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Debian and Ubuntu Leftovers

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 17, 2023

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Open Hardware: SparkFun, 8086, Raspberry Pi Pico

Not Quite the Old Computer Challenge

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> By necessity I have a fairly lean OS installation on it. Debian Bookworm with the MATE desktop to be precise. I use it for everything, which is to say that I use it for web browsing, programming (in vim), and playing OpenTTD. That’s pretty much 90% of what I do with it. Sometimes I do image editing in GIMP or writing in LibreOffice.

When is It Time to Get a New Computer?

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> It's a trade-off to have a computer like this. The model is rare enough that there aren't drivers for all of the hardware. WiFi has never worked on it. When I first installed Linux on it I chose Raspbian, which I later switched to Debian proper. Strangely enough Raspbian had more drivers I needed than Debian. I had to copy some over. Sound started working when I switched to Debian, though.

What does the future of AI hold in store? | Ubuntu

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> On 16 July the world celebrates International Artificial Appreciation Day. In the previous century, science fiction often covered topics and inventions that are now closer to science fact, such as humanoid robots. In the 50s, artificial intelligence met both great successes, including algorithm development, and big failures, caused by compute power constraints. Fast forward to today:  AI is likely the topic of the year, with products such as ChatGPT hitting a billion users in less than a week and enterprises shifting their budgets to invest more. What is the future of AI going to look like? These trends offer a glimpse of what’s to come.

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