[–] 12 points 1 week ago (1 child)

This is great stuff and, though I've not much insight into Arch, I think a big contriubuiton back for the project/community.

That said, the Frame is the first electronics project in the last... 10 years? that I've been anticipating the release of, while theres lots of signs of life (more games Verified for Frame, more shipments) some of the news makes the realise itself feel very far away.

I'm well aware I've invested way too much, personally, in a product launch, but there's no unwinding it now.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago

    I think theres two aspects to it

    • social licensing - e.g. Google tries and gets away with X, so the others now perceive they're less likely to receive excessive pushback and are emboldened to go for it. This is why I feel there needs to be a pervasive and continuous push towards consumer rights - smaller cases can snowball quickly in the wrong direction, never so in the reverse.
    • share price driven margin pressure, a figurative ideal business that balanced perfectly its price/margins/costs against consumer demands/buying power would still be pushed to make graph go up and right - the usual enshittification argument.

    The first feeds into the second, once your competitor moves against consumer interests, C suites are/perceive they are then under pressure to match peers, else fall behind.

    Screwing over customers is baked into Capitalism, even more so with the current scale and concentration of a handful of business operating in a weak regulatory environment.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Anything that reduces the footprint of LLM's is welcome, however...

    • making LLM compute cheaper in datacentres won't mean lower total power/cooling/space/water consumption, like adding lanes and traffic, it will just mean more usage as it gets cheaper (and a short-term bump in margins for the LLM owners)
    • these are still highly dedicated chips that are always going to be bound up in the mega-scale datacentre deployments
      • what happens if there is a paradigm shift in the exact compute architecture? Loads of junk servers and no applications able to make use of such a glut
      • these do nothing to push LLMs out of the datacenter and into non-corporate hands, which is the only spot where we might see fewer privacy concerns, less corporate control etc

    If we're stuck with the current compute/corporate paradigms, at least alternatives nibling at the unhealthy dominance of nVidia and the cloud giants is some small benefit.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    This is looking like a really fantastic feature. Even with a remappable keyboard, there's some limit to the number of layers and modifiers you can juggle without a GUI and this will be available across any/all keyboards used on the Plasma device.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Hey, hey you - you don't owe an email anything. Just leave it unread.

    Feeling inspired to go unsubscribe from a bunch of junk mail and clean up old mail? Go for it.

    But you shouldn't waste a second of your time feeling obligated to deal with emails sent largely by automated marketing campaigns.

    At work I spend time to organize my inbox, its a necessity, on my personal email, I get security alerts & banking into separate folders, that's about it, I don't waste a moments thought on the unread count.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    The trailing slash is just following cp's own special treatment

    
    # before
    dir/
        file1
    target/
        orig.txt
    
    
    
    # no trailing slash - copy *dir* to target
    cp -r /path/to/some/dir /my/target
    
    # after
    target/
        orig.txt
        dir/            # dir copied to target
            file1
    
    
    
    # with trailing slash - copy *contents* of dir to target
    cp -r /path/to/some/dir/ /my/target
    
    # after
    target/
        orig.txt
        file1            # contents of dir
    
    
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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    I have lots (100s?) of pdfs for ttrpg rules collected over years - storing in folders is enough to separate by game, but fails when a single book is a mix of content - does it go in the adventure, character options or DM folder?

    Having a nice UI with tags and searching would help to organise the collection a lot better.

    Accessing all of that across any of my devices while the files actually live on my NAS would a be a big improvement - its easy for my laptop & tablet to get out of sync etc

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    Hi folks, I've been planning to install built-in shelves for a while now around our chimney and could do with a more experienced eye before committing.

    Any help much appreciated!

    There's a few areas I think I need advice in:

    1. Suitable fixings for an irregular wall
    2. Suitable timber at a reasonable price with limited toolset
    3. Finish

    Fixings: I plan to affix a few lengths of 10mm square strip wood to the wall with raw plugs & timber screws, aligning the top surface of these strips may be a challenge. I'll then route out several pockets along the bottom edge of each shelf, then placing the pockets over the strips. Wood glue and panel pins will keep the shelves in place.

    The shelves will be filled with books which I appreciate really add up - there are more to come than shown in the currently pictured bookshelf!

    Timber: I've never purchased timber before other than some sheet plywood. I don't have access to a planer or table saw, so I believe I'll need to somewhat overpay for PAR timber close to final dimensions & cut down to length with a circular saw. I plan to order ~50mm longer than necessary as the walls are far from square.

    The dimensions are 7 shelves of 25mm thick, 260mm wide, ~1650mm long. I also plan 3 more shelves on the opposite side, only 1050mm.

    Pricing is leading me towards a pine (scandinavian redwood), am I setting myself up for disappointment? (Too soft, cheap finish?)

    Am I missing any tricks? Just outside of a common dimension? Will 25mm be sufficient once 11mm is routed out for the pockets?

    I have looked at window boards - these are an option, but are shallower than preferred at ~225mm max width.

    timber2udirect and a few others are looking like £600.

    Finish: I've been really impressed by the Fiddes Hard Wax Oil I used to restore my kitchen counter, I plan to get some of this with a light/antique satin finish.

    I'm in the UK, hiring a van for this amount of timber could be an option, but I was planning on delivery. I can get access to most hand tools, but larger equipment isn't practical. Is the lack of a planer shooting

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