First I’ve heard “yumeship”. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=yumeship

A yumeshipper - or a Yume - is someone that cherishes and loves a fictional character so deeply, they see themselves with that character.

“Yume” means “dream” in Japanese.

“F/O” apparently means “Fictional Other”.

I’m not sure if they understand the difference between real people, fictional characters, and chatbots.

That’s correct. Wine, which is what Proton is based on, is not a VM or emulator. It is a re-implementation of key windows APIs so Windows EXEs can run. Assuming you’re on a x64 PC, the code is executing natively.

If I can’t play it in MPV, I don’t wanna play it.

Everything else feels like going back to the stone age. No offense to VLC fans. VLC is cool too, and I still recommend it because of its simpler GUI. But MPV is the MVP.

It’s still an open question where the eventual sweet spot will be in terms of model size and speed once the dust settles.

Nobody has the hardware to run frontier models in their personal devices. Even the larger open models are out of reach unless you’re ready to spend $10-20k on hardware. You can’t do shit on 8GB of memory.

That said, I don’t think there’s any great use case for trillion-parameter models in the long term. You can get good results for cheap from much smaller models with smarter workflows, and eventually that will become as easy and accessible as using cloud products. The big players have done well staying 6-12 months ahead, but that’s really not a lot in the grand scheme and they can’t keep it up indefinitely.

Their only play is regulatory capture and they’re pushing hard for it.

I think this is the real answer, rather than the other comment about users being monetized. There are plenty of affordable Android phones with decent specs that have no spyware besides Google’s, and Google’s not subsidizing them.

There are also still dumbphones on the market for under $100. I don’t see Android app support as that big a selling point with these specs.

Good luck to them, but I don’t think this is a viable niche.

MediaTek Helio G81 SoC, with 4GB/64GB

Uhhh. For $500? Sorry, no.

Listen, that’s not what I’m here for, right? I’m here to help you. I can help you get things done. I can help you learn about the world.

Okay but what if that’s my fetish?

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I don’t find the theory in the article very compelling because it says nothing about why this specifically took root, instead of a nearly infinite number of possibilities that are similarly SFW as and non-copyrighted.

The WWDC presentation yesterday was hilarious. Almost everything they said about the UI could be boiled down to: “We’re undoing some of the incredibly bad decisions we made last year. Not all of them, but some of the big ones!”

They then went on to demo the new improved Siri, and as someone who doesn’t use Siri, all I could think was “wait…Siri couldn’t do this 10 years ago?!”

What a sad state of affairs.

Ew

This is why they’re trying to lock down everything. Nerfing ad blockers in chrome, semi-banning all unapproved apps in Android.

And don’t get me started on smart TVs. They were broken right out of the gate.

It’s just crazy how many Bluetooth devices have broken (or completely absent) authentication and pairing security.

It’s very difficult to tell when they’re encrypted, too. Your Bluetooth keyboard and mouse could be broadcasting everything keystroke and click unencrypted to anyone within 100m or so.

And that’s just the accessories. There have been tons of exploits of phone and computer firmware over the years as well. Security is an afterthought at best with Bluetooth.

The specific examples seem reasonable, but do not support the overall thesis.

The problem with that philosophy is that all the fundamental problems reinforce themselves, generation after generation after generation. Assuming familiarity with Windows as your baseline guarantees that you will be stuck in a rut of horrible UI design “because that’s the way it’s always been”. The lowest-friction choice will always be to carry forward all the bullshit.

I don’t think you can truly call someone “computer literate” if they can’t tolerate moderate friction and learn new things quickly.

This is also why apple’s UI sucks so bad now. They used to have fantastic UI design because they made software with the fewest possible assumptions about the user. Now they design software assuming you are ass-deep in their previous software. It is the design equivalent of inbreeding.