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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • While I can’t speak to the amount itself (somehow the industry as a whole settled on 30%), I do think it’s fair to say that Steam, the App Store, and the Play Store aren’t just payment processors. They also are platforms for users to discover new software/games, and they do a lot of advertising for developers. I can agree with the fee being too high, but I don’t think it’s fair to compare it with PayPal, which only processes the payments.



  • For roughly the price of a single 9800x3d*, you can buy a complete laptop with a long lasting battery and decent enough specs for web browsing, video playback, and basic office work. It’s unfortunately one of the better devices on the market at that price, especially accounting for the battery life.

    *Edit: okay the processors came down in price. Fine, the cost of a kit of decent DDR5 memory, then.

    Apple selling a ‘repairable’ and low-end device just looks like a recession indicator to me.

    One of the few, I take it?







  • My point was more along the lines of online being impractical. Sure, you can still connect to servers running old software (in which case kernel updates aren’t useful to you anyway), but anything with modern security or software is going to just not run at all on it, whether because the software is too heavy for the processor or because it simply was not compiled for it (and cannot be).

    Point is, I think we both agree that the only reasonable usecase for these processors is offline or on a separate network (LAN/tunneled/etc).





  • If he were remotely believable, I’d be skeptically supportive. He’s full of shit though, as he’s always been.

    “So in a single building, we can create a lithography mask, make the chip, test the chip, make another mask, and have an incredibly fast recursive loop for improving the chip design.”

    He does know how long it takes to make a single wafer at scale, right? Well actually, I guess he doesn’t. GamersNexus has a good fab tour on YouTube that goes over the process and explains just how long it takes for the full production chain, from start to finish. It’s not a very fast process.



  • You could put it into the archinstall script and just never finish the installation if there is no age set. You could also prevent a user from logging into an account that has no age set, this could be achived by modified core packages in the base package.

    My (rather limited) understanding is that Arch can be installed both without the archinstall script and without a user. Also, the rest of your comment covers how stupid it is to require a value anyway since people can put whatever they want.

    Outside of that, it’s all open source. It’s possible to fork and remove the field entirely from an install script, distro, or even systemd itself.

    Nobody can enforce this in the open source world. This is honestly the strongest argument for an open source exemption in these laws. It cannot be enforced on open source OSs.