No

I generally overshoot when it comes to the hardware specs, if I can. That way you’re prepared in advance if you end up having the option to upgrade your Internet connection.

Otherwise, you may find yourself locked in to the slower plan due to the cost of upgrading your hardware.

But, sometimes you have to choose realistic over optimal, of course. So in other words, I do not think I know what’s best for you! Just offering a perspective that has worked for me, in case it helps you in some way as you evaluate the choice that’s best for you.

I don’t know, I mean if any corporation can eat the loss, it’s apple with their insanely high margins.

I’m more inclined to believe there’s some form of quid pro quo going on behind the scenes.

Besides, I simply cannot picture Tim Apple as any kind of a hero in this picture. No way he got bullied. He’s getting something out of it. You scratch my back. I’ll scratch yours.

All 6s users hey a warning you might be affected. They give you a link you have to follow to check. Load the page, you’re in your IMEI and it will confirm if you’re affected

Yeah, this poll sounds sus as hell. Just some crap they whipped up to counter the fact that more reputable polls have been giving Trump pretty shit numbers for months now. So they had to come up with something to shape the narrative the in the other direction.

At this point, it’ll be yet another crappy reboot of a remake of some story we’ve all seen dozens of times.

Sorry, no LLM is ever going to spontaneously gain the abilities self-replicate. This is completely beyond the scope of generative AI.

This whole hype around AI and LLMs is ridiculous, not to mention completely unjustified. The appearance of a vast leap forward in this field is an illusion. They’re just linking more and more processor cores together, until a glorified chatbot can be made to appear intelligent. But this is struggling actual research and innovation in the field, instead turning the market into a costly, and destructive, arms race.

The current algorithms will never “be good enough to copy themselves”. No matter what a conman like Altman says.

Eh, no. The ability to generate text that mimics human working does not mean they are intelligent. And AI is a misnomer. It has been from the beginning. Now, from a technical perspective, sure, call em AI if you want. But using that as an excuse to skip right past the word “artificial” is disingenuous in the extreme.

On the other hand, the way the term AI is generally used technically would be called GAI, or General Artificial Intelligence, which does not exist (and may or may not ever exist).

Bottom line, a finely tuned statistical engine is not intelligent. And that’s all LLM or any other generative “AI” is at the end of the day. The lack of actual intelligence is evidenced by the way they create statements that are factually incorrect at such a high rate. So, if you use the most common definition for AI, no, LLMs absolutely are not AI.

Heh. Yes they’re similar, but on the technical side different in a very important way. It has to do with opening a file from inside another program. If you select a shortcut, the program with treat or as a separate file, so most of the time the action will fail. A link, though, you should end up with the program opening the target of the link. In other words, a shortcut is a file that points at a different file, where a symlink involves she filesystem trickery to accomplish almost the same thing.

That’s a horrible, just terrible explanation, though - but I’m pretty sure this is the gist of it.

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Right, because only women are the problem, and men are paragons of virtue.

Fuck off

So, because old laws haven’t been struck from the books, you are telling me hitting regulations (something entirely different) is justified?

Ridiculous

Oh, sure, makes total sense. Sure, sure…

Except for the fact that nature has successfully balanced itself out for, well, as long as life has existed on this planet. Including recovery and finding a new balance after extremely drastic shifts in the environment.

Humans managed to remain a part of this for most our existence, too. So the current trends have absolutely nothing to do with our ability to manipulate our environment.

We’ve allowed an “elite” class of parasitic sociopaths to dictate the direction of modern society, and their influence has spread a corruption to every corner of the modern world. This insatiable greed will be our downfall, and there’s nothing natural about it.

Ah, I may have misunderstood the intent behind some of your wording, my bad.

The whole issue does make me hope open standards continue to gain more adoption. One can hope, right?

Anyway, again, my apologies - it does sound like we’re kinda on the same page here after all.

Whoah, no need to get defensive! That was just a guess based on my own observations, and I never said anything about whether they have the right to do whatever the hell they want with their own chips (which would be true regardless, I reckon).

That said, given that their business model depends on their walled garden approach, I just find myself wondering if they might’ve seen the possibility of running any old ARM executable on their silicon as a potential threat to their business model? But there’s all sorts of factors in play, so maybe I’m wrong and that whole possibility is irrelevant.

Do you happen to know if they strictly extended existing APIs?

Wow.

Just…wow.

You honestly think that’s an argument?!?

Goodbye

No. You’re dodging the argument. You chose to phrase it that way. And pretending that’s just some incidental thing with no meaning honestly is about the dumbest response I’ve seen in a while.

You have made the argument that it is the American people, not the administration. You. Not anybody else.

That…what???

No, your choice of phrasing conveys your message.

If you’re argument is not against the American people, but rather the administration, then your wording is, well, wrong.

Ah. Guess the steam deck must still run X11? That’s currently my primary computer, so I haven’t had to learn about/deal with X11 vs Wayland quite just yet.