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Șase scurte note despre AI

December 4, 2025 Șase scurte note despre AI2025-12-04T22:49:12+01:00 No Comment AI, Claude, Gemini, google, Grok, Kimi, pe românește

Firește, nu este doar impresia mea că LLM-urile astea de uz general devin tot mai stupide. Probabil că sunt mai mulți factori care contribuie la acest fenomen, de la „AI…

Marele Război și Marea Unire, povestite de Mircea Badea

December 3, 2025 Marele Război și Marea Unire, povestite de Mircea Badea2025-12-03T06:28:45+01:00 2 Comments history, pe românește

În seara de 1 Decembrie, Mircea Badea a avut pentru prima oară în viața lui mintea pe-acasă, și ne-a povestit romanțat un episod de istorie. Înregistrarea emisiunii a ajuns pe…

I tried Inbox Comics, and I liked what I saw

December 2, 2025 I tried Inbox Comics, and I liked what I saw2025-12-03T00:05:39+01:00 No Comment comics, tips

A reader suggested I try Inbox Comics, a free and ad-free service that would send you daily the comics of your choice from a list of over 400 (currently, 439)…

Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!

December 1, 2025 Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!2025-12-02T22:53:09+01:00 21 Comments android, apps, dictionaries, eurocrap, google, Google_is_shit, Justice, SPECIAL

I just lost €12.99 because of Google Play Store, despite having in theory many more rights than the Americans, as the responsible entity in my case is Google Commerce Limited,…

ConEst on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “🥳” Dec 5, 01:28
Béranger on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “UPDATE: I found a way to disable Windows Defender in Win11!” Dec 5, 01:17
ConEst on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “My crappy usb drive will give up on me before my OS hopping tendencies, I’m sure. Oh well.” Dec 5, 00:49
ConEst on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “That sounds painful! May the experience give you much joy, brother. It’s still windows though, so there’s a ceiling to…” Dec 5, 00:47
Béranger on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “Win10 IoT LTSC is installed on the HP 1-liter PC. I wanted to have a Win11 experience, to learn new…” Dec 5, 00:42
ConEst on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “May I know what made you move away from Win 10 IoT ltsc? I’m still drawn towards that even though…” Dec 5, 00:41
ConEst on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “Yeah I saw schneegan’s xml generator page mentioning it as their inspiration.” Dec 5, 00:30
Béranger on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “Oh, I should try what Rudy Mens says here!” Dec 5, 00:15
Béranger on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “This is irrelevant now. I don’t want to debloat a standard Win11 ISO. I used an IoT ISO, so there…” Dec 5, 00:12
ConEst on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “I used it with 25H2 iso. And yes it was a bit complicated for me as well but this Pureinfotech…” Dec 5, 00:08
Béranger on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “It’s complicated and I never do unattended/OEM installations. Also, you might have installed an older version of Win11. OK, it…” Dec 5, 00:00
ConEst on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “If someone really wants to disable windows defender, I found the best way to do it was using schneegans’s unattended…” Dec 4, 23:55
Béranger on Marele Război și Marea Unire, povestite de Mircea Badea: “Adineauri, „Mircea Badea chiar el” și-a exprimat profunda adeziune și nețărmurita apreciere (deci „a aprobat pozitiv”) proaspăta inițiativă a lui…” Dec 4, 23:25
Lucian on Marele Război și Marea Unire, povestite de Mircea Badea: “Nda, chiar misto videoclipul. Merci ca ai postat, ca eu nu ma mai uit la nimic stiri sau emisiuni (din…” Dec 4, 22:40
Béranger on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “A huge collection of crap, most of them being both in copyright infringement and outdated (e.g. AHD3 and AHD4 but…” Dec 4, 18:52
ConEst on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “I’ve found some pretty good ones here.” Dec 4, 18:35
Béranger on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “I disliked GoldenDict ~15 years ago, and I stopped caring about it. It’s mostly used with pirated dictionary databases that…” Dec 3, 23:28
ConEst on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “I’ve been using GoldenDict for a while now and it’s been serving me quite well. Can manage my dictionary collection…” Dec 3, 22:10
Béranger on 📖 In the unlikely event you installed Lubuntu 25.10…: “Here’s a potentially useful option in LXQt that was suggested to me and which might not be offered by other…” Dec 3, 18:37
Béranger on Windows IoT 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021: Would you have expected me to write about it?: “And this is what happened: Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100.” Dec 3, 16:45
Béranger on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “Two small updates (with screenshots): Update 1: If it was “Offered by Google Commerce Ltd,” then Google should reimburse me,…” Dec 2, 22:54
Béranger on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “OK, so the above site (Windows 7 Games for Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1, and Windows 8) offers: ❶…” Dec 2, 18:22
ng6333 on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “Windows 7 Games package that is compatible with Windows 11/10, other classic apps, such as WordPad, classic Calculator, Sticky Notes,…” Dec 2, 17:36
Béranger on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “Too much is too much! I couldn’t stand anymore the lines hidden by the navigation bar in Antony Lewis’ apps…” Dec 2, 00:19
Béranger on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “Thanks, this might be useful to other people, but: (1) I don’t use Nvidia. (2) I only needed “the latest…” Dec 2, 00:00
Béranger on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “I know of all those pieces of software, and more, but I decided to simplify my life. Some of them…” Dec 1, 23:58
disguisedcr0w on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “Oh, and another one: I also suggest StationDrivers & manual driver installation. Most of the time, this isn’t necessary, as…” Dec 1, 23:58
disguisedcr0w on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “I suggest a few other user application software compared to the ones you’ve mentioned, such as: StartAllBack, ExplorerPatcher, NTLite (DISM…” Dec 1, 23:54
HAL on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “(As I am unable to respond directly to your last comment, I am replying here.) Dans les deux : Achats…” Dec 1, 22:58
Béranger on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “Too much just to have the thesaurus added.” Dec 1, 22:52
HAL on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “Collins English Dictionary for iPhone. There is a more complete, and more expensive, version: https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/collins-dictionary-thesaurus/id926221123” Dec 1, 22:50
Béranger on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “1. Merriam-Webster has (American) audio for most entries. 2. Smartphones are for teens. Try using a computer more often! 🤡…” Dec 1, 22:26
HAL on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “(The paying one only adds audio pronunciations.) Yes. Exactly. So, it could perhaps be useful for a “foreigner” to check…” Dec 1, 22:24
Béranger on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “There’s actually the other way around. Chambers, being a British brand, they always use “-ise” in print! In the Chambers…” Dec 1, 22:20
HAL on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “Yes. In both, by default, I only had the second one enabled, “Hide in suggestions”. In the thesaurus, but not…” Dec 1, 22:13
Béranger on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “By the way, are these WordWeb any good? I only have the 2 Chambers. Yes. Sort of. Stuck in the…” Dec 1, 22:04
HAL on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “Apple is much more tolerant. Yes. By the way, are these WordWeb any good? I only have the 2 Chambers.…” Dec 1, 21:57
Béranger on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “In Antony Lewis’s apps, make sure you disable the “decency filter”:” Dec 1, 21:35
Béranger on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “It doesn’t matter. 3 months is “fresh” enough. The version numbers don’t need to be the same in Android vs…” Dec 1, 21:29
HAL on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “Antony Lewis constantly updates the apps (“compatibility fixes”): the apps are all at versions 6.x, and recently updated All of…” Dec 1, 21:25
Béranger on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “The two Google employees resemble chatbots rather than real people. They were real people, but they have predefined answers to…” Dec 1, 20:18
HAL on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “The two Google employees resemble chatbots rather than real people. Some people might prefer to go along with more “sensible”…” Dec 1, 20:11
Béranger on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “One more post that nobody will understand because everyone has ADHD these days, but I already added a few more…” Dec 1, 15:16
System Administrator on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “Totally fair! We have to use what works well for us. As for your other thoughts, for better or worse,…” Dec 1, 01:12
Béranger on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “I’m happy for you, but it would be too much trouble for me. Random notes and questions: 1. I still…” Dec 1, 00:57
System Administrator on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “I’ve been running Void on a laptop for quite a while now; unlike a server, which might be able to…” Dec 1, 00:48
Béranger on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “Thanks. But, to me, Void is little more than an experiment and unsuited for one’s daily driver on the desktop/laptop.…” Nov 30, 23:42
System Administrator on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “I recently switched from Windows to Linux and, at this time, I’m using Void. While I originally tried the granddaddy,…” Nov 30, 23:37
Béranger on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “Nah, Linux on the desktop (read: laptop) is not exactly pain-free or hassle-free. It might still take a couple of…” Nov 30, 19:17
System Administrator on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “Wow! I appreciate the extensive break down, but what a major PITA! Thanks for reminding me why I left Windows…” Nov 30, 19:14
Béranger on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “Kaspersky Standard switched to Kaspersky Free right at the end of the setup if I did not want to use…” Nov 30, 11:34
Laurențiu on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “Hi! I was a KAV Free user until all people said is a no-no. But I still have the account……” Nov 30, 10:09
Alexandre Dubois on It ain’t no freedom, and it’ll be even less of it: “You have a brain and use it. I love people who use their brains. I feel less lonely. Thank you…” Nov 27, 20:22
Béranger on Me no know much, but running LLMs locally was disappointing: “I’m not a fan of running AI models locally on low-end systems (and I hate Nvidia), but 4 weeks ago…” Nov 27, 12:39
Béranger on eMag Marketplace: loc de luat țeapă de la chinezii din Lyon!: “eMag continuă să afișeze falsuri ordinare pe marketplace, iar cum vânzarea se face prin eMag.ro, sunt complici la înșelătorie! Dar…” Nov 26, 22:01
Béranger on ChatGPT și CCR: Deci așa, cam în vreo 15 ani…: “Curtea Constituțională decide cine trăiește și cine moare. CCR a respins criteriul oncologic pentru retragerea integrală a fondurilor din pensiile…” Nov 25, 22:19
Jonney Bonehead on Microsoft’s lawsuits alone should have made us ditch them: “Why does all of society put up with these goons? In a saner world these deranged tech CEOs and their…” Nov 24, 20:23
Béranger on Should we stop wanting to hack-install Win11 on older CPUs?: “This is mostly about smartphones, not just computers, but it’s terribly offensive and dumb: Americans are holding onto devices longer…” Nov 24, 15:12
Béranger on SPECIAL: Trust your gut, but revise your subjunctive—and beware of dictionaries!: “And a tiny addition: Merriam-Webster censors!” Nov 24, 00:01
Béranger on On the AI Apocalypse: ARTE documentaries & NYT interviews: “Peter Thiel at “Interesting Times” with Ross Douthat: — On YT: A.I., Mars and Immortality: Are We Dreaming Big Enough?…” Nov 23, 17:21