They said they’d probably have to if Fedora removed support for 32-bit packages, which was a proposal to the Fedora Community (who rejected the proposal).

Long-term, I imagine Valve will have to bundle a 32-to-64-bit abstraction layer, like they already do with a win-to-linux abstraction layer (Proton), and are preparing to do with an x86-to-ARM abstraction layer.

Distros do not want to each duplicate the work of maintaining 32-bit support for all eternity.

Why compare it to nuclear rather than what’s currently being used in that area? Coal and gas.

Nuclear is good for providing a stable base load, but having the entire grid be nuclear would be very expensive. And if everyone were to do the same, the market cost of fissile fuel materials would skyrocket.

Lots of solar and wind in the energy mix is a no-brainer.

This is such a depressing read. So fucked up. How can people be this evil?

I’m glad this has become illegal, but I’m sad it even had to be in the first place.

One way to interpret this is “ha, people consider AI worthless!”

However another way to interpret this is the same way users view everything on the web, from social media to journalism and media streaming: this should be free and they should use my data and advertise to me instead, consequences/enshittification be damned.

Break the law and pay 0.014% of your market cap, or 0.31% of their 2024 profit.

Tech firms will suggest any invasive nonsense that will make them money.

Those present included representatives of Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Palantir, which works closely with the US military

A completely unsurprising list of companies lol

Ok so you think that the old 4" screen phones should actually have been sub 2". That seems excessively small to me.

Easy thing to say when you’re not the one donating your time for free.

I love what Valve is doing for Linux, but longer term, the onus is on them to solve the 32-bit compatibility layer issue (a-la Proton for win-to-linux, as well as their upcoming x86-to-ARM layer).

Expecting all distros (who again, are staffed mostly by volunteers) to do this work separately (i.e. duplicating all that work), for all time, is a big ask.

Arguably. Or it’s just what the dev team was used to. Or a bunch of other explanations.

I just don’t find “a historic Germanic group of settlers that immigrated to medieval Britain are purposely neglecting unicode support as a means to suppress people that aren’t part of their group.”

Going through their post history, they seem obsessed with the “Anglo Saxons”.

Just a bizarre conspiracy theory from a one day old account that’s also advocating for genociding everyone in the middle east lol

To be fair, the term “AI” has always been used in an extremely vague way.

NPCs in video games, chess computers, or other such tech are not sentient and do not have general intelligence, yet we’ve been referring to those as “AI” for decades without anybody taking an issue with it.

Anglo-Saxon? Lmao what a bizarre way to talk. Not that it even makes sense considering Anglo-Saxon settlers in the US weren’t even close to being the majority.

It’s down to unicode support. Not a plot from “Anglo-Saxons” to keep others in their place lol

I don’t think that’s true in the slightest. A phone 2.1" smaller in diagonal length than my current one would be smaller than a Nokia 3310.

That’s exactly my point.

Presumably you’re paid for the work you do, and you shouldn’t have to do it for free, yes?

I imagine you wouldn’t be saying this if it was your work being used.

If you went through the painstaking effort or writing a book or something, I imagine you’d be pretty unhappy if nobody wanted to reimburse you, and you were called a cunt for wanting to be paid for your labour.

Having heard about some of the difficulty in budgeting for a charity my friend works at that is also reliant on donations, this isn’t surprising.

She said things would be managed more effectively if there were predictable payments coming in, even if they were taking in less money in total.

It appears Gnome, and probably others, are the same.

Trouble is, I too am a “I like donating to things in lump sums so my bank account is less cluttered” kinda guy.

Why is Polution per GDP a better measure?

They wanted a measure that makes China look better.

Like I just said, my current 6.3" display phone is almost identical in size to my old 4.2" one.

You are genuinely the first person I’ve seen online who understands screen size != Phone size, because bezels exist and are different sized from phone to phone.

My current 6.3" screen phone is virtually identical in size to the 4.2" one I had in 2012.

Qualcomm will have to change that, what with the EU now mandating a minimum of 5 years of updates after the phone is no longer sold.

So if Qualcomm expects their SoCs to be on the market for 2-4 years, like they do right now, they will have no choice but to provide updates for 7-9 years.

I wouldn’t be surprised if, given this development, Fairphone turn to the more conventional chips other OEMs use, which would likely also be a win for battery life.

Would be a good feature if it works and is private.

I’m in multiple group chats and often open WhatsApp to see 800 unread messages in a single chat. I don’t want to read through all of that, but I do want to know a high level overview, so I can see if it’s something I actually want to scroll back to and have a proper read.

However, I’ve seen multiple AI summaries missing out important stuff, so that’s almost certainly going to be an issue here too.

I also want it to be completely private. They say it is, but who knows? The fact it’s not on-device is a bit of a red flag to me.