My ideal scenario:
The AI bubble lasts a little bit longer, they put data centers in space.
The bubble pops immediately after this, all the companies go broke and nobody maintains the satellites.
Free PC components rain from the skies, I sit out on the roof surrounded by buckets catching RAM and SSDs.
They’re a bit scorched but I’ll take what I can get.
Workers at Terminator factory upset that Terminators being sold to people who love Terminating
It seems like Valve and Collabora are working together to port Arch to ARM. They call it Holo Core which might be why the source code didn’t show up but I think this is it probably?
You know it’s getting weird out there when Meta seems to be doing something that’s actually useful.
Microsoft MemoryOne X Expansion Framework Subsystem. And it would require 64GB of RAM to do the compression, thus defeating the purpose of it existing in the first place, would break whenever the Edge browser updates for no discernible reason, and would about once a year cause your Documents folder to disappear.
I think anything that masks your IP address is good for piracy AFAIK, but I’ve had no issues torrenting with it so far. Seems to be about the same as Mullvad, performance-wise.
Ah I hadn’t heard of Picard before, I’ll take a look!
Personally I just use Nicotine+ to grab whatever I want as a .flac, then use beets to organize them.
I switched over to IVPN, they seem pretty right-on and no scandals that I know of so far.
I switched away from Mullvad because of that. I waited a bit for their response before deciding, but I found their eventual response pretty wishy-washy. Their counter-argument was:
It was a private donation from Daniel the individual. Mullvad or its parent and sister companies did not endorse and were not involved in it.
But his personal money still comes from the company, so if I continued to send Mullvad money I’d know it was still indirectly going to the Örebro party, whose leader called immigrants “parasites”, which (as an immigrant myself, albeit not to Sweden) is not acceptable to me.
Canada is like that. IIRC the maximum fine you can get for piracy is $5,000, meaning it’s pretty much not worth it for any company to come after you. If you live in Canada and use a VPN you’re pretty much golden, but I also know people here who don’t even bother. They get a letter once in a while from their ISP and they just ignore it and nothing ever happens. One of my friends called their ISP to complain and told them to stop sending letters, and they said sorry they have to but if you seed a little bit less then they won’t have to send them lol.
That’s always been my position, IMO - it does have some genuinely useful applications, but we’ve blown it up into this huge thing and tried to shoehorn it into everything, and it’s polarized people into these “AI in everything” and “AI in nothing” camps.
TIL that the CEOs of AMD and Nvidia are first cousins once removed.
My website is older than YouTube lol
That’s what I do. I upgraded the SSD in my Steam Deck to a 1tb (before the prices went nuts, thankfully) and then ended up with a spare 256gb drive. I put it in an enclosure and installed NixOS on it as a sort of second system. It doesn’t really do anything super important, it’s more a learning project to get comfortable with NixOS without interfering with my daily driver. I could have just as easily done it in a VM but what can I say, I’m a tinkerer lol
And no power cord.
$1859 for the 1tb. I’m good lol
Especially in terms of wiping the drive like OP is asking. If their goal is simply wiping data, they can just put a drill though it. Or if it’s to wipe and replace the OS, they could presumably whip the drive out, format it on something else and do what they like with it, then put it back in the original computer or something like that.
I heard someone say the other day that most of the time when there’s a ‘bad’ technology it starts off as something good that everyone likes, and gradually becomes bad over time, like social media. But AI is something a bit more rare in that it came out and the majority of people didn’t especially want or like it, but it really feels like it’s being ‘forced’ into existence, so to speak. Which makes me think there’s something else going on.
Yeah same here, I haven’t had an account for ages now, but I do still occasionally take a look. But first they did the “new reddit” thing, then the API thing so all the apps stopped working, then VPN blocking and now this will (presumably) kill redlib as well. I’m kind of done having to find all these workarounds just to look at a site that obviously doesn’t want me going there and is becoming increasingly worthless anyway. Oh well.