Out of interest, which aspect don’t you believe? The article is clear the broken update effects a specific subset of enterprise users, on a specific mix of base versions and cumulative updates.

This seems like a classic windows update issue. In fairness to Microsoft it is difficult to prevent bugs when there is a huge install base, with a huge range of hardware, with a huge range of users on different mixes of updates and updating at their own. I personally think that’s totally believable.

What’s not clear is perhaps the implied overarching story that W11 is worse for this than other versions of Windows. I can’t answer that about windows updates themselves, but I certainly believe W11 is the worst version of Windows I’ve ever used (and I’ve used every version back to 3.11 as a kid). I have to use W11 at work: the UI is absolutely terrible and unfriendly but far worse it constantly and inexplicably slows down, programs become unresponsive repeatedly and I come across errors constantly.

I work in a big organisation and I don’t even bother to report most errors now - we hop between PCs because of the nature of my Job, and I’ve come up across so many I just can’t be bothered opening more tickets. I’d describe it as a mostly large volume of minor issues and inconveniences that cumulatively, on top of the bad design, that make it a shit experience. But I’ve also had numerous major errors since we moved from W10 to W11 on different PCs - they all have the same hardware and software yet the problems are different on each. I’ve given up reporting the problems and just avoid the PCs, and I think a lot of my colleagues are the same.

My organisation (I work in a large Hospital), is already stretched due to high work volume and low staffing and we now have a constantly little drag from Windows 11 on everything we do. It’s like Microsoft sprinkle a little bit of shit onto every computer, every day, all day. The cumulative effect in just my organisation must be massive - I shudder to think how bad it is across the whole economy.

I’m confused - isn’t the Steam Frame ARM based, and using FEX? The article talks about future devices but doesn’t mention the big new device that will be using FEX in 2026?

The publicity will have little impact; only the AI bubble popping will make them change course. But the damage is already done - they’ve pivoted their company to AI, forced it into all there products and force their employees to use it. Once the bubble pops that’s going to take time to undo and fix.

AI of course will still be a thing, but at the moment they’re wasting billions on it as everyone wants to be to AI as Google is to search.

So bizarrely the best experience is to self host and pirate. That’s what you get when the entire entertainment industry is hostile to consumers.

When Netflix first became big, it was popular because it was a one-stop shop for almost all your content. It was like a big library of content in one place, you pay a reasonable monthly fee and it’s all there. Piracy dipped as a result.

Now all the content is fragmented into numerous walled gardens you have to pay separate fees to access. People can only consume the same amount but now they have to pay 4 or 5 fees as the content is spread out.

Unsurprisingly piracy is booming again.

Scarcity manufactured by the AI “boom”. When the AI bubble pops, expect a huge slump in hardware prices as companies try to offload huge stockpiles of worthless RAM, CPUs and GPUs.

Would just add, while you can change the permissions on NTFS drives in Linux, I’d generally recommend using a Linux dedicated partition (Ext4 for example) for games. It’s faster and also much less likely to cause unexpected issues.

A master is the original of something. For example, in the music industry when they printed records, they would print a master record from which duplicates would be made for manufacture. They still use the phrase mastering to describe finalising music in production.

Master copy has become widely used to mean the original version of something from which other copies are made.

Apparently the whole concept dates back to the renaissance where artists would learn by copying the works and techniques of a Master artist. Master in that context is referring to someone who is the best at what they do (the most famous renaissance artists are still referred to as the masters), which presumably derives from the honorific Master used to refer to a male teacher in English.

While perhaps understandable, moving away from Master to Main is based on ignorance of the fact the word has a totally different meaning and origin to master/slave. Ironically master/slave is also used in engineering and computer hardware to describe the relationship between a controlling piece of hardware and it’s subordinates, but that is nothing to do with the source of truth use of master which comes from the concept of a master being the best at something (or now the best version of something).

Without any context this just comes across as psychotic advice.

Maybe it’s advice for a comedy career. Never laugh at any jokes, just feign ignorance and get the jok teller to explain. Then you learn the art of comedy and joke design, and you will have the tools to write your own comedy set. Thanks dad!

The headline doesn’t quite reflect the situation, but it is difficult to capture in a headline.

Essentially add “for now”. Many of the issues are fixable but not necessarily by one laptop maker. As the article said by the time the issues were likely resolved the laptop would be obsolete as the version 2 of the chip would release.

Having said that, it’s not clear how fast the issues will resolve as without any devices there won’t be impetus to put fixes in to different parts of the ecosystem to get the full potential of the chipset.

The GPU sounds like the most serious problem and without manufacturer engagement may be the longest to get fixed.

Qwant is built in option in Vivaldi for me on mobile.

To add it manually in settings on desktop it should be added as follows:

https://www.qwant.com/?q=%25s

For some reason lemmy keeps changing the %s to %25s even though it’s listed as code. If you see 25 above in the url delete that, it should end %s to work.

%s is what Vivaldi uses to give whatever search term you type to a search engine like qwant. It works for me manually so should work for Vivaldi.

Yes it’s fairly simple to do, essentially the user needs to download an image of a Linux install disc, flash it onto a USB stick (or a Dvd I guess), and then reboot their PC. They may need to press a key at boot to open the boot menu and select the USB (or the bios to change the boot order).

After that, most distros offer a very easy to follow installer which will install the new OS.

Most Linux installs can be done alongside windows (on the same hard drive or it’s own drive) but windows tends to break the boot loader with updates. It’s gernallt better to only dual boot if you’re good at fixing things - otherwise a full Linux install is better.

The most inportant thing is back up all your important data, and only do this if you genuinely want to leave windows. I’d make sure your windows license is digital before doing this too as that allows using windows again if you want to go back.

I’d say anyone can use Linux, it’s user friendly and robust. In terms of installing Linux, I’d only do it if you are sure you know what you’re doing - installing any OS - including windows - can involved trouble shooting problems.

Doesn’t say he went to university. Doesn’t say he has a job.

Guys a mooch living off his parents, just in a fishing boat instead of living in their basement.

I know it’s supposed to be a little tongue in cheek but in reality: if you have a steam deck and like it, just dock it to your TV and you have a low powered steam machine.

I have a deck but got a MiniPC and have that plugged into my TV. Essentially a steam machine.

Why? I wanted to game at 4k (the deck can do it but struggles), I wanted more convenience (I had to unlock my steam deck on its front face before I could use it which was annoying if I wanted to game from the sofa), i wanted to play more powerful games at higher settings generally (not just 4k, but simulations games that need more cpu and ram to play well so I wanted a more powerful machine). I also make more extensive use of the desktop mode and use it for browsing and streaming - it’s become an all-in-one device in a way Microsoft or Sony failed to achieve.

I don’t think the Steam Machine will be as big as the deck, but it’ll have a decent market. If you want a mobile gaming platform get the deck, but the subset who only really wanted to living room game will be better off with a steam machine. The real competition for the steam machine is other living room PCs.

I do think Valve could to with adding an app store in their client for installing progressive Web apps. Because being able to stream video content easily from within steam itself opens all their devices into being multimedia machines.

Schitts Creek is a great comedy with some heart warming drama elements to it. It’s a great feel good show.

Might be good as a break in between other things even if you don’t fill the 10 hours with it.

I’ve tried Arch - it allows you to make a system that is exactly what you want. So no bloat installing stuff you never need or use. It also gives you absolute control.

On other distros like Fedora, you get a pre configured system set up for a wide range of users. You can reduce down the packages somewhat but you will often have core stuff installed that is more than you’ll need as it caters to everyone.

Arch allows you to build it yourself, and only install exactly the things you actually want, and configure then exactly how you want.

Also you learn an awful lot about Linux building your system in this way.

I liked building an arch system in a virtual machine, but I don’t think I could commit to maintaining an arch install on my host. I’m happy to trade bloat for a “standard” experience that means I can get generic support. The more unique your system the more unique your problems can be I think. But I can see the appeal of arch - “I made this” is a powerful feeling.

I think the new device is good news. I can see what you’re saying - the benefit is if Steam Machines expand the PC games market with former console only players. But otherwise the threshold for PC development is already much lower than consoles; there are no dev kit fees, a wide choice of engines to target, relatively greater independence etc.

The steam machine may help somewhat in having a specific hardware profile to target, but the games are still on steam’s store so still have to be able to run widely on Windows or Linux. That’s always been the complexity of PC development - the steam machine doesn’t change that much. Although admittedly the Steam Verified benchmarks are useful for users to simplify understanding what their kit can actually run which will benefit indie devs.

He was a blackmailer and the key to blackmail is meticulous records and evidence to use against people. Question is where is it? Do the government have it? Has it been destroyed?

Seems to be a fair amount of evidence the US government does have and is being drip fed out.

For me it seems to be when you go through to download the windows binary, you get an iframe on the page containing another site. That has ads and serves up the download. So I’m guessing the ads are on the website that provides videolan with hosting for its binaries?

They are old fashioned intrusive ads pretending you need to click then to start your download. But the download starts already.

Tesla’s share price is a joke - it’s entirely predicated on the wishful fulfilment of a drugged up narcissist. Judged as a car company - which is what it is - it’s in terminal decline, with global falling sales, no new products and a major image problem. Elons other companies are spending money to buy up excess Cyber truck stock to inflate its performance and even that’s not enough. Yet it’s shares continue to soar based on nonsensical promises by its clown in chief.

Tesla won’t be selling robotaxis because Elon Musk in his infinite wisdom forced the company to slash the tech in his cars. That made them cheaper but it also made them unable to compete with the safer lidar focused tech of his competitors.

Meanwhile it’s “robots” are remote controlled nonsense; tesla doesn’t have the tech to back up it’s ambition.

Elon won’t be getting his trillion dollar payout. When the AI bubble pops, Tesla’s share price will also collapse.

I think Nextcloud with the libreoffice plugins is the main Google docs self hosting alternative at this point.