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  • What kind of HDD? for what purpose? For what budget?

    "Don't buy used" is a dumb tip because it means nothing and addresses nothing.

    I use a WD Enterprise HDD from 2012. I bought it used. It passes all tests with flying colours, zero issues so far... it keeps a mirror of my backup. It's not my main backup, it's a copy of a copy. Guess what? I paid an extremely low price for it as a student on a budget, yet it was already proven useful many times both for the backups but also to keep my torrents seeding for longer, and it if does indeed fail... no biggie, not even my backup is compromised.

    There are excellent refurbished HDDs too. Either way, "don't buy used" is the kind of blanket statement somebody cosplaying as a infosec home lab data specialist comments on Lemmy, but means absolutely nothing and offers no useful advice.

  • Yes, tip number 1: never buy an used HDD

    That's not a good tip.

  • Cool - so you agree they're not clicking Copilot and therefore it's not converting?

  • I'd also remove the frequent transphobic jokes

  • There's a Copilot button on the taskbar, notepad and paint. If you still can't convert users you're doing pretty bad.

  • They're all getting AI integration

    LibreOffice is not.

  • I'll do what I always do: sigh and add another brand to my "do not buy from" list on my pocket notebook, which was meant to be a single page and is now filling three

  • This comment thread is not only a perfect example of a joke, but it gets to the core of what humour truly is! Do you want help crafting a poster for you to present your jokes at a conference?

  • Can the model itself be trained to recognize mathematical input and invoke an external app, parse the result and feed that back into the reply? No.

    Can you create a multi-layered system that uses some trickery to achieve this effect most of the time? Yes, that's what OpenAI and Google are already doing by recognizing certain features of the users' inputs and changing the system prompts to force the model to output Python code or Markdown notation that your browser then renders using a different tool.

  • I've seen Gemini straight up trying to kill itself

  • Don't worry, Lemmy censors security information and passwords automatically, see: ******

  • to ubiquitous shit-shoveling malware appliances controlled by some of the worst elements of society.

    Hmmm, I wonder which background economical system we all live in that could explain why every single technology ends up controlled by the top 1% to make our lives more miserable and their profits higher...

  • Why isn’t OpenAi working more modular whereby the LLM will call up specialized algorithms once it has identified the nature of the question?

    Precisely because this is a LLM. It doesn't know the difference between writing out a maths problem, a recipe for cake or a haiku. It transforms everything into the same domain and is doing fancy statistics to come up with a reply. It wouldn't know that it needs to invoke the "Calculator" feature unless you hard code that in, which is what ChatGPT and Gemini do, but it's also easy to break.

  • Kate is amazing, which is not surprising given it's a KDE app

  • Won’t that just lead to 5 of every topic?

    That happens on Reddit even with singular communities. Sure, maybe some topics will come up multiple times.

    Also what do you do find new duplicate communities if there were only 4 when you went looking?

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