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rikudou ,

Hey, I love my kernel processes! Especially my LLM kernel processes.

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What the hell is the fella smoking if he thinks Apple would ever let others use their on-device LLM? Like, the company that deems it too dangerous if apps could change a wallpaper?

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Until someone makes a frontend for syncthing that's significantly dumbed down, it's not elitist.

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They'll give you $2 or something like that if you give them consent. You would be surprised how well that works.

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For my use case Revolut mostly replaced it.

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That's very different, they want you to either pay or not have access. This would be you still having access, but being paid for giving them data voluntarily.

That's perfectly legal and employed across many European business entities.

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And it feels wrong for this comic.

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Weird way to spell NixOS.

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But a decade from now, there will be AI trained on data that will no longer exist. And many websites that GPT trained on probably don't exist anymore.

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Isn't it? I think it's quite there, unless you get unlucky with hardware.

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Gaming is no longer a reason, really. 99% of the time it works out of the box.

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Well, I was comparing to my experience with both Windows and MacOS or whatever is the thing called.

Windows PC gets slow and laggy after around half a year, it goes slowly so you don't notice at first, but around half a year later it's shitty. No matter the hardware. Sure, your $2k laptop won't be as slow as a random $300 laptop, but the ratio of new/half-a-year-later is more or less the same.

With Macs I have limited experience, but my partner's Mac was shitting itself all the time, weird issues with login screen being stuck and needing hard reboot, the thing generally being laggy when you try to do more than two things (neither of which necessarily needs to be a demanding task), Finder is pretty much an abomination that no one really knows how to use well and so on.

Sure, Linux is fucked up all the time as well, but my point is it's not worse than the other two systems, both are broken all the time as well. And the argument that you need terminal to work - have you actually fixed any problem on Windows? Unless a reboot of the system or of some service solves the problem, within 10 minutes you're either running PowerShell or you're deep in the registry.

Well, at least Windows seems to be a problem that's solving itself (albeit very slowly) with how shitty it's become.

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I've been there, now it's been over two years where I'm pretty much Gmail free. It's hard but it's worth it.

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And not as a Hong-Konger, if you don't want your family on a blacklist.

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Not from the US, but Europe is basically worse than the US when it comes to EVs and I'd still never consider a Chinese car. They are not really known for following safety standards. Or any standards for that matter.

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MeeGo was quite good! And the latest Symbian wasn't that bad either at the time, though I've heard the source code was all hacky (hence the creation of MeeGo).

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Try SailfishOS, it's the spiritual successor to MeeGo! And it's usable as a daily driver.

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Can't you use VPN? The Android layer works very well, though the lack of fingerprint sensor support gets tiring.

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I use Proton Mail for my primary domain and then addy.io for redirects to it. It costs $10 a year or something like that and it's all I actually need.

Replying to emails is as easy as just hitting reply, the only thing that's slightly harder is sending entirely new email (as in not replying) but even that can either be remembered, or the special email address copied from the addy.io app.

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Well, the one in power might decide that they're spending too much on the managers below them.

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It does. Anyone sniffing the traffic can only see the domain.

A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions (www.theregister.com)

Schleswig-Holstein, Germany's most northern state, is starting its switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and is planning to move from Windows to Linux on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions....

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If you have to tweak it to make it good, it's bad.

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Wasn't there also something like Edubuntu?

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That bug should have been a hotfix. Or a rollback.

rikudou ,

I did, that's why I'm talking about it.

In my experience, what you say is absolutely true, but glaring bugs like that are deployed as a hotfix.

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Well, most things are bad from UX perspective, it's just that people who use FOSS are used to that.

That's why only enthusiasts usually use FOSS.

Before you start throwing around the five or so exceptions that exist, I'm well aware, but it's just that - exceptions.

rikudou ,

Both work out of the box really well. Sure, Windows will break inevitably, but it's usually few months before it does. Office looks really good. And that's all that matters.

You don't have to convince me, by the way, I've been using Linux for 15 years. But I've been in IT pretty much all of my adult life.

Until developers make stuff really good looking out of the box, FOSS will be still the ugly thing no one except IT people want to use.

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Most of AI is open source, so everyone motivated enough can try it! It's public and anyone who has the will, can use it to benefit the public.

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Well, it's fun that they mention F-Droid, because the maintainers are bullies who bully their contributors and generally act very unpleasant. They like to make new rules on the spot.

I abandoned using the project altogether, not someone I want to support.

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That apps published there can't be wrappers around a web application.

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Not WebView, but a so-called TWA, aka Trusted Web Activity, a features specifically designed to wrap PWAs and give them full-blown app capabilities.

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Eh... why? More to the point, it's not mentioned anywhere in their guidelines, it was made up on the spot by the fella doing the code review.

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Inefficient and bloated describes 90% of all apps I've ever seen, regardless of technology used, so I fail to see your point.

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Well, I have the app on Google Play store, which was originally meant to be the alternative, now it's the main store.

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Funny that such a rant is on an ad-ridden website.

rikudou ,

Where is everyone getting the ads? And why don't I have them? Not that I want them, but I own two Shields and neither has ads on the homescreen.

rikudou ,

Yes.

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    rikudou ,

    Android is not really Linux, as has been explained about a bazillion of times. It uses a Linux kernel, doesn't make it a Linux distribution.

    rikudou ,

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    Lucky you, straight up doesn't work on my new laptop.

    rikudou ,

    Well, my laptop doesn't have an ethernet port. When it happened to me (not on Debian, I think Mint or something), I didn't even use a phone OS that was capable of sharing my internet via USB. Fun times.

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    Installation worked, it was just the usual Nvidia stuff and this time it was way above my skills.

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    Yeah, I need GPU for CUDA, so it needs to work. It also doubles as my gaming laptop, which I could live without, but it would be suboptimal.

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    I did this once on my laptop with no backups. I was lucky. I also used the correct version with --no-preserve-root.

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    Alongside our climate action, we have always campaigned for a fairer, more sustainable internet. We’re the only search engine that gives all of its profits to the planet and we compete with some of the biggest companies in the world, so we’ve been pushing them to give alternative search engines a fair chance. And it’s paying off!

    Sure, fella, that was all you. I follow that issue very closely, can't say Ecosia has really been a driving force behind it. I've never heard of them, in fact. Why do they feel the need to lie? I wouldn't use them even if they weren't reskinned Bing just for the above paragraph alone, can't really trust a company that lies about stuff it doesn't even need to lie about.

    The BBC Won't Use AI to Promote Doctor Who Again After Being Yelled at by Fans (gizmodo.com)

    The backlash was immediate, but it didn’t stop the BBC from using text generated by LLMs—and purportedly checked and copy-edited by a human before approval—in two marketing emails and mobile push notifications to advertise Doctor Who. But now, the corporation will stop the experimentation entirely after a wave of official...

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    People are so dumb they make me actually side with a fucking company. Luddites used to be fun to make fun of until people started actually listening to them.

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    Nah, they were lunatics who thought machines would replace them. Guess what, machines are everywhere and people still have a job.

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    I can actually agree that jobs = good is not a good metric, it's just what luddites thought and I didn't want to be inaccurate.

    The rest of your comment I disagree with, I work in software development and it's simply not true. AI transforms the work people do, it doesn't replace it, software in general doesn't replace work, only transforms it.

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