HeavyDogFeet
@HeavyDogFeet@lemmy.world
Just tippy-tappin’ my way across the internet.
- Comment on Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO 4 months ago:
I deleted all my posts before closing my accounts back when they were breaking third-party apps, although I’m sure they probably kept a private log of all posts specifically for this purpose.
To be honest, I expect AI companies are scraping Lemmy and other places for training data anyway, but I’d rather Reddit specifically not make any money off my posts.
- Comment on More 128TB SSDs are coming as almost no one noticed this launch — another SSD controller that can support up to 128TB appeared paving the way for HDD-beating capacities 4 months ago:
Realistically, a couple of 10TB drives would have me covered for like a decade at least. If these massive drives bring down the price of much smaller ones, I’m a happy boy.
- Comment on OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model 4 months ago:
I don’t mean to be dismissive of your entire train of thought (I can’t follow a lot of it, probably because I’m not a dev and not familiar with a lot of the concepts you’re talking about) but all the things you’ve described that I can understand would require these tools to be a fuckload better, on an order we haven’t even begun to get close to yet, in order to not be super predictable.
It’s all wonderful in theory, but we’re not even close to what would be needed to even half-ass this stuff.
- Comment on OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model 4 months ago:
That remains to be seen. We have yet to see one of these things actually get good at anything, so we don’t know how hard that last part is to do. I don’t think we can assume there will be continuous linear progress. Maybe it’ll take one year, maybe it’ll take 10, maybe it’ll just never reach that point.
- Comment on OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model 4 months ago:
Writer here, absolutely not having this experience. Generative AI tools are bad at writing, but people generally have a pretty low bar for what they think is good enough.
These things are great if you care about tech demos and not quality of output. If you actually need the end result to be good though, you’re gonna be waiting a while.
- Comment on I lost my job after AI recruitment tool assessed my body language, says make-up artist 4 months ago:
This shit seems like the perfect basis for a discrimination lawsuit.
- Comment on Why Linux is Best for Most People 5 months ago:
You can absolutely contact Microsoft (or Apple) for support, plus basically any computer store will happily charge a small fee for basic tech support, or you can call the computer manufacturer or reseller. On the Linux side, unless you bought from something like System76, the chances of you finding an official support network that an elderly person would find usable and accessible are pretty slim.
- Comment on Why Linux is Best for Most People 5 months ago:
That’s absolutely not the idea I have in my head. If you read most of my replies here, I think I explain pretty clearly that the main issue I see with Linux is not actually the software itself, it’s that there’s not a good, normie-friendly support system for when things do go wrong or things aren’t immediately obvious.
I also tend to advocate for MacOS more than Windows. Although I’ve used both my whole life, I find macOS a lot more intuitive than windows, and I would generally never recommend windows unless there’s a specific need for it.
- Comment on Why Linux is Best for Most People 5 months ago:
Mid 60s and up, around retiring age (or at least that’s retiring age where I am).
- Comment on Why Linux is Best for Most People 5 months ago:
I have, but that’s not the point. There are places you can take a computer and say “hey, I’d like one Windows installation, please.” There are exceedingly few places that would help an old person set up a Linux installation, at which point theyre at the mercy of whatever nerd in their life will do it, and then just hoping they don’t move or die.
Im specifically not expecting them to do it themselves, which is why I think Linux is not a good option.
- Comment on Why Linux is Best for Most People 5 months ago:
I don’t get the point of playing what if.
If Linux somehow grew its market share to 80% of all users then there probably would be some form of support-based business or companies forking off their own version and building their own supported platforms, and the we end up with a bunch of closed platforms competing for all the money by offering a more polished experience for a premium.
Or none of that happens. I don’t know, this is all just make-believe because it’s a scenario that’s never going to happen.
- Comment on Why Linux is Best for Most People 5 months ago:
To be clear, I didn’t say Linux is never suitable for elderly people. I said it’s not the best, which is the claim the original article made.
- Comment on Why Linux is Best for Most People 5 months ago:
Because it’s hard to support employees and compete with corporate behemoths like Microsoft and Apple when your product is a free, open-source OS?
- Comment on Why Linux is Best for Most People 5 months ago:
But you get that not everyone has you on special to fix things, right? That’s my point.
Also, you can get a used MacBook Air in great condition for that price. Or a slightly older Pro. You just can’t get the absolute latest and greatest, but for that price you were never going to anyway, so it’s sort of moot.
- Comment on Why Linux is Best for Most People 5 months ago:
It’s not because it’s not used by the common public, it’s because there aren’t normie-friendly resources and or a company help desk that average people rely on when they need assistance. It’s all well and good for people to say these things are easy to learn and they don’t break, it in the real world, for people who don’t really care about this stuff but have to use it for a few random tasks, it’s nice to know there’s a place that will help you. Not everyone has a techie friend or relative.
The issue is not with the software itself (although there are issues there) as much as it is with non-commercial nature of Linux. It’s great that there’s a thriving community of people who are passionate about this stuff and get great use and enjoyment out of it, but many of the reasons people love it are also reasons why it will probably never be a viable mainstream option.
- Comment on Why Linux is Best for Most People 5 months ago:
Im not saying it’s impossible, but it’s not “the best”. Even in your example, you set everything up. But if something goes wrong, will you be there to fix it? With a Mac, which is lately idiot-proof, if something breaks there’s an easy number to call or places you can take your machine.
Again, not saying it’s unusable, but just being usable wasn’t the claim.
- Comment on Why Linux is Best for Most People 5 months ago:
Hilarious. In what world is a Linux a good choice for “Elderly people who are not familiar with advanced technology and prefer clean and simple computer usage”.
The elderly people I know already struggle with the systems they’ve used for years. And when something goes wrong, they can ask basically anyone and someone will be able to help them.
Now insert Linux (which “flavour”? Who knows, pick one) and see who can help with even basic tasks or problems. This is fantasy shit.
- Comment on About 75,000 Deloitte staff have been given access to a generative artificial intelligence chatbot to create PowerPoint presentations and write emails and code in an attempt to boost productivity 5 months ago:
Yeah, it’s really not good, especially because the people I’ve seen use this stuff the most are the ones who would rarely ever question the quality of the work it does or bother to make sure it’s accurate.
And because managers and business owners see “productivity” increase, they expect that that’s the new standard, and AI will essentially just have made doing quality work harder for everyone involved.
- Comment on About 75,000 Deloitte staff have been given access to a generative artificial intelligence chatbot to create PowerPoint presentations and write emails and code in an attempt to boost productivity 5 months ago:
That’s the trick, you don’t read them.
Person A creates an email with AI, attaches a ppt created with AI, and send it to person B.
Person B gets AI to summarise the email and ppt, and create a response.
Repeat.
It’s an ouroboros of shit.
- Comment on web4 – The Second End of History? 5 months ago:
Web 4, now with Grift 2.
- Comment on web4 – The Second End of History? 5 months ago:
Web 4 — it’s web 3 but this time the grift is slightly different.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 5 months ago:
I’m sure you’re right and it wouldn’t be an issue, but I’m anal about reducing redundancy and complication wherever I can. If I can have one place to charge everything and don’t have to check what belongs to what, I’ll do it.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 5 months ago:
I don’t have many tools (or any children) but if I’m buying a bunch of battery operated stuff, you can be sure it’s all going to be able to use the same batteries and chargers.
- Comment on Researchers Say There’s a 5% Chance That AI Will Cause Human Extinction 5 months ago:
What are the chances that it won’t cause extinction, but will just make things a bit (or maybe a lot) worse for a lot of people?
I don’t think any reasonable people are all that concerned with doomsday scenario as much as with the slow march towards a bullshit future.
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 5 months ago:
That’s fair. You could still have that same functionality through something like double tapping the shift key, but I guess that might also be hard for some people.
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 5 months ago:
I know they did, and I’ve only heard praise for it.
I’ve even remapped my caps lock on my Mac to be another modifier key. I can still tap it to toggle caps lock, but I don’t think I’ve ever used it for that.
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 5 months ago:
Just replace the caps lock key.
- Comment on The restaurant nearest Google 8 months ago:
How is this tricking you? If anything it’s tricking Google, but who give a fuck about Google. This is a business trying to work within a broken system.
- Comment on AI-created child sexual abuse images ‘threaten to overwhelm internet’ 8 months ago:
Sure, except there’s nothing to suggest that this stuff would reduce the number of real humans being abused.
- Comment on AI-created child sexual abuse images ‘threaten to overwhelm internet’ 8 months ago:
I didn’t say image or text generation specifically is what would be society-shattering. There are lots of concerning aspects of these tool, and combined with the pace they’re being developed, its pretty clear that we’re not really prepared for the damage these can cause.