Exactly. It’ll be a 3-day workweek, and you’ll only get paid for three days of work. They’re not gonna give us the same wages for less work.

That’s the idea.

Seems like it. To summarize, they’re making a driver for a specific chip on a specific board. Weird news, imo.

Heard a song from Wuthering Waves, and it caught me be surprise with how good it was, so I figured I’d give the game a try.

It feels a lot like Genshin Impact, but the world and story feel better, is not Mihoyo, and the voice acting includes the main character. For a F2P experience, it’s been fun going through the initial story. To its detriment, however, there’s three different gacha currencies. Definitely not worth bothering with beyond freebie pulls. Overall, I’d recommend it, but only the free stuff.

Major Chinese ODM Inspur has been working on this Yhgch DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) driver for the Linux kernel. Yhgch is for an Inspur SoC/BMC chipset but details beyond that are light.

Tldr

Jesus H Christmas, that’s depressing

At that point where it matters, I feel like I should be buying the music from the artist, not streaming. My latest favorite band, Mad Routine, gives you the WAV masters when you buy their albums, and they are meticulous about sound; those lossless tracks actually sound better, even with Bluetooth.

However, I think few bands are actually putting in the effort to have beautifully crafted lossless tracks. Also, I have no way of knowing if Spotify is merely increasing the bitrate but using the same lossy source file, which is what I suspect is probably the case. After all, why share valuable goods when you could pretend and throw out a few buzzwords, instead?

I think the analogy is apt. If you post a price on goods, and somebody walks into a store, picks up the item, and walks out without paying, they can’t simply say, “Well, I didn’t care to read the price, and nobody presented me with a contract, so I just took it,” as a valid defense. There’s sometimes an explicit agreement upon terms, sure, but there are times where that agreement is implicit: they put a price on a thing, I pay it, else it’s stealing. I don’t need to sign a contract every time I get groceries.

I do, however, agree that this will only have teeth once it’s argued and upheld in court the first (few) time(s). If nothing else, it’s good to see people trying to solve the problem, rather than just throwing up their hands and letting billionaires run amok with virtual impunity. Maybe this won’t work to reign in AI tech bros, but maybe it will inspire the things that do.

Eh, I think I’ll just rewatch episodes of Bluey instead.

Remember when they said they wouldn’t do things during their confirmation hearing that they later did, like, a year later? Yeah…

Fuck them and their lies.

Why pay your developers and ensure people have continued employment, when you could not.

/s

Been playing through The Messenger again. Still an amazing game.

Also picked up No Man’s Sky again to build the Corvette class ships, build up some settlements, and collect some of the newer cosmetic building items. It’s impressive how much love has gone into that game, and it gives me a chuckle that it now has basically everything Star Citizen has (ships with walkable interiors, food, planet exploration, space combat, main quests, etc.).

I think you misunderstand what the Deck is. It’s a handheld laptop with a built-in controller with the express purpose of playing games. It’s not a GPU with a screen.

I feel you about GPU pricing, but the Deck is one of the few things I’ve bought in recent years where I didn’t feel buyer’s remorse, even slightly. How it’s priced is fair for what you get: an ultra-portable Linux gaming laptop. Plus, you get the added benefit of knowing that you’re further supporting gaming on Linux; Proton literally changed the gaming landscape, and Valve has directly partnered with Arch Linux.

I still frequently play my Desktop, but there are times when I just want to chill in bed, sit on the couch, play on vacation, and there’s simply no way I can take my desktop computer with me to those places.

Oh, neat! I had no idea something like this existed!

Hopefully people who use SecureBoot have plans in place

Not with that attitude! /j

Barf. I try hard not to think about it, since it’s shoved in our faces at every turn, but you’re absolutely right that our data is going to these AI corpos.

Hot take: buy your music instead—direct from the artist whenever possible, or start building your collection from whatever you can find at a thrift store.

…the websites that host stuff and do it free and efficiently.

It’s never free. The instance you’re using isn’t free; it’s paid for by donations. ISPs and server hosts don’t just give bandwidth out of charity or for the public good. One way or another, these for-profit companies are getting their pound of flesh, typically by selling targeted ad space.

The fact that these companies are adding chat features means they’re now going to try mining conversations for additional consumer profile data points, which they can then sell to advertisers.

This new change is gross, and I hope nobody uses it.

…For dinner? …In prison? …Take a one-way trip to Mars?

If so, then I agree.