Meanwhile I've been impressed with Wine since I discovered it. One of the few things that was keeping me from moving to Linux was MS Office suite. I struggled to get used to OpenOffice. And wine was able to run it. Sure I had to faff around with it, but I was just so impressed. I was telling all my family, but they just didn't get it.
Anyway, I later stopped using it because Google Docs and then later libreoffice was good enough. I still followed it, and I continued to be impressed by all the announcements.
- Palantir built ICE's surveillance infrastructure. The technology concentrates power, and with the current government have zero oversight means this is a dangerous game that is being played. [0]
- Thiel has literally said that freedom and democracy are not compatible. [1]
- He has suggested conservatives should stage a military coup. [1]
- Secretly funded Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker Media, thereby all but destroying it.
- He still believes and pushes the debunked race science.
There's probably many other things I'm missing, but overall he's seems like a not so nice person as far as people go. Overall there is zero reason to trust anything that he has his hands on. Especially not things that matter in a national security context. This applied to all countries, including America.
I'd love to know your experience with the Xreal. I have seen a lot of videos on YouTube, but something throws me off. It just seems like they're all shilling.
One reason I got the Samsung S24 Ultra a couple of years ago is to run a full Linux desktop environment (via Termux), something you really can do. I even say it up, but I struggled to really get into it. Mostly because I banked on Nexdock, but it's trackpad is impossible.
That is to say, yes. And with that you can also run windows applications, e.g. through Winlator.
I was able to run Intellij IDEA, but of course ymmv as the application really has to be available for Android arm64.
Jeez what a way to dismiss the second largest continent and the second most populous landmass in the world.
I'd argue Africa is the best place to start such a thing. Cheap labour, plenty of renewable energy. The biggest issue it probably has is how little bandwidth it has, and might require additional sea cables.
But "africa is africa" is not a way reason to dismiss the continent.
you have never worked in africa. its cheaper to build a data centre in low earth orbit than most of africa
1 physical security is a problem, and in some countries like equatorial guinea or south africa foreigners arent allowed to own assets outright
2 cheap labour cant actually do anything. they are nice people but they cant read instruction manuals. cant set up data centres
3 no infrastructure. why zambia and kenya etc are 99% cellphones, is because there is no grid and no landlines because people steal all the copper wires
stories engineers have told me about building things in africa:
- i was working on an oil rig and one day the local employees started playing hide and seek and trying to kill us until a ransom was paid. for 48 hours we hid in a ventilation area until the ransom was organised, then had to go straight back to work with the people who were trying to murder us with power tools the day before for a month
- the person who gave my company a contract was chainsawed to death on a beach
bad grid, bad fibre, #146 in the world in electricity production per capita. less power output than many US states, rule of law risk, civil unrest risk, and data sovereignty (gdpr), must get expat engineers (and get them visas)
large scale offshore wind in norway could generate 50-75% of the entire US production with 80% uptime and then DCs built in norway or EU area
According to QuitGPT[0], as of now, 2.5 million people have done so, which they base on "website signatures, share counts on social media, and credible app usage data". I don't know how accurate this is, but seems a bit of a high number.
It was a while ago since I implemented this, but iirc the reason for that was to validate that the key that has signed this is actually trusted, and the signature isn't just cryptographically valid.
You can also redirect specific file descriptors into other commands:
This hurts.
Also, for the shell, if you do C+w, you can "paste" it back using C+y. Assuming you have not removed that configuration.