They’re specifically trying to emulate food people know (like burger patties). In that context, I think versioning makes sense: “this is our 1st attempt, our second is closer, our third is…”

And it’s something you buy if you specifically want emulation.

You aren’t wrong: direct, less processed diets are better. I’m just saying that this food is for a more narrow purpose.

Partially configured some parts via LLM but please don’t crucify me for that.

Slap in a spare GPU, and self-host one!

The 30B-class models are unbelievably good now, for being so small. They’re kinda where Claude was like a year ago, if not less. And (with the right backend) they aren’t expensive to host.

Briefly, Beyond Burger burger patties were cheaper in a (U.S.) Costco than the equivalent Morton’s patties.

It got me to try their v3 forumula… and its actually really good. You have to grill the snot out of it, but it’s good.

V2 was awful. And so salty it made my skin tingle.

V3 is like night and day.

There’s so much good advice here.

On the other hand, sometimes problems solve themselves if you wait. I wanted to find a way to add text extraction to the screenshot utility in KDE Plasma — a feature I missed from other operating systems. The solution was to wait a week until Cachy updated to Plasma 6.6, which added that feature.

Preach.

“Wait a week until its fixed” has saved me from screwing up my own CachyOS install, even if I identify the issue well enough.

But if my browser in Linux can’t find my webcam mic because I installed EasyEffects without bothering to read the docs, brother, that’s on me.

YES.

Distros like this are pretty great out-of-the-box. If you start installing stuff from the AUR and things break, that is your fault, as now you are the system maintainer.

Take the benchmarks with a grain of salt.

…And even then, performance differences like that can feel trivial on modern desktops.

But yes. Even in some real world situations of mine (like text boxes with 50K+ words), I find FF extensions really bog it down.

Adding to what others said:

Mobile browsers are very performance sensitive, compared to desktop. Adblocking extensions (in my experience) slurp battery, but native implementations use much less, hence other mobile-focused browsers (like Orion and Cromite) already tend to use native adblockers.

But it probably doesn’t matter as much on desktop.

The title is misleading. It’s using Brave’s open library without any of Brave’s nonsense.

This is fine. It’s like how Cromite lifted ABP, or Helium ships UBO themselves.

“With search ads enabled by default” just means it’s whitelisting StartPage’s minimal text-only ads. That kind of whitelisting is what I try to configure anyway.

Anyone here (who’s ADHD) ever had the sudden realization:

“Oh… my parent is definitely ADHD. That explains a lot.”

Mine was a few years ago.

Or Artix. Or many others!

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch-based_distributions

I guess there’s a need to maintain existing systems, but I struggle to imagine a niche where recommending Manjaro to a “distro shopping” user makes sense.

I am open to criticism here… but when’s the last time y’all saw anyone defend Manjaro on a forum? It’s been years for me.

Before? It was the prominent “ergonomic” Arch Linux. But I’ve been burned by Manjaro enough that it would take a miracle for me to touch it again.

My experience is a few years out of date, but “more tested” was not the experience. It felt like they took the worst of Ubuntu and brought it to Arch: holding back packages enough to be annoying and tempt me to roll them forward/maintain stuff myself for fixes. But without any stability benefits of doing so. Stuff would break all the time and require manual intervention.

Manjaro got me to realize the Arch base is more “held back” than its reputation would suggest. The Arch maintainers do not roll out updates until every package works with every other package, and it turns out that ethos is incredibly hard to re-invent… which is what Manjaro ostensibly tries to do.

And yes. I can’t remember if AUR was a hard dependency, but it was certainly front-and-center. On Arch, you do not use AUR unless the package is self-contained (and therefore can fail to update without consequence) or if your system cannot function without it; and Manjaro didn’t exactly foster that caution. What’s more, many AUR packages were straight up broken since the base packages are different.

Thanks for the subscriber free link!

Predicting Earth’s future climate is a race against time. As climate change accelerates, improving models is essential to guide decision-making from governments, especially if we hope to control climate change.

…Do they really believe this?

Read the room. Doesn’t matter if they invent a freaking oracle, governments aren’t going to do squat as long as constituents are manipulated into not seeing it.

We are past the point of praying and hoping science will win an attention war. I feel like all this research is just pointless with the elephants in the room are dealt with.

Like others said, they’re basically the same car underneath. So it comes down to ergonomics and style; just personal preference, really.

…With the exception of the highest end. The EV6 GT is more like a luxury crossover; think a tricked out Mercedes.

But the Ioniq Ns are batshit crazy track cars. They are fast. As they point out here, it’s the only EV that can lap the Nurburgring without breaking down: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HZczpFsv9ZY

Heh. Wait for a humid day, take it around a track to stress it out, and get it to pop in-warranty.

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For what it’s worth, my sister’s SO got a used Ioniq 5 and loves it. It’s a gorgeous car, and a steal used.

Though nothing happened yet, they’re aware of the ICCU issue. But it’s also still on warranty, I suppose.

War is bad for the climate, and the plug is almost certainly temporary, unfortunately.

Trump is losing a lot of political capital here, but TBH I think he’s being used by everyone. US petrol got far more they paid for, Tech is getting what they paid for, and someone else will just take his place…

TVH, I hope Trump makes it.

Hell, Id rather have him for a third term than JD Vance for the next (or after the skip of however the Democrats manage to screw themselves over). Vance scares the shit out of me.

A man of taste.