“It’s darkly ironic that AI is being pitched as essential to the future, when it is breathing life into some of the most pollutive technologies of our past.”
@steipete
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Owning Hardware: The Case for User Control and Custom Installation
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I rather pay more so I can install what I want on hardware I own.
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Windows Vista Criticism Comes Full Circle in Tech
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Remember when they made fun of that on Windows Vista? We came full circle.
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Portable AI Devices: Battery and Connectivity Limitations Remain
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Nah. That’s still an app. Still needs internet access and charging so who wants to carry yet another device.
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Apple’s Software Costs and Legal Compliance Strategy Questioned
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Where you buy doesn’t matter, it’s all software. The costs wouldn’t be so high if Apple wouldn’t try to circumvent the intent of the law.
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NVIDIA Go Streaming Achieves Sub-20ms Latency Performance
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NVIDIA Go streaming works really well and you can play anything with <20ms delay.
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Apple Faces Legal Enforcement in 2026
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Glad to see that they won’t let Apple weasel out of the law.
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Apple Intelligence Email Summaries Fail Users Accuracy
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“Apple Intelligence summaries are so bad. There have been so many situations when I was shocked or confused by the summary of an email or text and it’s because it was summarized incorrectly or unexpectedly.” https://
mjtsai.com/blog/2024/08/0
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Single Powerful Server Sufficient for Most Projects
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or just use one powerful server as most projects don’t need that kind of scaling.