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New comment by koutakun in "Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE"

koutakun — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:35:28 +0000

Funny comparison seeing as Windows decided to drop support for any machines without TPM (some as young as 2017/2018)

New comment by koutakun in "Mozilla's opposition to Chrome's Prompt API"

koutakun — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:32:38 +0000

>Right and that means people have to send their data to an external service.

Nothing in this proposal claims it has to be a local AI. That just happens to be the implementation by Chrome and Edge (for now at least, I'd imagine Google will eventually start moving this API towards hosted Gemini).

New comment by koutakun in "Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989"

koutakun — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:03:15 +0000

> You need something beefy if you're serious/professional about those

But you can get way better results with the lowest end computers than you could years ago. Back in the 90s my grandfather used 3DS Max to map out his future apartment's rooms and start planning furniture, using renders to get an idea of how sunshine would look like at different times, etc. At the time, he did this on an expensive 486 that would take an entire day to render some of those visuals. Nowadays I can do the same with a free copy of Blender and any reasonably modern integrated GPU in probably under an hour.

New comment by koutakun in "Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age"

koutakun — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:41:19 +0000

If you were a real one you would run BSD on the desktop and Gentoo on the server

New comment by koutakun in "ArcaOS 5.1.2 (based on OS/2 Warp 4.52) now available"

koutakun — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:22:04 +0000

And have an unstable base for the supposed commercial applications they sell to?

New comment by koutakun in "ArcaOS 5.1.2 (based on OS/2 Warp 4.52) now available"

koutakun — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:51:08 +0000

Who is the target audience for this? I can't imagine that many modern applications support OS/2 the way that they support e.g. MorphOS, and $139 is a steep price for a borderline useless OS that doesn't have a community like the Amiga-derived OSes do.

New comment by koutakun in "Giving up upstream-ing my patches and feel free to pick them up"

koutakun — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 23:49:41 +0000

>I refuse to use grub because I know I'll never get bugs fixed since oracle claims ownership of the repo there as well.

Wait what? Source on this? GRUB is supposed to be a GNU Project, I would've thought they'd rather die than accept any sort of Oracle ownership of it.