I know this is said in hindsight, but the way the first paragraph is written sets off alarm bells of weird reporting, and I imagine probably was what triggered you to look into it further.

ASUS plans to produce RAM amid shortage problems, hoping to ease the rising costs of laptops and gaming PCs.

While I get that Asus naturally would want to be competitive, why would they (from an economic standpoint) care about ‘easing the rising costs’ of their products. They would have actual motives like trying to be independent of these major memory manufacturers.

Reports say the company is preparing to manufacture DDR5 memory by 2026.

2026 is in less than 5 days. If this instead said “by the end of 2026” or longer I’d have a better time believing that claim.

They had me at “Sustainability - Save the planet by talking about it.”

Unpaywalled link: https://archive.is/6UiCT

From the headline I surely thought it was a bit clickbaity and maybe they wanted to use a ML algorithm to monitor some states of the facility.

Microsoft and nuclear power company Westinghouse Nuclear want to use AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.

The construction of a nuclear plant involves a long legal and regulatory process called licensing that’s aimed at minimizing the risks of irradiating the public.

Nope, seems that tech companies are trying to further feed the electricity demands of their data centers even if it means trying to fast track licensing.

Trump’s done a lot to make it easier for companies to build new nuclear reactors and use AI for licensing. […] The goal of [Trump’s May 2025 Executive Order] is to speed up the construction of reactors and get through the licensing process faster.

At the same time, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has gutted the NRC.  In September, members of the NRC told Congress they were worried they’d be fired if they didn’t approve nuclear reactor designs favored by the administration.

Of fucking course Trump and DOGE is in the mix here too.

All of this extra radiation risk so that the top 1%r’s have their pockets lined and we end up with Copilot and Recall. God damn.

I need to migrate a server off Windows

Why is this? I think we’re missing a step here. Especially in the self hosted community, it’s safe to say we are all very pro Linux, but it’s not an automatic benefit for every possible use case. Why is the business seeking to move off Windows Server and why do they care about this?

I’m only a level two tech with not a wealth of experience, but deviating from industry standard tools like Windows Server is setting off alarm bells because:

• No professional would do this unless there was a very niche purpose or requirement
• Is the business trying to cheap out on a Windows Server license? If so, as a tech it immediately brings their operations and priorities into question
• How will the server be managed long term? If you’re not the one doing it, it’s going to require specialised technicians that are experienced with Linux, which is going to be more expensive
• Not being a professional setup, how do you plan to address security concerns and protecting the server? Will there be any intrusion detection or prevention?
• This breaks the principle of least astonishment

If a tech was called in to look at why the CCTV isn’t working, or the music not playing, the place they call is going to send out a level 2+ tech, and they’re expected to know Windows Server and figure out third party applications on that server (or find their support line for further information). That tech is not going to expect a Linux server, and they’re going to rightfully walk the fuck away from that, and tell the business to call a Linux technician, which are way less common, probably remote only and more expensive.

I would only hazard against Debian for gaming because of it’s slower update cycle (yes yes you could use unstable or sid…), so performance improvements or fixes will take longer to get to you.

Otherwise I completely second your comment; OOP, just pick anything mainstream like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Bazzite, Pop!_OS, you’ll be fine on any of those. Once you’re comfortable with whatever you chose, then you’ll be more informed on picking a distro more suitable for your liking.

This is a blatant advertisement. Account is 2 days old with very minimal activity, and the linked URL is on my uBlock blocklist. Fuck off with this Reddit shit, you’re not welcome on Lemmy.

Edit: I’d suggest users not reply here, this bot just DM’d me trying to convince me to give it a go.

I mean, they absolutely could and it would be absolutely trivial to compare a database of crime rates to your departure location. The question should really be “Are they checking if I’m in a shady neighborhood?”

Part of the reason why I take good care of my little 24" dumb TV. It’s on the lower end (poor viewing angles, absolutely no adjustment on the legs) but I still have a use for it, so I won’t be replacing it.

The other concern I have with smart TVs is because manufacturers basically install a smartphone SoC, the TV’s lifecycle is now the same as a smartphone. Most people probably won’t connect a new smart TV box to their discontinued, laggy (thanks to bloated apps) smart TV, the completely functional unit just gets replaced.

We need regulation to be able to unlock these devices and make available the firmware drivers so that after the manufacturer stops support, the community can continue it (and obviously for us hackers, we would strip the system of all telemetry)

I wouldn’t think so - it depends on your priorities.

The open source and offline nature of this without the pretenses of “Hey, we’re gonna use every query you give as a data point to shove more products down your face” seems very appealing over Gemini. There’s also that Gemini is constantly being shoved in our faces and preinstalled, whereas this is a completely optional download.

I thought from the headline that it was just a downgrade to Business Standard, no this is to Business Basic! That’s a huge yikes, it’s so much harder to be productive in those web versions.

I honestly would not be surprised if users work out installing LibreOffice et al. so they can still have a desktop app experience because of this move.

It’s a fair bit older than yours, but I’ve been so pleased with my X260. I originally got it as a side to my T480 but I find myself just taking the X260 when studying and leaving my T480 as a docked laptop because of the smaller form factor, battery life is way better (6 hours for my use) and for what I do (attending online classes, programming, and other studies) the performance is good enough (on LMDE, it probably wouldn’t take Windows well anymore)

The later X series like the X280 have options for quad core processors I believe if you wanted more performance. Given I only paid $120AUD for my X260 and I like the slight chunkiness of it (feels more rugged for on the go) that the X280 lost, I’m not upgrading anytime soon.

That’s about as ‘judging a book by it’s cover’ as it gets.

Ultimately OP isn’t trying to sell it to you, they’re just saying that for them, they’ve been happy with it.

And hey, if you choose your distros based on their name, I’d like to see you sell that idea.

Open source Windows activation scripts

I got absolutely fooled by a tech YouTuber posting that Microsoft added OneDrive ads to the blue screen, so it felt good to get got for once.

However with real life news, I tend to agree with you. The distinction between satire and real life is getting ever more minuscule

I really want to see what the bullshit looks like - shame the article doesn’t actually show a sample, guess I’d have to make my browser look like an AI crawler

Kind of. They’re actually trying to avoid this according to the article:

“The company says the content served to bots is deliberately irrelevant to the website being crawled, but it is carefully sourced or generated using real scientific facts—such as neutral information about biology, physics, or mathematics—to avoid spreading misinformation (whether this approach effectively prevents misinformation, however, remains unproven).”