Yes, infrasound is a fairly well understood phenomenon. Loud noise at frequencies below 10 Hz isn’t commonly picked up by recording equipment but can induce things like anxiety, nausea, and sleep problems. While recently wind power plants have sometimes been accused of generating it, it’s also been caused by industrial fans and even resonance in a building’s ductwork.

It wouldn’t surprise me if a data center’s AC caused enough noise at frequencies not normally monitored to become an issue.

Nothing beyond shipping laptops with NPUs, which isn’t unusual since that’s what Intel’s and AMD’s laptop CPUs come with these days.

As does Arch AFAIK. It’s still very niche, though.

You see, that’s just inaccurate. GNU/Linux is not equivalent to GNU+Linux. That would be addition; this is division. The bigger Linux gets, the smaller GNU/Linux becomes.

That’s why they’ve developed GNU/Hurd. Hurd is unlikely to ever amount to much, meaning that GNU/Hurd will never evaluate to a small value. And that is cold, hard mathematical fact.

The staff ate it later.

Of course the real trick lies in figuring out which decade is your last one.

In theory:

Player: “Copilot, give me a list of all orifices I can fuck xXx_360noscope_xXx’s mom in. Assume I have an extremely small penis.”

Copilot: “You exclusively play the multiplayer mode of AAA games so that’s already assumed. Here’s your list…”

In practice:

Player: “Copilot, give me a list of all orifices I can fuck xXx_360noscope_xXx’s mom in. Assume I have an extremely small penis.”

Copilot: “I can’t help you with that but did you know you can subscribe to Microsoft® 365™ Copilot® for as little as $19.99, getting access to the industry standard in office productivity tools? Certainly xXx_360noscope_xXx will be impressed by your professional Outlook® presentations and seamless integration with Teams®.”

Player: “My penis isn’t that small and neither is his.”

xXx_360noscope_xXx: “Yeah, dude. That was uncalled for.”

Though, to be fair, Framework laptops can’t charge from all of their ports. The 16 can charge from one port each per side; not sure about the 13 and 12.

Nope, still perfectly legal. Proprietary charging ports are allowed but have to be accompanied by a USB PD port that supports the same wattage (or 240 W if the device needs more than that).

So basically the law says “devices must support USB PD”, not “devices must only support USB PD”.

They can.

USB-C goes up to 240 W now and the law has been amended to acknowledge the new USB PD spec. Devices are also allowed to have proprietary charging ports but must include a USB-C port capable of showing the full power draw of the device (or 240 W of they need more than that).

So a big gaming laptop might have a USB PD-capable port that supports 240 W and a barrel jack that supports 350 W.

They do; the article points that out.

However, this doesn’t work in enterprise environments. Companies want to download updates once and then deliver then themselves when and to whom they want. And that means they need to download all of them.

These days they’re all bundled up in one huge package so companies have to devote a of storage for update files that mostly contain the same stuff as last month’s.

And on the diagram it only has “influenced by” lines going to it. There’s no contradiction here.

Yeah, that’s what I refer to with offloading. Depending on the model and runtime it might be a bit fiddly but it usually works fine.

The newer CPU generations come with cores optimized for this stuff (referred to as an NPU). It actually seems to work fairly well for the kind of model you’d run locally.

Barring that, a typical laptop dGPU will also work, although not super efficiently since they often don’t exceed 8 GB of VRAM and thus can’t run most models without partially offloading them to the CPU.

Of course a laptop with a dGPU and NPU cores will make the offloading less painful. So yeah, workable for most reasonably-sized models.

I don’t think that a plane in flight is likely to have good EMT coverage.

There’s a significant difference between “we’re in an easily reachable party of a major city and I can expect a fully equipped ambulance to be here in minutes” and “we’re in mid-air and even if we make an emergency landing the patient won’t receive medical care for another hour unless I provide it”.

Some of the newer C# features are nice. Of course .Net is not handled by the same people who keep setting Windows on fire.

Yeah. 60% more responsive for something infamous for taking multiple seconds to launch is depressingly bad. That’s “not even trying” levels of improvement.

The start menu should open essentially instantly (excluding optional animations) – 100 ms is good, 200 ms is somewhat adequate. They’re aiming for somewhere between 400 and 1200 ms.

I hope for them that they underpromise and overdeliver because this does not inspire confidence.

That does make sense when you need absolute precision like when doing abstract math. Otherwise you can just use whichever unit and number of significant digits you need and be precise to that amount. That’s what you do with imperial/American customary units as well; a 5/32" screw isn’t going to be manufactured to the precision of a Planck length; manufacturers specify their sizes to three significant digits of an inch.

Let’s say you have a machining project and your tools are precise to 0.1 mm. So you plan things out at a precision of 0.1 mm. It doesn’t matter that a distance is 17/38 cm exactly. It doesn’t matter that it’s 4.473684210526315789… mm. You can’t set the tool to anything better than 4.5 mm anyway.

Also note that the metric system doesn’t prevent you from using fractions. You’re perfectly free to work with fractions where useful. That’s just not how people talk about lengths because those fractions have no meaning outside your specific use case.

Those planets typically don’t heave a breathable atmosphere, though. You pretty much need a large biosphere if you want to be able to walk around without a spacesuit. An iceball world or a barren rock probably won’t contain a breathable amount of oxygen in an otherwise mostly inert atmosphere. If you want to breathe pure carbon dioxide or get fried by nearly unfiltered UV radiation, though, they’d be great.

I have. Never had your machine just sit there and refuse to boot because a network share is down? Or because the wifi isn’t connected yet?

I absolutely have. The solution wasn’t found in the init system, though, but by giving my NFS mounts the nofail option in /etc/fstab. Filesystem handling isn’t init’s job.

Overall I haven’t had significantly more or less issues with systemd over OpenRC. I’m not a particularly big fan of their approach to things but their init system is perfectly serviceable.