I had the same experience when choosing between the Intel or AMD versions of a prebuilt. Went with Intel due to having comparatably better specs at the price. Theading is better on AMD (as a rule?) but I can only have so much fun running multiple VMs.
It sucks. I hope you got the best part.
I have been using AI chat exclusively for searching for at least the past 3 days.
It is so much better in every possible way for simple factual questions, especially ChatGPT and Google Bard. Great for shopping. Microsoft Bing is okay, but you have to choose the right personality.
Sidenote: I KNOW using Google, and the other companies I will mention, is the antithesis of freedom and privacy. Yet, they are incredibly powerful tools that are getting implemented everywhere, so my curiousity has led me down an honestly fun rabbit hole.
The other AI that really surpised me is Opera Aria. Like Bing, it is using ChatGPT-4 and integrating real-time information. It just feels smarter, or perhaps more professional?
The caveat with all these except maybe Bard which, uses its own system, are very good at shutting down questions it does not want to answer. It feels weird and wrong when it happens, like it just saved you from asking something immoral, or at least too many questions about the tech.
Strange experience overall.
TL;DR AI chatbots are great at parsing the internet to get you answers with reasonable accuracy and relevancy when old-fashioned search can be tedious or fruitless.
I have come to agree on you with this approach. Education is important, no matter what form it takes.
My only issue is something I have obsereved and lamented, which is that humor done excessively seemes to have an inoculating effect.
Think of all the crap president the U.S. has had and all lampooning that was done to denounce them. While we mocked them, they continued their reign and carried creating and enforcing bad policies, as getting away with atrocities while the few qualified people with any legal power struggled to take them down. It doesn't work.
So, while I appreciate the satire, at this point I find it an exhausting medium. People really do enjoy the taste of onion.
Vote with action. Capitalism is the shit we are in, but everyone acts as if we are in a death march.
Maybe we are? Maybe nothing matters?
Or it does matter, and we need to be smarter about how we make changes in the world besides urging people to use technology that does not match half of what they are used to.
There is a concept called nudge that can work here. It is easier to change behavior by making the "right thing" the default. Make it easy for people to switch off the big corporate tech. Yelling never did anything.
In the meantime, yes, vote with your dollars. Don't give money to the things you hate.
This impotent cynism changes nothing.
Use the technology you feel safe with, or try try to build if it does not exist.
The echo chamber is making everyone deaf.
Hell yes! Feeling futuristic.
Cool recommendation! I just bought one!
I am hoping with all hope that it will let me replace my Roku for streaming.
As great as the functionality of the Roku is, the constant advertising makes me loath this thing. I do not want it anymore.
I cannot count the number of times I installed seemingly well documented software only to have it kill my system. Snaps, the very thing that would prevent that kind of misery, has inexcusable behavior.
Yeah, Flatpaks are great. Although I will say I am pretty agnostic, I don't need my computer to follow some kind of paradigm for anything other than the comfort of organization. In fact just now I installed software through a PPA, because that is the official way for my system at the moment. Not the greatest, I think I could have chosen a different way in a drop down menu, but it detected Ubuntu (Mint), so whatever.
Lovely. I want this.
I just remembered I have a lenovo gaming laptop that gets no love because it is huge and I stopped lugging it around when I inherited a MacBook Air.
Time to try it!
I think that is one time download of a library so the app can run. Also, any other app that needs it.
It seems to me that the biggest complaint people have with flatpaks are the space it takes.
I wonder if the blow up in GBs was an early buggy behavior?
Bizarre. Not even keep a few editors for... the editing??
I wonder how this will affect the Stuff You Should Know podcsst.