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New comment by abenga in "MiMo v2.6"

abenga — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:23:40 +0000

How long will it take to convince them that it is worth it to get into long-running relationships with the US. How long before another populist is elected who will rip up agreements for weird reasons and you have to renegotiate them?

New comment by abenga in "Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023"

abenga — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:06:55 +0000

Why does everyone assume that we're the ones keeping money under the mattress, not the ones who would have been paid by money otherwise not spent? All transactions have two sides, no?

New comment by abenga in "Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard"

abenga — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 10:52:18 +0000

If said copy paste behavior allows any app to snoop on any other apps' clipboard content without control, then it's been broken for decades.

New comment by abenga in "Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard"

abenga — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 06:49:16 +0000

It isn't though. For example, the very article we are discussing.

New comment by abenga in "LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'"

abenga — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 06:26:51 +0000

I.e. spend more money to do things the TV can perfectly well do. We should make the spying illegal so we can use the devices we buy to their full potential without being sold to advertisers. "Give money to this other company that may or may not also be collecting data and may also sell you out in the future" is a suboptimal solution.

New comment by abenga in "Nvidia is the central bank of AI"

abenga — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 06:06:15 +0000

This probably includes little silly games like Candy Crush, and (maybe) others that seem more like "paper" games like Sudoku, Wordle, Connections, etc. Many play those, especially the second bucket.

New comment by abenga in "Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory"

abenga — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:56:46 +0000

50K without a proper CPU, mind.

New comment by abenga in "Jellyfin 12.0"

abenga — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:28:00 +0000

My only beef with Jellyfind when I used it some time back was inability to resize subtitles, which were huge on a large TV. Could have been lack of knowledge on my part though.

New comment by abenga in "Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil"

abenga — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 03:06:41 +0000

You talk about it as if it's little cliques of students talking about each other in a cafeteria. It's not. It's a giant economy with a giant military that affects everyone's wellbeing.

New comment by abenga in "I Want a Wife (1971) [pdf]"

abenga — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 07:28:24 +0000

Get a surrogate maybe? Should tick many of the boxes you have listed.

New comment by abenga in "US diesel prices hit a record high of $5.85 on average"

abenga — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:59:59 +0000

Those others have far fewer externalities than burning diesel to move heavy trucks.

New comment by abenga in "EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws"

abenga — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:53:55 +0000

The hope is in a few more years, we'll not have a cult hell bent on accelerating the apocalypse in charge of the largest economy in the world, or are you guys planning something different?

New comment by abenga in "Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1"

abenga — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:12:14 +0000

Even xfce will one day move to Wayland.

New comment by abenga in "U.S. Debt Hits $40T as America's Borrowing Binge Continues"

abenga — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 07:48:20 +0000

A team of outsiders got carte blanche to find and kill waste in your government. How much did they find?

New comment by abenga in "Europe EV Sales BEVs Jump 50% & Reach 26% Market Share"

abenga — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 06:17:31 +0000

What's stopping the native companies from making EVs?

New comment by abenga in "Europe EV Sales BEVs Jump 50% & Reach 26% Market Share"

abenga — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 06:13:50 +0000

You are probably never starting from zero on workdays, are you?

New comment by abenga in "BMW Is Showing Commercials on Their Car's Dash Screens as a Treat"

abenga — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 07:39:33 +0000

What brands would you think younger people consider a luxury brand? They do make smaller and sportier cars, but 5-series and up, X5 and up, those seem firmly in the luxury car category to me.

New comment by abenga in "Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)"

abenga — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:33:44 +0000

People usually say "this tv show wouldn't be made today", and it is usually wrong. But this, this would never be assented to by many countries in today's global political climate.

New comment by abenga in "Good Tools Are Invisible"

abenga — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:04:16 +0000

I really don't understand what everyone does that gets in their way on Linux desktop. I install Debian and the packages I use, I open Gnome, I open the software I'm using, I do my work.

New comment by abenga in "Is The Economist Always Wrong?"

abenga — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:45:54 +0000

What should you read instead?