From that article it looks like this is supposed to be a joke and you’re not actually supposed to hold such a position unironically.

Why is it not surprising? Are people with anime profile pics more gullible or ignorant than the average person?

It certainly is a rich tech person’s perspective.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/30/business/politics-data-centers-electric-bills/

https://archive.ph/4roV4

We already have tools to rank titles and if it is AI slop, a low effort copycat game, the ratings will reflect this regardless of the tech that may or may not have been used.

It is not enough for me. I want to know if AI was involved so that I can avoid it even if it is good.

I have seen enough devices get kneecapped by the manufacturer after release to know that the FSF’s viewpoint is the correct one.

If you don’t make a conscious decision to disallow free software it becomes too easy to normalize its inclusion.

even prior to bookworm it wasn’t endorsed due to having the toggle in the first place, which I find super weird.

They probably predicted (correctly) that this attitude would eventually lead to the decision that they ultimately made in 2022.

You can use letters and symbols in windows hello pins.

You can use windows hello without biometrics.

I don’t believe there is any particular advantage of linux insisting on password input for privilege escalation. Obviously there is no proof of this, but I suspect that the design of this privilege escalation flow in linux is at least partly caused by its popularity as a server OS, for example the UI flow for Windows UAC wouldn’t work if you’re trying to remotely administrate a server through the terminal.

Is Windows + UAC + no password secure?

It should be, in fact I believe that by default if your local admin account doesn’t have a password set, remote logins and run-as is disabled for that account so you might even be able to argue that it is more secure. It’s probably one of the reasons why Windows 11 comes with a recommended option to disable passwords and only authenticate through Windows Hello.

I’ll try to exercise my “assume good faith” muscle here because I think the above poster is at least genuine about what they are posting: I believe this poster wishes that the people who oppose the proliferation of AI at the cost of human connection would “put their money where their mouth is” by reaching out to the people that this poster feels are unfairly ignored.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=BG7273yDpdA

Yep. I thought $100 for 8TB was expensive when I checked earlier this year and now the cheapest one is $140. Fuck 😂

You can generally pass through modern Nvidia GPUs as the entire device, provided that you let go of it in the host. It not supporting vGPUs just means you can’t virtualize and split up the GPU workload across multiple VMs, which I believe is also the case for consumer AMD GPUs as well.

The above post only applies for HTTPS traffic using a third party secure DNS - traditional P2P torrenting will leak what you are downloading to your peers. There are anonymous P2P networks like I2P that (allegedly) solve this issue, but it is not widely adopted.

For virtualization users, the driver addresses a soft lockup issue involving the vfio-pci module, which could occur after powering off a virtual machine with a passed-through NVIDIA GPU. This fix improves reliability for users running GPU passthrough in environments such as KVM or QEMU.

AMD friends watching from the sidelines

wrong country 😅

so there’s an optimization problem in there somewhere

The optimization problem is actually the point of the study, encoded as PPD, which represents the density of a display’s pixel per degree of your eye’s field of vision. It says that any more than 53-94 PPD is imperceptible to most. You can see if your display makes the cutoff if you have the viewing distance and screen size here:

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/rainbow/projects/display_calc/

The only reason why consumers like you and me get to enjoy free software on modern PC hardware is because of the expectation of open standards and interoperability set way back when the industry was still growing and computer users gave a shit (or rather, when only the people who gave a shit owned a computer).

Much to the industry giants’ enthusiasm, mobile hardware stacks were developed without this baggage, and so unless something fundamental changes, all mobile devices trying to focus on free software will be doomed to failure by abysmally poor hardware support and aging hand-me-down hardware.

Are there any privacy communities remaining where you can say you’re using tor browser without getting attacked for being an “extremist” and paranoid just because you use tor browser or leaving phone at home?

I say this half jokingly, but after reading the rest of your post and a couple samples from your post history, I can tell you that “using the tor browser” and “leaving phone at home” is probably not why people call you paranoid.