Trump Me ... ⌘ Read more

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net Oh boi, here we go 🙄

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In-reply-to » if you are not in a "central country" you are screwed. I thought it would be a good idea to promote a LiberaPay page to build some patronage to my free/open projects, but in Brazil LiberaPay can only handle PayPal and it integrates poorly, it doesn't accept Reais! If you try a direct PayPal donation button it works much better: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hostedbuttonid=5B4MZ78C9J724 ... this is so frustrating.

@bender@twtxt.net These are not beinged pull via ActivityPub. I disabled the integration long ago myself on my pod. There is a Mastodon instance or two out there that serves up Twtxt feeds. Someone my pod has subscribed to those, I think that’s what’s happening here…

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In-reply-to » if you are not in a "central country" you are screwed. I thought it would be a good idea to promote a LiberaPay page to build some patronage to my free/open projects, but in Brazil LiberaPay can only handle PayPal and it integrates poorly, it doesn't accept Reais! If you try a direct PayPal donation button it works much better: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hostedbuttonid=5B4MZ78C9J724 ... this is so frustrating.

I’m open to suggestions

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In-reply-to » TrueNAS CORE 13 is the end of the FreeBSD version Bad news from BSD land – the oldest vendor of BSD systems is changing direction away from FreeBSD and toward Linux. NAS vendor iXsystems has been busy this year, but apart from some statements in online user communities, it hasn’t been talking about the big news. Back in 2022, we covered TrueNAS CORE 13, the new release of its FreeBSD-based turnkey OS for NAS servers, and in that article we mentioned its new product, the Debian-base ... ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net My point precisely 🤣 ZFS is ZFS no matter what Branded OS runs it 🤣

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In-reply-to » TrueNAS CORE 13 is the end of the FreeBSD version Bad news from BSD land – the oldest vendor of BSD systems is changing direction away from FreeBSD and toward Linux. NAS vendor iXsystems has been busy this year, but apart from some statements in online user communities, it hasn’t been talking about the big news. Back in 2022, we covered TrueNAS CORE 13, the new release of its FreeBSD-based turnkey OS for NAS servers, and in that article we mentioned its new product, the Debian-base ... ⌘ Read more

@osnews@feeds.twtxt.net meh in my opinion you don’t buy into the things that TrueNAS deploys, namely ZFS because of BSD. ZOL or ZFS on Linux is and has been pretty rock solid for decades now. There’s no reason for BSD specifically over Linux for a highly available and fault tolerant file system at TB or PB scale.

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In-reply-to » @lyse The sad thing here is that I've now banned and blocked Youtube at the network over here. I need a way to solve for "when someone links me to a Youtube clip" or "how do I fix X" Youtube tutorial videos. Those are the only two use-cases I can't easily find a good solution for. The addition however is gone, since now I just sync the family's (Kids, Wife, me) favourite Youtubers (channels) to my local Plex archive.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Goos point 👍

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In-reply-to » Hell yeah, this is just so cool to watch. Machining a replacement part for a wristwatch. Also really nice old machinery, truly fascinating. https://youtu.be/i9aQVclIxB4

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org The sad thing here is that I’ve now banned and blocked Youtube at the network over here. I need a way to solve for “when someone links me to a Youtube clip” or “how do I fix X” Youtube tutorial videos. Those are the only two use-cases I can’t easily find a good solution for. The addition however is gone, since now I just sync the family’s (Kids, Wife, me) favourite Youtubers (channels) to my local Plex archive.

Fuck the algorithms 🤣 Fuck ads! 😅

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In-reply-to » Cognition Emerges From Stealth To Launch AI Software Engineer 'Devin' Longtime Slashdot reader ahbond shares a report from VentureBeat: Today, Cognition, a recently formed AI startup backed by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund and tech industry leaders including former Twitter executive Elad Gil and Doordash co-founder Tony Xu, announced a fully autonomous AI software engineer called "Devin." While there are mult ... ⌘ Read more

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net What a pile of absolute horseshit 🤣

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In-reply-to » I can't believe software developers are still trying to get people to do curl | sh. It's easy to miss the problem if you're still in the mindset of Windows software distribution, but these people are writing software on GNU/Linux, for GNU/Linux. You would think they'd realize that this is never a good idea.

FWOW I don’t think I’ve ever once run such a shell pipeline in my life. who da fuq knows wtf that thing is even doing 🤣

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In-reply-to » QOTD: What do you host on your home server? How do you host it? Are you using containers? VMs? Did you install any management interface or do you just SSH in? What OS does it run?

@mckinley@twtxt.net Here’s a summary of my setup:

  • I maintain a small “Mini DC” comprised of 22RU cabinet 600mm deep.
  • This houses 3x 1RU Xeon machines + 1 RU 10 3.5” + 4 2.5” NAS + 4RU UPS + 1RU 24-port Gbps Switch/Router + 1RU Tray in the middle + 1RU patch panel at the top.
  • This is now hooked up to 250/100 Mbps Fibre 😅
  • I run Proxmov VE on the 3x Hypervisor machines. They run a dozen or so Virtual Machines.
  • I run a couple of Docker Swarm clusters on those machines, running BurmillaOS (a fork of RancherOS).
  • I just use the local LAN network to SSH into machines, but each physical machine also has an IPMI management interface too for when things go wrong (rarely).
  • I run so many services I can’t being to list them here. But it’s in the order of ~50-60 unique services. Some of which you’re familiar with as many are public facing, some are internal and others are locked down behind auth.

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In-reply-to » @bender That's what I also don't understand. What is driving all this pierced hate and ignorance in the world lately?!

@bender@twtxt.net I sort of / kinda knew you’d say stuff like this 👌 I guess I don’t really understand the motivation behind it really, I don’t understand half the stupid shit™ that happens in the world haha 😝

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In-reply-to » YouTube Stops Recommending Videos When Signed Out of Google An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: YouTube is no longer showing recommended videos to users logged out of a Google account or using Incognito mode, making people concerned they are being bullied into always being signed into the service. This change, which is now rolling out, shows a simple YouTube homepage without any videos or tip ... ⌘ Read more

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club Basically I setup ytdl-sub to run on a cron with a few favourite Youtube channels that the kids and I normally like to watch.

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