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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • I think we all thought that tbh. Intel let their hubris get them and this is the result.

    They don’t have innovation anymore, I don’t know what they’re doing and I don’t think they do either.

    I wish AMD would catch up in the GPU side of things so it wasn’t such a monopoly with NVIDIA but I guess we’ll see, I mean they did knock Intel down eventually so who knows maybe it’s possible.

    That would have gone truly horrible if AMD did go bankrupt, that would have been a really dark timeline for all of us.








  • I think a lot of the future of social media is going to be determined by ease of use/beginner-friendliness.

    The issue (and strength) with Lemmy is there’s multiple instances. You’re not gonna be able to explain it to non-technical people, even as an experienced programmer myself I sometimes find myself getting confused by Lemmy. People don’t want to learn, they just want to use something that works.

    Then again, KBin only had the one instance pretty much I think, and yet that died out anyway. So I think part of it is people just want to go where everyone else is, and that did end up being Lemmy and not KBin (although the maintainer of KBin also refused outside contributions which helped seal its fate lol)

    If Bluesky has the one instance, and you literally just go to bsky.app and sign up, that’s going to be a lot easier than trying to sell people on Mastodon or Lemmy when they Google those. Then again, I just googled Mastodon and it took me right to Mastodon.social so maybe I am mistaken.


  • I use Ubuntu because it’s the most popular and well-supported.

    I’m going to be switching to Mint at some point because it’s basically a community-run fork of Ubuntu and I don’t trust Canonical anymore, but it’s hard to justify installing my OS from scratch considering I’ve been using Ubuntu since 2017.

    I recently ordered a Thinkpad T14 Gen1 with an R7 4750U, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD and you better believe I’m going to be putting Mint on that as soon as I get it.