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Readings, musings, and experiments over the weekend

February 3, 2026 Readings, musings, and experiments over the weekend2026-02-10T21:06:23+01:00 2 Comments Acer, AI, apocalypse, AppImages, apps, FreeBSD, Lenovo, Linux, longread, openSUSE, Soplos, Ubuntu, XFCE, Xubuntu

There are hundreds and hundreds of titles that I notice every week; some of them led me to reading the respective articles, but very few of them trigger a post…

The dead and the reborn BSDs — now updated + Chimera Linux!

July 3, 2024 The dead and the reborn BSDs — now updated + Chimera Linux!2024-12-31T00:35:37+01:00 22 Comments apocalypse, Chimera, DesktopBSD, FreeBSD, GhostBSD, Linux, longread, NetBSD, NomadBSD, OpenBSD, PC-BSD, systemd

The BSDs, especially FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, are far from being dead. The problem is that they never targeted the desktop users, especially not the laptop users. Here's what…

Snae on Why is Linux attracting mentally retarded “experts” and users?: “@HAL It’s not mental deficiency. If you look at recent studies of hard-core computer enthusiasts, quite especially programmers, the researchers…” Feb 20, 13:50
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “Oh, my, The Graystones Live at St. Frances Cabrini Carnival 2025! ❶ The Graystones LIVE: First Set (1 of 3),…” Feb 19, 23:36
sofleet on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “The Graystones last live show is still available… The Graystones LIVE: First Set (1 of 3), 10-11-25. In part 2,…” Feb 19, 23:29
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “If the parents of a former member of the group expressed “privacy claims,” this amounts to sabotaging the group and…” Feb 19, 10:41
kaasboer on AI and more on the Japanese note.com: “Hi, it seems Anthropic / Claude is in trouble because they don’t allow the use of their AI for the…” Feb 19, 10:12
sofleet on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “A bunch of videos became unavailable on the same day due to a privacy claim. Issues with prior members? Evan…” Feb 19, 03:29
Béranger on Să ne înspăimântăm alături de Armand Goșu: “Să ne mai înspăimântăm o dată! Din zecile de discuții cu Armand Goșu pe care le-am urmărit în ultima vreme,…” Feb 18, 23:39
bob on SSDs are not magic—but YT shorts are somewhat dumb, too: “HDDs are significantly cheaper to purchase, too! In 99% of use cases, the speed difference between these drives is just…” Feb 18, 20:22
Béranger on They cancelled Sabine H. for calling the emperor naked!: “Sabine Hossenfelder: The Quantum Computer Dream is Falling Apart: The story of quantum computing is becoming increasingly clear, I think.…” Feb 18, 14:25
Béranger on Chatbots are mostly clueless regarding the game of GO: “It makes sense as a theory, but I beg to differ. Sometimes, the same LLM that was keen to adopt…” Feb 17, 12:36
Aldus on Chatbots are mostly clueless regarding the game of GO: “My intuition is that the stubbornness of some LLMs doesn’t stem from an inferiority in their reasoning process, but rather…” Feb 17, 12:33
Béranger on Lumo by Proton: a fraud of an AI: “A Japanese blog post from Sept. 2, 2025, claims that this post of mine might be outdated: “Some of the…” Feb 16, 16:12
Béranger on E-book readers on Windows and Android: my 2 cents: “On Android, I uninstalled ReadEra and Readest, so I’m left with the original trio (eReader Prestigio + Lithium + Kindle),…” Feb 16, 01:16
Norbert Preining on Two Debian developers’ ignominious fight with AI: “I am still alive, I just washed Debian down the gutter and moved on. I still praise Debian for its…” Feb 16, 00:35
Béranger on Nicolas Kovacs, aka Kiki Novak, finds refuge in Debian!: “Vous ne savez pas lire ? Janvier 2026 ! Et j’ai bien mentionné ces quatre systèmes.” Feb 15, 22:04
HAL on Nicolas Kovacs, aka Kiki Novak, finds refuge in Debian!: “Oooh ! Ce doit être assez récent, car encore le 30 juin 2025 : “J’ai donc décidé de me simplifier…” Feb 15, 22:02
Béranger on Peekaboo: Top 8 chatbots ➕ Top 10 advanced ways to use LLMs: “Perplexity’s willingness to create images was inconsistent back then. Now it would create an image, now it would say it…” Feb 13, 09:50
Aldus on Peekaboo: Top 8 chatbots ➕ Top 10 advanced ways to use LLMs: “Claude, DeepSeek, and Perplexity cannot create images. Perplexity can – and I’ve used it for this in the past, but…” Feb 13, 09:45
Béranger on Reassessing the usefulness of major LLMs: “I’ve read a lot of testimonials saying that ChatGPT is getting dumber and dumber. I’m still dumbfounded as to why…” Feb 13, 00:22
Aldus on Reassessing the usefulness of major LLMs: “And this is exactly one of the reasons why ChatGPT stays relevant: everyone uses it. That’s how you see the…” Feb 13, 00:20
Béranger on Reassessing the usefulness of major LLMs: “Every single idiot on Earth is using ChatGPT. Most of them never heard of any other chatbot. You have too…” Feb 13, 00:03
Aldus on Reassessing the usefulness of major LLMs: “No more Claude? Interesting. I think ChatGPT is still somewhat relevant because it sets the trends. And just the other…” Feb 13, 00:02
Béranger on Reassessing the usefulness of major LLMs: “Supposed to, but not necessarily so. But how could I pay for a service/product that does not impress?!” Feb 12, 14:45
HAL on Reassessing the usefulness of major LLMs: “Some major chatbots are getting worse. Yes, but also because you are using the free version rather than their more…” Feb 12, 14:43
Béranger on The futile quest for the last cheap laptop with enough RAM: “I did that with the previous laptop in 2023. I’m not doing that again. Not these days, when you can’t…” Feb 12, 10:03
zugu on The futile quest for the last cheap laptop with enough RAM: “I’ve always bought new laptops with minimal RAM & storage amounts, the upgraded them myself later. It was cheaper that…” Feb 12, 08:30
Béranger on Readings, musings, and experiments over the weekend: “I found the reason of the bug in Soplos XFCE.” Feb 10, 21:07
nobody on Lumo by Proton: a fraud of an AI: “Lumo. Under the guidelines of its set-up and Proton’s privacy policies, it literally won’t say anything about politics. I asked…” Feb 10, 18:49
Béranger on A Big Beautiful Bullshit List: “When shit trumps shit, and everything collapses: Fear of AI Replacing Software Makers Hits Stocks. Here’s What to Know. In…” Feb 10, 15:29
Béranger on I did say I’ll be back, didn’t I?: “Not all distros are born equal.” Feb 9, 17:51
HAL on I did say I’ll be back, didn’t I?: “If the installed system disconnects from the Wi-Fi by itself, it’s usually because of a too extreme power management policy…” Feb 9, 17:09
Béranger on Debian has its retards too: they plan to kill GTK2!: “The retard who keeps invoking the Dunning-Kruger effect commented on this post: “Someone has also never seen the original Debian…” Feb 9, 16:13
Béranger on Flopzilla is retarded: “A complete shithead that kept calling me an idiot in a dozen comments that I couldn’t approve because there wasn’t…” Feb 9, 15:54
Béranger on Is openSUSE at crossroads?: “OpenSUSE Zypper clearly states the permissions can be overridden by the package you are installing 1. Where does it say…” Feb 9, 13:39
. on Is openSUSE at crossroads?: “Isn’t it supposedly like it’s meant to be? I mean OpenSUSE Zypper clearly states the permissions can be overridden by…” Feb 9, 13:35
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “MAJOR CHANGES in The Graystones! First, watch the cover of INXS’s Never Tear Us Apart. What happened to the group:…” Feb 9, 00:36
Béranger on Neamul românesc suge pula: “Știu, dar n-are a face. Oferta OFICIALĂ e destul de veche și ea. Nimeni nu folosește ceva mai vechi decât…” Feb 8, 21:10
zugu on Neamul românesc suge pula: “Secărică oferă diacriticele corecte în Windows de 26 de ani, începând cu 95 (fără 3.1, favoritul tău): https://www.secarica.ro/en/rou/tastatura-ro” Feb 8, 21:07
Béranger on Iar îmi desființez contul eMag: “Fugi, bre, că nu-i pe criterii de etnie, sex, religie, sau apartenență la un grup de orice fel. Adică da,…” Feb 8, 21:01
nobody on Iar îmi desființez contul eMag: “Salut, Ai grija cu exprimarea (ma refer la partea de la sfarsit-ul articolului… aia cu impuscatu’ in cap). De cand…” Feb 8, 20:56
Aldus on Neamul românesc suge pula: “Citește acea sedilă ca pe o virgulă stilizată! 🙂 Să vezi chestie: și MLM-urile afișează câteodată sedile în loc de…” Feb 8, 01:36
Aldus on A paper about the Boltzmann brain paradox, vulgarized by AI: “Perhaps it is worth noting that Boltzmann, who was also a professor of philosophy, went insane and hanged himself.” Feb 8, 01:12
HAL on On browser wars and stupid people: “Strangely, MX has ungoogled-chromium in its repositories. https://mxrepo.com/MX25packages.html Well, it’s the penultimate version, not the very latest, but .109-1 instead…” Feb 5, 22:41
Béranger on On browser wars and stupid people: “Google or no Google, I don’t care. They can suck my dick. I can even use Edge: microsoft-edge-stable_144.0.3719.104-1_amd64.deb (or whichever…” Feb 5, 14:42
HAL on On browser wars and stupid people: “I need both Firefox and a Chromium-based second browser. https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium 😉” Feb 5, 14:39
Dino on Microsoft + snaps: music to my ears!: “To each their own, I suppose! 😉” Feb 5, 12:49
Béranger on Microsoft + snaps: music to my ears!: “I hope you’re not talking about ZX Spectrum or Amstrad CPC, because I preferred MS-DOS games.” Feb 5, 11:34
Dino on Microsoft + snaps: music to my ears!: “Since I’ve also been using my own brains since the 1970s, I remember the 80s computer games and how they…” Feb 5, 10:24
Béranger on Bad news in Ubuntu land, Nemo was retarded, and more: “Speaking of the future of Ubuntu MATE and of its non-qualification as LTS for 26.04, there is this thread on…” Feb 5, 00:57
Béranger on Readings, musings, and experiments over the weekend: “A small update on M.2 2242 SSD and RAM speed, including estimations on running a 7B LLM locally.” Feb 4, 20:53
Béranger on The magic of Fedora Linux: “BONUS: Linux Lite 7.8 with Yaru icons:” Feb 4, 12:23
Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “Added SWR 4 BaWü; Smooth Jazz CD 101.9 New York, WCLK Jazz 91.9 Atlanta, and WCLK HD2 Mainstream/Classic Jazz; and…” Feb 3, 21:14
Gnomesucks on The magic of Fedora Linux: “https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/yaru-gtk-theme Who would have guessed that Arch has more normalcy than Fedora.” Feb 3, 17:39
Béranger on The magic of Fedora Linux: “I tried installing the same yaru-theme in the live session of the Fedora 43 XFCE spin. The results were similar:…” Feb 3, 00:49
Béranger on Flopzilla is retarded: “I risk becoming Chinese if I keep using Kimi!” Feb 2, 20:53
nobody on Flopzilla is retarded: “Careful! You risk becoming retarded using too much AI 😉” Feb 2, 20:51
Béranger on He’s not right, but he’s not exactly wrong, either: “I’m occasionally wrong, and I made a correction: sometimes, Ubuntu still maintains a package that was abandoned by Debian!” Feb 2, 20:51
Béranger on Language Learning Apps, Revisited: 34 Products + Bonus Links: “I mentioned Katie Harris here, Stefano Chiaromonte in another post, and the channel “Joy of Languages. Italian” in another comment.…” Feb 2, 16:10
Béranger on AI and Linux: comments and resolutions for 2026: “While testing (in a live session) if the build of xebian-trixie-amd64.hybrid.iso from Jan. 26 is still not broken (it’s not)…” Jan 31, 21:54
Béranger on Wanderings around Debian: “While Linux Lite 7.8 Final has been released and it seems to bear quite some changes over Linux Lite 7.8-rc1…” Jan 31, 20:50