I am I the only one that thinks 2024 was a great year for Linux Desktop?
Not in any real advancements in Linux, but because Windows in now shit enough 3 of my non-techy friends switched to Ubuntu just to avoid Windows.
Disclaimer: All 3 were gamers that saw me playing the games they cared about on Steam Deck. So it was actually Steam Deck that did the heavy lifting in this example.
I mean, it's not mainstream Linux usage, but it's a damn good step forward, right? Even if it is just people giving it reasonable consideration 😄
If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times. LLMs are not AI. It is a natural language tool that would allow an AI to communicate with us using natural language...
What it is being used for now is just completely inappropriate. At best this makes a neat (if sometimes inaccurate) home assistant.
To be clear: LLMs are incredibly cool, powerful and useful. But they are not intelligent, which is a pretty fundamental requirement of artificial intelligence.I think we are pretty close to AI (in a very simple sense), but marketing has just seen the fun part (natural communication with a computer) and gone "oh yeah, that's good enough. People will buy that because it looks cool". Nevermind that it's not even close to what the term "AI" implies to the average person and it's not even technically AI either so...
I don't remember where I was going with this, but capitalism has once again fucked a massive technical breakthrough by marketing it as something that it's not.
Technically it's only gay if it's sexual. If you just want to feel the warmth and contact with another human snake, then it can be perfectly heterosexual.
It's not that it's such a great act in itself, it's no where near enough.
But.This is a significant win as a large, profitable and respected company is seen to be doing something so insignificant and get such good marketing results. This is the best kind of encouragement we can give to the souless retail machine 😉
And yes... "We will sing your praises if you just follow basic laws" is a pretty low bar, but here we are 😄
I'll be honest, I was in a bit of a mood when I initially responded, so I apologise for the unnecessary hostility. Christmas is a difficult time, so I hope you understand.
I think the problem here is the perspective. There are problems in the world, sure. Many of them much greater than American problems, even at their worst.
However if we are talking about general living conditions and quality of life unfortunately the USA falls short on a lot of the fundamentals. Health care, general education standards, overall public safety, etc. The US should be one of the best places to live, and it's certainly not terrible when compared to third world countries, but when compared to first world countries it doesn't hold up well at all.
ETA: I live in the UK, so we are really not far ahead of you 😄 we have healthcare, but they are actively trying to privatise it. And it feels like general living conditions are declining. Still there is some hope left
No, it's really not, mate. You need a massive reality check.
I was gonna provide some links or reports, but a quick Google search was pretty overwhelmingly against you, so I'm gonna have to assume you're just being disingenuous at this point and move on.
But this just has the same problem. Margherita pizzas are also amazing if done right. There is a great Italian restaurant I go to where I rarely get anything but the Margherita because it's so good. What you are think of is "plain cheese and tomato".
It's not even a better place to live than 90% of the planet now. How delusional do you have to be to think that the USA is anywhere near the best place to live 😄
As long as it's consensual and boundaries have been discussed beforehand you're fine.