phoenixz

@phoenixz@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I see this going nowhere

  For a few hundred bucks I have a mini PC with which I can do anything I want

  This thing, even at half price, would only allow office365, with monthly payments.

  Who the fuck would want that and not just spend a few bucks more and have an actual computer?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ISIS teaching recruits how to use AI ‘responsibly’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Aaahh there is nothing like a religious extremist using artificial intelligence to combat everything that makes artificial intelligence possible in the first place, because we all know that God made chatgpt

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Physics of Data Centers in Space⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  TP;DR: datacenters in space is a duuuuuumb idea

  We knew it was dumb when Elmo Musk suggested it, that dioshit only manages to come up with stupid shit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  we apologize the inconvenience this causes you

  Whenever you see this line, anywhere, you know that they’re saying “fuck you and what are you going to do about it, eh?”

  I mean, we’re 5 steps away from eugenics, and we’we sowwy for the inconvenience!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is spreading.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Meh, that’s tech details that you won’t have to deal with at all

  I’ve used Linux on desktop for decades now (started way back at 2002) and the lady time o touched the kernel for normal desktop stuff is literally multiple decades ago

  Windows too has a kernel but nobody talks about it because you can’t really do shit with it unless you’re a developer

  With Linux you can do whatever the fuck you want and it’s all relatively easy. I can access and modify the Linux kernel in 10 seconds flat if I want to. THAT is why people talk a lot about the Linux kernel, because it’s so easy and powerful to use. Microsoft Windows kernels aren’t even worth talking about.

  But as a common user, you don’t HAVE to do stuff with the kernel if you don’t want to. My 70 year old mother doesn’t either and she’s fine using the Linux desktop that I installed for her.

  For high intensity gaming you might have to make small modifications here and there in human readable text files, and usually documentation about it is excellent.

  Most of Linux is so fucking easy to setup that last time I installed both Linux and Windows, the Linux (Kubuntu) cost 30 minutes to install and that includes the time to download the ISO and burn it on a USB and includes drivers for printers and GPU which were all setup and installed out of the box.

  The windows 11 install cost me 7 hours divided over 5 days.

  Amongst all the problems I ran into, I had to make BIOS modifications because it refused to install at all, it fucked up badly because I had the gall to burn a standard ISO with a standard ISO burning tool on Linux, completely forgetting that Microsoft always sabotages their software so that it won’t work well with Linux. I had to install windows on a virtual machine install some special fucking Windows ISO burner tool, burn the USB there, then it worked. That cost me hours over multiple days of searching the Internet on why the frack such a basic thing failed, plus the time required to set all that shit up just to be able to START the installation.

  Then during the installation I got so many questions, so many questions… So many… Please sign up here, please pay more money, please rent our services, please please fracking please! The install itself took a bloody hour to finish

  What I’m trying to say is: Linux is friggin easy. Windows is hell. Windows costs money, spies on you, serves you unwanted ads and your computer is no longer yours.

  Why does anyone even use windows to begin with? I don’t get it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is spreading.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  complains about a thing

  Gets a solution suggested that solves issues

  Complains about having to hear solution

  Okay then, stick with your bullshit Microshit problems

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨prudish mom⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Prude. Who doesn’t love big fat cocks in their mouth?

  Don’t say children, we know that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia delivers first Vera Rubin AI GPU samples to customers — 88-core Vera CPU paired with Rubin GPUs with 288 GB of HBM4 memory apiece⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And none of us will be allowed to have them

  Only datacenters and only fortune 500 companies will be able to use anything Nvidia

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tulsa police pepper sprayed children for walking out/protesting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The USA is a sick and dying country, has been for decades

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  New evidence shows Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products and making Amazon richer and richer

  So, jail time it is for Jeff Bezos, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what happens when your phone is no longer YOUR phone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't forget to wash up!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this has to be AI

  Nobody “designs” that without knowing exactly what they’re doing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Physics of Data Centers in Space⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet another lost of reasons why these billionaires are fucking removed. Yes, im using the horrible R word, but “idiots” just doesn’t suffice.

  These people are investing billions of dollars on unproven technology and now want to put trillions more in pushing those unproven technologies to space which is just removed levels of stupid. But the investments will happen, a ginormous amount of pollution will be made and it’s all nothing for humanity and a huge amount of money for a select few billionaires.

  Fuck this time line, fuck removed billionaires

  We need a wealth cap. Nobody should be able to do shit like this with impunity just because they have “enough money to do so”.

  Give me a 1M wealth cap world wide and I’ll give you a world where everyone is happy at relatively equal levels of wealth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Zealanders' biometric information and other sensitive data may be handed over to the United States government under a new border security agreement between the countries⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, yes, let’s give our biometric data to nazi Germany in 1938, what could possibly go wrong?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic ditches its core safety promise in the middle of an AI red line fight with the Pentagon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Anthropic, a company founded by OpenAI exiles worried about the dangers of AI, is loosening its core safety principle in response to competition.

  Anyone surprised?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because education in the USA is a sad joke? Republicans have been hollowing out education for the past 5 decades or so and they worked hard trying to shove fundamentalist christianity in schools and science classes specifically

  The US is tucked and can get fucked

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An AI Thought Experiment on Substack Is Sending The Stock Market Spiraling⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ding ding ding

  Yay for clickbait bullshit articles

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So... which one do I choose?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  All of em

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study shows how rocket launches pollute the atmosphere⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ding ding ding

  This is the right answer. Access to space should be government only as companies will guaranteed fuck it up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We got more games and better games when there was less money being made in the industry.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Really? Who would have thought…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb': OpenClaw AI chose to 'speedrun' deleting Meta AI safety director's inbox due to a 'rookie error'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How come some 25yo person is a director at Facebook?

  I mean, even if she is a child prodigy genius, which she obviously is not as she is face first fist deep into AI, how the frack do you have even enough life experience to become a director of any large organization at that age unless you somehow cheated your way in?

  Then reading the hat she’s doing and how she resolved it tells me she doesn’t know shit about computers, she just know how to type commands into AI systems

  Is this the future? Am I going to end up being one of those long bearded magicians that still know the old technology, that still can still save the day by using shell commands?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨meanwhile on instagram⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  White jjesys and giabtrusty aide kick, eagle boy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  These glasses cams are small enough to no longer be visible as a camera.

  I’m all for freedom to record outside but this is a step too far as this is not me making a video for me, this is Facebook using idiots to record the world 24/7 for them.

  I’m fine with humans recording humans, immnot fine with companies recording me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Asked an AI Chatbot for My Data. I Didn't Expect a Psychological Profile.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I sometimes use ait, but specifically for subjects that I don’t know about and don’t want to know about.

  I’m a developer, I’m all open source and Linux etc. right now I need to build a fairly straightforward rsync solution so that I can regularly update. A directory from a windows server and fuck me is it a shit show. On Linux it’d be a 5 minute task, here I’ve spent hours trying to first get it to run with cygwin which let me down a rabbit hole through the planet hell and back.

  I fairly quickly pulled in Claude to give suggestions on how to get rsync with windows to work because I don’t want to know anything about windows. I want to actively keep that info out of my brain lest I get infected by it somehow, so I just spent an hour copy/pasting solutions and results to and from Claude

  About half it’s solutions were wrong and dumb, but it "knew"certain things like certain versions of rsync in cygwin having a specific bug that affected me that would have me spend hours digging through gulp windows documentation

  I got to the point where I dumped cygwin and I’m going to try wsl instead (should have done that from the first moment, probably, but Claude did not tell me THAT)

  Point is: AI, so far, is pretty useless and generates little to no usable specificoutput, but it’s fairly good at getting you I right directions. For subjects you really do not want to get involved in, it’s a nice way to just move forward without a lot of headaches

  That is, of course, if you’re okay with being recorded, studied, proddded, probed, have your asshole size measured because these fuckers want EVERYTHING from you in return for giving you almost nothing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Child’s Play: Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  you will be meat for the coltan mines.

  Is that a reference to Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Did somebody let Lennart out again? You know he shouldn’t be walking around alone outside, he’s just going to get himself into trouble.

  On a slightly more serious note: systemd does some things nice, a lot of things it does very badly, and it really seriously needs to stop trying to push it’s grubby little fingers into every sub system out there.

  All that is one thing, but the main issue with systems always seemed it’s main developer, Lennart Poetteting who was never one to shy away from drama and controversy, and not in a good way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is #FFFFFF white, but mixing red green and blue paint is black?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  RGB is for pixels that generate their own light, you add the colors together

  CMY is for reflective surfaces that keep certain parts of RBG and reflect others. You can’t work with RGB there because what is reflected is not RGB. There you subtract colors

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sooooo you want to stop gun violence in the US so your first instinct is to fuck over 3D printers because gun violence is okay as long as the guns are bought from the normal vendors?

  This paw isn’t about lowering gun violence, this is something pushed to protect the gun manufacturers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months—for all white-collar work to be automated by AI | Fortune⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or else Microsoft will fold?

  That’d be nice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hazardous substances found in all headphones tested by ToxFREE project⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  feminization of males

  This would stir Magats into a frenzy if they could read