stephen01king
@stephen01king@lemmy.zip
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 18 hours ago:
No, the average person understands how to make a Gmail account. They don’t understand email whatsoever.
- Comment on Capsaicin 2 weeks ago:
Because our brains are amazing and can just fill out the missing word while reading.
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 2 weeks ago:
I think those places need more support systems to reduce the number of people that becomes desperate enough to do that.
- Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs 2 weeks ago:
Who’s coping here when you’re the one completely dismissing my own experience with using Linux. That’s not a good look for someone supposedly giving ‘good’ advice.
That experience I had was from earlier this year, btw, so don’t tell me that whatever I want will work out of the box. This is why I hate whenever people say “just switch to Linux” without taking any responsibility. You don’t know what hardware people have and going to install Linux on.
You also claimed Linux is good for people with no money to buy new hardware, yet barely care to even make sure the people you tell this to doesn’t have hardware that might not be supported. What are they gonna do after your advice made the only hardware they have no longer connect to wifi or ethernet? I doubt you’d go out of your way to help them, then.
As for simplicity, I don’t see how W11 is any more complicated that Ubuntu. More resource heavy, yes, but that doesn’t affect the user experience much. Give me concrete examples on how they’re easier to use.
- Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs 2 weeks ago:
That’s hilarious. Just because you have experience with Linux doesn’t make it easier to use, either. And 90% of people in the workplace has experience with Windows and Windows only, so that means the majority of people already can use Windows easier even if both OSes are equally easy to use.
Considering all my experience with using Linux has been painful, I don’t believe you when you say Linux is easier. I can Google any issue to do with Windows and find the solution without delving too deeply. You know what happened the last time I tried to find the driver for the wifi card in my laptop for Linux? I had to find an obscure website that lists third party drivers for Linux only to find that it doesn’t exist for my specific card. The card that works flawlessly in Windows.
Imagine not having that knowledge before jumping all in on installing Linux. Most of the people in my office would’ve already sworn off Linux forever the moment they encounter such setback, especially if they were being lied to about the level of difficulty they would face.
- Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs 3 weeks ago:
What are you referring to here?
- Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs 3 weeks ago:
No, it’s useless advice for people who don’t already have knowledge about Linux.
- Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs 3 weeks ago:
Trust me, if you’re used to the AutoCAD workflow and UI, BricsCAD is just different enough that it can be a bit jarring and a huge drop to your productivity.
- Comment on Excel enters its 40th year 3 weeks ago:
The only way I could think of is the ease of setting up a collaborative spreadsheet.
- Comment on Proud globohomo 4 weeks ago:
It just sounds sarcastic to me.
- Comment on X's controversial changes to blocking and AI training saw half a million users leave for rival Bluesky in just a single day 4 weeks ago:
Can you suggest a few.
- Comment on X's controversial changes to blocking and AI training saw half a million users leave for rival Bluesky in just a single day 4 weeks ago:
1 reason for me, the algorithm. I can never find a lot of new thing to discover or new people to follow on Mastodon when I first started, which makes me not use it very much even now.
- Comment on Equinunerous Sets 4 weeks ago:
Does that mean you cannot distinguish between the two?
- Comment on Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers 1 month ago:
So you can see what their brain is doing.
- Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants 1 month ago:
I mean, you’re clearly using them because they still work, not because of a hatred for increasing productivity for the overlords. Your choice was based on reasonable logic, unlike the other guy.
- Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants 1 month ago:
Oh, so do you use a 13 year old PC because a newer one increases your productivity without increasing your salary and paid time off?
- Comment on Eureka 1 month ago:
Probably not.
- Comment on Student dorm does not allow wifi routers 2 months ago:
Oh yeah, they did mention that clause. I guess you can still limit the power of the wireless router so it doesn’t penetrate too far outside the rooms, as well as using bands that is not as congrsted. That might be good enough to comply to the TOS, or it might not.
- Comment on Student dorm does not allow wifi routers 2 months ago:
That might be one of the concern, but the TOS clearly doesn’t state that. They only prohibit against attaching multiple devices to the network. If you attach it to your desktop PC, it could be considered not on the network as long as you don’t bridge the two connections together.
- Comment on Student dorm does not allow wifi routers 2 months ago:
An extra step that doesn’t go against their TOS, though.
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 2 months ago:
You might be right, I’ve misread the point of the parent comment in the first place. I guess I just wasted both of our time, sorry about that.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 2 months ago:
Why do we need to differentiate those two use cases, anyway? It’s not like they differentiate between a single human or multiple humans consuming the content, or if there are non-humans also consuming it. Differentiating those two use cases is just another example of publishers wanting more money due to greed. I’m not sure why Lemmy is so supportive of that.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 2 months ago:
Both humans and AI consume the content, even if they do not do so in the exact same way. I don’t see the need to differentiate that. It’s not like we have any idea of the mechanism by which humans consume a content to make the differentiation in the first place.
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 2 months ago:
Yeah, because you YouTube is against adblocking. It would be more surprising if they don’t.
Now answer my question why it’s funny for Linus to make such a video when he isn’t against adblocking, and how that would mean the parent comment wasn’t implying that he is against adblocking.
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 2 months ago:
We taking about bubbles or are we talking about balloons? Maybe we should change to using the word balloon instead, since these economic ‘bubbles’ can also deflate slowly.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 2 months ago:
They should pay for the cheese, I’m not arguing against that, but they should be paying it the same amount as a normal human would if they want access to that cheese. No extra fees for access to copyrighted material if you want to use it to train AI vs wanting to consume it yourself.
And I didn’t miss your point. My point was that the reality is already occurring since people are already suing OpenAI for ChatGPT outputs that the people suing are generating themselves, so it’s no longer just a hypothetical. We’ll see if it is a money making machine for them or will they just waste their resources from doing that.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 2 months ago:
That’s true, but that’s not a problem unique to AI and is something most people would like more regulations for.
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 2 months ago:
Why would the first comment said it is funny for Linus to make a how to adblock video if he is not implying that a Linus against adblock? Please explain how that logic works.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 2 months ago:
Only if they are selling the output. I see it as more they are selling access to the service on a server farm, since running ChatGPT is not cheap.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 2 months ago:
Yeah, because running the AI also have some cost, so you are selling the subscription to run the AI on their server, not it’s output.
I’m not sure what is the legality of selling a bee movie maker, so you’d have to research that one yourself.
It’s not really a money making machine if you lose more money running the AI on your server farm, but whatever floats your boat. Also, there are already lawsuits based on outputs created from chatgpt, so it is exactly what is already happening.