It is just adapting to the changes.

Increasing fitness in one’s environment is an upgrade. Being smaller or bigger, by itself, is not an upgrade nor a downgrade, it depends on context.

The issue is precisely in your mix up of “linear progression” and implying “smaller” is somehow a counter argument to that. While it’s true evolution isn’t linear, being smaller is not a downgrade at all.

This title is also misleading, though. By claiming “evolution isn’t linear” and then showing a massive dinosaur leading to a chicken, you’re suggesting the chicken is a downgrade (otherwise, what “linear” would even mean in this context?).

The chicken is, however, a massive upgrade - for the specific environment it lived in. Well, “proto-chickens”, let’s say. The actual domesticated chicken is the result of artificial selection.

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Me suspecting my date is actually an Aedes spp. mosquito:

“heeeey so how about after this drink we hit the blood bank? You know, just the two of us and a lot, and I do mean a lot, of blood bags? How about that huh?”

My desire to remain in a frozen-release stable distro conflicts with my desire to follow KDE’s bleeding edge development

I’d rather walk into my local library and ask my librarian for a prompt, then spend 3 hours searching an old encyclopedia for the answer, than ever resolving a domain owned by Brave. Thanks.

The download .zip is still called “mineclone2_22662.zip”

This answer directs identity to the mind of the observer, which makes sense, but recursively revives several early philosophical paradoxes including the problem of identity itself, the awareness of the self, and the whole “if a tree falls in the woods but no one is nearby to hear it” ordeal.

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basic Windows and Office usage

lol

Wait, is that not already an option? My phone came with Samsung Wallet as the default, but when I downloaded Google Pay (or whatever it’s called now after 4 name changes) it asked me which one to use and I’ve never seem Samsung Wallet again.

They’re 100% adding more paid mod stuff, aren’t they?

Ah, I guess that’s why suddenly audio on Linux stopped being an absolute nightmare, unlike everytime I tried migrating in the past. There’s a new audio subsystem?

A couple years ago, trying to use my 2.4GHz wireless headphones to watch a video would hard crash my computer if I was running Linux and tried skipping 5 seconds ahead.

I agree we should support him, but you know who should be more concerned with giving him and other open source maintainers money? The billion dollar corporations that rely on these critical projects and use them absolutely for free. Amazon, Microsoft, Sony, Samsung, Google, Siemens, Motorola, God knows how many more.

I think it’s totally fine for a company to shut down the servers for a game…

…as long as they have a public tool to host your own server, free of any restrictions. They can also stop selling the game, but they can’t shut down the distribution for people who already paid for it, unless they straight up host it somewhere public and call it shareware from that point onwards.

Any other alternative is crazy. Imagine you buy a music vinyl, then 5 years later some Sony executive knocks on your door and says “hey you know we are shutting down, so imma need that disc you’ve bought I’m going to shatter it right now thanks”

The idea that LLMs are just like how the brain works, except limited by running in a CPU, comes from software engineers - not neuroscientists.

Although there are many analogies that could be made between how CPUs do work and how the brain integrates information, they’re actually fundamentally different and use completely different logic.

You could, theoretically, create a computing language to work using neurons. And therefore you could also train machine learning algorithms. But that’s like using calculators to sum 2+2 by buying 4 calculators and putting them all together, rather than actually using what a calculator does to get the result, if you get what I mean.

Not sure why your comment was downvoted, you’re actually correct, Windows is got better battery life. The only reason I’m not running it on this MacBook is an unpatched bug in the Intel HD Graphics driver that prevents it from working with newer Windows versions on MacBooks with this specific display adapter.

Still far from ideal, though. My 2017 MacBook Air with a severely degraded battery lasts 4 hours on macOS, but only 2.5h on Ubuntu 24.04 using the power saving profile - and that’s with less intensive usage, as macOS keeps rendering gaussian blurs everywhere and launchpad and spotlight and all those annoying services.

Huh… I’m not sure. Retro Dodo is got nice enough YouTube videos, but their written content could be summarized as:

“Reviews” for devices that didn’t come out yet, with extremely generic predictions and very little content.

“Top games” lists or other low effort retro gaming content, some of which was borderline AI generated given the whole “Super Mario is a classic that all gamers must play, move Mario and jump to excite your day”

And reviews for actual products that came out, though often suspiciously positive and unaware of issues other reviews had caught.

Which ultimately is going to get interpreted by Google as low effort content farming, which is indeed how Google should interpret it, as it’s correct.