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Robert's avatar

I would think not allowing AI submissions would be easier. Linux being very compatible with a wide range of hardware is a large part of why people like it.

Reziac's avatar

Drivers originally went into the kernel because otherwise performance was abysmal. It was a damn stupid design decision, and now drivers are at the mercy of the kernel.

Mark's avatar

Dumb decision? I thought physical device management was the whole point of a kernel.

Reziac's avatar

The problem is that locks your hardware into only what the kernel supports. External drivers are a lot more flexible.

I remember when it was a BIG DEAL (enough to get an article on Slashdot) when a new printer driver was added to the linux kernel.

Mark's avatar

I can picture it now... printer drivers get removed, renewing the age old war of making the things work.

It's a matter of time until optical drives get the ax, and I still have so many dvds to rip

piratebob711's avatar

I noticed the prices starting to creep up. I suggest you do what I am, finding used ones online and picking up the ones that are reasonable. Soon it is going to be way too expensive for the average guy (me) to get.

It is like getting a 4K blu-ray player for the TV. Those are ridiculously priced in the pursuit of halting production on physical disks. Meanwhile, they still sell 4k disks like it is common.

Mark's avatar

I got my blu-ray drive about 5 years ago for 20 bucks. Though realistically I only needed it to rip the extended editions of LOTR - everything else we have is DVD

The prices going up is a result of them no longer being manufactured - Japan is responsible for a good portion of the demand, as they aren't stupid and like physical media

Doris Dray's avatar

Hundreds of thousands of people use PC + Ham Radio. What planet are these people on?

Steven C Watson's avatar

How do we fix this?

It isn't as if AI is bad, good and evil are human only applicable concepts, it is that a large number of folk using AI are bad actors; and not simply lazy programmers or half-trained script kiddies. Garbage In gets you Garbage out every time. It is never the program or the programming language or the Artificial Intelligence; it is always the bad Real Intelligence; Programmer; or Coder- whether that bad is incompetence or malevolence.

Bad workmen blaming their tools. It REALLY is TIME to fork Everything INCLUDING the Kernel.

"These are the times that try men's souls; the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

It is time to go All American on these twats.