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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • (https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/birth-of-the-computer/4/83)

    early generation computers fueled a demand that was being supplied by rooms and rooms of human calculators calculating and checking each other’s works for scientists, engineers, businesses, and government agencies


    (Manhattan Project, Atomic Heritage Foundation picture)

    they would not have died out, because they were a necessary part of the evolution of technology at their time. more importantly, they were more accurate than their human calculators. computers don’t forget to carry a number to the next digit or flip them around. barring exceptionally rare cosmic radiation events. and their technological progression fueled an ever greater need until now when tech has entered post-scarcity when it comes to calculating power.

    generative AI in contrast was an offering looking for a purpose. spare gigaflops no longer needed for tech people are trying to sell by building more and more hype for calculating power. sucks to be the one who invests into it, but that’s business. sometimes investment don’t work out. if microsoft can’t hype up a demand then it is unnecessary technology.








  • agreeing with orclev - i setup an older nvidia gpu pc on linux mint and that pc has to have all other applications closed to play minecraft when it used to handle youtube video or actual video running and maybe an antivirus scan in the background and minecraft on top fine in windows.

    GPU is running (as opposed to when the driver failed to load haha) but some kind of processing is still on CPU, i tracked down the problem but the point where i figured out i need to keep up with the latest vaapi and compile it to just diagnose it i stopped and told the kids how to quit other programs first before minecraft. or bloons.

    edit: found my problem. mission center randomly spikes in cpu and memory use and gets to 99% in both…and i’m constantly running it. now i bask in swap utilization 0% forever and ever


  • got mint xfce, because that’s what i used before win10, and that’s what i use on and off usually ever since then. i think it’s gnome that made me change to xfce and it was clunky back then on ubuntu, though i can’t remember my actual beef with it, so i changed to mint and never changed to anything else.

    i use handwriting input on windows and have bullied the pattern recognition into learning my handwriting almost perfectly - that’s the only thing i miss. i miss it a lot…

    expecting at some point my mom will give up and ask for linux on her windows 10 laptop since her grandkids use ‘free online games’ websites (she doesn’t do any banking or serious stuff on it, so i’m not that bothered) and it will get devoured by malware but even odds it will be me or my brother.