I don’t think Apple makes any game consoles.

Isn’t the problem that it’s blocked by a number of patents, or something like that?

Because when there’s a new hardware function, the driver has to add support for it.

Same here. Really looking forward to not using their new product. How exciting.

It’s always been the year of the Linux desktop. tvwm made for a fine desktop.

Aw, just when they were about to get rid of the steering wheel, shame.

Can it generate weird porn locally?

You can do almost everything with excel. Should you do almost everything with excel? Definitely not.

I gather that you’re not in Europe. Here they would have bee sent packing with their shitty hardware (in both cases).

Cowon made some amazing hardware at one point.

There are tiny earbuds that one can wear where an AI can murmur sweet little nothings.

Especially for large sizes. Also speed isn’t really much of an issue on a domestic network.

I’m about to build a home server with a lot of storage (relatively, around 6 or 8 times 12 TB as a ballpark), and I didn’t even consider anything other than spinning drives so far.

Fourty minutes? Yeah, no. How about an equivalent text that can be parsed in five?

It’s not a real hard disk unless you can get it to walk across the server room anyway.

That’s a WORM medium though, so really purely for storage. Which is still extremely useful of course.

That’s good to know. I’m using digikam, but I’m always interested in options

That’s great when your photos have faces. Mine mostly don’t. Also they don’t come from my phone. So Google is also fairly useless.

My only currently active machine is a laptop named buttwarmer as per my cat’s suggestion.

It’s a WIMP system. They all work the same way. Worst case you have to click around a bit.