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atrielienz

@ atrielienz @lemmy.world

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  • Is Android really the next big desktop operating system?

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  • This comment has Bender "oh you're serious" energy and I love that about it.

  • Screw it, I’m installing Linux

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  • My experience was pretty simple. But you will have to make some decisions.

    If you just want to blanket install Linux over whatever you run currently (and wipe out windows or whatever), that's honestly the easiest way in my opinion.

    You don't need things like gparted or other utilities to partition drives or anything. You burn a bootable USB stick with the Linux distro of your choice, go into bios and select it as the boot media, and go through the prompts to install once it boots.

    This has been my experience with bazzite on both a handheld and an older windows desktop PC.

    There are so many helpful guides out there.

    Your use case will determine a lot of things. If you just need a PC for media watching and web surfing, out of the box, simple immutable Linux distros will likely give you what you want.

    If your needs are more complex (video/photo editing, sound production, CAD, or something) you'll need to research what distro fits your needs.

  • Are you in this meme?

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  • Weirdly yes. I'm considering going back to my previous place of work because somehow, even though it was just differently bad, I miss it.

    It was the same when I left the military.

  • Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved

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  • They assume they can keep the class war going forever and ever. After all, it's worked so far.

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    SanDisk reportedly jacks up flash prices by 50% as memory makers cash in on AI-fueled demand

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  • So, look at it this way. A 50% increase on just the SOC (not any of the other components) would be equivalent to something like an extra $20 on a $200 memory module.

    So the average consumer will still buy it and pay $20 extra. But Open AI and the like are buying thousands. That $20 adds up. It adds up real fast. And that's what companies like SanDisk are counting on.

    The article does a poor job of explaining in real world money how much extra these components will cost and that's part of the reason people are freaking out.

  • Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved

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  • Nah. You still need poors. For everything that the robots can't do.

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  • They're a corporation. Are you telling me you wouldn't try to bilk these AI companies if you could? If you could charge exorbitant prices to Open AI or similar? That you wouldn't bill Google at 500% the market rate if you could?

    This is what these companies do to everyone else. Why wouldn't they do it to each other?

  • Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved

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  • The short answer is that the wrong people are seeing decreased birth rates.

    Religious and poor? To them that equals easily led under-educated, and easily controlled. They need this subset of the population in order to continue to extract wealth.

    Wealth from the private prison system, wealth from the military industrial complex, wealth from the predominantly labor supported industries that prop up energy, housing, transportation, and other blue collar jobs. To them, more poor babies means more essentially slave or low wage labor.

    The only value poor people have to the rich elite is to do the labor, make the money (so that the wealthy can take the lions share), and spend what little money they have left so that the wealthy can take most of what's left by selling baubles.

  • YouTube Rolling Out AI Age Verification to New Batch of Users

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  • And everyone else's. People don't go elsewhere because the creators they like are on YouTube. Speaking as someone with Peertube and Nebula.

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  • I used to eat the shells on sun flower seeds. That's basically wood and it was indeed edible.

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    Rant on technology

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  • Most of mine are things like setting a default for things like wifi or Bluetooth devices.

    I want my phone to connect to my home wifi and know it's the home wifi? I want it to prefer that wifi to other networks.

    I want my Bluetooth headset to stay connected to the device I'm currently using rather than changing to a separate device when that device is powered on.

    I'm sure there are others but I think these may not be solvable without changing the way these devices handle connections in their firmware.

  • OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly

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  • Futurama suicide booths say what?

  • OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly

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  • I'm going to say that while that's probably true there's something it leaves out.

    For every life it saves it may just be postponing or causing the loss of other lives. This is because it's not a healthcare professional and it will absolutely help to mask a lot of poor mental health symptoms which just kicks the can down the road.

    It does not really help to save someone from getting hit by a bus today if they try to get hit by the bus again tomorrow and the day after and so on.

    Do I think it may have a net positive effect in the short term? Yes. Do I believe that that positive effect stays a complete net positive in the long term? No.

  • OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly

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  • My first thought was "Open AI is collecting and storing the metrics for how often users bring up suicide to ChatGPT".

  • Are We Living in a Golden Age of Stupidity? - Slashdot

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  • Am_ I? Chastising those on Lemmy for using AI, are they the cause of the dead internet theory? Or is that caused by bot farms manipulating social media algorithms? Just because a hammer builds weapons doesn't mean one should ban the hammer.

    You are when you rob those sites of impressions and click throughs. Just because there are other things contributing to the death of the internet, doesn't mean that you get to move goal posts. This is a significant acceleration of the progress of both enshittification of the web and bot driven dead Internet theory.

    You seem to be all for that because somehow you think the Internet can only be improved by removing humans from it and replacing it with bots? Is that what you mean when you say:

    I disagree, AI is likely a solution to worsening forums and the like - boring old repeated questions will be answered by AI, anything more unique and interesting will be asked of real people.

    Because there won't be a place for real people when the internet is just bots and the AI has killed every forum in existence, which is what I was talking about when I pointed out that the AI is both inaccurate but also robbing sites of their revenue and visitors.

    The difference is that the bubble that burst in the 80's wasn't caused by McDonald's. In point of fact, McDonald's was seeing significant growth then, and has largely been recession proof from the looks of things.

    This AI bubble is dangerous because investment brokers and venture capitalists are putting up money saved in 401K's and IRA's and investing those funds in AI. When AI crashes that money goes poof.

    speculative investment into AI development is now the dominant force driving the US economy. By the numbers, the US GDP has grown at a rate of 1.6 percent so far this year, on pace to hit the 2.8 percent growth it achieved in 2024. That’s all well and good on paper, except for the troubling fact that two-thirds of that growth came from AI, per WaPo‘s analysis.

    Consumers spending is down significantly due to tariffs and other bullshit. Consumer spending is normally what drives GDP growth in the USA by quite a large margin quarter over quarter. The AI boom has supplanted it in a very short period of time at such a large margin that it's unheard of.

    You should probably go look up how much money is being invested in LLM's and how much money it's making the companies investing in it. Because it's pretty far into the red and it's not sustainable even if all 8 billion of us started paying for subs for it, so long as we can't make it more accurate (and as the Internet dies it will get less accurate), and we can't figure out a way to prevent it from hallucinating when it doesn't have accurate info.

    I'm also going to point out how ironic it is that at the end of that you both told me to get with the times and called me an old man, as if in this day and age in 2025 there aren't women on the internet. That's a beautiful self own, if I do say so myself. Very nice work.

  • Are We Living in a Golden Age of Stupidity? - Slashdot

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  • Because once you recognize that using it is helping along the death of the internet, you start to maybe sort of not want to contribute to the sites you like visiting being scraped for information that when presented to you by a fancy statistics algorithm may not even be correct.

    But also because I like learning things and the process of gathering information and vetting it is both easier and better in quality than can be received from and LLM. Or if it isn't, a simple search engine query will suffice.

    I'm also going to point out that this isn't even the only thing wrong with LLM's.

    When this bubble bursts going to wipe out the 401K's and IRA's of Americans saving for retirement (the ones that are lucky enough to be able to save) and tank the economy. The largest companies in the world are playing a stock market shell game with other people's money and it's gonna end badly.

  • Are We Living in a Golden Age of Stupidity? - Slashdot

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  • The resources that the LLM you used are pulling from will cease to exist and the LLM will continue to degrade in usefulness as a result the longer people like you do not engage the actual content being collated by the LLM. This is a zero sum game. The LLM is not sustainable long term for various reasons, up to and including how it's funded and the fact that its data set is dependent on the websites and resources of other sites where humans engage with each other and the LLM is actively choking off those resources.

  • Wall of sorrow

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  • Emotional damage goes both ways.

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    Eight Sleep pod users extra cranky after AWS outage makes beds go haywire

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  • Probably because your pattern recognition is well honed.