It’s useful. It wastes a lot of my time with its stupid bullshit. Both are true. 😆

PopOS used to be my distro of choice as a de-crapified Ubuntu alternative until I realized I like the Cinnamon DE and Mint a lot better. Still exciting to finally see a 24.04 release!

I dual boot Windows for Cubase and Kontakt. Never could get Cubase working well on Linux and I probably could switch to Reaper and make Kontakt work with yabridge, but I have been using Cubase for over 20 years and haven’t had the inclination to switch just yet.

Nice, looking forward to the day when I can get one that runs 100% locally. Not sure if it would be cost effective to hire someone to come in my home to operate the thing vs. just hiring a maid service, though.

In my case at least, every other part of my kitchen has counters or cabinets, and there isn’t really an empty space on a wall to hang a tablet. The fridge would be a good place for a screen, except if it’s not built-in, there would be a wire. I can see someone with a different layout not following my logic, though.

True, although the actual big display on the Samsung fridge powered by the fridge itself showing various widgets is pretty nice. The fridge is also a good location for it, and you’d have to otherwise run a wire across your fridge to power your own tablet. The main problem is that your hardware and your data belong to Samsung after you buy it. Other problem is it seems to also be overpriced. 🤷‍♂️

I wouldn’t mind one for playing Jellyfin videos while I’m cooking, having a dedicated screen for the Mealie recipe I’m currently making, looking at a digital family calendar, adding items to the grocery list, etc. A kitchen kiosk with a larger screen that is easy to clean and doesn’t need a login does have some practical uses for self-hosted apps, but…checks list…nope, ads to make some corpo’s number go up didn’t quite make it into my wishlist.

I stick with 1080p for my Jellyfin library because I can’t really tell much difference on my living room TV between upscaled 1080p and native 4k, at least not enough to merit the huge difference in file size. 4k games when sitting close to my computer monitor, on the other hand, are definitely worth it.

The article presents a couple of different perspectives: Gates’ comments and Hinton’s counterpoints at the end. Maybe the downvotes are assuming it’s only promoting Gates’ perspective because they didn’t read it?

Don’t worry, he will be saying the opposite after he dumps whatever stock he’s trying to pump.

Yeah, your ire is justified. Total ADD move to start reading, have a thought pop in your head, then post without at least scanning the rest of the article to make sure you’re not posting something stupid.

I have been waiting impatiently for WASM to really take off. I’d imagine that some day, it will be the most popular way to build software.

I don’t know much about manufacturing chips, but if this is just an incremental step towards Taiwan not being a single point of failure and there will be sustained progress in this direction, then this seems like a worthwhile achievement. Obviously getting the supply chains in place and fully duplicating the manufacturing capabilities that exist in Taiwan would be quite a complex endeavor that won’t happen overnight (if ever), so incremental progress like this is about what I’d expect.

I have no idea what would truly work in the long-term. Is there really a system that is immune from psychopaths eventually seizing control while everyone else passively allows it, then when it gets bad enough, the guillotines finally come out, rinse and repeat?

Corporations that are incentivized to make number go up and grow indefinitely at the expense of all else are a big part of the problem. Proper anti-trust regulation that is actually enforced to limit their size, as well as an aggressive wealth tax to limit individual wealth would go a long way.

Fundamentally, though, capitalism rewards those who seek power over those who contribute to society and also doesn’t incentivize long-term societal well-being. Regulation would only limit how much power any one psychopath can gain. If we could start from scratch and create a new society with any system we wanted, it would not be Capitalism.

While Sodium-Ion sounds legitimately promising, we’ve all read so many articles about “revolutionary new battery tech” over the years that the default response is “cool, let me know when mass production starts.”

Capitalism may be workable with strict regulation and proper social safety nets. The problem is that we have crony capitalism, which allows billionaires to essentially control the laws, which concentrates power into too few hands, similar to other oppressive forms of government. A key piece we are missing to make capitalism more workable is right in the word itself: “cap”. There should be a cap on how much wealth any one individual can accumulate.

Now the AI is basically powered by private jets. The billionaires are buying carbon offsets, so it’s all good.