Wisdom in SpaceA paperless office is about as useful as a paperless bathroom.
-- Andy van Damm
ComputersLilith, custom built workstation of the 1970s-80s.
PickrDesktop computers are hardly portable, but 16 inch laptops like the Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i Aura Edition make powerhouse portable almost possible. https://www.pickr.com.au/reviews/2025/lenovo-yoga-pro-9i-aura-edition-10th-gen #computers #microsoftwindows #reviews #16inch #intelcore #lenovo #nvidia #oled #thunderbolt4 #typec #wifi7 #windows11
IBM IntelliStation, personal computer.
Kris Dreemurr (they/them) of the Pnictogen WingExcept they're not building exquisitely designed and decorated monuments, they're just plopping out "data centers". The current lords of #technology love monumental stuff but when it comes to their own monuments they'll settle for mere bulk and quantity as a substitute for fine workmanship, which they'll never see anyway—that would disrupt their business routines.
#AI, they tell us, needs to be BIG. It needs more and more and more. Sam Altman and a bunch of other crooks are trying to corner the market in semiconductors—that is to say, those specific semiconducting devices which are most vital to modern #computers. They need ALL that stuff, they say, in order to make the miracle happen, along with more electricity and more cooling water and more forced labor, toiling away in mines and factories which none of the lords of technology will ever see for themselves.
~Chara (cont'd)
What will the next year hold for technology? While no one can really say, here are five trends we think 2026 has in store for everyone. https://www.pickr.com.au/news/2025/five-tech-trends-to-transform-2026 #computers #news #phones #security #ai #artificialintelligence #foldablephone
Bruce MacDonald"The forty-year-old COBOL system running bank transactions has survived countless technological upheavals, it has survived the internet, and it has survived DOGE. It works. The sexy new microservices architecture might work, or it might introduce seventeen novel failure modes that nobody anticipated because nobody had encountered them before.
"But maintainers of legacy systems are treated as janitors rather than guardians."
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-rime-of-the-ancient-maintainer/
The Rime of the Ancient Maintainer
Every culture produces heroes that reflect its deepest anxieties. The Greeks, terrified of both mortality and immortality, gave us Achilles. The Victorians, haunted by social mobility, gave us the self-made industrialist. And Silicon Valley, drunk on exponential curves and both terrified and entranced by endless funding rounds, has given us
rainey 🌻I am aware of a way to batch rename file extensions, but what I've found so far only works if it has an extension to begin with.
Is there a way to batch add a file extension to files that don't already have a file extension? Windows 10.
WIRED - The Latest in Technology, Science, Culture and BusinessHP ZBook 8 Gli 14-Inch Review: An Unimpressive Workstation
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/review/hp-zbook-8-gli-14-inch/
