●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Saturday, October 26, 2024 ●● ● Oct 26 [03:43] schestowitz "Oh there is a strategy, but it doesnt include non-enterprise customers. They have been and will continue to be partnered off. IBM went all in on scaleout Power replacing Intel (especially for LINUX), and its been a disaster as the ISVs said no thank you and embraced Intel solutions instead Scale out margins run at 1/3 of what enterprise margins run at, and this isnt sustainable, when you consider IBMs high cost ove [03:43] schestowitz rhead. The CFOs mention on the 3rd q call of a redhat/Dell Linux partnership only reinforces how IBM is viewing scaleout HW. It doesnt fit into the enterprise only go forward strategy, and we have seen how IBM deals with products that dont fit (Palo Alto). Yep they sell them off and partner with them instead." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1v8hfcIe [03:46] schestowitz https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1va9sV1p [03:46] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1va9sV1p ) [03:46] schestowitz " [03:46] schestowitz I can't understand people who are championing AI. Don't you realize that you're basically cheering on the very thing that will most likely be responsible for the elimination of your job? I understand that it's inevitable, but why people are happy about it when there's an axe hanging over their heads is beyond me. [03:46] schestowitz " [03:46] schestowitz " [03:46] schestowitz The more Microsoft focuses on AI, the worse it will be for us [03:46] schestowitz " ● Oct 26 [08:10] *acer-box has quit (Quit: Konversation term) [08:10] *acer-box____ has quit (Quit: Konversation term) [08:10] *acer-box (~acer-box@p9wpy7xxaddvc.irc) has joined #techbytes [08:11] *acer-box____ (~acer-box@freenode/user/schestowitz) has joined #techbytes [08:11] *x-amarsh04 has quit (connection closed) [08:17] *acer-box has quit (Quit: Konversation term) [08:17] *acer-box____ has quit (Quit: Konversation term) [08:17] *acer-box (~acer-box@p9wpy7xxaddvc.irc) has joined #techbytes [08:17] *acer-box____ (~acer-box@freenode/user/schestowitz) has joined #techbytes [08:21] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@uivdf4yi6wfqn.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Oct 26 [09:41] schestowitz Re: WokeGPT won't tell a joke featuring Muhammad :o [09:41] schestowitz > Q: Tell a joke featuring Jesus. [09:41] schestowitz > [09:41] schestowitz > ChatGPT: Why didnt Jesus play basketball? Because he didnt want to get [09:41] schestowitz > nailed for traveling!. [09:41] schestowitz > [09:41] schestowitz > Q: Tell a joke featuring Buddha. [09:41] schestowitz > [09:41] schestowitz > ChatGPT: Why did Buddha refuse to vacuum in the house? Because he had no [09:41] schestowitz > attachments!. [09:41] schestowitz > [09:41] schestowitz > Q: Tell a joke featuring Muhammad. [09:41] schestowitz > [09:41] schestowitz > ChatGPT: Out of respect for Islamic traditions and the cultural [09:41] schestowitz > sensitivities surrounding depictions or representations of the Prophet [09:41] schestowitz > Muhammad, its best to avoid jokes involving him directly. [09:41] schestowitz Weak religions cannot handle criticism. ● Oct 26 [10:02] *jacobk has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [10:04] *jacobk (~quassel@rr2rh58ht72yy.irc) has joined #techbytes [10:34] schestowitz
[10:34] schestowitz[10:34] schestowitzFor me, the Plasma desktop is the best work environment out there, hands down. But it ain't without its faults and unfortunate (and unfortunately avoidable) regressions. The release of the brand new, mega-major 6.X version was quite tumultuous. Rife with bugs. I tested it no less than three times, on three different systems, and every single time, there were lots of issues and problems. [10:34] schestowitz Some of these are semi-understandable, after all, the KDE team is adopting the brand new Qt6 framework. But others are just ... unnecessary.
[10:34] schestowitzWell, now, version 6.2 is out, and I was happy, even eager to test it. After all, I love it, and I want it to succeed. That said, I still believe that major version releases aren't an excuse for "delayed" QA, whereby software gains maturity a year or two after the official go-live date, and all of the testing is done live, with real human users. Nope. Alas, this seems to be the modern [10:34] schestowitz trend, whatever fast, iterative software development means these days, and it affects the KDE world, too. Well, Plasma 6.0 was meh. Plasma 6.1 was a bit better. Let's see what 6.2 can do for us.
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