Unfortunately boring distributions don’t get recommended because users of boring distributions don’t bother commenting on distribution discussions.

And it’s really unfortunate that obscure distributions have more vocal fans, because boring distributions are much better for beginners.

Don’t try zsh, because you won’t be able to go back to bash after that 😉

You don’t need Windows for gaming.

Sure, some games only work on Windows but some only work on Switch or PS5 and you can still play video games without playing those in particular.

Yes, on the licensing front RISC-V is better.

How can you have a preference if you don’t understand?

It’s neither. It’s a specification that you can use to build your own chip.

So it’s more like MPEG where you can read the doc and create your own implementation.

No it’s not, anyone can get a license to create an ARM chipset but you do need to pay for a license.

There is xreal, nreal, rokid… Plenty of manufacturers to pick with, and you can spare money for a regular laptop.

It’s a bad idea because you can get a regular laptop and AR glasses just as light as those. Check nreal, rokid…

This way you can use the laptop as a regular laptop and the glasses with other devices.

It’s just because it’s the most used in this case

The population in rural areas is so low that no matter how you induce demand, it won’t work.

Obviously if the pods take 2h to arrive it’s not worth it

OK, it’s 2pm. With this system, you call a pod and ride it. With a rural train, you check the schedule and see that the next train is at 5pm. And you have to plan your trip back as well. Great, time to take your car.

And you might say “let’s have trains run at least once per hour then”. That means running empty trains all day, not sure it’s the best way to spend public money.

Trains suck if you don’t have frequency, and because of the population density with a good frequency more than half of the trains will be completely empty and the rest almost empty.

Especially considering that Slashdot stopped being relevant, maybe… 20 years ago?

Simply be mindful of our energy usage, and not just rely on decarbonization. We need both because decarbonization will not happen overnight.

Historically, worldwide our production of renewable have kept growing, the percentage have been growing, but fossil fuels usage have also kept growing.

Now we get a new technology that is using even more energy, maybe we should work on energy efficiency and use that tech sparingly instead of building more data centers so incels can get their voice chat AI girlfriend, and say “we’ll just install more solar panels and windmills”.

I agree that the article is a bit confusing, but we can’t keep increasing energy consumption and hope decarbonization will fix it.

From an environmental point of view energy is never free. Also as long as we still use fossil fuels, any new usage of renewable (e.g. run AI on solar panels) is energy that could have been use to replace fossil usage.

Reading the article, it’s not the content that caused the ban but sharing it to too many people (her beta readers) she was seen as a spammer.

It’s slow and you depend on the wind blowing.

If sails were that great we would still be using them for freight, we didn’t switch to petroleum for the fun of it. Environmental issues put aside it’s a pretty great source of energy.

Well there is a reason we stopped using those.