Psensor is a graphical widget on top of lm_sensors that’s shows constantly updated temp/fan/usage info. It’s similar to HWMonitor on Windows.

For what it’s worth, I’d never heard of this game before.

I ripped a CD yesterday.

It’s a good read. AI is a scam and the tech bros need it to be transformative for their shareholders, not their users.

But having a different set of values and goals than the ones you espouse is called hypocrisy, not nihilism.

Oh no! The harrier? Did they get the specs for the Avro Vulcan? What about the Spitfire?

I’m trying to imagine the user that both needs a text editor in the command line, yet is uncomfortable outside a gui.

I write scripts all day, but closing a program without clicking the little ‘x’ is scary and weird.

Just let the students edit the course assignments before completing them. Everyone gets an A and teaching has never been easier.

Why has no one thought of this before?

I was tired of being a Darwinist. Now I follow the writings of Dickens; I’m a Dickhead.

If you think about it, almost all computer-technology is radio. Wifi, bluetooth, GPS, radar, and cellular are literally radio. Meanwhile everything else runs on transistor tech developed and refined… for radios.

Our modern economy couldn’t exist if people like Hertz and Maxwell didn’t get to toy with their useless hobbies. But we can’t rely on the curiosity of the leisure class anymore. Basic research is expensive, necessary, and a public good. I’m afraid that the Trump regime has already spoiled the secret sauce that makes America the technology leader of the world.

I’m rocking a GTX 1660 and have no plans to upgrade. Ray-tracing is a scam and all the “AAA” titles that are too vram hungry for my card are not that attractive anyway.

Switching to Linux is activism. Not only are you making an anti-capitalist, anti-consumption statement, but active participation creates growth and change that’s observable and satisfying in a way that most direct action cannot be.

It’s good to have a rational for your choices. And we know it can’t be because you think Microsoft makes good software that you enjoy using.

Linux is easier to install than Windows. With the new Win11 requirements, Linux is the only choice for PC hardware more than 5yo. And like you say, hardware drivers just work. This used to be Windows major advantage, but now the chance you run into a compatibility issue is about the same for either OS.

One day, a handheld running Linux will emulate Mario Kart Wold. A Nintendo product will never run a Steam game.

A large contributor to Irish suffering were the British corn laws, a tariff that kept the price of barley, wheat, and oats artificially high. So when potato crops failed, the poor Irish couldn’t afford substitutes. Ironically, American maze was exempt from the corn laws, so much of that was imported to Ireland.

Tariffs: never any externalities or unintended consequences; you will certainly not regret imposing tariffs.

And even if drivers do exist, they may not include the extra software that comes bundled with drivers on Windows. The most obvious example is NVIDIA GeForce Experience suite.

This goes in the pro column if you ask me. I would pay extra for a printer that just has vanilla drivers and no software suite.

The motions which the planets now have,…could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent.

Non-credible scientist, notorious for spreading his “theories” about planetary motion.

When any game changes ToS, the refund window should reset.

Just once I’d like a popular N.American public intellectual to not be a grifter.

For those who don’t know, Pinker is a ‘techno-optimist’ which means that he believes that iphones and AI are going to solve all the problems of neoliberalism.

If you’ve ever heard the argument “but poverty worldwide is down and we’re living in an unprecedented era of peace”, it’s this fucking guy.

The whole “TED” circuit is just Shark-Tank for academics. Only instead of good business ideas, they’re competing to reassure rich liberals that they’re good people and the status quo is moral and right.

Does anyone use Microsoft because they like the software? Because all I ever hear is “I need it for games”, “I need it for work”, or “It’s the only system that works with my hardware”.

One wonders what the market share for OSs would look like if people were able to freely choose what software they liked.