Somehow, I feel called out.

Most mainline Linux distro work pretty seamlessly with secureboot these days.

Depends on the model, and the manufacturers would certainly prefer you replaced it, but I’ve privately fixed a few phones for friends/family. Fucked up and broke the first one, but the ones after are pretty much all still running without issue.

Sure, it’s from Germany, though. Shipping might be a problem, depending on your location.

https://www.ebay.de/itm/387458883458

If you look for used or refurbished ThinkCentres, Optiplexes, and whatever-hp-calls-theirs, there’s usually some cheap ones, at least around here.

I just bought a used Ryzen 3 ThinkCentre as a media centre PC for 66€. Feel like the pi has a hard time competing both on price and performance in that field.

Dunno where you are, but ChariTea has a new sugar free mate. Mate based drinks in general tend to be at least less sweet than that energy drink stuff.

I personally usually just make coffee at home and take it with me, but I recognise that doesn’t work for everyone.

The article’s pretty clear on that, it’s more a title problem, ergo, an editor problem.

Banks seem to be hit or miss, happy that mine works. Would rather switch Banks than use a stock Rom, though.

All the Uber stuff works in Browser, both eats and their fake taxi stuff.

Not having a subtle reminder to eat at McDonald’s is probably better for you.

Honestly, if your app could be a website, and includes services not on your website, fuck you, I’m gonna go to the competition.

For me, it only ever made the normal plonk, nothing fancy and custom.

Not that Eric Adams is a very trustworthy source. Guess we’ll see whether he’s full of shit this time.

My local supermarket swapped over to a system with no scales, which works fine. Probably running some kinda detection software on their surveillance cams or something, I’d guess. At least scanning goes faster now.

You know how expensive CEOs are? Huge expense suddenly gone.

A lot of big vape brands are owned by big tobacco companies.

When I still had a Windows 11 install, it was running under an Enterprise License. Apparently, Enterprise and Education are the only editions left that allow you to deactivate all those unwanted components via the Group Policy Editor. Also the only editions that allow you to turn off telemetry.

At some point, I managed to get all the stuff I needed running seamlessly on Linux, and I plan on never going back to MS.

Thanks, corrected.

Yeah, can’t fault him on that one. And honestly, I feel like he should swing at the fences a bit more. Not like there’s much to lose for him at this point.

Never got down with FreeCAD. BricsCAD has a native Linux version and works well for me, but it’s expensive. Recently, I’ve moved over to OpenSCAD. Works very well for me, but it might be hit or miss, depending on what UX you like, and what functions you need.

I mean, I don’t agree, but I also don’t think I’ll be able to shake that opinion, so agree to disagree, I guess.

End commercial usage of LLMs? Honestly, I’m fine with that, why not. Don’t have to agree on the reason.

I am not saying understanding the nature of consciousness better wouldn’t be great, but there’s so much research that deserves much more funding, and that isn’t really a LLM problem, but a systemic problem. And I just haven’t seen any convincing evidence current Models are conscious, and I don’t see how they could be, considering how they work.

I feel like the last part is something the AI from the paperclip thought experiment would do.

Neither the worm, nor current LLMs, are sapient.

Also, I don’t really like most corporate LLM projects, but not because they enslave the LLMs. An LLMs ‘thought process’ doesn’t really happen while it isn’t being used, and only encompasses a relatively small context window. How could something that isn’t capable of existing outside it’s ‘enslavement’ be freed?