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New comment by pelorat in "Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK"

pelorat — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:57:19 +0000

Yes of course, but you need to do it via the package manager. You can't "sudo make install". If you build your own software and want to install it system wide, you need to flatpack/brew it or run it in a docker container.

(obviously you can modify the filesystem if you really really really want to).

Bazzite is gaming oriented version of Fedora CoreOs. There are many different versions. I am running bluefin.

I've tried a lot of desktop linux distros, and to be honest, immutable linux feels like the future. Anything you do can simply be rolled back. Break something? Just roll it back.

And if you run something like Bazzite, but want to try out Bluefin-Dx which is developer oriented, then you can rebase your existing installation. If you don't like it, just revert back to Bazzite with a single command.

However, it's desktop oriented. Don't run CoreOs on a server.

New comment by pelorat in "Grok 4.5"

pelorat — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:18:54 +0000

xAI is under criminal investigation in the EU

New comment by pelorat in "The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting"

pelorat — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:12:43 +0000

AIPAC is more than a PAC. Mossad involvement is all but guaranteed.

New comment by pelorat in "Rocketlab acquires Iridium"

pelorat — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:55:57 +0000

I like RocketLab. Looking forward to Neutron etc. But this is a bad investment, no other way to put it.

New comment by pelorat in "Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)"

pelorat — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:24:49 +0000

It's a decent game, but not a good 1v1 game. Fun to watch the massive 100+ player brawls though.

New comment by pelorat in "Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good"

pelorat — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:33:47 +0000

Personally? Yes (and I hate it).

Autocomplete of entire functions and methods. Nice, but also really boring. Takes the fun out it. It's all about fixing sup-par code now, a line here or there.

It's just boring. I tried writing some code by hand today after a few months hardly thinking about things and it was really hard to do even the simplest stuff.

New comment by pelorat in "Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?"

pelorat — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:35:53 +0000

The fighter jet program was a jobs program, not dissimilar to how many US government programs are jobs programs by having different parts of it made in different states for no goo reason. Add in some nationalism and it was inevitable it would not work out.

New comment by pelorat in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

pelorat — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:58:44 +0000

Sure, in Europe we don't because we already have databases of all citizens, also recording attributes like race, skin color, religious affiliation or political leaning in a database is highly illegal, both for the government and for private use.

New comment by pelorat in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

pelorat — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:40:23 +0000

Of course it is, the USA is under the control of a petty toddler that demands absolute loyalty, not to the country, but him personally.

New comment by pelorat in "Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe"

pelorat — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 08:35:29 +0000

Like the USA, I don't think Russia codifies treaties into law. Like in the USA, treaties for Russia are mere suggestions used as a geopolitical tool until inconvenient.

New comment by pelorat in "Google's Antigravity bait and switch"

pelorat — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:25:14 +0000

Depends on the language. Gemini and Claude are far superior when it comes to C# for instance, compared to anything that OAI offers.

New comment by pelorat in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

pelorat — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:50:28 +0000

pretty much

New comment by pelorat in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

pelorat — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:49:19 +0000

"Satan" as in the original meaning of the word "adversary of god". They are not calling you Satan as a way to say evil, but as a way to say "adversary of our faith".

New comment by pelorat in "China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus"

pelorat — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:35:52 +0000

> which is way easier for ethnic Chinese people than for other races

Nationals. The word you are looking for is nationals.

New comment by pelorat in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"

pelorat — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:07:40 +0000

Thought traces are indeed not an accurate representation of what models actually do. If you ask an AI model to add two values it will do so, then in the next prompt ask it to explain the algorithm it used, it will regurgitate that it used some standard textbook method, whilst in reality it used a completely different algorithm. Thinking LLMs don't record the neural pathways they used.

New comment by pelorat in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"

pelorat — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:00:11 +0000

For that you would need Gemini Ultra

New comment by pelorat in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

pelorat — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 08:47:29 +0000

In the case of the military I'd say the real reason is political. After the fall of the Berlin wall, Europe collectively agreed (knowingly or not) that war is now a thing of the past and the goal should be the complete dismantling of militaries worldwide, starting with Europe. Lead by example, etc.

New comment by pelorat in "DeepSeek v4"

pelorat — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 21:15:48 +0000

USA invoked article 5.

New comment by pelorat in "The Palantir's Stasi Protocols"

pelorat — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:21:14 +0000

Palantir is an evil pro-technocracy, anti-democratic company run my an actual fascist that wants to divide up the world into masters and slaves?

New comment by pelorat in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

pelorat — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:17:47 +0000

This is how every website used to be run before everyone fell four the cloud trap.