It definitely is amongst the cleanest energy sources we have today, especially when the choice for most is either oil, coal or nuclear, the choice is easy. Hydro, solar or wind are often not viable because of climate or location reasons. Not to mention that all of these need to be built using concrete, that is not unique to nuclear. Also important is that hydro electricity also dramatically alters the area, killing many animals and moving many species out of their home.

It is very clean. The image below shows what 20 years worth of spent nuclear fuel looks like at the former Maine Yankee plant. This is way smaller than most supermarkets in north america, let alone their parking lots!

To be fair that would not necessarily be because of the blockchain part, more because of the decentralized/federated nature of this theorical network

One of the rare use cases of a blockchain actually being useful. A federated internet archive that uses a blockchain to validate that the saved data has not been altered by a malicious actor trying to tamper with proofs

That would be really cool but horribly inefficient because of the sheer amount of storage required

The bigger reason is that most sites use Google AdSense for showing user ads. Most SEO bullshit sites are basically just empty content as a pretext to show said AdSense ads. Google will rank up these websites because they directly make them money via the revenue cut they take. Simple as that.

This could actually make Samsung dex/desktop mode actually useful

Not like they don’t have my address: I paid for it with my credit/debit card. They could also make it an opt in feature that customizes the results to be actually more relevant to ME (instead of more relevant to Googles interests). But in the end I still think 10$ a month for a sub par experience is too hard to swallow for me, especially because I found it to load quite a bit slower than Google or duckduckgo. I’m very picky with subscriptions and only subscribe when I feel I am not getting ripped off, like Bitwarden or Proton

I quite liked Kahi when I tried it, but it lacked several Google features that truly make is easier to use. For example on google I can search for a restaurant, and even if it has a common name, it will find the one that is the most relevant to me, and it will also show me a phone number, reviews and pictures etc. I also found that mixed language results are kinda bad, like when searching for something in a language, and then something else in another language, it really prefers having a single language set in the settings. For that, I felt it was a bit expensive for also taking a feature cut. So I went back to google. Luckily in Canada we don’t have the AI search summary bullshit yet so there’s that.

I wouldn’t recommend aeon, a beta Linux distro that doesn’t work for Nvidia GPUs at the moment as someone looking for something stable. Silver Blue is great though

Not based, but reasonable. Discord didn’t want to comply to data requests

Recall is malware, at least according to Malwarebytes!

Malware, or “malicious software,” is an umbrella term that refers to any malicious program or code that is harmful to systems.

The companies will do anything to make having the ai capacities built locally an acceptable thing via “cool” features like this or apples, and I think it is because once the devices can do the processing locally, it allows them to stop processing it themselves on their servers. This will also allow them to use microphone and why not camera data as additional data points without having to send and process the actual microphone data. The only local software is open source AI implementations that are being used by FOSS applications, with no network access.

To me this isn’t about shareholder value and buzzwords, this is just the excuse to shove it into the OS. It’s a more long term game they are playing: the one of reducing their costs and improving the value/accuracy of the data that they get, since it will be pre-digested 100% locally in the background, which is not limited by network latency and bandwidth.

Hundreds of thousands of users??

This is mostly down to the drivers, and I am sure they will be much improved in the next few months, their driver is still very young and hopefully has lots of room for further improvement

The cpus I’m talking about have released about a month ago, but until very recently AMD were the only good options for handhelds

So they will have the same judgement for apple right?? And not the same bullshit excuse that since it’s even more locked down it’s okay for them to do it?

Intel have shown signs of catching up by putting out a better iGPU than AMD’s latest and greatest for laptop chips in certain games and most compute tasks. They’ve also put out one of the best laptop chips last month, they consume next to nothing while still having decent performance but go on I guess

Let’s hope Asahi linux becomes usable enough as a daily driver before the M series laptops stop getting updates

Fear mongering articles making it seem like they are doomed and will go bankrupt after bad quarterly results were announced. Articles were probably sponsored by rich people wanting to buy Intel stock for cheap. But they won’t go bankrupt because the US gov./army need Intel to stay relevant against China, and Intel is basically the only American company that both designs and fabs their own processors and that is still relevant.

That and the fact that Nvidia is over valued (they are valued at 30x the value of their assets).

Not really anymore. They make them expensive to repair, but they also don’t want you to switch to another brand, because for them a user in the ecosystem purchasing apps and subscriptions is worth way more than a frustrated user purchasing a one time display replacement. Their whole strategy now (for a few years really) is to make devices that last at minimum 5 years, because it makes the user happy that their 5yo phone still works, and that means they are likely to get another iPhone, and because as long as the user is in the ecosystem, they are making money by taking their cut of everything that happens on the device