Thrift stores often have old laptops for cheap
Kirk
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That's a great point, I suspect you're right. Also the Internet wasn't something you were constantly connected to back then, so spending 45 minutes a day on stumbleupon felt more special.
Granted there's no good reason we need to be spending as much time as we do online now...
THANK YOU. I'm always saying this. People always say they miss the "old, weird internet" but it's still there and still active and still growing. But these people choose to spend their time on 2-3 highly addictive apps and complain about it. Nobody is forcing you to download Tiktok dude.
That's assuming the hypothetical superintelligence is willing to do the bidding of billionares. But I'm not sure how the billionares would control something that is smarter than them and also doesn't rely on money to stay alive.
Glad the subheader is "Imagine what happens if jobs actually start disappearing."
There's just still not a lot of evidence that LLMs could take a substantial number of jobs away, unless your job is spam, advertising or propaganda. Corporations are blaming AI but there just isn't the evidence to support the idea that those fired workers are anything other than normal downsizing (that conveniently help fit the narrative and boost the stock price).
IF an AI gets invented that actually begins making humans unemployable, the economy as it exists wouldn't be able to withstand it ...who would pay for things if there are no jobs? Why provide goods and services for money if nobody can pay for it? Even being a billionare would be pointless because if everyone else's economic value is zero they can't be compelled to do anything with your worthless slop money.
But what is the DisplayPort plugged into on the PC? Extremely few motherboards and GPUs support CEC in my experience...
Very cool, what hardware are you using that supports CEC?
The job apocalypse is absolutely not something to forget.
Honestly wondering... why not? So far there is no evidence that an LLM can replace a worker of any kind, and all layoffs attributed to "AI" have not proven to be anything other than typical layoffs attributed to corporate greed.
There are nice friendly frontends for this, Yunohost or CasaOS spring to mind but might be too simplistic if you already are familiar with Docker.
If I could trade in all my unplayed games I could afford a hundred Steam Machines.
On one hand I think that Linux would benefit from KDE being better than windows and GNOME being better than MacOS and that we shouldn't get distracted by new shiny toys like Cinnamon and Cosmic.
...and yet on the other hand... they are pretty cool...