potato, tomato…

It was a slight exaggeration, but curl and libcurl are genuinely used pretty much everywhere. Including NASA space missions.

Daniel Stenberg isn’t a random person, he is the lead developer of curl which is the backbone of quite literally every networked device on the planet and outside of it. The curl project supports a very large number of protocols. His opinion does mean something here.

That said, this does need to be clarified in the Wikipedia page, and it’s still possible that his criticism isn’t actually relevant in the end. I’m still reading about this.

I highly doubt they were talking about gaming.

If it was me I would DEFINITELY go to a doctor or emergency room, better safe than sorry. There’s a chance it’s nothing, but there’s a chance it’s a huge freaking problem. You can’t tell by yourself. Doctors and nurses know exactly what to do in these situations. Go to them.

But I’m in a country where an emergency room visit is very cheap or free, I know that’s a factor for you and it really sucks.

Yes, this isn’t new but it’s resurfacing thanks to the Steam Machine. Basically (off my memory), part of your title is accurate: AMD did create a FOSS driver with HDMI 2.1 which does not violate HDMI forum requirements, but the HDMI forum still vetoed it. I don’t know if it would necessarily “disclose the specification” as the first part of your title suggests, but I didn’t dig into the details enough to say for certain.

Basically a dick move by HDMI. Maybe Valve can push their weight on this, we’ll see.

That’d be suicide.

Are there a lot of 65" PC monitors?

Thanks… I have downvoted my own comment in shame. Godspeed!

Obligatory nitpick: open weights ≠ open source. For it to be open source, they need to release the training data as well as all the parameters they used in training it.

Forget all of these half-measures. The perfect way to write English had already been invented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavian_alphabet?wprov=sfla1

Via RobWords: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D66LrlotvCA

The post. The email in the screenshot.

I call bullshit. I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, but this seems fake to me.

Edit: I initially assumed OP created the fake email deliberately for ragebait. But most other people are assuming OP thinks (or thought) this email was real, meaning it’s a scam email and OP’s friend might be actively falling for the scam. I now agree with this interpretation. Sorry my initial comments were a bit rude.

I think (not 100% sure) that UEFI is a replacement for BIOS. All modern computers use UEFI.

People still colloquially call it “BIOS” because it serves a similar purpose, but there is a technical difference.

February 32nd, 1765

I still don’t understand why and how this TV show ever existed

Just out of curiosity: what do you need that the newer versions have but the version on Mint is missing?

Oh, I hate a lot about Android/Google too. One particular pet peeve of mine is that WebAPKs are still exclusive to Chrome (and, on Samsung devices only, Samsung Internet) despite the FAQ promising that “We are working on it. We are committed to making this available to all browsers on Android and we will have more details soon.” (Last updated 2017-05-21)

There is no good option in smartphones, you have to choose the lesser evil. For me that’s Android. I can appreciate that for some people it would be iOS. What drives me up a wall is that people defend these awful practices.

It was just a snarky comment. Apple does a lot of things well. I just find their anticompetitive practices deplorable.

Nothing in Apple’s ecosystem is worth it.