I used to dual boot linux with windows Vista on an old laptop. I had only installed there the first assassin’s creed and Rome total war. Nothing else, never really connected to internet. After 1 year of not using it a part than few total war sessions, vista was so slow that was unusable. It spontaneously became slow for no reason. I completely removed it, left only linux, and that laptop survived 7 years of intensive use, and was still working 10 years later (just too old).

Vista was a scam

I don’t know if steam big picture use gamescope https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope.

I would guess it doesn’t, but I cannot be 100% sure, I haven’t used steam on my laptop since ages

It provides an alternative UI environment built and optimized for gaming. It has a separate windows manager, a complete ui, and a set of menus to simplify customization of whatever is needed for gaming and power saving.

And quick access to steam store.

It is extremely convenient if you like a console-like experience, but, if you are a tinker gamer, it has anyway a lot of nice additional features.

It is inconvenient as general purpose desktop os, because on update you basically lose packages not installed as flatpack

Wow!

What about the flaming and jelly windows? That was cool stuff

They missed the recording where he said to the female journalist in his team: “to work here you have to f*ck”

For research labs, dell workstations used to be great. Put debian on it and you could forget about problems. I don’t know if it is the case anymore.

The selling point of xps is that they are light. Many of us just need light laptops nowadays, as almost any hardware is more than capable of any task with the exception of gaming. But I have never gamed on laptops

Xps developer edition has been a thing since almost a decade. I bought a xps13 with ubuntu in Europe. I replaced it as soon as it arrived though. The built in OS was not “standard”.

I still use it almost daily. Battery has gone, but everything else works

Light ThinkPads are not cheap either

Main issue of mine was the wifi card. Awful. Everything else very nice.

Thanks, let’s see how it well it works irl

What are performances compared to the original? How much is loss?

NTA, you should leave your husband

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What I mean is different. A dog thinks as a dog, a human thinks as a human, an AI will think as an AI. It will likely be able to pretend to think as a human, but it won’t think as one.

It won’t have a Proust’s madalaine (sensorial experiences that trigger epiphanies), have the need to travel to some “sacred” location looking for spirituality, miss the hometown were it grew up, its thinking won’t be driven by fears of spiders, need of social recognition, pleasure to see naked women. It’s thoughts won’t be dependent on the daily diet, on the amount of sugar, fat, vitamins, stimulants intake.

These are simple examples, but in general it will think in a different way. Humans will tune it to pretend to be “as human as possible”, but humans will remain unique

As you are in nanotechnologies, when I say average out I am talking in a statistical mechanics way, i.e. the macroscopic phenomenon arising from averaging over the multiple accessible microscopic configurations. Thoughts do not arise like this, they are the results of multiple complex non linear stochastic signals. They depend on a huge amount of single microscopic events, that are not replicabile in a computer as is, and likely not reproducible in a parametrized function. Nothing wrong with that, we might be able to approximate human thoughts, most likely not reproduce them.

What area of nanotechnology are you? Main problem of nanotechnologies is that they cannot reproduce the complexity of the biological counterparts. Take carbon nanotubes, we cannot reproduce the features of the simpler ion channels with them, let alone the more complex human ones.

We could build nice models, with interesting functionality, as we are doing with current AI. Machines that can do logic, take decisions, and so on. Even a machine that can predict human thoughts. But they’ll do it in their way, while the real human thoughts will most likely stay human, as the processes from which they arise are very human

I use to work on research on microscopic mechanisms of the brain, and I work in AI.

Human thoughts derive from extremely complex microscopic mechanisms, that do not “average out” when moving to the macroscopic world, but instead create very complex non-linear stochastic process that are thoughts.

Unless some scientific miracle happens, human thoughts will stay human.

How humans think. AI “thinking” will always be different than human thinking. Because human brain is “that thing” that is impossibile to simulate in silico as is. We might be able to have good approximations, but as good as they can get, they’ll always diverge from the real thing

Ahahah, emacs is immortal

It borrowed the concept from old editor such emacs. It is a modern emacs. A single editor to do literally everything via plugins. The idea is that one needs to learn a single editor to master everything.

It is very powerful for people who do multiple things. It’s not worthy if the whole job is to simply writing java or c#. In that case a dedicated ide is better