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- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 19 hours ago:
I think it was something like that, though its been about 6 weeks so Im a little fuzzy on it now. I was following a guide I’d found online and reached something different from what the guide said, so I aborted install to check on somethings and that apparently set something that when i tried to restart installation it kept throwing an error. Something about starting the installation without completing it messed something else up that I havent been able to fix. I spent an hour or so looking through stuff, even wiped the PC and it still wouldn’t work. I’ve been meaning to go back to it but haven’t gotten around to it.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 21 hours ago:
Agreed. We are in an age where tech is spoonfed to people with slick UIs and automated installs. Linux needs that–some kind of easy onramp to get people comfortable and familiar with it–in order to have a chance of getting broad acceptance. It’s not particularly accessible even for people with a small amount of tech knowledge and skill.
I tried to set up mint on an old laptop recently and immediately hit a roadblock before I could even get an install going. I did some research and found some options to troubleshoot it but gave up because the guidance I found online was a bit more complex than I felt comfortable acting on.
I really want to try out Linux, but if someone like me (with some technology knowledge and comfort) still gets this easily tripped up on installing it, I can’t imagine the average person taking the leap successfully.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 1 week ago:
Yes I played with my husband and we loved it, but havent come back to it since finishing the story. Seems to have limited replayability.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 1 week ago:
Also curious about this. I didn’t want to do a whole new play through with a gog one but don’t really want the hassle of setting up the London mod with my steam version. Been holding off until I get more time to mess with it but the longer I go the more likely I just suck it up and start over on gog.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 2 months ago:
Awesome, thanks!
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 2 months ago:
I started that process and hit a road block after getting all the books downloaded to my pc. Can you recommend any tutorials or guides that might help get everything converted?
- Comment on 3 months ago:
The guy was suing for $50K +expenses. That is not even a drop in the bucket for Disney and they fought it. That says plenty about the culture over there.
- Comment on Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October 3 months ago:
Yep, I managed to find a license for 2019 several years aho and have just transferred it to my computers and I’ve upgraded. No copilot or prompts to upgrade.
I’m still testdriving libreoffice to try to dump ms entirely but I like having a backup available.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 3 months ago:
What bothers me is that I’m getting all this “upgrade to windows 11” crap from other companies, like my antivirus. I get that eset reason to tell me about possible security risks to my computer, but I’d prefer if they give me options for addressing it that don’t involve dealing with a new OS, especially the win 11 dumpster fire.
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 3 months ago:
Yeah I do think there is something to the culture of MBA programs. All the information available for current and prospective students at my university was very much of the tone that mbas change the world. The halls of the business school were filled with famous rich people who’d visited the school or gifted money along with plaques about MBA grads and the amazing things they did. It’s just full of subtle reminders about how the degree is a gateway to being some big powerful person. I’m sure that makes an impact on the students’ attitudes.
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 3 months ago:
I have a PhD in research psychology, and worked with researchers in a lot of other disciplines. I have been mansplained about topics in my field (including the topic of my dissertation) by more MBAs than any other field. More often than not they are vastly oversimplifying or just getting things completely wrong. Try telling them that though and it’s like talking to a wall.
- Comment on Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 3 months ago:
Important to note that the article says it can save to Onedrive or cloud drive of your choice. Its not clear exactly how that works if you want to save to Box, or Dropbox or something else but it looks like the option is there and it seems like you may even be able to turn that off if you want.
If it’s still not your preference, I’ve seen licenses for office 2019 for sale on the web, which predates a lot of the cloud integration and AI tool nonsense. Between that and libre office there are ways to avoid using this service if you’re so inclined.
- Comment on Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action 3 months ago:
I’m not getting too excited yet. All class action lawsuits I’ve heard of end up netting individual members only a few bucks each. Unless the settlement specifically grants authors right to opt out of AI scraping, it’s only a small victory. Hopefully settlement details will come out soon.
- Comment on Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display 4 months ago:
GM was talking pretty publicly about doing this a couple years ago and there was a mild dust up over it. They also mentioned enthusiasm over the potential revenue to come from mining and selling driver data (which got them sued) . Last I heard about it was late 2023 or early 2024, so it seems their new data team.has been busy.
Don kid yourselves though, if GM is doing it, everyone else is or will be.
- Comment on BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler 5 months ago:
Oh lol cool TIL thanks
- Comment on BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler 5 months ago:
I mean, that’s shitty, but there’s no way in hell it’s the worst thing she’s had tweeted to or about her during her tenure. If all the insanity spewing from Grok and X users up to now didn’t phase her, I’m guessing she’s not bothered by this either.
(Not to say she or any other women deserves to be talked to or about like this. But by now people working at or using X know what they’re involved with and have made a choice to be there, so they must be okay with it at some level.)
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 5 months ago:
So, a shitton of game developers just got laid off from Microsoft, another in a string of “restructuring” nonsense that’s been rampant in the industry.
That’s a lot of people with gaming expertise who could be put to work helping companies transition their games to single player experiences or at least making them accessible to customers after support stops. If the EU ends up pushing this forward, there’s a decent business opportunity in there.
- Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not 5 months ago:
I would actually be okay with libraries having those AI services. Even if they were available only for a fee it would be absurdly low and still waived for people with low or no income.
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- Comment on Spotify caught hosting hundreds of fake podcasts that advertise selling drugs 7 months ago:
I would also recommend Pandora. I’ve had a family plan for years so I don’t know for sure but there used to be a free (ad supported) tier that you could check out. And to reiterate comments from above, custom playlists and song/album play on demand is available (though some tracks are only available in discovery mode).
- Comment on Anthropic apologizes after one of its expert witnesses cited a fake article hallucinated by Claude in the company's legal battle with music publishers 7 months ago:
This doesn’t appear as bad as some of the other ai legal stuff. Formatting references isn’t really about generating content as much as structuring it and AI (usually) doesn’t have the kind of problems with hallucinations when just tasked with reorganizing data. I’ve used GPT for reformatting references to APA style and it worked really well. I’m surprised Claude couldn’t handle this task.
Also bummed that there doesn’t appear to be a book called a statisticians guide to making inferences with noisy data, because that sounds like a book worth checking out.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Yikes. As nice as it would be to have an extra $2500, I can’t imagine a scenario in which using this jackwad’s platform is a good idea.
- Comment on Reddit Plans Extra Verification Steps To Detect The Human-Like AI Bots 7 months ago:
Unless they get creative this likely won’t do anything but piss off the human users. Research from a couple years ago found that bots are better than people at captchas.
- Comment on A million batman origin stories. Parents brutally murdered by whoever. But instead of a family fortune you are approached by a friendly CIA agent who offers to fund your career of vengeance. 7 months ago:
This is sort of the way ::: spoiler spoiler The Wrath of Becky ends. After exacting her revenge for the second time, she gets approached by a CIA person who basically offers her a job as a field agent/professional killer and she ends up getting support ro take out one final bad guy with a flipping tank. It’s a satisfying ending for the movie and for Becky. :::
If you haven’t seen those movies, they’re worth checking out. They’re like 2 hours of revenge/justice porn, very violent and gory but entertaining.
- Comment on I made a happy spider planter for my spider plant, inspired by this community! 7 months ago:
Love the new design! It’s so cute!
- Comment on Court ruling bars Apple from charging 27% commission on purchases outside the App Store 7 months ago:
Isn’t this charging model the same reason Kindle stopped allowing in app purchases? I thought they had said it was a Google play store thing though. Is Google doing it too or is there pricing something different?
- Comment on List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs 7 months ago:
Here’s the main one I used to get started.
udemy.com/…/101Yfa3@8XPxXbG1DlivBLYGDQBz4q_2ELh5R…
I’ve started one on creating abstract art in Affinity that seems pretty good and I have a few others in my learning queue from him on specific parts of affinity that look really good but I haven’t done yet.
Him and Lindsey Marsh have a bunch of content out there on the whole suite. I took Lindsey’s course on graphic design theory that was pretty good but that course used adobe so i used it more for general concepts. I think either of them would be a good place to start.
- Comment on List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs 7 months ago:
Also udemy has some fantastic courses to learn the whole suite, each can be purchased for lifetime access for $10-15 USD. The instructors I bought from are still actively updating their courses and I get all the new stuff, even though I bought when AD was still on v1.3.
If you’re looking to learn it’s a really affordable way to do it.
- Comment on The Machine Fired - No human could do a thing about it! 7 months ago:
I just watched that again for the first time in a while. It definitely hits different in the age of AI driven layoffs.
Highly recommend.
- Comment on Researchers secretly experimented on Reddit users with AI-generated comments 7 months ago:
These researchers conducted research in a manner that was totally unethical and they deserve to be stripped of tenure and lose any research funding they have.
It already sounds like the university is preparing to just protect them and act like it’s no big deal, which is discouraging but I suppose not surprising.