Preinstalled stores are limited to manufacturers and distributors and they suck, so nobody uses them. It’s pretty easy for someone with a tiny bit of tech knowledge to do some research and find out how to enable the ability to download APKs from the internet, but sadly, that’s not most people. Google doesn’t have a monopoly because Play Store is good (it isn’t), they have a monopoly because they’re anticompetitive.
Google made the Play Store the primary (and only, for most people) way to install apps on Android.
That also happens to be exactly the kind of math error AI is notorious for making. I bet the article was written by AI and likely not even proofread by a human.
My experience has been that singleplayer and indie games work best, so that’s not surprising!
Maybe I’m just really unlucky when it comes to liking games that don’t work on Linux.
Sure, but it’s not impossible to play any Blizzard games because the launcher login page is broken like it is on Linux. Blaming the game will only get you so far when so many games just don’t work and devs don’t care.
Not just the bandwidth, but RAM usage, energy consumption, and cache storage space. Ads cost us money.
I have high hopes for the future. It’s just not quite there yet.
Microsoft did ruin Windows with Windows 8, then they made it even worse with Windows 10 and now they’re making it even fucking worse with 11. Windows 7 was the golden age of Windows.
I had Windows 10 on an older (but not ancient) machine and it was literally unusable. 10-15 minute boot time and another 5 or so just to get a browser to open. The misery didn’t end once things were open; everything was still slower than when I had windows 7 on what would now be considered a truly ancient machine. I put Linux on it and experienced a roughly 5x speedup.
Trying to get games to run without being a Linux pro is much harder than I was led to believe. Some games just work out of the box, but a lot of them absolutely do NOT, even if protondb says they will.
I think that any operating system that mostly runs 3rd party software should be legally required to open-source at least the components necessary to run said 3rd party software. Also, OSes should just straight up not be allowed to show ads, full-stop. Making people buy hardware and then bloating the OS with ads in updates is a bait and switch and if our government had any balls, would be illegal.
Did you just refer to yourself in the third person again? Why?
Sentient and capable of suffering are two different things.
Technically true, but in the opposite way to what you’re thinking. All those capable of suffering are by definition sentient, but sentience doesn’t necessitate suffering.
Whether they can feel suffering like ants can is an unsolved scientific question
No it isn’t, unless you subscribe to a worldview in which sentience could exist everywhere all at once instead of under special circumstances, which would demand you grant ethical consideration to every rock on the ground in case it’s somehow sentient.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/bitnet-scaling-1-bit-transformers-for-large-language-models/ use 1 bit instead of 8 or 16, yay performance gainz
That’s where AI search/chat is really headed. That’s why so many companies with ad networks are investing in it. You can’t block ads if they’re baked into LLM responses.
Maybe hypothetically in the future, but it’s plainly obvious to anyone who has a modicum of understanding regarding how LLMs actually work that they aren’t even anywhere near being close to what anyone could possibly remotely consider sentient.
AntennaPod can still fall victim to serverside ad injection.
You need to mark your comment as a spoiler!
I think the implications behind there being infinite time in the past are fun if you assume that the universe works like a stochastic state machine. It means that either every finite event that has happened and will happen has already happened an infinite number of times or the universe is infinitely large.