Mark it up as an advantage of getting old. You get to sit and eat popcorn while people debate issues you’ve already debated.

I still want to buy one, mind you.

Good enough for my needs. I’ll start saving right away.

Blasphemy! It is a great movie.

But do you want to be right out do you want to sleep on the sofa?

I have the opposite opinion. I avoided it for years because of the hype (and not having proper hardware to run it).

Now I have almost 900 hours in it, and sometimes I jump in just to walk around and revisit some places.

Yes please.

The command line is perfect for lazy people like me. You spend a bit more putting together a little automation and shove it in a script in ~/bin and you can forget about how it’s done.

Example: I have a small script that does the backup for me using Borg. It backups only the directories I want, ignores a bunch of stuff and keeps 6 months of backups. I spent some time crafting that but now I just plug my external HDD and type backup.sh. or if I’m feeling extra lazy I just click the desktop link.

Maybe 1985, but 1986 and 1987 were good too.

Keep spreading the good word, brother. Amen.

My suspicion for Nvidia not opening their drivers is that they have something shifty going on, maybe benchmark “optimizations” or some other trickery.

That, and they’re plain evil.

I think it was a Finnish philosopher who once said it best: Fuck you, Nvidia.

I’m expecting that to be the case, so I hedge my bets by also buying from GOG and praying for Gabe to have a long life.

As long as Steam keeps giving me a great platform that doesn’t suck, as long as they continue to push Linux gaming forward, I’ll keep sending them money.

Portal and Portal 2 are packed with passive aggressive remarks. One of my favorites:

Well done. Here are the test results: You are a horrible person. I’m serious, that’s what it says: “A horrible person.” We weren’t even testing for that. Don’t let that horrible-person thing discourage you. It’s just a data point. If it makes you feel any better, science has now validated your birth mother’s decision to abandon you on a doorstep.

I’m referring to the ageism implied in the statement, I don’t care about C vs Rust any more than I care about vi vs emacs or KDE vs Gnome.

Old fuckers have experience, they have seen many next big things come and go, that’s why they seem slow to adopt new stuff. Of course this annoys new fuckers a lot, as they want to play with their new shiny toys now.

Patience is a virtue, young grasshopper.

Old fuckers exist to protect young fuckers from throwing out the baby with the bath water.

Thank you for the link, it was very interesting.

Even though analogue neural networks have the drawback that you can’t copy the neuron weights (currently, but tech may evolve to do it), they can still have use cases in lower powered edge devices.

I think we’ll probably end up with hybrid designs, using digital for most parts except the calculations.

Every genre is deeply connected to the time it appeared and the events that shaped it.

I don’t expect punk rock to have a resurgence any more than I expect disco music to come back. They had their time and function. They will influence new things to come as did all the stuff that came before.

Having said that, I expect everything will become a mishmash of AI slop, so who knows?

This was bound to happen. Neural networks are inherently analog processes, simulating them digitally is massively expensive in terms of hardware and power.

Digital domain is good for exact computation, analog is better for approximate computation, as required by neural networks.

It’s a quiet life.

Finally, an optimistic view of the situation.