elshandra
@elshandra@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why AI is going to be a shitshow. 8 months ago:
Rupert Murdoch has entered the chat.
- Comment on UK's antitrust enforcer sounds the alarm over Big Tech's grip on GenAI 8 months ago:
Sounds great right?
What Goldman does, others do.
What happens when everyone reduces their new grad hires by 25%?
- Comment on UK's antitrust enforcer sounds the alarm over Big Tech's grip on GenAI 8 months ago:
The finance industry be shaking in their boots. They know when the machines take over labour, they screwed.
- Comment on Microsoft won't update your Windows 11 PC if it has these apps 8 months ago:
Probably a good starting place would be to take the three apps you need most, and just search the web for guides to running them on Linux. That’ll give you an indication of how much work you might/not be in for.
- Comment on I am going to miss the mute and power buttons when they take them away. 8 months ago:
For free? Surely there’s some way to get that shit out… Or at least, the panel.
- Comment on Microsoft won't update your Windows 11 PC if it has these apps 8 months ago:
If they’re games, protondb (.com) will tell you how well you can expect them to run. Other stuff, it’s often a case of search the web or try and see. Wine takes some getting used to, you’ll probably have to get your hands dirty and do a little learning.
- Comment on Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works 8 months ago:
If only it worked that way in practice eh.
We found these marijuanas in his pocket, they were already in evidence bags for us even.
The model that can separate the fact from fiction and falsehood will be worth far more than any model creating fiction and falsehood.
- Comment on Google's AI-powered search results are loaded with spammy, scammy garbage 9 months ago:
Well, part of the reason. Ultimately it boils down to the usual suspects, money/greed/power, and Google being used like a radio station. If all the content going in was clean, Google’s tools would probably have much less being wrong … I guess at least by filling them with crap, we’ll find out if they can work out the difference or not.
Back in the day, websites weren’t full of all this crap. But most of us were lucky to have double digit kbps on a timed meter so there’s that.
- Comment on Google's AI-powered search results are loaded with spammy, scammy garbage 9 months ago:
They also built a search engine, and its results are also loaded with spammy, scammy garbage … There’s a lot of that on the internet, it’ll be great when ai, or something can tell the difference better than I can.
- Comment on General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior With Data Brokers 9 months ago:
Sure, but the only way humans are going to be honest close to 100% of the time is if they have no choice.
- Comment on General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior With Data Brokers 9 months ago:
Sad that a world that prevents people from deceiving anybody, is looked upon as dystopian.
- Comment on Microsoft defends barging in on Chrome with pop-up ads pushing Bing, GPT-4 9 months ago:
It really depends on what kind of applications you’re talking about. There are still a number of things it can’t run (or well, probably without a lot of meddling around to get there) in the professional space, like CAD. Hopefully this will change over time.
For a lot of these products there are free alternatives available, but they often don’t cut the mustard and/or aren’t worth retraining for.
Another thing you should consider before choosing Linux is hardware support. This is often lacking in Linux. For example, your fancy tablet might work fine as a tablet, but if you want to configure anything about it you might need windows depending on the device.
The good news is, you can try it without worrying about harming your windows install by doing it say on a usb stick or hdd. It’ll only cost you time and effort.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Community support is a thing, it’s not the lack of support that’s to blame here - have you ever used Microsoft support? Linux support is much more accessible even.
A lot of the blame here, is Microsoft’s clever marketing campaign providing windows to educational institutions - with support - for far below cost, in the early days when pc adoption was on the rise.
Distribution saturation is a barrier to entry and focused support, and it is sometimes more complicated to install and repair. Sometimes it’s easier to repair, because windows is too busy trying to hide its internals from you.
It’s usually easier to support a remote IT-illiterate person using Linux, by comparison to windows, today.
- Comment on Apple Terminated Epic’s Developer Account 9 months ago:
I don’t need steam to install your app on my pc, unless you choose it to be that way.
- Comment on Why does Microsoft want me to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11? 10 months ago:
So they can put AI in everything and slurp all your data. Well at least, they don’t say they aren’t doing that.
- Comment on Chinese malware removed from SOHO routers after FBI issues covert commands 11 months ago:
Malware is bad. X state trying to hack me bothers me less than mY state.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Oh, ty. This will replace a few extensions for me.
- Comment on A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years 11 months ago:
Yeah so you’ll just move your battery from your i17 to your i18.
- Comment on A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years 11 months ago:
If this was an economically scalable proven thing today, phones wouldn’t be sold with batteries in 5 years.
- Comment on Microsoft documents leak new Bethesda games, including an Oblivion remaster 1 year ago:
For me, I don’t mind that they re-release tesv on whatever potato they can fit it on, it’s that they keep doing this for over 10 years, but where tesvi? Maybe they got grrm writing it.
- Comment on Microsoft to stop forcing Windows 11 users into Edge in EU countries 1 year ago:
I’ve just doubled down on not using Microsoft tbh. I shouldn’t have to spend so much time and effort cleaning a clean install of an OS. And have updates change things so they don’t work the same or at all any more. Fuck that.