pipi1234
@pipi1234@lemmy.world
- Comment on Don't forget to wash up! 1 day ago:
Thumbs are in the wrong way is they wanted to depict a person in front of a washing basin.
This is definitely on purpose.
- Comment on In the future, it will be considered unbelievable that repairing a product used to be more expensive than buying a new one 2 weeks ago:
In Europe they introduced a “Right to repair” law, that force manufacturers ensure spare parts for at least 10 years and provide repair service at a reasonable price.
That’s a great measure that should incentivice companies to make products more repairabld!
- Comment on In the future, it will be considered unbelievable that repairing a product used to be more expensive than buying a new one 2 weeks ago:
Granted some appliances are harder to replace and due to that are expected to last longer.
No the case for smaller ones that are full of plastic parts that are imposible to source replacements for.
I think 3D printing will help a lot with that.
- Comment on In the future, it will be considered unbelievable that repairing a product used to be more expensive than buying a new one 2 weeks ago:
That would be ideal, but is not the reality right now, and several things would have to change in order to get there.
As a person that repairs everything I own as a hobby (I would love it to be my job but sadly it pays much less), I can tell confidently the following:
The reason why repairing things nowadays tend to cost equal or more is due to manufacturers actively making products harder to repair.
Soldered parts instead of connectors, glued chassis, glass parts that are imposible to remove without breaking, spare parts that are hard to find, or outright impossible due to being proprietary, and a long list of etc…
Furthermore, manufacturers factor in unit turnover for subsidising unit prices.
Ex. They’d rather charge you 300 for a TV that will last 4 years than 500 than one that will last 10.
Why? Simple math and “Maximising shareholder value”.
300/4 = 75 500/10 = 50
You dont know it but everything you own is a subscription service provided by the manufacturing companies.
This is aggravated by a never ending chain of improvements, new models, new trends that keep you in the loop of consumption.
Why would I try to repair my 3 years old phone when I can buy this new shiny one?
They are getting richer by the minute while the rest of us is digging an early grave for ourselves, by polluting the world and consuming non renewable materials at a insane speed.
Not everything is bad though.
In Europe they introduced a “Right to repair” law, that force manufacturers ensure spare parts for at least 10 years and provide repair service at a reasonable price.
That’s a great measure that should incentivice companies to make products more repairabld!
- Comment on Rent is theft 3 weeks ago:
Preach!
- Comment on Rent is theft 3 weeks ago:
See you are purposely ignoring the various entry barriers to property ownership.
- Not living paycheck to paycheck
- Having the down payment (or parents that can help you with that)
- Having the right credit score
- etc…
Instead you think people don’t own property cause they spend their money wrong, for example in prostitutes?
Get out of you echo chamber, I get is cosy and safe there but come on…
- Comment on “IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial 4 weeks ago:
Agreed, but know they have tools that enable them to do it with unprecedented impact.
In my opinion, the difference is so huge, we might as well think they didn’t manipulate things at all before.
- Comment on At Davos, NVIDIA, Microsoft CEOs deny AI bubble 4 weeks ago:
Yes, but don’t underestimate the power of centralisation.
6 months ago you could set a server for running a decent local llm for under 800 euros.
By increasing the demands and pushing the price of hardware up, they are efectibly gate keeping access to llms.
I think the plan is that we will need to rely on this companies for compute power and llms services, and then they can do all sorts of nefarious things.
- Comment on At Davos, NVIDIA, Microsoft CEOs deny AI bubble 4 weeks ago:
Is this correct? I was under the impresion that the most expensive part of an llm is the training, and once that’s done the cost of running a prompt is negligible.
I get your point that this last part doesn’t scale well, but the far larger cost of training must get very diluted if they distribute it across a large user base.
- Comment on At Davos, NVIDIA, Microsoft CEOs deny AI bubble 5 weeks ago:
Thank you kind person, I just fixed it!
- Comment on At Davos, NVIDIA, Microsoft CEOs deny AI bubble 5 weeks ago:
Don’t get me wrong, I totally agree These motherfuckers would scorch our planet for profit but this… feels different.
Is not a secret a lot of the most influential Billionaires are transhumanists (Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, etc).
But hey, it might as well be a grift to get on board other unsuspecting rich fucks…
Either way, we should put these power hoarding dragons to sleep, soon!
- Comment on At Davos, NVIDIA, Microsoft CEOs deny AI bubble 5 weeks ago:
My guess is they are using the Netflix playbook al over again.
Get you hocked to the extreme convenience, much like a drug addict, and then pump up the price of flood every prompt with ads.
That’s my best case.
Worse case is, that alongside the rising adoption, they will start subrepticialy but effectively modifying general knowledge, thought and behaviour in ways the
worstbest Marketer would blush about. - Comment on Far-right Kast wins Chile election in landslide 2 months ago:
Honestly I totally agree, but desperation won’t lead us anywhere …
- Comment on Far-right Kast wins Chile election in landslide 2 months ago:
Sadly I think you are right. They need a World War to reset the global economy, otherwise the debt will come down crushing everything.
Its either world war or a systemic change.
Let’s try to push for the latter…
- Comment on This is Jared Birchall. He is the right-hand man of Elon Musk. He also manages his wealth. Jared hates when people see his face. 2 months ago:
In the case of people so influential as Elongated and Trump, no one should laugh when they propagate insidious fake news, as the impact such thing has in our society can not be underestimated. If you laugh about someone committing a crime, in my eyes you are also part of the problem.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Oh… That would be swell. First we ought to remove greed from human nature.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
So you are telling me that in your ideal world only people that excel in their field should be compensated?
While also telling that musicians should make music just for the pure joy of it and not for living?
Bear in mind that most stars had a lowly start, by replacing entry level jobs with AI you will likely destroy a lot of potential.
- Comment on Billionaires are extremists 3 months ago:
Billionaires are humanity’s cancer.
- Comment on Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline 3 months ago:
Fuck Roombas! I returned mine after 3 days due to several very painful knocks on my feet. Those fuckers are feet killers!
- Comment on Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline 3 months ago:
In case you have a robot vacuum and want to run it cloudless you can check Valetudo.
It’s been running my vacuum the last 4 years and I couldn’t find any downsides (There are several extra functions if you like to tinker around with home assistant and the likes)
If you have any doubts or need assistance with installing it, I would be happy to give you a hand :-)
- Comment on What even is money at this point 5 months ago:
Money should be a store of value and medium of exchange.
The issue with our current monetary system is it’s controlled by states.
The only way out of this failed experiment is a money that cannot be controlled by anyone.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Some standing desks have an interface that can be used to setup diverse automations. For I example I made it automatically rise when it detects that it was on seating position for more than 40 minutes.
- Comment on YSK about Changing your Profile Picture to Clippy 6 months ago:
While I agree, self hosting is not an option for the average person.
I believe big tech must be forced to work for the consumer interests somehow.
One way could be introducing decentralised alternatives, that present a solid competition.
- Comment on On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists 6 months ago:
Car makers test exactly that, and for good measure since cars can and do crash! What are you suggesting, that we buy cars that didn’t pass crash tests? To me it seems like you arguing something similar for AI.