systemd tries to unify a Wild West situation where everyone, their crazy uncle, and their shotgun-dual-wielding Grandma has a different set of boot-time scripts. Instead of custom 200-line shell scripts now you have a standard simple syntax that takes 5 minutes to learn.

Downside is now certain complicated stuff that was 1 line need multiple files worth of workarounds to work. Additionally, any custom scripts need to be rewritten as a systemd service (assuming you don't use the compat mode).

People are angry that it's not the same as before and they need to rewrite any custom tweaks they have. It's like learning to drive manual for years, wonder why the heck there is a need for auto, then realizing nobody is producing manual cars anymore.

Been playing it since release and I have to say I quite like it. The mtx is less intrusive than Dragon Age Origins' DLC (no mention in game at all versus "There's a person bleeding out on the road, if you want to help him please go to the store page").

So far, the game is a buttery smooth 60 fps at 4k max graphics + FSR3 w/o ray tracing except for inside the capital city (running 7800x3d with a 7900xtx). The only graphics complaint I have is the FSR implementation is pretty bad, with small amounts of ghosting under certain lighting conditions. There's also a noticeable amount of input lag compared to the first game: not game breaking, but if you do a side-by-side comparison it's pretty obvious.

Sure the game has its issues, but right now this looks like something that I enjoy. Games don't need to be masterworks to be fun (my favorite games are some old niche JRPGs that have been absolutely demolished by reviewers at the time), and right now I think it's money well spent.

Uh oh. I used to work University IT. I can only imagine the number of tickets this would generate:

"Bad wifi at XYZ hall"

"Request to setup private router in dorms due to bad wifi"

"Please fix my computer I've heard this patch breaks wifi" (meanwhile, the reporter never installed said patch)

*Gasp* the registration is coming from inside the colo!

If we're nitpicking about AMD: another thing I dislike about them is their smaller presence in the research space compared to their competitors. Both Intel and NVIDIA throw money into risky new ideas like crazy (NVM, DPUs, GPGPUs, P4, Frame Generation). Meanwhile, AMD seems to only hop in once a specific area is well established to have an existing market.

For consumer stuff, AMD is definitely my go-to. But it occurs to me that we need companies that are willing to fund research in Academia. Even if they don't have a super good track record of getting profitable results.

You don't understand. It's not like the self-driving feature is just software where they can price it at whatever they want. It's physically consuming brain cells every month. And those aren't free you know!

::: spoiler Do I really need a \s tag for this or does this tin foil hat make me look fat? :::

Because the horses are coming. And they are ANGRY.

The only way to survive is to win three rounds of trivia nights on various horse topics. So quit horsing around!

I see your decryption key extraction and offer you a 5 dollar wrench.

The wrench also comes with DMA (direct mechanical assault), RDMA (remote direct mechanical assault via throwing), and DDIO (deals damage if opposing) capabilities. It's a real NSA bargain!

Piggybacking on top of this to plug another university research project. TrackerControl scans all installed apps afterwards for tracking libraries (i.e. google ads) and DNS traffic to ad servers. You can also use it as an ad blocker to block specific DNS entries.

Isn't the whole point of these things the "bloated" (CI/CD, issue tracker, merge requests, mirroring, etc) part? Otherwise we'd all be using bare git repos over ssh (which works great btw!)

It's like complaining about IDE bloat while not using a text editor. Or complaining there's too many knives in a knife set instead of buying just the chef knife.

That's just a Thinkpad. If they keep making them smaller eventually it will fit in your pocket.

It's overkill, but 50Gbps is not enough for a Public University these days. A single core switch in NYC can see an average of 2.6Tbps of traffic. You'll probably need at least 200-400Gbps for an entire university.

But yeah, still overkill for a phone.