Recent content by Christopher_115

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    News FCC proposal aims to nix long-term gigabit internet speed goals, pricing analysis

    U.S. versus South Korea. I don't understand why people make this comparison when it comes to things like this. https://ibb.co/SWYfyNL
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    News I've been gaming on Windows for over 30 years, but now I'm giving Linux a shot

    What an incredibly annoying article format. I guess you were doing this live for some reason earlier? (Though why anyone would sit and watch the screen waiting for updates for something like this is beyond me.) But now we have to scroll all the way down to the first "tile", scroll down through...
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    News Intel concerned about Irish energy costs says report — wants gov to subsidize renewables

    Nuclear solves this. This is such a self-inflicted wound.
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    News Gemini AI tells the user to die — the answer appears out of nowhere as the user was asking Gemini's help with his homework

    Theory: I know nothing about Gemini, but maybe user pasted in Question 15, then initiated an audio input to prompt for that crazy response with his microphone. View: https://imgur.com/gallery/gemini-hoax-ynAc9YY
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    News Super-lightweight operating system boots off a 1.44MB floppy disk — KolibriOS lets you do simple tasks and even play games on your legacy PC

    "Super-lightweight operating system boots off a 1.44MB floppy disk — KolibriOS lets you do simple tasks and even play games on your legacy PC" Wow, they recreated MS-DOS 3. :LOL:
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    News Man who lost half-billion dollar Bitcoin HDD sues local authority for $500 million for not letting him dig through landfill

    I'm far from a Bitcoin expert, but isn't the idea that a hard drive can "contain 8000 Bitcoins" completely erroneous and not at all how Bitcoin works? I guess the hard drive contained his wallet id, and he didn't have it stored anywhere else?
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    This surprising tool saved my PC build and my sanity -- now it's on sale for $16

    Light is nice, but in these cases a magnetic tool is best. https://www.amazon.com/telescoping-magnetic-pick-up-tool/s?k=telescoping+magnetic+pick+up+tool
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    News Musician charged with wire fraud after using thousands of bots to stream AI music to earn millions in royalties

    I wonder if people aren't getting that it was bots that were streaming his stuff, not actual people. So he was getting paid without any actual humans listening. Totally deserves jail, it's literally stealing from the royalty payers.
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    How to Convert a PDF File to a JPG or Convert a JPG to a PDF

    What in the world would be the point?
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    News Nvidia RTX 4090 Ti and Titan RTX Ada: Everything We Know

    What's with these crappy tables that need horizontal scrolling, but you have to scroll down to the bottom, scroll right, then scroll back up to the top to be able to see it?