His Apple keynotes conveyed a sense of magic, for example demonstrating pinch to zoom on the iPhone and pulling a MacBook Air out of a manila envelope. And something he'd be angry because things didn't go as planned.

These pre-recorded keynotes we get nowadays are just bland and AI-generated.

I got to use it for a couple of days on Pro. Feature implementation actually fit into subscription usage, but then it went on chasing its tail fixing bugs it introduced and burning through about $15 in credits. It got the job done in the end, though. I'd say it's good, better than Opus, but I found that both GPT 5.4 and 5.5 are way better than Opus.

So Fable is as good as GPT 5.5, if not better.

I heard it's extremely persistent and thorough. That's probably overkill for most tasks, e.g. I've heard it taking a long time and burning lots of money for tasks that could have been done much faster with cheaper models.

But for when you need it, I would love to have it.

Might never replace completely, but those remaining will be expected to pump out a lot more code so companies won't need to hire as many.

I'd say 2015-2016.

> I know Ed Zitron is a divisive figure

The main counterarguments to his claims are "but Sam/Dario/Satya/Jensen said X" and that we should treat them as gospel.

We're all grownups, why should we care about RAM prices? /s

This is insane. We've built our apps and websites to require ungodly amounts of memory and now AI scrapes away said websites while pricing us out.

Fast apps and websites need to make a comeback.

I wonder if River is a reference to the Firefly character, which was known for being unstable and unpredictable.

KDE 3.5.x really was peak desktop at the time, especially when all the K* apps were working as intended. As a Windows user discovering Slackware 10.2 back 2005, I was really blown away. KDE 4 just didn't feel the same.

One thing in watching the 30 years of KDE talk is the DE-emphasis on apps. The whole thing got to big so it went from SC4 or whaetver into different strains. Modularized, etc. About then serious desktop apps seemed to have died off too

I guess one cares less about DE's when my DE is a front for a terminal and a VM (my browser).

It's sad to see sidelining of KOffice, Konqueror (of course still exists), Amarok and other great apps.

A desktop environemnt is not just a WM + Panel + Decorations.

KDE3.5x has is own... well everything tied together.

Can't directly outlaw VPNs? No problem, we'll have the the few corporations powering the internet block anyone who even thinks about anonymity!