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Re:Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews' on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:55PM (#50307681)
Thunderbird Pro could be an option.
“Learn to code” but for white-collar workers. It was callous to say this to blue-collar workers and it’s callous to say it here too.
Re:Thunderbird for iOS on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:07PM (#50073955)
They have a paid email service now. This is likely for that and for other users who want a thunderbird-based, free e-mail client.
Re:Nvidia RTX Spark on Monday June 01, 2026 @02:01AM (#48353138)
I really like this, but I think the reason Apple Silicon took off was that Apple sort of forced devs to support ARM. Not sure if Microsoft can do the same for Windows…
Re:Robert Mueller Has Died on Saturday March 21, 2026 @04:03PM (#47470727)
Yes you are right. I forgot the original report never became public.
Re:Robert Mueller Has Died on Saturday March 21, 2026 @03:24PM (#47470372)
Didn’t he find no connections for Russiagate? Why is he so mad at him?

Edit: I’m being sincere with this question. I didn’t think he had a beef with Mueller and forgot the original report was never made public.

Re:I switched from VSCode to Zed on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @09:46AM (#46526931)
Thank you! I’ll look into this!
Re:I switched from VSCode to Zed on Monday January 05, 2026 @09:47AM (#46499339)
I really love Zed, but my only issue is the Emacs keybindings they ship doesn’t seem to work as well as the VSCode Emacs extensions. Hopefully they can fix this in newer updates.
Re:AI Integration Is Coming to Firefox on Friday July 12, 2024 @11:31AM (#40946498)
This is Opt-In. People really need to cool it with the Firefox hate.
Looks like by next LTS (for kernel 6.10 and 6.11) we'll have some good support for these chips. I wonder if any OEMs will make any Linux laptops for us to buy.
Re:NHTSA Tesla Report (2024) [pdf] on Saturday April 27, 2024 @10:14AM (#40180116)
I think he means 18% of crashes that the police report have an airbag deployment.
I believe the MLX examples allow for it. Seems like a general purpose framework rather than a Mac specific one.
The difference is 0.2%. Honestly thought the difference would be much higher. I'll need to read the actual paper to get whether they found this statistically significant.
Cheaper subscriptions if there is no Apple tax.

Not defending web apps or anything, but sometimes the way to a customer is through their wallet.

Re:Sora: Creating video from text on Thursday February 15, 2024 @01:23PM (#39386279)
These samples look pretty amazing. I'm curious the compute required to train and even deploy something like this. How would it scale to making something like a CGI Pixar movie?
Re:Niagara Launcher on Saturday February 10, 2024 @03:36PM (#39329971)
Honestly it's the one thing I don't miss about Android. I always felt compelled to tinker with things a lot more than I should've.
Was thinking the same thing when I pre-ordered mine. Would be interesting to see what they let us do with the device.
Re:Elon Musk's X removes New York Times' verification badge on Thursday October 19, 2023 @05:33PM (#37949022)
iirc journalists are not allowed into Gaza and have been stuck at the border.
My hope is that framework will make a mainboard for this. I would really love to try ARM on a laptop without having to get a Mac (even though they are great devices!)
Re:Press Reviews of the AMD Ryzen 7040 Framework Laptop 13 on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @10:41PM (#37760236)
The 12th Gen I think was worse in terms of fan noise than the 11th.
Re:The Data Science Manifesto (2020) on Sunday September 17, 2023 @04:39PM (#37549077)
I think it needs a more memorable intro. It's a manifesto! It should express more emotion if you are issuing proclamations like this otherwise you are just giving bullet points.
Re:Framework Laptop 16 pre-orders are now open on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @01:44PM (#36776469)
No worries habibi. Your post isn't snarky and I get where you are coming from with what you wrote. I was more commenting on my expectations of the price given that this is a (relatively) new company on a larger form factor that has a lot of interchangeable parts, external GPU, etc.

This laptop isn't personally for me but I can see why people would like it. Also my workflow requires a lot of GUI applications for simulating and visualizing robotic movement and that is incredibly hard with ChromeOS or macOS.

Re:Framework Laptop 16 pre-orders are now open on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @12:20PM (#36774980)
Yeah I was just referring to default prices. The only one I modified was the comparison to the Overkill system because the base Apple configuration does not have 32GB of RAM and 1TB SSD.
Re:Framework Laptop 16 pre-orders are now open on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @11:59AM (#36774581)
Honestly, it was much cheaper than I had assumed it would be. A pre-built "performance" version starts at $1,699 (Ryzen 7 7840HS) with 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD. Compare that to the entry 16 inch MacBook Pro at $2499.

The "overkill" system with a Ryzen 9 7940HS, 32GB RAM and 1TB SSD is $2099. A pseudo comparison to the 16 inch MacBook Pro with M2 Pro, 32GB RAM and a 1TB SSD is $3099.

Also these systems are cheaper if done DIY and no Windows tax. Framework really might have a winner if this system can live up to their promises.

The verge also has a deep dive into the system https://www.theverge.com/22665800/framework-laptop-16-hands-...

Re:Framework Laptop 16 pre-orders are now open on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @11:02AM (#36773583)
Honestly, it was much cheaper than I had assumed it would be. A pre-built "performance" version starts at $1,699 (Ryzen 7 7840HS) with 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD. Compare that to the entry 16 inch MacBook Pro at $2499.

The "overkill" system with a Ryzen 9 7940HS, 32GB RAM and 1TB SSD is $2099. A pseudo comparison to the 16 inch MacBook Pro with M2 Pro, 32GB RAM and a 1TB SSD is $3099.

Also these systems are cheaper if done DIY and no Windows tax. Framework really might have a winner if this system can live up to their promises.

EDIT: The verge also has a deep dive into the system https://www.theverge.com/22665800/framework-laptop-16-hands-...

Re:How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops (2020) on Saturday July 08, 2023 @04:10PM (#36648229)
Yeah I would suggest you do this instead of keeping it in the cupboard. Lots of people looking to pick one up for cheap.
It's a pain in Apple Photos that continually nags you about running out of space or buying more. They also have persistent notification badges for settings if you don't turn on iCloud.

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