Just about everything has better eyesight than we used to think.

For instance:

Until the 1960s, popular belief held that most mammals outside of primates were monochromats. In the last half-century, however, a focus on behavioral and genetic testing of mammals has accumulated extensive evidence of dichromatic color vision in a number of mammalian orders. Mammals are now usually assumed to be dichromats (possessing S- and L-cones), with monochromats viewed as the exceptions.

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Though IBM always used DE-15 connectors for their Video Graphics Array hardware, several VGA clone hardware makers initially did not. Instead, some early VGA hardware, both monitors and graphics cards, used the PGC standard of a DE-9 connector for analog RGB (VGA).

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In the very early days the 9 pin was used for video. The extra pins were added when VGA obtained Plug ‘n Play compatibility.

I guess I am not understanding why every distro now needs its own DE and accompanying software. What was wrong with letting people choose between Mate and Cinnamon? If you have the bandwidth then more power to you I guess but it sounds like they don’t.

Fun fact: Silicones are a class of silicon containing rubbers (pun intended) and resins, this is why the two words are so easily confused.

A where what?

It’s a joke from SNL so I am guessing it was intentional to begin with.

IIRC this is why they had to remove the Matterhorn from the packaging.

Edit: I remembered correctly.

We call it Indigenous Peoples Day for that reason.

I was always told “don’t let perfect be the enemy of good”.

Serious answer: giving thanks.

I’m not sure I agree with the idea that the necessary level of compute will be made available to the average person. We are already well into a paradigm where the average “PC” is an iPad or similar, with Google locking down Android and Microsoft… being Microsoft, I just don’t have any optimism that the future will have the same kind of access to personal computing power or even software access. The “tin-foil hat” part of my brain says that the purchasing years worth of chips output is part of a conspiracy to keep consumers and potential competitors at bay more than it’s a requirement for new models.

I hope I am wrong, but I am not holding my breath.

This is very much the problem I have. We have officially reached the point where the average artist on Deviant Art has less intellectual property rights than the average even LLC let alone megacorp like Disney.

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AI like this is very quickly becoming the One Ring in my mind. Like there’s a bunch of people who have convinced themselves that they can use this plagiarism box in a good way, that the outcome will somehow justify the means. But the reality is that this machine was created by evil for evil reasons and as it stands right now you can’t use Claude or ChatGPT or any of that shit and not participate in the plagiarism, in the outright theft of all of the art and creativity of humanity, and the destruction of our environment.

I wish that more people would understand that the jump from the novelty of Watson beating Ken Jennings on Jeopardy to here wasn’t technological innovation. It was purely capitalism.

Yeah, I’m quickly seeing a future where stuff like this AI rewrite of the Adobe suite may need to be distributed as the model that makes the software and not the software itself. If that becomes the case then we really will have entered into a world where tech bros control everything as you will quickly find yourself in a world where you can’t use the software if you don’t have the compute to make it.

Why are they all drinking so much???

Just so we are clear, the current iPhone is about a mm thicker than the RJ-11 jack at the end of the phone cord…

Also stop resting it on the cord bend while using it in bed. The number of times I have seen this prevented by a 90° adapter is… at least 3.