Yes, ‘Artificial Intelligence [AI]’ was literally conjured as a marketing term with the motivation of seeking funding.

Just because there’s a label invoked to encompass an area of research, doesn’t make it legitimate. There’s plenty of pseudoscientific fields that practitioners believe are worthy, like economics or cryptozoology.

HAC has problematic connotations, so we renamed it to HAL, which is 9000 times better.

The original IBM XT and PC used ISA, EISA, and VESA cards and slots which faced the other direction. PCI and AGP cards flipped orientation partly to ensure they couldn’t be accidentally inserted into the wrong slot, and became the norm as the older slots disappeared from systems.

dd or GTFO.

What a chaotically turbulent take.

Why is a ‘finished’ install framed as an universally superior goal?

This implies an Arch install can ever legitimately be considered finished.

Home is ~, localhost is wherever you are.

Authoritarianism is an admission of abject weakness.

White supremacists are the weakest and most brittle snowflakes.

A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.

They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.

Wireless data transmission should only ever be used for nomadic, temporary, and/or sacrificial links.

They’re useful for quick deployment, but are intrinsically brittle and terrible for resiliency and efficiency.

The longer the dependence on them for a given use case, the less defensible arguments in support of them become.

I’m all for the use of satellite delivery of internet services, but only when it’s used in conjunction with a broader roll out of hardwired infrastructure, at which point it can reasonably be relegated to serving as a secondary, backup diverse path.

You drive a vehicle with a manual transmission.

You steer a vehicle with an automatic.

It’s IPv10, which binds IPv4 and IPv6 together (4+6=10), sometimes known as Dual Stack.

• My TV’s power consumption is basically doubled when the input is running at 2160p compared to 1080p.
• Running the portable AC in my office for more than 24 hours causes it to cycle off and on because the humidity collection sump fills up and needs to be emptied (it throws a completely unhelpful error of ‘Low Temperature’).