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I was alive when computer RAM was measured in KB and when you wanted to have more of it, you had to manually solder it to the main board… Youngling.

It really doesn’t help that it is a no-effort repost, of highly speculative article.

Check the previous incarnation of this post on the same community. It had a positive carma!

I didn’t read the article, I just looked it up. To find the fortune-teller graph that I can see on Leamy. That one that predicts that “misalignment” will be detected in 2027… And then AI will go straight up, or horizontal for a moment and then straight up. I don’t have enough time to check if the rest of the article is on the same BS level.

More helium to pump the balloon

My AI questions:

Can AI fuck off?

Can the bubble pop?

Can we make all AI models free and open source since it’s entirely trained on stolen content?

Agreed. Copilot hijacked my Windos, and I feel much more convenient using Linux now.

I had similar thoughts. I was able to read the books through the parts that I liked less, and I really liked the story as a whole. I was not able to continue with the series. It’s not even bad, but episode after episode there was no meaningful progress, and I just stopped

i didn’t want to give up QWERTY familiarity.

That’s the neat part: you don’t! Once you get comfortable with a different layout, then it’s a second step to get comfortable switching. You will have issues for a while, but your brain will develop a switch quite quickly (it’s much easier than learning Colemak). Once you have the switch, it’s easy to use both layouts.

I work mostly on Colmak DH, but use QUERTY from time to time, when on my laptop.

The ONLY problem I have now is when my wife wants to use my computer… She doesn’t want to try my fancy Colemak keyboard. (But it’s more about it being a split keyboard with unmarked action keys in random places, than about the colemak).

Yes, I use Colemak DH, but can also touch type on QUERTY when needed (when working on my laptop).

I noticed that, while gaming helped me a little, it also taught me to put my fingers on the wrong keys (WSAD is not correct for typing), also QUERTY is really bad, I never tried to put fingers on the home row, because you barely use home row keys in QUERTY.

It took me two months of regular training to switch to Colemak but it was worth it. I type much faster and I feel like a skilled pianist when my fingers fly smoothly over the keys, and somehow I am even better with QUERTY now than I was before!

People who don’t socialise at all also love wfh

Profitability went out of fashion. Control and power is the new trend. Big tech controls 95% (if not more) of all information sources. Even if they don’t own newspapers, they can make them more or less visible at will. Google tried to monetize it with ads everywhere but that is the old way of thinking.

Cambridge analytica showed that by controlling the information, you can select who makes the laws.

Musk bought Twitter without any chance for a reasonable return on investment. Guess why?

The “old tech” (Google, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok) controls what you know. But AI goes a step further. It controls what you think about things. It can explain why, what you thought was outrageous, is perfectly normal, or vice versa. It’s your own personalised propaganda machine. Once enough people are hooked and get used to using AI, the enshitification phase will begin and the AI will become more and more opinionated. And most people won’t notice… Some will, but they don’t need to influence everyone.

Don’t worry, it makes your life a little bit harder now, but it is worth it, because if everything goes well, your employer will save a lot of money by firing you. Yes you will lose your source of income, but ChatGPT will help you by providing tips on how to survive as a homeless person!

Totally worth it.

Impossible!

People only use languages other than English, to make fun of Americans. But as soon as there are no Americans near, we all switch back to English /s

Most good changes are difficult. And it’s not “all or nothing”, every small victory is worth it on its own.

Their what?

Very expensive but possible… in 20 to 50 years… If most of the EU cooperates… So… No.

I’m on Lemmy due to principles but I am the kind of guy who will reject every single “legitimate interest” cookie consent, even if I have to click 300 times to do that… And even I went back to Reddit after my first encounter with Lemmy. The lack of content is a huge issue.

Decentralisation is an issue as well. Yes, it is here to solve problems, but it solves problems that big platforms face, but it creates a bunch of small problems that kill small platforms.

Most people don’t want to be forced to choose which one of the hundred providers they want to use, when they never heard about any of them, they have no idea what’s the difference and don’t care enough to learn… Shit, even I never cared to check what is the difference between Lemmy instances. And then you might have one community split between 10 instances… Each with one or two posts… And all long dead. Maybe one community with 10 times the user base could survive?

Light bulb is a Reverse solar panel

This seems like a clever way to go around existing limitations.

What if the “laws aren’t the same” remark was about “you can’t transmit without a permit”? Not about the “you need license to listen”?