Nice melon.

Thom is too depressed about his access to healthcare at the NHS to hear you.

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Wild, I have never had that issue on desktop or in Jerboa.

Yeah pretty sure that ship already sailed for Raspberry Pi. I still love em, but they’ve definitely burned a lot of bridges with the hobbyist community for the sake of sales to the business community.

If you forget to select a language when making a post, the language becomes “undetermined.”

The vast majority of people do not take the time to mark the language of their post, and so Lemmy files them under “undetermined” because there is no language information.

When making a post, when you choose the “Undetermined” from the language-selector, it just pops it back to asking you to select a language, because the point of “Undetermined” is that no language metadata has been added.

So in your user settings page, if you remove “Undetermined” from your list of languages, you will not see most posts since most people do not actually choose a language for their post.

I personally do not find this confusing at all.

I think the actual reality is that governments and justice systems were designed for a pen-and-paper era where letters were still delivered by horsedriven stagecoach.

I think that’s the real task: designing a new type of democratic governance that can keep up with the speed of societal change and technological change.

“The gears of justice turn slowly” made sense in the stagecoach era, because life moved slowly. It does not make sense in an era where we can disseminate information worldwide instantly for pennies.

What’s interesting and I think is tied into that “people think life is about control” is that I am deeply convinced that the tech barons learned to hate democracy because administering computers and networks is not democratic in nature at all. An admin always has access and controls for everything, nobody votes an admin into position. Hell, we’ve seen numerous Fediverse sites come and go because being an admin is actually a huge task, especially if you’re handling it on your own. Even with that power diffused among multiple administrators, it can often be difficult escape the hierarchical nature of how computers are designed at their core.

As you point out, this isn’t evil, this is a type of tool. Like all tools, it can be used for good or ill, to build or to destroy. Currently we are being overrun with people who want to use it to control everyone else. They certainly think life is about control, and it’s part of why they are so deeply unhappy.

It’s also why the open source world is so fucking precious. The Cathedral versus the Bazaar. The bazaar style of development is such a massive deal because we could extrapolate this kind of governance to other parts of society. I worry deeply for a potential schism in the open source community when Linus Torvalds stops developing from old age or disease or just dying randomly in a car crash.

Open Source is that good that computers are being used for. Outside the corporate funded open source, there’s so many tiny little open source projects for almost anything imaginable, all shared freely so others can bear the fruits as well.

I’ve been running Ubuntu on laptops for a lot longer than five years and the last time I had real WiFi issues was over a decade ago. That’s why I think it may be debian related or based on your description, possibly a closed source driver issue. There’s actually quite a lot of WiFi devices that use chipsets that we don’t have proper Linux drivers for at all, and what exists are sort of hacked together projects that live on github. I’ve had to do this with every netgear dongle I ever had, the downloading and compiling drivers for it from github.

I couldn’t even find any evidence in the article or photos that anyone interviewed was running a local LLM, which would at least justify worrying about temps if your keyboard acts as your air intake (which apparently is relatively common now).

Just a bunch of narcissists wanting an excuse to have people ask them about what they’re doing, ogle what they’re doing, and so they can pretend they’re…

Ah, yeah, was there any particular reason you were using LMDE? Because I’m not sure what parts of systemd it uses (especially back then), but I always just edited /etc/systemd/logind.conf to have HandleLidSwitch=ignore and have had zero issues. Pretty sure there is a gnome GUI for changing this same setting, gnome-tweaks.

I would assume the bad WiFi support was due to it being Debian and Debian being notoriously behind in terms of updates for the sake of stability.

What OS are you using?

Thank you, I was about to edit my comment to add it.

He’s a product head at an AI company, as per the article. He is a boss.

then just rig it up to ping your phone when it’s done…oh who am I kidding these dudes wouldn’t know how to do that.

Fucking. Exactly. I just made a long comment about how this article feels like they’re talking to non-tech-savvy people who are pretending to be tech-savvy because they talk to a fucking AI.

Like this dumbfuck kid who “has to keep shipping software” as if that means he’s not shipping it riddled with bugs and security issues since his AI makes the spaghetti code and he just says “I’m sure this is ready for production.”

This article is so confusing because it seems like everyone they’re talking to is just using online models and the use of local models is mentioned but it’s not clear how many of the people being interviewed are using local models since it’s all about laptops. Even the one lady who you can see her screen is a CLI, it’s not clear that she’s not just using the CLI version of Claude.

I have a mid-range desktop and doing local LLM can be pretty darn slow on it especially with an AMD card and ROCm as opposed to Nvidia and CUDA. I have a relatively nice laptop, but it’s specs are well below my desktop and I just can’t imagine actually running a local LLM on a laptop.

If they’re not using a local model, then they wouldn’t need to worry about overheating with the lid closed. Easy to make it so it doesn’t hibernate when the lid is closed via CLI (at least in Linux anyway). Because if they’re offloading all the work to a remote model, their PC can essentially be relatively idle and draw less power/produce less heat.

Article also seems strangely focused on Macs? All it’s mentions of how to make it so you can close the lid are Mac-focused. Did I miss something about the new Apple Silicon being really efficient for local LLMs? Maybe that’s what I’m missing here.

It just seems almost weirdly narcissistic, like they want people to ask them about it so they can talk about it. Certainly it seems that way with the kid with a startup business that he runs during classes with tokens paid for by his parents.

Anyway, the whole thing seems odd to me. Either the article is about people who aren’t actually super savvy coders or techies, or they would… just switch it so they can close their fucking laptop… or something about making a show of what they’re doing is part of it. I dunno, weird. Anyway.

A long time ago now, literally years and years ago.

I have a hard time considering these types of things proper games just because they’re only about “make numbers bigger faster.”

Also, the sheer number of these types of games which are all basically the same in terms of what they do kind of makes it just another one in a sea (pun intended) of these kinds of games.

I am a Linux user and I love automatic updates, personally? I don’t run anything particularly important but I’ve been using Linux for serverboxes and low end laptops for over a decade, and more recently switch full-time to desktop Linux and as of yet I have never had an update break any of my systems. I use a long-term service release, so there tends to be a lot of testing, and often packages being rolled out piecemeal to make sure there aren’t issues with them.

But of course, no one is taking away control of my system from me with Linux automatic updates.

EDIT: Also, since Macs are all the exact same hardware, automatic updates on macOS are a lot less dicey since all hardware configs are exactly the same.