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It doesn't matter - what Microslop says and what they do are traditionally very distinct things.

But in case you want to read yourself: https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-com...

Bitcoin won? I don't think it did. Main use is still scams, circumventing sanctions, and grifting. My SEPA instant money transfer does everything bitcoin promised without the trash, and bad people surrounding bitcoin.

Delphi is still the absolute fastest way to create win32 gui applications, and anybody who disagrees has never used it.

Lazarus is a pretty sweet solution on Linux (or Codetyphoon, if you want more out of the box components).

The kind of people who voted for trump would never admit they made a mistake. They double down on stupidity instead.

Great timing that the US recently sold its strategic helium supply.

No. You're a human, who went through real life experiences. You learned, developed as a human being. You made mistakes and grew from them. You did what you have to do to advance. What you output has intrinsic value because of all this. I argue that even when you roll your face on your keyboard, the output is more valuable than ten pages of slop output from an LLM, since it's human, with all the history, experience, emotions and character which came before it.

All LLM-output is slop. There's no good LLM output. It's stolen code, stolen literature, stolen media condensed into the greatest heist of the 21. century. Perfect capitalism - big LLM companies don't need to pay royalties to humans, while selling access to a service which generates monthly revenue.

Sure, first you check if your TV is rootable: https://cani.rootmy.tv/

If not, you can try and find one on Ebay or local classifieds that is. That's the hardest part.

Then you setup a VLAN (I use OpenWRT, which has great support for this) and some firewall rules that forbid all traffic that isn't port 80 or 443. Then you create a dnsmasq blacklist for all the LG domains (good list is [1]).

Then you install this: https://github.com/webosbrew/youtube-webos

Enjoy Youtube on a large screen under your control without ads, and without annoying sponsors.

[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists/main...

That's maybe a problem of east Germany in particular. I see Balkonkraftwerke (small balcony solar arrays, 1-4 modules with a microinverter plugged directly into an outlet) everywhere when I drive through major west German cities, even on rental apartment balconies.

German here. I pay around 24c/kWh. It's much cheaper than it was in late 2022 with the energy price shock due to russia attempting to blackout Europe. I cannot imagine how much worse we would be off, would our Power generation stem from fossil or nuclear fuel.

More renewables is the answer. We need to build so much that power becomes almost free (already the case in the summer at high noon, see [1]).

[1] https://energy-charts.info/charts/price_spot_market/chart.ht...

I have a rooted LG WebOS TV. It's really nice. I can ssh into it. It's on a dedicated VLAN which has all LG domains and IP firewalled off. It can connect to Youtube, using a version of the Youtube app with integrated adblocker and sponsorblock. It's absolute superb.

Because human errors are, well, human. And producing code that contains those errors is a human endeavor. It bases on years, decades of learning. Mistakes were made, experience was gained, skills were improved. Reasoning by humans is relatable.

Generating slop using LLMs takes seconds, has no human element, no work goes into it. Mistakes made by an LLM are excused without sincerity, without real learning, without consequence. I hate everything about that.

>Not sure how they can expect to make a viable full OS without massive use of LLMs, so this makes no sense.

Humans have been doing this for the better parts of 5 decades now. Don't assume others rely on LLMs as much as you do.

>Not to mention that even finding good developers willing to develop without AI (a significant handicap, even more so for coding things like an OS that are well represented in LLM training) seems difficult nowadays, especially if they aren't paying them.

I highly doubt that. In fact, I'd take a significant pay cut to move to a company that doesn't use LLMs, if I were forced to use them in my current job.

Hugely unpopular opinion on HN, but I'd rather use code that is flawed while written by a human, versus code that has been generated by a LLM, even if it fixes bugs.

I'd gladly take a bug report, sure, but then I'd fix the issues myself. I'd never allow LLM code to be merged.

If identity verification is what it takes to curb russian trolls, then be it.

Great, registered. I hope it will take off.

Your phone is too old, it doesn't get any security updates anymore since years now. Idk why you even still use it?

Microslop doing Microslop things

It depends on how good your IT people are. But yes, it works quite well when done right.

>What are the SLA and support for this?

I don't know why I would need any sort of support when all these projects are open source, I can just debug stuff on my own.

There's absolutely no reason to use /e/ when GrapheneOS exists.

https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm

Man, you never used Delphi or Lazarus then. That was comfortable and easy. Web by comparison is just a jarring mess of unfounded complexity.

By a lot, if that means I never have to use a Microslop product again ;)

>There will be mountains of existing Word/Excel/Powerpoint documents that would need converting, as well as configured permissions structures and remotely managed laptop configurations that currently are working well

Well, they are not working well right now, because they could be rendered inoperable at any moment through Microsoft flipping a switch. That risk is real and has precedent (ICC having their Outlook access revoked).

>The real issue isn't to do with your ageism. It's whether that time and money is best spent on this particular area.

When European sovereignty is on the line, it's never too expensive.

>Intune

Fleet

>Entra? (User management and policy)

LDAP

>Office 365 Exchange?

Dovecot, Postfix

>Excel? (Finance runs on custom Excel macros and sheets)

Libreoffice calc, R and Python were needed. And if that doesn't work, finance needs to work around the vendor lockin

>Teams?

Matrix, Jitsi, Bigbluebutton, Mattermost

>Office 365 in general, security, DLP, MFA?

Authentik, Keycloak for MFA/security, OpenZFS with Nextcloud/Opencloud for DLP

It's possible, though of course less integrated and more work involved than just selling your soul to MS. But I am sure that time will also solve that, now that people are more interested in open source.

>A lot of good it is that you have Google Meet and Libre Office when the partners you work closes to have Teams and MS Office

Which is why governments in the EU need to lead this change to open source so others can point and say "hey even the big guys use it now".

Agreed. But Trump is the absolute last straw, and it seems some people needed that earthquake to finally wake up in the EU.

I have worked in (German) Government, and apart from complacency (and maybe corruption, see Limux) there's nothing stopping the German government (at least at federal level) from adopting open source.

If processes depend on some crappy excel table (created by somebody 20 years ago) or even worse, sharepoint app (commissioned by people who shouldn't be deciding things like this), the processes suck and need to be rebuilt anyhow.

There's Nextcloud/OCIS/Owncloud for Sharepoint (god I fucking hate Sharepoint) and Onedrive, there's Libreoffice/Collabora (and Onlyoffice, but that's russian...), there's Thunderbird for Email. Windows is absolutely replaceable also, of course, maybe even easier than the Office365 subscription mentioned above.

The lock in only exists in brains of (old) people that can't adapt. MS products can all be replaced, and should be in the EU. You simply cannot trust an American company anymore after Trump.

It's the best laptop I have ever used. I have it since it newly came out in 2023 and it never let me down, is quick (I have the 7840u), quiet (passive in power-saver platform profile, unless pushed, but even then it's manageable), can do USB4 so I can use it with a EGPU, which works fantastically. Sleep (S0) works as expected with updated EC FW under Debian stable.

It's incredibly portable, when you take it out of the box you wonder if it's not too small (it's not, it's a perfect size :)).

Battery endurance is good, at least for me. You won't make 10h flights while compiling Chromium though. Get the LCD instead of the OLED if you can, the OLED looks good but uses way more battery I hear.

If you can find it in the max config (64GB, 7840u, 2TB) it's going to make you happy for a long, long time I think.

I don't know what I will use after it dies. There's nothing comparable in portability, power and build quality (which is really, really amazing).

I agree with you: this thing, a few mm thicker and heavier due to beefier heatsink, with a Ryzen 395+ and 128GB would be so incredible. I'd dump so much money into that...

Really cool! I wish that Coreboot was available for more recent Thinkpads. I have a Z13 Gen2 which I plan to use until it falls apart, and would love to liberate it with Coreboot. But alas, I can't.