Watching this documentary on Leopold Aschenbrenner and hearing about him (Leopold) being a part of the "Effective Altruism" movement, I just shake my head at people who actually believe this shit.
Whenever I see "Effective Altruism", all I can think about is Jay-Z's "Moment of Clarity" where he says:
🎶 And I can't help the poor if I'm one of them 🎶
I wonder how many of them *actually* believe it. On second thought, I don't care, tax their asses
If Trump can unilaterally change the established names of bodies of water with an executive order, why not land masses? Why not change the name state of California to something else?
Let's see where Google's line actually is.
And before anyone tells me "he can't do that", I'll kindly point them towards the war in Iran that Congress didn't declare, tariffs, etc
Switched from Hyprland to Niri, and for how I like to work, Niri gives me a great balance between tiled, scrolling and floating windows.
For a developer that uses multiple desktops, Niri is as closest to sliced bread as anything I've seen in a long time.
3/3 Let someone call him an entitled toolbag or suggest he be on the "Eat the rich" menu and see how fast that person gets the ban hammer.
All that to say, he does like a CoC and it is whatever he feels it should be. Like "no politics", which translates to "no politics different from mine". This sounds eerily familiar to a certain *free speech absolutist* who bought twitter.
And much like Apartheid Clyde, he feels his opinions should be foisted onto others.
2/ What either he fails to realize or comprehend is that *everything* is opinionated. A lot of people just don't like his opinions. The man is toxic AF.
Him ranting against CoC is just weird. Codes of conduct are necessary because not everyone knows how to "act right". There are implied societal norms when dealing with others, but apparently like everything else, we can't have nice things because of the actions of a few assholes.
1/ The projection from DHH is ridiculous. He claims others are “clowns” in the Linux community, and here he is doing the very thing that he is railing against.
I think dude is big mad that people don’t want to hear or read his bullshit and instead of trying to INTERNALIZE WHY THAT IS, he goes on a rant about politics (that are different from his own)
Watch it be Grok
https://glammr.us/@overholt/117145316203431218
Apparently Trump hasn’t read or seen Stephen King’s “Misery”, because Natalie Harp has that same “If I can’t have you, no one can” energy.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/natalie-harps-intimate-letters-to-trump-revealed-in-full/
8/8 This laptop is like an appliance. It does nothing until I decide to do something with it. There is now a sense of ownership over this machine that I simply do not have with my apple devices.
I can swap out the keyboard, nvme drive, upgrade the RAM, change the display that has better color rendition. ALL WITHOUT VOIDING A WARRANTY.
Ultimately this comes down to me taking definitive control over my computing experience and data and away from these greedy corporations
7/ So yes, buying a thinkpad isn't as sexy as a macbook. The laptop can be a bit creaky, and the speakers are terrible compared to my M! MAX Macbookpro.
That being said, I do like having USB-C and USB-A, with HDMI and ethernet all without needing expensive dongles. The keyboard is miles better than my macbookpro
I like that I can tweak the operating system to look how I want. I like that I can experiment freely without needing permission.
6/ What really started me down this path was Apple's ever increasing stranglehold on developers and their customers.
Tim Cook handing Trump a trophy in exchange for tariff exemption ended up being my final straw.
I've been an Apple customer for the better part of 25 years and I decided that 2026 was going to be the year that I started moving away from big tech.
5/ It took me a little bit to get used to a tiling window manager, but I quite like it and much prefer it compared to a regular desktop environment.
I even installed a terminal based music player (I was surprised to see so many) so I can stream music from my self hosted navidrome instance.
What I like about this Linux experience is that I can customize the environment to my liking. The sword cuts both ways though, and I have to maintain and fix things when they break.
4/ I tried FreeBSD on another and older thinkpad and while it mostly worked, the issue for me was software support for apps that I use on a regular basis like Clion. I know there are some ports for some apps, but the hassle for me ended up not being worth it (yet). I will revisit FreeBSD on a laptop in the future especially when wayland support is more mature.
I have landed on CachyOS for the time being running hyprland and Noctalia.
3/ I found a Lenovo T14 Gen 6 (AMD variant and last years model) for a decent price on eBay. I compared the price of a 32 GB ram of the gen 7 and the gen 6 and it was over $600 cheaper to buy the slightly used version. I ended up choosing the AMD variant because it has two SODIMM slots and the Intel has the 32GB of ram as part of the package on the chip.
Rather than throw Fedora on this laptop, I opted for a distribution that had native ZFS included.
2/ I had a Framework 13 pro on pre-order but got the email that my 32 GB ram would be downgraded to 16GB unless I was willing to pony upwards of $800 USD. Looking at spending almost $2k for a laptop with 16GB of ram in 2026 was simply a bridge too far and I ended up cancelling my order.
I still needed a laptop and I got increasingly tired of Apple's grip on hardware I (supposedly) own so I started researching other brands that have great linux support
1/ Watching "Beginning to move from macOS to Linux" by @mattgemmell mirrored my own thought process when I switched from daily driving macOS to Linux. I was on Fedora for quite awhile on a Asus S14 Zenbook and there was some annoyances, but overall it was fine.
Recently my oldest son started his first year of college and after looking at prices in the AI era, I decided to give him the Asus and look for a replacement.
https://youtu.be/n_PKRWxNQJ0
Reaction to Infantino/FIFA selling the World Cup to the Trumps has got to be the most predictable thing ever.
I honestly don’t know what FIFA thought was going to happen.
The fact that Sepp Blatter is seemingly less corrupt than Infantino is just wild AF to me.
Blatter was the poster child for FIFA corruption and Infantino really said “Hold my 🍺”
Blatter’s ban is set to expire next year. With this timeline, I almost expect Blatter to take back over from Infantino.
Drove by this data center this afternoon in Lebanon Indiana.. I have never ever ever seen a construction project as large as this. If you have never seen something on this scale, it defies belief. 4 million sq feet. Like what in the actual fuck.
The construction site is *literally* miles long.
All of that land destruction and water usage for 300 jobs
https://lebanon.in.gov/2026/02/11/meta-makes-lebanon-data-center-announcement-official/
“The moment you touch Messi, there’s about 10 of them that just come flooding around and screaming. I don’t know, like he’s some just disabled child who’s in a wheelchair you’ve just kicked into a canal and everybody’s having a meltdown like suddenly you’re the bad guy.
Instead of him just being a socially awkward, inept dwarf who’s brilliant at football and that’s about it”
This man knows how to paint a picture 🤣🤣
You heard it here first. Argentina wins their second World Cup in a row after they beat Spain.
As well as Spain played against France, I don’t think Spain has a chance against Argentina.
There is too much money on Messi winning his second World Cup and Argentina is not afraid to go to the match/dirt, coupled with them getting the majority of calls their way…
As good as Lamine Yamal is supposed to be, Argentina will make a point to destroy that young man’s confidence and ego.