You don’t need Windows for gaming.

Sure, some games only work on Windows but some only work on Switch or PS5 and you can still play video games without playing those in particular.

Yes, on the licensing front RISC-V is better.

How can you have a preference if you don’t understand?

It’s neither. It’s a specification that you can use to build your own chip.

So it’s more like MPEG where you can read the doc and create your own implementation.

No it’s not, anyone can get a license to create an ARM chipset but you do need to pay for a license.

There is xreal, nreal, rokid… Plenty of manufacturers to pick with, and you can spare money for a regular laptop.

It’s a bad idea because you can get a regular laptop and AR glasses just as light as those. Check nreal, rokid…

This way you can use the laptop as a regular laptop and the glasses with other devices.

It’s just because it’s the most used in this case

Especially considering that Slashdot stopped being relevant, maybe… 20 years ago?

Simply be mindful of our energy usage, and not just rely on decarbonization. We need both because decarbonization will not happen overnight.

Historically, worldwide our production of renewable have kept growing, the percentage have been growing, but fossil fuels usage have also kept growing.

Now we get a new technology that is using even more energy, maybe we should work on energy efficiency and use that tech sparingly instead of building more data centers so incels can get their voice chat AI girlfriend, and say “we’ll just install more solar panels and windmills”.

I agree that the article is a bit confusing, but we can’t keep increasing energy consumption and hope decarbonization will fix it.

From an environmental point of view energy is never free. Also as long as we still use fossil fuels, any new usage of renewable (e.g. run AI on solar panels) is energy that could have been use to replace fossil usage.

It’s slow and you depend on the wind blowing.

If sails were that great we would still be using them for freight, we didn’t switch to petroleum for the fun of it. Environmental issues put aside it’s a pretty great source of energy.

Well there is a reason we stopped using those.

It’s been 8 years. If they still need humans to check they’ll always need them.

Honestly, I don’t miss Internet April Fools.

It was funny 20 years ago when Google started doing it, fun to see high quality april fools from big established companies. But it got old very fast.

It’s not that much for a tech company with such a big user base

Nothing have been pretty good at marketing really, all those headlines saying “Nothing brings blue bubble in Android” instead of “Nothing to bundle the Sunbird app with their phones”.

No, Nothing will provide a bridge to iMessage by logging with your password on the Mac mini farm. Not something that you want.

Also nothing didn’t shit, they partnered with Sunbird.

I’m not saying Firefox is less good or anything.

Just that I’m not surprised Microsoft doesn’t bother targeting Firefox with this popup. Microsoft’s goal is to get more market share and going after Firefox users is not going to get much of it. Even if they somehow convince every single Firefox users to use Edge they would still be far behind Chrome.

Chrome is where the market share is.

Also the 2 people per month downloading Firefox probably do it for privacy reasons, harder to convince them than a user using a Big Tech browser to use a different Big Tech browser.