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New comment by PygmySurfer in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

PygmySurfer — Sat, 16 May 2026 21:03:32 +0000

The festering disease is the United States of America, not the IRGC.

New comment by PygmySurfer in "Disappointing Phones"

PygmySurfer — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 01:13:41 +0000

“Size: They have a "mini" phone, which lives up to its name!”

Yeah, about that…

New comment by PygmySurfer in "Canadians promised to boycott travel to US. They meant it"

PygmySurfer — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:55:19 +0000

It saves you the hassle of going through customs when you land at your destination.

New comment by PygmySurfer in "GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor"

PygmySurfer — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:11:31 +0000

Mah-tay

New comment by PygmySurfer in "Intel will start making GPUs"

PygmySurfer — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:12:04 +0000

My first thought was also “ARC isn’t a GPU?”. Pretty awful “reporting” here, they should have clarified TSMC is currently manufacturing Intel GPUs, and Intel will start doing it themselves.

New comment by PygmySurfer in "Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3"

PygmySurfer — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:16:06 +0000

> It sounds like a great idea, then a government shut down happens.

How about fixing the government so it can’t be shut down because a few hundred politicians can’t agree on the next budget?

New comment by PygmySurfer in "The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar"

PygmySurfer — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:49:31 +0000

I was there, too, and I remember all of the FUD from MS. I remember the Halloween documents, MS funding SCO’s lawsuit, etc. MS saw Linux as a threat, especially in the server space. The goal was to stomp it out, like they did to Netscape.