flashgnash

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[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

I feel like here is not much better unless the advice is about technology

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

I wonder if they'd mind someone mirroring their content, but with the one difference that anyone can edit, any time with no restrictions, spam blocking, vetting etc

See what chaos ensues

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Whether they're trustworthy or not I'm not sure, but they've not failed me yet

I tend to go for those "2024 top 10 x" lists, jabra 65t was a very good recommendation from there, my toaster, probably a bunch of other things I've now forgotten about

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

True I suppose, but I don't really gain anything from owning that information other than being able to say I own it

A copyright or a patent does the same job, but is actually enforceable

I guess you could use an nft to prove something is a copy but a hash should do pretty much the same thing (also they could change one pixel to invalidate the nft if I understand correctly)

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I mean that seems like a better way to do it, I'm assuming these things last for years by the fact I've never had to replace one or even know about it

How is it only charging when plugged in an issue if it lasts longer than the laptop's own battery

I guess if you don't use it for long enough it depletes while powered off

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 37 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure as shit trusting proton over some random public network in a cafe setup by some random open reach engineer or something

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

When I say dubious I mean it's not tangible, there's no guarantee of its value.

If I have chatgpt write me a block of code that block of code is inherently and immediately useful to me

If I buy a bitcoin it will probably eventually increase in value but I can't do anything with it, and there's no guarantee it won't be immediately worthless the next day

I guess by the same logic you could say the code might be immediately worthless if there's a solar flare that wipes out all technology on earth but you get my point I'm sure

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago (5 children)

That's not arguing with my point though, people definitely did get excited about perceived value, but it didn't really benefit most people in any way because it was only a promise, not an actual thing

LLMs and other generational AI produce something that immediately has value

If I ask chatgpt to write me a python function I now have a python function I can use, if I ask it to explain something and then attempt to apply that knowledge I've learned something useful

If I bought an nft the value of that nft would only be what people decide it is worth

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

Oh my god this is so true

Makes me so irrationally angry especially when the person in question keeps cutting them off halfway through sentences

Ex used to do this all the time

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 26 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I'd jump on the bandwagon of nixos, I use it myself and love it, does exactly what you're asking for

However judging on some of your other comments it might be a better idea to just suck up having to manually rebuild until you understand the basics of Linux a little better

(nixos more or less requires you understand programming syntax for writing your system config)

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago

Your settings for the most part are in your home directory, generally when you install a Linux system everything that isn't the bootloader is on one partition (system, installed applications, etc)

Your home directory is for anything specific to your user, meaning your downloads folder, your pictures, documents and also your .config folder which holds 90% of the config files

There are some weird ones that have directories outside of home, afaik that's stuff like network manager remembering your saved networks that runs outside of your user context

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

It said cost worries have risen not costs themselves, it was in the same paragraph about concerns with response accuracy, I imagine that's just a survey

In reality both cost and reliability have improved massively since ai took off like this, requests cost a fraction of a penny each and provided you prompt it right gpt 4o gets it right 90% of the time for me

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