Now I want Quentin Tarantino to remake Cinderella.

Like 90% of the movie will be the feet checking part.

Come on, we don’t need tracking devices embedding under the skin.

Just use an AirTag. Much cheaper.

Yeah, it would be nice if Ubuntu just ran it out of the box as well.

So many things are great and just work and honestly just surprise you with how painless they are, and then you hit the snags, and then you’re in a world of trying to run things gathered from various sources, only to find that doesn’t work in your distro, only worked in 2016, or requires a package that isn’t obviously named from the command you’re trying to run.

I’m still not sold on snaps either. I finally got Firefox to see my integrated N150 “GPU”, but I’ve no idea how to make it use it for video decoding. I’ve no idea if the Snap version even supports that.

I’m surprised at how clunky it gets when at 100% CPU as well. Even the mouse lags. Maybe there’s a way to save a little bit of resources for user tasks, but I’ve no idea what that would be.

Thing is the people that never needed Windows, also didn’t really need a PC…

Gamers seem to be an exception, and while WINE/Proton are good, they’re not infallible. I can’t even get WINE running unless it’s running as root, which I don’t really want to do, and it took a lot of faff to get it to even do that. Wasn’t even anything complex, just a basic Win32 app I’d done as a test.

I do like Mini PCs, but I kind of wish there was an easy way to get a solid GPU into it. There’s those weird docks but they’re far from standard, and it would be nice if the GPU had a similar form factor, so you could just stack them up like a MiniPC on top of it like an old hi-fi separates system.

Slap a storage box on it as well for some HDDs, baby you got a server going.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share#monthly-200901-202505

Both Linux and MacOS look fairly flat overall, with a few spikes for Mac. What did happen was iOS and especially Android went to the moon.

Most people had a PC for a bit of light office work, emails and storing pictures. All of that can be done on a phone and more besides. It’s not great that a handful of Silicon Valley techbros are holding everyone’s data to ransom, but that’s what the masses are doing.

I thought that was methadone, or did Trainspotting lie to me?

I’d like to thank a childhood of having no friends to offer me any drugs for keeping me away from a lifetime of addiction.

“Having trouble quitting heroin? A little bit of heroin can really alleviate those cravings!”

This thing has been trained on social media. Is that really wise?

Well look on the bright side. AI is about to become really good at drawing penises under fat bellies.

A bizarre decision.

Every paywalled news site is a news site I don’t read.

I mean, nobody likes adverts, but I think even fewer people like paying.

The US may have effectively banned it, but everybody else is buying loads of it.

As far as I can tell it’s operating at capacity. China’s installing it for the same reason everyone else is. It’s cheap as chips. Power stations take a lot of planning and management, while you can take a few acres of fields and effectively turn it into a money generator with no moving parts.

I’d have got some myself, but my house faced the wrong way to get in on the free solar panels boom, and the up front costs mean it won’t pay itself back for like 20 years. I was tempted once the prices went through the roof when Russia invaded Ukraine, but I moved to a tariff priced every 30 minutes or so and the benefits vanished. I might as well let a local farmer build it all instead.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-prod-source-stacked?time=2000..latest&country=CHN~OECD+(Ember)

(chosen OECD because it makes the numbers easier to compare, and doesn’t cherry pick EU countries which are actually better than places like the US)

A lot less coal, which is about twice as bad as gas for CO2 emissions per kWh.

Places like the UK have got rid of coal completely. The last remaining coal power station shut down last year. When you look at the graphs for the UK, we’ve actually reduced electricity consumption as a whole, despite a growing population and the growth of electric vehicles.

Still plenty to be done about gas. I can see why China still uses enormous amounts of coal. They don’t really have any oil, so it’s the cheapest fossil fuel they have access to. In fact, cost is mostly why solar is getting popular, because it’s become extremely cheap. You can’t rely on it completely though, unless we all agree to turn off our power at night. Power storage is not a solved issue by any means.

China also never embraced nuclear power. They really got big on the world stage right around the time Chernobyl happened, and it was already getting too expensive even then.

They were also responsible for 95% of the world’s new coal construction (2023). With just 1/5th of the world population.

I’ll give them props for solar. They build a lot of it, and thanks to us outsourcing practically everything to China over the last few decades, they build most of our solar as well.

You could certainly have both systems in place, with it always picking the lowest.

But you do want to avoid daft things, like seeing a parked lorry with “I’m speed to limited to 50” written on it, with the 50 in a red circle, and the car goes “50? Brilliant!” and zooms off past a school.

3 times as much solar as the EU.

Has 3 times the population.

🤷

They are using 50% of the world’s coal though, so maybe let’s not start tugging each other off just yet.

I don’t know why you didn’t just fund NASA properly.

It’s almost as if we need a nationwide GPS driven speed limit detection system, rather than relying on some crappy cameras.

That way manual drivers can be warned if they’re exceeding the limit as well.

Pretty sure most people are just looking forward to Windows no longer begging to reboot or just doing it when you turn your back for two seconds.