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byMBGMorden
2026 @02:32PM
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Attached to: Saudi Arabia To Scale Back Neom Megaproject
Not gonna lie . . . I thought Hawaii was bigger than Maryland.
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byMBGMorden
2026 @09:17AM
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Attached to: KDE's 'Plasma Login Manager' Stops Supporting FreeBSD - Because Systemd
Realistically most open source software is going to be as permissive as possible but only to the point where it doesn't require extra effort on something that they're not motivated to work on.
For a long time Linux and *BSD were close enough that most software would work on either. They're not going to care where you run it. Over time though, as things have diverged, if BSD requires significantly more work to keep the system compatible, and none of them use BSD, then they're not likely to keep supporting it.
You're free to fork it and re-establish compatibility, but its simply not their priority. Particularly when even amongst BSD users, a very large percentage of them are focused on server use. Desktop use of FreeBSD is even more niche and this is most decided a desktop related application.
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byMBGMorden
2026 @02:15PM
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Attached to: Many Schools Don't Think Students Can Read Full Novels Anymore
I grew up in the US and went to high school in the late 1990's (graduated in 1999). We were assigned "summer reading" every summer where we'd have 2 or 3 novels we were supposed to read over the summer and we'd be tested on them when we got back to school.
In general though I don't think you're going to convince kids to read novels when they don't want to. By the time I made it to college I'd discovered SparkNotes. I'm sure kids of today can ask most of the big AI systems for a summary of key points and get what they need to pass a test.
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byMBGMorden
0, 2025 @03:31PM
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Attached to: Russian Enthusiasts Planning DIY DDR5 Memory Amidst Worldwide Shortage
Okay. So after a while the satan worshipers will be sitting on a ton of ram they bought up...and when they can't monetize it they'll have to sell.
Its not the ram itself - its the production capacity. The RAM that the AI data centers want is not of the type that is usable by average consumer hardware.
When they can't monetize that RAM then it has little value on the secondary market and will likely just end up in a landfill.
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byMBGMorden
18, 2025 @10:20AM
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Attached to: The Oscars Will Abandon Broadcast TV For YouTube In 2029
I mean, my parents are in their late 60's and are watching more Youtube than regular TV these days. They're not particularly tech savy either.
The world is moving beyond broadcast TV.
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byMBGMorden
18, 2025 @10:13AM
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Attached to: Man Boards Heathrow Flight Without Passport or Ticket
Nerds tend to have a higher interest in security than the general populace.
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byMBGMorden
2025 @10:02AM
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Attached to: Hollywood Director Found Guilty of Blowing $11 Million Netflix Budget on Crypto and Ferraris
Yep. "I can take this $11 million, turn it into $17 million really quick, then pocket the extra and make that series.". Then when the $11 million becomes $4 million the spiral begins.
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byMBGMorden
2025 @09:26AM
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Attached to: AV1 Open Video Codec Now Powers 30% of Netflix Streaming
I'll need to test it (its been a while) - I'm using an Intel Arc A310 on my rig where I encode. I've got an AMD 9070 XT in my gaming machine but I haven't really tested encoding on that one.
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byMBGMorden
2025 @11:59AM
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Attached to: AV1 Open Video Codec Now Powers 30% of Netflix Streaming
AV1 seems like a good codec - I'm always happy to use it though, even hardware assisted encoding is still a bit slow for me. If I'm reencoding videos for my own use I usually will encode to x265 instead, which has a good balance between file size/quality and compression speed.
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byMBGMorden
2, 2025 @02:41PM
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Attached to: Google's Vibe Coding Platform Deletes Entire Drive
Look, I'm not above using a bit of AI when I'm coding, but that's limited to asking chat GPT to bang out a short function or something that I don't feel like coding myself (ie, most recently "Give me a bit of TSQL to determine if a date falls on Thanksgiving"). There is no way in hell I'd turn it loose with the ability to actually modify files on my system.
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byMBGMorden
26, 2025 @09:30AM
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Attached to: Plex Is Now Enforcing Remote Play Restrictions On TVs
Yes but the source is always there. If they close source it you can just fork and and continue on the open source branch.
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byMBGMorden
2025 @02:09PM
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Attached to: Thunderbird Pro Enters Production Testing Ahead of $9/Month Launch
I can't see them selling email accounts for $9 per month. That's just too small of a service for that much money. $1.50 per month maybe (paid annually to lessen CC processing fees), but not $9 per month.
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byMBGMorden
19, 2025 @01:44PM
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Attached to: UK To Ban the Resale of Tickets For Profit To Protect Fans
All it does is make it so that the ability to get a ticket shifts from having more money to he who gets there first, which isn't really a huge tradeoff.
The reality is that if the tickets are selling out that fast and they're being resold for significantly more than the original price, then they were underpriced to begin with.
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byMBGMorden
2025 @01:49PM
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Attached to: Take-Two CEO Says Consoles Aren't Going Away, But Gaming is Moving Toward PCs
I don't think that's it. Gaming PC's generally cost more than a console, and the "general purpose PC that can also dabble in some gaming" is becoming less common. It seems that people are buying less PC's but those who are still buying them are often buying them for a purpose.
I think it's that "gaming" (and by that I need AAA high dollar value gaming as opposed to casual cell phone/mobile device gaming) is becoming a little more niche of a hobby. Niche hobbies often have high costs associated with them because the small group of people who are willing to participate are willing to unload large sums of money into it.
PC gaming has always been where the best performance and visuals have been available - and it could just be that the remaining customer base are the ones who want that whilst more casual people are fine using their mobile devices for playing a different type of game.
I will say personally I've always bought consoles strictly for exclusives, while always also maintaining a gaming PC as well. As exclusives become less of a thing and everything seems to be available on PC anyways, I have little incentive to actually buy a console anymore.
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byMBGMorden
2025 @01:39PM
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Attached to: Take-Two CEO Says Consoles Aren't Going Away, But Gaming is Moving Toward PCs
General purpose PC's are becoming more rare, but it seems like gaming PC's are starting to account for a larger chunk of the PC population. In general it seems like people who just want to do mundane tasks are largely moving away from full PC to tablets and smartphones, but people who actually want to game are still very much getting PC's to do it on.
I'm an old fart who still games, but every one of my 3 teenage nieces have asked me to build them a gaming PC because it's a "cool kid" thing to have one.
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