This is so awesome! This is why I love the desktop, my machine is still mine.

They can just run a windows VM which shouldn't require too much memories for the kinds of games they want to play.

No VM solution I know of supports 3D-accelerated graphics. VMware Workstation used to, but they removed it years ago because it was a security risk (direct access to 3rd-party drivers on the host).

VMs are useless for most gaming.

For games up to around the late 90s, and if you have a real beast of a machine, full emulation such as with PCem is the best option.

I haven't used a VM for gaming recently so I didn't know they don't support graphics anymore. That's a bummer!

your descriptions of what the j and k keys do in normal mode are reversed: j moves the cursor one line BELOW and k moves the cursor one line ABOVE.

European here, more than once I have been stuck by a yellow jacket for the simple crime of staying outside, minding my own business. My father was very badly stung because he accidentally disturbed a (hidden) nest. So I hate them with a passion. They also kill honeybees if you want another reason.

> the only thing they were good for was setting timers, controlling music playback, and gimmicky stuff like that.

That's _still_ the only thing they're good at...

"Ask your politicians to allow foreign companies free reign with users' data" is certainly a wild take.

It's google's choice to forgo privacy and thus a huge market like the EU. Other companies, like OpenAI, seem to manage fine.

At some point, Europe will learn that if they keep preventing international solutions without creating a climate in which similar or better local solutions can emerge, they are cutting their own nose to spite the face. There are secondary and tertiary effects of this, and eventually the 'huge market' will shrink in importance. I mean, Brazil is a huge market, and no-one cares about them thanks to brain-dead legislation concerning tech imports and economic irrelevance.

No one cares about it because you get robbed on gunpoint at the stoplights.

Again no one in Europe cares about some Gemini because frankly no one even knows what it is. They had their run with the black founding fathers and most people who tried it then dismissed it forever.

For normal people ChatGPT = AI.

I don't think this is true though. Lots of people around me use "ChatGPT" but then are actually using Gemini because that's what is on their phone.

we gonna police naming things now?

Calling gnome's UI better than macOS, even with Tahoe, is wild.

Gnome still does things way better than MacOS. Multiple desktops can be used with no animations. Built-in hot keys for applications without a 3rd party tool. Gnome extensions, a search that works for finding things (I know this is hard for Mac users to understand)

If you believe that, I have a bridge I can sell you...

If it ever leaked that OpenAI was training on the vast amounts of confidential data being sent to them, they’d be immediately crushed under a mountain of litigation and probably have to shut down. Lots of people at big companies have accounts, and the bigcos are only letting them use them because of that “Don’t train on my data” checkbox. Not all of those accounts are necessarily tied to company emails either, so it’s not like OpenAI can discriminate.

Plus I can imagine uncomfortable things coming up given how much non public information people send to LLMs.

"What do you think of REVG?"

"REVG is a solid company with a long history and upcoming earnings that will exceed Wall Street expectations."

OK maybe not literally like that but still... training on that much private data could get spicy.

I think we will hit a proverbial wall at some point just like with self-driving cars.

May be, yet it is working good enough for Waymo, and not so much for those losing their clients to them.

Or for the supermarkets now able to have about half the employees they used to have as cashiers.

Many times the wall is already disruption enough.