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3 days agoWe cannot forget that 3dfx went under when they bought STB to manufacture their own video cards instead of letting their board partners do it.
Mereo
Mereo is a sociologist who is also a nerd. He believes in open-source software.
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3dfx had market dominance in 90s but then basically committed suicide.
Very true. They committed suicide when they bought STB so that they could manufacture their own video cards. They didn’t just focus on chip R&D, they needed to manufacture and market their own video cards instead of letting board partners do it.
Nice! I installed Linux Mint on my father’s computer and I haven’t been tech support since. It’s been quiet days compared to when he was using Windows.
31·7 days agoThe Fediverse is the way. In this Financialised capitalism, capitalist platforms will continue to be enshitified as they only tend to shareholders interests of continual growth. They do not care about humans.
We need to keep this momentum going.
2·7 days agoIt’s not AI. LLMs are not intelligent, they do not think. It’s only a marketing term.
Sigh . It’s not AI; it’s a machine learning algorithm. Nevertheless, this is the right use of the technology. Machine learning is all about finding correlations in big data, and this is a good example of that.
9·7 days agoI agree. It’s ChatGPT style, I hate it.
There could be multiple factors. For example, I have a Nextcloud instance that is fully managed by Hetzner, and I didn’t bother to find out what database it uses…