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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it shouldn’t be, but apparently it is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh, not this voice control BS again. It’s like the people who pop up every once in a while asking why there isn’t a “natural English” programming language. It’s because human language is imprecise and full of nuance. To describe something to the precision needed for a computer to take action and actually do the thing you want it to do, you have to be so ridiculously verbose in your description that it would take 10-100x longer than just clicking a button with your mouse or typing a command on the keyboard.

  Have none of these people ever sat behind someone operating a computer and tried to instruct them to do something even moderately complex? About 5 minutes in I’m usually tearing my hear out screaming “JUST LET ME SIT IN THE CHAIR AND DO IT MYSELF!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turn linux server into a router?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OPNSense is a great option for turning x86 hardware into a router. That said, I would not recommend combining your router with other functionality. The router should be a dedicated system that only does one thing. Leave your NAS and web services on another machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stunning new data reveals 140% layoff spike in July, with almost half connected to AI and 'technological updates'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it can’t be AI, I just don’t believe it at this level. I don’t know anybody, not a single person whose job even could be replaced by AI, much less has been. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen, there are companies that are trying to actually replace their workers with AI, but they’re few and far between and make a lot of headlines when they do it.

  I think the more likely explanation is that spending freezes across the board (due to tarriffs and government cutbacks) have put a lot of companies in serious financial stress, and they’re claiming the resulting layoffs are because of AI optimization because the reality of the situation would send their stock price plummeting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stunning new data reveals 140% layoff spike in July, with almost half connected to AI and 'technological updates'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. Not just tarriffs, but all of the government layoffs and funding cuts as well. I know a lot of people who have either been laid off, or their coworkers have been laid off, or they’ve had their funding cut and projects terminated in the last 5 months. It’s scary out there, hiring freezes across the board and layoffs every few months as companies are just riding on their capital while waiting for funding to resume, but there’s no sign of it happening any time soon, if ever. My company does mostly government contracting, we haven’t won a single contract in the last 8 months and supposedly we only have a few months of runway left before the big layoffs start. It’s not because contracts are being awarded and we’re just not getting them, it’s because all government spending has been shut off, which has trickle-down effects on thousands of companies across the country. My wife is in a completely different industry but is facing the exact same problems. And none of it has anything to do with AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple sued by shareholders for allegedly overstating AI progress⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What are you talking about?

  He doesn’t like Linux, he specifically said he doesn’t like Linux because it “doesn’t work” in his opinion, because it takes additional setup time that his Windows systems don’t take. He only likes Windows, and he likes it because it “just works”. However, the reason it “just works” is because he’s only using systems that have been set up for him, he’s never had to set them up himself like he was attempting to do with Linux. He hates Linux, loves Windows, and the reason he loves Windows is because he’s clueless on how much setup it actually takes. He’s not apathentic, he’s ignorant, and a zealot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple sued by shareholders for allegedly overstating AI progress⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In his mind, Windows works, Linux doesn’t, and nothing and no-one can convince him otherwise. That sounds like a zealot to me, but maybe you had something else in mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple sued by shareholders for allegedly overstating AI progress⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have, quite a few in fact. Recently I got into a discussion with someone who was complaining about how bad Linux was because installing it from scratch took an extra ~20 minutes of configuration to set up drivers, meanwhile his Windows systems “just work”. What he didn’t mention, though, was that his Windows systems that “just worked” were pre-build machines that came pre-installed with Windows, in other words the manufacturer already did the hard part of getting all of the drivers installed ahead of time and baked into the image. Turns out he had never actually installed Windows on a bare-metal system before and had to deal with the absolute fucking nightmare Windows driver management is, so he had no basis for comparison, of course he refused to recognize that as a possibility though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your TV Is Spying On You⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TVs are way too inexpensive for manufacturers to pay for modems, service fees, and bandwidth fees to collect this kind of data. They’d spend more paying for that cell connection over the lifetime of the TV than you paid for the product in the first place. Solar systems and cars that cost many tens of thousands of dollars are a completely different ballpark compared to a $500-1000 TV.