Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

@downey@floss.social The pressure to adopt Slack for various projects is a surprisingly common experience for me.

It isn't merely the proprietary aspect I dislike; I think it's a very noisy and intrusive way of teamworking. But that's me.

@evan I read this in the voice of Tony Montana.

I've also seen similar on a Macbook Pro which runs 1080 nicely with no effort but stil uses about the same amount of battery power.

It's interesting that hardware acceleration in browsers isn't necessarily the advantage you might thiink.

Modern CPUs have got very efficient with some codecs; even if they run around 100% on one core to decode 60fps 1080 content it's not necessarily heavy on the battery vs a GPU offload. In fact on my XPS13 I think it's about the same, but the heat's better when the CPU does the work.

Well played, @VoidLinux

@gaeulbyul@planet.moe I haven't had my coffee or remembered the day. I genuinely wondered what the fuck is going on.

@sifr@anticapitalist.party This reminds me of an article I read many years ago, I think 1998 (unfortunately I don't have the source), about the burgeoning influence of credit scoring in the USA, and how undemocratic and unhealthy it was; reducing people to a mathematical model, with no recourse or oversight. I dare say it has only got worse. @rysiek@mastodon.social

@sifr@anticapitalist.party ...Creating the problem then selling a solution. This is really interesting.

@troubleMoney@computerfairi.es Awww you built them a little cafe

@rick_777 It was an interesting time for the internet in general. It had just started to leak into popular culture, but it would still be years before it wasn't seen as an enthusiast space.

I remember 'Congo' (1995) having a website on the movie poster and that seeming like a really big deal, as to me at the time the Internet was still CS departments, Star Trek, and porn.

lmao https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/17538921.book-about-serial-killer-rose-west-in-mothers-day-gift-display/

@mangeurdenuage Cheers!

@pertho@bsd.network Well this is just the job! Thanks!

@strypey Oh wouldn't surprise me. Commons can be quite amusing sometimes!

@CDC So far this is my first experience of Pulse being really difficult about something simple, as per its reputation...

@CDC Yes, I had it set up on my Slackware box just for my user and it was fine; there is a workaround for Pulse that supposedly allows using 127.0.0.1 as a remote server and this worked until a recent update wherein it is now borked again. Oh well!

@vertigo I misread that as #desperanto which for some reason feels even funnier.

I don't know why that would be a surprised but it's something to bear in mind if you leave the messenger window open and just forget about it on your laptop.

I suppose I should not be surprised, but even a small looping gif playing in Signal uses a surprising amount of CPU time.

@mwlucas@bsd.network SYSTEMD MASTERY