FreedomAdvocate
@FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 1 week ago:
What surprises me is that Samsung isn’t trying to get better hardware to get more market share.
You say this about the company that invented folding screen phones? lol
- Comment on Study (N=16) finds AI (Cursor/Claude) slows development 1 week ago:
Just like Stack Overflow then haha. It’s usually either
“I copied this persons code exactly, why doesn’t it work in my completely different codebase?”
or
“I copied this persons code exactly and it works in mine! I don’t want to touch it in case I break it cause I don’t get it”
haha
- Comment on Study (N=16) finds AI (Cursor/Claude) slows development 1 week ago:
If you already know what you’re doing, AI generating code is redundant.
Nah, it can be really useful for people who do know what they’re doing as it can be used to generate the “charlie work” (IASIP reference if you don’t know) things like unit tests and documentation and things like that pretty damn well.
- Comment on Study (N=16) finds AI (Cursor/Claude) slows development 1 week ago:
Sorry but a study of 16 developers isn’t a big enough sample to get any meaningful data, especially given the massive range of skills and levels of development.
I’m a developer and I use AI - not much, but when I think it can help based on the suggestions that it gives me since it’s integrated into visual studio. It doesn’t slow me down, it speeds me up. It could slow you down if you rely on it to do everything, but in that case you’re just a bad or lazy developer.
AI is a tool to use. Like with all tools, there are right ways and wrong ways and inefficient ways and all other ways to use them. You can’t say that they slow people down as a whole.
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 1 week ago:
You came at me saying I said something I didn’t. You’re the one not having a good faith discussion.
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t say that trump got it under control, just that it is under control now while it was out of control at almost all time highs during Biden’s term.
- Comment on Streaming Subscriptions May Get Tougher to Cancel 2 weeks ago:
What type of logic is this? Because rules didn’t force them to make it easier it will get harder?
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 2 weeks ago:
Inflation is currently at the lowest it has been since the first 2-3 months of Biden’s term.
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 2 weeks ago:
It sounds like you just want to know at what arbitrary amount of time trump gets the blame for Biden’s failings, even though they are Biden’s failings.
There are some things that will always be the Biden admin’s fault, like the rampant inflation and price increases that lead to the current cost of living crisis. That inflation and those increases of prices across the board haven’t gone away, and likely never will. The only way they do is by absolutely massive deflation, or a depression in other words.
Something that cost $5 in 2021 should only cost $5.50 or so now if inflation didn’t go crazy, but instead it costs $8 because of the Biden admin. Trump can’t “fix” that. The only ways are a depression, which would be seen as a failure even though it’s what’s needed, or for real wages for every person in the country to skyrocket 30% more than inflation, without causing extreme inflation, which isn’t possible.
The tariffs are a risk, for sure - but the goal of them is to make things cheaper after a bit of short term pain as countries reduce their tariffs on US products to below where they were before to make the USA reduce their tariffs back to what they were, because the countries can’t survive without US exports. It’s a negotiating tactic, and it’s already worked with a lot of countries. The big one still in the air is China, but it’s showing good signs.
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 2 weeks ago:
but 11 has Recall which is essentially AI spyware.
How do so many of you believe this? How did so many of you upvote this?
Windows 11 doesn’t have Recall. If you have a Copilot+ PC you can opt-in to a preview of Recall currently. Those without a Copilot+ PC, ie. everyone in this thread who actually has a windows pc with Windows 11, do not have Recall and will not be getting Recall.
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 2 weeks ago:
I assume you’re talking about Recall, the feature that isn’t even coming to 99.99% of the computers running windows, and still isn’t even released officially outside of opt-in previews, right?
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 2 weeks ago:
Recall was never actually released, you do realize? It was also only on Copilot+ devices.
It has been reworked to be completely encrypted and secure, and still isn’t out.
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 2 weeks ago:
No, not the same with Linux. Nvidia GPU support is known to be bad.
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 2 weeks ago:
Nvidia gpu’s actually work out of the box when you use them with windows.
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 2 weeks ago:
Nice of you to cut off the context that sentence was given in.
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 2 weeks ago:
Is it as good as Windows is with nvidia gpus out of the box? No.
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 2 weeks ago:
And not only increased, but gotten significantly further ahead of Linux.
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah and that’s what I’d call “not significant” growth.
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 2 weeks ago:
Not really. People using a Steam Deck to play games isn’t going to make Adobe (for example) make Linux versions of their software.
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 2 weeks ago:
On the flip side, SteamOS and the “success” of the steam deck is giving people here a false sense of “OMG THE YEAR OF LINUX IS FINALLY HERE!!!” because most people that buy a steam deck aren’t really “using linux” in the way that OP is talking about. They just bought a game console, and that game consoles OS is based on linux. There isn’t any significant increase in people running Linux on their laptops or desktop computers.
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 2 weeks ago:
So, what do I do? When Windows 10 stops getting its updates, throw it away?
Windows 10 won’t just stop working in October. As long as you’re not an idiot you can safely use Windows 10 PCs connected to the internet for the next decade.
Microsoft have also announced ways to get extended updates to it til Oct 2026 too btw.
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 2 weeks ago:
In Windows you also needed to google every day basic functions
You do? Like what?
On Windows you also need to use the terminal for some things, like removing some of their bloatware (xbox bullshit, for example).
Or you can just leave it and not use it, disable it, or delete it from the add or remove apps settings menu.
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 2 weeks ago:
The Windows 11 Pro edition at my work had an entry for Whatsapp in the start menu after a fresh install…
That’s just a stub, an “ad”. Whatsapp isn’t installed.
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 2 weeks ago:
Linux Mint is easier to use out of the box than any version of Windows.
How so? Definitely isn’t if you have an Nvidia GPU.
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 2 weeks ago:
Linux is also not easier to use than ever,
Not to mention doesn’t play nicely with GPUs made by the overwhelming market leader, nvidia.
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 2 weeks ago:
Windows 10 is no longer receiving security updates
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 2 weeks ago:
You’re in a linux loving, windows hating bubble here on Lemmy. There is no significant number of people migrating from windows to linux according to any metric we have.
- Comment on Do the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few? 2 weeks ago:
Absolutely. Anyone that says no is seemingly incapable of looking at the bigger picture.
- Comment on How did Diddy get off with so much? 2 weeks ago:
You said you don’t know enough about the evidence but also say that he “got off with so much”? Which is it?
- Comment on How differently would have information technology developed if most of the world were under authoritarian regimes instead of liberal democracies? Would encryption have been more restricted? 3 weeks ago:
The current “liberal” Australian government are doing their best to turn the internet into a government controlled propaganda machine. Most “liberal” governments around the world are the ones starting to become authoritarian, implementing censorship of the internet and speech, jail time for internet posts, endless tracking of everything you do online, etc.