But I mean why? Used in this way, AI systems are just another static analysis tool.

Sure, a computationally inefficient one, but if you can get the signal/noise region high enough, anything that helps you find bugs seems fair game to me.

One has to review their work, and take any fix offered by the slopmachine with a lot of care, of course.

And Anthropic is a bad company, but we are talking about detecting security vulnerabilities in Firefox by wasting Anthropic money. That seems like win-win.

The only downside (and I admit it’s big) is that Anthropic gets some publicity out of this.

They are talking about specific hardware features. Which would of course be great, but you can imagine how they are not exactly at the toppiest toppy top of Fairphone’s priorities, when they are still struggling to be taken seriously by your mainstream Android buyer.

Consider that every hardware features is extra hard for Fairphone, on account of their very specific commitments to materials sourcing, labor practices, and longer term support.

They are a company with a lot of very complicated demands, for a still very low volume of sold devices. They need to pick their battles, and clearly being blessed by the church of Graphene can’t be that high a priority.

My Thinkpad from 2017 keep getting firmware updates through lvfs for like 7 or 8 years. I was pretty impressed actually.

Wilbur, IIRC is the name of the mascot.

Indeed I was not suggesting switching the OS on that device.

But if it quits on you, old thinkpad + Linux will keep you going.

I’m rather concerned about what I do when my Surface Pro 7 dies. I inherited a Chromebook from my dad, but that’s a poor substitute.

Do you need to use Windows? Because any old Thinkpad with Linux Mint will get you through a few years, and performance-wise should be able to handle anything you’re currently doing with your surface. Or hell, I can’t believe I’m saying this, a Macbook Neo.

83% of the searches that happen on PC are done with google and 95% of the searches done on mobile are done with google.

So 12% of users didn’t change the default from Edge with Bing?

Yeah, definition of ragebait.

Yeah, Amazon being less than transparent, shocking, am I right?

I think what you’re finding in Amazon are offers from third party sellers. FP6 is 550 on the official site. Still, if the FP4 is 200€ new it is certainly a contender.

I love my FP4, but my manager just bought himself a FP6 and… I’m envious! It seems ti scratch almost every itch I have with FP4

(screen draws too much power and isn’t bright enough in summer, phone is a bit too large, etc.)

Pity my FP4 won’t stop working anytime soon.

(Actually joking, at almost 4 years, no phone has ever survived this long in my dangerous hands, and I’m so happy about that).

I’d give FP6 serious thought. On the other hand, maybe you can get some great bargain on a used FP4 (FP4 isn’t sold new anymore).

Not by a long stretch. There is one single toolbox that I use which requires MATLAB to run. The toolbox itself is under GPL, and it’s fantastic work, but the authors don’t have the time and resources to port it to pythonz and it’s the only reason why I (begrudgingly) use MATLAB at all.

this would have cost him vacation time

After all these years my poor European brain is still struggling to understand this.

while sick …

ill-advised

I see what you did there.

I also had it, any chance that the last poi here In the troubleshooting fixes it for you as well?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LibreOffice#KDE_Plasma/GNOME_ _Wayland_with_or_without_fractional_scaling_results_in_terrible_lag_when_scrolling

Actually, chance is that it’s not using XWayland. See here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LibreOffice#KDE_Plasma/GNOME_ _Wayland_with_or_without_fractional_scaling_results_in_terrible_lag_when_scrolling

It’s at least what worked for me.

I can’t prevent you from doing that, but there’s a use that fosters interesting discussion, and one that just fosters insufferable arguments.

Actually Debian stable has KDE6, unlike Ubuntu LTS.

My approach is running it in a container (podman, but if you use docker it’s the same) and simply backing up the mounted folders.

Thus way I can just move everything elsewhere and just restart the container.

And that’s absolutely your privilege to do, since you use KDE. Which is the point.

Some things i like to do in “keyboard heavy” mode, and for other things I want to be a one handed mouser.