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The problem is that Microsoft is ending Win10 support so you won’t be able to get updates and such (especially security updates) for the OS anymore which will ultimately lead to things breaking or being vulnerable anyway, plus if that business-critical software ever gets updated to the point where it also doesn’t support win10 anymore (I’ve run into this in the past with XP/Vista) then you’re going to have to change anyway. But you don’t have to change to win11. Companies and governments all over Europe are switching their mission-critical systems to linux and FOSS, yeah it’s a pain, but it’s going to save you pain down the road.

There are exceptions, but yeah the pro move is to immediately unsub as soon as you sub if you’re not planning to stick around.

Goldman Sachs wants everyone to use AI, just not against them. C’mon guys it’s no fair! :P

Couple things…

The nerd brigade is reporting for duty. They probably won’t win any push-up contests and might not be sharpshooters.

I’ve been a nerd since the 80s and I’ll have you know I’m a great shot even with my eyes being fucked. Fuck your stereotyping bullshit.

Bosworth said Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg supported his decision to join the Reserve. “There’s a lot of patriotism that has been under the covers that I think is coming to light in the Valley,” he said.

That’s not patriotism, that’s oligarchs who are utterly dependent upon deregulation to stay oligarchs eagerly kowtowing to the fascist regime in order to curry favor.

Oh no, China is stealing your data! Wait, America is also stealing your data and you don’t care? Hmm.

Yeah, it could be, but these guys aren’t looking to replace human workers with a robust, well-trained, and properly-deployed AI, they’re looking to slash and burn their labor costs with whatever they think will squeak by.

I’ve used Amazon’s AI live chat bots a fair bit over the years and I have to say they’re actually pretty good. 90% of the time they can resolve the issue themselves (at least in my experience) and faster than it would take to connect to a person. But most people don’t have Amazon’s budget or customer service-oriented business model.

Fair enough.

This seems like asking someone to do your google homework for you. :P Just google that shit and get the specs yourself.

To be clear you don’t have to get that technical to read non-Amazon books on your kindle… I’ve owned 2 different kindles over the course of about 15 years and literally never bought an ebook from Amazon. Just gotta know where to get them (libgen) and how to use them (calibre.)

A cheap ereader would be nice, but I’ve kinda had to go the opposite direction; my eyes weren’t great to begin with and have only gotten worse with age, so I need a larger screen. I do very little reading (in general, not of books specifically) on my phone because it’s too small and I have to zoom in and pan around all the time, etc.

I’ve been using duck.ai recently myself and quite like it. My only complaint with it is that the chats have a length limit, so if you’re working on complex projects you can run into those limits pretty quick. I use it for worldbuilding for a novel I’m working on and I have to use chatgpt for thematic stuff because it has a better memory, but otherwise it’s great for quick/small things.

Yeah that’s exactly what’s going on here, I’ve seen it happen so much these past few months, and all this kowtowing is disgusting. Not that I ever thought particularly highly of giant corporations in the first place.

‘Rich guy thinks thing designed to make rich guys even richer is great, to the surprise of literally no one ever.’

Or, alternatively

‘Rich guy kowtows to fascist regime in the hopes of being allowed to continue getting richer.’

Take your pick.

Enshittificaiton is a uniquely capitalist thing, so…

I quite liked Walkaway, but I’ve got kind of an anarchist bent myself, so.

And I want Windows and all its bullshit to heck off!

Fortunately I’m winning that one so far.

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Next thing you know the ‘orbs’ will be NFTs and we’ll all be expected to grind away at their ‘quests’ (probably training AI) to earn ‘real money’.

increasingly belligerent chasing of profits.

The word you’re looking for is enshittification.

I listen attentively to pretty much anything Cory Doctorow says about the internet and technology, he’s been consistently insightful as hell on the subject. His books are also pretty good.

That’s fair, and not something I disagree with.

I was making an argument about should, not does, and executing people is rather different than shooting someone in defense of yourself/others.

I agree that financial crimes should have harsh penalties, just not death. The problem is that we don’t generally apply penalties to this type of crime at all; fining a company $500mil after they made $40bil or whatever by circumventing laws/regulations is not a penalty, it’s the cost of doing business.