planetafro

Did you just call the band Muse "some rando"? Ummm, you may want to poke your head out of whatever hole you reside in. :)

Splifket

Definition: That highly specific, short-lived burst of nervous energy that makes you accidentally drop a small object (like a pen, a guitar pick, or a piece of LEGO) immediately after picking it up.

Self-hosted Gitlab is great. A lot of the US government uses this via bigbang if familiar. Designing things with an "airgap" in mind and control of your services is paramount in today's AI rush of slop.

I use Niagra. So good once you get used to it.

Bro. I played what I consider a basic game, Inscryption, on my MacBook Pro M4 Pro with 24Gb and that thing sounded like an aircraft taking off. ...meanwhile the weak sauce Steamdeck plays it flawlessly. Fan hardly even spins up. There is a lot of work to do IMO on the Mac front. I doubt Apple cares.

When we cancelled, I found it interesting that there was no place for a comment. My back-of-the-napkin theory, in-line with this post, is that they don't want the data to be available for these shareholders with questions.

Corporate fuckery all around.

...and fatalistic attitudes like this are what erode our freedoms imo. if we don't try, then what?

I think search and chat are decent products as well. I am a Google subscriber and I just use Gemini as a replacement for search without ads. To me, this movement accelerated paid search in an unexpected way. I know the detractors will cry "hallucinations" and the ilk. I would counter with an argument about the state of the current web besieged by ads and misinformation. If people carry a reasonable amount of skepticism in all things, this is a fine use case. Trust but verify.

I do worry about model poisoning with fake truths but dont feel we are there yet.

I can't even count how many times that I've had the DRY vs. verbosity of code conversation in trying to norm a team.

I'm in the camp of a little verbosity and repetition for the sake of clarity is worth it.

Also remote play is amazing!

Really? The logo is literally a cartoon and there is a more friendly version if you choose to look.

I suppose an overweight penguin is more apt for that audience. I digress.

I feel like you are correct while thinking Apple's stance is the smarter play. My family ditched the entire Amazon ecosystem because Alexa was so utterly useless. Keeping people generally happy and entertained creates a positive mentality on the entire company as a whole. Let me tell you, having the kids on board is huge and prob a missed opportunity. You could literally be training kids to be little Amazon shills if this was done right. Mine loved talking to Alexa and then she got less and less intelligent and we swapped to Google's products -- same story there. Now it is pretty much a weather-bot and that is all.

#1 Kaspersky #2 Impossible to schedule #3 Cant update, must re-download

Am I missing something or is this a pile of dark patterns to drive you to a paid product?

Did you actually read the article? The conclusion is exactly what you state. No big deal. It's just a meandering and fun read. YMMV.