Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

There's a whole generation of users out there that accept having to wait ten minutes after a reboot before they can do anything, that this is the way personal computing should be.

I help researchers with laptops that are brand new and they run like complete dogshit, and epople just accept this is normal; that you pay for an OS and you can't even do any work.

Spare laptop running windows is just sitting in the corner having been booted two hours ago. The i/O light has been solid ever since.

I moan about this all the time and it still never fails to amaze me that since Vista all MS (including server) do this. I swear they're in league with storage OEMs.

It seems particularly remiss where Linux/BSD is so very usable for everything else.

After some more digging around, HW acceleration still a complete shitshow across Linux for browsers. Given how well so much hardware works now I'm surprised more effort hasn't been made here.

MPV + youtube-dl is all well and good but it's a kludge that screams 'enthusiast OS'.

An oldie but goodie.

"If you think safety is expensive, try having an accident."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/boeing-identifies-second-software-issue-on-737-max-11554460806?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=2&mod=article_inline

In my recuperation I've been catching up on lots of racing I haven;t had time to watch. Formula E has come a long way. The Gen 2 car is very impressive: 45 minutes racing, double from first gen.

Most impressive of all, the racing is really good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IlvFzJhE8o

I don't know what Apple do differently with their Bluetooth stack, but it doesn't work well, either on iOS or MacOS. Endless hassles pairing and resetting, it's bloody annoying.

My wife's iPhone will rarely get along with the car IFE without some patience, and my MacBook often refuses to pair with the same headphones on different occasions. It also has the habit of trying to pair while suspended, which is very tiresome.

First night in hospital ☑️
I hope I can go home today. Maybe not.

At the ER. Joy of joys.

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

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

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.

There is an excision biopsy in my future.

Oncology follow up today, Fedi. Wish me luck.

I do like the amount of art that periodically whips up the timeline. It's very pleasant viewing.