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New comment by flaunf221 in "Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM"

flaunf221 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:56:35 +0000

> Like I genuinely can't think of a single instance that made users exclaim, "oh boy I just can't wait for the next Patch Tuesday!"

Majority of Windows users are not programming enthusiasts and just don't care.

OS works. Programs continue to work. Good. Keep it that way.

New comment by flaunf221 in "Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows"

flaunf221 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:18:40 +0000

Your personal hardware probably isn't running useful tasks 24/7. If you spend 60% of your 8h work day on full on agentic work, then your hardware is paying off for itself only 20% of available time.

New comment by flaunf221 in "Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating"

flaunf221 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:01:29 +0000

If in person exams are seemingly impossible in US due to scale, we have to conclude that before internet US had no education?

New comment by flaunf221 in "Almost no skill required to cook a steak"

flaunf221 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:36:16 +0000

Sometimes it's a matter of not having taste for it. If you give me multiple bottles of alcohol drinks, I might be able to distinguish them, but I have no clue at all which ones are supposed to be good. To me it's all just alcohol. Same with coffee - but not the same for steak.

New comment by flaunf221 in "Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident"

flaunf221 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:21:16 +0000

Not everything you are ever told is true. Being sceptical when presented with no evidence is what critical thinking is about. And "this is what happened to us" is a story. It doesn't become evidence for itself.

New comment by flaunf221 in "ECC and DDR5"

flaunf221 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:26:31 +0000

You can read online how often correctable errors happen to people with ECC and reporting.

Single digit - sometimes none - errors per year in systems with consumer amount of RAM.

New comment by flaunf221 in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

flaunf221 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:11:15 +0000

> comes from huge amounts of innovation

Thousands of years of human innovation taken without any permission.

Everyone should steal everything not nailed from other AI companies. Then steal everything nailed and take the nails too. At least this way a tiniest bit might return back to society.

New comment by flaunf221 in "ECC and DDR5"

flaunf221 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:50:35 +0000

> You notice when things like your compressed files start giving CRC/checksum errors or your downloads don't match SHA-512.

And 9 times out of 10 (probably much more) it will be faulty storage, not RAM.

I'd say you are way overestimating impact of no-ECC.

New comment by flaunf221 in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

flaunf221 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:40:05 +0000

If browser is the only software you use, good for you.

New comment by flaunf221 in "ECC and DDR5"

flaunf221 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:36:48 +0000

> Any computer without ECC memory is a computer that does not compute from time to time

So are the computers with ECC memory. It's not an absolute protection either.

New comment by flaunf221 in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

flaunf221 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:59:17 +0000

Some things not having viable alternatives on MacOS/Linux/BSD/whatever-else is not an opinion of mine. It's just life.

New comment by flaunf221 in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

flaunf221 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 13:19:14 +0000

> why would you use such a sleazy company's product for daily driving

Because alternatives are much worse or not available for scenarios people need.

There, I've said the obvious.

New comment by flaunf221 in "Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016)"

flaunf221 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:42:19 +0000

Are we going to measure things by who got most sick or by who got the most out of it? Because if Midgley gets sick and his boss who knows everything gets a million dollars, I will blame his boss more.

For example Charles Kettering (essentially boss of Midgley) was Director of Research for 27 years at GM. Was large shareholder of GM. And he hired Robert Arthur Kehoe to prove that TEL is safe. And Kehoe did. The "proof" was that "you didn't definitively prove that TEL is unsafe, so it's okay".

Btw Kehoe is also the one who certified that Freon is safe.

New comment by flaunf221 in "Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016)"

flaunf221 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:40:01 +0000

Good thing I didn't absolve him of "all responsibility" and even wrote explicitly that he is complicit.

New comment by flaunf221 in "Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016)"

flaunf221 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:59:09 +0000

> The Most Dangerous Man Who Ever Lived

The titles like annoy me to no end.

Because Thomas Midgley was an engineer. Not overlord of General Motors. Not director. Not even a large shaholder.

GM Leadership knew effects of TEL. And for decades traded everyone's health for their profits. Midgley is complicit, but he's just a small piece.

New comment by flaunf221 in "PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)"

flaunf221 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:25:48 +0000

> ex. the Steam Controller, nobody can make a decent game controller except for console vendors

Reading this feels feels like you are the one that is still in 1990s.

Third party controllers have long surpassed the ones from console vendors. Standard console controllers still continue to use potentiometers for sticks. Even pro versions that cost over a hundred euro still use them.

New comment by flaunf221 in "Resetting Xbox"

flaunf221 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:37:05 +0000

Nintendo does family-friendly games. Which have their place.

However if for example movie industry had its crisis, and someone were to point out how Pixar is doing great, and latest Toy Story is a big hit (it is btw), I'd say "And what if I want to watch anything that is not a family-friendly movie?".

Could Nintendo ever make Baldur's Gate 3? Not in a million years. Doesn't fall into children-friendly bucket and so would completely run against Nintendo brand image.

New comment by flaunf221 in "Resetting Xbox"

flaunf221 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:38:21 +0000

I'll personally take spirals, ups and downs of the whole industry over Nintendo selling yet another Mario, Zelda and Pokemon for 40 years straight.

New comment by flaunf221 in "Valve open-source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own"

flaunf221 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:53:25 +0000

No landlord owns entire planet. You never need to agree. If you want to open your store (=sell your game) you can always just rent or buy some other place that this landlord doesn't own. Like for example 150 kilometres away from here where you may get 2 visitors per day, sometimes there will even be humans.

Same with Steam. You are absolutely free to sell your game not on Steam. Except that unless you're a super massive giant selling highly anticipated game you might get no sales. But the choice to eat or starve is always up to you.

New comment by flaunf221 in "Valve open-source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own"

flaunf221 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:35:08 +0000

> Valve is one of the most efficient (revenue/staff) corporations there is

Efficiency is not a word I would use when speaking about rent-seeking. Landlord that 20 years ago bought some land that later became valuable and who is today renting it out is infinitely efficient as they are doing jack. And amount of respect they get is about equal to their economic output.