I installed Bazzite on a slightly esoteric machine, a 16" dual-screen Asus laptop. It's not really my cup of tea as a distribution, either philosophically or practically, but it has some specific patches for Asus hardware and as a result it seems to work better in every way than Windows. Every couple of months I'm annoyed for a moment by all the immutability stuff and the package system, but for both work and play it's running perfectly.
The browser versions (and the mobile versions) are nowhere near parity with the desktop Windows version, even in quite basic matters of styling. To be honest this annoyed me enough in the end that I just moved to a PandaDoc/CSS/PDF workflow and honestly I now have both a simpler editing process, and a more powerful engine for customisation.
Anecdata/placebo/whatever: I use BioGaia's Gastrus tablets and they increase my quality of life noticeably, and I can tell when I've been off them for a while. I got refrigerated deliveries of probiotic yoghurt drinks for a while previously and in addition to the faff, didn't notice as good results.
Additional Anecdata: I head about BioGaia's Gastrus tablets here on HN a couple of years ago and they have dramatically improved my wife's quality of life as well. She suffered from significant GI problems. We bought a pack of the BioGaia tablets based on an anecdote here. Within about 3 weeks her year-long GI problems were gone. She discontinued the tablets and the GI issues stayed away. About 18 months later, after a period of heavy stress and travel, her GI issues returned and then disappeared again after another round of BioGaia tablets.
I got my youngest a ZipString Aracna for Christmas (entirely driven by a tiny cameo in the film Weapons). It is rare that a toy for kids feels magical, but it's been a real hit over the holidays.
DeepSeek certainly managed that on the training side but in terms of inference, the actual product was unusably slow and unreliable at launch and for several months after. I have not bothered revisiting it.
The regular google search AI doesn’t do thinky thinky mode. For most buying decisions these days I ask ChatGPT to go off and search and think for a while given certain constraints, while taking particular note of Reddit and YouTube comments, and come back with some recommendations. I’ve been delighted with the results.
I use ChatGPT to find products and opinions about those products, same way I'd use Google. I'd never just click on the top sponsored result in Google and buy it, and I'd never just click on a result in ChatGPT and buy it. And yeah, there are lots of reasons I might change my mind in the future - I no longer buy anything from Amazon, for example, because there's no way for me to trust what I'm getting. But right now it's a great way of researching options.
I wouldn’t be surprised if ChatGPT was Pareto optimal for buying decisions… but I suspect there are a whole pile of Pareto optimal ways to make buying decisions, including “buy one of the Wirecutter picks” or “buy whatever Costco is selling”.
Even in the case where you have a good shortlist of items, the ability to then ask follow up questions in a conversational format is very useful for me. Anyway, just explaining why one might use ChatGPT for this rather than the Google search box, obviously your mileage is welcome to vary.
Is there any path for Microsoft and NVIDIA to work together and resurrect some sort of transparent SLI layer for consumer workloads? It’d take the pressure off the high end of the market a little and also help old cards hold value for longer, which would be a boon if, for example, your entire economy happened to be balanced on top of a series of risky loans against that hardware.
It did for a long time, but depending on busy friends makes it so I can't play this whenever I want. My "dream" game is a single-player game I can play as many times I want without having to rely on others.
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