Is it just me, or do they only have the headset, replacement left controller, and replacement tether available? You can’t buy the entire kit?

Every woman I’ve worked with (in software engineering) has been excellent at her job, presumably because the ones who aren’t don’t last in the industry at all.

That looked too perfect so I worried it was AI, but then I enlarged the image and realized it was just 3D-printed.

Not to be confused with a Cuddlefish:

November 25? What’d they do, run a month behind schedule?

I am very concerned at the level of moron in the AI field.

That part, at least, is nothing new. There are two types of people in tech: “computer geeks” who were programming before it was cool, and get-rich-quick assholes who don’t give a shit but just hop on the latest trend. I have absolutely zero doubt that, even if the former type were the ones who made the generative AI breakthroughs, the companies marketing it to the masses are flooded with the latter.

Too bad smoking kills you way too slowly to stop them from doing plenty of damage in the interim.

We need to suggest to them a quicker destructive habit. AI-designed wingsuits for BASE jumping, maybe?

I’d like to know water and electricity usage too, but frankly, I’d rather have a separate smart flow meter and current sensor.

David Attenborough butting in: “That’s when they should have realized it, but did not. A fatal mistake.”

Okay Mr. Moneybags, with a house so big you can’t just hear the ding from the other end.

(I’m just kidding; even in my small house it’s possible to miss it when the laundry closet door is closed.)

Sentiment analysis on product reviews, I guess?

I had a Beelink Me Mini and a half dozen NVMEs in my cart around that time, but didn’t pull the trigger when the price started rising and now I’m kicking myself for it.

I would almost suggest some kind of system where you could set aside a certain amount of money, and it would donate automatically to all your installed packages, with some kind of weighting system I suppose.

Welp, now you know what Free Software project you should start!

I’m a Millennial, but my parents are Boomers. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

It’s the fault of the parents’ generation for electing Reagan and letting them do it.

My bad, Voyager didn’t refresh when I expected it to.

So, uh, are you going to edit your post again to fix it?

Whoever hosted it will absolutist from it

Your edit ____ a word.

what’s called Logithèque in French, and maybe Software manager (or “repository”) in English?

Sounds like the distribution’s “package manager,” or rather, one of the GUIs for it. (Not sure which one because I don’t know what distro you’re using).

In order to understand what things like “AppImage” and other types of “packages” are, I think it helps to know the history.

TL;DR:

Since GNU/Linux is a Free Software OS, in the beginning, everybody had to compile their software from source and manage the dependencies for it manually. This sucked, so Linux distributions started curating the software and “packaging” it to reference its dependencies (that’s why they’re called “distributions” in the first place, BTW). The package manager (e.g. Debian’s dpkg/APT and Red Hat’s RPM) can recursively check for and install all those correct dependencies before installing the program you actually asked it for.

But even that wasn’t good enough (apparently) because it happened on a per-distro basis and because (generally speaking) all the software on the system shared the same version of each dependency, so all the software had to be kept updated in lockstep. So now people have come up with systems like Flatpak and AppImage that are designed to work across distros, include the dependencies with the apps themselves so they aren’t shared with the rest of the system, and in some cases also run the program isolated in a container for better security.

Bottom line is, now there are several ways to install software, with various tradeoffs:

• Using your distro’s package manager: easy one-command install, integrates with the system
• Using a universal package, like Flatpak, AppImage, or Snap: easy one-command install, keeps the program relatively isolated from the rest of the system
• Compiling from source, the old way: complicated, but occasionally necessary in very niche cases, such as when the program is really obscure or when you actually want to take advantage of the whole “Free Software” thing and modify it yourself.

One last thing: GUIs for this stuff started out as interfaces for the distro’s package manager, but are increasingly designed to work with universal packages as well. With the command line it’s generally obvious what kind of package you’re installing (because you’re typing a different command entirely), but with the GUI you have to pay close attention if you actually care whether you’re installing a dpkg or a flatpak. Also, if you see an app listed twice, that’s probably the reason why.

my point is I can mask my online activity as well or better than anyone with endless funds

For now. But we’re not talking about the status quo; we’re talking about a future with comprehensive age verification schemes that render all your current masking tactics impossible or illegal.