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  • Thought may happen but it will still be an improvement.

    The big problem with Twitter / X is everything ends up being about politics.

    Want to talk about a video game, you can’t because some dipstick mega supporter is going to accuse it of being woke.
    Want to talk about a programming language, nope apparently that is woke too.
    Want to share a funny cat picture, nah, can’t do that apparently a man having a cat is gay and woke.

    It’s exhausting dealing with these idiots.



  • Oh shut up with that.

    You act like there’s some kind of alternative which there isn’t. Mastodon, which I’m sure you were going to mention, absolutely does not count because it’s a nightmare to use and they haven’t bothered to fix any of its problems.

    So there is no viable alternative.

    Also because it’s so awful to use, no one does use it, and so no one’s on the platform. After all, journalists need to go where the viewers are.

    There is zero point being smug about your open source platform, if no one uses your open source platform.







  • I think you misunderstand the relationship Microsoft has with corporations. If they turn on something like this after the fact while promising to do the opposite previously they will get thoroughly railed in court and then no one will ever buy their products ever again.

    The reason that companies use Windows rather than running everything on Linux is the absolutely enormous support base that Windows has. The moment it becomes more problematic to use Windows than to just deal with the support issues of a Linux OS is the moment that everyone will switch to Linux.



  • I know it can because I’ve got that exact setup on my work laptop but in order to actually be able to make use of it I need a dongle to use as a breakout and actually give me an HDMI port. As I only have an HDMI to HDMI cable. If it came with a USBC to HDMI cable then that would be acceptable, but they don’t ever come with them.




  • It wouldn’t be that hard to write a tool to pull from all of your social media accounts, Twitter, Facebook, Lemmy, I assume blue sky has an API, and just dump it into a big text file that you could give to a AI. I assume it understands CSV format.

    Obviously Reddit is out of the question.

    But I would only be comfortable giving an AI that much information about myself if it was 100% running locally. Which is probably why no one’s done it yet.



  • If I can make a version of me that likes its job then that will be a deviation from the template that’s worth having. Assuming this technology actually worked, an exact digital replica of me isn’t particularly useful, It’s just going to automate the things I was going to do anyway but if I was going to do them anyway they aren’t really a hassle worth automating.

    What I want is a version that has all of my knowledge, but infinitely more patience and for preference one that actually understands tax law. I need an AI to do the things I hate doing, but I can see the advantage of customizing it with my values to a certain extent.