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- Comment on Two-year-old Surface PCs get $300 price hikes as sub-$1,000 models go away 1 week ago:
Indeed I was not suggesting switching the OS on that device.
But if it quits on you, old thinkpad + Linux will keep you going.
- Comment on Two-year-old Surface PCs get $300 price hikes as sub-$1,000 models go away 1 week ago:
I’m rather concerned about what I do when my Surface Pro 7 dies. I inherited a Chromebook from my dad, but that’s a poor substitute.
Do you need to use Windows? Because any old Thinkpad with Linux Mint will get you through a few years, and performance-wise should be able to handle anything you’re currently doing with your surface. Or hell, I can’t believe I’m saying this, a Macbook Neo.
- Comment on Google will begin punishing sites for back button hijacking in June 1 week ago:
83% of the searches that happen on PC are done with google and 95% of the searches done on mobile are done with google.
So 12% of users didn’t change the default from Edge with Bing?
- Comment on Elon points the way 1 week ago:
Has anyone here considered that he simply may be funding subversive groups in a few countries?
- Comment on One new message! 2 weeks ago:
Hell no. It’s nowhere near 50/50. In my experience the great moments are far more frequent than the one where you want to defenestrate them.
The relationship with them is however massively unequal, in that you basically owe all the support and they owe you next to nothing (at least at the start).
And unlike with partners and friends, you are supposed to have and maintain authority over them, and foster their growth, often against their whishes.
So it’s a lot of work. But I for instance don’t understand why people get dogs.
- Comment on Really incredible. I want a set. 2 weeks ago:
Cowabunga!
- Comment on It's what it looks like 4 weeks ago:
That’s like 10 a years old TFS Titan, you’re two generations behind.
Bad bot.
- Comment on It's what it looks like 4 weeks ago:
The way the camera follows us in slow-mo
- Comment on Get. Out 2 months ago:
There are many reasons. My biggest problem with it is that it enables the productions of a incredible deluge of cheap shitty content (aka slop), sufficient to drown out a lot of more interesting decent work.
This is coumpunded by big tech having decided that slop is preferable to real content. This leads to the general feeling that I’m drowning in an ocean of shit, and thus I dislike AI.
- Comment on furry transfem 2 months ago:
Would looking at wave propagation from object (i.e. a piece of gauze) all the way to far field diffraction do it for you?
- Comment on My muddahs wake. Jeeshush Chrisht! 2 months ago:
That’s basically the case even countries likes the Netherlands, which have a population 50 times bigger than iceland.
- Comment on ChatGPT to start showing ads in the US 2 months ago:
As far as I can tell, the paid one also loses then plenty of money (possibly more than the free one?)
- Comment on ChatGPT to start showing ads in the US 2 months ago:
ChatGPT subscriptions are significantly cheaper than what they cost the company anyway.
- Comment on So many posers 3 months ago:
Bombtrack, obviously.
- Comment on Ready set go 3 months ago:
It’s still leagues ahead of LLMs. I’m not saying it’s entirely impossible to build a computer that surpasses the human brain in actual thinking. But LLMs ain’t it.
The feature set of the human brain is different, in a way that you can’t compensate for by just increasing scale. So you get something that works but not quite, by using several orders of magnitude more power.
We optimize and learn constantly. We have chunking, whereby a complex idea becomes simpler for our brain once it’s been processed a few times, and this allows us to progressively work on more and more complex ideas without an increase in our working memory.
If you spend enough time using LLMs you must notice how their working is different from your own.
- Comment on 'Tis the season 3 months ago:
Plenty of people have. Seems like she does a bit of escorting as well? Could make for a nice birthday gift.
- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones. 4 months ago:
other brands don’t suffer from these issues
Yet
- Comment on Do you truly believe that this is a human being? 7 months ago:
Indeed. That’s really (chef’s kiss)
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Well…
- Comment on Interesting news 10 months ago:
They call it “affluenza”
- Comment on I'm Vegan! I can't eat what you sell! 10 months ago:
You could argue both ways.
On the one hand, it is of course a very good thing to use all parts of the animal you killed to the largest possible extent.
I mean, imagine killing an animal for food and then even only using the tastiest bits and throwing away the rest?
On the other hand, of course, having a market for these “waste products” potentially acts as a subsidy for the meat itself, encouraging its consumption.
- Comment on WMD 10 months ago:
I’m 14 and this is deep.
- Comment on WaaaaAAALLLEEEeee 10 months ago:
Oh, sweet summer child…
Of course you can introduce all kinds of serialization and parts pairing just like you do on any other device. Below is a fairly mild example, but just look at all the bullshit John Deere is pulling on their tractor repair or the BMW where the car will intentionally malfunction if you don’t replace your battery at a dealership.
- Comment on guys what the heck theyre putting micro chips in the cheese and using blockchains to track the micro chips 11 months ago:
I have lots of complaints about DOP/PDO, but on the other hand it has its features.
While it’s true that, to paraphrase Vesper Lynd, there is parmigiano, and there is parmigiano, and I prefer the latter kind… The worst parmigiano I can buy in EU is still damn good cheese.
- Comment on doctors 11 months ago:
Huh? Joke? On the Internet? No way.
- Comment on guys what the heck theyre putting micro chips in the cheese and using blockchains to track the micro chips 11 months ago:
I see here no-one has a clue and expects Italian farmers to behave like american businesses, so I’ll have to explain. The ideology of Italian farmers (and pretty much all euro farmers) is pretty ugly, but also different from your typical murican grift.
In the specific case, Parmigiano-Reggiano producers are obsessed with the idea that they are losing billions to “Italian sounding” products like american Parmesan. Which they believe are sold interchangeably.
The thing that guarantees the absence of fraudolent data is that only “legal” Parmigiano producers from the Modena-Reggio-Parma area would be allowed to enter data in the system, and your american counterfeit Parmesan would be barred. Of course such a system is blind to the fact that they themselves are likely lying about the origin of their milk, but that’s a feature, not a bug.
Unfortunately this is not even peak farmer craziness around here, but that’s a different story (the farmer parties e.g. the dutch one are really ugly).
And this is all beside the obvious fact that Parmigiano-Reggiano is indeed the finest cheese in the world, so far ahead of the Parmesan competition that no person could mistake one for the other in a blind test. And the French and Dutch can bite me.
- Comment on Chinese Factory Worker Can't Believe The Shit He Makes For Americans 11 months ago:
Yeah, did the Chinese invent a mechanism for rapid growth of 3D printed ladies?
Because since the change in policy was 10 years ago, your 23yo chinese factory worker better like his ladies very young.
But I would also be careful attributing all the selective abortions to the OCP.
Sex ratio in live births was still something like 110% or 115% in 2020, and looked stable.
India also has a sizable sex imbalance in live births, and never had a OCP.
- Comment on Chinese Factory Worker Can't Believe The Shit He Makes For Americans 11 months ago:
All the girls that just do not exist because of selective abortions?
- Comment on Can't understand why they fired me 1 year ago:
That face is so Dutch I can practically hear the accent.
- Comment on Oh no, Nicole's plan is entering stage 2 1 year ago:
There’s an argument to be had that it is a little harder to censor on Lemmy, and also I expect that it does not e.g. scan all PMs by default to detect >!!<spam as some big techs might.
So, if tech savvy people are harder to fool (but it’s definitely not impossible, see Cory Doctorow’s recent post) but the cost of spamming is a little lower… maybe it still works.