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To be fair, a lot of those are due to a Windows legacy of dominating the market, which isn't going to change until there are more people elsewhere. It's a bit of a catch-22, and yet even being a small percent use in desktop Linux has started to get distros that feel and run similar to Windows enough so people who don't dabble in Windows specific software don't miss it. It's also a bit much to weigh Windows as better in many of those above features when it still have its own issues often, even though it is the dominate and supported OS.

I laughed at your last part. I have never not had to do the same for Windows as I have for Linux when a problem pops up. Google the problem. Those troubleshooters are such a waste of time, and honestly the only time I've had an automated fix that worked to resolve a situation was in Linux via purging the old driver and reloading it. The Windows troubleshooter is like the first tier on a tech support line, where you tell them, yeah, I already did all that.

plug in AI security device

"Initializing security sweep."

"Security scan finished. All databases wiped clean."

If she is streaming what she'd be doing anyway and gets paid for just being online, that's a great way for a bit of extra income for just having fun. Don't get burnt out that way, and if you decide to do it less or stop, not a huge loss either.

The great thing about Coldplay is they've changed over the years, which of course pisses some off who liked one style and now expect it every time. I don't like some of their songs, but the songs I do like I enjoy. The era of Clocks and Speed of Sound and Scientist were solid. There have been a few later ones I like too, but the songs either click for you or not. That's how music should be, eclectic and not formula.

I think the last song of theirs that hit me hard was All I Can Think About is You. May not be everyone's type of song, but it felt like the Coldplay I like. And there's the sleeper The Hardest Part.

Are the migrants wanting handouts he refers to the ones who are working low paying physical jobs that Americans refuse to do, sending most of that money back to their families still in their native countries? What a bunch of freeloaders. /s

There is the analogy of a balloon's surface where every point moves away from its neighbor, or a better analogy of bread expanding as it is baked, since that's more three dimensions. The idea is that space is expanding at the atomic level at a certain rate, but it's so small that it takes an astronomical amount of these atomic increases to be able to measure it (we can't measure expansion at solar system scales, or even between our galaxy's stars, as gravity drowns out the effect. But space is so large that over distances like between galaxies, the light that has traveled all that way has had to travel over this expanding so much that we can see a shift in its wavelength. And overall everything is shifting red, so either we in our section of the galaxy are the center, or it's something that's common in any part of our universe. One of these is far more likely.

Reddit had simply changed for the worse after ten or so years. Some of the niche subreddits I was in were still okay and not touched by the issues (yet), but I felt that it was for the best to move to other places. The Reddit migration popularized the Fediverse idea (that had been there already), and it made sense to me to decentralize discussions to resist control. For the most part the past few years this has felt more or less like old Reddit, and even previous forums before I found Reddit, because in the end discussion areas are made up of the people posting in them, not the architecture they're on. It's the transitions between that are the hardest.

I agree on the point of solving a problem, it's just a matter of time, skill, and some luck. The biggest problem I see with AI right now is that it's marketed as something it's not. Which leads to a lot of the issues we have with "AI" aka LLMs put in places they shouldn't be. Surprisingly they do manage pretty well a lot of the time, but when they fail it's really bad. I.e., AI as sold is a remarkable illusion that wow, everyone has bought into even knowing full well it's not near perfect.

The only thing that will "fix" current AI is true AGI development that would demonstrate the huge difference. AI/LLMs might be part of the path there, I don't know. It's not the real solution though, no matter how many small countries worth of energy we burn to generate answers.

I say all this as an active casual experimenter with local LLMs. What they can do, and how they do it is amazing, but I also know what I have and it's not what I call AI, that term has been tainted again by marketers trying to cash in on ignorance.

You mean like using the word "tariff"?

You don't have to be intelligent to ruin things. Look at Trump.

At least a thinking machine would have a reason for doing what it might do, instead of bumbling along and overshooting any safeguards left. Which given Musk's attitude, Grok would be the first and last safeguard for everything. So yeah, this is worse than Terminator.

I've seen this movie.

"The only way to keep things from crashing is to plug ~~Skynet~~ Grok in."

Not only doesn't understand what a tariff is, he thinks it's some magic word to make anything change and him get credit for it.

If he didn't have full blown dementia I'd say he's an idiot. The ones around him going along with it, they ARE idiots.