FWIW saw a scooter parked this way, not on a bike lane but in front of a bike garage. I put a paper on it saying “This is not a parking spot, next time I’m moving it myself” with the intent of being polite but firm. Since then they never parked there anymore. Sometimes people don’t even realize.

Can you train it better than anything already available on model zoos for free though? If not then beside learning I dont see the point.

should update torrent client to say “LLM training agent” instead, legally safe /s

Well then you are already doing what I suggested.

I’m not saying adopt Chrome as your main browser, I’m saying if Chrome alone has unique feature you think you might need, try it there. For example that allowed me to discover https://github.com/ArcaneNibble/awawausb

Consequently if you are curious about vertical tabs, do try it, even in a container, e.g. Webtop, if you want to be extra safe. I’m not suggesting to switch.

FWIW I do think you should give it a go.

Firefox is main browser, on desktop and mobile, and I’m not changing that.

Still, I do have Chromium installed for very specific usages, e.g. WebXR tests, WebBT and WebUSB devices, e.g. flashing keyboard firmware, controlling Lego bricks, etc. I’d rather only have Firefox to be clear but some things are not supported, marked as not planned, and I believe using Chromium on specific Websites, not for browsing, is perfectly fine when no alternative is available.

Why am I actually tired of that trope? Because when you propagate the wrong preconception that you need an unstable or quirky distribution to make Linux work with modern hardware, you are gatekeeping. You are preventing others from switching to Linux and it is due to your ignorance.

damn that was helpful, insulting someone rather than asking for clarification, blocked and reported.

This is so dumb it is tiring…

I’m using Debian stable on my desktop but I also play games, AAA to indie, with the latest gadgets, e.g. Steam Controller or even VR headsets. I also control my house with IoT with single keypresses on my mechanical keyboard which has its own touchpach (no mouse) with individual RGB key. I have a more modern setup than most but I still stick to a stable distribution because one can have both, you just have to buy devices that respect your agency by relying on well supported and/or open protocols, e.g. BT or Zigbee.

PS: I get that it’s humor, don’t “explain” it to me. I also have a fixie bike because I got tired of trying to fix my proprietary e-bike so yes I can also feed the trope (in the sense of going “back” to older technologies outside the computer) but unfortunately beyond it is important that people understand it is actually incorrect.

TL;DR: tired trope, I have weird brand new e-gadgets and peripherals doing very demanding tasks while still relying on Debian stable.

VLC and mpv do not.

I traveled through France via train and this is way WAY scarier when you go through. This aerial view is still abstract, actually seeing it, kilometer and kilometer through the entire country is deeply unsettling. This is the new normal and it is catastrophic.

Honestly shitting himself in front of cameras is the least of our problems.

My point isn’t the availability of settings as a meaningful information but rather if somebody did change a setting, or not. If somebody changes a default setting, or a default OS, they are radically more likely to be a power user.

Yes… it’s like default settings. The very action of changing a setting on any devices means you are a “power user”. You made a conscious decision on how the device should behave and you suspect it can be done. Meanwhile the vast majority of users do not even consider this a possibility.

Windows users are not using a computer, they are doing another task that happens to required a machine, they don’t learn about what it is, how it works, how it can be modified.

IMHO it was perfectly in the 70s when there was no laptop, desktop, mobile phone, mobile data. Now that one needs to use such infrastructure to interact with others, vote, pay bills, get access to culture, etc then I do believe computer literacy is not optional anymore.

That’s not what they said. Free software can be paid for, either via users or via subsidies. Nobody in this thread suggested that developers starve.

To be pragmatic here are ways free software can be monetized :

• get a salary from a company or institution that relies on free software
• ask for donations via e.g. https://liberapay.com/ or Patreon or OpenCollective
• get money per project via CrowdFunding platforms e.g. KickStarter or for hardware https://www.crowdsupply.com/
• get subsidies directly, e.g. NLNet (International, no need to be European), or https://www.sovereign.tech/programs/fund or by being part of a consortium, e.g. public/private partnerships on a theme e.g. https://www.ciiic.nl/en/calls/learning-communities

I professionally do both, namely I get paid to develop free software but I also pay free software developers, e.g. https://gcompris.net/ via their https://www.patreon.com/animtim . I also until recently worked in a public institution and was paid to write free software.

I think it is important not to conflate free software with free of cost and indeed free of production. Free software developers, like me, need to pay their bills but that does NOT have to be opposed to your freedom in using and modifying that software. By implying a false dichotomy by software being either proprietary or funded somehow you are in fact sadly promoting proprietary software, please do not do that.

Good thing movements reclaiming streets back for citizens already exist. In fact even businesses who initially opposed this actually realize it’s better for them too.

Looks at photos of Amsterdam and Paris just decades ago. It’s like smoking in planes.

We as a society try, fail, learn, and overcome BS.

Indeed, classic. AI isn’t good enough for THEIR domain, their expertise, but for stuff they know NOTHING about it’s somehow OK. Total lack of introspection and Dunning-Kruger effect.

Fueled by FSD SpaceX xAI. /$

I bet someone from HN is already “generating” that brilliant idea thanks to their SOTA meta-harness right now using Claude Fable. Or something.

A VR headset is basically a phone with lenses, so yes. That’s why cardboard and free promotional gifts of lenses snapping on phones work.

My point though isn’t about the technical abilities but rather about the social expectations. If you buy a device that does something intrusive but you know that in order to deliver the main value it will do that, it’s OK. It’s part of the social contract. If somehow though a device is intrusive but it’s not expected, either because it was thought to be impossible to do or unrelated to it’s original purpose or both, then it’s a big problem, a breach of the social contract.

Arguably that’s a bit difference because to do that you have to explicitly do it (room setup) and you view the result (visual preview with semi-transparent triangles over your place). You can also read the ToS and I believe in some case specify if you allow the information to be sent back to the Meta. I’m not saying it’s OK, only that it’s explicit and it’s part of the “normal” usage of the device.

Sousveillance