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eveninghere ,

My point is, sacrifices can be made. Even professionals can do it.

You mean like, they risk losing their job, reducing their profits significantly during the training period, and then likely there are a few algorithms that don’t exist in Krita, and most are slower with less optimization. If Adobe releases a new killer feature those professionals who transitioned to OSS are fucked, and also they sacrifice a significant of time on additional training for using Linux, replacing their professional NVIDIA GPUs, tweaks wayland, then they spend time on fixing boot problems, their printers don’t work anymore, they have compatibility issues with everything Adobe and MS Office, lose business competitions just because their files can’t be opened by Windows, etc. etc. I’ll trust you Linux-is-easy people after you converted a few Windows / Apple / Adobe-dependent enterprise businesses.

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is now personally responsible for security flaws.

I say BS.

eveninghere ,

Means nothing to Recall.

His testimony comes after Microsoft admitted that it could have taken steps to prevent two aggressive nation-state cyberattacks from China and Russia.

According to Microsoft whistleblower Andrew Harris, Microsoft spent years ignoring a vulnerability while he proposed fixes to the “security nightmare.” Instead, Microsoft feared it might lose its government contract by warning about the bug and allegedly downplayed the problem, choosing profits over security, ProPublica reported.

eveninghere ,

Nah, if 2 are really working, just buy 998 and he’d have at least stuck to the number. Whether that improves something is the actual question.

eveninghere ,

The funny thing is that this is probably lobbying from NTT Docomo, who lost their own app store monopoly for feature phones the moment smartphones arrived.

eveninghere ,

No, Japan just listened to the previous app market monopoly that was NTT Docomo and other providers who wanted their money pot back.

eveninghere ,

I just hope they’ll let non-profit app stores join. I just want an open source package manager tbh.

eveninghere ,

Maybe I upped the game too much when I decided to run Kinoite on Pi…

eveninghere ,

Adobe has probably employed dozens of top-level PhDs to implement and train AI models, optimized their code.

Hobby projects will never reach that level regardless of the number of users.

Even proprietary developers would have to close the gap made for 10+ years, with far less resources. Just look at the state of Affinity…

I don’t think it’s realistic.

eveninghere ,

I think the advancement in graphics and computer vision is too huge to be comparable to what happened in audio.

eveninghere ,

This is why I like fediverse. Redditors would downvote this to oblivion.

eveninghere ,

This is a horoscope trick. They can always say AI destroyed humanity.

Trump won in 2016 and there was Cambridge Analytica doing data analysis: AI technology destroyed humanity!

Israel used AI-guided missiles to attack Gaza: AI destroyed humanity!

Whatever. You can point at whatever catastrophe and there is always AI behind because already in 2014 AI is a basic technology used everywhere.

eveninghere ,

This is basically Article 5, so… Putin won’t care what he said.

eveninghere ,

I think I just block people who post these at this point

eveninghere ,

I feel the Doc in Back To The Future vibe.

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Japanese Prime Minister

eveninghere ,

I mean, if people here don’t like how Reddit took advantage of user comment data, why should we archive the same without consent from the people who wrote them? Legally speaking Reddit holds the copyright so.

How easy is it to switch back to windows?

I’m considering switching to linux but I’m not a computer savvy person, so I wanted to have the option to switch back to windows if unforeseen complications (I only have 1 pc). Is it just a download on usb and install? And what ways can I get the product key or “cleaner” debloated versions.

eveninghere ,

I mean physically wiping out the disk is. Yes.

eveninghere ,

This guy drives not

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I admit C++ ain’t safe, but wonder if there’s an alternative to going Rust. Don’t get me wrong, I love the language. But Rust is a beast on its own. I read here that game devs generally can’t adapt Rust because the language forces frequent refactoring, which doesn’t fit the business speed of game development.

eveninghere ,

We aren’t naive. We all knew this will happen. But, as it happened, it was better than banning AI in the free world and giving dictators advantages in AI tech.

eveninghere ,

The reality is, passing this huge amount of data was the only way these crazy current AI models work as powerful as ChatGPT. With a restriction like you fantasize, the AI programs would have been dominated by bad actors and the west would not have a counter technology for a decade if not longer.

Regulating the outputs of AIs would be a separate story. But it’s still overwhelmingly difficult. OpenAI is actually advanced in this region in the sense that they have in pocket the single best technology to politically balance the replies by a chatbot.

eveninghere ,

I already write one reply to tell my main point. But whatever argument you come up with, I don’t think that’ll match the reality as viewed by AI researchers. If you give me specific short questions I’d be happy to engage in a discussion, with conditions on time.

In any case, I won’t listen to metaphoric arguments like yours with guns because metaphoric arguments are very difficult to do scientifically. Every situation is different. I mean that anybody can always end the discussion saying “that’s oranges vs apples”, and everything time this happens you’d not have an objective way to counter that.

eveninghere ,

I can say it’s both on point and not. For the not, you can ban the gun in the UK and it will be very difficult to bring one from the continent. Peace. But the same is not true for AI. If the UK government bans AI, Russia can still bring it through the internet.

And then I can still counter-argue that one, and then counter-argue this one also. See what a mess a metaphoric arguments bring.

eveninghere ,

This is just labeling. You can label everything as bad at will. I’m fine with that, it’s called “you’re entitled to your opinion”. That’s not objective though.

eveninghere ,

Software is the antonym of hardware.

eveninghere , (edited )

Generally speaking, all runtimes have been traditionally called programs. (On Unix systems runtimes are often synonymous to executables. I guess the term runtime is used more often by devs on the Windows and Java platform, and I think it is specifically an antonym of library, but not sure because I don’t develop on those often) Applications traditionally referred to programs that were exposed to the user through a mouse interaction by intention. On macOS an app has the .app extension and is thus a special type of a program.

Although, depending on the context, an “application” might just mean programs because even official tech manuals aren’t perfectly rigorous.

On Linux and Windows it is similar. They don’t have a specific extension (some .exe binaries on Windows are meant to be run through the commandline.)

Software is the antonym of hardware, as I wrote in another comment.

Honestly I’m surprised that people here don’t share this. The terminology was rather cleanly separated before iPhone. Unfortunately, due to smartphones the word “app” entered the mass population and it lost meaning as usual.

eveninghere ,

This. It worked smooth on eeepcs back in the days.

My friend didn't have a great experience with Linux

I have been daily driving Linux for over two years now and I have switched distros many times. So, when my friend bought a new laptop, I convinced him to install Linux Mint on it. I asked him if he wanted to dual boot, he said no because it would fill up all his storage. We installed Linux Mint. The other day, he wanted to play...

eveninghere ,

You have a nice friendship :) That’s more important than Linux.

eveninghere ,

I think one has to gather more proof before concluding that the gap is due to LLMs. It can also be that the engagement was lost due to third party app drop. We don’t have stats to distinguish them.

Any suggestions for cheap but decent laptops for coding?

I’m currently learning how to code (currently Python, then maybe JavaScript), but I’m not always around my desktop, and learning on my phone is not always an option (also, it can be quite cumbersome at times). Therefore, I’m looking into purchasing a laptop just for learning how to code and stuff....

eveninghere ,

Well, just for learning coding on Linux OP wouldn’t need 16GB.

eveninghere ,

DELL sold Ubuntu models and they abandoned them I believe.

eveninghere ,

If Linux ever becomes used by my friends that movement will be driven by big techs or governments. Our voices aren’t a big factor and we should admit that so that we spend time better.

eveninghere ,

Maybe, but logically speaking, I don’t have evidence to tell whether that’s a proper or false equivalence.

eveninghere ,

Acting I thought they dropped snap in favor of fkatpak finally.

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This caused me PTSD going back 20 years.

Building a brand new machine and leaving Windows for good

I’m sick of Windows, and especially what it’s become, and the way its trending looks like it will only get worse. I’ll be building a brand new PC this summer and want to choose a Linux Distro instead. In preparation, I’d like to try out a virtual machine with a Linux distribution. I am solidly familiar with Ubuntu, but I...

eveninghere ,

The problem with alternatives is that every step towards another alternative loses a huge number of distro users, leading to insufficient manpower. If I were you I’d stick with recommending Manjaro. But if Manjaro’s untrustworthy then maybe something even more mainstream.

eveninghere ,

Anything you pick, make sure to first do a web search on how well your games work on Linux.

eveninghere ,

Something like “proton your_game_here”.

Beware that on the Linux land you’re on your own. People say “things just work except [something]”. I don’t say that because it feels like moving the goal post every time something gets fixed just to face the next problem for a niche person like me.

The reality is, you never know. My favorite title apparently worked in 10fps. Nobody could figure out why. Then some update on something suddenly fixed it and that’s when people finally confirmed it was a software bug all along.

Even people saying Linux can play any game admits “if you can’t spend good efforts, you’re not for Linux.”

eveninghere ,

It’s a sad phenomenon.

eveninghere ,

In beta stage yet, but Cosmic might become the most stable in a few years. I’ve never seen an open source general purpose Linux DE with that level of seriousness from a business company.

eveninghere ,

Given the nature of fediverse, this specific category of people might indeed throw away Windows for their private machines.

eveninghere ,

So, I checked how my fav game is doing on proton, and it’s Linux as usual. Mostly fine with recent efforts. Someone patched proton to resolve many remaining issues, but some people still experience issues.

As a tech geek who fucks around with my set up, I’m usually going to be an idiot belonging to that category of some people who face problems.

And if I use Windows the game dev will do the work. Sad reality.

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I wonder if atomic desktops would change manufacturers’ mind. We have to admit LTSes like from Ubuntu failed to make pre-installed Linux popular.

Silverblue contains too much cutting-edge software to be pre-installed as of now, but if Red Hat decides to provide a mechanism for manufacturers to better stabilize Silverblue I’d take it seriously. Automatic updates with cleanly split customization mechanisms, and the source is available. If the PC is just supposed to do web browsing with couple peripherals like a fucking printer (don’t ask me why), it might be preferable over Windows. And my relatives can’t configure Windows on their own anyway.

At the same time I don’t know why Chromebook isn’t more popular cus it’s probably good enough for 90% of use cases. (The rest is basically elderly people who want 10GB photos in their 2TB SSDs, only to lose them “accidentally”. Maybe Chromebook can do that, too, but I just can’t recommend it due to corner cases I’m not aware of. I mean, I don’t want to test Chromebooks for my relatives.)

eveninghere ,

Yeah, people have been saying btrfs to be untested for more than a decade by now.

eveninghere ,

This is great, I can show all my 4k porn collection to my managers doing Teams screen sharing!

eveninghere ,

Well, so, you use password generator, the password screenshot is saved.

This makes most password generators useless because they show the password for user feedback. You can turn this MS AI off, but I will have no idea if there was a bug.

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