Microsoft’s approach to their OS seems to be, “constantly add more stuff that relatively few people want or need, and require everyone to buy new hardware to support it.” The resulting upgrade cycle is needlessly wasteful of people’s money and harmful to the environment.

Meanwhile, the Linux ecosystem is more like, “make new stuff available, but optional, and constantly optimize things to be more efficient.”

I was still gaming and developing software on a ten-year-old computer (with a somewhat newer GPU) until very recently. I’ll let you guess which OS I was using.

“Oxygen.”

I just put the installers onto a thumbdrive.

I hope you’re powering up that thumb drive every few weeks. Flash memory will lose charge if left unpowered for too long, corrupting your data.

https://xcancel.com/mikeshapiroland/status/1874213952680607922

“It is obvious to everyone: Elbrus processors are not yet at the level required to compete equally with the PS5 and Xbox, which means the solution must be unconventional.”

That unconventional approach could involve either simplifying games to the degree that Elbrus CPUs can handle (the Russian audience still has access to world-class games and would likely not play those ‘simplified’ games)

Oh, let’s not be hasty. Nintendo has had great success with underpowered consoles, and Tetris (Тетрис) is a shining example of this sort of thing. :)

I prefer physical keyboards, too, as do many others. It turns out those of us who spend a lot of time composing text are outnumbered by those who do more content consumption, though, so the surface area is given to touchscreens, and profit-driven manufacturers seldom bother with keyboard models any more.

As for light quality, yep, incandescent bulbs were generally more pleasant. But not so much better as to justify the pollution now that we have 8 billion people on this planet.

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I guess you’re implying that rough service bulbs use more power at any given light output? Because I know from experience that they are much more sturdy than typical household bulbs. That’s not a myth.

I think we have been able to manufacture sturdier incandescent bulbs for a long time. The “rough service” bulbs made for appliances do pretty well, for example.

I’m not sure why the technology didn’t become common. I would guess that cheap and frequently replaced bulbs making more profit probably has something to do with it.

I’ve been using GE Relax HD most recently. I don’t remember when I bought them, but it has been at least 5 years. I haven’t had one die yet.

(All the Cree bulbs I used before these died quickly.)

Edit: I have read that LED bulbs usually die early because of their driver circuitry running too hot. If you are able to give yours better ventilation, it might help.

You can select the text that’s over that background to make reading easier. Most of the article is below it, so you should be fine after a couple taps of Page Down.

Or use Firefox reader view, which cleans it right up. :)

The archive link:

• Doesn’t have a tracker.
• Works with scripts disabled (good privacy & security practice).
• Will still be useful when nytimes.com eventually disables your gift ID or takes the article down.

https://archive.today/noVq5

Is this what I think it is?

click, control-f, entanglement

Yep. The core discovery is not exactly news if you’ve been following this stuff, but still very cool.

Thanks for this. Are you planning to take more measurements during a warm season? It would be interesting to see how close the electric system comes to petrol in more favourable conditions/climates.

More discussion here:

https://sh.itjust.works/post/26026271

From the gbatemp.net article:

UPDATE #3: According to an official statement on Ryujinx’s Discord server, developer gdkchan was contacted by Nintendo and they were offered an agreement to stop working on the emulator project, and while the agreement wasn’t confirmed yet, the organization has been entirely removed.

This is not a case of copyright infringement, so I feel comfortable linking these source code mirrors:

https://git.naxdy.org/Mirror/Ryujinx

https://git.l7y.media/mirrors/Ryujinx

The commit hashes on both of those mirrors match the official ones at least until March 2024 (v1.1.1217). I can’t vouch for the more recent commits that extend through today (v1.1.1403), but the two mirrors do at least match each other.

Warning: A zip file in the ryujinx_202410 subdir of https://archive.org/download/ claims to have the full git history, but the hashes do not match the original source repo. It’s possible that the mismatch is an artifact of some accident, rather than malice, but I would avoid it just in case.