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I did. I stopped contributing to Open Source back in the 2000s when I saw that all of the dot com stuff was being built on unpaid opensource labor. Now I contribute (financially) to the products I use, and stopped contributing code, testing, or documentation elsewhere.

I don’t have, but have been considering getting. I hear there’s masked bands of kidnappers breaking into homes, so maybe it’s time?

Net connected everything. The cracks are already showing but it’s going to get worse, and then it’ll swing back.

The study: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/brv.12730 for those not interested in a cracked pop-sci article.

Table 5, I think, is what the pop-sci takeaway is coming from, which is quite an oversimplification. The idea that “150 people” is what humans can understand is, IMO, a misinterpretation of the study. The study refers to multi-tiered groups ranging from ‘Band’ (~45.5) to ‘Tribe’ (~1350.4) based on the degrees of intelligence, cooperation, etc of the members.

If it’s even relevant, it supports the points I raised that communism is a theory that works well only in small select groups, though I would argue it’s probably correlation and not causation in this case. At least until we have evidence of other primates practicing political theory.

Humans are inherently evil. Communism is a beautiful thought experiment that works really well in small select groups, but fails to tolerate the inherent evils that befall it when it begins to scale.

I love it as an idea. I’d love for it to work. Unfortunately, it’s just yet another experiment that falls victim to the “imagine a spherical cow” kind of thinking.

It’s inspired many good ideas, though, that do work. Marx had many good points.

I just tell people “It’s free and I don’t get twenty thousand ‘license term updates’ in my email every month”

Writing month is exactly just that. Just an excuse for those looking for one :) I hope the new community does well, since none of the writing communities on the fedi are especially active.

Karabiner FTW.

Basically it’s garbage, Siri effectively just posts your query, sans context, to chatGPT. What comes back is hilariously bad. If they’d integrated it “correctly”, it’d probably be as bad as MS. I’ve played with it a bunch in the store, though my device (intel) doesn’t support it at all.

I do. They’re garbage cleo laptops with a badge and no support. I had one, when it failed they refused to stand behind it at all.

I cooked (literally) 3 ‘gaming’ laptops in 5 years. It seems that even with a riser and constant (monthly) cleaning, heavy GPU use pretty much kills the later gen nvidia chips.

Makes sense, I did. Granted, mine was an old model for $40 that I have now upgraded to 16GB of RAM, but yes. Good plan.

The most first world of all first world problems has arrived

I’m a really big fan of Tron, and I loved the far-too-late sequel with the excellent Daft Punk soundtrack, but Ares has 1) Jared Leto and 2) Looks stupid as heck. So even some people in their ‘target audience’ are taking a pass on this one. Stop trying to make every damn movie a ‘franchise’, hollywood.

The title says comedians but the pictures are people who are definitely not funny, so I guess the Saudis are going to want their money back.

Worse content, higher prices. They really are punishing the people who got rid of their DVDs, aren’t they?

It’s definitely getting to that point, especially with the new stuff google is trying to pull.

I’ve basically degoogled mine as is, but I really do wish I could switch my tablet off samsung’s nightmare OS. Every update they move/change/add things, even though I have updates turned off. They keep remapping things to use that ridiculous bixby thing.

So yes, the moment it’s supported, it’s getting switched.