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okamiueru ,

To what extent is it Russian?

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okamiueru ,

Is this /technology, or /laststagecapitalism?

okamiueru ,

Is how you describe it an indication of an actual problem? I don't know of anyone who thinks that any one improvement needs to solve the whole thing, in order to be worth it.

The whole premise is baffling. I'm not disagreeing with you here, but... is anyone?

okamiueru ,

Jail.

That’s the answer.

The answer to what question though? If it is what's presented here in the comic, I.e. "what to do instead of sleeping on the street", then that's a remarkably American answer, and requires significant stupidity and/or malice.

There are much better approaches.

okamiueru ,

In the EU, it sort of isn't.

Takes a long time to write a proper response for all the GDPR stuff. The responses surprisingly don't change all that much whether or not I do, so I might as well save me the trouble.

okamiueru ,

Am I too European to understand this?

Out of all the things and ways "driving could be more sane", you think the sale of your data to for-profit, private, third parties... will somehow be for the common good?

okamiueru ,

First thing you mention is such a fun and useful exercise. But as you point out, way overkill. Might even be dangerous to expose it. I got mine to 20kb on top of busybox.

There is something that tickles the right spots when a complete container image significantly smaller than the average js payload in "modern" websites.

okamiueru ,

Just an FYI, viewing everything through the lense of "racist/not-racist" is common in the US, and not so much elsewhere.

Your impression that "pretending it isn't", is simply... because it isn't, for most outside the US.

Hope that helps clear this up. Learning about new things is always fun, and a good thing. Right?

okamiueru ,

Let me guess. American?

okamiueru ,

No... Not really. But hey. You do you.

okamiueru ,

Works on some thing.... other's... it just takes too long for the older generation to not vote against improving things. Slowly getting there. Maybe.

okamiueru , (edited )

You are so right. I'm dumbfounded by how apathetic Americans are when it comes to politics. The idea of making the change you want to see, seems like a foreign concept. This will bring in a lot of downvotes, but I'd be happy to find some kind of online community that excludes Americans. And, I don't mean by nationality, or even geography. Just this... acceptance of political depravity. In the US, you get the choice between "bat shit insane". And, if don't like that, you can vote Republican instead, which is orders of magnitude worse, with layers of vile shit. I'm tired. Most problems are so simple to solve. But the arguments are always presented between two things that don't matter.

Good luck. I'm gonna see if there is a lemmy community that actively blocks "American mentality". Which is hilarious, because a lot of Americans express that lemmy is "extremely communist / anti capitalist" etc. Which is just what "common sense" looks like to Americans.

okamiueru ,

I'm conflicted. I automatically downvote all links to X, but Americans need all the support they can get when it comes to unions. On the other hand, I don't know what NLRB is... and if people are too lazy to spell out acronyms, I'm too lazy to Google. Not so conflicted anymore.

okamiueru ,

Not trolling, no. I just have a pet peeve against the use acronyms that come without context. In this case, I'm being a doofus, because this is in unions@, and it is reasonable to assume everyone knows that there. I suppose the real pet peeve is being a bad communicator. It's more common to see people use acronyms because they think it conveys knowledge of the topic. I was also caught in a bit of a bad mood. I'm a bit tired of American culture and politics. It reaches a certain point, where it's just... too dumb. E.g. the issue at hand here. I wish you guys the best, the US sure as hell needs it to stall the eventual conclusion of capitalism.

okamiueru ,

... among many other things.

okamiueru ,

I was in the same camp one year ago. I sometimes still use it due to Synergy not working otherwise.

It's a common occurrence in X11 that I get a full screen "Oops something broke. [Log out]"-screen, except you cannot log out because the screen doesn't register any inputs.

So, these days: Wayland just works, and X11 (except for some specific software) causes problems. But, I aslo use AMD GPU.

So, what in particular is not ready with Wayland? I hated it two years ago. Now, I have little reason to.

okamiueru ,

I don't know about all of those. Not sure if you downvoted me, in which case you might have the predisposition of not giving a shit. In which case I'd be most happy to oblige.

As for the technical implementations / shortcomings, I... don't really care about it. The reason I didn't use Wayland before was because things didn't work. The reasons why I don't use X11 now, is because things occasionally stop working. The reason why I still sometimes use X11, is that unless I do so, some specific software doesn't work. That's the frame of mind I have, and I don't have any allegiance or vested interest beyond that. You seem to have that, and that's great. Caring about the technical details has my respect.

So as for the stuff you mention that is directly user-facing:

  • Screen recording used to be a problem, haven't had that issue recently. OBS records my screens and part of it, just fine.
  • Window sharing like you could with X11 with ssh -X is amazing, and doesn't work, but it's been about 15 years since I used it.
  • Crashes that completely freeze my computer. Doesn't happen in Wayland. Happens in X11 (it's not a kernel panic, but whatever it is, I have to reboot, end result is the same to me).
  • Have had no issues with any of the monitors I own.
  • Global hotkeys work, and have always worked, for me. If it didn't, I simply wouldn't use Wayland, as a lot of my workflows surround tools I have built and trigger with global hotkeys.
  • Sleep mode, I don't use. Is that the same as Hibernation?
  • I don't use a single appimage, but I downloaded one to try now, and it worked fine.
  • What is redshift?
  • "Windows can't raise themselves or keep themselves raised", does this mean to request to be in focus? I'm curious which programs benefit from this.
  • sudo is insecure by default in Wayland? How come? I'd be interested to know how it has anything to do with wayland/x11. unless you mean GUI applications executed with sudo, not having access to wayland stuff?
okamiueru ,

Thanks for the clarifications.

I do hope it improves. I never understood why Wayland became a thing, if it's fundamentally flawed. But then, on the other hand, it's strange to not make the improvements in X11, unless that too is fundamentally flawed.

okamiueru ,

I'm guessing this has more to do with the US, than the particular profession.

I'm so used to workers rights, that getting a glimpse into how things are over there feels dystopian. Laws everyone would want, and benefitting everyone, except perhaps exploitative businesses, are "controversial".

It's very difficult to even fire someone here, and even if you did, 3 months to find something else is the norm. More often than not, you'd also be paid without doing much work during that time. If you resign, the company also has 3 months to figure something out.

Why... Would you not want that kind of predictability be the norm? It's not a net benefit to be able to resign or be fired on the spot. The only way that makes any sense is to just focus on one of the sides, at the convenient time. Bleh.

okamiueru ,

You say this like this is most people’s choice

Isn't it?

Setting aside hefty political corruption in the US, and media owned private interests that would make the Pinkertons shed a tear of joy... hm, and aside for a very peculiar election system that not only goes for the worst 2-party approach, but even has set it up in multiple ways in order to allow the minority of the two, to win.... ah... I see your point.

okamiueru , (edited )

What the actual fuck.

I'm tired of constantly running in to the basic lack of understanding that LLMs are not knowledge systems. They emulate language, and produce plausible sentences. This journalist is using the output of a LLM as a source of knowledge... What a fucking disgrace this should be for Forbes.

Imagine a journalist just quoting a conversation with their 10 year old, where they played a game of "whatever you do, you have to pretend like you really know what you're talking about. Do not be unsure about anything, ok?", and used the output as a source for actual facts.

If you use ChatGPT, or Bard, or any LLM for anything beyond creative output, or with the required comprehension to vet the output, just stop. Don't use tools you don't understand the function or limitations of.

I've already had to spend hours correcting a fundamental misconception someone got from ChatGPT, which was part of a safety mechanism of medical software. I've also had the displeasure of finding self-contradicting documentation someone placed in a README, which was a copy-paste from ChatGPT.

It's such a powerful tool and utility if you know what it can help with. But it requires a basic understanding, that too many people are either too lazy to make the effort for, or just lacking critical thought processes, and "it sounded really plausible", (the full extent of what it's designed to do) fools them completely.

okamiueru ,

Bard is the same caliber of LLM as GPT, and both have a documented tendency to hallucinate.

It's all hallucinations, always, with only a few exceptions. The hallucinations just have some overlap with reality, that's all.

okamiueru ,

Why would you want to do that?

Genuine question.

Because if it is the hardware you want to keep and not the software, there are good android based options. And if what you want is control over the software, there are also good android options. I'd recommend a Pixel phone, and you'll always have the option to de-goggle it completely with either CalyxOs, GrapheneOs or similar ones.

okamiueru ,

Also. MacOS is absolute garbage. I've used it for 4 months now, and it pisses me off how inconsistent it is, and poorly designed and written. Two days wasted because of an almost bricked laptop because the monitor was set to 60Hz while installing an update. Just think about that.

I also had the misfortune of booting into windows after changing a motherboard. It was an absolute shit show there too, with broken drivers. Two hours of debugging. Had to use a long ethenet cable to even start fixing it, a flashback to a Linux experience I had in 2007.

Same system in Linux? Not a single second spent. WiFi drivers, microcode. Everything worked fine. Only thing necessary was fixing the grub/mbr partition that Windows decided to write over, on a separate drive. But that's also Microsoft being shit.

People just don't know how much more usable Linux is these days. Especially for power users. You can do so many things, so easily, that either works out of the box, or you can do with simple scripting. The only issue is software availability, but that too is mostly a thing of the past, and not really a fault of the OS.

okamiueru ,

Have you looked into home assistant? There is a pretty solid and mature community around you managing all these different smart systems yourself.

That said, in not sure this is relevant, I'm too sleepy to read all of what you wrote. Apologies

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