“Oh no! We must protect the poor MPA! The poor organization that’s been hell bent on policing what films and media ought to contain and ensuring the multi-million dollar corporations continue to make their millions in peace!”

~ Denmark’s Ministry of Culture, probably

(nevermind the fact that countries with anti-piracy policies have not ever proved that they “repair” the so-called “market-damage” that they purport piracy has done)

and DOTA!

Well, I’m still glad offline LLM’s exist. The models we download and store are way less popular then the mainstream, perpetually online ones.

Once I beef up my hardware (which will take a while seeing how crazy RAM prices are), I will basically forgo the need to ever use an online LLM ever again, because even now on my old hardware, I can handle 7 to 16B parameter models (quantized, of course).

capitalism worked pretty well in the 40’s and 50’s, in the USA, and then the corporate leaders realized that they could be overlords if they just stopped caring about everything but money.

We know kindness and money can coexist, but if little boy jack is taught from day one that if you don’t game the system, you will lose, he’s going to grow up to be Elon Musk.

I mean, even open source LLM’s at the moment can solve somewhat tedious and tricky problems, and just on somewhat mid-tier consumer hardware. Supercomputers exist, and it just seems, with time, breakthroughs are inevitable.

But I will admit, like you say, we have limits, but in the realm of technology, the only real limitations are energy and hardware.

It has just never occurred to me that what I need while surfing the arch wiki at 3am are some thigh high socks.

So yeah, it’s me not society. Society can go fuck itself though, and if I had to wear them in solidarity with my linux fam, I probably would, just not as a regular thing.

(and i have some hairy legs, I refuse to shave them so I don’t imagine them looking that great on me either ahah)

If you don’t see AI replacing many roles, yet you know that LLM’s are not what many seem to think they are, text generators and not AGI, then it seems you don’t believe that AGI will ever happen.

Technology will continue to develop for decades and maybe centuries to come. To only see the short term possibilities is to forget how quickly technology advances.

And even just limiting the discussion to the short-term, what makes you think billionaires aren’t taking advantage of the hype and coercing governments to forego safety and regulation? Maximizing profit over enhancing the lives of the common man?

fedora, debian and arch linux user here, and no, as a man, I ain’t rocking thigh-high socks, but if I was a woman, hell yeah I would.

giving AI the power to do things on your PC will lead to cases like:

Google’s Agentic AI wipes user’s entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure

I love doing this.

seriously, first thing I do when I install a fresh OS is download a preferred browser, and add an ad-blocker extension ASAP.

And Carcentriphobia hasn’t gone far enough!

I like how Dell has all this data, and still somehow believe that AI will help sell Windows 11, and also seem to think that Apple’s affordable products are the only alternative option for those holding out on updating to windows 11.

Oh wait, look at this headline from 3 weeks ago, “Microsoft signs $9.7 billion cloud deal with IREN as AI demand swells”.

AI-server maker Dell was also up about 1%, as it would provide IREN with Nvidia’s GB300 chips and other equipment that Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab will use for about $5.8 billion.

Oh wait, they only care about their corporate customers, what’s new? Water is wet?

I downvoted because not understanding the hate for windows 11 is really just due to ignorance at this point. I mean, not everyone is a power user, but windows has been on the steady decline for at least 10 years now. Enshittification isn’t some new concept.

hmm, I started playing it a few months back, firs time playing bloodborne, and the experience was ruined as soon as I got to the unseen village, with those huge “things” everywhere, my FPS went from a cool 50 -75 to barely scraping 20. Sucks, had to stop playing, I will test this later and report!

Just my 2 cents, but I would think abiding by international standards, which cover the environmental concerns of the entire Earth, so to speak, seems a bit much, no? Wouldn’t the environmental concerns differ substantially by country? Not saying that how we treat the environment, people and businesses alike, isn’t similar country to country, but things like % contribution to global carbon emissions might change what a country like India needs to do over what Canada does, right?

I’m more like, I don’t mind how other people clean, but I have a particular way of doing things, like washing dishes with very hot water so that they dry quicker, or stacking them such that all cups, pots, containers, etc . . are standing face down so they drain properly. It’s the little things that bother me, since I worked as a dishwasher for a bit in a couple restaurants, so I actually enjoy doing the dishes overall. But there’s an optimal method to anything.

appears to be from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Surprised I haven’t read that yet, but yeah. That passage seems to be about relationships and status that you’d gain with freedom and choice.

I guess I just fear making a good thing into something tiresome, like how when I use one of my favourite songs as an alarm, I eventually start hating the song I once loved. But then again, I guess finding new ways to see things could prevent this, maybe.

I would imagine a clean install, over just an update from x11 to wayland, might work better, since applications might still expect x11, and fail to render or work properly.

I used gnome with wayland and an Nvidia gpu maybe a couple years back, and it worked pretty well. I’d give it another go. mutter, gnome’s wayland compositor is actually pretty good compared to most others.

Linux is about freedom and community. Sucks that there’s this stupid beef with people who ultimately love the same thing, maybe one just likes a trusted solution and the other likes the successor that’s far from perfect, but at the end of the day, it’s your system! You are the master of your machine, fuck what anyone likes, just do you!