A swallow, carrying a coconut?

James Williamson of the Stooges became an electrical engineer, working at AMD and then became VP of technical standards at Sony, most notably helping to codify the Blu-ray standard. If something’s going wrong on a spaceship odds are good that you’ll want an electrical engineer.

I haven’t played the Dreamcast since they were an active system, but if you already have the cables to get S-video into your monitor you’re probably fine with that. Technically component would be better, but I don’t know how noticeable the improvement would be. The main improvement would be in color, but S-video wasn’t bad. I would have to doublecheck if S-video supports progressive scan, but if you’re at SD resolution on a CRT I wouldn’t expect you to notice a difference between interlaced or progressive video. Interlaced video was made for CRTs and wasn’t actually bad there, never mind how we appreciate and prefer progressive video on modern flat screens.

It’s weird; I was like this up until I got married. My wife never said anything about it; she can also leave glasses around. Something just changed and I started bringing the old glass back to the kitchen in the morning. I rarely leave stuff in my car anymore, either.

I think “cooked” in the meaning you refer to has actually existed for decades longer than people saying “let him cook”

I have traveled 12% of a light year

Smaller than my fingertip

You don’t lock the doors of your house because you have something to hide, you lock it because you have valuable things you want to protect.

Your dad’s fear is not the government (whether or not it actually should be), but he should have a reasonable fear of criminals taking his money. Technology has made it easier than ever to be robbed but also created better locks than ever to fight the criminals.

For all the breathless enthusiasm from the author, I feel like he’s overselling a lot of the impacts:

For Chief Technology Officers and IT procurement managers, the viability of Linux on Apple Silicon introduces a complex variable. Historically, engineering teams demanding Linux were relegated to Dell XPS or Lenovo ThinkPad units, which, while capable, often trail Apple in battery efficiency and thermal management. If the M3 becomes a first-class citizen in the Linux ecosystem, organizations may face increased pressure to support Apple hardware for backend engineers and DevOps professionals who require native Linux environments rather than virtualization.

Corporate purchases typically purchase new products either direct from the manufacturer or from the authorized resale channel. The M3 was introduced over two years ago and the only products I see Apple still selling with the M3 architecture are the Mac Studio (M3 Ultra) and iPad Air (M3). So any IT manager looking to procure a MacBook for an employee would need to find new old stock still in resale channel inventory or purchase a second-hand device, all for something that the article admits is still in an alpha stage of usefulness.

The progress the Asahi project is making on Apple Silicon is fantastic and important, but I think it will primarily benefit private individuals, not businesses. Perhaps in the future as the developers become more adept at reverse engineering hardware and if Apple makes fewer changes between generations then Linux could start supporting active Apple products, but it’s not there yet.

With Apple putting M-series chips in iPads and Linux gaining support for those chips, I’ll be very curious to see if we start seeing more Linux tablet support for iPads.

When I was in college I worked a data entry job at an investment advisor firm. One of the financial planners had #8 as their setup.

I’m unsure if his response is more on the policing language side or more on the advisory, watch out, if you’re going to work for a government agency that is funded by politicians there’s a certain expectation for public decorum that has to be maintained so some congressman looking to score points doesn’t use you as a reason to cut funding. My guess, given he tried to help reinstate the internship, is that it was the latter.

It’s THE Homer Hickam?

A joke also used on Futurama

I have never heard of this project and it might suck up a lot of my time. How does this differ from making a virtual machine from old versions of Windows?

I believe I first played RollerCoaster Tycoon on Windows 98. I also got SimCity 2000 from GoG but it’s the DOS version and I feel like the Windows version looked better.

For things that actually used the 3D card, I used to enjoy Midtown Madness 2, Motocross Madness, and Need for Speed III, but that all might’ve been in my Windows 2000 days.

This seems like a good place to plug the small [email protected] community

Is this strictly Lemmy or does it include related platforms like PieFed and Mbin? Because it seems like there has been some shift to PieFed

I don’t know about any background services; it’s their cloud gaming service. It would be a benefit for the people who want to switch to Linux but have a game or two they want to play that can’t be run on Linux, because of things like kernel level anti-cheat or whatnot.

I’ll give a +1 to RadarScope; it’s by far the most useful radar app I’ve used. The only thing I’ve seen surpass it are desktop software, most of which is also paid like GRLevelX or products more oriented towards professional meteorologists (and most meteorologists I know from a past career in TV still seem to use RadarScope on their phones when they don’t have access to their more powerful software at work).

My wife accidentally upgraded her phone and is hating it

I had a G4 that I liked pretty well, until after about 18 months it inevitably stopped working well, like all my early Android handsets. My Pixel 2 was my first phone to make it to 3 years (although Google did have to do a warranty replacement 20 months in) and it was still good but stopped getting security updates. The Pixel 2 being good ironically lead me to iPhones. I looked at my stepdaughter using a 6-year-old phone that still got updates, still could easily get parts for repairs locally, and started to wonder why I was spending hundreds of dollars buying a new phone every couple years.