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Forgejo v9.0 released
  • I'm not sure it makes much sense that gitea is a bit too heavy, but forgejo (a fork of gitea) runs perfectly. But forgejo appears to have more developments momentum as a project and so you probably landed on the right choice anyway. 🙂

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    Taylor Swift Vienna concerts cancelled after attack threat
  • Uh, Austrian, not Australian.

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    Communism
  • Would be pretty good to also take a note from the Dems and have Trudeau step down for the next election.

    As a Canadian, I'm over him. I'd never vote for PP, but I'd like to see some new options please.

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    Broken teeth and infected gums: 46K claims filed so far with Canadian Dental Care Plan
  • I'm coming back to you from the future to tell you that she can. 😥

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    Framework is now available in Denmark, Finland and Sweden
  • I'm running an Intel Meteor Lake laptop with Linux and it's reasonably well supported with pretty fresh kernels (6.7 and later). Compared to an AMD desktop that I use, both have had occasional minor defects. The Intel systems have also done a lot to close the performance and perf-per-watt, even under Linux.

    I think the graphics performance and compatibility is a bit better on AMD. That would be the only reason I've experienced to lean that direction. But I think both are very usable, so other factors like price, availability, recency, are probably larger factors to focus on.

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    Broken teeth and infected gums: 46K claims filed so far with Canadian Dental Care Plan
  • However, the Federal government has limited options when it comes to influencing the provincial health care programs. They can offer money with strings attached, and that's about it. Given the hostile atmosphere from some provinces... they may not have been able to offer dental care by working through this traditional means.

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    Do you guys think there will ever be a FOSS voice assistant?
  • Home Assistant invested quite a bit into the technology to create a FOSS voice assistant over the past year. It still needs quite a bit of work, but the foundation is there; it supports wake words ("Hey ..."), speech-to-text to hear your command, interpretation and command processing, and text-to-speech to return results.

    The downsides are that it's still quite technical to set up primarily due to the lack of commercially available hardware, and the command library is fairly small at this point.

    With some of this foundational work out of the way, I expect Home Assistant to move forward quickly to improve, and other projects can work off the same pieces if they desire to as well.

    Here's their year-end post about it: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/12/13/year-of-the-voice-chapter-5/

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    Framework Laptop 16 pre-orders are now open!
  • Pre-orders that include a Graphics Module with an eligible AMD Radeon™ GPU will receive a free download code for one of the biggest games of the year: Starfield™ Premium Edition. Quantities are limited*, and we’ll be sending out the code prior to the game’s early access launch.

    So... I've made a $100 deposit for the pre-order... which is in a batch scheduled for Q4 delivery... but Starfield releases before that. I wonder if they'll send out the Starfield codes before they ship laptops, even though the pre-order deposit is fully refundable?

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