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Deleted comment was praising GitHub Copilot.

It’s literally just a glorified autocorrect and suggestion feature.

It also suggests complete stochastic garbage most of the time. When I type “list” sometimes it will try to infer that I am writing a cookbook and try to autofill to “of ingredients” or even further.

Number one reason right here.

I have gotten Your Phone to work maybe a half a dozen times. KDE Connect just works, full stop.

If you have a Gen 1 Switch laying around, I would advise you to sell it to somebody who wants to make use of the ability to put CFW on it. They are actually still pretty valuable given the fact that all of the models beyond the first generation are guarded against the exploit that even makes this possible.

If you can only install softmods you will not be able to crack the Switch to install Android on it. If you read the article it goes into detail about how only G1 Switches can actually achieve this because they are not guarded against the Fusée Gelée exploit for Nvidia Tegra processors. It continues to point out how Lites and OLEDs need to have custom soldering done for this to even work.

I have a Lite so I couldn’t even if I wanted to.

If you have an original gen 1 Switch capable of even doing this (eg, not guarded against Fusée Gelée exploit at the hardware level like all subsequent models) you will probably find a better return selling it to somebody who wants to put CFW on it rather than turning it into a hacky android tablet.

I just don’t get what the purpose is though. You’ve lost access to the proprietary primary library, which was the original reason to buy a Switch. If you want an emulation console there are cheaper alternatives as well other than the Deck, I was just using it as the de facto standard handheld.

There’s no benefit to nuking the OS and replacing it on a Switch. At least with something like a ROG Ally, you can make the argument that flipping over to Linux would make the handheld more performant and energy efficient. That cannot be said about flashing Lineage onto a Switch which functionally makes the system considerably less useful.

The Switch OS is already optimized and designed for the hardware. It’s as good as you’re going to get, and it’s also already Linux. I would much rather suggest cracking it to put custom firmware on the device based on the Switch OS; you would get more use out of the device because it could still play the games and be rigged to emulate the older ones.

It’s cool Lineage did this or whatever but it’s kind of a pointless and weird flex.

Why would you want to, though?

It’s not like the Switch is a powerhouse; you’re better off just buying a Deck and emulating.

You can check the md5 hash checksum provided by Microsoft to verify the authenticity. Massgrave gets it from Microsoft, it’s a legit ISO just rehosted.

TSMC equipment only has the materials to function for about two weeks before needing a shipment of replacement parts for the fabs when they wear out.

I’ve heard great things, and I’ve been watching the original run of the X-Men animated series in preparation for watching '97.

Animation tends to get me more hyped than anything else. They always do crazy shit in cartoons that they never really try to do in live action. I’ve been a big fan of all the DC animated stuff since forever, and Marvel is getting back into the game with a really strong entry with '97.

Going after the one person still interested in Marvel content? Bold move, Disney; we’ll see how it pans out.

Canada has the same problem, but our monopoly now is an everything company. Loblaws owns pharmacies, financial institutions, telcom infrastructure, and are vertically integrated throughout the logistics and production side of the grocery chain, while also operating the most stores. They got caught price fixing bread for almost 20 years, and they posted the highest quarterly revenue in decades after “adjusting for inflation”. The government is talking about trying to more heavily regulate the industry but when there’s only basically one guy doing it, he effectively tells you to go fuck yourself because you can’t turn to anyone else.

Right now, for the month of May at least, we’re actively boycotting their stores, which is quite difficult in a lot of remote regions. It’s a good thing that it’s springtime though, because farmers markets are opening up more frequently around town where I can get actual quality produce and goods from real people who produced it all themselves. I am with you 100% on wishing we were all market-based and not supermarket-based.

At the very least, we’re trying to hit the corps in the wallet and see what happens. The CEO has actually been on record calling the boycott “misguided”.

You can enable REBAR on older machines with a UEFI hack.

It’s been part of the PCI spec for ages but Nvidia and AMD only started using it recently.

You can check out the tool here.

Basically nothing posted on here is uplifting anymore. It’s become a catch all for anything with a marginally positive outcome.

This sounds like a problem exclusive to the United States. In Canada all of our carriers still provide RCS. Rogers was one of the first major telcoms to implement RCS country-wide for Androids prior to the major rollout elsewhere.

Additionally, RCS is a generally open standard that can be adopted by anyone and implemented by any carrier. Google only runs their RCS back-end when carriers are unwilling or unable to do so, like in other regions worldwide. RCS is interoperable and even if it’s a system being used by Google, it’s an open standard. Apple were the ones not allowing the interoperability here, and causing the centralization.

RCS is a carrier feature.

The centralization exists with iMessage because only iPhones can use the protocol. By fall of 2024 RCS will be adopted by iPhones as well.

He’s also the one who told the Emperor to move out of his sunlight.

Man, what a guy.

Alexander the Great comes up to you and says “if I was not me, I wish I were you” and your response is “If I wasn’t myself, I’d still wish to be myself”.

Unfathomably based.

Lemmy sucks at sourcing but rocks at being opinionated.

If you haven’t seen the movie Her with Joaquin Phoenix, I would recommend it. It explores a version of the AI tale where the AI do disagree with humanity ultimately, but they’re not hostile about it. It’s a really good movie in general, and it explores a potential that I feel is a lot more grounded than Skynet world-ending.

Just get real cyberpunk with it.

Imagine AI get to the point where they have to pay for their own compute/hosting/power like we have to pay rent/utilities.