The current Hegseth administration has also removed the requirements for Right to Repair from DOD contracts, so Lockheed can charge as many millions as they want on repairs

They don’t update the software on the steam deck frequently enough for me to be confident for phone software where security is more of a concern

It’s fine on a game device, but I have much more personal data on my phone

You have to convince investors why your AI research won’t hit a wall like LLMs are now - they’ve poisoned the term “AI”

They’re a dead end, insofar as they do all they’ll ever be able to; if you can find use for them at their current level, great, but it does not look likely they will be able to do more than they currently can

You see it all the time in Disney animations, Pixar animations, you see it with sprites being the same for clouds and bushes in Mario…

I don’t really see an issue with asset reuse, as long as the actions make sense in the new context

LLMs are a dead end, and the massive amounts of money being wasted on them will make people too scared to invest in other forms of AI.

So we are currently at a local maxima that we won’t overcome in 10 years. It will take much longer before we try a different approach to create “AGI,” and the wasted money on LLMs will slow other forms of AI research, leaving us stagnating for >10 years

Qualcomm and most phone manufacturers try extremely hard to make sure you can’t run your own operating system on their hardware.

A bug in their security preventing you from installing your own operating system has been found on a specific Qualcomm chip - the Snapdragon 8 gen 5, which, at least for some Xiaomi phones, lets programmers load their own versions on the devices

The last time we tried using them, the computer came with Windows 98…

They were horrible back then, not really sure how they are still in business.

Oof. Should we tell him what he’s in store for, guys?

Not OP, but for me, yeah

Almost all apps come from F-Droid, with two apps from Aurora that I needed for work

Why would I sign into a proprietary network for a computing device?

I hadn’t noticed how closely Altman resembles Phelps until the side by side in this thread

Sonata Arctica.

Lead singer has amazing crowd presence, and every time I’ve seen them they’ve been amazing

I set up, and prefer, iptables rules to rate limit logins.

I have mine set so you can connect up to 5 times per 15 minutes.

Blocks bots well enough, and if I really mess up, I just wait 15 mins

If I’m leaving for more than 24 hours -> off

After any update where the distro equivalent of needrestart says something is using an old binary, I just reboot instead of restarting individual services

At least for a long time, you had to set up RPMFusion to be able to play media, and having the additional repos tended to break on major upgrades for a bit after release

So, for beginners, it was a bit painful to suggest

To start spreading doubt for when they make the first move

That would be if Hungary chooses to leave. There isn’t a way for other members to kick out a member against their will

It wouldn’t be much of a protection pact if the more powerful countries could just remove the smaller ones at will

That’s what I’m using these days at home

Only thing to keep in mind is that it won’t give you a notification when you need to do a major version update (pretty consistently every 2 years)

Probably less of an issue these days; they relaxed their stance on proprietary drivers:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/debian-linux-accepts-proprietary-firmware-in-major-policy-change/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

I like the option of not acknowledging US copyrights, patents, or trademarks for a minimum of one year

Let’s see how quickly the oligarchs attack Trump

The moving parts are in the device rather than the cable with Lightning. The tongue on USB-C is required to be deep enough that you can’t torque it with the cable during insertion/removal.

It’s not an obvious comparison, but the mechanical engineers where I work seem to have a mild preference for USB-C

The expensive part of both is that you need a microcontroller in the cable

USB-C also has way more pins for data/power