I think you are being too harsh. Even before AI, software and games would often work great on one computer and poor on other computers. I believe that isn't because they understood the programming less or their standards were low, but because there is so much variance between computer hardware, the firmware inside, and the software running on it that you can't guarantee software to run identically across many combinations.

Similarly it's not unusual for one website to behave differently across browsers.

Sure, to some extent. What I really took issue with is saying "I couldn't have caught this", which is a sort of learned helplessness. It's very often the case that, independent of inscrutable platform differences, LLMs just produce extremely shoddy code that obviously does not scale, and there is a whole class of problems you can solve before they become problems if you actually know how to program.

My intent was not to be harsh, though. I was trying to make a point that one can learn and do better. Coding is very much not solved.

I agree that couldn’t is a tad too far, you could always have tested more. But even with more testing you could’ve missed this, completely irrespective of the use of AI.

Eh. Kodi, Torrserver, and Jacktook, Jacktor if you rather stream torrents and not have to deal with storage. Fairly easy to keep track of your shows and view on demand within Kodi.

Since I don't want to tinker with my HP Firmware, a brief investigation led me to OpenCore's ability to enable Resizable BAR in the bootloader before Windows boots. Not sure how reliable it is. https://github.com/xCuri0/ReBarUEFI/discussions/118

How reliable is this information considering the trump administration hates California and other blue states?

I've used a bunch of similar tooling like airdrop and localsend. I don't have alot faith in them a little since they usually choke on large files or many files. I'm still looking for something that works well in those cases without resorting to a cable / MTP which isn't fantastic either.

Webwormhole.io should work theoretically on file of any size because it does not keep the file being downloaded in memory/cache first. It downloads as a file as soon as it starts.

In practice, I have used syncthing to transfer many giga bytes data from one work computer to other because syncthing uses lot more discovery protocols etc to work around restrictions.

I can't report on percentage improvement, but after a long time localsend recently pushed out a version that claims to be much better (to be read as faster) for the transfer of large/many files.

For a long time the issue was blocked because of an upstream library, maybe LLMs finally unblocked the devs to push the fixes through.

Once I tried Airdrop between Macbooks it was very flaky. Haven't had any problems with localsend so far (Windows, Linux, Android).

The Boeing extension pack and watch how the plane deteriorates in the air in real time! Door plugs, MCAS, the works!

I learned a lot doing Gentoo stage 1. I was also following the guide like a recipe, but at the time I hadn't been exposed to the underlying machinery that is often automated, abstracted away, or done for me already. It was also a good test on how well I could follow instructions and later on apply my own customisations. Like lego.

I have a Sony A95K and have kept it in basic mode because I have a shield I like to game and stream from. The sony is very minimal and out the way, and after many software updates hasn't offered me any ads, or programs to run even while connected to WiFi.

However if you run Android, you have to accept some level of snooping.

I have a bunch of these as headless gaming PCs in a rack running sunshine and Steam on Linux. The kids stream from them using moonlight on whatever smart device they want to play on.

Had the idea from LTT but he went a bit bonkers and bought expensive hardware to transmit video and input over cables. Gigabit Ethernet is more than enough.

Is that just with software encoding? Or did hardware encoding get fixed?

We are able to make do with Software Encoding for now, more so with the unlocked cores but it is limiting its potential. There seems to be something called PyroWave making waves for being a low latency encoder/ decoder but nothing supports it yet except for a now pulled Steam Beta.

Otherwise I'll have to investigate capturing video via the DP port or switch it out altogether.

I lived on Upper Street in Angel, London by some traffic lights and there was always a layer of black dust inside. I assumed it was brake particulate.

Tire wear was probably a greater source than brake wear.