You don’t need Windows for gaming.

Sure, some games only work on Windows but some only work on Switch or PS5 and you can still play video games without playing those in particular.

Yes, on the licensing front RISC-V is better.

How can you have a preference if you don’t understand?

It’s neither. It’s a specification that you can use to build your own chip.

So it’s more like MPEG where you can read the doc and create your own implementation.

No it’s not, anyone can get a license to create an ARM chipset but you do need to pay for a license.

There is xreal, nreal, rokid… Plenty of manufacturers to pick with, and you can spare money for a regular laptop.

It’s a bad idea because you can get a regular laptop and AR glasses just as light as those. Check nreal, rokid…

This way you can use the laptop as a regular laptop and the glasses with other devices.

It’s just because it’s the most used in this case

Yes, autocorrect messed it up

Oh it’s the continuation of XMMS, I have found memory of using that!

Especially considering that Slashdot stopped being relevant, maybe… 20 years ago?

Simply be mindful of our energy usage, and not just rely on decarbonization. We need both because decarbonization will not happen overnight.

Historically, worldwide our production of renewable have kept growing, the percentage have been growing, but fossil fuels usage have also kept growing.

Now we get a new technology that is using even more energy, maybe we should work on energy efficiency and use that tech sparingly instead of building more data centers so incels can get their voice chat AI girlfriend, and say “we’ll just install more solar panels and windmills”.

I agree that the article is a bit confusing, but we can’t keep increasing energy consumption and hope decarbonization will fix it.

From an environmental point of view energy is never free. Also as long as we still use fossil fuels, any new usage of renewable (e.g. run AI on solar panels) is energy that could have been use to replace fossil usage.

It’s slow and you depend on the wind blowing.

If sails were that great we would still be using them for freight, we didn’t switch to petroleum for the fun of it. Environmental issues put aside it’s a pretty great source of energy.

Well there is a reason we stopped using those.

To be honest it has always been this way. Especially when we were talking about “Free Software”, and open source was in part a way that it was free as in freedom, not free as in doesn’t cost anything.

Of course the term open source didn’t change anything, because if you look at the definition of open source, you’re allowed to share it so obviously you’ll be able to get a copy for free.

And uesst what, not having to pay is such a big difference that’s what people remember.

I mean if you want to live off your work, then of course you’re a business.

Or if you want to get money without all the fundraising hassle, get a salaried job.

Basically you want to work in open source on whatever you want, not have to listen to users, not have to find funds, and still be paid for it?

It’s been 8 years. If they still need humans to check they’ll always need them.

Honestly, I don’t miss Internet April Fools.

It was funny 20 years ago when Google started doing it, fun to see high quality april fools from big established companies. But it got old very fast.

The point is that saying “pull requests welcome” is still work for the maintainer, because now you have to have these discussions with potential contributors, sometimes explain them why you don’t want to maintain the feature, or explain them why this PR is not the way you want…

So either way it’s work, it’s important to keep in mind before saying “just send a PR”.