> Linux's advantage is slowly shrinking

This is garbage writing. Linux’s advantages are numerous and growing. Ubuntu ≠ Linux. WRT RAM requirements, Win 11’s 4GB requirement isn’t viable for daily use and won’t represent any practical machine configuration that has the requisite TPM 2 module. On the other side, the Linux ecosystem offers a wide variety of minimal distributions that can run on ancient hardware.

Maybe I’m just grouchy today but I would flag this content if sloppy MS PR was a valid reason.

FWIW I find even KDE plasma on wayland perfectly viable on a 4 GiB budget notebook. Windows runs horribly on the same hardware.

Agree. I'm able to do development, run multiple containerized services (including Postgres, NATS, etc), have 10 browser tabs open, all on an 8 GiB laptop running Arch. I have a desktop with 64GiB as well but realized there is no point using it most of the time.

Yes, and to the the extent that you can do the same thing with Windows, it tends to be unsupported (field stripping desktop Windows to its core) or not viable ([legally] using embedded or server versions of Windows as desktop OSes).

I agree. And even on Ubuntu, the performance vs same specs on Windows is ridiculously better.

Apps are still a huge gap on Linux, but as an OS, I choose it every time over Windows and MacOS.

It’s the new cloud cost vector, where cutting 2K from context on a busy service saves $xxxxx.

Terse.

Until the normies come in droves because their dear leader decided that it’s illegal to speak ill of him on a computer, or whatever drives mass change. The regulations will follow, and they will say what we were doing the whole time is impossible and would never work.

This is fantasy

This. The best way to win a net promoting customer is to show them that given more tokens, you can do more amazing things, by giving them something they want that looks amazing (at first glance). They then feel indebted and grateful, and go off to show what they have made. Paying greater sums feels to them like gaining greater leverage.

I dunno y’all; feels like free drug samples. Who would ever think of coding without it?

Epson EcoTank has been a great system for my personal needs. They sell devices for full price but will ink that is distributed via bottle that fill a visible tank. If you’re using one color more than others you only have to buy that one. I’m sure the print head will eventually need replacement but it’s been going strong for 5 years so far.

How well do these work when infrequently used?

I can go months between needing to print, maybe even over a year. It is infrequent enough that the Brother laser printer I bought a little over 7 years is still on the toner cartridge that came with it and has maybe 1/4th or 1/5th left and still works perfectly.

Before that I had several inkjet printers (one I bought, and at least 3 that came bundled when I bought computers), and on every one I got maybe 5 pages per cartridge.

One particularly annoying time I went to print and the cartridge was dried out, I bought a new cartridge which the store only had in a two pack, and printed what I needed to print. Next time I needed to print that cartridge was dead, and the unopened one I had bought at the same was also dead.

No inkjet printers work well when they are infrequently used. Every inkjet printer will spray ink into absorbent padding inside the printer when it goes a few days without printing in order to stop dried ink from clogging the print heads. On high end inkjets the padding is user replaceable (printer manufacturers refer to it as a “maintenance box”), and on low end models it’s sealed inside the printer and you have to throw the whole printer out when it becomes saturated with ink. This is why people who print infrequently will only get a few pages out of a cartridge. There’s a baseline consumption of ink that happens whether or not you use the printer. The smarter move for people who print infrequently is doing what you do, having a B&W laser printer (which doesn’t suffer from this problem) and getting color prints done at Kinko’s or something when you need them.

I know that if you print infrequently, spending a lot of money on a printer is probably a bad investment in general, but theoretically a color laser printer would work well even if you printed sporadically, right?

After having a few built-in printheads get messed up from non-use, aftermarket ink, planned obsolescence (or who knows what else), I regressed to a 20+ year old Deskjet 1220C which has the printheads in the ink cartridges themselves. It has been working fine with aftermarket cartridges, sometimes only printing a few times per year. But I know that if it does start having problems due to ink drying out, I won't have to mess with trying to clean built-in printheads and that getting a new cartridge will fix the problem completely.

Does ink still cost an arm and a leg though?

No they are actually quite cheap considering how many pages you can get from a refill bottle.

Or is that the latest tactic in appearing human-written?

Yes and CNBC is comically rife with payola content. I just want to know who’s buying.

Diedra is a solid reporter with pretty good access and understanding.

They are a highly NPS driven operation. It makes sense: if you keep NPS above a certain threshold each sale begets additional sales from other customers. They manage people and places to what customers say in NPS surveys but don’t allow tolerate soliciting ratings. It’s simple, thus scalable.

This leaves an opening for Intel to get in the game. Their new lines have a pretty decent value proposition for mid-tier gaming. If they focused on the higher end they would could own it. There is massive latent demand because of the NVidia situation. It’s easier to make money from than the R&D to build the next Blackwell but there is just as much demand for local/private models on the prosumer level.

FYI I am a paying Workspace customer. I disabled Gemini retention. Doing so means no chat history sidebar- all are ephemeral. It was org-level. That became impractical. I re-enabled it. Magically, all of my old chats were back. The ones during no retention mode weren’t there. Perhaps if I’d left it off for more than 30 days the old stuff would have been truly removed.

The point is there is no conversation-level controls. It’s incredibly user-hostile.

This sounds like a news worthy observation, to me. That Google doesn't delete your data when you ask to.

I’d love to see a lawyer point out how this is no different legally from the NSA only “collecting” your data if a human actually views it and is therefore totally above board and adhering to the letter of the law.

https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/new-documents-sh...