As an engineer, this hits close to home.

They annoy me because Microsoft keeps cramming their updates full of invasive spyware/adware and “ai” features that I don’t want and have to jump through hoops to disable

So Windows 11?

I don’t know of any diesel electric cars, but most diesel locomotives use their diesel engines to generate electricity to run the drivetrain.

And I’m testing removing Google from my web search tools!

Doctor Zaius!?

Physiological thriller? Like an anatomy book?

Are they going to cram a bunch of AI bullshit into it like Mozilla is doing with Firefox?

So what’s wrong with just releasing a monolithic static binary for each architecture you want to run it on?

I read the post, and it sounds like what the author did in the end. I just don’t get why it was the last thing he tried. I don’t get why Linux software packaging has to be so complex.

NO2? Man, I hope you guys weren’t huffing Nitrogen Dioxide!

Wow! I’m really tempted to try this myself. I’ve had bad floaters for as long as I can remember.

I am curious about side effects, though. If these enzymes degrade collagen, that means they could induce or exacerbate arthritis, right?

Because you need a fuckton of energy to produce an EMP capable of damaging anything. Unless you have access to military grade warheads or a low yield nuclear device, you can forget about it.

Of course it was a law firm.

I was excited about this one until I heard Josh Gad was in charge. That guy is comedy poison. How he ever had a career is a mystery to me.