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@icing reading more, this is probably not a serious proposal (it glosses over and ignores the hard things, and even some not so hard things). It's fun to think about, I guess.

@icing Like, I know I'm too dumb about IPv6 to be able to make any kind of coherent argument against it, so I've stayed in my lane, implemented it as best I could when needed, and just tried to stay out of its way. Maybe if I pretend not to see it it can't hurt me. But, I mean, IPv6 is just hard and confusing, right? Dual stack is hard. It's hard to think about. It's hard to connect things up across the two protocols. And, that complexity seems...unnecessary? We just needed more IPs, I think?

@icing This section throws so much shade without ever mentioning IPv6 by name: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thain-ipv8-00.html#name-requirements-for-a-viable-s

So, if I'm reading this right (1.7. Backward Compatibility and Transition), IPv8 is simply an acknowledgment that IPv6 was too confusing and that's why it has failed to be universally adopted after three decades and literally running out of IPv4 address space. https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thain-ipv8-00.html

Taxes done. It always sucks more than expected, and I always expect it to suck a lot. I had to contact my optometrist to figure out how much I'd spent on my HSA card. Making me talk to people in order to send the (probably) correct amount of money to the government is an especially egregious offense.

@MissGayle @mattblaze Mastodon also has more self-appointed HOA presidents than anywhere I've ever been. It's a mixed bag. Nobody owns the place, so everybody thinks they own the place.

@angry_drunk just tell them we're all agents chatting.

@mattblaze I hate the folks who think artists promoting their own work is "spam". Individuals making things is the point. Literally the reason I'm here rather than somewhere else. I specifically, explicitly, entirely, want to see what people are making.

Allbirds, the shoe company (pretty nice shoes, I like them, have several pair) has pivoted to AI. And, the market couldn't be happier about it. Somebody should ask them where they'll be buying the GPUs and compute from. There is a shortage of compute for AI, currently, but it's not because there aren't enough people building data centers. The shortage is higher up the chain. https://www.tipranks.com/news/allbirds-stock-bird-rockets-660-as-footwear-giant-swaps-sneakers-for-ai-servers

@vampiress I love the idea of "everybody gets the same map each day". I immediately thought there ought to be a "Rogle" (Rogue+Wordle) type thing when Wordle got popular..a million other people did, too. But, it's a good idea!

The damned things keep bricking themselves, too, and my coworkers at the office who have physical access can't seem to figure out the incantations to re-image them to get them booting again (I've done the process with the one I have here, and didn't find it all that tricky, but it's so unlike anything anyone who uses regular computers has ever seen, it seems to just cause a mental shutdown...multiple people have tried, and I've tried to talk them through it, maybe it really is perma-bricked).

You have to use their proprietary tools to flash the OS. The OS is a shitty version of Ubuntu 22.04 with like 20GB of Nvidia garbage thrown in. How is it 20GB? What could justify an OS image for embedded devices (this is their platform aimed at robotics, etc.) topping 20GB? They don't document what you need to do to make a minimal version of it that includes the needed drivers.

Absolute trash fire.

I keep seeing people saying Nvidia software is better because of CUDA. But, every time I interact with Nvidia software, I am simply astounded by how bad it is. The user experience using Nvidia GPUs on Linux requires their shitty proprietary drivers that have to be linked to the kernel after every upgrade...the Linux folks have jumped through hoops to enable this with dkms, so it sucks less than it used to. I'm working with Jetson dev kits for the robots, and the fuckery there is...something.

@dank an old friend of mine very nearly ran over himself with his own car. He got out without putting it in park, and walked in front of it...got clipped by the bumper, narrowly avoiding something more serious.

Same friend wrecked the same car while doing donuts in a field. There was a lone tree in that gigantic field. He hit that tree.

@raster @bjonte yep. As a retro nerd, I love the Plus/4. I love the weird little detours the computer industry took (I also have a soft spot for the PCjr). But, I think even I understood the mistakes Commodore was making at the time, and I was a child who loved my Commodore 64 (and 128 and Amiga, though I was nearly an adult by the time I could buy an Amiga, pretty late to the game). I was like, why does the 128 do CP/M? It was already dead and the 128 did it poorly, and there was no software.

@bjonte @raster I just think what could have been, had the 128 been, instead, the Commodore 65, or as close as they could get in 1985 (given they shipped the Amiga that year, it seems like they could have gotten pretty close). Of course, that would have put them in the same situation as Apple with the IIgs, where the 8-bit line battled with the Mac. I love the C128 for all its quirks, but it is quirky and limited in ways that it didn't need to be. A little more effort on the 80-column video...

@bjonte @raster the C128 half-assed everything. It could have been so good...but the bean counters and lack of engineering resources and imagined business customers gave us a terrible third-party video chip for 80 column mode useless for games and graphics, a bolted-on CP/M machine years after it was relevant, and personality split three ways. I don't know why they even bothered with the Z80. That money/time should have been spent on a better video chip and improved SID.

@Strandjunker if eugenics is the goal (it is for theses folks), then the metrics look great.

@dank relatable. I also has computer.