I am anti generative AI. I am agressively anti generative AI. Years ago I saw someone make an AI to tell if a mole was cancerous or not (the modelin question was flawed because it learned if there is a ruler in the photo there was cancer but that's not the point). An image model trained exclusively to detect cancer moles vs safe moles is a useful first tool that you could just use your phone for before going in for a real test.
even Logitech peripherals will not "just work" on Linux
I'm sorry, I did IT for years and still do it for friends if they make it worth the trouble. So, I have to ask, what the hell are you talking about?
Pretty much every logitech paripheral has worked perfectly for me on both windows or linux. It's a mouse and keyboard, generic drivers work perfectly fine. Hell, I use a trackball mouse and that works plig and play on linux. Hell, open up a new windows computer run through the setup then disconnect it from the internet then plug in a logitech keyboard. Look at the driver for it in windows, it will probably be "generic keyboard driver". It's a keyboard.
We rescued an abandoned bunny, he is an absolutly cute, friendly, and happy little guy. But when he wants you to move he bites, and yea those chompers can hurt. We've been training him to not bite by withholding treats when he bites and hes been learning bites means no treat.
I don't know why, one laptop I tried years ago to use linux on had issues with so many distros. Mint the touch pad didn't work, debian the wifi, manjaro the screen was funky. But one worked pergectly fine, Parrot, another debian distro which was weird because debian and mint didn't work. And all the isos were current builds
At my last job I was part IT. I never took their word for it when they said they restarted it. I always opened task manager to check. Believe it or not they weren't lying there, they did know to restart, at least before the aquisition.
Mint prioritizes stability over keeping up to date
That's a side effect of being a debian distro. Debian prioritizes stability, but fuck is it stable. If you want something cutting edge use an arch based distro.
Years ago in college my mom tried to dump her old CRT TV on me with a roku.
"we're leaving this tv with you"
"I don't want it, if you leave it here I am throwing it out"
"Oh son you could use it to watch netflix"
"or mom i could watch netflix on my phone, my smart tv, my xbox one, my xbox 360, my ps3, my computer, my other computer, my other other computer all of which would be in high resolution. If you leave that here I am putting it where it belongs, in the trash"
This is a shortened version of the conversation that went on far too long with me getting more and more annoyed with being given garbage.
As someone else pointed out, there's a shit ton of different phones. In 2012 alone, how many different "Samsung Galaxy ...." did samsung release? Wikipedia lists 6
That's 1 company, with 1 brand name in 1 year. Each with different hardware and as of late those phones have been harder and harder to even open. However, there's a handful of models of "PS5" standard, slim, pro. They are also very easy to open requiring regular tools your average joe is likely to have, in fact sony encourages this in case you want to upgrade your SSD. It's a lot harder to keep a system secure if the user can poke and prod the hardware, i mean the Wii's security was literally beaten by tweezers
Hot take, I like the old God of War games better. It was a fun power fantasy series where you rampage through all of greek mythology as a man litterally far too angry to die. Yatzee from zero punctuation (now at secomd wind) said something like "Kratos ripped a dudes head off because he needed a torch"
As a software dev, theres a lot of stuff thats just bloat now. Electron apps are really easy to make pretty and write for web devs and are super portable, but each one is literally an instance of a chrome browser. Theres still a lot of devs that care (to some degree) about performance and are willing to trim fat or take small shortcuts where viable.
However theres also the issue of management. I once was tasked with a problem at work dealing with the traveling salesman problem. I managed to make a very quick solution that worked fairly well and was fast but always left 1 point for last that probably should have been like point 3. Anyway, it was quick and mostly accurate, but my boss told me to "fix it" and in spite of my explaination that hes asking me to solve an unsolved math problem he persisted. I am now ashamed of how slow that operation is now since instead of just finding the nearest point it now needs to look ahead a few steps to see what path is shorter.
I still love the post where some dude bitches at Tom Morello something like "I liked RatM when you weren't political" and Tom shot back asking him to name a single song that wasn't political so he could delete it.
My last phone before my first smart phone was basically a sidekick (it wasn't actually a sidekick, but I don't remember the actual name of it and the sidekick has a similar enough formfactor).
That thing's texting keyboard was fucking rad. I could type so fucking fast on that. I really want a smart phone with that keyboard.
This.
I am anti generative AI. I am agressively anti generative AI. Years ago I saw someone make an AI to tell if a mole was cancerous or not (the modelin question was flawed because it learned if there is a ruler in the photo there was cancer but that's not the point). An image model trained exclusively to detect cancer moles vs safe moles is a useful first tool that you could just use your phone for before going in for a real test.