I’ve had several 3.5mm jacks fail. I’ve yet to have a USBC port fail, but I’ve also had fewer USBC ports and for fewer years.

We should pass a law that all knives have to know what purpose they are being used for and should refuse to be used for stabbing or otherwise hurting people.

I really don’t understand these comments about gnome not being customizable

A few years ago they made some changes to how extensions work (iirc it was supposedly aimed at improving privacy by restricting what extensions can access).

These days I use a paid iOS/macOS specific ad block app. It was like $3 one time purchase and it works great.

Gemini is a completely different project.

The term “AI” is rather overloaded these days.

AlphaFold uses a combination of machine learning and physics simulations to predict the shape of a protein given its chemical formula.

Gemini is a Large Language Model which uses machine learning to predict text completion.

They both use “machine learning” but the machine learning models are wildly different. Machine learning is a technique that’s basically a fancy curve fitting approach. The curve AlphaFold is trained to mimic maps chemical formulas to shapes, while the curve Gemini mimics maps a text input to probabilities for predictions of the next letter(s).

What’s the difference between “OS X” and “macOS” on this chart?

Surely 20% of the market share isn’t Mac’s that are so old their OS is over 10 years old? I don’t know how else to interpret that…

AlphaFold is Google’s AI approach to protein folding…