I'm decoding YouTube videos on my laptop's graphic with first gen i5 (i5-530). It is barely able to do 1080p (98-100% GPU usage), but it works nonetheless. I prefer to use mpv for watching youtube there, as it is way easier to get HW working there. But I do have HW enabled in browser to. linuxuprising.com has a fantastic guide for that. Source: almost 3 years ago

I've been thinking a lot about LLMs for RSS categorization. The long tail of feeds have interesting content but rarely tag posts with categories. Planets (like https://planet.ubuntu.com/) are good for finding feeds that post about a certain topic, but without per-post-category metadata, you get off topic stuff mixed in. There are deeper challenges too, like lack of consistent taxonomy/topic naming, which makes... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

Ubuntu is a distributor of software, so although there is some development inside Ubuntu, the majority of news about Ubuntu is about global development. Many large FOSS projects have a _planet_ which is a feed aggregator for community member blogs. This is an enormous source of news. For Ubuntu, it's https://planet.ubuntu.com. You also have https://planet.gnome.org and https://planet.kde.org. Source: over 2 years ago