The US are truly turning into a real-life version of “Idiocracy”. I’m just waiting for Trump’s orders to start watering crops with Gatorade

Talking about kicking the can down the road: what about the waste storage problem?

Why shouldn’t they have long term benefits for researchers?

Reminds me a bit of when CRISPR got big, people were worried to no end about potential dangers, designer babies, bioterrorism (“everybody can make a killer virus in their garage now”) etc. In reality, it has been a huge leap forward for molecular biology and has vastly helped research, cancer treatment, drug development and many other things. I think machine learning could have a similar impact. It’s already being used in development of new drugs, genomics, detection of tumours just to name a few

I mean yes, but it can be VERY useful in these narrow laboratory use cases

Not wanting to be bombarded by a foreign country’s political antics and sociopathic leaders == sticking your head in the sand? Interesting take!

Fantastic news! And perfect timing, too, with who knows what the fuck is going it at Mozilla atm

Thunderbird has always been crap. Betterbird is truly better

I always liked TeamSpeak, is that still around?

I feel like this kind of implies that things will get back to the way they were before, once all the bullshit is “done”. Not so sure about that

Deluge and Surfshark VPN

What an annoying position to be in, needing software updates for your fucking car. Then what, you’ll have to replace it after three years because it won’t get any new security patches anymore?

If it helps, I’m running PopOS on a Ryzen-powered Lenovo laptop (Yoga 6) with integrated graphics. No issues whatsoever, so far

Everything by Virgin is shit. I don’t understand why they’re so big

I recently made the switch back to Linux, to Pop! OS, and I’ve never had such a smooth experience before. It’s currently using GNOME as its desktop environment, which I find a bit shit in general, but they’ve modified it enough so that it’s user friendly and intuitive. It has an “app store” as well that you can use to check for and run updates, search software etc. If you have a big screen, the window tiling function is awesome. Highly recommend you have a look at it!

NVIDIA is trash anyway so no reason to buy one regardless of OS

AMD gang!

In all honesty, I think it has gotten better over the last few years and it should be less of a headache now to use NVIDIA cards, I guess that depends on the OS though

How are people feeling about Deezer?

I don’t like that their 14" model only comes with intel CPUs

I’m running PopOS (with GNOME+Cosmic) on my Yoga 6, works without any issues so far

I’ve only used it to write cover letters for me. I tried to also use it to write some code but it would just cycle through the same 5 wrong solutions it could think of, telling me “I’ve fixed the problem now”

Ugh I can’t wait for PopOs to move to Cosmic