Oh nice one.

You can also add another layer by adding “you know that [infrastructure requirement] from [notoriously uncooperative infrastructure team] is gonna take at least Z days right?”, and if it isn’t enough, go for the kill shot “I’m gonna start writing the architecture principles this sprint, getting back to you as soon as they are cleared by [notoriously picky and detail obsessive software architect].”.

Fun fact, you can play tough too.

Manager: We (meaning you) need to do task A. How long will it take?

Me: Task A will take X days to do.

Manager: That seems awful long.

Me: How long do you think it should take?

Manager: It surely could not take any longer than Y days.

Me: Ok, which features are you willing to remove to make it fit in this timeframe?

It’s surprisingly effective, especially with a bit of seniority.

That’s the very reason of this board’s existence though. Initially it’s a binned APU that is not supposed to pass QC for the 36 CUs required for the PS5, as a way to recycle silicon that should have ended in a landfill. The only guarantee is that 24 CUs work.

I’m not sure the massive increase in power and cooling requirements vs. stock is worth it in a mid-range gaming situation, as the performance uplift is not as impressive.

We raise them, feed them, love them, cuddle them and they end up ungrateful little shits. But we still love them.

The fresher the coffee, the thicker the foam. I’m pretty sure it’s dissolved co2 in an oil matrix just like espresso crema. I haven’t made it in ages despite having a pretty copper çevze, but stale preground coffee never gave any foam whereas freshly ground coffee was thick and creamy and delicious as it should be.

For me, it has a lot to do with fatigue.

When I started interacting with people on those kinds of forums, I tried to be genuinely helpful, like most of us.

When you see the same question asked over and over and over, when you see the same flame wars happening over and over and over, there are two paths in the long term. You either stop interacting on a regular basis and only react to interesting questions because you are tired of repeating the same arguments, or you gleefully dive in the cesspool and become a toxic bastard.

It’s especially hard to keep having a nuanced debate when the comments are flooded with people who are confidently wrong (eg recommending an advanced or niche distro, or even worse, Ubuntu to a beginner), extremely opinionated users (the anti-systemd or anti-Wayland crowd) and so on. You just end up being lost in a sea of comments and unheard. So why bother? Let the flame wars rage and move on.

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While the scalpers struck quickly, AMD might end up foiling their plans, as the company says it will continue mass-producing the Ryzen 7 5800X3D Anniversary Edition to ensure supply stabilizes over time.

Good.

CliffyB is the real MVP

I really hope it’s not just another android console. I really want a Linux console that’s more EDC than a Steam Deck and much more powerful than a RGxx.

There’s nothing wrong about using randomness to get your creative juices flowing. People have been using card decks, dice, Euclidean rhythms, sample and hold and so on for a long time (Andrew Huang has a lot of examples of tracks where the main instrument, theme and genre are randomly picked). I guess sanitized, corporate slop could be used the same way, as long as the artist is fully in control of the creative process. For me the line stops where slop is used as is, with no human creative input.

They ran ICE ads and only stopped because the campaign ended, not because of massive backlash: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/09/spotify-no-longer-running-ice-recruitment-ads-after-us-government-campaign-ends

They hosted and donated to the orange shitstain while disproportionately targeting “controversial” black artists: https://www.themarysue.com/spotify-supporting-donald-trump-is-horrifically-hypocritical-after-how-theyve-treated-controversial-black-and-brown-musicians/

They pay hundreds of millions to nazi propagandists for the exclusive rights to spread their hate: https://apnews.com/article/joe-rogan-spotify-deal-76fa0e2c9d4b137f510428528ea6226b

The CEO stepped down to make AI weapons with Peter thiel : https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2025-07-31/spotifys-ceo-owns-an-ai-weapons-company-some-musicians-say-its-time-to-leave

Are you using Spotify ?

Because they are mainly known for 2 things:

• they are nazi cunts who platform nazi cunts and play ads for nazi cunts
• they flood their library with slop as a way to funnel money to themselves rather than to legitimate artists.

I’m not aware of a streaming service completely free of slop, but I know some like Qobuz are actively detecting and removing it.

Fuck this bullshit enshittified vibe-coded lower-back slop update. It used to work ffs. Now it crashes all the time and needs a stretching subscription for basic functionality. Fuck.

I’ve put my dad on Bluefin (same project as Bazzite). It’s perfect. Major upgrades are the same as weekly updates. Transparent and uneventful. It’s been almost 2 years and zero major complaints. He even finally accepted to ditch his ancient MacBook Air since I installed the Affinity suite on his Linux laptop. It was his last holdover.

Ah yeah let me check my thermometer after a whole night of ventilation… yeah it’s still 27, down from 28 last night whooo. And this is my bedroom which is towards north.

European living in a “temperate climate” here. A decade ago, I didn’t need AC. Temperatures over 30 happened for a few days at a time a couple times per summer. Heatwaves that killed old folk with sustained temperatures over 35 for a week happened once a decade.

Now it’s the norm. We see temperatures in May that would only have been possible in the peak of August in the mid-2000s. We see temperatures over 35 everyday for weeks at a time. When it finally rains, it doesn’t cool down anymore. It just gets unbearably humid. Temperatures at night don’t fall down below 28 after a few days.

Even worse. My living room, home office and kitchen are in full sunlight the whole afternoon. I can live in the dark, but the walls have a thick insulation. Insulation doesn’t deflect heat, it stores it and slows it down. It’s literally accumulating heat as soon as a single sun ray touches it. Once the heat creeps through, they stay hot and radiate for a week. You could ventilate all you want, you can’t fight the thermal mass of a wall heated through its core up to 45C.

Climate change transformed my mild-winters, warm-summer region into a rainy-winters, unbearably hot summers region in a few decades.

I don’t know yet if it is BIFL, but I’ve been cycling with a Stubble & Co rolltop pretty much everyday in any weather for the past couple of years and my stuff has always been bone dry, contrary to me.

Yeah nah I’m not replacing a device that will stop being supported in a few years by another device that will stop being supported in a few years. Besides, fuck nvidia.

At least you can pretend to Excel at something

Honestly, I don’t drink much anymore. I drank a lot as a student and I was youthful enough not to feel too many after effects.

But now… maybe once or twice a month tops. I’m mostly there for the taste now. I brew beer. I drink so little of it I end up giving away most of my bottles, or maybe sharing one with several friends on occasion. I love a good whiskey, but I’d rather buy an expensive bottle and let it last several years than powering through it or getting fucked up with cheap booze.

Truth is, I literally can’t stomach heavy drinking anymore. So now I more often than not stop when sufficiently buzzed or when my taste buds give up.