I’m not against AI. I’m against the hoards of privacy-disrespecting data collection, the fact that everybody is irresponsibility rushing to slap AI into everything even when it doesn’t make sense because line go up, and the fact nobody is taking the limitations of things like Large Language Models seriously.

The current AI craze is like the NFTs craze in a lot of ways, but more useful and not going to just disappear. In a year or three the crazed C-level idiots chasing the next magic dragon will settle down, the technology will settle into the places where it’s actually useful, and investors will stop throwing all the cash at any mention of AI with zero skepticism.

It’s not Luddite to be skeptical of the hot new craze. It’s prudent as long as you don’t let yourself slip into regressive thinking.

He had a game show thing on Ellen a while ago where he thought something cost $25 that was a couple dollar item.

He absolutely has no idea how much everyday items cost.

This is for IoT.

$20 says it was shoddy wiring or something similar. So many deaths and accidents happen in India because of a lack of safety standards and training there.

And before someone tries to call me racist, or anti-India, or something, India accounts for 14% of all accidental deaths worldwide and out of every 100k workers in India, 116.8 on average will die in a workplace accident, which is 3X higher than the #2 spot (Pakistan).

Source: International Labor Organization

Flex Launcher.

How, exactly, is Wayland a mess? It has a good legacy window compatibility layer and is solving a lot of problems X11 had. Seems perfectly alright to me.

This is an EV. There isn’t any emissions to be concerned about. At least not from the car itself.

Clearly that’s America smoke, which is far superior.

I recently switched from being a long time GNOME user over to KDE Neon. It has been a nearly flawless experience.

My biggest complaint so far is the lack of NFS support in Dolphin, which I use for my NAS. GNOME Files had native support for NFS. Now I have to manually mount from CLI and then it’ll show up in Dolphin (eventually I’ll setup fstab, but haven’t done it yet).

I don’t know that it’s that dire. “More deadly” doesn’t mean a disease will kill more people. A virus or bacteria has to be infectious enough to spread quickly, not kill enough people that are infected to allow people to spread it without causing it to die with them, but still be deadly enough to be noteworthy. COVID ticked all of those boxes. Bird Flu might as well, if it becomes human-to-human transmissible (which seems more likely every day), but I guess we’ll see.

Chicken and Egg. Linux is barely above 2%. When it breaks 10-20% market share, I expect companies will start making native ports more common.

The fact that proton/dxvk/vulkan/wine let’s things just work with little to no changes is already pretty incredible.

FML Bird Flu is going to be the next COVID…isn’t it?

Good thing we figured out a lot of the social distancing, WFH, and masking stuff last time, I guess.

I think it’s more important that it gives Valve a method of avoiding being shoehorned into a “Windows only world”. The Steam Deck is largely why Linux has pushed past 2% market share on the Steam Hardware Survey consistently now. Holo, which is the codename for SteamOS on the Deck, makes up over half of Steam on Linux.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not dillusional. Windows is still far and away the majority platform and will be for some time. However, there is a real, functional choice now that didn’t exist a few years ago.

Meanwhile the Steam Deck is selling like gangbusters.

I’ve traveled the country full time in an RV for two years. Yes, there are more beautiful places in the US (Sequoia, Redwood Forests, Olympic National Park, etc), but I’m just saying that Texas isn’t all just some drab hole-in-the-wall. If you want that, go to Ohio or Indiana.

As a Texan, not sure what part of Texas you think is so ugly. There is a lot of beauty here.

Our politicians just suck.

I haven’t cancelled yet. I said I was considering it.

I agree Costco selection and products are better, as well as their employee treatment. However, I have both at the moment, Sam’s Club is a quarter mile from me while Costco is a 18 minute drive one way, and I can easily get in and out of Sam’s Club with the Scan and Go app. That’s why I’m considering whether renewing is worth it.

Honestly, I’ve been considering just cancelling my Costco membership. Sam’s Club let’s you scan as you shop, check out on your phone, and walk out. If Costco let you do that, it would help cut down on this greatly.

Only let two phones be registered at a time and that’s your ID. Or have different tiers for solo, duo, or family with different price tiers. If you get a new phone, you have to invalidate your old registration. Have TOTP or one-time QR codes generated in the app for when you check out in line or at the gas station. Let the old people still have cards, but you check their ID every time. If someone forgets their card, let them look it up by phone number and present an ID to prove they are that member. Could even give $10 off a membership for going digital or an extra 60 days of membership if you go all-digital to incentivize it. When someone goes digital, flag their card barcode as no longer active in the system if someone tries to use it.

If you go digital, you get to scan n go and walk right out. Someone scans a QR code of your receipt as you leave like they do at Sam’s Club. Sam’s Club even let’s you scan a gas pump with your phone and it will already program in a credit card of your choice, tie that pump to your membership, and give you a digital receipt. Totally paperless and basically zero contact.

Every year in states that have safety and emissions testing, you have to bring your vehicle in to be inspected before you can renew your license plate/window tags to be registered to drive on the road. If you fail inspection, you need to remedy the issue and get tested again. You can’t drive the vehicle without registration, so you have to correct it or risk fines for driving with expired registration. Inspections are usually $5-15 in most states.

Have you met the average Ram driver? They’re usually too inebriated to have coherent thoughts.