It’s one more tool in the bag that the State can wield against us. My more conspiratorial thinking as this as an accidental part of the frame work of how they create the slave knowledge worker class since anyone who actually works in tech will disable this. That way they can sweatshop devs into fixing bad AI code without paying them.
Inevitable Waffles [Ohio]
Mid 30’s IT/Medical Device support and quality guy. I like cycling, video games, and singing.
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Inevitable Waffles [Ohio]@midwest.socialto
Android@lemdro.id•Heliboard + Google Swipe Lib + FUTO Voice inputEnglish
1·6 months agoLove the writeups they cook up. Always useful stuff. The Beetsflask guide is pretty helpful too.
Inevitable Waffles [Ohio]@midwest.socialto
Technology@lemmy.ml•Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAMEnglish
11·8 months ago“Just think of how cheap parts will be when the AI bubble collapses.” And other lies I tell myself as I go to sleep.
Inevitable Waffles [Ohio]@midwest.socialto
Technology@lemmy.ml•The Dark Forest Theory of the InternetEnglish
3·8 months agoShort answer is active moderation and Anubis.
Inevitable Waffles [Ohio]@midwest.socialto
Technology@beehaw.org•IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costsEnglish
1·8 months agoOr, more likely, LLMs and the AI phase will be a nothing burger for generations since our programming languages and technology cannot currently even model AGI. We made a mechanical Turk and got impressed with ourselves. Except that Turk will burn our planet to cinders to tell us 2+2=5 because of a Reddit shitpost.
Inevitable Waffles [Ohio]@midwest.socialto
World News@lemmy.world•How can you tell if music is AI-generated?English
263·9 months agoYou must consider that the AI “helping” the artist is built from the stolen work of countless artists. Regardless of use case, the tool only exists due to theft. Plus, this tool exists as a way to not pay talent for content.
Since the bread and circuses machine must keep dispensing to keep the masses anaesthetized, the elites need a way to cut the costs or they will lose points are their net worth scorecard and get made fun of by the other billionaires.
Not to mention, AI is a shortcut that does not generate skills besides prompt engineering. We have research proving this with students and the labor force losing reasoning and straight memory by handing off to “AI”. Part of being a musician is the effort and practice and knowing an instrument. Asking the clanker for a tune because learning takes too long or is too difficult goes along with what the article says for detecting it. The work will be emotionless and have no soul. Musicians are allowed to make choices for their music, of course. AI rounding out an artist’s tools is what it is. I view the tool as a corrupting force but, it’s their perogative. But people without no knowledge or skill for making music cranking out these generic sounding similacra to make money is always going to set my teeth on edge.
Edit: spelling and tense correction. Revision and expansion of idea to express less derision.
Inevitable Waffles [Ohio]@midwest.socialto
Technology@beehaw.org•Amazon to pay $2.5 billion to settle FTC allegations it duped customers into enrolling in PrimeEnglish
8·11 months agoJust based in the ballpark numbers from another on of these articles I saw today, it works out to like 40 some bucks a person. Just absolute garbage.
Inevitable Waffles [Ohio]@midwest.socialto
Mechanical Keyboards@lemmy.ml•How do you get used to small form factors?English
2·11 months agoI need my numpad. That was the worst choice for me given my work and workflow at home. I could do without the number row across the top. I guess I haven’t really given a great deal of thought to my most maximally effective keyboard layout.
Context: I bought an 80% out of frustration with another logitech keyboard dying an early death with the double strike key issue.
Inevitable Waffles [Ohio]@midwest.socialto
Linux@lemmy.ml•*Permanently Deleted*English
8·11 months agoThis was my experience. While I had nothing but time to learn Windows over the years, my time now is more limited. My Creative Sound Blaster sound card worked… Somewhat under Pop_OS!, but kept having issues. It got to the point that I opted for an external DAC and my issues cleared up.
While I want everything to “just work”, I knew my time is more valuable to me than figuring out why this particular hardware didn’t want to work, so I swapped it.
I remember the win9x days of looking shit up and figuring it out. Most people nowadays don’t have that skill or never had it and onboarded with computers that “just worked”. Side note in my opinion but, that’s the insidious nature of Big Tech. They make it so easy to use, you don’t care that they pick your pocket for every ounce of data. Linux, by its nature, is generally ok at most things but you are going to run into walls like the accelerometer mentioned above. Expectations need to be set and if you aren’t willing to know how to run your computer, it’s going to run you. I view this as no different than understanding the fundamentals of cars so you don’t get fleeced at the mechanic. But that’s just me. I want a certain level of competence in what I utilize on a daily basis.
I want people to switch. For people like me who have been power users for 20+ years, it’s as close to an easy hand off as is ever going to exist. Trying to convince my Normie friends? I’m still fighting that battle and all they do is Facebook, youtube and WoW.
I agree that setting expectations and having to adjust to the new norm should be part of the onboarding speech. “It just works” shouldn’t be uttered to anyone short of grandma for email and youtube on a computer you install the software on.
Edit: changed device quoted above
Inevitable Waffles [Ohio]@midwest.socialto
World News@lemmy.world•Tesla faces collapsing sales in Canada's Québec province, with new registrations tumbling 85%English
8·1 year agoTrue. Always safer. I cringed when I heard Lorca use his name but now it makes sense given the plot of Discovery.
Tap for spoiler
Lorca is from the mirror universe so he would laud the ketamine addled nightmare Elon turned into as a buffoon of evil
Inevitable Waffles [Ohio]@midwest.socialto
World News@lemmy.world•Trump turns civil rights upside down in ‘biggest rollback’ since Reconstruction | CNN PoliticsEnglish
21·1 year agoLet’s see if we are allowed to have midterms without Trump shutting them down first before we start banking on electoralism to save us.
Inevitable Waffles [Ohio]@midwest.socialto
World News@lemmy.world•Global coffee trade grinding to a halt, hit hard by brutal price hikesEnglish
3·1 year agoAtomizers can be easily made from nichrome wire. If you can’t get it direct, guitar strings can be a source of wire after burn off.
This is the kind of useful information I would expect from someone with handle like @machinist@lemmy.world.
But seriously, I cannot believe how much those prices are in Oz for cigarettes.
Inevitable Waffles [Ohio]@midwest.socialto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Linux Prepper Podcast - Audience Feedback on SelfhostingEnglish
2·1 year agoHey, great stuff! I just subscribed on AntennaPod. I’m going to give it a listen on my way to work tomorrow.
Inevitable Waffles [Ohio]@midwest.socialto
Steam Hardware@sopuli.xyz•Sid Meier's Civilization VII is Steam Deck Verified with the Linux version ahead of release on February 11English
3·2 years agoI played both so maybe I’m confusing the rulesets but I thought it was Civ V. Totally possible I am wrong though.
Inevitable Waffles [Ohio]@midwest.socialto
Steam Hardware@sopuli.xyz•Sid Meier's Civilization VII is Steam Deck Verified with the Linux version ahead of release on February 11English
8·2 years agoIf you want something Civ 5-like on mobile, check out Unciv. Its an open source and using Civ 5 as a template. https://yairm210.itch.io/unciv
Inevitable Waffles [Ohio]@midwest.socialto
Technology@beehaw.org•Amazon CEO wants his staff back in the office full time • The RegisterEnglish
8·2 years agoBoth of these things can be true. You can’t discount the rich and their ability to do evil in multiple dimensions with one choice.
Inevitable Waffles [Ohio]@midwest.socialto
Linux@lemmy.ml•KDE + Gnome on Atomic FedoraEnglish
1·2 years agoI am running Bazzite and Stellaris. I have no issues with stability or opening the game. Have you checked your hardware fundamentals and done things like disable steam overlay?
Inevitable Waffles [Ohio]@midwest.socialto
Technology@beehaw.org•I Tried to Vape the InternetEnglish
1·2 years agoI thought that was called using meth?
Inevitable Waffles [Ohio]@midwest.socialto
Technology@beehaw.org•Elon Musk drops claims that OpenAI abandoned missionEnglish
1·2 years agoFound the Musk stan.

Peak design. We have strayed from the Holy T9.