Not a Linux machine, but 14 and 16 inch MBPs with something like the Vivid app do really well in sunlight in light mode. I enjoy working outside on mine.

I was looking for a 40-43in 4K TV for PC monitor use, considered the LG C series, but it wouldn't work in my bright room.

I went with Samsung QN90C instead and I'm super happy with it. It's very bright, fights glare well, and there's Jellyfin for it.

Nick Land kind of took this line of reasoning to its ultimate conclusion, I recommend giving his ideas a read even if they sound repulsive.

"Nothing human makes it out of the near-future."

I've tried and failed to find a good starting point for his ideas. Do you recommend any?

This is pretty decent, at least the first half: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrOVKHg_PJQ

Aren't AI GPUs a drop in the bucket compared to consumer electronics?

Nvidia sold ~3M blackwells in 2025: https://wccftech.com/nvidia-has-sold-over-three-million-blac...

Compare that to laptops which sell in tens of millions per manufacturer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laptop_brands_and_manu...

Plus, it's way easier to collect boards for recycling from a centralized data center.

Nvidia had $35.6 billion in data center revenue vs $2.5 billion "Gaming and AI PC" revenue in the 4th quarter of 2024 so data center stuff stuff is like 93% of it

What was that Microsoft alternative called?

XPS

>Exactly my thoughts. I really admired the design and how far WSL1 got. It is just sad to see it abandoned.

But why was it better, other than aesthetic preference?

Ragas also has a feature to generate ground truths and queries: https://docs.ragas.io/en/latest/getstarted/testset_generatio... Although simply prompting an LLM with chunks of source documents might work better / cheaper - ragas tends to explode with retries in my experience.

I have seen this, but I find it fairly hard to use.

Our goal is to focus on datasets and make it very easy to create and manage data.

In our next release, we will be launching a way to do this using a UI.

>The universe is trillions of times larger than we currently think it is

Why do you think that?

Use Ice instead: https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice

Or if you don't have a LOT of icons, there is option to decrase padding between them: https://flaky.build/built-in-workaround-for-applications-hid...

Also iBar https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ibar-menubar-icon-control-tool...

Also Hidden Bar https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden

Last update: 2 years ago

I’ve been using this for the last six hours or so, and it’s decent. You use Cmd+drag to move icons between shown and unshown, which at the time of writing isn’t clear from the Readme or site

yeah, no reason these days to use proprietary solutions for small problems. I'll check out Ice, it seems much more modern (and maintained) than Dozer: https://github.com/Mortennn/Dozer

I just wish somebody would create an open source alternative to Rouge Amoeba's Loopback!

> I just wish somebody would create an open source alternative to Rouge [sic] Amoeba's Loopback!

Rogue Amoeba has been around for over two decades. They are an early macOS X shop and their softwares are best of breed. Their esteemed Audio Hijack recently received an overhaul to its permissions structure. My understanding (gleaned from a podcast?) is Rogue Amoeba worked closely with Apple on this reworking.

It is doubtful Rogue Amoeba would ever silently sell to an unknown developer.

Rogue Amoeba is precisely the kind of software shop worth supporting with your money and time. I say this only as a satisfied user of several of their products.

I have nothing against OSS and do use many OSS products; I also support software shops that produce good software at a good price and have demonstrated loyalty and commitment to their users. Rogue Amoeba is just such a shop.

Have you tried Blackhole? It’s a loopback device for macOS.

https://github.com/ExistentialAudio/BlackHole

The reason is the same as always - the open source alternatives are not as powerful, like Ice has big issues

ARM Windows seems to be able to run x86 apps, though. I use an ARM Windows on an M1 mac to run BMW E-Sys and it works well enough.