linearchaos

linearchaos, 5 days ago

That scans, last time I looked around on there it was almost exclusively dicks.

linearchaos, 4 days ago

I don’t engage with it so I’m only getting whatever the default is :)

My school releases the buses and notifies people on Twitter. If not for that I wouldn’t be there at all

linearchaos, 5 days ago

Some, not all. If you’re inflexible on gaming you’re going to want to get comfortable with Windows AI.

linearchaos, 5 days ago

I don’t think it’s a support issue at least that’s not the hard part. Native Linux apps are generally second rate if you’re lucky. The browsers are fantastic there’s maybe a couple of dozen solid production quality apps out there that working all or nearly all distros.

You can get almost anything you want to be done in Linux, but there are definitely compromises you have to make.

As long as there’s compromises are greater than the compromises you make sucking on Microsoft’s tit, Linux will still be in the shadows.

linearchaos, 8 days ago

Selection process is random but the challenge process keeps it white noise. They’re each going to throw away a set number of people that are bad for their side. In the end it ends up being kind of random still anyway.

linearchaos, 9 days ago

Yes!

Probably a couple of times a year, some interesting product will catch my eye. It doesn’t necessarily mean I’d be willing to buy the product. The last thing I clicked on was a yarbo ad. There’s no way in hell I’m going to pay 5 to 10 grand for a robot tractor, but to be honest the thing looks pretty cool. I watch the entire ad did a quick search for pricing and what about my day. Now I’ll probably see 420,000 different ads for it but that’s okay it still looks pretty cool.

linearchaos, 8 days ago

Especially at school.

Ubiquity routers have had blocking in them it’s not a stretch to expand that out to other enterprise

linearchaos, 8 days ago

I use Linux because I don’t trust windows, I don’t like the direction Microsoft is headed, and I’m bored.

We’re not the same either, but that’s ok. We can still all have each other’s backs.

linearchaos, 8 days ago

The people here who want to fight you herehad a hand in installing those s*** heads in Iraq.

linearchaos, 10 days ago

13 is a good “on call”/travel size. It’s not big enough to do serious work on but in a pinch it’s definitely big enough to get something done. It’s more comfortable on a flight, you can toss it a fairly small bag and take it with you. It’s lighter but can still manage a reasonable size keyboard. And when I get to my house or my job I’m plugging into external mouse and keyboard anyway.

It’s not for everyone but my 13-in motherboard died about 2 months ago and I am definitely in the market. Now if I can just actually buy one of these we’ll see.

linearchaos, 10 days ago

It becomes impossible to block ads in all browsers new forks will be made and the features we want will happen. The bar to spin and maintain a new browser is high but it’s not impossible on there are a lot of people that want this

linearchaos, 14 days ago

You could make automatic breaking without a full blown computer, but it’s so much cheaper to put a full-blown computer than it is to do it all in hardware. Everything uses turing complete equipment now, it’s actually less expensive at this point.

There’s absolutely no reason not to put multiple computers in the car I think the real win is not surfacing it to the end user.

linearchaos, 14 days ago

Same I was dealing with a strange piece of software I searched configs and samples for hours and couldn’t find anything about anybody having any problems with the weird language they use. I finally gave up and asked gpt, it explained exactly what was going wrong and gave me half a dozen answers to try to fix it.

linearchaos, 15 days ago

Nah, all the original data came from humans. If it was all good and happy and properly tagged correctly there’d be no intervention.

Unfortunately they scraped it from wherever in the hell they could get it from and it’s not all tagged correctly.

I’m sure they use more AI to pre-grade it, but at some point a set of real eyes need to verify that something is what it’s supposed to be.

This is more of a blood diamonds or fair trade coffee thing, US legislation isn’t going to have anything to do with it. You need to expose the places using the data.

linearchaos, 15 days ago

I used to work in a company that was VC adjacent.

Most of the people sitting on piles of money don’t have any knowledge or radar to help them negotiate where to put it. They lean heavily on other people to tell them what to invest in.

When AI first started getting big everybody was guessing where the curve was going to be and where the technology was going to head. The people guiding the venture capitalists were putting their oars in the water early.

To be fair there’s a lot of money to be made in AI assistants if they can manage to run the back end affordably. If you’re asking Google, Siri, and Alexa complicated questions they’re miserably fit for the task. But when we get to the point where you can expect a reasonable answer from something like look up all the places to rent cars near Tucson Arizona give me the cheapest price with the best reviews. Or tutor my kid on basic calculus, test him, and give me a report on where he needs more assistance. That kind of stuff is worth money and something that many people with money will pay for.

This form factor is off-putting and honestly AI at this point is still only mostly right.

The VCs are all over AI and there’s opportunity there. Just not on every product and probably not yet.

linearchaos, 20 days ago

Medical care, Pharmacy, Schools, Daycare, Elder care, End of life care, prisons.

These things should not generate revenue with the target of making rich people richer.

linearchaos, 19 days ago

Insurance is an interesting case. You’re paying into a loan you might never take out in case an unlikely event happens. The entire reason the companies stay in business is because people never take the money out.

Instead of “insurance”, make it work like a mandatory 401k. You have to pay into it, it’s yours for retirement, but you can draw against it. Qualifying life events happen you can draw against it up to a point. you can pay it back down.

linearchaos, 21 days ago

If you have the proper biological facilities and you’ve been up long enough, you can hardly stop it. Your mind slows to a crawl You’re a perception of things around you narrows to where you barely notice anything that’s not mission critical, and your consciousness just fades like someone slowly turning the dimmer down on a light bulb in a dark room.

linearchaos, 22 days ago

There’s not enough guaranteed margin in a single combined streaming and production house to feed the employees, investors, and media moguls.

None of these companies are being outright assholes (well not more than normal). The business model is simply not sustainable and they’re doing whatever they can to slow the inevitable collapse. We’re producing 10 times the content we used to produce, and the revenue from the streamers is nowhere near enough to cover the bills.

linearchaos, 22 days ago

Why would you use the gross numbers that don’t include the price of making the movies?

Netflix is in reasonably green but it’s the only one

Disney Plus is still in the red if you include their ESPN streaming.

Warner/discovery/max is barely in the green at 100 million.

linearchaos, 22 days ago

I’ll give you the silver star for participation award. Now you want to talk about how they’re the only truly profitable company or does that straight too far from your agenda?

linearchaos, 22 days ago

There’s no money in giving them what they want. The money is in giving them what you can give them cheaply that others can’t. If part of that is gaslighting…

linearchaos, 22 days ago

That sounds like a pretty trashy backup scheme. I don’t care what your subscription status is I’m keeping those backups until retension’s over.

linearchaos, 22 days ago

A lot of companies are starting to do this most people are referring to it as source available rather than open source. I’m kind of surprised I don’t just turn it into an electron app and get it over with.

linearchaos, 22 days ago

Even back then the real power of winamp was in plugins. You can’t get away with the truly hacky crap and windows anymore.

The only thing I really cared for back in the day was visualization and the aggressive crossfade plugin.