PygmySurfer's comments

On: Disappointing Phones

[PygmySurfer]

“Size: They have a "mini" phone, which lives up to its name!”

Yeah, about that…

[doubled112 → PygmySurfer]

The battery life on my iPhone 13 Mini never great, but I’m still hanging onto it because of the form factor.

There doesn’t seem to be a great upgrade path, plus it looks like I just bought it.

On: Canadians promised to boycott travel to US. They meant it

[PygmySurfer]

It saves you the hassle of going through customs when you land at your destination.

On: GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor

[PygmySurfer]

Mah-tay

[quasarj → PygmySurfer]

WHAT D:

[kwk1 → quasarj]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerba_mate

[jbindel → PygmySurfer]

lol, no thank you

On: Intel will start making GPUs

[PygmySurfer]

My first thought was also “ARC isn’t a GPU?”. Pretty awful “reporting” here, they should have clarified TSMC is currently manufacturing Intel GPUs, and Intel will start doing it themselves.

On: Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3

[PygmySurfer]

> It sounds like a great idea, then a government shut down happens.

How about fixing the government so it can’t be shut down because a few hundred politicians can’t agree on the next budget?

[t-3 → PygmySurfer]

Neither party is interested in amending the Constitution, which would be necessary, and even if they were, the country is so deeply divided that it would likely be unsuccessful except maybe to knock a few inalienable rights off the list.

[nozzlegear → PygmySurfer]

> How about fixing the government so it can’t be shut down because a few hundred politicians can’t agree on the next budget?

"Thanks I'm cured" material. You're not the first person to think of that, and the fact that it hasn't been done yet probably means it can't be done very easily.

On: The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar

[PygmySurfer]

I was there, too, and I remember all of the FUD from MS. I remember the Halloween documents, MS funding SCO’s lawsuit, etc. MS saw Linux as a threat, especially in the server space. The goal was to stomp it out, like they did to Netscape.