On the one hand, I’m skeptical of the assertions that pen and paper is inherently a better way to take notes and learn.

But I do agree with the general aversion to a lot of ed tech. So much effort to shove kids faces in front of softwear and hardware that was sold to administrators by marketing teams from big tech companies. So many opportunities for those tech companies to exploit local school districts, ether to extract unreasonable profits, or for access to a mailable locked in user base.

If a school is going to go all in teaching with computers, they need to be carefully choosing what they use and not just adopting a premade package from some tech company.

So many extra moving parts, so many additional points of failure. But for what benefit? So I can turn on various washing machines on remotely… after loading them manually anyways? Why not have a washing machine that doubles as a cabinet so I don’t need to load it and unload it?

So I can have a lawn watering system that automatically waters when the soil moisture gets too low? To have a lawn mower roomba that automatically deploys when some sensor sees the grass get a bit to long? I’d rather not have a lawn, or at least some sort of native plant lawn that doesn’t need watering and constant mowing.

I don’t hate clever gadgets, I hate brain dead gadgets, automation of pointless systems. Why automate something that could be avoided entirely with better design. You have perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

I to have a modular electric vehicle but, mine already has a massive variety of after market options to modify and upgrade it to me needs with.

It’s called… my bicycle that I put a motor on.

it’s so amazing, the absolute brain rot it takes to think that a LLM is a better way to operate a vending machine than simple if-then logic. “If the value of money inserted is equal to the price, then dispense the item”.

Like, why? What is even the point? It doesn’t need to negotiate the price, it doesn’t need have a conversation about your day, the vending machine just needs to dispense something when payed the right amount.

“ Shit, we need more cash to keep the bubble inflated, quick squeeze customers for more revenue! “

they’re gradually reducing the amount of vehicles sold while increasing the margin per vehicle. They’re approaching the limit of 1 vehicle sold at infinite margin.

Because it’s not about the companies being profitable, it’s not about making products people want to use or pay for.

It’s about riding the hype cycle to maximize share price. Because the people making decisions are not payed based on the success of the company, but on the success of the share price and market cap.

Their current business model is not “not very profitable” it is deeply unprofitable.

They aren’t just loosing money on free users, they’re loosing money on payed users. Publicly traded for profit companies are legally obligated to provide accurate reports of the nature and source of their revenue. As of this summer (Second quarter), OpenAI was paying roughly twice as much servicing the demand of paying chat GPT users to publicly traded companies, like Microsoft, as OpenAI claimed to make from subscriptions to chat GPT.

And that’s not even counting the costs to train new models, spending with private companies, or their spending on building data centers with Coreweave or Oracle.

I highly doubt that adding advertising revenue will close that gap, especially since paying users might cancel their subscriptions if they start getting ads.

puts a bunch of AI features in, turns them on by default without user’s asking for them, mandates employees use it when ever they can.

“How could this be a bubble? Look at all the demand!”

KDE is avalible for most distros. It being just a desktop environment. It’s well supported on Fedora, openSUSE, Debian and Arch. As well as many of the various distros based on those. Ubuntu, a Debian derivative, and fedora both have a version that installs with KDE out of the box, and the arch install script has it as one of the main options. You could also install it on mint, but, like, half the point of mint is the cinnamon desktop.

If you’re interested in customizability, are willing to read some wiki pages, and never want to wait for support for some new feature, arch is great.

If you want a system that’s incredibly stable, will run on basically any computer made after 1995, and is generally just very reliable. Debian can’t be beat.

Fedora and Ubuntu are both fairly easy to use, new versions are released fairly often. If you don’t want to think much about it, they’re good options.

As for game compatibility, most will work without any effort, some stuff will need a bit of puttzing with settings. The only situations where you may need a VM or duel boot would be certain competitive multiplayer games that specifically use kernel level anti cheat. If you play one of those, check it on ProtonDB . Notionally Proton DB is for the steam deck and steam games run through proton, but generally what’s on there also applies to any other game run through wine.

You shouldn’t need to replace any hardware. If you have an Nvidia graphics card you will need to install the drivers as they don’t come with the kernel, but it will run just fine. I’ve heard of some issues regarding specific brands of headphones, and I had to fuss a bit to get my microphone and it’s audio interfacing working.

Adobe products, a lot of popular music production software and a few popular CAD programs will have issues. Most of them can be run on Linux, but they don’t like it, and finding an alternative would be better.

So, it could be. Like, there’s no reason that the program its self couldn’t run through a comparability layer like wine or proton.

It’s just that it, like many other big multi-player live service shooters, it requires kernel level “anti cheat” programs. Basically programs that run at the lowest level of your system and check what’s running on the system, making sure the user isn’t running any cheats or altering how the game runs to cheat. They need to be at the lowest layer to prevent programs below them spoofing the checks they are running. So if they detect that they’re not running at the lowest level, they tell the game not to run, or at least, not to allow the player to join online matches.

These could theoretically could run through a compatibility layer, but then they wouldn’t be running at the lowest layer of the system, defeating the point of them. They would have to run natively on Linux, and the companies that make them have not made versions that run natively on Linux.

The actual efficacy of these anti cheat systems is dubious, as there is still cheating in games that use them, and they’re super invasive, being basically spywear. But they’re required by a handful of major games.

That’s “Werwolf the Apocalypse” plot line if I ever saw one.

He put out a video a few weeks back basically endorsing Mamdani.

As has been made very clear, it is not actually possible to prevent these models from regurgitating any information they’ve been trained on, no matter how fancy the system prompt. So, if there is NSFW content In the training data, users will always be able to access it, not matter how “compliant” the company is with restrictions on NSWF content by way of system prompts.

They can have their cake and eat it to, many users will prefer the models because of their ability to do porn stuff, and they will not be held legally liable for that since they’ve done everything they possible could.

So long as no one proves that they did in fact intentionally train the models on a shit ton of porn …

I think some department or team lead was told by higher ups that they needed to “implement AI” and are just trying to find places to shove it so they can tell the boss they hit the metrics.

The reason they turn stuff like this on by default without asking creators or users is probably because previous things that were implemented and made optional all got turned off and not used, meaning it didn’t help the department or team hit their metrics for usage of the systems.

this guy was able to make a silicon chip with 1200 transistors on it in a garage, far from a modern CPU, but spitting distance from the 3500 transistors of the intel 8008 CPU. Projects in flight also has a series working on DIY semi conductor fabrication he’s not quite to the stage of fabricating a full chip, but he’s covered a lot of the more difficult parts already. And this is all stuff being done as hobby projects.

Something like an early pentium chip like the P5 would not be a particularly difficult task for a well resourced team. The questions are how much could they rely on the currently available off the shelf supplies and tools and how much do they need to scale production.

GE makes the engines, Boeing makes the Airframe.

I mean, you can run APKs on desktop Linux, so I don’t see why not. Plenty of emulators, but also other options like WayDroid, a compatibility layer, or Anbox which puts android in to a container and then merges the system services.

It’s so fucking funny to me to see governments unwilling to do anything positive to support their constituents constantly stumbling in to this same kind of law. Like, governments that want more control over their citizens but are completely unwilling to offer them any additional benefits in exchange for that control.

So instead they frame it as “protecting the children” because who’s ever gonna object to that? But nah, it’s about actually being able to enforce other moral panic laws and forcing more information in to the hands of servaliance capitalism.

I’m shocked! Shocked I tell you!

… well not that shocked actually.