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  • It’s the most plug-and-play Linux has ever been from my experience.

  • Backend programming is almost all Linux. I have two computer science degrees and have only ever used Windows for gaming.

  • The question of “do they think” is a little complicated because I don’t think there is a clear enough definition of what counts as “thinking” to say. This discussion should be independent of the quality of LLM results.

    As for what they are actually doing:

    Imagine a mathematical function that takes in a series of numbers and spits out the next number in that series.

    A “neural network” is just a fairly general mathematical model to describe any function, and using curve fitting techniques we can approximate the previously described number pattern function.

    Now assign each letter to a number and define the pattern being a large block of text consisting of almost the entire internet.

    Now that we’ve trained our mathematical model, we can give it some text and let it complete it, and it will produce a somewhat reasonable answer.

    There are more math and computational tricks going on, and a couple more steps to get from a completion model to a conversational one, but this is the jist of how it works.

  • I pay my VPN provider to not touch my data and if I start to doubt them I’ll just jump ship to another provider.

    There are two ISPs for me to choose from and both want to shove ads down my throat and I’m sure they are selling whatever data about me they can.

    Yea I trust my VPN provider more than my ISP by miles.

  • Occasionally I will prefer Steam to take advantage of Steam matchmaking

  • I’ve always liked those magnetic levitating globes!

    (You can also find magnetic levitating

    <insert TV show prop here>

    for a variety of tv shows and video games)

  • What’s the difference?

  • This is a pokemon if I’ve ever seen one

  • I think for the Mac icons here I like the 2001 variant.

  • Unless something has changed, Amazon Music only offers low quality mp3 downloads, and sometimes even includes audio watermarks.

  • It peaked in 2006

  • I don’t want credit card processor being the judge of what I can spend my money on or domain registrars being the judge of what websites I can visit.

    The person who did a crime should be taken to court and all the intermediaries should have the excuse of being neutral.

  • I’m gaming on Bazzite gnome Wayland with a 3090. There’s been some tweaking to get HDR and VRR working but no major issues.

  • This is why I use CloudFlare. They block the worst and cache for me to reduce the load of the rest. It’s not 100% but it does help.

  • I add non-Steam games to Steam just so I can use Steam Input for controller rebinding

  • Computer science was all Linux at my college. Xubuntu, specifically.

  • Where I am in the US, delivery basically means using one of the apps, and it’s much more expensive but the fees are typically hidden in insidious ways like just having the menu item prices be more expensive instead of having a delivery fee.

  • Your ISP can’t tell who you are contacting if you are using a VPN, but websites will track you by other means.